Next week I’ll be on holiday, so even though Fridays are always the best day of the week, today is even better. In a couple of hours, I’ll be starting my first full-week break since the pandemic started. We’ve been (and we’re still actually going) through the craziest period in history since I was born. Since 1992, I remember a couple of big moments in history like 9/11 or Portugal winning the European Cup in 2016, but nothing quite like living through a pandemic. I wonder what 2020 will bring until the 31st of December, but this week we absolutely couldn’t miss mentioning the Twitter hack here:
Of course, I couldn’t simply miss this. Twitter was seriously hacked with a focus on the people that have the verified logo near their names. A simple Bitcoin traditional hack that made Twitter stop and several well-known personalities like the ones on the title of this article being unable to Tweet. Something like this means this is only the start of this story, but we do have to wonder, are any of us actually safe on the Internet?
Bombyx. That’s it, that’s the name of the robot. It’s Latin for silkworm, and it’s made to install fiber cables on medium-voltage power lines. The aim is to provide a cheaper solution when internet providers want to build their own networks using fiber connections. After Loon’s example last week, is this something else that will help to connect the world even more?
Amazon has been exploring this for some time now, with the previously known experience on an Amazon Go store, with cameras and sensors to detect the items you’re purchasing. The point of this cart is to erase the necessity for a human cashier to ring you up. After the use of the shopping cart analogy from the physical world to the digital one, will we see the online shopping cart making a move on the physical world?
After reading this, it seems Google has been working on some really cool next generation of wearables, no? What’s even cooler for me is that some of the work is not only from Google but also from work they have been putting together with universities around the world. Let me know if you’re secretly working with Google on this, will you?
Wait, what? That’s four different bullet points instead of three? Well, since you won’t be able to read a Landing.Tech blog post next week, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem to take a couple more of your minutes today. Any resemblance to real-life stories of needing to stay a couple of minutes at work on the week before going on vacations to make sure you’re not forgetting nothing is purely a coincidence. See you in two weeks!
The future starts today.
Pedro Saraiva
Event Producer @ Landing.Jobs
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