You have to appreciate someone who can find new uses for old technology instead of sending it to a landfill. In this case we have a Swedish software engineer named Linus Åkesson who has created a fully functioning electronic accordion. The Commodordion was built using with two Commodore 64 Computers, Floppy Disks, and tape (plus some other electronic components). Sure sounds like something MacGyver would come up with. Åkesson—a versatile musician himself—can actually play the Commodordion in real time like a real accordion. He plays a melody with his right hand on one C64 keyboard and controls the chord of…
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In the US the major wireless carries started slowly rolling out 5G networks to parts of select cities in 2019. By the December 2021, they expected to fully activate their 5G networks, but delays ensued due to concerns about possible interface with certain instruments on commercial aircraft. With all the advertising the big three (AT&T, T-Mobile & Verizon) US wireless carriers have been pushing out about 5G it is hard to realized there are still other parts of the world that are not using 5G as much. The adoption of the fifth generation (5G) mobile network in regions like North…
Hear that Giant Sucking Sound Elon? No, it is not all our jobs going south of the border to Mexico as 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot claimed would happen with the passing of NAFTA. No, that is the sound of all your advertisers pulling out their money from Twitter. The reasons are many, but mainly have to do with content moderation and issues raised by civil right groups calling for boycotts. Those advertisers that brought in a big chunk of Twitter’s revenue (more than the ‘new and improved’ Twitter Blue) will ever make which Chief Twit desperately needs to help…
Elon Musk is trying anything and everything to get the money coming back in to Twitter. He keeps pushing the new Twitter Blue model launching on Monday, November 7th. The new $8 USD (other countries based on their purchasing power) plan is to include verification (which means anyone who pays the monthly fee gets the verification badge even if they don’t need it), plus slew of other ‘features’ (but not ad-free content). Instead of creating the town square where important public discourse is freely debated (which Musk claimed was his Twitter vision), he’s now making moves to potentially skew discussions…
Twitter Employees have filed a class action lawsuit in regards to the forthcoming mass layoffs. Specifically because Elon Musk and Twitter are in violation of worker protection laws including the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act as well as the California WARN Act, both of which require 60 days of advance notice. The lawsuit was filed on November 3, 2022 in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California. This isn’t the frost time the Chief Twit has been served with a wrongful termination class action lawsuit. He faced a similar lawsuit this past summer involving the…
Here we go again, just when you thought Microsoft Corporation 410,68 +5,48 +1,35% had worked out all the kinks with the Windows 11 2022 Feature Update aka 222H2, comes yet another known issue preventing some users from upgrading. This time around it involves the Xbox Game Bar Capture. On affected devices, users are experiencing issues in which the audio and video are out of sync when capturing gameplay using the Xbox Game Bar app. “You are more likely to encounter this issue when using the ‘Record last 30 seconds’ feature when ‘Record in the background while I’m playing game’ is…
Earlier this week Microsoft began testing a new feature for some English speaking and US based Windows Insiders who have installed the latest Windows 11 Dev build. The new ‘feature’ which will display flyout tips in the task bar letting them know they can search their PC and the web from the taskbar. Microsoft is now testing a new way to help Windows 11 users get more out of its Windows Search by displaying tip flyouts in the taskbar. Starting today, Windows 11 will display tips prodding Windows Insiders who have installed the latest Windows 11 Dev build to search their…
The beginning of the end of Twitter will happen this Friday morning (November 4th). All employees were kicked out of the office and sent home Thursday evening. The most recent count was expected to be around 3700 employees, around 50% of the work force. On Thursday evening, all employees received an email stating that they will be informed of their employment status at 9 A.M. PT on Friday. Each email will be sent with the subject line “Your Role at Twitter.” If an employee is keeping their job, they’ll be notified via their work email — if they’re let go,…
Even before Elon Musk aka Chief Twit finally purchased Twitter last week, there has been fear of massive layoffs. Initially the first reports were around 75%,of Twitter’s employees would be let go. Then that number had dropped to around 25%. Many had hinted the layoffs regardless of how big, would happened on Monday, October 31st as November 1st was the cut-off date for employees to remain eligible to receive their year-end Stock (Grant) Compensation. So far only a handful of employees are no longer with the company and those were from the executive team. Chief Twit did fire the previous…
The conference was going to be the first since 2015 has been scheduled to start on November16th. No reason has been provided for the late cancellation, but the timing is too much of coincidence with the Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter last month. In another sign of the upheaval happening internally at Twitter, the company has called off its Chirp developer conference just two weeks before it was scheduled to take place on November 16th. The company alerted developers and other attendees in a brief note that didn’t provide a reason for the cancellation. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on…