- Netflix added more than seven million subscribers during Q1
- Walmart is in advanced talks to acquire Amazon’s India rival Flipkart
- SoftBank is in talks to invest in data storage company Cohesity at a $1 billion valuation
- SpaceX’s valuation is expected to climb to $24 billion
- Google initiative looks to preserve walkable copies of Earth’s historical sites on the web
- Scientists accidentally create a mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
- This clever new font combines braille with Latin and Japanese alphabets
- Uber Eats is the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S.
- Jeff Bezos says Amazon has more than 100 million Prime members
- Netflix launches 30-second preview videos on mobile
- EarthNow promises real-time views of the whole planet from a new satellite constellation
- McKinsey: Notes from the AI frontier insights from hundreds of use cases
- China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education
- Apple is planning to launch a premium subscription for news, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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Weekly#266
- How much would you pay for Facebook without ads?
- SpaceX’s president says we’ll be able to take a rocket to Shanghai — or Mars — ‘within a decade’
- A cryptocurrency startup is investing cryptocurrency in a cryptocurrency fund that invests in other cryptocurrency startups
- Uber users will be able to book e-bikes, buy public transit tickets and rent a car via the Uber app — and it’s all part of a bigger plan
- AT&T’s 5G trials produce gigabit speeds and 9ms latency
- Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover nearly 6,000 previously unknown species of virus.
- Disney kicks off its streaming future today with ESPN+
- new Gmail design
- Apple Music now has over 40 million subscribers
- Apple is developing a TV show based on Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series
- Digital license plates are set to be tested in Dubai
- Spotify to offer TV and movies in drive to boost growth
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- bring #horror movies to life in AR
- Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company
Weekly#265
- How Do You Count Endangered Species? Look to the Stars
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink files permit to build the biological research lab
- Google has reached its 100pc renewable energy purchase goal
- Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users
- Scammers abused Facebook phone number search
- Waymo tests for the weirdest possible situations
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- How $1 flows from Spotify to recording artists
- Amazon’s Lord of the Rings will be the ‘most expensive TV series ever
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Weekly#264
- …With cord-cutting accelerating and over-the-top (OTT) viewing on the rise, outlays on TV ads will slip 0.5% in 2018 to $69.87 billion. As a result, TV’s share of total US media ad expenditures will drop from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year…
- Facebook will cut off access to third-party data for ad targeting
- GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains
- Pandora launches automatically generated personalized playlists
- Apollo 17 Crew Members Think We Need To Go Back To The Moon Before Pursuing More Distant Journeys
- DARPA eyes new neural interfaces to connect warfighters hands-free to advanced military systems
- ARKit app downloads exceed 13M in 6 months, nearly half are games, the report says
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts predict a space market that is worth $339 billion today will grow to $2.7 trillion by 2045.
- Foxconn buys peripheral maker Belkin for $866M
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- FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network