- The rocket explosion Thursday that destroyed a Facebook Inc. satellite (estimated cost 195 mio USD) marks a significant setback to the social media company’s nascent effort to spread internet access to unconnected parts of the world. (WSJ)
- When a Commercial Rocket Blows Up, Who Pays?
- #IoT revenues still less than 1.5% of revenue for even the most advanced telcos.
- Google suspends Project Ara (Modular Smartphone)
- Samsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 phones after battery fires
- BlackBerry teams with Samsung for ‘spy-proof’ tablet for Germany
- Alibaba’s Tech-Hub Hometown Hosts the World’s Leaders
- 10 Free Data Visualization Tools
- Spotify Can’t Live on $10 a Month
- Amazon Dash one-button device arrives in Britain
- Ship Operators Explore Autonomous Sailing
- Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service
- An Algorithm to Predict a Bestseller (5000 books, 30 years, 2800 features, %80 accuracy)
- Rocket Internet Loss Widens Following Write-Downs
- Why Utility Poles are so important to the future of the Internet
- Several scientists familiar with Google’s progress, including Devitt, suggest that a functioning 50-qubit quantum chip, enough to overpower conventional supercomputers at a certain kind of calculation, could be ready by as soon as the end of 2017.
- Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
- How to fill out security questions.
- Stanford : One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (2016 Report)
- One-word article in Friday’s New York Times
- Electric cars in : 2009: ~6,000 2015: ~1.2 Mn