Weekly#262

Spotify’s first day of trading will be April 3
…Apple’s market cap is at an all-time high of more than $922 billion. Soon it could be the first company to reach a $1 trillion valuation…
Facebook launches Express Wi-Fi app for its local-operated hotspots
Don’t foul this free-throwing Toyota basketball robot
Amazon’s top original shows generated an estimated 5M new Prime members
Experian acquires UK’s ClearScore and its financial product matching engine for $385M
Astronaut’s DNA no longer matches that of his identical twin, NASA finds…Preliminary results from NASA’s Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly’s genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago…
Russia will launch a mission to Mars in 2019
GM is spending $100 million on production-ready autonomous cars
Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go
…The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead
Lyft will build self-driving cars with top auto parts supplier Magna
China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education
With millions of users, WeChat’s mini-programs draw favor among the diverse range of businesses

Weekly#261

YouTube Studio exiting beta, adds new metrics for impressions, unique viewers
Netflix is worth more than GE or Ford
Airbnb has hired a former head of Amazon Prime to run its core business
Netflix says 70 percent of its streams end up on connected TVs
Next big Windows update will bring hardware-accelerated machine learning
The nine types of startups Y Combinator thinks the world needs in 2018
Self-Flying Aircraft Can Be a $30 Billion Industry by 2036, Study Suggests
SpaceX launches its largest satellite ever
Digital Transformation Review 11 – Artificial Intelligence Decoded
How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt
Next Up for Amazon: Checking Accounts
Drones help bring back electricity in Puerto Rico
Ethereum’s smart contracts are full of holes
Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP
Twitter may eventually let anyone become verified
Notes from Coursera Deep Learning courses

Weekly#260

Amazon is taking photos of your front door to show when packages have been delivered
Google launched a simple browser-based sequencer for making music
Amazon is reportedly trying to turn Alexa into a real-time translator
Uber is driving patients to their doctors in a big grab for medical transit market
Amazon buys itself Ring, its second-biggest acquisition after Whole Foods
Square’s Venmo competitor — the Cash app — had more than seven million customers in December
Mobile World Congress shifts focus from gadgets to 5G
Telegram hits 100m users and commits to remaining ad-free
Self-driving cars will profoundly change the way people live
Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling
Toyota venture to spend $2.8 billion to develop self-driving technology
Moon to get first mobile phone network
Building Your Smart Applications with Amazon AI

Weekly#259

Google Assistant will support over 30 languages by year-end, become multilingual
SpaceX misses catching Falcon 9 rocket fairing with a giant net on a big ship
SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites — the first of nearly 12,000
Google says more than 40 carriers and device manufacturers now use its platform for RCS, the next generation of SMS
Gartner reports first ever global decline in smartphone sales
Harley Davidson’s EV debut could electrify the motorcycle industry
The line between Airbnb and your average hotel is thinning…Airbnb is rolling out programs like hotel bookings and loyalty programs that make it look more like the industry it is trying to disrupt…
Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year
Amazon is now worth more than 2.5 Walmarts
Nike’s latest Air Jordan sneaker ‘drop’ showcased the potential of Snapchat commerce
Circle has bought Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange, for around $400 million
As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change

Weekly#258

Twitter, YouTube, Amazon and Verizon are competing for streaming rights to the NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’
Atari stock jumps 52% on plans for nostalgia-backed cryptocurrencies
Dyson Plans To Build Three Electric Cars
GPUs on Google’s Kubernetes Engine are now available in open beta
Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand
SpaceX will launch the first of its global internet satellites
Website follows journey of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster through space
Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO
Hasbro Is Getting Into Crowdfunding
13 ways AI will change your business in 2018
Digital Transformation Infographic
New AWS Developer Training in Collaboration with edX.org
China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley

Weekly#257

Uber Agrees Not to Use Waymo Technology in Self-Driving Cars…Under settlement, Uber also will give Waymo equity worth about $245 million
Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS
Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, will be live from Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 pm PT / 10:30 pm ET.
5 Disruptions to Marketing, Part 5: Artificial Intelligence (2018 Update)
Scott Galloway at DLD Munich 2018
DLD 2018 Videos
“…The 230-foot rocket, which featured 27 engines with the combined thrust of some 18 Boeing Co. 747 jumbo jets, climbed into clear skies at 3:45 p.m. local time. It carried a Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload and publicity stunt…”
This electronic skin can heal itself — and then make more skin
Siri on HomePod Correctly Answered 52.3% of Queries in New AI Test
The rise of personal searches
Apple sold more watches than Rolex, Swatch, and the rest of the Swiss watch industry combined
Welcome to the Post-Text Future

Weekly#256

The UX of AI (Google Design)
Digital in 2018 Global Overview
How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You
WhatsApp 1.5 B monthly active users
Amazon has posted a profit for 11 straight quarters
Augmented Reality helps surgeons to ‘see through’ tissue and reconnect blood vessels
Chinese satellite uses quantum cryptography for secure video conference between continents
Bias Is the Real AI Danger
The Autonomy Ecosystem: From Self-Driving Cars to Beyond!
Apple has ~75% of the wearables market
Can big data predict which bills will pass Congress?

Weekly#255

2017 Retrospective: A Monumental Year for the App Economy
Facebook bought a startup that specializes in verifying government IDs
Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
Netflix now has nearly 118 million streaming subscribers globally
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
Photos: Here’s what the new Amazon Go cashierless convenience store looks like
Facebook appoints a new AI research head
Apple will release its HomePod on February 9
Alexa’s cousins have plans to infiltrate the financial industry
Google is working on bringing AR to Chrome with downloadable 3D objects
Stripe will end bitcoin support because customers aren’t interested
Google Assistant can now match voices to specific Netflix profiles
DJI is taking over every inch of the drone market
First Look at Nintendo Labo
Airbnb reached full-year profitability for 2017, and it’s adding a former Amex CEO to its board
Davos World Economic Forum 2018 Videos
Annual smartphone shipments in China declined for the first time in 2017
Research into full-body tracking at Facebook hints at broader AR/VR ambitions
Meg Whitman to Lead Mobile-Video Startup New TV
WEF 2018: AI is more profound than electricity or fire, says Sundar Pichai
UK teenagers are to be taught about artificial intelligence with the launch of a new deep learning teaching kit
5 ways voice assistance is shaping consumer behaviour
the new AI-related company has been created in the UK every week for the last three years.
Netflix is five times cheaper than Pay TV on an hourly basis:
Pay TV: $0.73/hour
Netflix: $0.15/hour

Weekly#254

Now Open – Third AWS Availability Zone in London
Amazon brings voice control to its Alexa app for Android, with iOS coming soon
Apple has hired tech team from data science startup SVDS
…Foursquare’s data, with over 3 billion visits/month around the globe, 105 million global venues, and 25 million people globally…
a new TV series with MSNBC about tech, jobs and the future
Facebook wants more people watching videos together at the same time…a new feature called “Watch Party” to try and make that happen…
Tech Nation 2018 UK Survey
Microsoft execs say in 20 years we’ll all have digital assistants that will be our alter egos — and we need to set ground rules while we still can
Google’s mysterious new operating system looks completely different from Android
Amazon raises price of its Prime membership

Weekly#253

Nissan Demonstrates Brain-to-Vehicle Device (Goal is to enhance driver performance for manual driving and improve passenger experience during autonomous mode)
Germany has gone live with one of the most onerous laws aimed at forcing Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to police content on their platforms.
Verizon to sharpen content strategy with OTT video service, IoT platform
Facebook’s Sandberg and Twitter’s Dorsey to quit Disney board
The Tech Trends From CES 2018 That Will Actually Matter
Amazon’s ad revenue could reach $4.5 billion in 2018, according to an analyst note by JPMorgan.
AI Could Diagnose Your Heart Attack on the Phone—Even If You’re Not the Caller
Here’s how Amazon’s and Apple’s new smart speakers stack up with consumers
Microsoft is touting “Always Connected PCs,” a new initiative with its partners for super-thin LTE-enabled laptops with as much as 20 hours of battery life.
Larry Page-backed asteroid mining company launches CubeSat with experimental water detection tech
Amazon has quietly released a game changer for its cloud: Linux software that runs on corporate servers
Facebook’s Oculus boss thinks standalone headsets are the key to getting a billion people into VR & Facebook’s Oculus is launching a new VR headset in China
Dropbox IPO
Domino’s Pizza’s stock price grew faster than Amazon’s, Apple’s or Google
Will VR be the future of reading?
Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy
Google just acquired a startup that transforms screens into speakers
More than half of UK businesses still unaware of GDPR