Weekly#469

Quantum computers take hours to ‘tune’ — this startup wants to solve that with AI
How Volvo put Apple Watch at the center of its services vision
2022 10 Breakthrough Technologies
Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips
GM plans 50 new digital features, services by 2026 –executive
Alibaba quarter results
Japan Wants to Make Half Its Cargo Ships Autonomous by 2040
Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below
Carvana acquires Adesa US auction business for $2.2B to jump-start used car sales
Springtime asteroid hit ramped up extinction rates, say scientists
Moderna says pandemic will end in 2022 but annual boosters needed (FT)
Virgin Hyperloop shifts its focus from passengers to cargo
Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’
Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push
OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity
Elon Musk: Tesla is working to make Steam video games work in its vehicles
“…AT&T’s planned shutdown of its 3G network Tuesday has sparked fears that home security systems, medical alert monitors and a range of other devices will stop working…”
How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup
China Orders Cuts for Food-Delivery Fees (WSJ)

Weekly#468

Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring
by 2030, there will be a global deficit of more than 85m tech workers
An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
Google’s research lab DeepMind built an AI for nuclear fusion energy, and used it to control a reactor hotter than the sun
Britain’s former deputy prime minister is now one of the most powerful people at Meta
‘We eat three times a day’ — DoorDash CEO says each meal is a chance to deliver, even post-Covid
Intel CEO Sees Revenue Growth Gaining Pace Starting Next Year (WSJ)
Chrome OS Flex is an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11
14 months later, Cyberpunk 2077 gets next-gen console patch, free 5-hour trial
College Students Have to Learn How to Make Small Talk Again (WSJ)
Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users
Amazon, Visa Resolve Monthslong Credit-Card Dispute (WSJ)
China Rolls Out Digital Yuan for Foreigners at the Olympics
Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android
Sequoia earmarks $500mn for push into cryptocurrency markets (FT)
Beem, an app that lets you livestream yourself in AR, raises $4 million
Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets
Giving discounts will bite ya — use them with caution
AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities
Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed
‘Stranger Things’ got rejected by over 15 networks before Netflix

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Weekly#467

Delivery Hero Q4 Presentation & FY 2021 Results
Three reasons startups are hiring fractional CFOs
The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived
MoviePass is officially coming back
YouTube TV to finally add picture-in-picture on iOS
How to change your inbox layout in Gmail
New algorithm bill could force Facebook to change how the news feed works…“…The bill instructs researchers to identify a number of ways to slow down the spread of harmful content and misinformation…”
Uber Expects to Be Cash-Flow Positive by Fourth Quarter of 2022 (WSJ)
SpaceX just lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm. There could be worse to come.
Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Keyboards weren’t designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
Massive “coffee tech” investments are giving startups a jolt
“…Starship should be able to reach orbits for less than $10 million a flight within two to three years, Mr. Musk said during a presentation…” (WSJ)
US Army turns to microgrids, EVs to hit net zero by 2050
Every employee who leaves Apple becomes an ‘associate’.”…In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee’s title gets erased and replaced with a generic title…”
Uber Eats is racking up partnerships as it plots its course in the crowded ultrafast delivery space
Ultrafast delivery startups are competing for the future of groceries. These 15 players have raised nearly $8 billion this year
Intel’s software-upgradeable ( Pay-As-You-Go) CPUs to be supported by Linux 5.18 this Spring.
Binance, led by the world’s richest crypto billionaire, is taking a $200 million stake in Forbes
Disney+ outshines Netflix with 11.8M new subscribers in Q1 and the strong forecast
Alfa Romeo Is Building NFTs Into Latest Hybrid Car to Record Vehicle Data
YouTube Plans to Make Gaming Videos Immersive in Metaverse Push
Salesforce is working on NFT cloud service
Fed Designs Digital Dollar That Handles 1.7 Million Transactions Per Second
Raspberry Pi bootloader enables OS installs with no separate PC required
Cash App has integrated the Lightning Network
The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You

Weekly#466

New grocery apps
Why the World’s Biggest Ocean Shipping Lines Are Buying Cargo Planes (WSJ)
Rockstar finally confirms it’s working on the next Grand Theft Auto
Star Wars has a Luke Skywalker/CGI problem
Discord is testing forums, new mod tools and homepages that surface hot topics in some servers
Spotify CEO hints HiFi tier delay is related to licensing issues
Apple Aims to Debut a New Low-Cost 5G iPhone and iPad in Early March
The Cloud infrastructure market soared to $178B in 2021, growing $49B in one year
Dolby acquires low-latency streaming platform Millicast
Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users
Amazon increases the price of Prime nearly 17% to $139 per year
Amazon’s profit engines are humming, cushioning the blow from the retail slowdown
Microsoft’s Videogame Boss and the Long Battle to Reinvent the Company
A New Artificial Intelligence Traffic Light Could Help Shorten Your Commute Times
Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
Facebook Parent Meta Faces Uphill Battle in Video Fight With TikTok (WSJ)
Southwest Airlines has a new CEO. Here’s what Bob Jordan must do in his first 100 days to help the company stabilize after a turbulent pandemic season.
npm enrolls Top 100 package maintainers into mandatory 2FA
Peloton stock surges on report Amazon is among potential buyers