Hertz came back strong after the pandemic stunted rental car companies. Hertz wanted to differentiate itself by adding 100,000 vehicles to its fleet by 2022. Instead, the company added 50 thousand Tesla’s bringing the total size of its EV inventory to 11 percent. The company is doubling down on its promise and wants to boost...
My all-time saying in this land of post-modernistic devices has been: Live by the demo. Die by the demo.– William Lee Mapp, III “Toss a coin to your Google, Oh valley of plenty, oh valley plenty…” Because Google’s stock price tumbled 8% after Bard goofed on its response.” To much fanfare, Google announced, Bard, it’s...
Last week, Netflix announced plans to change its password sharing policy among family users. New account sharing protocols listed in the Help Center would require users to verify all devices attached to a specific account. Essentially, Netflix would be checking to make sure users’ devices are all in the same house or attached to the...
Last week’s Top Tech Stories of the Week was all about ChatGPT. Will asks ChatGPT for date night meal ideas and it didn’t go as aspected. Listen to Mark Starling, John Wooten, and Will explain why you shouldn’t be afraid of ChatGPT. Will’s verdict: “the creativity of humans is still much better than anything a...
Earlier today, Twitter announced plans to charge for its API beginning February 9th. The Twitter API is used by hundreds of web and mobile app developers that provide 3rdParty functionality for the platform. After saying major policy changes will be put to a vote and reneging on his own tweet, this policy change escaped to...
People have been creating fake images of other people forever. In bygone eras, photo negatives were clipped and spliced onto other negatives to put people in the same frame. As photoshop got better, digital artists would cut the head off the body of a person in an image and paste it on another body. The...
For Sarah, thanks for being a dedicated listener and fan of Top Tech Stories of the Week! I assure you this article wasn’t written by ChatGPT. ChatGPT has gotten a lot of hype in a very short span of time. Teachers are decrying the AI for destroying ‘the research paper’, while students the world over...
Finally! The Cloud is live and online. The Cloud is my new show on Astrid Intermedia. It’s a monthly podcast that will dive deep into big technology and asks the question, “is technology really delivering on its promises?” The first show explores why smart city projects haven’t taken off in North America. We featured, Nick...