Seattle mayor wants to reduce building emissions. Emissions of what, CO2?
Chatmail. Seems like a good idea. Fast, secure, etc. But you have to send messages to other people enrolled in the program, or else you don't see any benefit. But maybe if too many people join, it won't be fast anymore. I'm going to wait on this one.
Meta/Facebook comes out with their own version of Google Glass. Still dorky. Still an invasion of privacy. I am in favor of privacy startups that will arise to combat glasses like these.
I suspected that this would happen with password managers. Leakage. You put your trust into a company to safeguard your passwords, and that company is breached. Really sucks. So far the one I use (Abine) hasn't had problems.
Lots of hype recently about transparent wood. I suspect it's going to have limited usage.
Microsoft will soon overtake Apple in 2024. Apple seems to have run out of ideas. They can't make their phones any slimmer, and can't make the bezels any smaller. And making pixel density more dense is pointless, even if feasible. And there is little interest in another set of emojis. Form factor hasn't changed in years. Computers are still gray rectangles, just like the day Steve Jobs died.
Electric eels can genetically modify neighboring fish! Electroporation, that's how. I did experiments with that before. But electric eels can do it in the sea. But what DNA are they modifying fish with? Environmental DNA! Apparently the sea is filled with it. And who knows what it will do to fish? Very strange.
A.I. now lets you separate vocal tracks from music.
Guess we won't need TV news reporters anymore. These are much better. They can do so much more, and you don't have to pay them a king's ransom.
Ex-Soviet math professor refuses to sign Diversity statements. “I grew up in the Soviet Union, where people had to affirm their fealty to ideals, and the leaders embodying those ideals, on a daily basis." Understood.
Biden's NLRB wants to make it illegal to shut down your business if union jobs are to be lost. Doesn't matter if the numbers don't pencil out. Why would anyone want to open a business in this climate?