• “…Capital markets think a new era is dawning: conventional banks now account for only 72% of the total market value of the global banking and payments industry, down from 81% at the start of the year…”
• Owning an electric car really does save money, Consumer Reports finds…Most EVs are $6,000-$10,000 cheaper to operate than an equivalent vehicle.
• A NASA mission is about to capture carbon-rich dust from a former water world
• IBM to split into two companies by end of 2021…As-yet unnamed “NewCo” will handle IBM’s “managed infrastructure services.”
• Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
• The future of the Belt has begun in first trailer for The Expanse S5
• Amazon unveils its new electric delivery vans built by Rivian…
• The delivery giant aims to have 10,000 vehicles on the road by 2022
• Microsoft Edge gets free 24-hour video calls, screenshot tool, and shopping features
• AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx (WSJ)
• Two women share chemistry Nobel in historic win for ‘genetic scissors‘
• Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service
• Ant’s IPO Runs Low on Time to Avoid U.S. Election Turbulence
• Digital money Ant Group and fintech come of age
• Microsoft app store playbook swipes at Apple, Google
• NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
• Pentagon wants SpaceX delivering cargo around the globe — and a live test could come next year
• Microsoft Thinks You’ve Been Missing Your Commute in Lockdown (WSJ)”…‘Virtual commutes’ on Teams aim to rebuild the boundaries between work and home life, and signify the tech firm’s move into corporate well-being…”
• “…The committee asserted repeatedly that Amazon dominates U.S. e-commerce. The company’s market share of U.S. online sales is often said to be about 39%, but the figure is as high as 74% across a range of product categories, according to the report, which also called out practices of other large tech companies…” WSJ
• How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago
• On Oct. 1, AT&T stopped selling digital-subscriber-line connections
• Amazon’s Growing Ad Business Could Forever Change Tech…
• Apple TV now plays YouTube videos in 4K, with limits

• Toyota’s robot butler prototype hangs from the ceiling like a bat
• Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger
• Meet Curly, the Curling Robot That Beats the Pros
• South Korea plans to launch 6G trials in 2026
• The Boss Says It’s OK to Take a Break From Zoom. Why Are You Still on Video Calls?”…Employers are trying ‘quiet days’ to dial back the time remote workers spend on meetings; ‘Focused Wednesday Afternoons’…” (WSJ)
• Amazon’s Alexa Boss on What Users Are Asking During Covid-19 (WSJ)
  • WSJ: As people stay home, which consumer habits evolved the fastest?
  • Ms. Reid: Meditation skills! We’ve seen an increase in things around cooking and recipes. You’re seeing people use reminders and timers to help them with home schooling.
• Tesla delivers 139,300 vehicles in Q3, beating expectations
• What Robots Can Do for Retail
• New Brain-Computer Interface Transforms Thoughts to Images
• Ford announces $1.8 billion investment to produce ‘fully battery electric vehicles’ in Canada
• 35 Thoughts About Mario on Super Mario’s 35th Anniversary
• Palantir Shares Go Up in Wall Street Debut
• Astronauts to Vote in Space

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• Amazon’s Luna game streaming service is powered by Windows and Nvidia GPUs
• Microsoft’s new Xbox app will let you stream Xbox One games to your iPhone
• Here’s everything Amazon announced at its latest hardware event
• The eSIM maker powering Xiaomi’s IoT devices raises $15M
• Google to Increase Push for Apps to Give Cut of In-App Purchases
• E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M
• Microsoft is releasing a non-subscription Office suite in 2021
• OSIRIS-REx will attempt its first asteroid sample collection next month
• Twitter to start testing voice DMs
• Google expands its Flutter development kit to Windows apps
• Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes
• Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
• “…More than 150 million Americans have access to Amazon Prime, which promises a two-day turnaround on millions of items that can be dispatched to your home with literally one click…”

• US airlines reveal profitability of frequent flyer programmes (FT)
• Boston Dynamics delivers plan for logistics robots as early as next year
• Hulu tests its co-viewing feature ‘Watch Party’ with ad-supported viewers
• X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not your credit score
• Supercell’s CEO talks about its majority owner Tencent, finding its next hit and more
• Sony’s PlayStation 5 arrives November 12, priced at $500
• Amazon Music Joins Podcasting Fray (WSJ)
• Why Nvidia is spending $40 billion on Arm
• Traders set to don virtual reality headsets in their home offices (FT)
• The complexity of fire“…The simplest hydrocarbon combustion produces hundreds of different intermediates and byproducts…”
• Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab
• How the brain creates the experience of time
• Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras
• How Target gets you to spend money
• PlayStation 5 launches Nov. 12 for $499.99

• The Long-Term Stock Exchange goes live
• Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo
• How Retailers Can Capture $5 Trillion of Shifting Demand
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• Leadership’s role in fixing the analytics models that COVID-19 broke
• German tank problem
• Electric car costs to remain higher than traditional engines (FT)
• With no iPhone to launch, Apple turns to accessories and wearables (FT)“…For every 100 iPhones sold, Apple ships 49 pairs of AirPods and 14 Apple Watches, according to estimates from Canalys…”
• Microsoft sets sights on ‘auto connectivity’ (FT)
• Inside TikTok’s killer algorithm
• SF drone footage during the #BayAreaFires
• NASA wants to buy moon dirt from private companies
• Man vs. machine: Pentagon plans 2024 dogfight between human pilot, artificial intelligence
• Mastercard to Help Central Banks Test Their Own Digital Currencies
• Willo, a freemium video interview SaaS, scores ~$320K during the remote work boom
• Amazon launches Alexa Print, a way to print lists, recipes, games and educational content using your voice

• Tech Decoupling: China’s Race to End Its Reliance on the U.S. (WSJ)
• Rocket Lab secretly launched its very first satellite, ‘First Light’
• Apple won’t force developers to let users opt out of tracking until next year
• Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data
• Myst AI claims its AI energy prediction technology boosts utilities’ reliability
• SpaceX launches 12th Starlink mission, says users getting 100Mbps downloads
• ‘The Mandalorian’ launches its second season on Oct. 30
• Tesla CEO met VW CEO during Germany visit: source
• The Winamp Skin Museum
• Feeling Safe in the Home of the Future: A product life-cycle approach to improve the trustworthiness of smart home products and services
• The Future of Media: A New Framework for Valuing Content
• US Inflation Calculator (from 1913 to 2020)
• Tencent: The Ultimate Outsider
• Airlines Invent Wild Ways to Make Money with Borders Closed
• These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat
• America Is Running Low on a Crucial Resource for COVID-19 Vaccines
• Cheap Chinese exercise bikes are beating US tariffs
• Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
• Kenji Ekuan, Who Gave Soy Sauce Its Graceful Curves, Dies at 85“…It took him three years and 100 prototypes to come up with a final design for his dispenser, which combined a gracefully curving form with an innovative, dripless spout…”
• Amazon’s Biggest Leap Was Boring
• Uniqlo’s parent firm, Fast Retailing, is now the world’s third-largest clothing company, after Inditex (which owns Zara) and H&M