Improbable raises $150m from Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank.

Elon Musk Delivers First Teslas Made In Texas, Teases Future Products (WSJ)

Trending Apps in Russia and Ukraine Show Shifting Priorities During War

Google will hide neglected apps in the Play Store…Starting in November, apps that haven’t been updated in two years will be hidden

Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How

U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row…76.6 years — the lowest in at least 25 years.

An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Manufacturing Intelligence

Robinhood Releases Crypto Wallet to 2M Users, Plans Integration With Bitcoin Lightning Network

Return to Monkey Island confirmed by Ron Gilbert as real, slated for 2022 launch

Elon Musk has purchased 9.2 percent of Twitter’s stock

A second season of Severance is on the way

Portrait Using Only Voice by AI

Thought works: Technology Radar #26

Online Grocery Strategy: A Reality Check for Disruptors and Incumbents

Passenger planes are being converted to cargo planes at record levels to make up for disrupted ocean freight

Mojo Vision takes another step toward AR contact lenses with new prototype

Remote islands of French Polynesia, locals made their own online shopping service

Disney Streaming’s new CTO is a former Google exec who worked on the tech behind YouTube

China Plans New Restrictions in Its Booming Live-Streaming Sector (WSJ)

Microsoft Build 2022 will take place May 24th–26th

Apple plans to build its own financial infrastructure for payments and lending

Klarna launches new Klarna Kosma division for its open banking platform

Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings

Nvidia investor day [PDF]…summary

Mexico’s biggest convenience store chain wants to become a superbank

Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service…The service could launch in late 2022 or early 2023

Netflix adds two more games, will release its first first-person shooter title soon

Uber will feature NYC taxi cabs in its app

Europe says yes to messaging interoperability

Apple buys UK fintech firm Credit Kudos

After Walt Disney, Robert Iger Heads to the Metaverse (WSJ)

Intel looks on track to fix its core problems

Sonos might make your next TV streaming OS

Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse

App ecosystem growth continued in Q1 with 37B downloads, new high of $33B in consumer spending

Earth’s orbital economy of tomorrow could be worth trillions…Space-based business is already a $400 billion industry.

Amazon’s ad department hit $31 billion in revenue

Windows 1.0 easter egg managed to stay hidden for nearly 37 years

Microplastics found in human blood for first time

Bitcoin Was Made for This Moment. So Why Isn’t It Booming?

Virtual Kitchens: A New Digital Path for Restaurants

Amazon Closes Deal to Acquire MGM 6.5 B USD “…Amazon will add 4,000 films including the James Bond franchise to its holdings…” (WSJ)

Intel Plans $36 Billion in European Chip Plant Investments (WSJ)

Google introduced Last Mile Fleet Solution: Maximize fleet performance from ecommerce order to doorstep delivery

Getir valued at almost $12bn as investors bet on future profits (FT)

Deliveroo’s chief predicts break-even by first half of 2024 (FT)

Android 13 makes push notifications opt-in

Google I/O returns May 11 and 12, with limited in-person attendance

Future Today Institute’s 2022 Tech and Science Trends Report

Most Innovative Countries 2022

Why AI Failed to Live Up to Its Potential During the Pandemic

By 2500 earth could be alien to humans

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, said in November that Amazon Care is one of the company’s top innovations.

Heat pumps and insulation ‘will end need for Russian gas faster than new North Sea drilling’

Company Plans to Dig World’s Deepest Hole to Unleash Boundless Energy

Dot Pad tactile display makes images touchable for visually impaired users

Rivian shares reach new low after reporting disappointing Q4 earnings

DoorDash is testing a feature that lets you return packages to post offices, FedEx or UPS

Why blackouts are dangerous to Ukraine’s nuclear sites, power loss threatens crucial safety systems

Disney+ is getting an ad-supported subscription tier later this year

Instacart introduces in-store navigation and live phone support for shoppers on its platform.“…The company told TechCrunch that the new feature is being piloted with 15 of its retail partners at more than 80 store locations across 17 states and in the province of Ontario in Canada…”

DeepMind’s new AI tool helps resolve debate over ancient Athenian decrees

What Can Consumers and Businesses Do With 5G? Take a Look at South Korea (WSJ)

Twitter has a new goal: the company wants to add another 100 million daily users by the end of 2023

Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere trailer

iOS 15.4 arrives next week

Future of Delivery: Unleashing the potential of micromobility for the last mile

Roblox is hiring a PlayStation engineer

Amazon to close 68 physical retail locations, including Amazon Books and 4-star stores

How a simple security bug became a university campus ‘master key’

Volvo is testing wireless EV charging tech in Sweden

MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

Ukraine plans to issue NFT collection to fund armed forces (FT)

Zoom: pandemic favourite seeks new start (FT:Lex)

Huawei’s competitor to Tesla electric cars is set to hit China’s streets on Saturday

Grab’s revenue fell 44% to $122 million in the fourth quarter

Ford reorg prioritizes EVs, keeps fossil fuel vehicles as “engines of cash”

Sony and Honda plan to make electric vehicles together

Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation

Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service officially launches in the US

Wooing Intel, Italy plans $4.6 billion fund to boost chipmaking

U.S. electric grid facing threats

Quantum computers take hours to ‘tune’ — this startup wants to solve that with AI

How Volvo put Apple Watch at the center of its services vision

2022 10 Breakthrough Technologies

Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips

GM plans 50 new digital features, services by 2026 –executive

Alibaba quarter results

Japan Wants to Make Half Its Cargo Ships Autonomous by 2040

Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below

Carvana acquires Adesa US auction business for $2.2B to jump-start used car sales

Springtime asteroid hit ramped up extinction rates, say scientists

Moderna says pandemic will end in 2022 but annual boosters needed (FT)

Virgin Hyperloop shifts its focus from passengers to cargo

Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’

Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push

OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity

Elon Musk: Tesla is working to make Steam video games work in its vehicles

How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup

China Orders Cuts for Food-Delivery Fees (WSJ)

Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring

by 2030, there will be a global deficit of more than 85m tech workers

An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?

Google’s research lab DeepMind built an AI for nuclear fusion energy, and used it to control a reactor hotter than the sun

Britain’s former deputy prime minister is now one of the most powerful people at Meta

‘We eat three times a day’ — DoorDash CEO says each meal is a chance to deliver, even post-Covid

Intel CEO Sees Revenue Growth Gaining Pace Starting Next Year (WSJ)

Chrome OS Flex is an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11

14 months later, Cyberpunk 2077 gets next-gen console patch, free 5-hour trial

College Students Have to Learn How to Make Small Talk Again (WSJ)

Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users

Amazon, Visa Resolve Monthslong Credit-Card Dispute (WSJ)

China Rolls Out Digital Yuan for Foreigners at the Olympics

Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android

Sequoia earmarks $500mn for push into cryptocurrency markets (FT)

Beem, an app that lets you livestream yourself in AR, raises $4 million

Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets

Giving discounts will bite ya — use them with caution

AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities

Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

‘Stranger Things’ got rejected by over 15 networks before Netflix

Yazılım Dünyasında 2022 Trendleri

Delivery Hero  Q4 Presentation & FY 2021 Results

Three reasons startups are hiring fractional CFOs

The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived

MoviePass is officially coming back

YouTube TV to finally add picture-in-picture on iOS

How to change your inbox layout in Gmail

New algorithm bill could force Facebook to change how the news feed works…“…The bill instructs researchers to identify a number of ways to slow down the spread of harmful content and misinformation…”

Uber Expects to Be Cash-Flow Positive by Fourth Quarter of 2022 (WSJ)

SpaceX just lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm. There could be worse to come.

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Keyboards weren’t designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them

Massive “coffee tech” investments are giving startups a jolt

“…Starship should be able to reach orbits for less than $10 million a flight within two to three years, Mr. Musk said during a presentation…” (WSJ)

US Army turns to microgrids, EVs to hit net zero by 2050

Every employee who leaves Apple becomes an ‘associate’.”…In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee’s title gets erased and replaced with a generic title…”

Uber Eats is racking up partnerships as it plots its course in the crowded ultrafast delivery space

Ultrafast delivery startups are competing for the future of groceries. These 15 players have raised nearly $8 billion this year

Intel’s software-upgradeable ( Pay-As-You-Go) CPUs to be supported by Linux 5.18 this Spring.

Binance, led by the world’s richest crypto billionaire, is taking a $200 million stake in Forbes

Disney+ outshines Netflix with 11.8M new subscribers in Q1 and the strong forecast

Alfa Romeo Is Building NFTs Into Latest Hybrid Car to Record Vehicle Data

YouTube Plans to Make Gaming Videos Immersive in Metaverse Push

Salesforce is working on NFT cloud service

Fed Designs Digital Dollar That Handles 1.7 Million Transactions Per Second

Raspberry Pi bootloader enables OS installs with no separate PC required

Cash App has integrated the Lightning Network

The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You