Weekly#211

China Is Losing to the U.S. in High-Stakes Battle for Artificial Intelligence Talent
(With the resignation of Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng, the ability of the country’s tech firms to retain top minds is in question)
Ben Evans : The end of smartphone innovation
The World’s Largest Artificial Sun Could Help Generate Clean Fuel
In the search for a new revenue stream, Twitter is asking users in a survey whether they’d be willing to pay for premium features like analytics, timely news alerts, and tools for composing posts in TweetDeck, an advanced app that’s designed for following multiple streams on the platform.
When Fingerprints Are as Easy to Steal as Passwords
As hackers learn to imitate the body’s unique features, scientists might turn to brainwaves and genomics to verify people’s identities.
AMC Networks planning to launch a commercial-free online video streaming service aimed at millennial TV subscribers
Netflix will produce more than 70 shows this year.
Tesla Model 3 will get a Performance version next year
Tesla’s solar roof tiles will be available to order starting in April
Facebook finally tests a GIF button for comments
Amazon Buys Souq
Why American jobs have a higher risk of automation than jobs in Germany, the UK, and Japan
Tencent leads the top 25 public game companies with $10.2 billion in revenues
Apple confirms acquisition of DeskConnect, the team behind automation app Workflow
The AR Landscape
Mashape, Creator of Top Open Source API Management Tool Kong, Raises $18M
Zenreach raises $30M to help businesses boost their marketing with free Wi-Fi
This chart shows how much more expensive ‘brand-safe’ video ads are versus YouTube videos
Amazon’s Prime Air make its first public U.S. drone delivery
How to use iOS Workflow App

Weekly#210

The U.S. Air Force picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to blast a second Global Positioning System satellite into orbit
Online grocery market in China in 2016 – $13.1 billion.
Increase from 2015 – 86%
Google’s DeepMind reduced energy needed for cooling its data centres by 40%. Now in talks with UK’s National Grid.
It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
Slideshare : AI & The Future of Work
Google Tests Waters of Voice Ads on Speaker
The 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate
Google reduces JPEG file size by 35%
Chrome 57 restricts background tabs to 1% CPU, prolonging battery life
Magnetic storage reaches the atomic level
Amazon is invading Apple and Google’s home turf in the war over the future of computing
SpaceX is pushing hard to bring the internet to space
MuleSoft prices IPO above expected range at $17 per share
Netflix is replacing five-star ratings with thumbs up or down
Apple gives indie gamers a permanent home on the App Store
Tizeti is bringing wireless internet to urban Africa
Uber’s autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken over at every mile, according to documents
The Growing Importance of Storytelling in the Business World
Nintendo is reportedly doubling Switch production all the way up to 16 million for 2017
Netflix’s new button lets you skip your show’s intro sequence
Report: Spotify finally gives in, limits some albums to Premium users only
Netflix is changing its star ratings to a thumbs up/down system

Weekly#209

Microsoft to Unveil Version of Windows Server Running on ARM Chips
Google Cloud ...Google must build more credibility among corporations wary of running their businesses on the servers of an internet-search company with little experience supporting the technology needs of big companies, other than its own….
PS4 4.5 Update Out
Blockchain is only as valuable as it is secure.
Twitter : No. of companies licensed to trial driverless vehicles in California :
2015 : 7
2017 : 27
Future of transport
The Chinese search giant’s Deep Voice system learns to talk in just a few hours with little or no human interference.
Slideshare: Design in Tech Report 2017
Slideshare: Blockchain Trend Report, 2017
Storing data in a single atom proved possible by IBM researchers
Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day
Bitcoin drops 15% after the SEC rejects the Winklevoss ETF (Exchange Traded Fund)
Twitter: Why voice is the future
Twitter: Evan Spiegel is Facebook’s head of product.
Facebook’s AI Chief: Machines Could Learn Common Sense from Video

Weekly#208

Twitch will start selling games and giving its streamers a cut
PlayStation VR sales reach 915,000 units
Google’s YouTube to Launch $35-a-Month Web-TV Service to carry more than 40 networks, including major broadcast and cable channels
YouTube Tops 1 Billion Hours of Video a Day, on Pace to Eclipse TV
YouTube ditches unskippable 30-second ads
Scientists have found a way of growing human tissue on apples
Facebook takes aim at Youtube with new standalone TV app
Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO
MWC 2017: Google Home speaker to launch in UK by June
Ford lets passengers stream live TV in-car with the 2018 Expedition
Hyperloop One is in early talks with the Indian government
How Are Retailers Using Artificial Intelligence? (Over a third use the technology in search efforts)
Mozilla acquires Pocket to gain a foothold on mobile devices
Apple Pay is now accepted by 36 percent of merchants in the U.S.
Google quietly launches Meet, an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts
JPMorgan software does in seconds what took lawyers 360,000 hours
#WSJCIO
Self-Driving-Truck Startups Race to Take On Uber (Embark,Starsky Robotics and Drive.ai)
Snapchat Shares Surge 44% in Market Debut
Amazon Finds the Cause of Its AWS Outage: A Typo, (Amazon newsletter)
Spotify reaches 50 million paying users
Gold 2.0 (Bitcoin) Price Now Higher Than Gold 1.0 (Gold)
Boston Dynamics’ Handle robot dominates parkour on wheels in new footage