Five Things Tech: Zombies, windCORES, Qubits, Shein, Internet @Home
Saturday is Tech day.
Tech is fast-moving and it is also a bit drama. Google just announced Gemini and the big news now is not just how awesome the tech is, but also that Google had to fake one of the videos showing the amazing outcomes. Interesting that such a huge company cannot control the messaging of a product launch for longer than just a few hours. The speed of the development is still breath-taking and I’m sure it will accelerate even more next year.
From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money
It’s a really tough time for tech startups out there. Lots of startups that were growing fast just a year ago are now facing multiple problems as customers are harder to attract and investors are hesitant to commit money at huge valuations.
This project cuts emissions by putting data centers inside wind turbines
Instead of investing into a bigger grid, windCORES powers data centers on site and then connects those data centers via fiber. Instead of one huge data center, there are lots of smaller ones, somewhere out in the countryside. Thanks to fiber, we won’t notice a difference in the quality the data centers provide.
Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being
While the tech world is focused on AI, the quantum computer revolution is coming closer and closer. Am I the only one who thinks that the pictures of these fascinating new computing devices look a bit bizarre like built from a DIY kit?
The World’s Most Anonymous CEO Is About to Take Center Stage
Do you know who Sky Xu is? Don’t worry, neither did I before reading this article. He’s the CEO of Shein and Shein is currently disrupting the ecommerce fashion space while the competition is still trying to figure out how exactly this is happening.
Homes need to be built for better internet
Oh yes, this is a huge problem. As I am writing this, I’m sitting in the one corner of my home where the connectivity is flakey at best, but at least nobody disturbs me here…
That’s all for Five Things Tech this week!
— Nico