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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