Nextbite conducted a survey of 1,046 consumers aged 13-54 in 2021 and 2022. 49 percent said they wanted to eat healthier in 2022 and 41 percent wanted to order more delivery food this year. Many of the most popular food items for delivery in 2020 and 2021 were comfort food.
Mark Zuckerberg announced in October that Facebook would be called "Meta" The company would still include Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus, but with a new intent. The new name was to help the company "help bring the metaverse to life" The move has sparked a wave of hype for "the metaverse" concepts.
Tiger Global-backed Groww said Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella has joined the company as an investor and advisor. Groww had raised USD 251 million (around Rs 1,885 crore) in October last year in a funding round led by Iconiq Growth, which valued the mutual fund and stock investment platform at USD 1 billion.
New smart home standard, Matter, was the darling of CES 2022. It's a new open-source standard that will make smart home devices work together securely and easily. Amazon, Google and Samsung are among the companies backing the new standard. The first devices will be ready for use in June 2022, but the standard won't be ready until 2022.
The Matrix raises the question: Would you rather live in an artificial reality or a real world? The film is one of most iconic movies of the sci-fi genre, and has changed how people think about technology. Recent developments in technology have raised the question of how much virtual reality we should spend. NFTs, Blockchain and the Metaverse are just three of many new technologies that are raising the issue.
Apple reportedly rejects idea of an all-virtual world for its rumored mixed reality headset. Sources say the company will focus on short stints of communication and content viewing. The headset could debut this year, but its specs are still unclear. If true, it would be a different approach than that of rival Meta, which has focused on the metaverse.
Siraj Raval has run free bitcoin mining software on his Apple Mac mini M1 and powered the computer by plugging an inverter into the 12-volt power socket located in the center console of his car. He's also hooked up interconnected graphics processing units or GPU to the “frunk” of his Tesla, running these machines off the car’s internal battery.
For an entire year, Donald Trump has been banned from mainstream social-media outlets. For the tech companies and the former president, there have been benefits. From the business side, Facebook , Instagram, Twitter and YouTube have all been able to say they took action against one of the most powerful voices on their platforms—after years of criticism that they failed to aggressively apply their rules to their highest-profile users.
Investors are rethinking signaling risk, dilution and the worth of a traditional demo day. Y Combinator changed its policy on automatic pro-rata investments in 2020 and chose to invest on a case-by-case basis. YC: Investing in every round for every YC company requires more capital than we want to raise and manage.
NASA has successfully deployed the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror. The $10 billion instrument is now 930,000 miles from Earth. The mission crew still has to align the telescope's optics by moving the primary mirror's segments. First images from the telescope won't be available until the summer.
