• #ProductCon NY ‘22
• Password manager LassPass said it’s investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year.
• AWS re:invent
  • data keynote
  • Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps
  • Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events from multiple services
  • Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development
• “….WSJ points out that “Don’t Look Up” was apparently too serious for the Netflix Preview Club, and creators took this feedback and added more humor before it was released…”
• X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points
• Shield, a communication compliance platform for financial institutions, raises $20M
• Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce
• Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease
• Digital Banking Maturity 2022
• Uniswap launches an NFT aggregator after acquiring Genie
• Co-Ambidexterity: A Framework for Winning in a New Era of Competition
• Neuralink’s Brain Chip Plan
• Prime Video Replaces Netflix As No. 1 Streaming Service In U.S.
• Tesla Semi
• Google reports decline in Android memory safety vulnerabilities as Rust usage grows
• Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
• IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain
• Panasonic, Nikon quit developing low-end compact digital cameras…Departures come after smartphones wipe out 97% of market
• OpenAI’s new chatbot…blog post
• Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds
• More Than 1 Billion People Expected to Be Using 5G by Year’s End
• India may become the third largest economy by 2030, overtaking Japan and Germany

GPT is better than Google for many queries. Comes right at a time when Google search is so packed with ads it’s borderline unusable.

— cdixon.eth (@cdixon) December 2, 2022

• Amazon’s hardware team is on pace to lose $10 billion this year
• History of ARM part1,  part2
• Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases
• Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Francophone Africa expansion, backed by new $14M round
• A 10-Minute Workout Can Do More Than You Think
• Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing…Intel’s Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand
• “…Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself..The project, which began life inside Alphabet’s X research unit and was codenamed Pitchfork, moved into Google’s Labs group this summer, according to people familiar with the matter….”
• Cottingham: Europe’s biggest battery storage system switched on…The facility has the capacity to store up to 196 MWh of energy in a single cycle.
• Microsoft says attackers are hacking energy grids by exploiting decades-old software
• E-commerce advertising is driving much of Criteo’s growth, with the firm hoping to hit $1 billion in revenue from retail media by 2025.
• Meituan’s Revenue Climbs 28% After Covid Drives Meal Delivery
• OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game.
• 3.2 billion gamers
• “…Since 1959, more than 350 people have become NASA astronauts…It takes two years of training…For NASA’s 2021 class of astronauts, the space agency said it chose just 10 candidates from more than 12,000 applicants…a NASA astronaut, summed up what the agency was looking for in future spacefarers: “Be adaptable, trustworthy, tenacious, and detail-oriented…Astronauts endure grueling desert survival training in case of an emergency landing…In 1964, Apollo 11 astronauts traveled to Nevada to spend three days in the hot, dry desert and practice survival skills“
• Engineering Productivity: What Not to Do
• Learning From Failure With Blameless Postmortem Culture, Google SRE Book chapter15
• Google SRE Books
• IBM has filed a lawsuit against Micro Focus, alleging the enterprise software company copied and reverse-engineered its CICS mainframe service to develop a rival product, the Micro Focus Enterprise Server
• Windows Subsystem for Linux is now packaged as a Microsoft Store app
• Turning Water Into $700 Million: A Day in the Desert With Liquid Death Founder Mike Cessario

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The average American driver spends 55 minutes a day behind the wheel (same as an ancient Mesopotamian spent traveling) He or she also drives 29 miles a day. Hence the need for 300 mi. range on *all* vehicles available for sale.

— Horace Dediu (@asymco) November 23, 2022

• Spot AI raises $40M to build smarter CCTV security camera tech
• Qualcomm debuts latest flagship Snapdragon chip and a new AI platform
• “…An estimated $3.37 trillion worth, or 21% of all global trade, transited through the South China Sea in 2016, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…”
• “…Prediction is only useful if it’s going to change something that you do. You wouldn’t check your weather forecast app every day if it didn’t help inform your clothing or routine. Prediction has to inform a decision…”
• AI Tools Directory
• A Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Gets the FDA’s Stamp of Approval
• AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland
• Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles
• Apple’s iPhone 14 Satellite Emergency SOS Is Live (WSJ)
• Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids
• Netflix gives account holders the ability to kick freeloaders
• 5 New CNCF Projects To Watch In 2023
• Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) Ad hoc Protocol
• Classic HCI Demos
• Activate 2023 Report
• State of the OpenCloud 2022 Report
• German Mobile Banking App Review
• Layoff Tracker
• Fast-Fashion Juggernaut Shein’s Sales Close In on Zara, H&M…The company’s gross merchandise value is projected to grow 50% to $30 billion in 2022…Earlier this year, Shein completed a fundraising round that valued it at $100 billion (WSJ)

• BoF Insights | Gen-Z and Fashion in the Age of Realism
• Jony Ive on Life After Apple (WSJ)
• Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop
• HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ premieres this January
• Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online M.B.A.s for the First Time (WSJ)
• US Banks Reported $1 Billion in 2021 Ransomware Payments
• Geo-Distributed Microservices and Their Database: Fighting the High Latency
• Ocado shares soar on new South Korea retail partnership (FT)
• JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
• WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities
• Port internal development platform gives visibility into DevOps architecture
• Goldman Sachs Embeds Software Developers Deeper Into the Business
• “...Goldman also tries to empower its own technology teams by changing up the process of product development. Rather than be told to code a product by teams further up the chain, developers and engineers write together with business development teams what the company calls a working-back memo, in reference to a product development philosophy used by Mr. Argenti’s former employer,Amazon Inc…“
• The science of resting (well)
• Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion
• Rewind.ai

Cloud Infrastructure Services Market.

$57 billion in spending in Q3 2022.
→ +24% Y/Y.
→ +30% Y/Y fx neutral.

Q3 2022 market share:

🟧 $AMZN AWS 34% (unchanged).
🟦 $MSFT Azure 21% (unchanged).
🟩 $GOOG GCP 11% (+1pp Q/Q).

Estimates by Synergy Research Group. pic.twitter.com/Et3ivoyV9D

— App Economy Insights (@EconomyApp) October 31, 2022

How they make money … Great visually-engaging financial analysis by Bertrand Seguin, a 37 year old French investor, who spent 12 years at Japanese gaming company Bandai Namco explaining finance to his bosses … Sign up to his free newsletter: https://t.co/wjgChvHpPx pic.twitter.com/fSUxJmObQ1

— Peter Fisk (@GeniusWorks) October 29, 2022

My theory remains that Google keeps trying to set up a big group call to sort this out, but they can never remember which app to use pic.twitter.com/a9Xdw2vgQC

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) November 2, 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 25% of Netflix subscribers planning to leave service
• Amazon’s new unit aims to ease engineers’ frustrations with these 6 guiding principles
• Amazon’s 2022 Echo and Ring Launch Event (Sep 28)
• Google Maps Launches Eco-Friendly Fuel-Efficient Routing On App
• Apple will sponsor Super Bowl halftime show starting in February
• Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021…investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds
• “…According to analysts at Goldman Sachs, a decade ago Wall Street saw the move as mainly just a way to sell extra design software to Adobe’s existing 12mn-13mn customers: instead, user numbers for Adobe’s Creative Cloud — which includes Photoshop — have risen to more than 30mn….” (FT)
• NY-based Stash is one of few neobanks to build its own core banking system
• Alibaba Cloud enjoyed a 9.5% market share in 2021, trailing Microsoft (21%) and Amazon (39%), according to market research firm Gartner
• France sets delivery fee for online book sales to help stores compete with Amazon
• Chipmaker Qualcomm says automotive future business expands to $30 bln
• Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion
• YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say.”…YouTube’s “dislike” button reduced similar, unwanted recommendations only 12 percent, according to their report, titled “Does This Button Work?…”
• For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine…Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers.
• Apple to move 25% iPhone production to India by 2025, 20% iPad and Apple Watch to Vietnam, analysts say
• Salesforce aims for 25% operating margin in 2026 with more efficient spending
• First look at dynamicSpot: Bringing Apple’s Dynamic Island to your Android phone
• Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications

• Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere’s revenues by 2030
• Code 2022 Videos
  • Andy Jassy
  • Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Sundar Pichai
  • Bob Iger
• New attack can unlock and start a Tesla Model Y in seconds, say researchers
• Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey
• For more than 20 years, Massive software has spawned armies of artificially intelligent crowds, from Lord of the Rings to Avengers: Endgame.
• Apple’s iOS 16 is now available to download
• Google closes $5.4B Mandiant acquisition
• “…Internal Meta research: Instagram users spend 17.6M hours/day on Reels vs. 197.8M hours/day on TikTok; ~1/3 of Reels are recycled posts from other platforms…” (WSJ)
• Towards the end of 2022, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion
• The electrolyser is expected to have an output of 1100 Nm3/h hydrogen at normal current density. This equals 100 kg of pure hydrogen per hour, which will set a new standard for the industry
• SoftBank Considers Launching a Third Vision Fund…The successor Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49 billion it invested… (WSJ)
• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
• Starbucks and DoorDash launch delivery partnership, will expand offering nationwide in 2023
• Instagram is internally testing a new monetization feature for creators called ‘Gifts’
• SWIFT Financial-Messaging System Pilots Blockchain Project
• “…one of the estimated one billion customers around the globe using neobanks, according to analysis by German strategy consultants Simon-Kucher…” (FT)
• World Intellectual Property Report 2022 [PDF]
• “…Starlink is now on all seven continents! In such a remote location like Antarctica, this capability is enabled by Starlink’s space laser network…”
• QR codes
• The Secret Life of Selfies: How a Beauty Tech Startup Is Using AI to Match Faces With Products