Weekly#496

Apple Watch Pro 2022 (Rumors)
AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France
WhatsApp grocery shopping is already huge in Brazil
Rocket Lab planning to launch private Venus mission in May 2023
Switchbot Lock Review
Audi will build F1 engines, entering the sport in 2026.”…VW Group will actually fund two F1 programs, one with Audi and a second with Porsche, which is in the process of acquiring a 50 percent stake in Red Bull Technologies…“
An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with wireless carriers
Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (FT)
The smartphone is the new sun
China’s Pinduoduo Quietly Launches U.S. E-Commerce Site Temu (WSJ)
Apple eases subscription path to Xcode Cloud to keep devs in the ecosystem
Google launches third-party Play Store billing pilot
Merge requests and insecure GitHub workflows may lead to supply-chain attacks
Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
Netflix Ad Tier Launch Moved Up to November
Worldwide Shipments of PCs and Tablets Forecast to Decline in 2022
Microsoft Combat Goggles Win First US Army Approval for Delivery
Underwater datacenter will open for business this year
Android 13 review
The Road to Electric Car Supremacy in Five Charts
U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

Weekly#495

McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2022
E-Commerce revenue to shrink for the first time ever
Surgery Simulation Startup FundamentalVR Raises $20 Million (WSJ)
Viral Post Generator “…A simple tool that might make you a “Linkedin Influencer” After analyzing 100,000+ viral posts on Linkedin…”
The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
Spectral, a web3 credit score company
“…A volunteer with severe liver disease will soon undergo a procedure that could lead them to grow a second liver…“
Artemis 1 Launch Will Test NASA’s Mission to Return Humans to the Moon (WSJ)
Apple event, Sep 7
The GPU surplus has arrived
Websites Can Identify If You’re Using iPhone’s New ‘Lockdown’ Mode
Pleton…its Q4 2022 earnings, the company reported a $1.2 billion operating loss, a 28 percent revenue drop
Twitter is becoming a podcast app
Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot
DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta
“…White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay…”
iOS 16 can detect when you’ve saved duplicate photos on your iPhone
Artificial intelligence model can detect Parkinson’s from breathing patterns
James Webb telescope captures surreal images of Jupiter’s auroras
“…Apple’s business model “is evolving from maximising unit growth to maximising installed-base monetisation…”
Smart Contract Head to Head — Ethereum vs. Flow
Popular Design Patterns for Microservices Architectures
China’s 19 New Measures to Bolster Economic Growth

Weekly#494

A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
2022 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan
How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter
2022 State of the API Report
Inside the software that will become the next battle front in US-China chip war…The US has moved to restrict export of electronic design automation (EDA) software
Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm
Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California…Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
A new strain of avian flu is decimating wild birds…In a pre-Covid 19 world, the deaths of 86mn birds would have been a global news story (FT)
HTTP/3 Support for Amazon CloudFront
The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript
Five years later, Google is still all-in on Kotlin
Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
‘Lord of the Rings’ Acquired by Embracer Group
Netflix’s ad-supported plan may block offline viewing, code suggests
TikTok launches new ad solutions with smarter targeting and amplified product discovery
Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months…46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year
VPN bypass vulnerability in Apple iOS

Weekly#493

Disney Plus in the third quarter to reach a total of 152 million and 221 million across all its services…Disney has finally surpassed Netflix in overall streaming subscribers
Disney is increasing the price of its ad-free Disney+ subscription to $10.99
Microsoft has decided to open a store in India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce
“…AWS saw revenues climb 36 percent from the prior year, while Microsoft reported its cloud biz saw year-over-year growth of 40 percent…”
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly
Everything Samsung Unpacked at its August 2022 Event
The collapse in cryptocurrencies is easing supply of the most sought after watches on the second-hand market, depressing prices for hard-to get-Patek Philippe and Rolex models.
Amazon has become the third-biggest digital advertising company behind Google and Facebook, hitting $31 billion in ad revenue in 2021
DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022
“…Among the hundreds of new car models for sale in the United States this year, only about 30 can be purchased with a manual transmission. Electric cars, which now account for more than 5 percent of car sales, don’t even have gearboxes…“
“…Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home… the maps also represent a wealth of data for marketers. The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth. A floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without much furniture is a household to which you can try to sell more furniture. This is all useful intel for a company such as Amazon which, you may have noticed, is in the business of selling stuff…“
Pearson looks to NFTs to profit from second-hand textbook sales
The global semiconductor shortage is causing more than 100,000 vehicles to be dropped from North American production schedules this week.
Impacts of climate change on pathogenic human diseases
99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet…Netflix’s games see 1.7 million daily users
Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
Delivery Hero Architecture Reviews
- Each tribe lead presents four slides for 15 minutes, including:
  - An up-to-date architecture diagram following our common representation standard, with major past and planned changes highlighted.
  - Suggested updates to the global technical debt tracker
  - Interesting learnings generated in the last six months
  - Proposed changes to our reliability manifesto or architecture guideline

Weekly#492

Pinterest said global monthly active users declined by 5% from a year earlier to 433 million
Netflix Is Scrambling to Learn the Ad Business It Long Disdained (WSJ)
Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B
Most Mobile Game Genres See Revenue Declines in the U.S. During H1 2022 as Industry Headwinds Bite
YouTube rolls out experimental ‘pinch to zoom’ feature for Premium users
Researchers who previously revived some brain cells in dead pigs succeeded in repeating the process in more organs.
The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
Maintaining customer engagement is critical to maximizing long-term customer value in financial services
Uber reports positive cash flow for the first time… Ride-sharing group hits its target after burning through $25bn since being founded in 2009 (FT)
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting in Summer 2023
With plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.
Starbucks to unveil its web3-based rewards program next month
The age of brain-computer interfaces is on the horizon
Martı SPAC, Form 8-K
Monzo Growth

Weekly#491

Delivery Hero’s Platform business at adjusted EBITDA break-even already during Q2 2022
Google’s DeepMind AI Reveals 3D Structures of the ‘Entire Protein Universe‘
The Net-Zero Industry Tracker
“...Google’s latest blog post details the second delay to the shutdown of third-party tracking cookies. Google says it will now support the tracking method until “the second half of 2024…“
Apple Needs Another Affordable 5G iPhone
defining stablecoins; latest on NFTs; policy moves
a16z is Moving to the Cloud
Global smartphone shipments hit lowest point since pandemic start
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results…iPhone and Services drive June quarter record revenue
Rapid Loss of Smell Predicts Dementia and Smaller Brain Areas Linked to Alzheimer’s
Polymath Robotics launches plug-and-play autonomy software for any industrial vehicle
Ant Group IPO set for further delay as Jack Ma plans to give up control (FT:Lex)
Walmart Hawks Refurbished Goods to Inflation-Squeezed Shoppers
NASA To Send Two More Helicopters To Mars For 2033 Sample Return
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results
If This Is a Recession, We Might Not Know for Months (WSJ)

Weekly#490

How the Metaverse Will Remake Your Strategy
Amazon has started drastically reducing the number of items it sells under its own brands, and the company has discussed the possibility of exiting the private-label business entirely (WSJ)
The Amazon customers said they saved 10% to 40% on computing costs by renting Graviton servers (The Information)
Tesla dumped 75% of its Bitcoin holdings
Google to pause all hiring for two weeks
SAP’s quarterly revenue beats estimates, trims 2022 profit outlook
Toyota plans to roll out hydrogen fuel-cell trucks for the Japanese market next year
Ocado Falls as Losses Grow on Britain’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
Netflix loses 970,000 subscribers, says ads and new fees are key to recovery
Xbox becomes first game console to formally support Discord voice chat
Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
Brain-Computer Interface Startup Implants First Device in US Patient
Amazon Announces General Availability of EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build and Test on macOS
UK set to have world’s biggest automated drone superhighway
How China is creating new foods in space

Weekly#489

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe
James Webb telescope finds evidence of water in atmosphere of planet WASP-96 b, 1,150 light-years away.
YouTube TV Now Has More Than 5 Million Users, Topping Hulu’s Live TV Service
Inside Apple’s Eight-Year Struggle to Build a Self-Driving Car
iPadOS 16 Review
Amazon launches cancer vaccine clinical trial in partnership with Fred Hutchinson
BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
India set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, UN says
America’s new agricultural frontier: vertical farms (FT)
Japanese researchers reveal plans for massive artificial-gravity buildings on moon
Artificial intelligence model finds potential drug molecules a thousand times faster
Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ)…Payments processor was last valued by private investors at $95 billion
Netflix Surprised Everyone by Picking Microsoft as Its Partner for Ad-Supported Streaming

Weekly#488

Apple’s latest security : Lockdown Mode, link2, link3
Amazon.com Inc. agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S., in a deal aimed at expanding the food-ordering company’s reach by tapping Amazon’s membership program (WSJ)
Europe wants a high-speed rail network to replace airplanes
World’s first commercial sand battery begins energy storage in Finland
Switzerland’s 20 million kWh ‘water battery’ is now operational
“…As money leaves the market (see below), fundraises are likely to slow from 2021’s a company raising a new round every 6-9 months back to the historical norms of a company raising a round every 12-24 months. Companies with a valuation that far exceeds their product/market fit may not raise for 24-36 months, and many of them have the cash to last that long…”
Vehicle safety in Europe takes a giant leap forward
IDC: “All eyes will be on Apple” as Meta’s VR strategy “isn’t sustainable”
FedEx to close data centers, retire all mainframes by 2024, saving $400m
Your Corporate Purpose Changed. Has Your Strategy Kept Up?
Gartner predicts 9.5% drop in PC shipments
Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse…The beloved character was created in 1928 and will enter the public domain in 2024
BioNTech, Pfizer to start testing universal vaccine for coronaviruses

Weekly#487

IBM has quietly announced its first-ever cloudy mainframes will go live on June 30…Z mainframe platform on the IBM Cloud, by offering virtual machines running z/OS as-a-service.
The Next ‘iPhone Moment’ Will Eventually Arrive. Hurry Up Already
Mercedes-Benz runs on 900 Kubernetes clusters
The 30-year-old comic book that became a Silicon Valley bible (FT)
Meta has reduced its target for hiring engineers in 2022 to around 6,000-7,000, down from an initial plan to hire about 10,000 new engineers, Zuckerberg said.
The dollar’s share of total allocated reserves was 59% in the first quarter of 2022
New algorithm can predict future crime a week in advance, with 90% accuracy, and within a range of about 1000 feet.
“…We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published…”
A group of MIT researchers is exploring a radical idea for reversing global warming: using a raft of “space bubbles” to reflect sunlight away from our planet.
Venture capital’s reckoning
Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Medal of Freedom by President Biden
Klarna in Talks to Raise Fresh Cash at Slashed $6.5 Billion Valuation…The deal would be a huge comedown for the company, which investors valued at $45.6 billion in 2021 (WSJ)
Microsoft Cloud Computing System Suffering From Global Shortage…Due to a confluence of crises, the second-largest cloud provider has been operating in the yellow zone, meaning its data centers have a less-than-normal level of servers available. (WSJ)