Demographics, Education: University enrollments soon to decline too
This blog has documented the rapid rise of elementary school closures, which is now extending to middle and high school as well. Here in the U.S. this is just about…
Ev Wow: GM joins Ford in joining Tesla’s charging network
GM and Tesla partner on EV charging network, following Ford (cnbc.com)
Automation: White collar jobs are at risk of big change if not outright elimination, due to AI and automation
“People used to say that the robots are going to destroy skilled labor. Well, not really. I haven’t seen any plumbing robots. I haven’t seen any electrician robots. And I…
EVs: EVs might not be the panacea many imply they are
Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson Source: I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly…
Climate: “Fungi may offer ‘jaw-dropping’ solution to climate change”
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fu | EurekAlert! Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new…
AI: Rodney Brooks – the problems with AI
“What the large language models are good at is saying what an answer should sound like, which is different from what an answer should be.”—Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI Source: Just Calm…
Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Business: Employers are manipulating Glassdoor revies
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond (pragmaticengineer.com) Glassdoor is a website where employees (current and former) rate their employer. Employers have figured out how to…
Believable: “47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 | Security Magazine”
A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. Source: 47% of all internet traffic came from…
Climate: Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage not due to climate change
Today, as much as two-thirds of the potential river inflow never reaches the lake. Consequently, the lake is shrinking. However, it is not climate change, but human water use that’s…