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Linkowisko #40 - Newsletter Artura Kurasińskiego
Dzień dobry,
Pogoda na weekend nie wygląda tak super jak w tygodniu (w Warszawie widziałem pierwsze osoby w krótkich spodenkach i klapkach) tak więc podrzucam trochę newsów i artykułów jeśli wybierzesz zostanie w domu. Do przeczytania w czwartek!
Artur Kurasiński
PS Zapraszam do wspierania mojego newslettera, produkcji podcastów i społeczności przez subskrypcję tutaj.

Russia is considering selling its oil and gas for bitcoin as sanctions intensify from the West — www.cnbc.com
Russia might accept bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports as Western countries stiffen their sanctions on Moscow.

EU regulators agreed to sweeping legislation that would force "interoperability" between the biggest messaging apps and smaller rivals.

Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify – TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch of a pilot program designed to explore what it calls “user billing choice.” The program will allow a small number of participating developers, starting with Spotify, to offer an additional third-party billing option next to Google Play’s own billing […]

Bored Ape Yacht Club creates cryptocurrency to fund games, events, more - The Verge — www.theverge.com
ApeCoin is a new cryptocurrency connected to Yuga Labs, the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club. It’ll be the primarily in-game currency for their forthcoming play-to-earn title. A DAO has been set up to oversee the coin.

Organizations and media building the metaverse must maintain ethical practices, and regulators must keep those organizations accountable.

Amazon’s deal to purchase entertainment giant MGM is complete, without a response so far from the FTC. This comes just days after the deal was approved by the European Union’s antitrust regulators.

A change from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake could reduce the Ethereum network's energy consumption by 99%.

Now valued at $4 billion, the company will use the funds to build out its NFT-based metaverse.

Dark store’y pojawiają się w kolejnych dzielnicach i kolejnych polskich miastach. Zajmują nową, na razie niewielką, ale rosnącą niszę zarówno w sektorze handlowym, jak i na rynku miejskich nieruchomości

The company is adding audience analytics and promotional tools in an attempt to compete with its main podcast rival.
Meta's core Facebook app has been pressured to keep up with competitors, including its own Instagram and the fast-growing TikTok.

Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales Hit Record 4.6 mn as XR Headset Shipments Almost Triple YoY in Q1 2021 — www.counterpointresearch.com
The Extended Reality (XR) headset shipments almost tripled annually in Q1 2021. The Oculus Quest 2 success drove these volumes.

It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.

Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model – @AndrewMayne — andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com
https://media.giphy.com/media/vMFgJ4Uq1yqOtuT1Cc/giphy.gif TL;DR: OpenAI has a new code generating model that’s improved in a number of ways and can handle nearly two times as much text (4,000 tokens.) I built several small games and applications without touching a single line of code. There are limitations, and coding purely by simple text instructions can stretch your imagination,…

A U.S. official says Ukraine has made “terrific” use of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, which can loiter over tanks and artillery and destroy them with missiles.
Elon Musk sent Starlink satellite Internet service to Ukraine. It seems to be helping. - The Washington Post — www.washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk sent Starlink satellite Internet service to Ukraine. It seems to be helping.