Germany’s Fraunhofer FKIE institute, who’ve built a drone prototype designed to find people by detecting human screams and listening for other signs of distress.
Google’s adtech business set to face formal EU probe by year-end –sources
The smart home gym that analyzes your moves will soon have Olympian trainers
Amazon’s Halo body fat percentage calculator outperforms lab devices
The concept behind mRNA as a drug is strikingly simple: it is the molecule that your own cells use to carry instructions from your genes, written in a simple four-letter chemical language.In 1815 a volcanic eruption wreaked havoc around the world. But it led to the birth of the bicycle (Economist)
Apple Loses Multiple Top Managers From Self-Driving Car Division
DHL will deploy 2,000 Locus Robotics units by 2022
Etsy buys British fashion app Depop for $1.6bn in ‘Gen Z’ push (FT)
Ransomware attack hits meat industry and Massachusetts ferries
7-Eleven to install 500 EV charging ports by the end of 2022
Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
The UK Has a Plan for a New ‘Pandemic Radar’ System
The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning. “…The concept behind mRNA as a drug is strikingly simple: it is the molecule that your own cells use to carry instructions from your genes, written in a simple four-letter chemical language.….Moderna has taken to calling mRNA therapies the “software of life”, or an “operating system” for medicine…“
Apple ‘homeOS’ Mentioned in Job Listing Ahead of WWDC
Spotted the WhatsApp for iPad official app, under development
EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet
United Airlines announced it was purchasing a fleet of 15 planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound.
Amazon Agrees to Buy MGM Film Studio for $8.45 Billion
This AI makes Robert De Niro perform lines in flawless German
Heirloom Carbon Technologies believes carbon removal for $50 a ton, and aims to remove one billion tons by 2035
The wearables, includes smartwatches, fitness trackers, and augmented reality glasses—shipped more than 100 million units in the first quarter for the first time, according to research firm IDC
Ford Expects 40% of Global Vehicle Volume to Be Fully Electric By 2030 (WSJ)
Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It…As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market (WSJ)
Tesla starts using in-car camera for Autopilot driver monitoring
Big Data Model Takes Local London Team to Soccer’s Richest Game
Sony lists PC version of Uncharted 4 in investor report
Zero-gravity space fridge could keep astronaut food fresh for years
China has landed a rover on Mars for the first time—here’s what happens next
Another media acquisition? This one would involve Amazon, MGM, and ~$9B
Toy Retailer Rolls Out Online Shopping for Kids as Young as 3 (WSJ)
Spotify will auto-transcribe podcasts over the coming weeks
How space weather could wreck NASA’s return to the moon…A new study suggests that extreme solar activity might make future Artemis missions too dangerous to launch later this decade.
Apple launches an affiliate program for paid podcast subscriptions
China’s JD Logistics set to raise $3.2 billion in Hong Kong IPO
Snap announces new Spectacles AR glasses, which let you overlay digital objects on the real world
Snap emphasizes commerce in updates to its camera and AR platforms
Tencent Q1 profit rises 65% as online gaming revenue climbs
Denial of Electricity Service Could Become Next Geopolitical Weapon…with electricity expected to account for a large share of the world’s energy use by 2050, the stakes are high (WSJ)
Google announces its first-ever physical retail store
20 percent of Switch sales now going to households that already had a Switch
Google, Samsung, and Fitbit team up to save Wear OS
factory14 raises $200M to jump into the Amazon marketplace roll-up race
Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms
The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product
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