image credit: Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune This is Change Log — my weekend observations and links on the intersection of tech, commerce, health, culture and markets
Argonne National Laboratory has partnered with the city of Chicago to install 500 Internet of Things beehive shaped devices atop street lights. The devices will use a collection of sensors to monitor air quality, traffic, weather and possibly help self-driving cars… Twitter isn’t worried about Facebook Live. That makes sense because Twitter isn’t worried about falling revenues, profits, active user growth or shareholders for that matter… Speaking of Facebook, people are now spending more time on Facebook than with actual friends. Like it or not … Carl Icahn recently sold all of his Apple shares, citing worries over increasingly tense relationship between Cupertino and China… Ford is planning a long-range electric car to compete with Tesla … It seems automation software engineers have been unwittingly teaching computers to do the engineers’ own jobs. Who’s laughing now … A U.K. inventor with no engineering education has built a working hoverbike in his shed. It flies and can even be steered – sort of. Now landing, that’s a bit tricky… A tiny mobile home called an Ecocapsule, below, is powered by solar and wind — which is kind of cool but it is still just a tiny mobile home… MasterCard is taking a big leap of faith with its Internet of Things strategy. The payment company wants to transform every connected device, including virtual-reality ones, into a commerce device. Do virtual debts require real-world payments? … Hover Camera is a safe, foldable drone that can follow you, but only for 8 minutes at a time… An Australian outed himself as the creator of the Bitcoin crypto currency. Not that there is anything wrong with that… […]
