Dear Friend & Subscriber,
This is my weekly installment of Monday Conversation Starters. The place where I share my favorite tech and business news from the week.
My Top Headline: Vaccine Hunting
Earlier this week, Connecticut (where I'm based) opened up vaccines to anyone 16 and older.
I logged into the state system and the earliest appointment I could get was July 28.
As it turns out, there's a whole community of people on the internet helping others getting vaccine appointments. They call themselves "Vaccine Hunters and Angles." The idea is to help get as many people vaccinated, so appointments don't go to waste.
After discovering this Facebook group, I was immediately able to find some links to appointments available next week. How crazy is that?
Though this shortage won't be a long-term problem, it's still amazing to see the entire industry that has been created due to the pandemic.
In other news...
This is my weekly installment of Monday Conversation Starters. The place where I share my favorite tech and business news from the week.
My Top Headline: Vaccine Hunting
Earlier this week, Connecticut (where I'm based) opened up vaccines to anyone 16 and older.
I logged into the state system and the earliest appointment I could get was July 28.
As it turns out, there's a whole community of people on the internet helping others getting vaccine appointments. They call themselves "Vaccine Hunters and Angles." The idea is to help get as many people vaccinated, so appointments don't go to waste.
After discovering this Facebook group, I was immediately able to find some links to appointments available next week. How crazy is that?
Though this shortage won't be a long-term problem, it's still amazing to see the entire industry that has been created due to the pandemic.
In other news...
- Apple is planning to use Tesla battery packs to power their Apple Park campus
- Periscope is officially shutting down after today
- Trump's H-1B visa freeze is over
- Tesla delivered 185,000 cars last quarter, double from a year ago
- The CEO of Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, is stepping down
- Google is speeding up plans to re-open offices
- SpaceX's SN11 exploded during testing
- Gen Z really wants a national high-speed-rail network
- President Biden unveiled a $2.5 Trillion infrastructure plan
- Robinhood is retiring the confetti animation when making a trade
- Microsoft won a contract from the pentagon regarding augmented reality headsets
- Substack, the newsletter platform, is raising $65 million
- Chipotle held a competition with a $25,000 bitcoin prize
- Virgin Galactic rolled out their next generation of spaceship
- Volkswagen is expected to change their name to Voltswagen
- There is now a space exploration ETF
- The Ever Given cargo ship cost the global economy $400 million an hour
- Boeing resumed deliveries of their 787 after a five-month pause
Best,
Maneetpaul Singh
---
Help grow the community. If you enjoyed reading, consider forwarding this to a friend who will find it useful.
You can find all my previous HEY World posts organized by category here.
If you'd like to support my work, ☕️ Buy Me A Coffee.
Twitter | Instagram I YouTube
Thank you for reading.