- Alexa’s voice can now express disappointment and excitement
- QZ: The World In 50 Years
- Pi-rate Radio
- Farmers Put Cows in VR So They Can Chill
- Yes, electric vehicles really are better than fossil fuel burners
- How does a Brain-Computer Interface Work?
- Scientists hit 21.6% perovskite cell efficiency using concentrator PV
- Elon Musk: Tesla Cybertruck already has 200,000 pre-orders
- Deutsche Telekom looking into a possible merger with Orange: Handelsblatt
- Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru…Loon’s solar-powered balloons reach altitudes of more than 12 miles (19.3 kilometres) above Earth and can cover areas within a 25-mile radius. Over the last decade, the company has improved the balloons’ life span to an average of 150 days (the record so far is 223 days).
- How heat from the sun could help clean up steel and cement
- Uber’s Shared Driver Accounts (paywall)
November 2019 archive
Weekly#351
- VTEX, an e-commerce platform used by Walmart, raises $140M led by SoftBank’s LatAm fund
- Time: Best Inventions of 2019
- Storing Energy in Hydrogen
- To cut down on bugs, Apple is changing how it develops its software
- Google is killing Google Cloud Print
- Why a robot pizza startup could be worth $4 billion
- “Knowledge workers” could be the most impacted by future automation
- Disney says its new Disney+ streaming service is so popular you can’t stream it
- 10 lessons for Disney, Apple, and all the new streaming companies trying to take down Netflix
- Google guesses what your political leanings are—but it’s a secret
Weekly#350
- Tesla will unveil its ‘Cybertruck’ electric pickup on November 21st
- Travis Kalanick’s Secret Startup, CloudKitchens (paywall)
- Whatsapp is introducing Catalogs for Small Businesses
- Alipay launches international e-wallet, giving foreigners access to mobile payment platform in first for China
- Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses
- More than 90% of large publishers use the Google ad server, DoubleClick for Publishers (paywall)
- Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance—Banking (paywall)
- Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?
- New NASA app puts you in the pilot’s seat of Boeing’s Starliner or SpaceX’s Crew Dragon
- The Curiosity rover detects oxygen behaving strangely on Mars
- Disney+ has already attracted over 10 million subscribers
- Dell Unveils Subscription Model to Counter Amazon, Microsoft
- SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two rocket reuse records
- Google wants Chrome to offer instantaneous and native app-like experiences
- The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep
- It Takes Two: How to Turn Job-Sharing Into a Promotion…and Another
Weekly#349
- Elon Musk says building the first sustainable city on Mars will take 1,000 Starships and 20 years
- Yandex has built a fleet of self-driving food-delivery robots
- researchers from the University of Oxford recently determined that the probability of our entire species going extinct in any given year is as high as one in 14,000.
- Electric cars are changing the cost of driving
- Canso spaceport partners with U.S. company to recycle rockets in space…including hotels, research parks, fuel depots and storage centres.
- Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Cheats
- Kepler achieves a world-first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic
- OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share
- Microsoft Hololens 2
- SoftBank Reveals $6.5 Billion Loss From Uber, WeWork Turmoil
Weekly#348
- Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets
- Google’s got a chief decision scientist. Here’s what she does
- Ikea Catalog Covers | Argos Catalog
- The five keys to a successful Google team
- 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets
- McDonald’s delivery is now available across 950 of its sites across the UK and accounts for just over 10% of all its UK business
- Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion
- Small satellite startup Kepler opens sign-ups for its IoT developer kits
- Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019’s tech?
- Google Introduces Huge Universal Language Translation Model: 103 Languages Trained on Over 25 Billion Examples