Heat pumps and insulation ‘will end need for Russian gas faster than new North Sea drilling’

Company Plans to Dig World’s Deepest Hole to Unleash Boundless Energy

Dot Pad tactile display makes images touchable for visually impaired users

Rivian shares reach new low after reporting disappointing Q4 earnings

DoorDash is testing a feature that lets you return packages to post offices, FedEx or UPS

Why blackouts are dangerous to Ukraine’s nuclear sites, power loss threatens crucial safety systems

Disney+ is getting an ad-supported subscription tier later this year

Instacart introduces in-store navigation and live phone support for shoppers on its platform.“…The company told TechCrunch that the new feature is being piloted with 15 of its retail partners at more than 80 store locations across 17 states and in the province of Ontario in Canada…”

DeepMind’s new AI tool helps resolve debate over ancient Athenian decrees

What Can Consumers and Businesses Do With 5G? Take a Look at South Korea (WSJ)

Twitter has a new goal: the company wants to add another 100 million daily users by the end of 2023

Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere trailer

iOS 15.4 arrives next week

Future of Delivery: Unleashing the potential of micromobility for the last mile

Roblox is hiring a PlayStation engineer

Amazon to close 68 physical retail locations, including Amazon Books and 4-star stores

How a simple security bug became a university campus ‘master key’

Volvo is testing wireless EV charging tech in Sweden

MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

Ukraine plans to issue NFT collection to fund armed forces (FT)

Zoom: pandemic favourite seeks new start (FT:Lex)

Huawei’s competitor to Tesla electric cars is set to hit China’s streets on Saturday

Grab’s revenue fell 44% to $122 million in the fourth quarter

Ford reorg prioritizes EVs, keeps fossil fuel vehicles as “engines of cash”

Sony and Honda plan to make electric vehicles together

Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation

Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service officially launches in the US

Wooing Intel, Italy plans $4.6 billion fund to boost chipmaking

U.S. electric grid facing threats

Quantum computers take hours to ‘tune’ — this startup wants to solve that with AI

How Volvo put Apple Watch at the center of its services vision

2022 10 Breakthrough Technologies

Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips

GM plans 50 new digital features, services by 2026 –executive

Alibaba quarter results

Japan Wants to Make Half Its Cargo Ships Autonomous by 2040

Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below

Carvana acquires Adesa US auction business for $2.2B to jump-start used car sales

Springtime asteroid hit ramped up extinction rates, say scientists

Moderna says pandemic will end in 2022 but annual boosters needed (FT)

Virgin Hyperloop shifts its focus from passengers to cargo

Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’

Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push

OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity

Elon Musk: Tesla is working to make Steam video games work in its vehicles

How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup

China Orders Cuts for Food-Delivery Fees (WSJ)

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 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

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