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Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet (nytimes)
"Nearly half of Google’s search traffic now comes from Apple devices, according to the Justice Department, and the prospect of losing the Apple deal has been described as a “code red” scenario inside the company."
"Apple now receives an estimated $8 billion to $12 billion in annual payments — up from $1 billion a year in 2014 — in exchange for building Google’s search engine into its products. It is probably the single biggest payment that Google makes to anyone and accounts for 14 to 21 percent of Apple’s annual profits."
“If we just sort of merged the two companies, we could just call them AppleGoo,” joked Mr. Schmidt, who was also on Apple’s board of directors. With Google search on the iPhone, he added, “you can actually merge without merging.”
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Towards a Universal Knowledge Accelerator - talk by Aniket Kittur
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Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
#Comment: Weaponising open source is a new low, even for this particularly clueless US regime. But this is really only meaningful in the short-term. In the mid-term (2030ish), the tech game is very likely to have drastically changed: Other countries will have taken the technological lead (china & co), while the US is still engaged in endless internal conflicts (in effect a mafia-state, akin to what happened in Russia after 1990). All the global talent that once powered the US tech innovation motor (droves of Chinese, Indian, Russian and European PhD students etc.) will have disappeared. At that point, we might see headlines along the lines of "Globally leading open source platform Gitea blocked US access". Personally, i would prefer to see yet another scenario, where the entire global Intellectual Property market collapsed and was replace by "open source everything" - but that might be a more long term vision.
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Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness - paper by Johnjoe McFadden #NeuroScience #RadioBio
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Proposed Chinese Law Outlaws All Yuan-Pegged Tokens – Except for Its CBDC
A proposed Chinese law would ban stablecoins – yuan-pegged tokens – except for the central bank’s digital currency, popularly known as the digital yuan. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) aims to provide greater legal clarity to the regulation of its national virtual currency.
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Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light (quanta mag)
"It’s part of the general problem of what is time, and how do we measure time in quantum mechanics, and what is its meaning." - Eli Pollak
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U.S. Diplomats and Spies Battle Trump Administration Over Suspected Attacks (nytimes)
American officials in China, Cuba and Russia say U.S. agencies are concealing the true extent of the episodes, leaving colleagues vulnerable to hostile actions abroad.
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4 dimensions for knowledge transfer
We get 4 quadrants, which we could call Ask, Tell, Search, Share. An Ask approach to knowledge transfer focuses on communities of practice, where people can ask questions of their peers. A Tell approach to knowledge transfer focuses on training, lectures, mentoring and coaching. A Search approach to knowledge transfer focuses on enterprise search, semantic search and AI. A Share approach to knowledge transfer focuses on sharing documents, lessons and best practices
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Digital 'health passport' trials under way to aid reopening of borders (Guardian)
CommonPass aims to create common standard proving a traveller is Covid-free or vaccinated.
Related: Previously, Previously, Previously
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Stanford Study: Covid-19 death rate less than 0.2 percent (John Ioannidis, WHO)
The numbers reported by “officials” are over ten times higher.
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“It's called 'the American Dream' 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin
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From Follower To Leader: The Story Of China’s Rise - short talk by Martin Jacques
