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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