Weekly#466

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

Weekly#465

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

Weekly#464

Wordle
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

Weekly#463

The Global Risks Report 2022 [PDF]
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

Weekly#462

Singapore pushes for water independence as temperatures rise
Kubernetes: The Documentary – Part 1 Jan 21
VW sets a date for the reveal of its production-ready electric Microbus
Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel
China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns
The European Space Agency will soon send JUICE, or the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer on a mission to scout out Jupiter and three of its 79 moons: Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
John Deere takes a step into the future with first fully autonomous tractor
China’s ‘artificial sun’ smashes 1000-second fusion world record
Mercedes-Benz to offer solar roofs on EVs starting in 2024
Your credit score may soon depend on your web history
A Record 4.5 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs in November
Gen Z workers change jobs more often than any other generation because they’re prioritizing happiness, high expectations, and raises

Scott Galloway predicts the future. 🔮

NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Marketing @profgalloway talks what he got right from his 2021 predictions and what he sees for markets in 2022. pic.twitter.com/TukRor5upr

— Quest Means Business (@questCNN) January 4, 2022

Weekly#461

SpaceX’s Future Depends on a Gigantic Rocket and 42,000 Internet Satellites (WSJ)
What will applied AI look like in 2022?
Hyundai shuts down its engine development team amid focus on electric cars
13 battery gigafactories coming to the US by 2025 – ushering new era of US battery production
Elon Musk says SpaceX will land humans on Mars in 10 years in the worst-case scenario
Streaming wars drive media groups to spend more than $100bn on new content (FT)
Big Tech’s Next Monopoly Game: Building the Car of the Future
Ars Technica’s favorite films in 2021
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?
“…With supply chain disruptions messing with the auto industry, it’s an especially challenging time for startups like Rivian…”
Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
How Much Energy Do Data Centers Really Use?
LG Electronics Gears Up to Develop Commercial ‘Waterless’ Washing Machine
The Future of Cities? Fewer Cars, Better Homes
How omicron broke Covid-19 testing
Drone innovation moves from hardware to self-flying software (FT)
Amazon slips to 4th in global shopping app installs amid rise of international brands
A licence to print houses (FT)
Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2022 (FT)

Weekly#460

Forecasting 2022 Venture Trends
Battery Storage Soars on U.S. Electric Grid (WSJ)
Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto (The Economist)
Street Fighter II, Paper Trails
How to measure all the world’s fresh water
AWS suffers third outage of the month
Google cancels CES in-person presence, event organizers going ahead with show
Jack Dorsey’s Web3 takes, link2
a16z Web3 Landscape
Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob
Game makers are increasingly selling virtual weapons and gear as NFTs (WSJ)
Big Tech salaries revealed
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs topped CryptoPunks for the first time on a key price metric
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission
Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year

Weekly#459

How to lead from afar (The Economist)
Nike buys NFT collectables startup RTFKT
HSBC and Wells Fargo to settle currency trades with blockchain (FT)
Trends 2022
- Deloitte (PDF)
- Gartner
- Activate (PDF)
- The 7 Biggest Consumer Technology Trends In 2022
Reddit IPO
Challenging Amazon’s dominance
How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion
Hackers launch over 840,000 attacks through Log4J flaw
Inside Wall Street’s culture war with Gen Z
2022: A major revolution in robotics
Apple Delays Corporate Return to Offices Indefinitely
Spotify acquires podcast tech company Whooshkaa which turns radio broadcasts into on-demand audio
Spotify is launching Apple-like ratings for podcasts
The new Legacy Contact setting in iOS 15.2 lets you specify who can access your Apple iCloud information after you die. Here’s how to set it up (WSJ)
A Dutch vertical farming company has just been valued at over $1 billion
German revenue-based financing platform Re:cap raises $111.5M Seed round
A third dose increased antibodies 25-fold compared with two doses against the Omicron variant
The billionaire battle for the metaverse (The Economist)
Asteroids visualized
Scientists unveil drug discovery tool to screen more than 11 billion compounds

Weekly#458

Ben Evans: Three Steps to the Future
Great Protocol Politics
Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system
Volvo Cars Sets Up Research Lab in $3.3 Billion Battery Push
A Dune strategy game is coming to PC in 2022
Among Us is getting a VR version
Meta’s WhatsApp will allow crypto payments through Novi wallet in U.S.
Miro targets $17bn valuation as demand for remote work tools surges (FT)
What’s New at AWS re:Invent?
Visa launches crypto consulting services in push for mainstream adoption
UAE to shift to Saturday-Sunday weekend in line with global markets
Ikigai gets $13M to build automated workflows with humans in the loop
Getting Married in the Metaverse
“…With the first orbital test launch of Starship on the horizon, scientists are dreaming about what it might make possible— from trips to Neptune to planetary defense…”
Hurricanes in 100 years could be far more devastating, study finds
China moon rover will investigate cube-shaped ‘mystery’ object on lunar far side
Zoom will soon make it obvious if you’re late to your next big meeting
Slush 2021 Videos