“…On any given weekday some 50m meetings are held in American workplaces alone. The average executive now spends 23 hours in them eachweek…”
See It. Feel It. Live It. Get the details on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a 2-night adventure launching at Walt Disney World in Spring 2022. 💫 https://t.co/Q4WaeIyX9Lpic.twitter.com/yqKLOzNHYE
Delta COVID variant now dominant strain worldwide, U.S. deaths surge –officials…”This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said, adding that 97% of people entering hospitals in the United States with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
Gallium, once an industrial-waste product, is transforming our increasingly electrified world (WSJ)
Apple Delays Office Return as Covid-19 Delta Variant Spreads
DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science…AlphaFold program’s prediction of nearly 20,000 human protein structures now free for researchers
Mercedes-Benz to build eight battery factories in push to become electric-only automaker by 2030
Twitter’s revenue jumps as ad revamp pays off (FT)
Robotaxis: have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology? (FT)
Google is starting to tell you how it found Search results
Why vertical farms could be the next big microgrid market
Ad spending per vehicle sold:⁰⁰Hyundai Genesis: $1,955
Lincoln: $1,553
Jaguar: $1,235
Lexus: $984⁰Cadillac: $908⁰Honda: $183⁰Mini: $91⁰Dodge: $78
Mitsubishi: $43⁰Tesla: $0⁰⁰Source: Ad Age (2020 spending) pic.twitter.com/5T6mRSnwzZ
Anyone is building a marketplace for advice, one 5-minute call at a time
Railsbank raises $70M to build out its fintech-as-a-service platform
Walmart will be bringing Symbotic robots to 25 distribution centers
“…today around 30% of the world’s population is exposed to a deadly combination of heat and humidity for at least 20 days each year, that percentage will increase to nearly half by 2100, even with the most drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions…”
History teaches us how to be brutally honest about a problem and yet optimistic for a technological solution
One of Dubai’s Oldest Lenders Prepares for a Digital-Only Future
A Neanderthal carved a geometric design in bone 51,000 years ago
If we want to look for life on Europa, we’d better bring a drill
Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs…Pepper, SoftBank’s robot, malfunctioned during scripture readings, took breaks in exercise class and couldn’t recognize the faces of family members (WSJ)
Our brains “read” expressions of illusory faces in things just like real faces…”For the brain, fake or real, faces are all processed the same way.”
Every meeting of the flemish government in Belgium is live streamed on a YouTube channel. Software is searching for phones and tries to identify a distracted politician. This with the help of AI. The results are then posted to social with the politician tagged. By @driesdepoorterpic.twitter.com/QUQHiYx2HI
— The Flemish Scrollers (@FlemishScroller) July 5, 2021
Global mobile data traffic is projected to reach massive 237 EB per month in 2026. Globally, the average usage-per-smartphone now exceeds 10 GB/month and is forecast to reach 35 GB/month by the end of 2026. #5Gpic.twitter.com/MvTHl7eMy6
You must be logged in to post a comment.