Weekly#300

YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown
Amazon wants brands to advertise Alexa voice shopping — essentially for free
AWS has %51.80 market share with 27 B USD revenue run rate.
AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
AWS Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
AWS reinvent videos
AWS launches a managed Kafka service
Goto Conference videos
newest Wi-Fi protocols: 802.11ax and 802.11ay
FT Books of the Year 2018
Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
Researchers estimate that Python, Javascript, and R contribute billions to GDP
Andrew Chen: What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.
A new slow thinking movement
Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech

Cool use of digital projection to spell out the story on this relief step-by-step. pic.twitter.com/4kpChVCwsr

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) November 25, 2018

lesson from teen cousins who live in LA: when teens have big parties they make a new insta account ~for the party~ and people have to request to follow it, and an approval means you can come to the party??? and you have to show your insta to get into the party (there is security)

— mo mcbirney (@motormo) November 25, 2018

Weekly#299

Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook’s latest crisis
Why flammable ice could be the future of energy
Solar geoengineering could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ – report
When the Tech Mythology Collapses
Verizon will reportedly support iPhone eSIMs and dual SIMs in December
Boss as a service
Satellites and rockets are getting smaller. Why not rovers, too?
Chrome is getting scrollable tab bar, Google confirms
French tobacco shops to sell bitcoins via fintech company
Blizzard is working on a Pokémon Go style Warcraft game
One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

Weekly#298

Elon Musk : “Deleted my Tesla titles last week to see what would happen. I’m now the Nothing of Tesla. Seems fine so far.” Twitter, QZ Article
The three traits Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks for in leaders
- Attribute #1: The ability to create clarity when none exists
- Attribute #2: A knack for sparking energy
- Attribute #3: An ability to succeed in “an over-constrained space”
These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
BlackBerry is buying Cylance for $1.4 billion to continue its push into cybersecurity
SpaceX launched and landed another used Falcon 9 rocket (18th mission in 2018)
Instagram will now let users shop items from video posts
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wins FCC Approval to Deploy 7,518 Satellites
Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies
List of jobs of 2028 that don’t exist yet. (Reddit)
Microsoft launches cloud-based development kit for blockchain

Weekly#297

Fortnite Breaks Records on YouTube for Concurrent Gaming Livestream Viewers (over 1.1 million viewers)
Unlocking success in digital transformations
Elon Musk: The Recode interview
A Holographic Display for 3D Creators
Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
The eight types of AI you should know about
Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
Netflix’s hackathon
Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+
Xiaomi is opening a retail store in London as it extends its Europe push
David Attenborough to voice Netflix’s nature conservation series, Our Planet
Three challenges facing blockchain technology
- Finding good enterprise-level blockchain software developers
- Avoiding the temptation of regulation
- Reaching critical mass

Weekly#296

Epic Games, Developer Of Fortnite, Now Valued At More Than $15 Billion... The company has raked in more than $1 billion in revenue from these so-called microtransactions over the past year, according to estimates from SuperData…
Britain’s mobile challenger bank Monzo has become one of the most valuable startups in Europe, today reaching a £1 billion ($1.31 billion) valuation in its latest funding round
IBM is making the third-largest tech acquisition ever
Apple’s Mac business now has 100 million active devices
Why Airbnb will be worth more than Uber
Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation
Facebook 100B messages & 1B Stories/day
Hydrogen gas trial in western Sydney could unlock $1.7bn in renewable exports
Windows 10’s Next Update Brings a “Zoom” Feature to the Console
Machine-learning algorithm beats 20 lawyers in NDA legal analysis
The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
Visual network map of MegaTrends to 2050
The future of the TV and video landscape by 2030