August 05, 2021

3×33: Eternal Bronze Medallists

54 minutes

Stuart Langridge and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Jono is away, you too are not an astronaut, and:

[00:02:00] Shares slide after China brands online games “electronic drugs”

[00:03:50] The US FAA changes the definition of “astronaut” after Bezos and Branson go into space, LOL

[00:06:25] Machine learning sucks at covid

[00:12:15] Sinclair are 60, and some thoughts on retro computing popularity prompted by @popey

[00:15:45] The Pixel 6 has been announced; what’s the score? They’re being a bit close-mouthed about it, but it’s apparently a real flagship this time, whatever that means

[00:23:00] Firefox lost 50M users since 2019, down from around 250 million

[00:26:25] Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Winners, although this is decided by facial recognition

[00:30:00] Facebook creates new unit to build a “metaverse”

[00:34:50] Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over streaming of Black Widow

[00:42:45] Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV

And we said we’d look into Amazon revenue per business unit, and an infographic from “visual capitalist” suggests that it’s 50% from their selling on Amazon.com (and .co.uk, etc) plus another 20% from third-party sales through amazon.com (etc). AWS is about half of the remainder (12.4% overall), and the remainder is divided roughly evenly between subscriptions (Prime), real-world stores (Whole Foods), and other, all at about 5% overall each.

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×33-eternal-bronze-medallists/12430

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!

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