Weekly#461

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)

Weekly#460

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

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