“…With the big three — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — reporting earnings this week, we learned that the cloud infrastructure market topped $57 billion for the quarter, up $11 billion over the same period last year…”
How Bayer used machine learning to predict cold and flu trends
“…The globe’s 4 billionth person was born in 1975 and now, in about a month, the 8 billionth person will probably be born…By the end of this century, the global population will have decreased by 1 billion people from its peak, according to a 2020 analysis by researchers at the Gates Foundation, and in the most extreme scenario, the population could decline by almost 2 billion from where it is today, to just over 6 billion…”
An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 still in its original box has sold for more than $39,000 at auction
Instacart, the food delivery company, is pulling its plans to go public in 2022
Tesla is now taking votes for its next Supercharger locations
74% say connected cars and EV chargers need cybersecurity ratings
Apple will release macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 on October 24
Amazon launches UK portal for buying insurance (FT)
Uber looks to accelerate revenue growth with new business division (FT)
“Microsoft in Advanced Talks to Increase Investment in OpenAI…Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019…OpenAI said more than 1.5 million users created over 2 million images a day using Dall-E 2 after it was released to the public this month” (WSJ)
SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation, promising 350Mbps broadband with unlimited data for each airplane it’s installed in…Monthly service fees are $12,500 to $25,000
Netflix confirms it’s looking to launch a cloud gaming service
There are between 400 and 600 commercial data centers in Britain, and they account for about 2.5% of the country’s electricity demand, according to the National Grid
Musixmatch launches a podcast platform for transcription driven by AI and community
“The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication…It’s mind-boggling to see that there are at least 14,000 ways of multiplying four-by-four matrices”
3 insights about finance and inflation from Google Search trends
Peacock grows its paid subscriber base to 15 million
WhatsApp starts blocking screenshots in beta testing for view once images and videos
Google Expands Its Hardware With New Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro Phones
EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024
“…Washington also plans to limit U.S.-made microchips from being sold to China’s most powerful supercomputing and data center projects, the people said…”
YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K
Tesla now has 160,000 customers running its Full Self Driving beta
Every James Bond Movie, Ranked: The Best (and Worst) of Bond