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Mon. 07/17 – Sony And Microsoft Stop Fragging Each Other Over Call Of Duty
#podcast #tech #sony #Microsoft
This episode discusses Sony and Microsoft reaching a 10-year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation, potential progress for Bitcoin ETF approval in the U.S., changes to Apple's organizational structure with the new AR/VR division, and speculation about Apple potentially acquiring Disney someday.
Sony and Microsoft signed a 10-year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles. This ends a dispute that began with Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
The SEC has formally acknowledged Bitcoin ETF applications from BlackRock and Bitwise, signaling they may soon approve Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S.
Apple created a dedicated AR/VR division for its new Vision Pro headset. This shakes up Apple's traditional structure of having cross-functional teams.
Netflix had its best quarter of U.S. subscriber growth in years, leading to speculation that Apple may someday try to acquire Disney as streaming competition heats up.
EP45｜Threads：狙擊推特（Twitter）的聯邦宇宙巨星
曼報 Manny's Newsletter
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/%E6%9B%BC%E5%A0%B1-mannys-newsletter/id1517743652
#podcast #threads #Meta #Facebook
這個節目討論了新推出的社群媒體 app Threads,以及它如何試圖成為 Twitter 的競爭對手。
- Meta(Facebook 的母公司)推出了 Threads 這個新的社群 app,試圖取代 Twitter 成為公開討論和辯論的平台。
- Threads 的功能和 Twitter 非常類似,有字數限制、可以互相回覆等。
- Threads 現在連結了 Instagram 帳號,利用 IG 的大量用戶基礎。
- Threads 宣布未來會加入「聯邦宇宙」(Fediverse),讓不同平台的用戶可以互通資訊。
- 聯邦宇宙讓每個平台保有自治權,但有一套共同的溝通協定。
- Threads 可能利用 Meta 強大的資源成為最大的聯邦宇宙平台,吸引其他平台的用戶。
- 但是 Threads 也會面臨 Meta 嚴格的內容審查,可能限制了其作為公開討論平台的潛力。
- 總結:Threads 試圖利用 Meta 的資源取代 Twitter,但是否能克服內容審查的限制仍有待觀察。
Software Engineering Daily
Engineering Insights with Christina Forney
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/software-engineering-daily/id1019576853?i=1000621014568
#podcast #SoftwareEngineering
This episode discusses optimizing software engineering team effectiveness and productivity through data-driven insights.
- As companies and codebases grow large, it becomes difficult to measure team effectiveness. Engineering leaders often rely on intuition rather than data.
- Uplevel pulls data from Git, Slack, Jira etc and uses ML to generate insights about developer productivity, velocity, burnout risk and more.
- The gap between leadership and engineers is growing. Most engineers feel leadership doesn't understand day-to-day challenges.
- Leadership often makes strategic decisions without considering their impact on engineers. This results in mistrust between both sides.
- Uplevel aims to bridge this gap by providing transparency into engineering work. Their data helps leaders make more informed decisions to improve team productivity.
- For example, data revealed a team's meetings were poorly scheduled, hampering deep work. So leadership introduced "no meeting Fridays" to address this.
- Engineers want to be measured, but using meaningful metrics like deep work time and burnout risk, not vanity metrics. Uplevel provides these.
- Async communication is important, but a balance of sync and async is ideal. Engineers don't want 100% async environments.
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