Weekly#286

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

Weekly#285

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

Weekly#284

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

Weekly#283

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

Weekly#282

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

Weekly#281

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

Deep learning – a primer from Shirin Glander

Weekly#280

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

Weekly#279

“…Tesla says it has reached a manufacturing milestone, producing more than 5,000 Model 3 sedans in a week. Now the electric-car maker must prove it’s not a one-time achievement...”
VW plans to launch an all-electric car sharing service next year
The Story Of WinRAR’s Neverending 40-Day Trial
A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
Home security is expected to be a $47.5 billion business by 2020
Google is Reportedly Looking to Take Over Call Centers With Its Duplex AI Assistant…”…The research firm ResearchAndMarkets projects the cloud-based customer call-centre market will reach about $21 billion by 2022—up from $6.8 billion in 2017…”
Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog
Wireless speaker maker Sonos Inc files for IPO
Renault aims to launch Paris car-sharing scheme in September
“…Netflix will spend $12bn-13bn on content this year, $3bn-4bn more than last year. That extra spending alone would be enough to pay for all of HBO’s programming—or the BBC’s…”

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2018: A Good Old Fashioned Report from Nathan Benaich

Weekly#278

Facebook’s new patent
Amazon private label
Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy PillPack for $1 Billion
Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles
Now AI is beating us at our favorite video games
Verizon is shutting down go90
New York to Boston in 36 minutes thanks to VTOL air taxi, says Transcend Air
Snap is launching a gaming platform
Airbnb aims to be ‘ready’ to go public from June 30, 2019, creates cash bonus program for staff
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Google Maps may be getting Waze’s best feature: incident reporting
New study: Wind power will work on Mars. This is a game-changer.
Google researchers created an amazing scene-rendering AI

Weekly#277

Developers can now take Google App Maker out for a test drive
IBM Unveils System That ‘Debates’ With Humans
Amazon launches an Alexa system for hotels
The top ten games from E3 2018
Roblox, the hit gaming company you may not have heard of, could be worth $2.5 billion
Amazon’s try-before-you-buy fashion service is now available to all Prime members
AT&T launches a low-cost live TV streaming service, WatchTV
PayPal to buy Simility, a specialist in AI-based fraud and risk management, for $120M
The Legend of Nintendo
New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks
Microsoft matches Google Lens with AI-powered visual search for Bing
Google Assistant’s Continued Conversations feature makes voice commands less awkward
6 Free UX Design Courses From Top Universities Worldwide
Affordable Satellite Communication By Bivystick
Live image detection with iOS 12
The market cap of Netflix just passed Citigroup
How robots are changing the farming industry
US Digital Currency
Uber drivers made more than $600 million in tips in one year