- Amazon’s hardware team is on pace to lose $10 billion this year
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- Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases
- Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Francophone Africa expansion, backed by new $14M round
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- Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing…Intel’s Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand…Intel’s Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand.
- “…Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself..The project, which began life inside Alphabet’s X research unit and was codenamed Pitchfork, moved into Google’s Labs group this summer, according to people familiar with the matter….”
- Cottingham: Europe’s biggest battery storage system switched on…The facility has the capacity to store up to 196 MWh of energy in a single cycle.
- Microsoft says attackers are hacking energy grids by exploiting decades-old software
- E-commerce advertising is driving much of Criteo’s growth, with the firm hoping to hit $1 billion in revenue from retail media by 2025.
- Meituan’s Revenue Climbs 28% After Covid Drives Meal Delivery
- OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game.
- 3.2 billion gamers
- “…Since 1959, more than 350 people have become NASA astronauts…It takes two years of training…For NASA’s 2021 class of astronauts, the space agency said it chose just 10 candidates from more than 12,000 applicants…a NASA astronaut, summed up what the agency was looking for in future spacefarers: “Be adaptable, trustworthy, tenacious, and detail-oriented…Astronauts endure grueling desert survival training in case of an emergency landing…In 1964, Apollo 11 astronauts traveled to Nevada to spend three days in the hot, dry desert and practice survival skills“
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- IBM has filed a lawsuit against Micro Focus, alleging the enterprise software company copied and reverse-engineered its CICS mainframe service to develop a rival product, the Micro Focus Enterprise Server
- Windows Subsystem for Linux is now packaged as a Microsoft Store app
- Turning Water Into $700 Million: A Day in the Desert With Liquid Death Founder Mike Cessario
The average American driver spends 55 minutes a day behind the wheel (same as an ancient Mesopotamian spent traveling) He or she also drives 29 miles a day. Hence the need for 300 mi. range on *all* vehicles available for sale.
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) November 23, 2022
