News from the Woods
by Filip Molcan
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Startups and Brands You Didn't Know Were European 🇪🇺
The internet runs on European inventions. MySQL powers Facebook, Linux runs 96% of supercomputers, Bluetooth connects your headphones, and MP3 changed the music industry – all created in Sweden,…
Why tech giants sacrifice children for growth
From Roblox’s CEO calling child predators an “opportunity” to Meta’s internal research showing Instagram harms teen girls, a pattern emerges across every major platform: companies know their products…
Special: The Man Who Predicted the 2008 Crash, Now Warns About Nvidia and Palantir. And Maybe He's Right.
Imagine this: You’re sitting in an office, studying numbers that nobody cares about, and gradually discovering that the entire world is going to hell. Everyone around you is making millions,…
Bytes & Backpacks #125 🦌
I ordered a robot to take care of us at home. Does it still sound like science fiction? It can collect laundry, do the washing, empty the dishwasher, tend the garden, fetch beer from the fridge...…
Special Issue: What could the AI assistant of the future look like? 🤖
I spent a long time thinking about how to share with you what a future wearable device might look like—a pendant, glasses, connected to your phone and other personal gadgets—powered by artificial…
Special Issue: Digital drugs in our children's pockets 💊
Do you know what cigarette companies in the 1950s, Las Vegas casinos, and your favorite mobile game or social network have in common? They all use the same psychological tricks to keep you hooked.…
Bytes & Backpacks #117 🏖️
AI continues to dramatically shake up the entire world. It's one of the few technologies that's developing directly for everyday users. Unlike the internet or apps, it didn't emerge from government,…
Bytes & Backpacks #116 ☀️
Business & Technology 👨💻* They claimed to have a tool that could program brilliantly, but then it turned out that instead of smart AI, they employed hundreds of Indians who quickly fulfilled…
S1E115 Bytes & Backpacks #115 ☄️
Jony Ive, one of the world's greatest design legends, the man behind the iPod, iPhone, iMac, and AirPods, "met with Sam Altman in a San Francisco café" (CEO of OpenAI) and they agreed to create the…
S114E1 Bytes & Backpacks #114 🐛
When I read the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence, I am increasingly convinced that we are approaching the end of websites. People are no longer interested in the process of…
Bytes & Backpacks #113 🧠
It's all about artificial intelligence, data centers full of AI graphics chips, but what if all of this is already outdated and the future belongs to biological computers? Sounds like science…
Bytes & Backpacks #112 🐻
It's starting to get a bit cliché to begin every newsletter with artificial intelligence, but there's no way around it, I apologize. Let's skip what's new in the last 2 weeks, or we'd never get past…
Bytes & Backpacks #111 🤯
I love technology, innovation, and everything around it. When I was 13 (back in 1994), I started publishing my own magazine called Computer. I think that was the same year when the "big" Computer…
Bytes & Backpacks #110 🦉
Two weeks ago, I sold all the stocks and crypto from my portfolio. It had quite a big response on Twitter. Why did I do it? Am I afraid of what Trump might still do? Yes. Am I afraid that Trump could…
Bytes & Backpacks #106 🇺🇸
Why the American flag in the title of the last Bytes & Backpacks of 2024? Because on January 9th, I'm flying to Silicon Valley, so if you sense the aroma of sequoias in the next few issues,…
S1E102 Bytes & Backpacks #102 🐺
Some of you may have noticed that one issue of Bytes & Backpacks did not arrive two weeks ago. I apologise for that, my family and I went to Greece for our fall vacation (Santorini at the end of…
Bytes & Backpacks #101 👓
Glasses, that's what this is all about. Smart glasses. There have been several failed attempts over the years - remember Microsoft Hololens or Google Glasses? But today, thanks to developments in…
Bytes & Backpacks #100 🍾
100 issues published and soon to be 4 years of spending all day every second weekend writing Bytes & Backpacks. What was the beginning? The desire to leave social media, but also the fear of…
Getting a second home abroad - is it a good idea or not?
It's been five years since we acquired a second home by the sea. Although I live in a beautiful place in NP Czech Switzerland in a nice village with a great community, it has always been my dream to…
Bytes & Backpacks #99 🪼
Cars, we're still dealing with cars. Gasoline? Diesel? Electric? But the much more interesting change in the whole market is happening somewhere else. Waymo's self-driving taxis (owned by Google)…
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