Cameras
Following on from yesterday’s post, email I got this morning about the rapidly declining camera market.
Mobile extremes
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
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
The Pac
Celebrity digital assets you can see being big business in years to come. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/2/20844831/manny-pacquiao-cryptocurrency-pac-merchandise-gcox
Raspberry Pi 4
I bought the Official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop kit the other day. I haven’t had time to do anything with it yet apart from getting it connected to my home router. Looking forward to using it to try out some ideas I have been thinking about for a while.
Skills dollar skills dollar
A week or so ago I read an article about how Dev Ops engineers in the bay area of SF starting salaries are north of $100k. Then yesterday Fred Wilson wrote about his concerns about the costs of doing business in the software world. “This is a topic I’ve written about a bunch over the…
Neck oil
Building Density for Everyday Life
“Imagine yourself sitting in your home. What’s right outside your front door, and what’s within a 10-minute walk of it? Can you make it to a grocery store or a café on foot, or do you have to drive? Is there a shared space nearby, a park or a patio, where you can mingle with…
Vodafone DNS debacle
My partner told me last night that one of her colleagues has had to leave Vodafone Broadband. Shes not technical but basically felt the service kept dropping, couldn’t get to certain websites, Netflix would keep dropping out & so on. When we first got Vodafone Broadband, maybe 9 months ago, I couldn’t believe how unstable…
Bringing it home
Earlier in the year Apple decided to bring its chip engineering in house, giving it complete control & over time, substantial cost savings. Yesterday Tesla announce, Tesla Insurance. Makes sense, Tesla could know everything about your Tesla, where it goes, when, how often, how many miles you typically do in a month, your driving style,…
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