- Amazon 3.5 million USD competition to make Alexa Chat like a human
- AT&T can buy Time Warner. What does that mean for everyone else?
- Machines learn language better by using a deep understanding of words
- How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
- Microsoft tech may help Walmart get rid of cashiers and checkout lines
- Apple bans developers from creating, selling user Contacts databases
- A new feature in the iPhone operating system shows how much time you spend on your phone.
- Dreams is a new company that’s reformatting TV for smartphones.
- Goto Conference Videos
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- McKinsey: Achieving business impact with data
- This AI Can Clone Any Voice, Including Yours
- The US passed China with a supercomputer
- The Apple Watch will soon ditch its mechanical buttons, the report says
- Tesla says the Model 3 body line is now 95% automated
- Tesla’s version 9 software update is coming in August
- Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV. That’s a first.
- Spotify is starting to compete with the music labels by signing direct deals with music acts
- Hans Vestberg to take over as Verizon’s CEO in August
- Apple introduces the AI phone
Weekly#273
- 20 takeaways from Meeker’s 294-slide Internet Trends report
- Recode’s 2018 Code Conference Video Playlist
- Conversions@Google 2018
- Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for China
- AWS’s Neptune graph database is now generally available
- Airbnb’s new Stories feature is an attempt to sell a new business line: Travel services
- Amazon will now directly pay top Alexa ‘kid’ skill developers in the U.K. and Germany
- Nvidia’s mini supercomputer is the fastest single computer humanity has built
“…with a half-terabyte of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) it is said to be capable of replacing as many as 300 CPU-driven servers on its own, offering a much more powerful and compact computing solution for data-driven tasks…” - How Amazon’s robot warehouses swing into action the moment you press ‘buy’
- Watch Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic test its tourist spaceplane
- Artificial intelligence can recognize you by the way you walk…“…“Each human has approximately 24 different factors and movements when walking, resulting in every individual person having a unique, singular walking pattern…”
- SoftBank’s investment into GM’s Cruise
- “…A research team at Harvard is now building molecules one atom at a time. The goal is to better understand the minimal requirements and exact properties of the chemical reaction…”
- why AT&T decided to buy Time Warner, according to CEO Randall Stephenson…“A key variable is the direct relationship with the customer, and a lot of the media companies don’t have that direct relationship with the customer…”
- The experience economy will be a ‘massive business,’ according to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
