Weekly#306

  • Alibaba acquires German big data startup Data Artisans for $103M
  • Nvidia dives into a new business segment with Drive AutoPilot
  • Toyota is developing fighter jet-inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it
  • Amazon’s cashierless Go stores could be a $4 billion business by 2021, new research suggests
  • Apple’s growing attraction to non-iPhone revenue in one chart. Services now account for 16 percent of Apple sales.
  • Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs, because Apple wants to be a service company
  • CRISPR might soon create spicy tomatoes by switching on their chili genes
  • Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019
  • 32 new unicorns are romping in Silicon Valley this year
  • Physics explains why time passes faster as you age
  • Amazon’s IMDb launches a free streaming service, Freedive
  • Report: Amazon to double down on gaming with a new streaming service
  • The Instagram-Husband Revolution
  • Strong and Weak Technologies
  • Google Assistant will soon be able to translate conversations on-the-fly with ‘Interpreter Mode

Weekly#305

  • China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon
  • FT: Chinese merchants refuse cash as mobile payments take off
  • US founders predict the best entrepreneurs will come from these 11 companies
  • Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis
  • Battery-powered, full-body exoskeleton lets users lift 200 pounds
  • Scientists Have ‘Hacked Photosynthesis’ In Search Of More Productive Crops
  • Apple App Store breaks records, customers spent $1.22B in one week
  • Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers
  • Challenger bank Monzo has quietly begun working on a U.S. launch
  • Scratch 3.0 is now available
  • 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s 2019 predictions
  • Engineers can now reverse-engineer 3D models
  • More than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold

Weekly#304

  • 2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts
  • Belgian drone traffic management startup Unifly raises €14.6 million
  • New solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy
  • A homework app that instantly solves problems for students with the snap of a photo is now worth $3 billion
  • Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
  • Fortnite sends Epic Games to a $3B profit in 2018: Report
  • Amazon’s R&D spending is poised to top the GDP of Iceland…Amazon has ramped its research and development spending in the last decade, growing it from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $22.6 billion in 2017…
  • The EU is giving Netflix and Amazon two years to make 30% of their catalogues European
  • You can catch a mood from watching YouTube videos
  • Netflix releases interactive episode of dystopian drama Black Mirror
  • Preemptive Transformation: Fix it before it breaks
  • Naval Twitter | Naval Quotes

Weekly#303

  • For the first time, a Chinese car is coming to the US—and it’s electric…China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks…
  • Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
  • AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
  • Globally, new solar power plants added almost 35% to new power generating capacity in 2017
  • SoftBank Leads $385 Million Bet on Fair, a Subscription-Car Startup
  • App Store Review guidelines hint that users will soon be able to gift in-app purchases, not just apps
  • Google Lens can now identify more than one billion products—four times the number it covered at launch.
  • Scientists to give artificial intelligence human hearing
  • SoftBank’s Vision Fund is preparing to invest $1 billion in Grab
  • Amazon Air expands with 10 more cargo aircraft, bringing fleet to 50 planes
  • Google AI Principles updates, six months in

Weekly#302

  • Facebook wants you to buy HBO on Facebook and watch HBO on Facebook
  • 2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts
  • Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
  • Facebook open sources PyText NLP framework
  • AI 2018 Index – Annual Report
  • AI Transformation Playbook
  • This drone shrinks to fit
  • International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B
  • Netflix is testing a new feature that lets you instantly replay scenes (for some reason)
  • Starbucks adding delivery services to more than 2,000 stores via Uber Eats
  • Starting in 2020, all new homes in California must come with solar panels. Builders are getting ready
  • A Google-backed vertical farm startup just raised another $90 million to build in cities across the US
  • Electric cars will soon be cheaper to make than gas cars: battery-maker ...Electric vehicle batteries will cost less than $100-per-kWh to make by 2020; and less than $50-per-kWh by 2025...
  • Powering customer journeys in the age of AI
  • At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency

Weekly#301

  • Samsung will release a 5G phone in 2019
  • DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling
  • The friendship that made Google Huge
  • SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
  • AWS re:invent Slides
  • Here’s how far you’ll need to travel from McDonald’s to Burger King for a 1-cent Whopper
  • Navigating the Data Science Careers Landscape (part 1)
  • What Does an Ideal Data Scientist’s Profile Look Like? (part 2)
  • The semiconductor industry and the power of globalisation
  • Comcast, Fox, Disney and WarnerMedia currently account for about 20 per cent of Netflix’s content library… (Netflix Originals 8 per cent)
  • Twelve Key Emerging Technologies

Weekly#300

  • YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
  • Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown
  • Amazon wants brands to advertise Alexa voice shopping — essentially for free
  • AWS has %51.80 market share with 27 B USD revenue run rate.
  • AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
  • AWS Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
  • AWS reinvent videos
  • AWS launches a managed Kafka service
  • Goto Conference videos
  • newest Wi-Fi protocols: 802.11ax and 802.11ay
  • FT Books of the Year 2018
  • Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
  • Researchers estimate that Python, Javascript, and R contribute billions to GDP
  • Andrew Chen: What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.
  • A new slow thinking movement
  • Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
  • Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech

Weekly#299

  • Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook’s latest crisis
  • Why flammable ice could be the future of energy
  • Solar geoengineering could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ – report
  • When the Tech Mythology Collapses
  • Verizon will reportedly support iPhone eSIMs and dual SIMs in December
  • Boss as a service
  • Satellites and rockets are getting smaller. Why not rovers, too?
  • Chrome is getting scrollable tab bar, Google confirms
  • French tobacco shops to sell bitcoins via fintech company
  • Blizzard is working on a Pokémon Go style Warcraft game
  • One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future


Weekly#298

  • Elon Musk : “Deleted my Tesla titles last week to see what would happen. I’m now the Nothing of Tesla. Seems fine so far.” Twitter, QZ Article
  • The three traits Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks for in leaders
    • Attribute #1: The ability to create clarity when none exists
    • Attribute #2: A knack for sparking energy
    • Attribute #3: An ability to succeed in “an over-constrained space”
  • These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
  • BlackBerry is buying Cylance for $1.4 billion to continue its push into cybersecurity
  • SpaceX launched and landed another used Falcon 9 rocket (18th mission in 2018)
  • Instagram will now let users shop items from video posts
  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wins FCC Approval to Deploy 7,518 Satellites
  • Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021
  • Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies
  • List of jobs of 2028 that don’t exist yet. (Reddit)
  • Microsoft launches cloud-based development kit for blockchain

Weekly#297

  • Fortnite Breaks Records on YouTube for Concurrent Gaming Livestream Viewers (over 1.1 million viewers)
  • Unlocking success in digital transformations
  • Elon Musk: The Recode interview
  • A Holographic Display for 3D Creators
  • Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
  • The eight types of AI you should know about
  • Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
  • Netflix’s hackathon
  • Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+
  • Xiaomi is opening a retail store in London as it extends its Europe push
  • David Attenborough to voice Netflix’s nature conservation series, Our Planet
  • Three challenges facing blockchain technology
    • Finding good enterprise-level blockchain software developers
    • Avoiding the temptation of regulation
    • Reaching critical mass