Technology Newsletter & Trends — 2021 Year End Edition
8 min readJan 2, 2022
Technology Newsletter
Divided into categories — Summary, Cloud, Kubernetes, Big Data, Architecture, Java, UI & Gadgets/Misc
Summary
General
- Tweeting without hands and with an embedded Brain Chip (BCIs)!!! (details)
- The fifth force of Nature? — Muons (details)
- NASA flies a helicopter on mars , says log4 was not part of its code!!! (details)
- IBM breaks the 100 Qubit barrier in quantum computing (details)
- Protein Folding wins discovery of the year (details)
- Time Crystals, maintaining entropy — new phase of matter!!! (details)
- Electric cars 160% sales jump from last year (details)
IT
- Web 3 and NFTs — internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens!!!! (details)
- Facebook becomes Metaverse & has a 6 hour outage — emphasizes the need for a secondary DNS!!!!(details)
- Salesforce Makes $27.7B Slack Acquisition
- Gartner mentions: By 2024, organizations adopting a cybersecurity mesh architecture will reduce the financial impact of security incidents by an average of 90% (details)
- AI market will grow to a $190 billion industry by 2025
- The revenues for the global quantum computing market are projected to surpass $2.5 billion by 2029.
- Extended Reality (XR) Market is valued at USD 26.05 Billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 463.7 Billion in 2026 (details)
- Low Code is trending (details)
- The U.S. Department of Defence in July cancelled its potentially $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract won by Microsoft in October 2019
