June 2022

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

Weekly#486

  • GitHub’s AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that’ll be $10 a month
  • Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years
  • Energy-hungry data centers are quietly moving into cities
  • Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool
  • Spotify revamps in-app concert discovery with new Live Events Feed
  • Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career
  • DoorDash teams up with grocer Loblaw as ultrafast delivery rivalry heats up (FT)
  • 7 Modern Microservice Design Patterns
  • For the first time, a small rocket will launch a private spacecraft to the Moon
  • As Bitcoin Busts, What’s the Future of Web3? And What Even Is Web3?
  • Nasa starts shutting down Voyager after 50 years…Nasa must start limiting the craft processes in order to keep them operating until 2030
  • “…Pinduoduo shares have more than doubled since then, while Meituan shares have climbed 80%, and JD shares are up more than 50% in Hong Kong. Kuaishou is up by nearly 47%…”
  • Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens
  • iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites

Weekly#485

  • How To Be A Great 21st Century CEO
  • Klarna faces valuation slash to $15bn as it seeks fresh round of funding
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion (WSJ)
  • Welcome to the E-Commerce Winter (The Information)
  • Solar Power for Rentals: It’s Easier Than You Think
  • Apple scores deal for Major League Soccer streaming rights worth $2.5bn (FT)
  • Roku Stock Jumps After Unveiling Walmart E-Commerce Partnership
  • “…Unit economics is becoming an albatross around the necks of tech-adjacent businesses that listed on public markets in recent years…” (FT)

Weekly#484

  • Microplastics found in freshly fallen Antarctic snow for first time
  • Today’s CEOs Don’t Just Lead Companies. They Lead Ecosystems
  • Google releases Android 13 beta 3, reaches platform stability
  • Spotify Targets One Billion Listeners by 2030 Amid Profitability Concerns (WSJ)“…Audible controls about 48% of U.S. audiobook unit sales, according to book-audience researcher Codex Group LLC…”
  • Amazon gets into AR shopping with launch of ‘Virtual Try-On for Shoes’
  • WWDC 2022 recap: iOS 16, new MacBook Air, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9 and more
    • Apple: new financing arm banks on credit (FT:Lex)
    • Apple’s “next generation” of CarPlay plans to take over every screen in your car
    • What WatchOS 9 May Reveal About the Next Apple Watch
    • iPadOS 16 has lots of updates, but new multitasking features require an M1 chip
    • Apple’s medication feature is a step in the right direction
  • Meta Halts Development of Apple Watch Rival With Two Cameras
  • Autonomous cargo ship completes first ever transoceanic voyage
  • Apple is coming for Garmin but it has a battery problem. 18 hours still falls short of other multisport watches

Weekly#483

  • India’s open e-commerce plan
  • WatchOS 9: Every New Apple Watch Feature to Expect at WWDC
  • How Lyft Is Improving Their Experiments Beyond A/B Testing
  • Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down
  • Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable
  • Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud (WSJ)
  • There is no such thing as ‘data’…”…What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application…” (FT / Benedict Evans)
  • Twitter’s reportedly shifting teams away from Spaces, newsletters, and communities…Twitter says its focus is ‘on the areas that will have the greatest positive impact to the public conversation’
  • Slack adds audio name pronunciations to user profiles
  • Volvo will use Epic’s Unreal Engine to create ‘photorealistic’ graphics in its electric cars
  • Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon
  • Bukalapak races to bring Indonesian roadside kiosks online (FT)
  • Pinterest to Acquire The Yes…
  • Missed Payments, Rising Interest Rates Put ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ to the Test (WSJ)