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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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