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Apple loses key autos engineer to electric aviation startup Archer
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interactive map shows where the Covid omicron variant has been detected
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Square Changes Name to Block (WSJ)
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Nasdaq to Move Markets to Amazon’s Cloud (WSJ)
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A cubic meter of asteroid dust may have as much as 20 liters of water
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Twitch unleashes AI tool to spot banned users
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World’s first ‘AI casino’ delayed by technical hitches (FT)
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Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021
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Amazon Alexa can now respond to running water and bleeping appliances
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AWS re:Invent videos
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Microsoft’s New Molecular Controller Makes DNA Writing 1,000 Times Faster
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Future 50
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The Covid-19 Pandemic — What Lessons Have Been Learnt
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Weekly#456
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Bluetooth tracking company Tile acquired for $205 million
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Scientists use seismic noise to image first hundred meters of Mars
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E-Commerce Needs Real Store Locations Now More Than Ever (WSJ)
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“Once it’s farther than 20 minutes, people won’t come.” (WSJ)
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The U.K. lost around 3,250 pubs and bars—about 6.8% of all such businesses—between March 2020 and September this year (WSJ)
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Virtual real estate plot sells for record $2.4 million
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NASA Just Launched a Spacecraft That Will Crash Into an Asteroid
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Atom Bank introduces four-day working week without cutting pay
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Apple digital-ID scheme delayed to 2022
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Niantic Receives $300 Million Investment From Coatue
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Ridley Scott confirms ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ live-action shows
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Virtual real estate plot sells for record $2.4 million
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Houston-based tech company Lancium is spending $150 million to build bitcoin mines across Texas that will run on renewable energy.
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Pet video marketplace Camlist eyes UK growth after raising $1.3 million pre-seed funding
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How micromobility operators can unlock a $300B industry
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The metaverse is a $1 trillion opportunity, crypto giant Grayscale says as virtual land sales boom
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5 books you should read this holiday, according to Bill Gates
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metaverse key takeaways from analysis of 158 mentions on investor calls.
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China’s 5 big tech issues for 2022
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China’s space programme will go nuclear to power future missions to the moon and Mars
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NASA wants to put nuclear reactors on the Moon to power a future manned base
Weekly#455
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Technology Radar (Thoughtworks)
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Bill Gates Says Covid Deaths May Drop to Flu Levels by Mid-2022
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Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation
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Apple will sell you iPhone parts to fix your own phone at home
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Starbucks links with Amazon Go for first cashier-less cafe
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What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet (WSJ)
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Apple’s electric car could debut as soon as 2025
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Ford, GM Step Into Chip Business (WSJ)
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Discord is quietly building an app empire of bots
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Netflix : A look under the hood
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Nasa Artemis Mission [PDF]
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Nvidia approaches $800 billion market cap
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Apple pushes back return to office plan to February
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German digital bank N26 is shutting down its U.S. operations, less than two-and-a-half years after it launched in the country.
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UPS will make deliveries using Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucks
Weekly#454
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An E. coli biocomputer solves a maze by sharing the work
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Physicists say they’ve finally solved the teapot effect
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Elon Musk sells around $5 billion of Tesla stock
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Indonesia’s tech giant GoTo Group raises $1.3 billion ahead of IPO plans
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E-commerce giant JD starts accepting China’s digital currency on Singles Day for the first time
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E-commerce logistics startup Hive buzzes following $34M investment
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YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos across its platform
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Disney+ added just 2.1 million subscribers in its fourth quarter, giving it a total of 118.1 million customers.
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Twitter is building a crypto team
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How an esports doctor helps pro gamers avoid injury, from warm-ups to strength training
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Italian startup WeRoad wants to reinvent travel for Gen Z and millennials.
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DoorDash will acquire European delivery company Wolt as it builds a global platform
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Electric automaker Rivian valuation pops above GM, Ford in biggest IPO of 2021
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Ecologi: “…The subscription service — used by 35,000 individuals and businesses — allows members to “grow their own forest” with at least 12 trees a month and offset their carbon footprint by funding a wide range of the carbon-reducing projects…” (Techcrunch)
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Moov, an online marketplace for used manufacturing equipment, raises $41M from Tiger Global and others
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Intel, Samsung and Porsche among investors in TriEye’s $74M funding round
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Netflix starts rolling out more efficient AV1 codec to TVs following Android devices
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$76 Billion a Day: How Binance Became the World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange (WSJ)
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Uber CEO flies into London as driver shortages hit app (FT)
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How Alibaba tracks China’s delivery drivers
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Spotify is acquiring an audiobook company
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The global chip shortage is a nightmare before Christmas
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Patreon’s building native video hosting for creators to sidestep YouTube
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Seoul will be the first city government to join the metaverse
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The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group
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SpinLaunch: Space Launch Start-Up Just Used A Giant Centrifuge To Fling A Projectile Into The Upper Atmosphere
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South Korea tests system for controlling air taxis
1. I think we’re on the verge of a revolution in travel
— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) November 9, 2021
Weekly#453
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The ‘Metaverse’ Prompts High-Stakes Race for Big Tech
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Metaverse article2 (WSJ)
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Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
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Neuro-ID takes in fresh capital to combat fraud from all of our taps, types and swipes
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Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M
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Helion Energy will use $500M Series E to power up its fusion energy efforts
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Peloton shares collapse 35% as momentum for its at-home fitness equipment slows
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Amazon Glow
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US charging infrastructure is outpacing forecasts, study finds (goal of 500,000 chargers by 2030)
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Facebook to stop using facial recognition, delete data on over 1 billion people
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“…Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal…” (WSJ)
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Meta is reportedly planning physical stores to showcase its products
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DJI releases new flagship Mavic drones — Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine
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Nintendo Quarter Results
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How to use your AirPods’ spatial audio feature and experience immersive surround sound
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Your next car may come without a touchscreen and other tech as the chip shortage wreaks havoc on automakers
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New York City’s mayor-elect says he wants to be paid in Bitcoin
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Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling
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House passes Joe Biden’s $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill (FT)
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Airbnb Posts Record Results After Busy Summer Travel Season
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Alphabet launches AI company to discover new drugs (FT)
Weekly#452
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Amazon posted sales of $110.8 billion and generated a profit of $3.2 billion, down from the $6.3 billion the company made during the same period a year earlier. (WSJ)
- Udemy IPO: Online education company has market value of about $4 billion
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Facebook is killing the Oculus brand name as part of its huge Meta rebrand
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Satellite Maker Terran Orbital Strikes $1.58 Billion SPAC Deal (WSJ)
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A once-quiet battle to replace the space station suddenly is red hot…Three competitors have already entered the arena. More are expected.
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TikTok is testing a new direct tipping feature with select creators
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Verizon will use Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellites to extend 4G and 5G
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Zendesk to Buy SurveyMonkey Parent Momentive Global
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Alibaba is ramping up in Europe, and is already ahead of Amazon in one region
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Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ)
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On Thursday, Arizona-based carbon accounting startup Persefoni said it raised over $100 million
Weekly#451
- Online learning firm Udemy targets nearly $4 bln valuation in U.S. IPO
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Lucy is just starting its 12-year journey to see what asteroid clusters can teach us about the early solar system.
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The test, in a brain-dead patient, was very short but represents a milestone in the long quest to use animal organs in human transplants.
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Twitch is testing a rewind button
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PayPal in talks with Pinterest on takeover worth $45bn (FT)
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Tesla has 150,000 cars using its safety score tool
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Tesla charges forward with a record quarterly profit of $1.6 billion
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Satya Nadella, Annual Letter
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Amazon created 6 ‘tenets’ during talks with Starbucks about a new cashierless coffee shop, internal document shows
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Tesla will change the type of battery cells it uses in all its standard-range cars…The new batteries will use a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) chemistry rather than nickel-cobalt-aluminum which Tesla will continue to use in its longer-range vehicles.
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Amazon offers up more data to tell third-party sellers which items will be popular
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Facebook’s recent trademark filings hold clues to the company’s new name
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Path to Metaverse Expected to Go Through Videogames (WSJ)
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Ultrafast grocery delivery has exploded in New York City
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PS3 Emulator
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Starlab: Private space station planned to fly in 2027
Weekly#450
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A global AI bill of rights is desperately needed (FT)
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DoorDash Introduces Search-Page Ads for Restaurants (WSJ)
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Google TV features finally make sense with new multi-user support
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How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains (WSJ)
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Germany unveils first self-driving train
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How amazon runs Alexa
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Apple reportedly can’t get enough chips for the iPhone 13
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Squid Game: 111 million viewers tuned into the series during its first 17 days
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Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
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Coinbase is launching a marketplace for NFTs
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Behind SmartNews, the $2 billion unicorn trying to fix the news algorithm
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The COVID Scoreboard: How Resilient Businesses Emerged New Winners
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Tesla debuts new car insurance that uses Texans’ real-time driving behavior
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We Mastered Zoom From Home. Just Wait for Hybrid-Office Zoom (WSJ)
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Amazon sellers will be acquired at an unprecedented rate next year, according to a new survey.
The Shopify Counter — the ultimate motivational tool for your Shopify business. From first sale to full scale, get it today https://t.co/G3MRFKBVHS 🎉1⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣🎉 pic.twitter.com/r2L5qLXtNv
— Brennan Loh (@bloh) October 12, 2021
Weekly#449
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Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
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How Istanbul became the Silicon Valley of the mobile gaming industry
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Haugen wants Facebook to change its algorithm and cooperate with researchers…serious questions about how Facebook’s algorithms work
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A new NFT-based virtual startup investing game
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Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (FT)
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Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge
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Long Covid now has a formal definition
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A text message routing company suffered a five-year-long breach
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Battery technology gives China an opening in electric vehicles (FT)
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Uber can now track your flight so a ride home is ready when you land
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Google Rolls Out Emission-Curbing Tools for Nest Thermostat (WSJ)
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Code Conf Videos
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Comcast Enters Smart-TV Market With Launch of Sky Glass in Europe
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The software engineer will fix your car now…As sales of electric vehicles soar, spare a thought for the mechanics (FT)
Weekly#448
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Deliveroo launches ‘Hop’ rapid grocery service with Morrisons (FT)
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File Not Found…A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans…
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Google Search’s Next Phase: Context is King
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Venezuela’s economic crisis has made it a regional leader in digital payments
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YouTube influencers are now launching their own cell phone services in Mexico
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A Virginia company has connected mobile phones directly to satellites
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Amazon’s indoor camera drone is ready to fly around your house
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Incident.io helps your team communicate better during outages
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MIT professor: Interest in space careers at an all-time high
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Elon Musk is spending most of his time now on a fully reusable SpaceX rocket that could cost less than $1 million
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iOS 15 Has a Fall-Prevention Feature (WSJ)
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Google, Battling Amazon, Tries an E-Commerce Makeover to Win Back Advertisers (WSJ)
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A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision Loss See Color Again
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Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive is reportedly helping Ferrari design its first electric car
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Google Is Scrapping Its Plan to Offer Bank Accounts to Users (WSJ)
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Will the next web be built on ethereum? (FT)