2023 is set to be a mad year

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🚀 Big Tech & Startups

2022 was a wild year for tech. Is 2023 shaping up to be the same?

A quick recap:

Meta laid off more than 11,000 of its employees. Musk caused a bit of a stir at Twitter (to say the least). FTX suddenly collapsed… The list goes on!

The big predictions for the year ahead:

• All eyes will be on Twitter, as Musk is predicted to clash heads with politicians

• The pressure will be on for Mark Zuckerberg to get it right, with the metaverse

• ChatGPT has uncovered how quickly powerful new AIs will emerge

• Microsoft will complete its deal to buy Activision, for a whopping £56bn

It will be interesting to see how many of the above-mentioned predictions succeed. What are your predictions for the tech scene this year?

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🔭 Science & Futuristic Tech

The pandemic hit us all hard, including teenagers (and yes we’re still going on about it!).

Recent studies have revealed that the pandemic has prematurely aged teenagers’ brains. 🧠 A small study has been carried out to compare the brains of teenagers, pre and post-pandemic.

The findings:

The pandemic hasn’t been bad just in terms of mental health for adolescents, it seems to have altered their brains as well. - Ian Gotlib, a clinical neuroscientist at Stanford University

The researchers have looked at differences in 64 scans from each group, matched by the kids’ sex and age, with an average age of around 16 for each group. The overall findings found that their brains had aged, by at least three years.

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🧑‍💻 Dev, Data & Design

What can we learn about the future of tech from the war in Ukraine?

• 49% of us now get our news updates from social media

• Tech companies now decide who has access to their services

• The use of autonomous weapons is increasing

• Tech giants are more valuable allies than global superpowers

So what does all this mean for the future?

It is clear that tech firms are no longer staying quiet, or are no longer able to stay quiet due to the risk of irreversible damage to the public’s perception of them. As we can see, they are also no longer being dragged into the conflict by governments requiring their services - tech firms are independent, and powerful, and decide their own strategies in this post-modern world, and they are very aware of it.

Read more in our latest blog, here 👈

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🛠 Miscellaneous

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• Welsh speakers are turning to TikTok to promote and teach others the language 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

• Messi really is the GOAT with the most-liked Instagram post, ever 🐐

• Virgin Orbit plans to launch a satellite from Spaceport Cornwall 🚀

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