• 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

• Apple Event: Everything Unveiled from iPhone 14 to Apple Watch 8
• iOS 16 launches September 12
• Steve Jobs archive
• Predictive Maintenance: Developed by New York-based startup Augury Inc., the technology has helped Frito-Lay add some 4,000 hours a year of manufacturing capacity—the equivalent of several million pounds of snacks coming off the production line (WSJ)
• Stanford classes on crypto
• Microsoft invests in Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens start-up (FT)
• AWS Compute Cost Calculator
• ‘We don’t have enough’ lithium globally to meet EV targets“
• Google upgrades its Apple AirDrop competitor ‘Nearby Share’ and five other Android updates
• Spotify exec says the company will begin testing audiobooks ‘very soon’
• Mercedes-Benz and Rivian partner to jointly build electric vans in Europe
• US state of Virginia has more datacenter capacity than Europe or China

Dynamic island is the hottest piece of UI I've seen in a long time pic.twitter.com/CuezwtTUuX

— Charles Patterson (@CharlesPattson) September 7, 2022

Apple's Emergency SOS system is provided by Globalstar. That spectrum is globally allocated for mobile satellite service. Mid-band frequencies T-Mobile wants to use are not and each country would need to authorize use by satellites. A license is always needed in each country. https://t.co/JxXeUewEhk

— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) September 7, 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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