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2020

  • Latest issue

    Weekly#360

    13 links · 1 min read

    • Nytimes: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It nytimes.com
    • World Economic Forum (Video) youtube.com
    • More than 400,000 German jobs at risk in switch to electric cars uk.reuters.com
    • Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range…The three-year-old startup’s secret sauce has to do with AI on the edge — machine learning and image recognition tools that can be executed on low-power devices rather than relying on the cloud… geekwire.com
    • Amazon Ring sales nearly tripled vox.com
    • Boston Dynamics appoints its first-ever new CEO techcrunch.com
    • Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy sciencemag.org
    • NASA reveals the payloads for the first commercial Moon cargo deliveries… in total, there are 16 payloads
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    • First space-baked cookies took 2 hours in experimental oven abcnews.go.com
    • Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 bbc.com
    • Jira Software gets better roadmaps techcrunch.com
    • What we can learn about robots from Japan bbc.com
    • Tesla Surges Past $100 Billion Market Value, Eclipsing VW bloomberg.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#359

    17 links · 1 min read

    • US patents hit record 333,530 granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (not the FAANGs) lead the pack techcrunch.com
    • Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (paywall) wsj.com
    • Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation techcrunch.com
    • Renewables will be cheaper than coal by 2026 in China – study smart-energy.com
    • 25% of users watching Netflix on their iPhones also watch Disney+ vox.com
    • Grubhub sale rumors highlight the state of the struggling food-delivery industry vox.com
    • Twitch’s loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says techcrunch.com
    • Mojo Vision is developing AR contact lenses techcrunch.com
    • Copilot is a subscription personal finance tracker aiming to kill Mint techcrunch.com
    • JWT The Future 100: 2020 Report [PDF] jwtintelligence.com
    • Michael Moritz backs Turkish grocery start-up ($40m funding into ultrafast delivery company Getir) (paywall) ft.com
    • Hyundai and Kia put over $110M into UK electric delivery vehicles startup Arrival  techcrunch.com
    • Alphabet Becomes Fourth U.S. Company to Reach $1 Trillion Market Value (paywall) wsj.com
    • Germany to invest 86 bln euros to upgrade ageing railway network reuters.com
    • DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains…An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too newscientist.com
    • These living bricks use bacteria to build themselves technologyreview.com
    • Here’s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet technologyreview.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#358

    16 links · 1 min read

    • Here’s everything Google announced at CES 2020 techcrunch.com
    • California’s new privacy law, explained vox.com
    • Arduino launches a new modular platform for IoT development techcrunch.com
    • In 2018, the oil and gas industries spent an estimated $1.75 billion on AI — a sum that is projected to balloon to $4 billion by 2025. vox.com
    • WSJ: Silicon Valley to Big Oil: We Can Manage Your Data Better Than You (paywall) wsj.com
    • Amazon has sold more than 100 million Alexa devices cnet.com
    • Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users venturebeat.com
    • The new Bluetooth standard will be known as LE Audio and one of the biggest improvements it will include will be a feature called Multi-Stream Audio gizmodo.com
    • Toyota will transform a 175-acre site in Japan into a ‘prototype city of the future’ theverge.com
    • The End of the Beginning stratechery.com
    • Uber is bringing audio recording, irregular ride checks and authentication code safety features to India techcrunch.com
    • Huawei unveils openEuler, CentOS-based Linux distribution computing.co.uk
    • Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System  hollywoodreporter.com
    • A New Protein Source Made From Air Could Be A Planet-Saving Game Changer huffpost.com
    • Apple says its software business is booming axios.com
    • Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Cars’ Electronic Systems (paywall) wsj.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#357

    8 links · 1 min read

    • Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019 techcrunch.com
    • Grab and Singtel team up to apply for a digital full bank license in Singapore techcrunch.com
    • Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in ‘robot taxis’ ww.electrek.co
    • Tesla’s market cap is now double Ford’s, after being eclipsed by it eight months ago qz.com
    • Will Apple get rid of the charging port, too? All signs point to portless iPhones cnet.com
    • How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment cbc.ca
    • Amazon’s Biggest Threat Isn’t a Huge Competitor but a Collective fool.com
    • These Breakthroughs Made the 2010s the Decade of the Brain singularityhub.com