• Google Stadia is how you shut down a service right
• Apple to Expand Smart-Home Lineup, Taking On Amazon and Google
• Shein in talks on fundraising that would slash valuation from $100bn to $64bn (FT)
• eBay New Recommendations Model with Three Billion Item Titles
• German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
• Fintech in 2022: A story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A
• Oro, an open-source B2B ecommerce platform from Magento’s cofounder, raises $13M
• Creating an SRE Culture while preventing a 12 million order loss
• Android 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices five months after launch
• Debugging Threads and Asynchronous Code
• AI Claude Passes Law and Economics Exam
• ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
• “…NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds…from a nuclear-powered copter on Saturn’s moon Titan to blimps on Venus, space engineers are planning innovative flying machines to explore faraway landscapes“
• Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more
• Business leaders must understand Vuca and Spofs
• 2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade

We just built some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen at Vowel:

Generative AI- powered meeting summaries.

TLDRs automatically created at the end of your Vowel meetings that you can share with the whole team in 1-click. Here’s a quick demo on how it works: pic.twitter.com/dUfhv2x76s

— Andy Berman • vowel.com (@berman66) January 18, 2023

• DLD 2023
• Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects
• Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
• Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT
• How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity
• Monte Carlo Simulations: Separating Signal from Noise in Sampled Success Metrics
• Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
• Global Risks Report 2023
• Annual Meeting Davos 2023 – Cooperation in a Fragmented World
• MIT Technology Review  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
• The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home’s asking price?
• The Chinese government is buying shares in Alibaba, Tencent and other tech companies
• Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off
• UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound
• Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
• Google TV and Android TV now on over 150 million active devices, up 40 million since last year
• “There wasn’t a single bank robbery in Denmark last year…Bank robberies are on the decline in other countries too, as the move away from cash to digital banking gives rise to cyber crime, such as hacks and phishing scams, which target bank details and other personal information.”
• The Guardian ransomware attack
• The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding today that ensures farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment
• ChatGPT Prompts
• ChatGPT Prompts for software development
• OpenAI in rows
• OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot

1/ The Future of Payments…is Red?

What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start?

Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards: pic.twitter.com/AEUya1fIs1

— Alex Rampell (@arampell) January 12, 2023

Google Maps, but with speeding tickets pic.twitter.com/xMB0lWDgcK

— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) January 12, 2023

• ChatGPT Creator in Investor Talks at $29 Billion (WSJ)
• US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees
• Mercedes-Benz will build a $1 billion EV fast-charging network in the US
• Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset Likely to Debut at Spring Media Event or WWDC
• Connecting to WhatsApp by Proxy
• CES 2023: all the news from the year’s biggest tech conference (The Verge) (Mashable)
• 23 Predictions to Prepare You for 2023
• Warren Buffett-backed BYD soars past Tesla in China sales as the company bucks wider EV stock sell-off
• Google launches HD maps for vehicles, Volvo and Polestar first to integrate…Google’s HD map is not a consuming-facing application but an additional layer of data that’s served to the vehicle’s L2+ or L3 assisted-driving systems through Google Automotive Services.
• Qualcomm’s going toe-to-toe with Apple’s satellite messaging feature
• Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
• South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
• Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
• Where Is Tech Going in 2023? (HBR)
• What Will Happen In 2023 (Fred Wilson)
• ASML: engineering the future in fine detail
• They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars
• Stackoverflow Developer Survey

• Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’
• EarSpy: Spying on Phone Calls via Ear Speaker Vibrations Captured by Accelerometer
• Code-generating AI can introduce security vulnerabilities, study finds
• “Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property…The version of the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” will enter the public domain in 2024“
• Pinduoduo and Other U.S.-Listed Chinese Tech Stocks Cancel Plans to List in Hong Kong
• BioNtech is set to ship its first modular mRNA vaccine factory to Rwanda
• Blue sky thinking: exoskeletons build framework for productivity
• Global Code Time Report
• Adobe Podcast Tools
• 31 Hours Inside SpaceX Mission Control
• 74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2022 / The Atlantic
• Shopify: Migrating Mobile App to React Native
• Cloud Design Patterns

• Uber Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development
• Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps — now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
• Podcast : Why are chips interesting again
• In February 2023, Chrome will include an ‘early stable’ preview in its update release cycle
• A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
• OpenAI releases Point-E, paper
• Digital Dollar Is a Long Way From Reality, US Treasury Official Says
• Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
• MariaDB uses SPAC to begin NYSE trading
• Turns Out You Can Turn Old Blu-Ray Players into Microscopes
• Inside Apple’s War for Chip Talent
• Qualcomm talks up RISC-V
• Tech giants ditch office space in London and Europe
• SpinQ presents world’s first portable quantum computers
• This British Hotel Offers a Butler to Help You Pick Out Books
• Podcast: Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
• Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
• Delivery Hero’s Global Tech Summit 2022

Unintended consequences.

Forcing the labelling of sesame as an alergen ingredient leads to the addition of sesame to MORE foods. https://t.co/yj4HKVM7EI pic.twitter.com/fYvVBWKc3N

— Polemic Paine (@PolemicTMM) December 22, 2022

• The days are long but the decades are short
• ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024
• ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment / Benedict Evans
• Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data
• Apple preps for ‘third-party iOS app stores’ in Europe
• GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
• Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
• Accenture shares 9 cybersecurity predictions for 2023
• Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training
• Jamming and spoofing attacks can cripple GPS connections entirely or make something appear in the wrong location, causing disruption and safety issues
• Apple has Won a Patent relating to possible future Satellite Services beyond the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS Satellite Service
• Sony camera sensors in iPhone
• Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek
• Java InfoQ Trends Report – December 2022
• MacOS 9 in browser
• Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
• The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review / McKinsey
• Microsoft to take 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group (FT)
• The evolution of fraud (FT)
• Microsoft Tops the Best-Managed Companies of 2022…Drucker Institute’s annual Management Top 250 rankings (WSJ)

/1 What is a DDos (Distributed Denial-of-Service) Attack?

Why is it hazardous to the services?

Here is an example of how DDoS works. pic.twitter.com/Mxwx6pYsac

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) December 16, 2022

• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
• Fjord Trends 2022
• Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
• Amazon built a computer vision algorithm from scratch to identify products without barcodes to help robots ship products to you faster.
• Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI
• Disney+ launches its ad-supported tier to compete with Netflix
• EU sets December 28th, 2024, deadline for all new phones to use USB-C for wired charging
• DNA that was frozen for 2 million years has been sequenced
• Chat GPT Model Size: 100 GB
• Chat GPT average cost per chat: single digits cents per chat
• Google combines Maps and Waze teams
• YOLOv5 PyTorch Tutorial
• Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers
• Apple launches end-to-end encryption for iCloud data
• Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC
• ‘Pong’ is now half a century old
• Twitter to introduce new controls for ad placements

Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption. AI will eliminate the Search Engine Result Page, which is where they make most of their money.

Even if they catch up on AI, they can’t fully deploy it without destroying the most valuable part of their business! https://t.co/jtq25LXdkj

— Paul Buchheit (@paultoo) December 1, 2022

• #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