Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.

This week: 17-23 January, 2022

Summary of this week:

• Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
• Free home COVID tests now ready from Uncle Sam
• 5G turns on, do planes fall from the sky?
• Free N95 masks coming from Uncle Sam
• Intel to spend $20Billion on chip factory in Ohio
• Google building an AR device

Monday 17 January 2022

Walmart appears headed to crypto currency and non-fungible tokens.

Malware targeted at Linux had a good year in 2021. Some measure says it rose 35%.

Due to the pandemic and staffing shortages (here we go again) McDonald's has been open 10% fewer hours.

The PineNote tablet is here at $399.

And now we have the "super recognizers."

A surprise to me: high school computer science teachers don't have to know computer science.

How one very busy person made the time to write everyday. A little everyday over time produces results.

This writer is driving the roads in an RV while maintaining a full-time writing job.

Set writing goals and finish your book.

Some thoughts on autobiographical fiction or autofiction. Not for everyone, especially for those of us with good recall.

Storytellers do well in bad times. I just don't get it with all these writers not being able to write during the pandemic or this buy's presidency or that guy's presidency.

Thoughts on writing fiction for heart and non-fiction for money.

Some of us have great difficulty writing about us. Some of us have great difficulty writing about anything.

Considering the memoir and the autobiography. Facts, feelings, and opinions about all of it.

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Thoughts on LinkedIn and "cringe." Once again we have a case of persons who do no like LinkedIn because they are not LinkedIn and don't have its profits.

Samsung begins production of its Exynos 2200 smartphone processor. Made on a 4nm process, this is quite impressive and will power the next group of Samsung smartphones.

Despite obvious application, AI has not made it big in health care. They are using designs that require more data than is available. Regulations prevent data from being available.

Tomorrow is the day that 5G is activated near airports. Airline executives predict bad things.

Meta has filed for a long list of patents that lead to the metaverse. Some are concerned that they are going too fast.

Astronomers realize how many StarLink satellites there are and will be and the results for their work.

Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon now have the majority use of undersea data cables.

Cambodia copies China's Internet surveillance state. Individual rights? These places don't have a Bill of Rights.

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $70Billion.

Undersea communications cables can be cut with bad results. See Tonga. Their undersea volcano has put them in unwanted isolation.

Wanting to turn the world upside down with unintended consequences, Democrats want to bad ads on free-to-use social media sites.

Microsoft claims 25million subscribers to its XBox Game Pass service.

Apple still leads the world in smartphone shipments. The lead is shrinking, but still there.

Contemplations on Intel, TSMC, Samsung, manufacturing, sharing, subcontracting, and all such items.

Get y'ur free home virus tests right here. Since there is no free lunch, I am wary of this site COVDTests dot gov.

This story has been going around for a week. It seems our bodies don't like being in space.

Several airlines cancel flights near 5G sites. Somehow our FAA and our FCC made a great big mess.

Lenovo shows a new line of portable computers for students.

And now we have "hidden resignations" caused by working from home and all such things. I think this is a case of "undertime" or unpaid overtime followed by resting on the job.

ArXiv now reaches two million papers. You need money to run the servers and such. Come on Google et al, throw in a few million$$$.

Intel hints at a new crypto mining processor that requires much less electrical power than the currently used hardware.

A recent event shows that unpaid open-source developers have great economic power.

The one-child-per-family program in China succeeded as the population there will shrink this year. The program also brought much human suffering and unspeakable acts.

Thursday 20 January 2022

Predictable and predicted: free N95 masks next week. The lower-quality cloth masks and surgical masks must still be purchased; not free. I suppose someone can explain this to me.

General Motors announces that it will produce generators that run on hydrogen fuel cells instead of gas or diesel.

Hospitals are connecting devices to the Internet without adequate security. We trust in obscurity.

There is something wrong here: crypto.com has been hacked. Crypto is their business. How were they hacked?

Very bad reviews for the new AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card.

Our President tasks the NSA with responsibility for the cyber security of national security agencies.

Google forms a group that will focus on blockchain and related technologies.

Starting now, some of us can play Android games on Windows 10 and 11 machines. This is a beta test only.

It appears that the hotest business idea in the world today is financial technology or fintech.

Our FAA and FCC foul up is embarrassing as the regulators in Europe had no problems with 5G and airlines.

Friday 21 January 2022

Intel to spend $20Billion to build two chip making plants in Ohio.

Pandemic prosperity: music streaming and subscription dollars continue to roll in at record pace. Notice how I used "roll" as in rock 'n roll and "record" as in recordings? Clever.

More pandemic prosperity as Netflix continues to grow its audience. Estimators were wrong on the growth so, as usual, investors punish the company instead of the estimators.

The hot toys for this past Christmas were AR and VR stuff.

Long out of the market, Google is back to building an AR gadget.

The mayor of London wants to tax people who drive in the city.

Vague announcement from the CIA about Havana Syndrome.

Saturday 22 January 2022

The Russian governors don't like crypto currency. Crypto makes surveillance of the subjects a little more difficult.

A clever tool that will help with Wordle.

More Wordle tips gained from running 30 years of simulations.

We discover two giant Sphinxes in Egypt that are 3,300 years old. We don't know much about our planet and our history. And that includes the temperature of the earth to a tenth of a degree.

I don't know what this means, but 2022 will be a turning point for UFOs.

IBM sells its failed Watson health for $1Billion.

A side affect of pandemic prosperity is the record number of dollars flowing through lobbyist to our elected representatives in Washington.

US tech companies are hiring talent from Central and South America. Good for the tech workers, bad for tech companies in those regions who are trying to build something.

Sunday 23 January 2022

I finally find a news report on how neither the FCC nor the FAA did its job preceding the rollout of 5G signals near airports.

It appears that Nvidia has made the new GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card in a way that it doesn't perform well for cryptomining.

For those who want to know, here is an fairly detailed description of the problem with 5G and airline safety.

We seem to be debating "super immunity" via odd combinations of vaccine, infection, booster, etc. Still, this all affects about 1% of the population.

I'm an artist! San Francisco tries a program of guaranteed income for artists.

One young man is making semiconductor chips in his parents' garage. It is tiny so far, but something may come of this one day.