Michael and Johnny look at the top Tech stories of 2020 from 10 to 6. From new Tech IPOs and trillion-dollar companies to the massive number of tech layoffs, 2020 has been full of both the highest of highs and lowest of lows.
In the News of the Week, Slack is being acquired by Salesforce, AWS had kicked off its annual conference, Re:Invent which will be a 3-week virtual conference this year; and finally, Google has another unhappy former employee with AI Ethics leader, Timnit Gebru leaving after being told to retract a paper from an upcoming conference.
Recorded Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020
Time Stamps
- 00:00:18: News of the Week
- 00:10:50: Programming Schedule for rest of year
- 00:12:30: The return of big tech IPOs
- 00:21:27: The rise of Tesla
- 00:24:49: Tech layoffs due to COVID
- 00:32:41: Processor breakthroughs
Highlights
- Slack is getting acquired by Salesforce for slacking off
- Will Salesforce acquire Okta next with its current enterprise software acquisition streak?
- AWS ReInvent has started with 3 weeks of cloud fun & new product announcements
- Google had an HR snafu with AI Ethics leader, Timnit Gebru
- We cover stories 10-6 this week and then 5-1 in 2 weeks
- Plenty of Tech IPOs this year
- 4 Tech companies are now worth more than $1 Trillion
- This has been Tesla's year
- Layoffs.fyi lists laid off tech workers (for those hiring)
- With the gig economy, how many more people that aren't full-time employees were impacted?
- The innovation of the year goes to Apple's M1 & Nvidia's new 3000 GPU series and the continued rise of ARM
Links
- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal
- How Microsoft crushed Slack
- Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020
- Timnit Gebru’s actual paper may explain why Google ejected her
- More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
- We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
- Youtube - How Apple Just Changed the Entire Industry
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