Weekly#264

…With cord-cutting accelerating and over-the-top (OTT) viewing on the rise, outlays on TV ads will slip 0.5% in 2018 to $69.87 billion. As a result, TV’s share of total US media ad expenditures will drop from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year…
Facebook will cut off access to third-party data for ad targeting
GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains
Pandora launches automatically generated personalized playlists
Apollo 17 Crew Members Think We Need To Go Back To The Moon Before Pursuing More Distant Journeys
DARPA eyes new neural interfaces to connect warfighters hands-free to advanced military systems
ARKit app downloads exceed 13M in 6 months, nearly half are games, the report says
Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts predict a space market that is worth $339 billion today will grow to $2.7 trillion by 2045.
Foxconn buys peripheral maker Belkin for $866M
The Ikea Manual Of The Future Looks Amazing
FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network

Weekly#263

Facebook, Cambridge Analytics (in Turkish)
The world will add 70,000 solar panels every hour in the next 5 years
The new algorithm will allow for simulating neural connections of the entire brain on future exascale supercomputers…is intended to allow simulation of the human brain’s 100 billion interconnected neurons on supercomputers…
Computer scientists have created a neural network that can self-replicate…“Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems,” they argue in a paper popped onto arXiv this month…
Jeff Bezos gave a sneak peek into Amazon’s future…“ machine learning, home automation, robotics, and space exploration”
Microsoft begins to push for Windows Server 2019
Artificial Intelligence Detects Construction Problems
A bot named ‘Goldie’ has answered nearly 1 million questions for EY employees in human resources
Robotic Fish Swims in the Ocean
America’s Changing Workforce: Independent and Gig Workers
How JavaScript works
Affectiva’s Automotive AI could keep distracted and drowsy drivers from causing accidents
Apple’s newly proposed emojis are more inclusive for those with disabilities
A material supreme: How graphene will shape the world of tomorrow
MIT researchers at MIT found that graphene can function as a superconductor
Dutch court rules that Bitcoin is a legitimate ‘transferable value’

Spotify’s first day of trading will be April 3
…Apple’s market cap is at an all-time high of more than $922 billion. Soon it could be the first company to reach a $1 trillion valuation…
Facebook launches Express Wi-Fi app for its local-operated hotspots
Don’t foul this free-throwing Toyota basketball robot
Amazon’s top original shows generated an estimated 5M new Prime members
Experian acquires UK’s ClearScore and its financial product matching engine for $385M
Astronaut’s DNA no longer matches that of his identical twin, NASA finds…Preliminary results from NASA’s Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly’s genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago…
Russia will launch a mission to Mars in 2019
GM is spending $100 million on production-ready autonomous cars
Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go
…The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead
Lyft will build self-driving cars with top auto parts supplier Magna
China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education
With millions of users, WeChat’s mini-programs draw favor among the diverse range of businesses

Amazon is taking photos of your front door to show when packages have been delivered
Google launched a simple browser-based sequencer for making music
Amazon is reportedly trying to turn Alexa into a real-time translator
Uber is driving patients to their doctors in a big grab for medical transit market
Amazon buys itself Ring, its second-biggest acquisition after Whole Foods
Square’s Venmo competitor — the Cash app — had more than seven million customers in December
Mobile World Congress shifts focus from gadgets to 5G
Telegram hits 100m users and commits to remaining ad-free
Self-driving cars will profoundly change the way people live
Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling
Toyota venture to spend $2.8 billion to develop self-driving technology
Moon to get first mobile phone network
Building Your Smart Applications with Amazon AI