Five Things Tech: Jobs, Snap, Art, Anduril, Hard Drives
It's Sunday, let's have a look at some amazing tech stories!
Howdy! Thanks for checking out another issue of Five Things Tech!
This Saturday we’re looking at the job market, which doesn’t look too good for many people who got laid off in the last few months. Then we can get a better understanding of what’s going on at Snap and how Evan Spiegel wants to make the company more relevant again. Art after NFT is also a topic, and then we will look at defense tech and how it gets disrupted by a startup, before we learn about dying hard drives and how this challenges the longterm storage companies.
As every week, this is a selection of articles I find interesting and I hope you do, too.
Enjoy!
Grab a coffee and then start reading! ☕️
Tech Jobs Have Dried Up—and Aren’t Coming Back Soon
For the last decade or so, Big Tech hired lots of people and paid really good wages. It seemed that oftentimes people were just hired so that other companies couldn’t hire them. Now it seems that the pendelum did not just swing into the other direction, but is somehow stuck there.
Snap Is Trying to Make Computers Fun Again
Evan Spiegel has tried many things to keep Snap relevant and oftentimes, Snap built interesting products, but was either a bit too early or got copied right away by the competition. So let’s see how the Spectacles will work out for Snap and its young audience.
How tech is powering the art market’s expansion into luxury, finance and science
Do you remember when web3 and NFT were all the rage and a lot of people thought that Bored Ape Yacht Club was just the beginning of a new type of art market? Those hopes are long gone and a few people got really rich while others bought useless digital art. Now tech and art meet again, but this time it’s different.
Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
Anduril is shaking up the defense industry and given the multiple threats and challenges the Western world has to cope with, it looks like this technology push is coming at the right time.
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives
Do you still have data on old hard drives? Well, you might want to check if they still work and then move the data into the cloud. If you can still find the right plugs to connet those harddrives to your current computer. While this is more of a personal problem, when an archiving specialist is facing these problems and tons of data could be lost forever, then we’re having a huge problem for our digital society.
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— Nico