January 2022

There were 4 posts published in January 2022 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#465

  • Six global IPOs to watch in 2022
  • Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices
  • Apple revenue pops 11% to $123.9 billion, Cook says supply chain improving
  • Water on Mars may have flowed for a billion years longer than thought
  • Gen Z: Open banking’s blind spot
  • Checkout.com is now worth $40bn
  • NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination
  • SpaceX planning to launch up to 52 missions in 2022
  • Disney+ is expanding to 42 more countries this summer
  • Hydrogen to Replace Natural Gas- By the Numbers
  • Hybrid & Remote Work in 2022 and Beyond
  • Elon Musk says Tesla’s humanoid robot is the most important product it’s working on — and could eventually outgrow its car business

Weekly#464

  • 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

Weekly#463

  •  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

Weekly#462

  • 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