Weekly#504

Thoughtworks Technology Radar 27
“…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…”
Fintech Snapshot for Türkiye v1.5
Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk
What will Elon Musk do with Twitter? (FT)
Shoppers made nearly $5tn in purchases on credit cards last year, according to the Nilson Report on the payments industry (FT)
GitHub has hit $1bn revenue and 90m users, says Microsoft CEO on 4th anniversary of acquisition
Tilia spins out of Linden Lab, gets minority investment from J.P. Morgan to do metaverse payments
The percentage of robots with touch that exist outside of academic settings is still in single digits (WSJ)
Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years
Traffic jams are tied to lower birth weights, study finds
Honda sets up the first motorcycle battery swap station for its mobile power packs
Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8
Xiaomi winds down financial services business in India
Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI
AWS Well-Architected Framework (updated on October 20)
Students Are Using AI Text Generators to Write Papers
Meet the AInfluencers: 14 Creators Using Generative AI to Gain Big Followings
Quality Engineering Productivity at Spotify
US unbanked households reached a record low of 4.5% in 2021
Mastercard and Visa Q3 volumes lifted by stronger travel spending despite tighter economic conditions

Weekly#503

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)
Ecommerce Trend Line
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
“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
Five hours’ sleep is tipping point for bad health
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
Podcast Notes
Zapier extends its automation service with first-party database and UI tools
Google’s Android Go for entry-level phones is now on 250 million devices
Facing Threat From Apple, Google Tries New Hardware Playbook
The Rising Tide of Platform Engineering
Machine Learning for Fraud Detection in Streaming Services

Weekly#502

State of AI 2022
Microsoft Teams Premium arrives with meeting recaps and live translations
Five Istanbul Restaurants Win Michelin Stars for the First Time
Top 20 Draw.io Alternatives & Competitors for Cloud Architectures
Oracle VirtualBox 7.0
Wi-Fi spy drones
Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In
Netflix Plans to Launch $7-a-Month Streaming Plan With Advertising
Apple Card users could automatically deposit cash-back rewards into a high-yield savings account
The Friendship That Made Google Huge
Greg Zher, the de facto founder of Lab126 and inventor of Kindle has left.
Amazon to launch first of its Kuiper internet satellites on ULA rocket
Dune: Part Two is arriving earlier than expected
22 new or updated open datasets on AWS
A16z Leads $14M Funding Round for New E-Commerce Platform From Twitch Co-Founder
Google’s ‘Incognito’ Mode Inspires Staff Jokes — and a Big Lawsuit

Weekly#501

“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
2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report
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
Liquid Death Water Startup Valued at $700 Million
Jiko banks $40M in Series B funding to offer companies a way to park their cash in T-bills
Visa partners with FTX in a bet that shoppers still want to spend cryptocurrencies in a bear market
Adidas looking for a reboot after CEO Rorsted steps down next year.
Google will open its first data center in Japan in 2023
How JPMorgan Chase allots its $14B IT budget
UK Sky Stream on the Sky Glass Platform
Latin America Digital Report 2022
Musk says Pepsi to receive Tesla’s first Semi trucks in December