2020

• DARPA Progress With ‘Ocean Of Things’ All-Seeing Eye On The High Seas forbes.com
• Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree…Google’s new certificate program takes only six months to complete and will be a fraction of the cost of college inc.com
• Google Pixel Buds tap AI to alert users to sirens, crying babies, and barking dogs venturebeat.com
• Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public techcrunch.com
• China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee techcrunch.com
• The machine-learning model finds SARS-COV-2 growing more infectious phys.org
• With Ultralight Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Electric Airplanes Could Finally Take Off

…Oxis Energy’s design promises outstanding energy density, manufacturability, and safety spectrum.ieee.org
• AI player creates strikingly realistic virtual tennis matches based on real players techxplore.com
• Panasonic’s new home cubicle is a disheartening glimpse at our work-from-home future theverge.com
• Apple quietly acquired Israel’s Camerai, formerly Tipit, a specialist in AR and camera tech techcrunch.com
• Nvidia CEO: We are expecting a really large second half for gaming venturebeat.com
• Sweden records highest death tally in 150 years in the first half of 2020 theguardian.com
• Apple Reaches $2 Trillion nytimes.com
• Jack Ma’s Ant Group Produces $3.5 Billion Profit in Six Months as IPO Looms (WSJ)…Alipay, with more than 1bn users across more than 40 countries…(FT) wsj.com
• 7 Digital Twin Use Cases knowledgenile.com
• Google Maps is getting a lot more detail theverge.com
• Human Capital as an Asset (World Economic Forum) www3.weforum.org
• “…The company added 175,000 warehouse workers in March and April, 125,000 of which it said in May it would keep permanently. Amazon said this week it is in the process of adding 3,500 corporate workers at offices in New York, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Detroit and Dallas…” wsj.com

• Personal training sessions come to ClassPass techcrunch.com
• SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month cnbc.com
• UK enters recession after GDP plunged by a record 20.4% in the second quarter cnbc.com
• Digital mortgage company Habito completes £35M Series C techcrunch.com
• The next-gen Xbox will ship in November techcrunch.com
• Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network arstechnica.com
• Amazon launches Braket quantum computing service in general availability venturebeat.com
• Dropbox launches password manager, computer backup, and secure ‘vaults’ out of beta venturebeat.com
• Amazon launches online pharmacy in India techcrunch.com
• “Remote Work Is Reshaping San Francisco, as Tech Workers Flee and Rents Fall…The social-media giant, which has 52,000 employees, expects to shift to a substantially remote workforce over the coming decade, and is now recruiting a director of remote work…” wsj.com
• Apple sued by Fortnite maker after kicking the game out of App Store for payment policy violations cnbc.com
• Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn techcrunch.com
• Apple Readies Subscription Bundles to Boost Digital Services bloomberg.com
• Peloton shares slip premarket on news Apple is planning exercise video subscription service cnbc.com
• SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps arstechnica.com

A 107-page safety manual details everything from infrared temperature scanners to vacuum-sealed meals that awaits the cast and crew of “Jurassic World: Dominion,” one of the first major Hollywood films to restart production since the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/JGYqdj1BDg

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 13, 2020

• mmhmm, the virtual presentation software from Phil Libin, launches its Beta 2 techcrunch.com
• Microsoft signals renewed interest in Windows with latest reshuffle theverge.com
• Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords were breached — is going open source theverge.com
• Facebook will let employees work from home until July 2021 edition.cnn.com
• The U.S. Military Is Building Voice-Controlled War Robots onezero.medium.com
• AI on the high seas: Digital transformation is revolutionizing global shipping techrepublic.com
• US reaches $1B deal for doses of potential Johnson & Johnson vaccine thehill.com
• Scientists develop a new way to deliver drugs through the skin medicalxpress.com
• Microsoft integrates Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update theverge.com
• TikTok Could Become Microsoft’s Deal of the Decade bloomberg.com
• The AR/VR Ecosystem – Are We There Yet? seekingalpha.com

"Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market and less than 4% of retail in the U.S" $AMZN pic.twitter.com/ZbJSzFVDH6

— Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) July 29, 2020

• 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

• HBO Max reached 4.1M subscribers in first month, despite lack of distribution on Roku and Fire TV techcrunch.com
• Intel’s next-generation 7nm chips delayed until 2022 bbc.com
• Pandora launches interactive voice ads into beta testing techcrunch.com
• Amazon reportedly in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in India’s Reliance Retail techcrunch.com
• What comes after Zoom fatigue…the technology overtaxes your brain… vox.com
• Giant waves of sand are moving on Mars sciencemag.org
• Robot usage is soaring during pandemic zdnet.com
• Robots Are Having a Good Pandemic barrons.com
• China launches space rocket in ambitious Mars landing mission theguardian.com
• Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space.“..A Reuters analysis of quarterly earnings calls over the past week revealed more than 25 large companies plan to reduce their office space in the year ahead, a move designed to reduce the second-largest expense after payrolls at corporations…” reuters.com
• 30% of all office space will be consumed flexibly by 2030 us.jll.com
• CS50 cs50.harvard.edu

• The Next Phase of the Retail Apocalypse: Stores Reborn as E-Commerce Warehouses (WSJ, paywall) wsj.com
• Researchers develop laser-based underwater WiFi system for sub-sea data networks techcrunch.com
• Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599 techcrunch.com
• Jack Ma’s fintech giant tops 1.3 billion users globally techcrunch.com
• Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born… Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed the global fertility rate nearly halved to 2.4 in 2017 – and their study, published in the Lancet, projects it will fall below 1.7 by 2100. bbc.com
• SpaceX’s Starlink asks potential service testers for addresses, says private beta starts this summer techcrunch.com
• Twitter introduces a new, fully rebuilt developer API, launching next week techcrunch.com
• Uber acquires Routematch as it drives deeper into public transit in hunt for SaaS revenue techcrunch.com
• Searching for Video? Google Pushes YouTube Over Rivals wsj.com
• Waldo is a ‘no code’ automated mobile testing service that anyone can use techcrunch.com
• Monzo launches new Monzo Plus with software features it hopes users will want to pay for…Costing £5 per month, rather than bundle a host of perks that might otherwise be up-sold individually, such as travel or gadget insurance or additional cash-back and merchant discounts, as many other banks and fintechs do, this third Monzo Plus attempt is more akin to a paid-for software upgrade. techcrunch.com
• It costs the U.S. government about 2 cents to produce every penny npr.org
• CERN: Physicists Report the Discovery of Unique New Particle singularityhub.com
• WebGazer.js webgazer.cs.brown.edu
• Digital Transformation: Powering the Great Reset (World Economic Forum)
  • 1. Transform into a digital business across seven dimensions: new value creation; digital-at-the-core business models; intelligent and agile operating models; localized and resilient supply chains; real-time decisions at the edge; data-driven investment decisions; and augmented talent
  • 2. Empower all stakeholders: employees, consumers, suppliers, partners, government and society
  • 3. Effect systems change through digitally-enabled collaboration models that correct market failures