• 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

• New grocery apps
• Why the World’s Biggest Ocean Shipping Lines Are Buying Cargo Planes (WSJ)
• Rockstar finally confirms it’s working on the next Grand Theft Auto
• Star Wars has a Luke Skywalker/CGI problem
• Discord is testing forums, new mod tools and homepages that surface hot topics in some servers
• Spotify CEO hints HiFi tier delay is related to licensing issues
• Apple Aims to Debut a New Low-Cost 5G iPhone and iPad in Early March
• The Cloud infrastructure market soared to $178B in 2021, growing $49B in one year
• Dolby acquires low-latency streaming platform Millicast
• Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users
• Amazon increases the price of Prime nearly 17% to $139 per year
• Amazon’s profit engines are humming, cushioning the blow from the retail slowdown
• Microsoft’s Videogame Boss and the Long Battle to Reinvent the Company
• A New Artificial Intelligence Traffic Light Could Help Shorten Your Commute Times
• Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
• Facebook Parent Meta Faces Uphill Battle in Video Fight With TikTok (WSJ)
• Southwest Airlines has a new CEO. Here’s what Bob Jordan must do in his first 100 days to help the company stabilize after a turbulent pandemic season.
• npm enrolls Top 100 package maintainers into mandatory 2FA
• Peloton stock surges on report Amazon is among potential buyers

• Six global IPOs to watch in 2022
• Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices
• Apple revenue pops 11% to $123.9 billion, Cook says supply chain improving
• Water on Mars may have flowed for a billion years longer than thought
• Gen Z: Open banking’s blind spot
• Checkout.com is now worth $40bn
• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination
• SpaceX planning to launch up to 52 missions in 2022
• Disney+ is expanding to 42 more countries this summer
• Hydrogen to Replace Natural Gas- By the Numbers
• Hybrid & Remote Work in 2022 and Beyond
• Elon Musk says Tesla’s humanoid robot is the most important product it’s working on — and could eventually outgrow its car business

• Wordle
• Wordle founder Josh Wardle on going viral and what comes next
• Making sense of the East-West divide in tech
• Netflix shares fall 20% on slowing subscriber growth…The company said for the first quarter of 2022, it expects to add 2.5 million subscribers, compared to the 3.98 million it added in Q1 2021…
• Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
• After Microsoft’s record Activision Blizzard deal, analysts say these video game stocks could be the next targets
• Meta’s new learning algorithm can teach AI to multi-task
• Google is building an AR headset
• How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
• $2.5 billion wiped from Peloton’s market value as shares tumble below IPO price
• Elon Musk Offering Satellite Internet to Tsunami-Hit Tonga
• Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
• 2021 — YC Year in Review
• Mercedes’ future vehicles will have Luminar lidar under new deal
• The inventor of PlayStation thinks the metaverse is pointless
• Aldi starts using facial age estimation tech to sell alcohol in new no-checkout supermarket
• Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds
• Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Company Is Inching Toward Human Trials
• EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities
• China’s population may start to shrink this year, new birth data suggest
• Business Travel Shakeout Begins as Pfizer Axes Staff on Virtual Meetings Rise
• OpenSea Stats
• AppAnnie 2021

•  The Global Risks Report 2022 [PDF]
• A gene-edited pig’s heart has been transplanted into a human for the first time
• iMessage lock-in as a valuable weapon
• Researchers are building a black box in Tasmania to prevent the ‘crash’ of civilization
• Apple’s Metaverse Prospects Produce Real Optimism for Investors (WSJ)
• Microsoft augmented-reality team has lost around 100 people in the past year (WSJ)
• Starbucks Rewards: How the Coffee Giant’s Mobile App Became a Winner (WSJ)
• App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B
• Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation
• Delivery Hero grapples with how to pass on rising rider costs (FT)
• Web3 startups are poaching staff from Apple and Meta. Now the battle for talent is about to hit Europe’s startups
• AWS has been working on two different projects that could mitigate the risk of another big outage
• Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com sets challenge to Amazon with first ‘robotic shops’ in Europe

• Singapore pushes for water independence as temperatures rise
• Kubernetes: The Documentary – Part 1 Jan 21
• VW sets a date for the reveal of its production-ready electric Microbus
• Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel
• China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
• E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns
• The European Space Agency will soon send JUICE, or the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer on a mission to scout out Jupiter and three of its 79 moons: Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
• John Deere takes a step into the future with first fully autonomous tractor
• China’s ‘artificial sun’ smashes 1000-second fusion world record
• Mercedes-Benz to offer solar roofs on EVs starting in 2024
• Your credit score may soon depend on your web history
• A Record 4.5 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs in November
• Gen Z workers change jobs more often than any other generation because they’re prioritizing happiness, high expectations, and raises

Scott Galloway predicts the future. 🔮

NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Marketing @profgalloway talks what he got right from his 2021 predictions and what he sees for markets in 2022. pic.twitter.com/TukRor5upr

— Quest Means Business (@questCNN) January 4, 2022

• SpaceX’s Future Depends on a Gigantic Rocket and 42,000 Internet Satellites (WSJ)
• What will applied AI look like in 2022?
• Hyundai shuts down its engine development team amid focus on electric cars
• 13 battery gigafactories coming to the US by 2025 – ushering new era of US battery production
• Elon Musk says SpaceX will land humans on Mars in 10 years in the worst-case scenario
• Streaming wars drive media groups to spend more than $100bn on new content (FT)
• Big Tech’s Next Monopoly Game: Building the Car of the Future
• Ars Technica’s favorite films in 2021
• Boston Dynamics’ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
• Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?
• “…With supply chain disruptions messing with the auto industry, it’s an especially challenging time for startups like Rivian…”
• Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
• How Much Energy Do Data Centers Really Use?
• LG Electronics Gears Up to Develop Commercial ‘Waterless’ Washing Machine
• The Future of Cities? Fewer Cars, Better Homes
• How omicron broke Covid-19 testing
• Drone innovation moves from hardware to self-flying software (FT)
• Amazon slips to 4th in global shopping app installs amid rise of international brands
• A licence to print houses (FT)
• Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2022 (FT)

• Forecasting 2022 Venture Trends
• Battery Storage Soars on U.S. Electric Grid (WSJ)
• Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto (The Economist)
• Street Fighter II, Paper Trails
• How to measure all the world’s fresh water
• AWS suffers third outage of the month
• Google cancels CES in-person presence, event organizers going ahead with show
• Jack Dorsey’s Web3 takes, link2
• a16z Web3 Landscape
• Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob
• Game makers are increasingly selling virtual weapons and gear as NFTs (WSJ)
• Big Tech salaries revealed
• Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs topped CryptoPunks for the first time on a key price metric
• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission
• Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year