Weekly#344

• NASA’s first all-electric experimental X-plane is ready for testing
• Maisie Williams’ startup Daisie is preparing for new partnerships, funding
• HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits
• NASA shares 3D Moon data for CG artists and creators
• PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
• Amazon’s video app is back in Apple’s App Store. But get ready to see more streaming fights.
• 3D-printed rocket company to begin commercial launches in 2021
• The Netherlands Surpasses Wildest Predictions For Tesla Model 3 Sales
• Nasa invites bids from firms to build lunar lander for 2024 mission
• The rise of the financial machines (Paywall) “…Funds run by computers that follow rules set by humans account for 35% of America’s stockmarket, 60% of institutional equity assets and 60% of trading activity…”
• “…Rising precious metals prices are luring criminals to target  catalytic converters which use platinum, palladium or rhodium…”
• Text-generating AI is getting better and better — but it’s not yet contest-winning good.
• Watch the Open Future Festival

Eating crabs ordered on your phone and delivered to your door in half an hour while scrolling through TikTok videos using the inbuilt gesture control on a Huawei phone. This is peak China 2019 pic.twitter.com/PL63fKQY2a

— Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) September 30, 2019