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Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond

Plus: Your Complete Guide to Spotify Wrapped, 2023

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December 01, 2023

In Today’s Edition 

  • The indie era of startups 

  • The five pillars of startup impact 

  • Tesla Cybertruck delivery event: Everything Elon revealed about the EV pickup 

  • Apple unveils App Store Award winners, the best apps and games of 2023

  • MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo 

  • Apple unveils App Store Award winners, the best apps and games of 2023 

  • Your Complete Guide to Spotify Wrapped, 2023 

🚀Startups Nuts

More founders are rejecting the VC route in favor of bootstrapping or raising smaller amounts of capital from angels. Layoffs across tech have injected a huge amount of Silicon Valley trained operators, who are building their own profitable companies. The impact? More healthy companies that don't chase the venture rabbit down the hole and have an outsized impact on the makeup of our society.

Increasing loneliness, rising healthcare and education costs, and climbing C02 emissions paint a sobering story. There’s a lot to fix, but startups will play a leading role in the solution. Startups that tangibly make life better for all of us will attract young talent, and the companies that can attract the best talent will define the next generation of tech.

🏭Business Nuts 

Elon Musk handed the first Cybertrucks over to a select group of customers at Tesla's Cybertruck delivery event. The event, which went for around 30 minutes, featured pomp and pump music, VIP guests, and Musk. This article shares everything known about the Cybertruck so far. The Cybertruck is a lot more expensive than the targets Musk shared in 2019.

Apple has unveiled the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards. This year's winners were chosen by the App Store's Editorial team for providing users with meaningful experiences and inspiring cultural change. The 14 winners were selected from nearly 40 finalists for delivering exceptional technical innovation, user experiences, and design. This article contains the list of winners.

📱Tech Nuts

Frore Systems, a California-based startup, has developed what it describes as the first solid-state active cooling chip. It recently equipped the M2 15-inch MacBook Air with three of its chips, bringing MacBook Pro-comparable performance to sustained heavy workloads on the device. Frore has no publicly disclosed deals with any laptop vendors, but it is in collaboration with a number of the major laptop OEMs. The company is getting interest from various consumer segments and the industrial, data center, and automotive spaces.

Apple has unveiled the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards. This year's winners were chosen by the App Store's Editorial team for providing users with meaningful experiences and inspiring cultural change. The 14 winners were selected from nearly 40 finalists for delivering exceptional technical innovation, user experiences, and design. This article contains the list of winners.

The rate of change in the technology world has rapidly accelerated in the past year. Cloud technologies, machine learning, and generative AI have become more accessible, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives. The coming years will see innovations in areas designed to democratize access to technology and help us keep up with the increasing pace of everyday life. This article makes some predictions on what technologies generative AI will enable over the next few years.

🎁Miscellaneous

Spotify Wrapped is a yearly summary of the songs and artists that users have listened to throughout the year. It has become one of the most successful and shareable marketing ploys on social media since its inception in 2016. 2023's Spotify Wrapped has launched. This article shows readers how to access the feature, how it works, the most popular artists of the year, and more.

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

😎Fun Fact

The average lifespan of a U.S. coin is approximately 30 years

🔥 Hot Book of the Day

It’s estimated that each year between eighty and ninety million children around the globe are given a box of LEGO, while up to ten million adults buy sets for themselves. Yet LEGO is much more than a dizzying number of plastic bricks that can be put together and combined in countless ways. LEGO is also a vision of the significance of what play can mean for humanity.

This book tells the extraordinary story of a global company and a Danish family who for ninety years have defended children’s right to play—and who believe grown-ups, too, should make the time to nurture their inner child.

The LEGO Story is built on Jens Andersen’s unique access to LEGO’s own archives, as well as on Andersen’s extensive conversations with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former president and CEO of the LEGO group and grandson of its founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen.

A riveting cultural history of changing generations’ views of childhood and the importance of play, The LEGO Story also a fascinating case study of how innovation and creativity helped leaders transform LEGO from a small carpentry business into the world’s largest producer of play materials and one of the most beloved brands in the world.

Richly illustrated with never-before-seen photos from the family’s private archive, this is the ultimate book for fans of LEGO, revealing everything you ever wanted to know about the brand.

“Absolutely essential reading for every LEGO fan.”

🐦Joke of the Day

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