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Weekly#205

  • NBA, Take-Two to Create Professional Videogame League (‘NBA 2K eLeague’)
  • Twitter added 2 million new users in the quarter, and now claims 319 million monthly active users.
  • Snap has a $1 billion cloud services deal with Amazon, too
  • Consumer Watchdog asks California to take Uber’s self-driving trucks off the road
  • Airbnb reportedly in talks to acquire luxury rental startup (which offers short-term rentals at villas, mansions and other ultra-luxe homes)
  • The man building flying cars for Larry Page wants to reinvent the way you prepare dinner
  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sees the music industry’s next ‘gigantic growth’ coming from devices like Echo
  • Netflix dominates Saturdays — here’s how it stacks up against TV networks the rest of the week
  • The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
  • Forget Coding—Here’s The Skill You Need Most When You Start Your Career
  • Spotify analyzed a year’s worth of data to create your perfect playlist for snow, sun, and rain
  • Sony’s TVs Will Be the First With Google Assistant Inside
  • …Using these mashups, the idea is that scientists will be able to take a few of your skin cells, grow miniature versions of all your major organs, and put them on a chip. Then doctors can test out the best compounds for whatever disease you might have—not in a mouse, but in a mini-you. “This will enable a new era of personalized medicine
  • UPS drivers don’t turn left—and it saves them 10 million gallons of gas a year
  • The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
  • Floating train at 2000 km/h set to store 10% of Dutch electricity
  • These “Smart Glasses” Adjust To Your Vision Automatically
  • Scientists Discover How To Make Tires From Trees, Grass
  • Bank of America tests totally automated, employee-free branches
  • ING’s agile transformation