Weekly#287

Germany reaches 100K home battery storage installations
Designing the Future of Work
Report: Future Scenarios and Implications for the Industry
Chinese investments in AI, chips, and electric vehicles have reached an estimated $300 billion
Innovation and Culture at Amazon
Report: The New Physics of Financial Services – How artificial intelligence is transforming the financial ecosystem
Amazon’s Dominance in E-commerce
How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix
Cary Fukunaga Doesn’t Mind Taking Notes from Netflix’s Algorithm
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Alvin Toffler
Amazon is preparing to roll out new, free video streaming services for Fire TV users
Essential Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Engineers
Apple announces the September 12 event, and new iPhones are likely
LEGO built a drivable Bugatti Chiron out of a million pieces of Technic
Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants
Microsoft has introduced an AI-infused web design tool called Sketch2Code that converts hand-drawn webpage mockups into functional HTML markup

Weekly#286

Alibaba cloud business grew 93 per cent in the most recent quarter to $710 million
World Bank launches first bond instrument built on a blockchain with the Australian Bank
Waymo has opened a subsidiary in China…The unit, called Huimo Business Consulting Co., opened in Shanghai on May 22…
AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
Jeff Bezos could buy all of Amazon’s inventory, and then buy all of Boeing’s and Walmart’s too
Apple, IBM, and Google don’t care anymore if you went to college
A Kenyan nonprofit’s innovative aerial water system just won it the world’s largest humanitarian prize
Danish Maersk container ship trials Arctic route from South Korea to St. Petersburg
Q-Yachts delivers first all-electric day cruiser yacht
Tesla is working on ‘car karaoke’ mode with version 10 software update, says Elon Musk
Eventbrite files for $200 million IPO
Apple Has Hired 46 Ex-Tesla Employees This Year: Report
In 1973, an MIT computer predicted the end of civilization. So far, it’s on target.
Why mining the water on the Moon could open up space exploration
Self-driving cars will destroy a lot of jobs—they’ll also create a lot

Weekly#285

Vector is a robot for grownups
App Annie: Android users will download 170 billion apps in 2018 thanks to Fortnite
Amazon Is in the Running to Buy a Movie Theater Chain
Amazon Is in the Early Stages of Entering the Health Insurance Comparison Business
PitchBook Data : 2018 Unicorn Report
Alexa and Cortana integration starts rolling out
Square cuts chip card processing time by 44% to 2 seconds
BCG Report: Television’s $30 Billion Battlefield
Apple could launch glasses in 2020, Apple Car in 2023, predicts analyst with strong track record
Netflix tests subscriber payment approach to cut Apple out

Weekly#284

How AI Is Changing Sales
How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry
Why Uber will win the scooter wars
MessageBird offers single API for customer comms across WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger and more
Facebook builds its own AR games for Messenger video chat
The global heat wave as seen by satellites, airplanes, and weather stations
Snap’s strategy shifts win over advertisers more than users
The new genre of artificial intelligence programs take computer hacking to another level
When bots teach themselves to cheat
Why urban farming is changing the future of agriculture
(in Turkish) Levent Erden – Dijital CEO ile Teknoloji Sohbetleri #46
Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak…Snapchat’s user base shrank by three million people last quarter
Visualizing real 3D weather using satellite imagery and SceneKit
“…It takes approximately half a billion files, or about 600 terabytes of storage and 120 million core hours of rendering, to create an animated feature-length film, Mr. Wike said. Put another way, it would take about 15,000 years to create a film on a laptop, he said…The company employs 800 artists worldwide and 200 IT and software development staff. Its on-premise data center consists of 48,000 processing cores…” WSJ
Magic Leap’s headset is real, but that may not be enough
Here’s how Fortnite hooked 125 million players
‘Stories’ was Instagram’s smartest move yet
Gaming chat app Discord will start selling games to its 150 million users
Tinder will generate more than $800 million in revenue this year
Apple hints at plan to build a car after all as it rehires ex-Tesla engineering head

Weekly#283

WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product “Business API“
Boeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight
some Netflix error messages (Twitter)
New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
Walmart pilots a grocery-picking robot to fulfill customers’ online orders
Will self-driving cars kill parking?
Arm acquires data management service Treasure Data to bolster its IoT platform
Rent the Runway bet on the death of clothing ownership — and now it’s doubling down
Musk Confirms Massive Compute Required, But Is Developing Their Own Processor The Right Direction?
Fortnite is ditching Google Play in a grab for even more money