- 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
