Did you guys know that back in the 70s, everyone from aerospace companies to potato brands were trying to figure out how to make energy?
I loved talking with historians @ccmmody.bsky.social and Dante LaRiccia about this period of elevated oil prices.
"Buckley got an alert about a “ninja cat.” The video was a big letdown: 'It was just a normal, non-ninja, black cat.'"
www.wsj.com/tech/are-tho...
New BTOS AI Supplement from Census released today. AI use for any business function varies dramatically across sectors and firm size. In AI intensive use sectors, employment-weighted AI use 60-70% -- compared to 32% economy-wide employment weighted. See www.census.gov/library/work...
"If there's one thing I could tell people to do, it would be to use a password manager. Do not reuse old passwords."
@racheltobac.bsky.social, on how to protect yourselves from hacks
I'm going to be on all three @marketplace.org broadcast shows on Monday. I feel like there should be some sort of name for this, like a treble, or batting for the cycle.
Guys, I was this week-years old when I learned plug-in solar was a thing. I just talked about it with @paulosanalysis.com for @marketplace.org -- it's essentially a solar panel that you can plug into your wall like a toaster, but instead of taking power, it feeds power to your house!
It's always a nice moment when you've been rolling around in a mud of information and reporting, and then a story actually starts to take shape.
Watching the Google I/O keynote from this week, and so many of their search example questions are about optimizing health and exercise.
I wonder what percentage of Google searches are actually about these things. It feels very...Bay Area.
"There are videos of Waymos stopping at puddles in traffic, and snarling traffic because they wouldn't cross a puddle."
@willoremus.com on @marketplace.org Tech Bytes this week, on self-driving cars dealing with new situations
Our whole chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms84...
Doing a short turn piece on Cerebras's IPO, and it seems I can never spell "initial" correctly the first time I type it.