Weekly#200

• The Robotic Grocery Store of the Future Is Here technologyreview.com
• 5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017 technologyreview.com
• Apple Confirms $1 Billion Investment in SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund wsj.com
• Tesla sold a total of 76,230 cars and sport-utility vehicles last year. wsj.com
• A Third Of Consumers Say They Would Exchange Personal Info For Content mediapost.com
• Holiday Spending on Mobile Games Nears $1 Billion wsj.com
• Hyundai Shows Off Wearable Robots to Help Paraplegics, Elderly pcmag.com
• SpaceX Launch Video : Team, Passion, Culture (Youtube) youtube.com
• Google’s A.I. is training itself to count calories in food photos popsci.com
• Bose is building ride-smoothing tech for autonomous cars engadget.com
• PlayStation 4 sales surpass 53M, Uncharted 4 moves 8.7M polygon.com
• Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System stratechery.com
• Amazon delivered over 2 bn items globally in 2016 business-standard.com
• Minecraft has now sold over 25 million copies on PC and Mac neowin.net
• A.I. Downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfight simulation popsci.com
• Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI theguardian.com
• Ford plans to take Amazon’s Alexa for a ride usatoday.com
• Apple’s App Store Sales Top $28 Billion wsj.com
• Amazon Brings Fire TV Experience to Third-Party TV Sets
  (In a move mirroring Roku TV, Amazon is partnering with lower-priced TV brands including Seiki and Westinghouse) wsj.com
• Wind power overtakes coal for first time in UK ft.com

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