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Will's Weekly Roundup is a curated list of tech, business, and startup headlines from last week to kickstart your Monday.
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Business
The business headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
Uber is joining the S&P 500. LINK
Spotify will lay off 17% of its workforce (1,500 jobs). LINK
Alaska Airlines is buying Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion. LINK
Panera Bread filed to go public again. LINK
Ronaldo is facing a $1 billion lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs. LINK
Bitcoin crossed $44,000, a 20-month high. LINK
Homes in 2023 were the least affordable in the last 11 years. LINK
Job openings slid to 8.7 million in October, the lowest level since March 2021. LINK
Quarterbacks in the transfer portal cost a team $1-2 million. LINK
Lamborghini introduced a four-day work week for its production workers. LINK
Amazon is testing a grocery subscription service for Prime members. LINK
McKinsey is shrinking its new partner class by roughly 35%. LINK
Apple is a $3 trillion company again, for the first time since August. LINK
Tech
The tech headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
NYC used less water than Bitcoin mining last year. LINK
Mountain Dew is using facial-recognition tech to identify and pay people who are drinking the soda on live streams. LINK
NASA plans to launch a wooden satellite in 2024 that will burn up upon re-entry. LINK
A judge blocked Montana’s first-of-its-kind ban of TikTok, ruling it violated the First Amendment. LINK
Google released its ChatGPT-killer GeminiAI that can reason across different inputs. The demo is impressive. LINK
23andMe said health data was included in a hack that compromised 6.9 million users. LINK
Tiny robots made from human cells can heal damaged tissue. LINK
A bipartisan bill wants to ban TSA’s involuntary facial recognition screening at airports, claiming it's a precursor to a full-blown national surveillance state. LINK
Watchlist
Startups and companies I’m keeping an eye on…
Prenuvo offers $2,500 full-body MRI scans that can detect cancer and 500+ other conditions. LINK
Ohalo Genetics shrinks the breeding cycles of plants, decreasing the land, water, and energy footprint required to grow crops. LINK
Agility Robotics builds humanoid factory robots that will be featured in Amazon’s first factory operated by humanoid robots. LINK
Jack & Annie’s makes alternative meats from jackfruit. LINK
Clever Carnivore grows beef, pork, and chicken products from actual animal tissue. LINK
Instock provides a cutting-edge warehouse fulfillment system that includes robotic carts and shelves. LINK
Gecko Robotics makes wall-climbing robots that perform inspections on tanks, boilers, pipes, and more. LINK
Reliable Robotics built an autopilot system that works through takeoff, taxi, and landing, letting cargo planes fly without pilots. LINK
Outside Interests
Interesting internet finds…
McDonald’s is bringing back the adult Happy Meal. LINK
Taylor Swift is Time’s person of the year. LINK
Harvard, MIT, and Penn’s presidents would not directly say that calling for the genocide of Jews is considered harassment on campus. LINK
Rizz is Oxford’s 2023 word of the year. LINK
These photos were the winners of the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. LINK
The chef at the number-one restaurant in the world just entered the cannabis gummy industry. LINK
Uber released a feature that lets a courier pick up a purchased item from a store and deliver it to a recipient of your choosing, something perfect for the holidays. LINK
Georgetown & UCLA students want to ban Starbucks from campus (like Cornell did) unless the chain raises wages and improves labor practices. LINK
Lego built a new Minecraft game mode inside Fortnite. LINK
Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. LINK
A penguin breed native to Antarctica takes over 10,000 microsleeps every day. LINK
Visuals
Three visuals worth taking a look at...
McDonald's is planning the largest global expansion in its history.
Employees don't stay at top companies for very long.
Grade inflation has been hitting America's top institutions hard.
Wisdom
Two quotes of wisdom...
"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." — Charlie Munger
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." ― Andre Gide
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