Weekly#295

Project Stream
Can Germany survive the ‘iPhone moment’ for cars? (FT)
Berlin’s Emil launches pay-per-mile car insurance
The future of photography is code
How Netflix drives culture, in one chart
Dyson chooses Singapore for new electric car plant
Tearing Apart Teslas to Find Elon Musk’s Best and Worst Decisions
“Hardware Industrial Design is about space, Software Design is about time“
Dropbox expands Paper into planning tool with timelines
The automated programmer, called Repairnator, wrote patches good enough to fool actual human engineers.
Amazon’s most important businesses are all slowing down

Weekly#294

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65
Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever
Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
10 qualities you need to develop to improve your emotional intelligence
Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9
Adobe launches Premiere Rush CC, a video-editing app made for YouTubers
Amazon requires one minute of human labour to get a package onto a truck, but that number is headed to zero. Autonomous warehouses will merge with autonomous manufacturing and delivery to form a fully automated supply chain. (Twitter source)
Netflix Reports Strong Growth in New Subscribers
Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO…”Uber would be worth more than Detroit’s Big Three automakers combined. GM $45.3 B, Ford $35.1 B, Fiat Chrysler $31.8 B”

The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
Machinify raises $10 million to help businesses use AI to monetize data
Google Slides gets real-time automated captions
Klarna raises $20M from H&M, will build financing and payment services for the fashion retailer
Facebook is audaciously launching a video gadget for your home, called Portal. Is that a good idea?
Investors are betting $75 million on AllTrails and its content for hikers
Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years
AT&T will launch another streaming service in 2019, with HBO and other WarnerMedia content
Waymo’s self-driving cars hit 10 million miles
Kahoot, the educational gaming startup, has raised another $15M, now at a $300M valuation
Apple gets critical iPhone technology in $600 million Dialog deal
Amazon’s private label sales will reach $7.5 billion this year, analysts at SunTrust Robinson estimate. By 2022, they are expected to hit $25 billion. (Twitter source)
The next PlayStation is already in the works, says Sony’s new president
FT: “…JPMorgan Chase is putting hundreds of new investment bankers and asset managers through mandatory coding lessons, in a sign of Wall Street’s heightened need for technology skills…”

Walmart plans to acquire fashion startup Eloquii for $100 million
Coinbase reached 8 B USD valuation
Netflix and Hulu go in for comedies while Amazon sticks to the drama: A look at the original content boom
“…Google, which has allowed some publishers to create Stories since February, is going to start using artificial intelligence to create its own Stories that will appear in Google search and image results…”
Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invest $2.75 billion
Nintendo would rather be defined as an “entertainment” company, not a gaming one
Wi-Fi branding to get a lot simpler with upcoming “Wi-Fi 6″
‘Presidential Alert’ Goes to Millions of Cellphones Across the U.S.
Amazon Announces New Fire TV Stick Featuring 4K Support, and All-New Alexa Voice Remote
Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans
YouTube TV is rolling out a bunch of new features to woo cord cutters away from cable TV
Instagram prototyping feature that would share your detailed location data with Facebook
Google Assistant can now help book rides from Uber, Lyft, and others
Jeff Bezos’s pet aerospace exploration project is planning to send “several metric tons” of unspecified cargo to the Moon in the next five years.
Maps for self-driving cars