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Weekly#234

  • Elon Musk startup ‘to spend £100m’ linking human brains to computers
  • Inside Uber’s Choice of a New CEO
  • Microsoft and Amazon partner to integrate Alexa and Cortana digital assistants
  • Amazon has finally added multi-room audio support to its Echo devices, allowing users to simultaneously stream music over multiple speakers in their homes.
  • “Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that’s in customers, technology or worldwide scale” Alibaba Cloud President Simon Hu
  • Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work
  • Can 10 Minutes of Meditation Make You More Creative?
  • Amazon officially owns Whole Foods and is slashing prices by as much as 43 percent
  • WhatsApp is testing verified business accounts
  • What subscription services do you pay for and why?
  • Medium: “How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code”
  • Scientists in Australia have developed a drone run by shark-spotting software to detect sharks near coastal areas
  • UK TV industry risks losing £1bn a year to Amazon, YouTube and Facebook
  • Google launches augmented-reality camera platform for Android
  • How YouTube perfected the feed