Category Archives: Misc
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Many of the obituaries for Yahoo have contrasted its demise with the flourishing of Google, another Web pioneer. Why was Google’s attempt to “organize all the world’s information” vastly more successful than Yahoo’s? The short answer: Because Google did not organize the … Continue reading
Inherited Wealth in Europe and the U.S.
Bloomberg: More than one-third of Italy’s richest people inherited their fortunes, compared with just 29 percent in the U.S. and 2 percent in China, according to a 2014 study of the world’s billionaires by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Germany has the … Continue reading
30% of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets, up from 9% in 2012
Recode: Sandvine, a broadband services company, says that 30 percent of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets. That’s up from 20 percent in 2013 and 9 percent in 2012.
Textbooks and College Tuition Lead Price Increases 1996-2016
Source: BLS HT: CB Insights
Collaborative Robotics Market
MarketsAndMarkets: The global collaborative robots market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 60.04% between 2016 and 2022 from $110 Million in 2015 and is expected to reach $3.3 Billion by 2022. The collaborative robots market is application driven; … Continue reading
The Rise of the ‘Tech’ Giants
Financial Times: [August 1, 2016] was something of a red-letter day for the tech industry. When the stock market closed, the five most valuable companies on the planet were, for the first time, technology concerns. And they all hailed from … Continue reading
Wearables are today all about wellness
Forrester Research: US consumer adoption of wearable devices will reach 29% in 2021, up from 18% last year, according to a new Forrester Data forecast. Today the vast majority of consumers who own and use wearables have a health or … Continue reading
No End to Moore’s Law
IEEE Spectrum: This final ITRS report is titled ITRS 2.0. The name reflects the idea that improvements in computing are no longer driven from the bottom-up, by tinier switches and denser or faster memories. Instead, it takes a more top-down approach, focusing … Continue reading
Machine Learning, Artist’s Rendition
[vimeo 176389707 w=640 h=360] Motherboard: Jakob Werner, a 22-year-old animator and visual design student in Germany, decided to interpret the idea of machine learning a bit more literally “in order to create a sarcastic view at our society and into … Continue reading