• 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

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• 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