- a half second difference in page load times can make a 10% difference in sales for an online retailer.
- Machine Intelligence 2.0 in charts and graphs (Venture Beat)
- All U.S. Energy Consumption in a Giant Diagram
- Seven months into the year, videogame deals totaled $25.1 billion, eclipsing the previous full-year record of $14.9 billion in 2014, according to Digi-Capital LLC. Of the deals, 88% have been for mobile-game makers, including three acquisitions totaling $18.9 billion. (WSJ)
- Every major cable TV company lost subscribers last quarter
Top pay-TV operators lost 665,000 subscribers in Q2 2016. (Arstechnica) - Uber’s route to the driverless future just got a little clearer. In the next few weeks, Uber will begin deploying a 100-car test fleet of autonomous Volvos in Pittsburgh (beating Google to the consumer market in the process). (Recode)
- Uber paid $680 million for self-driving truck company Otto for the tech, not the trucks (Recode)
- Uber and Volvo commit $300 million to developing autonomous cars together (Recode)
- Rakuten buys struggling bitcoin startup Bitnet to create a ‘blockchain research lab (TechCrunch)
- Tencent, the owner of popular social messaging app WeChat, overtook e-commerce giant Alibaba to become China’s most valuable technology company on Thursday. (cnbc) (2016 Q2 Results pdf)
- New lithium metal batteries could make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long. (MIT)
- DIY Algorithmic programming
- Onboarding With The IKEA Effect: How To Use UX Friction To Build Retention
- This is why Walmart is purchasing jet.com
- Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology
- Amazon now lets you rent its virtual desktops, Amazon WorkSpaces, by the hour (Tech Crunch)
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