Tech
- The EU considering to legislate against facial recognition at least in public spaces Politico
- H&M Foundation pitched Unfounded Inc. to the top 100 investors on the Midas list to highlight the opportunity in investing in companies founded by women, a most certainly underserved opportunity and segment DiDigital
- Jeff Bezos phone was apparently hacked by the Saudi Crown Prince – or at least someone who sent a malware embedded in a video in a whatsapp message to him NYT
- Sonos said legacy products (that meant products roughly 3 years and older) was going to stop working. You would be given a 30% discount to buy new products. Two days later the CEO apologise and said we’ll keep them working but not fully compatible with newer products TheVerge
Media
- The big winner of the 2020 Grammys was Billie Eilish with best song, best new comer and more Variety
- Most talked about and trending themes from the World Economic Forum in Davos last week came out to be:
- “Climate change”
- “Positive”
- “Impact”
- WEF
Transportation
- Tesla surpassed the combined market value of GM and Ford last week. Here’s a nice graph portraying the relationship (see below too) VisualCapitalist
- GM announced Cruise Origin, the company’s first driverless, fully electric vehcile and said ride-sharing and powertrains as we know them are obsolete GreenCarReports
XR
- First social media built around Augmented Reality surfaces – and its called Octi TechCrunch
- Another AR enabled navigation app powered by AI to compete with Google Maps AR. I look forward to having this assistance in my AR glasses in a year or two VentureBeat
- The five key themes of VR/AR in 2020 according to Forbes:
- Industrial use outpaces gaming and entertainment
- XR takes off in healthcare
- Headsets get smaller, more mobile and more powerful
- 5G opens new possibilities for VR and AR
- More of us will learn through VR and AR
- Apple application for patent may show the company is looking into finger powered use and controls of AR objects CNET
Statistics
- Sweden came out the largest international donor of foreign aid in 2018 in relation to a country’s GNI, the USA was the largest absolute donor VisualCapitalist
Binge
- Box21 – crime thriller written by Roslund and Hellström Playpilot
Finance & Politics
- Navigating the risks in the Second decade of the 20th century WEF
