10 things in tech: Pentagon cancels the contract, New Nintendo Switch, Salesforce executive shakeup
1. The Pentagon has canceled the $10 billion contract dispute between Microsoft and Amazon. The 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, granted to Microsoft in 2019, would have assisted the Department of
2. The new Nintendo Switch will go on sale in October for $350. The most noticeable difference is the addition of an OLED screen, but Nintendo has also made many minor improvements.
3. Read Andy Jassy’s parting email to his AWS staff — and the company’s first email as CEO. His emails provide insight into his interactions with staff: Jassy congratulated his cloud team in his final message, and in his first company-wide email, he recognized that there was still a lot of work to be done.
4. Jeff Bezos refused to utilize the elevators in Amazon’s former headquarters. Instead, the former CEO would sprint up 14 flights of stairs every day, and according to his former assistant, he didn’t even break a sweat. More about the “never-tired” guy.
5. The family of a 15-year-old boy died in a vehicle accident with a Tesla on Autopilot has filed a lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, Tesla’s Autopilot is faulty and fails to recognize traffic conditions.
6. Residents claim that a bitcoin mining business is heating a lake in New York. According to residents, the facility — a gas-fired center that powers at least 8,000 bitcoin mining computers — is heating up the lake to the point that it seems “like you’re in a hot spa.”
7. The FAA had to postpone arriving flights due to the influx of private airplanes in Sun Valley. Tech and media titans are flocking to the “summer camp for billionaires” in such large numbers that planes from across the country have been rerouted to make room.
8. Seven figures demonstrate how much Jeff Bezos grew Amazon over his 27-year tenure as CEO. We combed through years of corporate papers to discover some important figures that demonstrate how enormous Amazon has grown under Bezos’ leadership. Examine the statistics.
9. In a viral prank, a startup merged two of Silicon Valley’s favorite things: VCs and NFTs. Party Round converted a few venture capitalists they deemed “useful VCs” into non-fungible tokens that were auctioned off last week.
10. Thirteen of Salesforce’s top executives will leave in 2021. Salesforce has had considerable management turnover this year, with the departure of the previous CMO, CFO, and Tableau CEO, as well as the addition of four new power players.
Reference: businessinsider.com
