Karen’s Weekly Review of Technology Hits
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Welcome, dear technology readers.
A while ago, I read drones were being trialled by Amazon to deliver items to remote parts of the UK, the Amazon Prime Drone Delivery service is launching this year.
This article from Dr. Preeti Singh tells us more about drones and their uses in the world today.
At a relative’s grand daughter’s wedding, a noisy aerial vehicle passed over our heads and I said what is this funny-looking noisy thing. My cousin, who already knew that it had been hired by the wedding planners said to me “You are a foolish rustic person, don’t you know that this is an aerial gadget taking pictures of the people at the wedding?”. She however did not know the name of the gadget.
Cody Collins advises on the next big money making company. My little investment in gold hasn’t lost me any money yet. I’m pretty keen on Tesla shares and Bitcoin too. They might be worth a punt.
Tesla has been on a remarkable ride the last few years. They are one of the best known electric vehicle companies. Recently, many other companies in the same space have seen astronomical growth. Examples include Workhorse Group, Nio, and Nikola. While all these companies offer great ideas, it will be years before they are able to create sustainable, high-level profits.
A self-cleaning water bottle, is there such a thing? Anthony Vega reviews some excellent technological products designed to improve our lives. Okay, I’m convinced. I need a LARQ self-cleaning water bottle.
As technology is becoming a bigger part of our lives, we can start using it to benefit our health. Now that technology has advanced medical-grade technology is becoming available to regular consumers, so we can start using that technology to change or even save our lives. There are many smart health products out there from a stress monitoring headband to a self-cleaning water bottle, but all of them can benefit us in one way or another.
An intriguing title and intro from Erwin Leonardy and an article that spans four different eras of Artificial Intelligence. Smart cities are one example of Perception AI. Autonomous vehicles are an example of Autonomous AI.
Four years ago, the world was taken aback when the world Go champion, Ke Jie, lost his battle. He lost the fight against an AI algorithm candidly named AlpaGo.
I wouldn’t mind being able to ingest knowledge. Viv Bora shares his views on this topic and discusses what we will need in the future. Is the human race ready for such radical changes?
They may already be happening.
The rise of populist politics all over the world may have a direct link to such manipulation.
A manipulation that involves going back to the dark ages when women were controlled by men and religion in Poland for example.
This is an excellent essay and very worrying that humans are so easily hacked.
Prof. Negroponte floated many such ideas (analogue to digital, online news, handheld device, wifi etc.) and most of which we take for granted today. His prediction on this occasion was more about the inside human body than the outside digital world. He argued that the current learning methods to learn are very inefficient, and it will be possible to ingest (something) to learn any new subject.
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Tom Handy gives us the inside Reddit scoop about the famous Gamestop buy up of shares that beat Wall Street at their own game.
I have invested for years but I actually took investment advice from a Reddit group for the first time this week. For me, I never use Reddit but I heard people talk about a Reddit channel making money investing on dead stocks. I had to find out what the noise was about.
Thank you for reading.
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