Weekly#392

Tech Decoupling: China’s Race to End Its Reliance on the U.S. (WSJ) wsj.com
Rocket Lab secretly launched its very first satellite, ‘First Light’ techcrunch.com
Apple won’t force developers to let users opt out of tracking until next year techcrunch.com
Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data dl.acm.org
Myst AI claims its AI energy prediction technology boosts utilities’ reliability venturebeat.com
SpaceX launches 12th Starlink mission, says users getting 100Mbps downloads arstechnica.com
‘The Mandalorian’ launches its second season on Oct. 30 techcrunch.com
Tesla CEO met VW CEO during Germany visit: source reuters.com
The Winamp Skin Museum thenextweb.com
Feeling Safe in the Home of the Future: A product life-cycle approach to improve the trustworthiness of smart home products and services www3.weforum.org
The Future of Media: A New Framework for Valuing Content weforum.org
US Inflation Calculator (from 1913 to 2020) usinflationcalculator.com
Tencent: The Ultimate Outsider notboring.substack.com
Airlines Invent Wild Ways to Make Money with Borders Closed bloomberg.com
These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat theverge.com
America Is Running Low on a Crucial Resource for COVID-19 Vaccines theatlantic.com
Cheap Chinese exercise bikes are beating US tariffs qz.com
Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover theatlantic.com
Kenji Ekuan, Who Gave Soy Sauce Its Graceful Curves, Dies at 85“…It took him three years and 100 prototypes to come up with a final design for his dispenser, which combined a gracefully curving form with an innovative, dripless spout…” nytimes.com
Amazon’s Biggest Leap Was Boring nytimes.com
Uniqlo’s parent firm, Fast Retailing, is now the world’s third-largest clothing company, after Inditex (which owns Zara) and H&M economist.com