Good morning! Southwest incredibly ended up having to manually schedule flights after their software vendor buckled due to too many flight changes in the winter storm. Gotta feel for all the folks in that incident response...

Highlight of the day

Apple launched an AI-narrated audiobook product for authors. For books without audio versions, Apple uses AI to create and distribute those audiobooks, giving authors royalties without additional production effort.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• DoorDash launches a package pickup service

• Twitter tests in-app advanced search 

• Samsung unveils a wireless charger with a built in smart home hub

• Spotify launches a time-capsule feature to revisit old musical tastes 

• Zoom gives users free access to Read's premium features

• Amazon unveils its "Hey Disney" voice assistant

General and early-stage

• Trade Republic adds 2% interest to uninvested cash

• Harman unveils a driver heart-rate monitoring system

• Ottonomy unveils auto package dispensing for its delivery robot

• Roku announces its own TV line

• Holoride launches a VR entertainment device for vehicles

• Trust Wallet ships a security scanner tool

• Nuralogix launches a selfie-based AI health tool

Other good finds

• Nikita Bier - WAUs as a metric for social apps is deluding yourself 

• Rough times. Amazon to lay off 18k+ employees

• Wait what. Bankruptcy judge rules that Celsius owns users crypto

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-  Amol