April 2022

There were 5 posts published in April 2022 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#478

  • The Ownership Economy 2022
  • Shanghai’s lockdown is giving China’s online grocery apps a second chance
  • Apple’s services revenue hits a record $19.8B in Q2, reaches 825M paid subscriptions…The Company posted a March quarter revenue record of $97.3 billion, up 9 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.52.
  • The UK’s First Autonomous Passenger Bus Started Road Tests This Week
  • Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind
    • “…Nearly 40 years ago, scientists achieved a milestone by completing a wiring diagram that traced all the connections of the 302 neurons of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans…Today, thanks to advances in computing and image analysis algorithms, it can take less than a month to map a roundworm’s connectome. These technological improvements mean that scientists can set their sights on larger animals. They are closing in on the connectome of fruit fly larvae, with more than 9,000 cells, and adult flies, with 100,000 neurons. Next, they hope to map the brain of a developing fish and, perhaps within the next decade, a mouse, with roughly 70 million neurons—a project…“
  • For Human Settlements on Mars, Solar Power May Beat Nuclear Energy
  • MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water.
  • South Korea’s Oceanix Busan: All We Know About World’s First Floating City
  • The Boring Company is finally going to make a full-scale version of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
  • Japan reveals massive VR controlled robots to dominate construction
  • DoorDash extends gas rewards program for delivery people on its platform through August…The program enables delivery people using their DasherDirect card to receive 10% cash back on their gas purchases, anywhere in the United States
  • Amazon reported a loss of $3.84 billion, or $7.56 a share, for the first quarter… also reported a $7.6 billion loss on its investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian.
  • Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation
  • Delivery Hero increases revenues by 52% YoY
  • India to launch open e-commerce network to take on Amazon, Walmart…ONDC is incorporated as a private non-profit company, aimed at facilitating an open public digital infrastructure to develop and transform the Indian e-commerce ecosystem, which is pegged as a US$200 billion opportunity by 2026…The government plans to roll out its indigenously developed online e-commerce network for the public in 100 Indian cities by Diwali to provide millions of kirana stores and consumers an alternative to multinational platforms such as Amazon and Flipkart.
  • Airbnb commits to fully remote workplace: ‘Live and work anywhere’
  • Intel CEO Promises Quicker Return to Technological Leadership…“Now we think late 2024,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
  • The Life and Death of the Original Micro-Apartments

Weekly#477

  • Amazon Prime Coming to Other Online Sites (WSJ)…Prime members can order items on other retailers’ websites using payment and shipping information stored in their Amazon account.
  • Why Apple Acquired An ‘Open Banking’ Fintech
  • “…Amazon launched Thursday a $1 billion fund focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment with focus — at least in this first batch of investments — on wearable technology that improves safety in its fulfillment centers and robotics…”
  • Amazon is hiring to build an “advanced” and “magical” AR/VR product
  • Content isn’t king
  • WarnerMedia to shut down CNN Plus just a month after launch (FT)
  • NASA’s next decade: Build a mission to an ice giant
  • Netflix shares lost over a third of their value on Wednesday after the company reported its first drop in subscribers in a decade
  • Sony is cooking up plans to run ads in PlayStation games as rival Microsoft plans a similar program with Xbox
  • Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’
  • What ‘Severance’ Gets Right About Infantilizing Office Perks
  • GPT-4 Is Coming Soon. Here’s What We Know About It
  • MIT engineers built a robot for emergency stroke surgeries

Weekly#476

  • A deep-learning algorithm could detect earthquakes by filtering out city noise
  • Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter
  • How Apple’s Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore’s Law Alive
  • WhatsApp Communities: Meta’s Messaging App Now Supports Large Groups and Adds New Chat Features (WSJ)
  • Google quietly launches its awaited ‘Switch to Android’ app on iOS
  • TikTok’s ad revenue to surpass Twitter and Snapchat combined in 2022 – report
  • Amazon is still struggling to make drone deliveries work
  • DRI twitter thread
  • Amazon 2021 Letter to Shareholders
  • Epic Games Lands $2B As Sony Bets On Its Metaverse
  • Intel Says It’ll Deliver 2025 Chip Tech a Half Year Early
  • James Webb telescope’s MIRI instrument goes super-cold
  • “…Scientists believe they have found evidence of microbes that were thriving near hydrothermal vents on Earth’s surface just 300m years after the planet formed – the strongest evidence yet that life began far earlier than is widely assumed…”
  • ” a new study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge suggests the speed of genetic damage could be the key to survival, with long-living animals successfully slowing down their rate of DNA mutations regardless of their size.”

Weekly#475

  • Improbable raises $150m from Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank.
    “…Improbable has been developing a technology that allows very large numbers of people — more than 10k — to be in the same online world at the same time. At the moment, even multiplayer games such as Fortnite struggle to get more than 100 players on the same server at the same time…”
  • Elon Musk Delivers First Teslas Made In Texas, Teases Future Products (WSJ)
  • Trending Apps in Russia and Ukraine Show Shifting Priorities During War
  • Google will hide neglected apps in the Play Store…Starting in November, apps that haven’t been updated in two years will be hidden
  • Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
  • U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row…76.6 years — the lowest in at least 25 years.
  • An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Manufacturing Intelligence
  • Robinhood Releases Crypto Wallet to 2M Users, Plans Integration With Bitcoin Lightning Network
  • Return to Monkey Island confirmed by Ron Gilbert as real, slated for 2022 launch
  • Elon Musk has purchased 9.2 percent of Twitter’s stock
  • A second season of Severance is on the way
  • Portrait Using Only Voice by AI

Weekly#474

  • Thought works: Technology Radar #26
  • Online Grocery Strategy: A Reality Check for Disruptors and Incumbents
  • Passenger planes are being converted to cargo planes at record levels to make up for disrupted ocean freight
  • Mojo Vision takes another step toward AR contact lenses with new prototype
  • Remote islands of French Polynesia, locals made their own online shopping service
  • Disney Streaming’s new CTO is a former Google exec who worked on the tech behind YouTube
  • China Plans New Restrictions in Its Booming Live-Streaming Sector (WSJ)
  • Microsoft Build 2022 will take place May 24th–26th
  • Apple plans to build its own financial infrastructure for payments and lending
  • Klarna launches new Klarna Kosma division for its open banking platform
  • Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings