February 2023

There were 4 posts published in February 2023 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#521

  • Good quality sleep can add years to people’s lives, study suggests
  • Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists
  • Apple to Launch High-End and Low-End Versions of Second-Generation Headset in 2025
  • AI-Based Code-Completion Tool Tabnine Now Offers Automatic Unit Test Generation
  • The Future of Service Mesh Is Networking
  • Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk
  • What to expect from MWC 2023
  • Amazon Fire TV devices can now directly stream audio to Cochlear hearing implants
  • Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice
  • The U.S. is now Swedish payment giant Klarna’s biggest market by revenue, surpassing Germany
  • Top 10 Resources for Learning Solidity
  • Webhooks as a Service
  • Jarviz Delivers Inspection and Insights to JAR Files
  • Multi-Tenant Architecture in a Nutshell
  • Games, music and film account for almost half of Sony’s operating income (FT)
  • Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
  • Investment banks approach Monzo over a potential IPO of $4.5 billion
  • Apple is reportedly closer to bringing no-prick glucose monitoring to the Watch
  • ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft
  • Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe

Weekly#520

  • Microsoft’s Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
  • Here are the features coming to iOS 16.4
  • iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications
  • Tiktok is quietly testing in-app checkout
  • Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A
  • Susan Wojcicki, Googler No. 16 and longtime YouTube CEO, is stepping down
  • The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt
  • Leaked memo shows Google CEO Sundar Pichai is asking staffers for help testing its Bard AI chatbot
  • Amazon to employees: Be in the office 3 days a week
  • Introduction to Kubernetes Event-Driven Auto-Scaling (KEDA)
  • AI in Your Workplace (WSJ)

Weekly#519

  • Microsoft unveils new Bing with ChatGPT powers
  • Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad
  • OpenAI’s breakout hit was an overnight sensation—but it is built on decades of research.
  • Ford sells majority stake in Rivian after reporting $7.3B write-down
  • Uber is integrating its driver app with Apple CarPlay
  • Lunar, the Danish neobank last year valued at $2.2B, raises $38M
  • GitLab to reduce workforce by 7%
  • Twitter says the basic tier of its API will cost $100 per month
  • Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery is now open to all
  • Benedict Evans: The New Gatekeepers
  • Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service is Now Generally Available
  • The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture
  • Part of the problem is that new technologies don’t replace older ones—for extended periods they commingle

Weekly#518

  • The century of the self
  • Apple: installed base crosses 2 billion active devices…Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B
  • Apple says it now has 935 million paid subscriptions
  • Google Unveils MusicLM
  • Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B…YouTube Ad Revenue Drops by Nearly 8%
  • Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version
  • GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products
  • Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household
  • Digital 2023 Report
  • Every Programmer Should Know
  • Amazon ramped up content spending to $16.6B in 2022, including $7B on originals
  • Event-Driven Architecture Models
  • The end of free returns is coming
  • ChatGPT: The Unexpected API Test Automation Help
  • Cloud Native Security Con (Video)
  • How AI Will Transform Project Management