This is the second-last edition of this year's "Tech, What the Heck!?" newsletter. To commemorate yet another year of writing this once-weekly newsletter, I'm going to recap some of the major events that I covered this year and some of my favorite editions of "Tech, What the Heck." ;-)
During 2024, I personally wrote over 30 newsletters while taking help from my colleagues for a few editions during the times I was away.
In my very first newsletter of the year, I
However, my reporting had more to do with the very-first approval of a spot bitcoin exchange- traded-fund, or ETF, in the US following a long and arduous process. I never expected bitcoin to surpass the $100k barrier and I still think cryptocurrencies make a poor case as both a store of value and a medium of exchange ;-)
February was a bit mild in comparison. I reported on the tug of war between
By March though, something really special started to happen.
Naturally, I began to follow Nvidia a bit more closely, and in the same month, I wrote one of my favorite "Tech, What the Heck" editions of the year:
In the story, I interpolated that Nvidia was no longer the brand everyone had come to know and love. It had transformed into a company obsessed with pumping out as many graphic cards as it could to meet the blooming demand for artificial intelligence workload, much to the chagrin of retail customers who relied on Nvidia graphic cards to play or do creative work.
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In April, I
July started with reporting on the
August was another bad month for employees as
And then, in September, I wrote my magnum opus of the year. A
October began with reporting on the US government's
In November, I
As you can tell, most of my reporting had to do with either cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, or Nvidia.
In terms of views, the top 5 most read "Tech, What the Hecks" this year were:
Nvidia Throws Gamers Under the Bus Job Cuts in Big Tech Continue Unabated I Tried Perplexity For a Week, And I Don't Think AI Search Engines Can Replace Google.. Yet Is OpenAI Stealing Your Content? Nvidia Just Became a Whole Lot More Valuable
But what about my favorites? :-)
Well, I obviously enjoyed writing my
Next week, my colleagues and I will recap what we thought were the biggest stories of 2024. So stay tuned for that!
In Other News.. 📰
- Bitcoin Mining Economics Continued to Improve in December, JPMorgan Says — via
CoinDesk - Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora — via
TechCrunch - Why the COO of one of the world's foremost AI companies spent 50 hours interviewing for her job — via
CNN - Bitcoin rallies past $107,000, hopes grow for strategic reserve — via
Reuters - Bitcoin rallies past $107,000, hopes grow for strategic reserve — via
Axios - MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor says bitcoin is ‘cyber Manhattan’ — a ‘good investment’ even at the top — via
CNBC
And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends! See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️
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