Stephen E. Arnold: Critical Analysis of Facebook #GoogleGestapo

Defriending Facebook? Harsh Whether it was earnest advice or a public-relations ploy, we’re told Mark Zuckerberg’s recent call for regulation would not actually fix the problems with Facebook. Canada’s CBC News describes “The Case Against Facebook: a ‘Dataopoly’ with Too Much Market Power.” I was interested in reporter Ramona Pringle’s explanation of a “dataopoly;” she …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Update

Amazon Update List only: Amazon and Google: Learning to Coexist Amazon: Staff Management: Energy and Green Edition Amazon Partners: Implementing the New, Improved IBM Approach to Sales Continues Amazon: Going the Right Direction Says Yahoo, Verizon, Oath, AOL or Whatever Read expanded post.

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Update

Amazon Update A database for every need JEDI Squash Game: Final Match AWS Deep Learning Containers First, It Was Hollywood. Now It Is Big Oil More Robotics Amazon Employees Want Climate Change Policies Partner and Developer Quick Clicks Amazon Cash Pivot Amazon: Now a VC Broker One More Thing… Read expanded report.

Stephen E. Arnold: Deep Video Fakes Getting Easier, Better

Deep Video Fakes: Getting Easier and Better, Much Better You may have seen one of the news stories explaining that unwanted artifacts can be removed from video. The magic is one of the features of Adobe After Effects, an application which requires some effort to learn. “Adobe Creative Cloud Updates – New Features for Video …

Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir & Amazon Seeking to “Own” US Defense Intelligence?

Palantir Technologies: The Winding Down of DCGS and the Winding Up of Old School Intelware Vendors If you recognize the acronym “DCGS”,  you probably know that the Tolkien-infused intelware vendor Palantir Technologies has captured the $800 million contract for the US Army’s “new” intelligence system. If not, you won’t care. According to “Palantir Wins Competition …