Weekly#495

McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2022
E-Commerce revenue to shrink for the first time ever
Surgery Simulation Startup FundamentalVR Raises $20 Million (WSJ)
Viral Post Generator “…A simple tool that might make you a “Linkedin Influencer” After analyzing 100,000+ viral posts on Linkedin…”
The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
Spectral, a web3 credit score company
“…A volunteer with severe liver disease will soon undergo a procedure that could lead them to grow a second liver…“
Artemis 1 Launch Will Test NASA’s Mission to Return Humans to the Moon (WSJ)
Apple event, Sep 7
The GPU surplus has arrived
Websites Can Identify If You’re Using iPhone’s New ‘Lockdown’ Mode
Pleton…its Q4 2022 earnings, the company reported a $1.2 billion operating loss, a 28 percent revenue drop
Twitter is becoming a podcast app
Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot
DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta
“…White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay…”
iOS 16 can detect when you’ve saved duplicate photos on your iPhone
Artificial intelligence model can detect Parkinson’s from breathing patterns
James Webb telescope captures surreal images of Jupiter’s auroras
“…Apple’s business model “is evolving from maximising unit growth to maximising installed-base monetisation…”
Smart Contract Head to Head — Ethereum vs. Flow
Popular Design Patterns for Microservices Architectures
China’s 19 New Measures to Bolster Economic Growth

Weekly#494

A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
2022 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan
How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter
2022 State of the API Report
Inside the software that will become the next battle front in US-China chip war…The US has moved to restrict export of electronic design automation (EDA) software
Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm
Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California…Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
A new strain of avian flu is decimating wild birds…In a pre-Covid 19 world, the deaths of 86mn birds would have been a global news story (FT)
HTTP/3 Support for Amazon CloudFront
The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript
Five years later, Google is still all-in on Kotlin
Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
‘Lord of the Rings’ Acquired by Embracer Group
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
TikTok launches new ad solutions with smarter targeting and amplified product discovery
Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months…46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year
VPN bypass vulnerability in Apple iOS

Weekly#493

Disney Plus in the third quarter to reach a total of 152 million and 221 million across all its services…Disney has finally surpassed Netflix in overall streaming subscribers
Disney is increasing the price of its ad-free Disney+ subscription to $10.99
Microsoft has decided to open a store in India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce
“…AWS saw revenues climb 36 percent from the prior year, while Microsoft reported its cloud biz saw year-over-year growth of 40 percent…”
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly
Everything Samsung Unpacked at its August 2022 Event
The collapse in cryptocurrencies is easing supply of the most sought after watches on the second-hand market, depressing prices for hard-to get-Patek Philippe and Rolex models.
Amazon has become the third-biggest digital advertising company behind Google and Facebook, hitting $31 billion in ad revenue in 2021
DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022
“…Among the hundreds of new car models for sale in the United States this year, only about 30 can be purchased with a manual transmission. Electric cars, which now account for more than 5 percent of car sales, don’t even have gearboxes…“
“…Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home… the maps also represent a wealth of data for marketers. The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth. A floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without much furniture is a household to which you can try to sell more furniture. This is all useful intel for a company such as Amazon which, you may have noticed, is in the business of selling stuff…“
Pearson looks to NFTs to profit from second-hand textbook sales
The global semiconductor shortage is causing more than 100,000 vehicles to be dropped from North American production schedules this week.
Impacts of climate change on pathogenic human diseases
99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet…Netflix’s games see 1.7 million daily users
Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
Delivery Hero Architecture Reviews
- Each tribe lead presents four slides for 15 minutes, including:
  - An up-to-date architecture diagram following our common representation standard, with major past and planned changes highlighted.
  - Suggested updates to the global technical debt tracker
  - Interesting learnings generated in the last six months
  - Proposed changes to our reliability manifesto or architecture guideline

Weekly#492

Pinterest said global monthly active users declined by 5% from a year earlier to 433 million
Netflix Is Scrambling to Learn the Ad Business It Long Disdained (WSJ)
Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B
Most Mobile Game Genres See Revenue Declines in the U.S. During H1 2022 as Industry Headwinds Bite
YouTube rolls out experimental ‘pinch to zoom’ feature for Premium users
Researchers who previously revived some brain cells in dead pigs succeeded in repeating the process in more organs.
The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
Maintaining customer engagement is critical to maximizing long-term customer value in financial services
Uber reports positive cash flow for the first time… Ride-sharing group hits its target after burning through $25bn since being founded in 2009 (FT)
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting in Summer 2023
With plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.
Starbucks to unveil its web3-based rewards program next month
The age of brain-computer interfaces is on the horizon
Martı SPAC, Form 8-K
Monzo Growth