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Weekly#158

  • The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
  • Volkswagen’s Audi (VOWG_p.DE), Daimler’s (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes-Benz, BMW (BMWG.DE) and car industry suppliers Bosch and Continental (CONG.DE) are all working on technologies for autonomous or semi-autonomous cars.Earlier on Friday, Germany’s Manager Magazin reported that Uber had placed an order for at least 100,000 Mercedes S-Class cars, citing sources at both companies.The top-flight limousine, around 100,000 of which Mercedes-Benz sold last year, does not yet have fully autonomous driving functionality.Another source familiar with the matter said no order had been placed with Mercedes-Benz. Daimler and Uber declined to comment. (Reuters)
  • Domino’s has announced the world’s first pizza delivery robot (QZ)
  • It’s been a week of extremes for Google’s artificial intelligence efforts, as the company luxuriates in the afterglow of winning a board game tournament against one of the world’s top players, while it privately tries to sell one of its most visible robotics efforts.
    Google’s decision to try to shed its Boston Dynamics robotics group highlights a fundamental research problem: software is far easier to develop and test than hardware. That’s especially true when dealing with artificial intelligence and robotics….To develop robots, you have two options: You can either simulate an environment and robot with software and hope the results are accurate enough that you can load it into a machine and watch it walk. Or you can skip the simulation and tinker directly on a robot, hoping you can learn things from the real world– but that’s awfully slow. (Business Week)
  • Ikea’s Newest Product Introduces Hydroponics To Mainstream America
    (Hydroponics is a plant-growing method that involves no soil.) (FastCoDesign)
  • Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store (Tech Crunch)
  • The study from the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, Va., shows that immigrants started more than half of the current crop of U.S.-based startups valued at $1 billion or more. (WSJ)
  • Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song (QZ)
  • Earlier this week, Sony announced that its PlayStation VR would be available for the low price of just $399. Given that competing VR headsets like the Oculus are at least $200 more expensive, people were pretty excited about it. In fact, purchases of the PlayStation camera went up 3000 percent on Amazon (Move controllers went up 1000 percent), according to Ars Technica. (TechCrunch)

 

Weekly#157

  • Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer says it’s going to operate its own air cargo network in the US, a move that points to its larger ambitions to build out a comprehensive factory-to-doorstep delivery system to serve its customers. Amazon signed a five- to seven-year lease with Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group for twenty Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, the company says (Wired)
  • With AI Scry, you’ll never have to wonder how your iPhone would describe the world around you if it was capable of autonomous thinking.Available for iOS, AI Scry is a new app that generates automatic descriptions of whatever appears in front of your phone’s camera.(TNW)
  • Snapchat has a secret team possibly building a pair of smart glasses
  • An AI expert says Google’s Go-playing program is missing 1 key feature of human intelligence…
    …But when it comes to big-picture intelligence, Sutton said, AlphaGo is missing one key thing: the ability to learn how the world works — such as an understanding of the laws of physics, and the consequences of one’s actions….
    “There’s a 50% chance we figure out [human-level] intelligence by 2040 — and it could well happen by 2030,” he said.
  • At this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of American cloud computing firm, SalesForce, argued that every country should have a minister of future.“As a society,” Benioff said, “we are entering uncharted territory, a new world in which governments, business leaders, the scientific community and citizens need to work together to define the paths that direct these technologies at improving the human condition and minimising the risks.” (WEF)
  • The Seven Lessons Of Marissa Mayer’s Loss Of Command At Yahoo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#156

  • It has long been rumored that Medium would let you monetize your posts on the service, and a new interview with Evan Williams, Medium’s CEO, confirms that the company plans to launch that very soon.Williams told the BBC that the company plans to launch monetization by the end of this quarter, which includes advertising but won’t allow banner ads, instead focusing on ‘sponsored content. (TNW)
  • The Italian soccer club AS Roma  has won six out of its last seven games, a result that has thrilled fans.One reason for the winning streak, according to Chris Pallotta, an investment officer at Raptor Capital Management, is the club’s relationship with a San Francisco-based analytics startup called Tag.bio.

    Spun out of the University of California San Francisco, which is the UC system’s health sciences school, and founded by two amateur soccer players, Tag.bio has created software that helps AS Roma scout players, group players and analyze before a game how the opposing team is expected to perform. (WSJ)

  • In 2015, Netflix accounted for about half of the overall 3% decline in TV viewing time among U.S. audiences, according to a new study by Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson. The analyst calculated that based on an estimate that Netflix’s domestic subs streamed 29 billion hours of video last year (Netflix said members worldwide watched 42.5 billion hours in 2015). That would represent 6% of total American live-plus-7 TV viewing reported by Nielsen (up from 4.4% in 2014). (Variety)
  • The Cult of Done Manifesto (source)
  • The Future of Jobs (World Economic Forum) (pdf)
  • The Robot Renaissance Map (pdf) (source)
  • Multitasking is Killing Your Brain (Medium)
  • What’s Next in Computing? (Medium)
  • IOT for Smart City (Slideshare)
  • Türkiye’de Mobilin Gücü (Slideshare)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Weekly#154

  • Technology, Social Change, and Future Scenarios (Frank Diana’s Blog)
  • Wireless: the next generation (Economist)
  • robotic arm helped this man drum again (BI)
  • You’re Probably Listening to Spotify Wrong. Be a Power User (Wired)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Weekly#153

  • Qualcomm, its forthcoming Snapdragon X16 modem chip can let smartphones or other mobile devices download data at rates of up to 1 gigabit—up from its prior top download speed of 600 megabits a second—and upload 150 megabits a second. (WSJ)
  • 7 signs Apple TV is changing television (Computer World)
  • With Quartz’s App, You Don’t Read the News. You Chat With It (Wired)
  • Google’s Hardware Endgame? Making Its Very Own Chips (Wired)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#152

  • You probably know to ask yourself, “What do I want?” Here’s a way better question (QZ)
  • Cisco VNI IndexGlobal Mobile Data Traffic Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
    • By 2020:
      • Global mobile data traffic will reach 30.6 exabytes per month — up from 3.7 exabytes in 2015.
      • Annual global mobile data traffic will reach 366.8 exabytes — up from 44.2 exabytes in 2015.
    • The forecast annual run rate of 366.8 exabytes of mobile data traffic for 2020 is equivalent to:
      • 120X more than all global mobile traffic generated just 10 years ago in 2010.
      • 81 trillion images (e.g., MMS or Instagram) — 28 daily images per person on earth for a year.
      • 7 trillion video clips (e.g., YouTube) — more than 2.5 daily video clips per person on earth for a year.
    • From 2015 to 2020, global mobile data traffic will grow two times faster than global fixed IP traffic.
    • In 2015, 51 percent of total mobile data traffic was offloaded; by 2020, 55 percent of total mobile data traffic will be offloaded.
    • By 2020, over 75 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video.

    Mobile Devices and Connections Are Getting Smarter

    • There will be 11.6 billion mobile-ready devices/connections — including 8.5 billion personal mobile devices and 3.1 billion M2M connections — up from 7.9 billion total mobile-ready devices and M2M connections in 2015.
    • Globally, 67 percent of mobile devices/connections will be ‘smart’ by 2020 — up from 36 percent in 2015.
    • Globally, 98 percent of mobile data traffic will come from ‘smart’ devices/connections by 2020 — up from 89 percent in 2015.
    • Smartphones, laptops, and tablets will drive about 92 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 — down from 94 percent in 2015. M2M traffic will represent 7 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 — up from 3 percent in 2015; while basic handsets will account for 1 percent of global mobile data traffic by 2020 — down from 3 percent in 2015.
    • By 2020:
      • 66 percent of mobile devices/connections will be IPv6-capable — up from 36 percent in 2015.
      • IPv6 traffic will be 54 percent of total mobile data traffic — up from 13 percent in 2015.

    Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Connections and Wearable Devices Continue to Rise
    M2M refers to applications that enable wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability (e.g., GPS/navigation, asset tracking, utility meters, security/surveillance video, healthcare monitoring, et al.). Wearable devices can be worn (e.g., smart watches and health monitors) and communicate to the network either directly via embedded cellular connectivity or through another device (primarily a smartphone) via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. Wearable devices are a subset of the M2M category in the forecast.

    • By 2020, M2M connections will represent 26.4 percent of mobile-connected devices — up from 7.7 percent in 2015.
    • By 2020, M2M connections will generate 6.7 percent of total mobile traffic — up from 2.7 percent in 2015.
    • Global wearables will grow six-fold from 2015 to 2020.
    • By 2020, there will be more than 600 million wearable devices in use, up from nearly 97 million in 2015.

    Mobile Network Speeds and 4G Connection Growth

    • Average global mobile network speeds will increase 3.2 fold from 2015 (2.0 Mbps) to 2020 (6.5 Mbps). Global 4G adoption is the primary catalyst for mobile speed improvements.
    • By 2020:
      • 4G connections will account for 40.5 percent of all mobile connections — up from 13.7 percent in 2015.
      • 3G connections will account for 38.7 percent of all mobile connections — up from 33.7 percent in 2015.
      • 2G connections will account for 13.5 percent all mobile connections — down from 52.3 percent in 2015.
    • 4G traffic will grow 13-fold from 2015 to 2020.
    • By 2020, 4G connections will account for 72 percent of total mobile data traffic — up from 47 percent of total mobile data traffic in 2015.

    Wi-Fi Hotspots Are Growing

    • Globally, total Wi-Fi hotspots, including home spots, will grow 7X from 2015 (64 million) to 2020 (432 million). Globally, home spots will grow from 57 million (2015) to 423 million (2020).
    • In 2015, monthly Wi-Fi offload traffic (3.9 exabytes) exceeded monthly mobile/cellular traffic (3.7 exabytes) for the first time.
    • By 2020, 38.1 exabytes Wi-Fi offload traffic will be generated each month, continuing to exceed projected monthly mobile/cellular traffic (30.6 exabytes).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#151

  • Hong Kong Startup Ecosystem Report (compass)
  • A Search Engine for Your Memories
    An inventor at IBM has patented technology for a cognitive assistant that could learn all about you, then remind you of a name you can’t remember the moment you need to say it.(The Atlantic)
  • Apple Reports 1 Billion “Active” Devices (Tech Crunch)
  • Facebook Inc. on Wednesday posted more than $1 billion in quarterly profit for the first time (WSJ)
  • AWS revenues grew about 69% between Q4 2015 and the year-ago quarter, going from $1.42 billion to $2.41 billion.AWS is also profitable, and profits nearly tripled, from $240 million to $687 million.

    Microsoft’s overall revenue from server products plus Azure was about $5.1 billion, the vast majority of the “Intelligent Cloud” segment’s overall $6.34 billion (the rest comes from consulting and support) (Business Insider)

  • There’s over 200 separate individual parts” in the iPhone’s camera module…The iPhone’s camera is so good because 800 people are working on it (The Verge)

  • Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus Secret Camera Project Revealed
    April, Apple made a $20 million purchase of the camera technology company LinX Computational Imaging Ltd and, in so doing, acquired technologies enabling the use of multiple cameras which can combine their outputs into a single image with claimed DSLR-like quality. (Fortune)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#150

  • Foxconn Offers $5.3 Billion to Take Over Sharp (WSJ)
  • Uber Prepares Meal-Delivery Service for 10 U.S. Cities
    Customers in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere will be able to use dedicated UberEats app (WSJ)
  • Startup Pays Cash to Buy Homes, Flip Them (WSJ)
  • Hyperloop Race Picks Up Speed (WSJ)
  • Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on IPhone (Bloomberg)
  • DLD 2016 Conference Videos (Youtube)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#149

  • The Obama administration is proposing to spend nearly $4 billion in a decade to accelerate the acceptance of driverless cars on U.S. roads and curb traffic fatalities and travel delays. (WSJ)
  • Google mapped out a massive model city with a mini Street View car and it’s incredible (Business Insider)
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  • Netflix just announced its first comedy show from a YouTube star (Business Insider)
  • Microsoft has finished rolling out Skype Translator to all Windows users (Business Insider)
  • China’s Xiaomi missed its target for 2015 and shipped just over 70 million handsets (Business Insider)
  • YouTube, Netflix Claim 55% Of Total North American Downstream Internet Traffic