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Weekly#360

  • Nytimes: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
  • World Economic Forum (Video)
  • More than 400,000 German jobs at risk in switch to electric cars
  • Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range…The three-year-old startup’s secret sauce has to do with AI on the edge — machine learning and image recognition tools that can be executed on low-power devices rather than relying on the cloud…
  • Amazon Ring sales nearly tripled
  • Boston Dynamics appoints its first-ever new CEO
  • Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy
  • NASA reveals the payloads for the first commercial Moon cargo deliveries… in total, there are 16 payloads
  • First space-baked cookies took 2 hours in experimental oven
  • Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029
  • Jira Software gets better roadmaps
  • What we can learn about robots from Japan
  • Tesla Surges Past $100 Billion Market Value, Eclipsing VW
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Weekly#359

  • US patents hit record 333,530 granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (not the FAANGs) lead the pack
  • Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (paywall)
  • Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation
  • Renewables will be cheaper than coal by 2026 in China – study
  • 25% of users watching Netflix on their iPhones also watch Disney+
  • Grubhub sale rumors highlight the state of the struggling food-delivery industry
  • Twitch’s loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says
  • Mojo Vision is developing AR contact lenses
  • Copilot is a subscription personal finance tracker aiming to kill Mint
  • JWT The Future 100: 2020 Report [PDF]
  • Michael Moritz backs Turkish grocery start-up ($40m funding into ultrafast delivery company Getir) (paywall)
  • Hyundai and Kia put over $110M into UK electric delivery vehicles startup Arrival 
  • Alphabet Becomes Fourth U.S. Company to Reach $1 Trillion Market Value (paywall)
  • Germany to invest 86 bln euros to upgrade ageing railway network
  • DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains…An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
  • These living bricks use bacteria to build themselves
  • Here’s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet
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Weekly#358

  • Here’s everything Google announced at CES 2020
  • California’s new privacy law, explained
  • Arduino launches a new modular platform for IoT development
  • In 2018, the oil and gas industries spent an estimated $1.75 billion on AI — a sum that is projected to balloon to $4 billion by 2025.
  • WSJ: Silicon Valley to Big Oil: We Can Manage Your Data Better Than You (paywall)
  • Amazon has sold more than 100 million Alexa devices
  • Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users
  • The new Bluetooth standard will be known as LE Audio and one of the biggest improvements it will include will be a feature called Multi-Stream Audio
  • Toyota will transform a 175-acre site in Japan into a ‘prototype city of the future’
  • The End of the Beginning
  • Uber is bringing audio recording, irregular ride checks and authentication code safety features to India
  • Huawei unveils openEuler, CentOS-based Linux distribution
  • Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System 
  • A New Protein Source Made From Air Could Be A Planet-Saving Game Changer
  • Apple says its software business is booming
  • Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Cars’ Electronic Systems (paywall)
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Weekly#357

  • Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019
  • Grab and Singtel team up to apply for a digital full bank license in Singapore
  • Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in ‘robot taxis’
  • Tesla’s market cap is now double Ford’s, after being eclipsed by it eight months ago
  • Will Apple get rid of the charging port, too? All signs point to portless iPhones
  • How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
  • Amazon’s Biggest Threat Isn’t a Huge Competitor but a Collective
  • These Breakthroughs Made the 2010s the Decade of the Brain
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