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.
“…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“
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.
Spot AI raises $40M to build smarter CCTV security camera tech
Qualcomm debuts latest flagship Snapdragon chip and a new AI platform
“…An estimated $3.37 trillion worth, or 21% of all global trade, transited through the South China Sea in 2016, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…”
“…Prediction is only useful if it’s going to change something that you do. You wouldn’t check your weather forecast app every day if it didn’t help inform your clothing or routine. Prediction has to inform a decision…”
Fast-Fashion Juggernaut Shein’s Sales Close In on Zara, H&M…The company’s gross merchandise value is projected to grow 50% to $30 billion in 2022…Earlier this year, Shein completed a fundraising round that valued it at $100 billion (WSJ)
Twitter reactivated the ‘Official’ gray check for accounts that are actually verified
Amazon introduces ‘Sparrow’ robotic arm that can do repetitive warehouse tasks
Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money it makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined…Successful sellers have to spend anywhere between 10 percent and 20 percent of their sales on Amazon ads.
Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
SoftBank Vision Fund Loses $7.2 Billion on Tech Writedowns
Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool…details
Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds
Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US
“…The latest Drewry composite World Container Index — a key benchmark for container prices — has fallen again to $2,773 per 40-foot container. That’s 73% lower than the peak rate in September last year…“
“…Today, Spotify has more than 80 million tracks available to users to stream. In its most recent earnings report, the company touted its 456 million active users with 195 million paid subscribers across 183 markets…“
Apple’s Web Search Technology Chief Returns to Google
How reliant are banks and insurers on cloud outsourcing? (2020)
Chris Rock is set to be the first to perform live on Netflix
Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z
SoftBank, NEC, Sony, Toyota + more team up for Rapidus, Japan’s bid for next-gen chip domination
GitHub teases new Copilot feature that lets developers code with their voice
Apple limits AirDrop ‘Everyone’ option to 10 minutes in China
Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system
Listening promotes intuitive thinking. Reading activates more analytical processing.
5 experiments: in English & Chinese, people showed better logical reasoning when trivia questions, riddles, and puzzles were written rather than spoken.
InfiniteNature-Zero, new @GoogleAI research with @berkeley_ai produces high-resolution 3D flythroughs from a single 2D image. The model is trained only on still photos and fills in missing pieces (like other sides of mountains), rendering with high realism https://t.co/BMDZud0hnBpic.twitter.com/k7p0kOwbjl
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…“
How they make money … Great visually-engaging financial analysis by Bertrand Seguin, a 37 year old French investor, who spent 12 years at Japanese gaming company Bandai Namco explaining finance to his bosses … Sign up to his free newsletter: https://t.co/wjgChvHpPxpic.twitter.com/fSUxJmObQ1
My theory remains that Google keeps trying to set up a big group call to sort this out, but they can never remember which app to use pic.twitter.com/a9Xdw2vgQC
“…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…”
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)
“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
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
“The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication…It’s mind-boggling to see that there are at least 14,000 ways of multiplying four-by-four matrices”
3 insights about finance and inflation from Google Search trends
Peacock grows its paid subscriber base to 15 million
WhatsApp starts blocking screenshots in beta testing for view once images and videos
Google Expands Its Hardware With New Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro Phones
EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024
“…Washington also plans to limit U.S.-made microchips from being sold to China’s most powerful supercomputing and data center projects, the people said…”
YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K
Tesla now has 160,000 customers running its Full Self Driving beta
Every James Bond Movie, Ranked: The Best (and Worst) of Bond
Monese neobank announces a $35 million investment by HSBC
HSBC invests in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup
“…A study this year by professors at Columbia University and New York University estimated that lower tenant demand because of remote work may cut 28%, or $456 billion, off the value of offices across the US. About 10% of that would be in New York City alone…”
Uniswap Labs eyes over $100 million in new funding
1st gen AirPods Pro users seeing ‘Adaptive Transparency’ option after iOS 16.1 beta update
Magic Leap’s smaller, lighter second-gen AR glasses are now available
“… Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it would take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China, where roughly 98% of the company’s iPhones have been made ….. with China accounting for 70% of global smartphone manufacturing and leading Chinese vendors accounting for nearly half of global shipments…”
Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough.
Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices
7 Lessons on Dynamic Pricing (HBR)… 2017 WSJ article about dynamic pricing
Mapping the Unknown — The 10 Steps to Map Any Industry
Amazon’s Fall Device Event: Wi-Fi-Boosting Echo Speakers, a Kindle for Note-Taking and More (WSJ)
“…Global cloud spending is projected to reach $830.5 billion by the end of the year, up 17.5% from 2021, but slowing from last year’s growth rate of 18.3%, according to International Data Corp. It expects growth to drop to 16.3% next year…” (WSJ)
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
