What is FAMGA? $4,012,420,000,000. “That’s just over four trillion dollars. Four. Trillion. Dollars. This is the current value of FAMGA, the group consisting of five of the largest tech brands on the entire planet: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), and Amazon. Not only have these companies created over four trillion dollars in value, but they…
On September 11th California lawmakers passed a bill that changes the criteria for what classifies as an ‘independant contractor’. The employer has to be able to prove 3 things to be able to classify workers as independant contractors as opposed to employees: The worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in…
McDonalds has just gobbled up its second AI up start up in the last 6 months. In March they purchased Dynamic Yield, an AI company focused on omni channel personalisation. The thinking is that they are looking to personalise menus based on current weather conditions & other external factors that may influence peoples orders at…
Young people are more in tune with Instagram and Snapchat. Tiktok? Older people probably use Facebook to see what the grandkids are getting up to. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/facebook_now_boomerbook_as_oldies_outnumber_uk_teens/
Following on from yesterday’s post, email I got this morning about the rapidly declining camera market.
This morning on the early BBC news I caught the tail end of the technology presenter trying out the re launched Samsung Galaxy Fold, which goes on sale in South Korea today & in the UK on the 18th September. I was in the other room but from what I could hear, he was loving…
DeepIndex.org is a website monitoring AI use in the real world. The site lists over 600 examples of AI in action & ranks them by how well they work, for real. Rank classifications are: Crushing it Capable Getting there Check it out, theres some very cool stuff happening out there DeepIndex.org
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