Just had a great weekend as per the title of the post you probably get the jist. Friday night we went to Saddlers Brew House in Lye, West Midlands. Great beers, amazing food & a secret room. Then on Saturday we paddled down the river Severn in kayaks. We used hireacanoe.com, which basically do all…
For the first time last year, Estée Lauder Co. generated more revenue at airports globally than at U.S. department stores, which for decades had been beauty companies’ biggest sales driver. https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-the-mall-shoppers-are-buying-gucci-at-airports-11560772801
Saddlers brewhouse, the home of the peaky blinder
97%, thats the accuracy rate for Alexa detecting agonal breathing from up to 20ft away. Researchers at the University of Washington trained Alexa using machine learning to detect the gasping breathing sound thats a tell tale sign someone might be suffering cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is the biggest cause of natural deaths, detection time is…
Indicating, or more to the point not indicating when driving a car really winds me up, and more & more, indicating is getting less & less. Driving to the office today, the three cars in front of me all pulled off the dual carriageway, none of them indicated, despite travelling at around 60 – 70…
What we know about Facebook’s stablecoin: It will be governed by the Libra association’s 28 founding members, Libra.org Voting rights are capped for any one Founding Member to avoid concentration of power It is due to launch sometime in 2020, by that time Facebook hopes to have 100 founding members in the Libra association (up…
Today is the start of Royal Ascot, doesn’t look like I will make it this year but is normally a great week. However in true British style South Western trains are striking this week so getting there & back will require a lot of patience. The Ascot to Waterloo line is very overcrowded on a…
Mary Meeker released her annual Internet trend report last week, you can view the full report (300+ pages) on the link below. Mary Meeker 2019 Internet Trends
EAGLE is a statistical model that forecasts the results of men’s major golf tournaments in real time. Every two minutes, it simulates every player’s score on every hole 10,000 times, and updates its projected leaderboard and the estimated probability of victory for each entrant. https://eagle.economist.com
Nice way to start the weekend
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