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To będzie ostatni (79!) newsletter w tym roku więc pozwolę sobie na trochę dłuższe słowo komentarza niż zazwyczaj (oraz pozwoliłem sobie na większy dobór materiałów - w końcu idą Święta i więcej wolnego czasu).
Bardzo, bardzo dziękuję wszystkim czytelnikom (ponad 3 tysiące osób!), którzy poświęcają swój cenny czas na klikanie w linki, który dla was selekcjonuje. Wasze komentarze oraz reakcje są dla mnie paliwem i podnoszą na duchu kiedy siadam późnym wieczorem do tworzenia kolejnego wydania.
Przyznaję się bez bicia - nie wierzyłem, że uda mi się wytrwać tak długo w tworzeniu tego newslettera. Teraz sprawia mi to ogromną frajdę i autentycznie tęsknię za tą ciężką pracą kiedy naciskam przycisk "wyślij".
Zachęcony waszymi pozytywnymi reakcjami i sugestiami postanowiłem, że w 2018 newsletter podzielę na dwa osobne produkty - część bezpłatną (ukazującą się tak samo jak do tej porty raz na tydzień) oraz płatną subskrypcję z codzienną porcją linków a może nawet rozbudowanych komentarzy. Obiecuję, że wprowadzenie wersji płatnej w niczym nie spowoduje, że wersja "lite" będzie uboższa. Stay tuned.
Fox został połknięty przez Disney'a. Dodając Hulu i parę drobiazgów jak Marvel i Lucasart można powiedzieć, że imperium Myszki Miki rozrosło się niebotycznie - żadna chyba firma w historii showbiznesu nie miała w jednym ręku tylu praw autorskich do filmów, komiksów, gier i gwarantowanych przychodów (patrząc po tempie w jakim pojawiają się kolejne filmy z uniwersum Marvela i Gwiezdynch Wojen można zyski liczyć w miliardach rocznie ze sprzedaży samych biletów do kin).
Zapewne część z was nie oglądała jeszcze "Ostatniego Jedi" więc moją krytykę pozwolę sobie ograniczyć do jednego zdania - pomimo super wyników finansowych ten film jest najlepszym dowodem, że zimna kalkulacja dyrektora finansowego i rozciąganie na wiele odcinków kulawego scenariusza zaszkodzi wytwórni szybciej niż się tego spodziewa.
Net neutrality is dead. Niestety FCC dał zielone światło na rozbiórkę internetu jaki znamy i segregowanie dostawców usług i produktów według woli osób, które mają infrastrukturę. Można się łudzić, że to amerykańskie szaleństwo nie dotknie Europy ale to mrzonka - internetu nie da się podzielić na amerykański europejski. Zapewne Unia będzie starała się wywrzeć nacisk tam gdzie może (wyobrażam sobie nawet taką sytuację, że osoba z IP europejskim będzie miała inne prawa niż Amerykanie) ale pamiętajmy kto finałowo trzyma "klucze do internetu".
Ten rok był wyjątkowy pod wieloma względami. Uber z firmy, która miała opanować świat stał się pośmiewiskiem i teren wojny inwestorów, zarządu i mediów.
Stratosferyczne wzrosty cen Bitcoina spowodowały ogromne zainteresowanie krytptowalutami jak i blockchainem - rządów, banków centralnych, funduszy oraz giełd. VR i AR na razie czekają na swoje "pięć minut".
Chińskie firmy atakują coraz prężniej Dolinę Krzemową (która coraz bardziej traci swój urok i zamienia się w oblężoną twierdzą z ukrywającymi się w niej oderwanymi od życia technokratami) a zagadnienia związane z AI oraz autonomiczne samochody dawno już weszły do mainstreamu.
2018 zapowiada się jako jeszcze bardziej zwariowany (korekta BTC?). Odpocznijmy przez te kilka dni do Świąt i nabierzmy sił żebyśmy znowu mogli fascynować się tym co nam przyniesie technologia i postęp.
Życzę Tobie drogi Czytelniku wszystkiego najlepszego - Zdrowych i Spokojnych Świąt oraz szampańskiej zabawy w Nowy Rok! :)
Artur Kurasiński
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Chinese startup NIO marked its entry last week into the world’s biggest market for electric cars with a sport utility vehicle priced cheaper than Tesla Inc.’s Model X.
The social fabric of the internet is built on very specific assumptions, many of which are giving way. Licklider envisioned the internet as a patchwork of decentralized networks, with no sense of how it would work when a handful of companies wrote most of its software and managed most of its traffic.
What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World - The New York Times — www.nytimes.com
Electric vehicles have only a tiny market share, but the auto industry is betting billions that they will soon be as cheap as conventional cars.
The Pantera Bitcoin Fund was set up in 2013, when few on Wall Street were interested in cryptocurrencies. It has since ridden the Bitcoin wave to blockbuster returns.
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Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they believed didn’t operate like anything they had seen before.
Think twice before buying second-hand internet-connected IoT devices from sites like eBay (EBAY) — qz.com
The holiday season is the perfect time to shell out for the latest and greatest smart-home and internet-connected gadgets, like game consoles, drones, smart lightbulbs and switches.
Google Glass, Oculus, HoloLens: The Race for Augmented Reality Glasses Starts Now | WIRED — www.wired.com
The big players in tech, from Google to Amazon, and some little players, too, are jockeying to own augmented reality.
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley had a spectacular and spectacularly dramatic year.
Facebook Spaces, Facebook's new virtual reality program, could one day change the future of long-distance dating.
The total market value of cryptocurrency has increased from $18 billion at the start of the year to over $300 billion today. Sometimes it seems like everyone is talking about Bitcoin, yet less than 1% of the world owns any. Cryptocurrency today is similar to the tech boom in 1994.
Is a Disney exclusive streaming service still in the cards after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox?
Veteran tech journalist Mark Frauenfelder tries everything, including hypnosis, to recover a small fortune from a locked bitcoin device.
WeWork is quietly recruiting startups to a project called Area 51 Paradise Ranch, an incubator and "launchpad."
Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future?
Who is really benefiting from the crowdfunding site for artists?
Artwork is the first instance of personalizing not just what we recommend but also how we recommend.
Adidas shutters fitness wearables division, consolidates digital strategy | MobiHealthNews — www.mobihealthnews.com
Adidas has ended the business unit responsible for development of its fitness watches, sensor-enabled footwear, and other wearable devices, the Portland Business Journal first reported earlier this week.
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
It seems increasingly likely that our society will one day view our infatuation with Twitter, Facebook, and the like as a passing, often destructive fad.
Blank space on your calendar could turn into wasted time.
Comprehension depends on what you already know. Let’s start there.
By watching its users learn languages – and make mistakes – in real time, Duolingo is developing a unique view of education
Today we’re seeing that a moat—a barrier that protects a company from low-cost competitors or new, disruptive technology—isn’t enough to build a lasting business. A moat simply buys a company time to…
MobileCoin aims to make cryptocurrency transactions quick and easy for everyone, while still preserving privacy and decentralization.
Learn the five product habits that you need to find the critical problems that customers have and solve them better than anyone else.
We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.
The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a Minecraft hustle.
Elon Musk: Inventor's Plans for Outer Space, Cars, Finding Love - Rolling Stone — www.rollingstone.com
Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and find love along the way.
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Will blockchain be the next Internet? Fritz Joussen, CEO of TUI Group, believes it will. "It takes away the monopoly of knowledge from a few platforms,” he
Two months ago, Facebook launched major “reach-killing” test here in Slovakia and in five other countries. It removed all Page posts from the News Feed and relocated them to a separate new Explore…
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China Is Opening Up City Roads for Driverless Cars - MIT Technology Review — www.technologyreview.com
Drivers in Beijing, beware: soon, you’ll be driving alongside autonomous vehicles.
The company announced new rules to protect against “hateful conduct” on Monday—but the policy may have a big loophole.
A Reddit post from last week has sparked a discussion regarding iPhone performance as a function of battery age. While we expect battery capacity to decreas...
Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims - The New York Times — mobile.nytimes.com
Microsoft eliminated forced arbitration agreements with employees who make sexual harassment claims and is supporting a proposed federal law to ban such agreements.
Airbnb and partner Niido received $200 million from Brookfield to roll out their branded apartment project across U.S. cities.
Instead of giving up shares, many startups are now raising finance by issuing their own blockchain-based crypto coins to investors around the world. The US, Singapore and Switzerland are currently…
Fraudsters are constantly coming up with new tactics to siphon money from legitimate sites. The latest tactic in this never-ending arms race is called cryptojacking.
Discover the web design trends, techniques, and tools that will define website and digital product design in 2018 — and beyond.
Army partners with Marine Corps on 3-D printed drones | Article | The United States Army — www.army.mil
Army researchers are working with the Marines to develop 3-D printed drones as materials science, aviation technology and software development merge to deliver new capabilities.
The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.
Bryce “Zooko” Wilcox is helping create privacy tech that could give today’s cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, a run for their money.
Uber and Google appear to be parting ways according to a report by Bloomberg's Brad Stone Monday. Google Ventures invested in Uber's C and D rounds, and its chief legal officer and SVP of corporate development, David Drummond, has sat on its board since 2013.
Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.
Research Blog: Introducing Appsperiments: Exploring the Potentials of Mobile Photography — research.googleblog.com
Apple's original video ambitions started to take shape in 2017 and the tech giant plans to spend $1 billion on original programming in 2018.
Red-tailed hawks wheel around the sky outside the wall of windows of the GoPro founder’s hilltop office in San Mateo, California. A few miles east and far below, the San Francisco Bay twinkles in the…
France will propose that the G20 group of major economies discuss regulation of the bitcoin virtual currency next year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it's become the new Wall Street. In 2018, that needs to change.
Bartek Pucek, Onet-RASP: Nie interesuje mnie konkurencja. Interesuje mnie użytkownik | Marketing i Biznes — marketingibiznes.pl
Cyfrowy magazyn o ecommerce, technologii i marketingu
For years, Squarespace Inc. has been a leader in the old-school art of designing websites. Its main rival, Wix.com Ltd., has been public since 2013, but Squarespace remains private.