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.
Some rumors about the next updates to the entry-level iPad.
Meanwhile in Germany, nuclear power plants don't look so bad with the Russians acting badly.
Some tips on things to do that impress editors. Send in written pieces on time or early.
How to start as a writer. First tip is correct, start writing.
One way to apply basic problem solving to writing. Maybe that is why...
Notes on moving a book to the big or little or streaming service screen.
Some ideas on how to start writing again on that thing you started a long time ago and stopped.
Follow these steps, it says, and quickly have 1,000 followers on your blog. Perhaps.
How to write chapter 1: start wherever you feel like and write chapter 1 whenever you feel like it. Lazy? You are writing. That is not lazy.
Writing thoughts as they come. There are so many thoughts. And some people have writer's block.
And how do you fill the hours of your day?
One writer's thoughts on what it means to write a novel. Interesting that a writer would make a video instead of writing a post.
....AWS launches its service to provide private, internal 4G and eventually 5G networks.
The tech industry has "gender problems." Hmmm, does the dental hygienist industry have a gender problem? No, because it isn't as affluent.
Google's Android version 13 is here. There was a time when companies didn't number things "13" as that was bad luck.
Apple announces September 5 as the date that employees must return to the office three days a week.
A recession may be here soon for chip makers. They aren't good at predicting the future and they know it. Folks in Washington D.C. aren't any good at predicting the future either, but they think they are.
The Russians give a glimpse of the space station they will build by themselves at the end of this decade. No details given. It appears to be science fiction.
The United Arab Emirates is trying to make indoor farming without soil work for them. Soil reclamation would be a better solution, but folks don't like to do that one.
The Linux kernel version 6.0 is released.
The US officially bans the export of advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology.
Researchers have take collagen from pigs, created a substance like a thick gel, and used that to repair the eyes of persons. This has worked on 14 persons, so it is all very early in the research.
.....NASA builds a robot for underwater work. Perhaps NASA could build a spacesuit for people to wear in space?
More and more mention of "superclouds" that will be the next thing to make money for vendors.
Apple expands its use of manufacturers in Vietnam.
Coming next week, AMD will show its new Ryzen 7000 processors for desktop computers.
Hearing aids now are approved for over-the-counter sales. No doctor visit, etc. This has been the practice for several years. The hope for those of us with hearing loss is $200 devices (not $3,000 ones). We also hope for much better audio from the companies that make high fidelity headphones. Music over hearing aids is lousy.
.....Microsoft releases a preview version of its Dev Box for developers to access cloud resources.
Broadcom has a new processor chip to upgrade network communications in data centers.
Meanwhile in Las Vegas, we have a driverless, electric vehicle, taxi service from Lyft.
Stronger rumors that Apple with have an online event on September 7 to show a new iPhone.
Microsoft increases the capabilities of Windows widgets in the Win 11 task bar.
NASA updates the software on the Curiosity Mars rover to give it a big boost in travel speed.
The current dry spell in Europe reveals "hunger stones" that mark droughts and famines in history. Of course, we have better agriculture and transportation and we can have droughts without famines, right?
.....An online systems design course. (1) Excellent topic. (2) Good use of GitHub.
An overview of the organizations that are pushing towards practical fusion energy generation. I am afraid that the leaders are spending billion$ on ideas that will cost billion$ to implement.
The use of "location intelligence," i.e., where are my customers?
How to move machine learning to the cloud.
Nvidia upgrades the performance of those streaming games to browsers.
Streaming services are now the most-used source of TV programs in America.
It appears that Qualcomm is trying to enter the market of making processors for data center servers.
Samsung is now on its fourth generation of folding smartphones.
.....Here is a two-hour presentation that walks through the basic of neural networks and learning.
Google is still pushing the programming language Kotlin for writing Android apps.
Over the next few months, Google will change its search engine. "the aim is to minimize the frequency with which users are disappointed by search results" Prediction: someone will feel slighted and claim discrimination.
America provides Ukraine with more military hardware including better surveillance drones. I trust these things can be tracked for their lifetime by the US. We don't want these in the wrong hands ten years from now.
Our NIST continues drafting and distributing AI risk management framework documents.
Our Library of Congress attempts to update its software for tracking Copyrights. Did you know that "recordation" was a real word? I didn't.
This photographer found all he needed with a $850 Fuji instead of a $2,700 Sony.
A recent study shows...about half of all cancer deaths come from preventable factors. Smoking, drinking, obesity are the top three factors. It is my wish that coming out of the pandemic we will all strive to be healthier. This includes not taking medicines with side affects like "reduce immune system." Please, please, do what we can to be healthier.
.....Our Dept of Veterans Affairs continues to struggle with Electronic Health Records (EHR).
A little side note on America's government-administered schools, "increased spending on K-12 education has enlarged schools' administrative staff 88 percent while student enrollment has grown just 8 percent." Gosh we have well-administered schools, but we aren't educating the kids.
Someone tested whether a Tesla would run over his kids. It didn't. YouTube banned the video. I lost count of the stupid things done here by all parties involved.
If you have $50,000 to spare, you can go into space (100,000 feet which is sort of into space).
This has been making the rounds. New images from the new outer space telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory. The theory is still a theory. The data brings many doubts. Sensing things that are far away is difficult. I expect the theories to be wrong.
And we now have a better machine to better throw and kick footballs at practice. Good use of tech talent? Well, there are worse things we could be doing.
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