Ozan Saglam

• Wordle
• Wordle founder Josh Wardle on going viral and what comes next
• Making sense of the East-West divide in tech
• Netflix shares fall 20% on slowing subscriber growth…The company said for the first quarter of 2022, it expects to add 2.5 million subscribers, compared to the 3.98 million it added in Q1 2021…
• Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
• After Microsoft’s record Activision Blizzard deal, analysts say these video game stocks could be the next targets
• Meta’s new learning algorithm can teach AI to multi-task
• Google is building an AR headset
• How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
• $2.5 billion wiped from Peloton’s market value as shares tumble below IPO price
• Elon Musk Offering Satellite Internet to Tsunami-Hit Tonga
• Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
• 2021 — YC Year in Review
• Mercedes’ future vehicles will have Luminar lidar under new deal
• The inventor of PlayStation thinks the metaverse is pointless
• Aldi starts using facial age estimation tech to sell alcohol in new no-checkout supermarket
• Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds
• Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Company Is Inching Toward Human Trials
• EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities
• China’s population may start to shrink this year, new birth data suggest
• Business Travel Shakeout Begins as Pfizer Axes Staff on Virtual Meetings Rise
• OpenSea Stats
• AppAnnie 2021

•  The Global Risks Report 2022 [PDF]
• A gene-edited pig’s heart has been transplanted into a human for the first time
• iMessage lock-in as a valuable weapon
• Researchers are building a black box in Tasmania to prevent the ‘crash’ of civilization
• Apple’s Metaverse Prospects Produce Real Optimism for Investors (WSJ)
• Microsoft augmented-reality team has lost around 100 people in the past year (WSJ)
• Starbucks Rewards: How the Coffee Giant’s Mobile App Became a Winner (WSJ)
• App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B
• Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation
• Delivery Hero grapples with how to pass on rising rider costs (FT)
• Web3 startups are poaching staff from Apple and Meta. Now the battle for talent is about to hit Europe’s startups
• AWS has been working on two different projects that could mitigate the risk of another big outage
• Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com sets challenge to Amazon with first ‘robotic shops’ in Europe

• Singapore pushes for water independence as temperatures rise
• Kubernetes: The Documentary – Part 1 Jan 21
• VW sets a date for the reveal of its production-ready electric Microbus
• Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel
• China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
• E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns
• The European Space Agency will soon send JUICE, or the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer on a mission to scout out Jupiter and three of its 79 moons: Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
• John Deere takes a step into the future with first fully autonomous tractor
• China’s ‘artificial sun’ smashes 1000-second fusion world record
• Mercedes-Benz to offer solar roofs on EVs starting in 2024
• Your credit score may soon depend on your web history
• A Record 4.5 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs in November
• Gen Z workers change jobs more often than any other generation because they’re prioritizing happiness, high expectations, and raises

Scott Galloway predicts the future. 🔮

NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Marketing @profgalloway talks what he got right from his 2021 predictions and what he sees for markets in 2022. pic.twitter.com/TukRor5upr

— Quest Means Business (@questCNN) January 4, 2022

• SpaceX’s Future Depends on a Gigantic Rocket and 42,000 Internet Satellites (WSJ)
• What will applied AI look like in 2022?
• Hyundai shuts down its engine development team amid focus on electric cars
• 13 battery gigafactories coming to the US by 2025 – ushering new era of US battery production
• Elon Musk says SpaceX will land humans on Mars in 10 years in the worst-case scenario
• Streaming wars drive media groups to spend more than $100bn on new content (FT)
• Big Tech’s Next Monopoly Game: Building the Car of the Future
• Ars Technica’s favorite films in 2021
• Boston Dynamics’ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
• Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?
• “…With supply chain disruptions messing with the auto industry, it’s an especially challenging time for startups like Rivian…”
• Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
• How Much Energy Do Data Centers Really Use?
• LG Electronics Gears Up to Develop Commercial ‘Waterless’ Washing Machine
• The Future of Cities? Fewer Cars, Better Homes
• How omicron broke Covid-19 testing
• Drone innovation moves from hardware to self-flying software (FT)
• Amazon slips to 4th in global shopping app installs amid rise of international brands
• A licence to print houses (FT)
• Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2022 (FT)

• Forecasting 2022 Venture Trends
• Battery Storage Soars on U.S. Electric Grid (WSJ)
• Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto (The Economist)
• Street Fighter II, Paper Trails
• How to measure all the world’s fresh water
• AWS suffers third outage of the month
• Google cancels CES in-person presence, event organizers going ahead with show
• Jack Dorsey’s Web3 takes, link2
• a16z Web3 Landscape
• Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob
• Game makers are increasingly selling virtual weapons and gear as NFTs (WSJ)
• Big Tech salaries revealed
• Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs topped CryptoPunks for the first time on a key price metric
• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission
• Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year

• How to lead from afar (The Economist)
• Nike buys NFT collectables startup RTFKT
• HSBC and Wells Fargo to settle currency trades with blockchain (FT)
• Trends 2022
  • Deloitte (PDF)
  • Gartner
  • Activate (PDF)
  • The 7 Biggest Consumer Technology Trends In 2022
• Reddit IPO
• Challenging Amazon’s dominance
• How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion
• Hackers launch over 840,000 attacks through Log4J flaw
• Inside Wall Street’s culture war with Gen Z
• 2022: A major revolution in robotics
• Apple Delays Corporate Return to Offices Indefinitely
• Spotify acquires podcast tech company Whooshkaa which turns radio broadcasts into on-demand audio
• Spotify is launching Apple-like ratings for podcasts
• The new Legacy Contact setting in iOS 15.2 lets you specify who can access your Apple iCloud information after you die. Here’s how to set it up (WSJ)
• A Dutch vertical farming company has just been valued at over $1 billion
• German revenue-based financing platform Re:cap raises $111.5M Seed round
• A third dose increased antibodies 25-fold compared with two doses against the Omicron variant
• The billionaire battle for the metaverse (The Economist)
• Asteroids visualized
• Scientists unveil drug discovery tool to screen more than 11 billion compounds

• Ben Evans: Three Steps to the Future
• Great Protocol Politics
• Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system
• Volvo Cars Sets Up Research Lab in $3.3 Billion Battery Push
• A Dune strategy game is coming to PC in 2022
• Among Us is getting a VR version
• Meta’s WhatsApp will allow crypto payments through Novi wallet in U.S.
• Miro targets $17bn valuation as demand for remote work tools surges (FT)
• What’s New at AWS re:Invent?
• Visa launches crypto consulting services in push for mainstream adoption
• UAE to shift to Saturday-Sunday weekend in line with global markets
• Ikigai gets $13M to build automated workflows with humans in the loop
• Getting Married in the Metaverse
• “…With the first orbital test launch of Starship on the horizon, scientists are dreaming about what it might make possible— from trips to Neptune to planetary defense…”
• Hurricanes in 100 years could be far more devastating, study finds
• China moon rover will investigate cube-shaped ‘mystery’ object on lunar far side
• Zoom will soon make it obvious if you’re late to your next big meeting
• Slush 2021 Videos

Major banking customers are interested…👀 pic.twitter.com/xc3RHJMmTW

— Jay Kurahashi-Sofue 🔺 (@jayks17) December 10, 2021

• Apple loses key autos engineer to electric aviation startup Archer
• interactive map shows where the Covid omicron variant has been detected
• Square Changes Name to Block (WSJ)
• Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon’s Cloud (WSJ)
• A cubic meter of asteroid dust may have as much as 20 liters of water
• Twitch unleashes AI tool to spot banned users
• World’s first ‘AI casino’ delayed by technical hitches (FT)
• Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021
• Amazon Alexa can now respond to running water and bleeping appliances
• AWS re:Invent videos
• Microsoft’s New Molecular Controller Makes DNA Writing 1,000 Times Faster
• Future 50
• The Covid-19 Pandemic — What Lessons Have Been Learnt

• Bluetooth tracking company Tile acquired for $205 million
• Scientists use seismic noise to image first hundred meters of Mars
• E-Commerce Needs Real Store Locations Now More Than Ever (WSJ)
• “Once it’s farther than 20 minutes, people won’t come.” (WSJ)
• The U.K. lost around 3,250 pubs and bars—about 6.8% of all such businesses—between March 2020 and September this year (WSJ)
• Virtual real estate plot sells for record $2.4 million
• NASA Just Launched a Spacecraft That Will Crash Into an Asteroid
• Atom Bank introduces four-day working week without cutting pay
• Apple digital-ID scheme delayed to 2022
• Niantic Receives $300 Million Investment From Coatue
• Ridley Scott confirms ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ live-action shows
• Virtual real estate plot sells for record $2.4 million
• Houston-based tech company Lancium is spending $150 million to build bitcoin mines across Texas that will run on renewable energy.
• Pet video marketplace Camlist eyes UK growth after raising $1.3 million pre-seed funding
• How micromobility operators can unlock a $300B industry
• The metaverse is a $1 trillion opportunity, crypto giant Grayscale says as virtual land sales boom
• 5 books you should read this holiday, according to Bill Gates
• metaverse key takeaways from analysis of 158 mentions on investor calls.
• China’s 5 big tech issues for 2022
• China’s space programme will go nuclear to power future missions to the moon and Mars
• NASA wants to put nuclear reactors on the Moon to power a future manned base

• Technology Radar (Thoughtworks)
• Bill Gates Says Covid Deaths May Drop to Flu Levels by Mid-2022
• Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation
• Apple will sell you iPhone parts to fix your own phone at home
• Starbucks links with Amazon Go for first cashier-less cafe
• What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet (WSJ)
• Apple’s electric car could debut as soon as 2025
• Ford, GM Step Into Chip Business (WSJ)
• Discord is quietly building an app empire of bots
• Netflix : A look under the hood
• Nasa Artemis Mission [PDF]
• Nvidia approaches $800 billion market cap
• Apple pushes back return to office plan to February
• German digital bank N26 is shutting down its U.S. operations, less than two-and-a-half years after it launched in the country.
• UPS will make deliveries using Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucks