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FIR ZoomChat 1: The post-pandemic Future of Work

March 28, 2020 by Neville Hobson 

While many of us are under jurisdictional orders to remain in our homes, we can still get together socially. That’s just what Neville, Shel, and more than a dozen FIR listeners did on Thursday, March 26, using Zoom. This roughly 30-minute discussion focused mainly on how work will change in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We are planning to host conversations via Zoom every Thursday at 1pm EDT / 6pm BST / 7pm CET. Watch this space (or follow us on Twitter or Facebook) for the URL and … [Read more...] about FIR ZoomChat 1: The post-pandemic Future of Work

Filed Under: Communication, FIR Podcast Network, Trends, Workplace Tagged With: coronavirus, working from home, Zoom, ZoomChat

Hybrid stepping stone

March 1, 2020 by Neville Hobson 

Electric car changing map

Report: Just days after the UK's ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars was brought forward to 2035 from 2040, there has now been a suggestion that it could be brought forward even further to 2032 – just 12 years from now. ...The move would also ban the sale of hybrid vehicles, which sold more than 13,000 units last month. All-electric cars meanwhile accounted for 4,054 UK sales in the first month of 2020.InsideEVs https://insideevs.com/news/399114/uk-ban-gas-diesel/ Including … [Read more...] about Hybrid stepping stone

Filed Under: Trends, Business, Communication, Marketing Tagged With: automotive, EV, hybrid

FIR 190: Digital vs analogue behaviour in the UK general election

December 20, 2019 by Neville Hobson 

General Election 2019

For the December edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report - aka episode 190 of the For Immediate Release podcast - Shel and I picked an eclectic list of topics to talk about. As a European and, specifically, a Brit, my hot one was about the result of the General Election that took place here in the UK on December 12 - the result was a landslide win for Boris Johnson and the Conservative party - and the role social media played in influencing voters. Did social media influence voters to … [Read more...] about FIR 190: Digital vs analogue behaviour in the UK general election

Filed Under: Communication, Mainstream Media, Politics, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends Tagged With: #GE2019, Boris Johnson, Facebook, general election 2019, Internet, Merriam-Webster, Pulitzer Prize

The time of the AI writer

November 10, 2019 by Neville Hobson 

Developments in artificial intelligence that can write authentic-looking stories took a big leap forward earlier this year with the release of GPT-2, a predictive text-creation algorithm that can create a coherent, realistic-sounding continuation of a text input as short as one or two sentences. In other words, the software looks at a text you write and predicts the next words and phrases. It uses a huge data set as its training source: 8 million web pages which have been curated or filtered … [Read more...] about The time of the AI writer

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Software, Technology, Trends Tagged With: big data, GPT-2, machine learning, neural network, OpenAI

FIR 187: It may be a Car but it Sounds like a Starship

September 25, 2019 by Neville Hobson 

Jaguar i-Pace

With this September 2019 episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report or FIR 187, Shel and I discuss a handful of notable, even memorable, topics and include a segment we recorded two weeks beforehand in Winchester when we were together during Shel's UK trip. Automotive is a star feature of our discussion with a detailed exchange of views and thoughts on news out of the US about regulatory developments regarding electric cars, specifically on the sound they make. Which is a thing that concerns … [Read more...] about FIR 187: It may be a Car but it Sounds like a Starship

Filed Under: Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Hardware, Innovation, Marketing, Podcasting, Public Relations, Software, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Trends Tagged With: automotive, brand, deepfake, Descript, i-Pace, Jaguar, voice

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