• Project Stream
• Can Germany survive the ‘iPhone moment’ for cars? (FT)
• Berlin’s Emil launches pay-per-mile car insurance
• The future of photography is code
• How Netflix drives culture, in one chart
• Dyson chooses Singapore for new electric car plant
• Tearing Apart Teslas to Find Elon Musk’s Best and Worst Decisions
• “Hardware Industrial Design is about space, Software Design is about time“
• Dropbox expands Paper into planning tool with timelines
• The automated programmer, called Repairnator, wrote patches good enough to fool actual human engineers.
• Amazon’s most important businesses are all slowing down

• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65
• Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever
• Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
• 10 qualities you need to develop to improve your emotional intelligence
• Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9
• Adobe launches Premiere Rush CC, a video-editing app made for YouTubers
• Amazon requires one minute of human labour to get a package onto a truck, but that number is headed to zero. Autonomous warehouses will merge with autonomous manufacturing and delivery to form a fully automated supply chain. (Twitter source)
• Netflix Reports Strong Growth in New Subscribers
• Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO…”Uber would be worth more than Detroit’s Big Three automakers combined. GM $45.3 B, Ford $35.1 B, Fiat Chrysler $31.8 B”

 

• The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
• Machinify raises $10 million to help businesses use AI to monetize data
• Google Slides gets real-time automated captions
• Klarna raises $20M from H&M, will build financing and payment services for the fashion retailer
• Facebook is audaciously launching a video gadget for your home, called Portal. Is that a good idea?
• Investors are betting $75 million on AllTrails and its content for hikers
• Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years
• AT&T will launch another streaming service in 2019, with HBO and other WarnerMedia content
• Waymo’s self-driving cars hit 10 million miles
• Kahoot, the educational gaming startup, has raised another $15M, now at a $300M valuation
• Apple gets critical iPhone technology in $600 million Dialog deal
• Amazon’s private label sales will reach $7.5 billion this year, analysts at SunTrust Robinson estimate. By 2022, they are expected to hit $25 billion. (Twitter source)
• The next PlayStation is already in the works, says Sony’s new president
• FT: “…JPMorgan Chase is putting hundreds of new investment bankers and asset managers through mandatory coding lessons, in a sign of Wall Street’s heightened need for technology skills…”

• Walmart plans to acquire fashion startup Eloquii for $100 million
• Coinbase reached 8 B USD valuation
• Netflix and Hulu go in for comedies while Amazon sticks to the drama: A look at the original content boom
• “…Google, which has allowed some publishers to create Stories since February, is going to start using artificial intelligence to create its own Stories that will appear in Google search and image results…”
• Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invest $2.75 billion
• Nintendo would rather be defined as an “entertainment” company, not a gaming one
• Wi-Fi branding to get a lot simpler with upcoming “Wi-Fi 6″
• ‘Presidential Alert’ Goes to Millions of Cellphones Across the U.S.
• Amazon Announces New Fire TV Stick Featuring 4K Support, and All-New Alexa Voice Remote
• Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans
• YouTube TV is rolling out a bunch of new features to woo cord cutters away from cable TV
• Instagram prototyping feature that would share your detailed location data with Facebook
• Google Assistant can now help book rides from Uber, Lyft, and others
• Jeff Bezos’s pet aerospace exploration project is planning to send “several metric tons” of unspecified cargo to the Moon in the next five years.
• Maps for self-driving cars

• As Magic Leap preps for its first developer conference, the focus shifts to content
• Alexa skills can now offer one-time-use purchases, like in-game hints or points
• Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago
• Stripe is now valued at $20B after raising another $245M led by Tiger Global
• UK cyber security firm Darktrace raises $50M, now valued at $1.65B
• Google is using AI to predict floods in India and warn users… Google Blog Post
• Daimler Changes CEO as It Focuses on Electric Future
• Windows 10 passes 700 million devices
• A Japanese company has announced a long-term plan to develop the Moon
• eBay is now selling wireless plans with secondhand phones
• WEF The Future of Jobs Report 2018

• The long list of new Alexa devices Amazon announced at its hardware event
• Scientists have moved one step closer to RNA editing, which could be the next stage of CRISPR
• Disney has a million subscribers for its ESPN streaming-only service, which launched in April
• A Google programmer just published a book of hilarious cartoons that shows what it’s really like to work at the search giant
• ...This year, according to people familiar with Apple’s production plans, the company prioritized production of its two pricier OLED models…The staggered release gives Apple a month to sell the higher-end models without cheaper competition from itself. It also simplifies logistics and retail demands and could strengthen Apple’s ability to forecast sales and production of all three models through the Christmas holidays, analysts and supply chain experts said… WSJ
•  Five security settings in iOS 12 you should change right now
• Polestar unveils first production EV with aim to overtake Tesla
• Germany’s Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech on Track
• Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two — and one part will be led by China
• Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021

• Amazon-sponsored product ads
• Tesla to drop some colour options for cars to simplify production
• Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet swells 27% in four months
• Everything Apple announced at it’s September 12 ‘Gather Round’ event
• Venture-Capital Firm Kleiner Perkins Plans to Split, and Mary Meeker is
• Apple is talking to big newspapers about joining its subscription service
• Why Roku isn’t afraid of competition from Apple, Google and Amazon
• ChargePoint is adding 2.5M electric vehicle chargers over the next 7 years
• Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations
• SpaceX will be announcing  a plan to send someone around the moon
• Microsoft acquires Lobe, a drag-and-drop AI tool
• The US Navy’s newest submarine comes with an Xbox controller

• Mercedes-Benz unveils the EQC to kick off $12 billion electric offensive
• Amazon opens its largest Amazon Go convenience store yet
• Airbnb for Work is getting bigger
• Amazon became the second publicly traded U.S. company to hit the $1 trillion market cap milestone
• Opportunity rover still MIA as the dust settles on Mars
• Google Chrome is 10 years old
• This is how computers “predict the future”
• China is becoming the electric car market for the world
• Global Tree Cover Has Expanded More Than 7 Percent Since 1982
• Volvo’s 360c concept car is a fully autonomous bedroom on wheels…Volvo Cars is taking aim at the aviation industry, saying self-driving vehicles could eliminate the need for some short-haul flights.
• New Zeeland Bunkers
• AI beats doctors at predicting heart disease deaths
• Dyson Moves Ahead on $2.6 Billion E-Car Plan With Test Track
• Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping
• Japanese engineers begin work on a space elevator

We’ve built the impossible: a full-sized LEGO Technic @Bugatti Chiron …and it drives! #BuildforReal pic.twitter.com/8YPxk7miGZ

— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) August 30, 2018

• Germany reaches 100K home battery storage installations
• Designing the Future of Work
• Report: Future Scenarios and Implications for the Industry
• Chinese investments in AI, chips, and electric vehicles have reached an estimated $300 billion
• Innovation and Culture at Amazon
• Report: The New Physics of Financial Services – How artificial intelligence is transforming the financial ecosystem
• Amazon’s Dominance in E-commerce
• How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix
• Cary Fukunaga Doesn’t Mind Taking Notes from Netflix’s Algorithm
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Alvin Toffler
• Amazon is preparing to roll out new, free video streaming services for Fire TV users
• Essential Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Engineers
• Apple announces the September 12 event, and new iPhones are likely
• LEGO built a drivable Bugatti Chiron out of a million pieces of Technic
• Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants
• Microsoft has introduced an AI-infused web design tool called Sketch2Code that converts hand-drawn webpage mockups into functional HTML markup