Weekly#387

How fiction can help us imagine the future strategy-business.com
Amazon Q2 Results…$88.9 billion in sales ir.aboutamazon.com
Shopify Q2 Results investors.shopify.com
NASA has launched the most ambitious Mars rover ever built nature.com
17 ways technology could change the world by 2025 weforum.org
Microsoft analyzed data on its newly remote workforce hbr.org
Netflix breaks record with 160 Emmy nominations dw.com
Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages technologyreview.com
Grubhub Generates Sales, Not Profit, During Pandemic (Paywall: WSJ) wsj.com
For Videogame Giants, Pandemic Lockdowns Fuel Gamers’ Spending…Electronic Arts posts strongest June quarter sales in its 38-year history (Paywall: WSJ) wsj.com
“…In 1950, each woman gave birth on average to 4.7 children. By 2017 the figure had dropped to 2.37. Populations start to shrink when the average birth rate falls below 2.1. By 2100 the average number of births per woman will have fallen to 1.7…” asiatimes.com
Trained dogs were able to sniff out Covid-19 infections with 94% accuracy: study cnbc.com
Burberry and Tencent team up for concept stores bbc.com
Five key moments from the big tech hearing bbc.com
Amazon bought Ring for market position, not technology, emails suggest theverge.com
Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps theverge.com
Emails show Mark Zuckerberg feared app startups were building faster than Facebook in 2012 theverge.com
Peacock has added 10 million customers since April theverge.com
Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville techcrunch.com