Turning vans into rolling distribution hubs for package-dropping robots could greatly improve the efficiency of delivery networks.( Technology Review)
a16z Podcast: All about Microservices (thx Murat for the link)
Sony announces powerhouse PlayStation 4 Pro and slimmer PS4. More than 43 million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold to date (WSJ)
Google’s DeepMind makes progress in computer-generated speech (FT) Researchers usually avoid modelling raw audio because it ticks so quickly: typically 16,000 samples per second or more, with important structure at many time-scales.
When You Change the World and No One Notices (Morgan Housel)
Which Industries Are the Most Digital (and Why)? (HBR)
Twitter launches an Alexa app
Sending a container from Shanghai to Europe costs half what it did in 2014 (Economist)
Apple’s iPhone 7 Event in Under 5 Minutes
The Uber effect: the cost of a New York taxi license has halved in two years
Cassandra keeps growing at Apple, now 115,000+ nodes in production
