Executive Order on “right to repair” may have broader “ripple” effects
US President Joe Biden will soon sign an executive order that will give farmers the right to repair their own tractors, said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary in a…
YouTube’s AI-based video recommendations skew, obviously, to what results in more views
The goal of Youtube, obviously, is to increase the percent of time you spend watching Youtube, and their ads every few minutes: New research published today by Mozilla backs that…
Follow up in 2022: Winter flu season could be big, experts warn
That’s what they said about winter 2020/2021 too – how did that projection turn out? now health experts are warning the public that there could be a very difficult flu…
Pilobulus
This outside my usual interests but just saw that the dance company Pilobulus was in the news. In my tech career, I worked with one of the co-founders of this…
Amazing: 2,000 robots in a grocery store system pack for customer pickup orders
https://youtu.be/ssZ_8cqfBlE
Business replaces software developers with internal “citizen” low-code/no-code software development
They expect 70% of applications to be developed by their internal users rather than software specialists: We started with our center of excellent last year, where we got some experts…
Lidar versus visual processing for automated driving
Lidar, or laser-based radar, is a key enabling technology for most auto makers’ self-driving cars. Lidar is good at identifying objects far down the road and determining speed. Unlike traditional…
The Field of Computer Science, summarized
This a great 11 minute video summarizing the breadth of the fields of computer science and computer engineering. There is a lot to cover in this wonderfully done graphical map,…
Historical context for this pandemic
The above author is a Lecturer in history at the Royal Holloway University of London. The ’68 pandemic had less effect in the U.S., with worse outcomes in parts of…
Experts fear we will run out of greek letters before we run out of variants
Now up to the Lambda variant. Models from IHME and ICL suggest we will run out of Greek letters before we run out of variants. Consequently, experts think we may…