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Weekly#410

  • Chip Shortage Hits Global Automakers
  • Introducing Amazon Marketing Cloud (beta)
  • The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $1 trillion
  • Apple allegedly working with Hyundai on electric car for 2027…Apple’s Self-Driving Electric Car Is at Least Half a Decade Away
  • Amazon Pantry is being discontinued as Amazon consolidates its grocery delivery services
  • Google’s plan to replace tracking cookies goes under UK antitrust probe
  • Mercedes unveils Hyperscreen, a curved 56-inch screen for its flagship EQS electric vehicle
  • Roku acquires Quibi’s content
  • Roku is becoming the most powerful company in streaming…51.2 million active accounts, adding around 14 million accounts over the past 12 months.
  • Chinese search giant Baidu to make electric cars
  • Xbox: The Oral History of an American Video Game Empire…The original product was ungainly, over-budget and nearly canceled. Here’s how it became a hit and reshaped an industry
  • Mandatory WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to be Shared With Facebook
  • Apple’s App Store had gross sales around $64 billion last year and it’s growing strongly again
  • The First Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants Could Happen This Year
  • Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web
  • Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks. Could Apple’s privacy labels be the reason?
  • Amazon Makes First Aircraft Purchase to Expand Cargo Network…Retailer will buy 11 767-300 planes from Delta, WestJet…Amazon expects fleet to have more than 85 jets by end of 2022
  • Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old—give or take 40 million years. A Cornell University researcher co-authored one of two papers about the findings
  • Epic Games buys a huge mall for its new global HQ
  • Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years
  • Study finds brain-activity of people coding isn’t quite like when they use language, or do math
  • How The New York Times Is Adapting to Life Without Third-Party Cookies