• 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

• Alibaba cloud business grew 93 per cent in the most recent quarter to $710 million
• World Bank launches first bond instrument built on a blockchain with the Australian Bank
• Waymo has opened a subsidiary in China…The unit, called Huimo Business Consulting Co., opened in Shanghai on May 22…
• AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
• Jeff Bezos could buy all of Amazon’s inventory, and then buy all of Boeing’s and Walmart’s too
• Apple, IBM, and Google don’t care anymore if you went to college
• A Kenyan nonprofit’s innovative aerial water system just won it the world’s largest humanitarian prize
• Danish Maersk container ship trials Arctic route from South Korea to St. Petersburg
• Q-Yachts delivers first all-electric day cruiser yacht
• Tesla is working on ‘car karaoke’ mode with version 10 software update, says Elon Musk
• Eventbrite files for $200 million IPO
• Apple Has Hired 46 Ex-Tesla Employees This Year: Report
• In 1973, an MIT computer predicted the end of civilization. So far, it’s on target.
• Why mining the water on the Moon could open up space exploration
• Self-driving cars will destroy a lot of jobs—they’ll also create a lot

• Vector is a robot for grownups
• App Annie: Android users will download 170 billion apps in 2018 thanks to Fortnite
• Amazon Is in the Running to Buy a Movie Theater Chain
• Amazon Is in the Early Stages of Entering the Health Insurance Comparison Business
• PitchBook Data : 2018 Unicorn Report
• Alexa and Cortana integration starts rolling out
• Square cuts chip card processing time by 44% to 2 seconds
• BCG Report: Television’s $30 Billion Battlefield
• Apple could launch glasses in 2020, Apple Car in 2023, predicts analyst with strong track record
• Netflix tests subscriber payment approach to cut Apple out

• How AI Is Changing Sales
• How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry
• Why Uber will win the scooter wars
• MessageBird offers single API for customer comms across WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger and more
• Facebook builds its own AR games for Messenger video chat
• The global heat wave as seen by satellites, airplanes, and weather stations
• Snap’s strategy shifts win over advertisers more than users
• The new genre of artificial intelligence programs take computer hacking to another level
• When bots teach themselves to cheat
• Why urban farming is changing the future of agriculture
• (in Turkish) Levent Erden – Dijital CEO ile Teknoloji Sohbetleri #46
• Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak…Snapchat’s user base shrank by three million people last quarter
• Visualizing real 3D weather using satellite imagery and SceneKit
• “…It takes approximately half a billion files, or about 600 terabytes of storage and 120 million core hours of rendering, to create an animated feature-length film, Mr. Wike said. Put another way, it would take about 15,000 years to create a film on a laptop, he said…The company employs 800 artists worldwide and 200 IT and software development staff. Its on-premise data center consists of 48,000 processing cores…” WSJ
• Magic Leap’s headset is real, but that may not be enough
• Here’s how Fortnite hooked 125 million players
• ‘Stories’ was Instagram’s smartest move yet
• Gaming chat app Discord will start selling games to its 150 million users
• Tinder will generate more than $800 million in revenue this year
• Apple hints at plan to build a car after all as it rehires ex-Tesla engineering head

• WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
• WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product “Business API“
• Boeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight
• some Netflix error messages (Twitter)
• New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
• Walmart pilots a grocery-picking robot to fulfill customers’ online orders
• Will self-driving cars kill parking?
• Arm acquires data management service Treasure Data to bolster its IoT platform
• Rent the Runway bet on the death of clothing ownership — and now it’s doubling down
• Musk Confirms Massive Compute Required, But Is Developing Their Own Processor The Right Direction?
• Fortnite is ditching Google Play in a grab for even more money

• Google joins the race to $1 trillion
• SpaceX’s Third Hyperloop Pod Competition
• Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox range reportedly includes a powerful console and a game streaming device
• Yelp now tells you how clean your favorite restaurant is
• Luke Wroblewski: What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design
• SoftBank Plans Payments Service for Japan by Year-End
• Europe launched four more Galileo satellites on Wednesday, taking the number in orbit to 26 and moving a step closer to having its own navigation system
• In a novel study to find out how early our instinct for cooperation begins, Yale researchers performed an experiment with kids between the ages of four and 10.
• It is not the brain that determines if people are right or left-handed, but the spinal cord
• Google is building “virtual agents” to handle call centers’ grunt work
• What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages
• AI defeats elite doctors in diagnosis competition
• Netflix is adding over 100 new user profile icons
• Google Cloud Next Conference Videos

• An executive’s guide to AI
• Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTO
• How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day
• WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation
• Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
• Disney’s streaming service is resurrecting ‘The Clone Wars’
• For the first time, Microsoft brought in more than $100 billion in the last year
• Extremely high-res outtakes from Apollo 11’s 1969 moon landing
• all of Recode’s interviews from Code 2018
• Microsoft Emerges as Clear No. 2 in Cloud Computing
• How Does Spotify Know You So Well?
• China pours $1 billion into a ‘Hyperloop’ for cars
• Toshiba’s flash chips could boost SSD capacity by 500 per cent
• Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers
• A new report estimates that “Fortnite: Battle Royale” has generated a billion dollars in revenue.
• Google has been stealthily working on a successor to Android, and engineers reportedly want to start rolling it out within three years
• Robots as nurses’ assistants
• Facebook’s AI tourist finds its way around New York City by asking for help from another algorithm

• For the first time, Netflix tops HBO for most Emmy nominations
• Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem
• Project Loon and Project Wing graduate from Google X
• Apple partnered with Blackmagic Design on an external GPU for MacBooks
• Broadcom acquires CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash
• Technology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones
• SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics
• Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
• Adobe could bring Photoshop to the iPad
• Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
• From Twitter : Amazon has more than twice as much of the online retail market as its next 10 competitors combined
• 3-D metal printing