• Why every platform wants to be a super app
• Microsoft just unveiled Windows 11: Here’s everything it announced
• Microsoft didn’t kill Skype, but Windows 11 is shoving it out of sight
• Microsoft announces Windows 11 will be able to run Android apps
• Biden’s new $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan includes $65B for universal broadband
• Microsoft hits $2 trillion market cap for first time
• Kickstarter CEO: Let’s try a 4-day work week
• London Underground to Gain Full Mobile Phone Coverage by 2024
• Google gets a new rival as Brave Search opens to the public…About 32 million people now use Brave’s ad-blocking browser each month.
• The next pandemic is already here. Covid can teach us how to fight it.
• Amazon, Google Probed in U.K. Over Fake Reviews (WSJ)
• Google delays plan to phase out third-party cookies by 2 years (FT)
• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its Search for Life on Mars (WSJ)
• Tesla Shareholder Panasonic Sells Stake for $3.6 Billion (WSJ)

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• The Future by a16z
• Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform
• What makes the Delta covid-19 variant more infectious?
• How to Practice Emergency Preparedness as Self-Care
• BioNTech CEO Warns Delta Variant Could Lead to a Covid-19 Resurgence”…Roughly 16% of the global population had been fully vaccinated…”
• Bloomberg Vaccine Stats: 2.51 Billion Shots (Updated: June 17, 2021, 11:59 PM GMT+3)
• 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
• Nielsen Now Knows When You Are Streaming
• Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps
• We Don’t Have Much Longer to Become a Type 1 Civilization
• TikTok Owner ByteDance’s Annual Revenue Jumps to $34.3 Billion (WSJ)
• This tech uses augmented reality to give surgeons ‘superpowers‘
• Google’s Next AI Move: Teaching Foreign Languages
• The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components
• A DNA-based storage system with files and metadata…Queries can take days, but it’s possible to pull out specific files.

• The Ethereum community & Single Sign-On
• Consumer prices jump 5% in May, fastest pace since the summer of 2008
• G-20 GDP returns to pre-pandemic levels, with China seeing a massive rebound
• SoftBank investment helps Klarna to $45.6bn valuation (FT)
• Suborbital travel isn’t subject to same rules as commercial flight (WSJ)
• The first new close-up picture of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in more than 20 years
• Digital driver’s licenses are coming
• CarPlay in iOS 15: Announce Messages with Siri, Driving Focus customization, new wallpapers
• Self-driving Waymo trucks to haul loads between Houston and Fort Worth
• What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
• Linux Foundation readies Global COVID Certificate Network
• Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project, 
• Nvidia acquires hi-def mapping startup DeepMap to bolster AV technology
• Kuo: Apple’s First AR Headset to Launch in Second Quarter of 2022

• Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
• How the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Works
• How Nine Covid-19 Vaccines Work
• Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker

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• 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
• WeTransfer Plans IPO at 1 Billion-Euro Valuation
• Google Photos wants money: Stricter storage limitations kick in next week
• Chinese ‘artificial sun’ hits new mark in fusion energy mission
• A New Approach to Hypersonic Transportation
• 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.
• Apple wants staff back in offices by September
• Sharks Almost Went the Way of the Dinosaurs 19 Million Years Ago
• Realtime Robotics raises a $31M Series A
• Little Black Door launches app on iOS/Android allowing women to share wardrobes, online and off
• Silicon Valley bets on crypto projects to disrupt finance (FT)

• The Wharton School: DeFi Beyond the Hype (link from Global İşler #37)
• Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
• 24-inch M1 iMac teardown finds… not that much inside, actually…It’s basically a MacBook Air with a large screen and a small cooling system
• Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia…The Google Nest Hub is the world’s first commercial Fuchsia device.
• Joe Biden opens up California coast to offshore wind
• From trash to jet fuel in 60 minutes—and 220 ºC
• Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language
• iOS 14.6 is now available
• 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
• The U.S. Is Back in the 5G Game (WSJ)
• Cities have their own distinct microbial fingerprints
• Study on use of fuel cell hydrogen in railway environment [PDF]
• Germany gives greenlight to driverless vehicles on public roads
• Longitudinal analysis of blood markers reveals progressive loss of resilience and predicts human lifespan limit
• Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find
• German scientists identify possible cause of vaccine blood clots

• Real Time Retail 
• 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
• How HugoApp squashed Uber in Central America
• As Covid mutations spread, will herd immunity ever be possible?
• Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
• Android 12 Preview, Google Blog Post
• 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
• Opera brings its gaming browser to mobile
• Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99%
• There are over 3 billion active Android devices

✔️ Self-serve pantry ✔️ Phone booths ✔️ Comfy seating Offices may need to do makeovers to lure workers back to office after a year of working from home. Narita Cheah of architectural design firm Paperspace Asia tells @mljamrisko more https://t.co/BtFfuO9rnW @Quicktake pic.twitter.com/ATNWr29r8f

— Bloomberg (@business) May 18, 2021

• Android Automotive OS review: Under the hood with Google’s car OS
• Apple invests $45 million more in Gorilla Glass-maker Corning
• 96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find
• Sony says PS5 could be difficult to find into 2022
• Chip shortage continues, US asks Taiwan to prioritize automakers. Ford, Renault, and Stellantis warn that Q2 production will be heavily affected.
• Facebook wants to make sure you’ve read the article you’re about to share
• Lidar startup Innovusion closes $64M round led by Temasek
• In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma ‘hum‘
• The Digital Farmers’ Market: New Shortcuts to the Freshest Food (WSJ)
• The brain game: What causes engagement and addiction to video games?
• Electric cars ‘will be cheaper to produce than fossil fuel vehicles by 2027’
• Avoid inbox panic and save your sanity with a digital disconnect (FT)
• How E-Commerce Fits into Retail’s Post-Pandemic Future
• EY: The Now, Next, Beyond Consumer
• Ford will start rolling out major over-the-air software updates to its vehicles this year
• Sony has 25 PS5 games in the works, including characters you’ve never seen
• Korea Unveils $450 Billion Push for Global Chipmaking Crown
• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
• Apple Gave Zoom Access to Special API to Use iPad Camera During Split View Multitasking
• Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming
• eBay embraces NFTs
• Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on nearly $6 billion in revenue
• Softbank just shocked its critics by landing the biggest profit in the history of a Japanese company
• Supermarkets of the future: deploying AI in your grocery store
• Pipeline Hack Points to Growing Cybersecurity Risk for Energy System

• Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro
• Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link
• Apple puts more adverts in App Store after ad-tracking ban
• ‘World first’ 30-year hydrogen battery set to be made in Queensland
• The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Accelerated During the Pandemic. It’s Here to Stay.
• Alternative to Conventional Fertilizers: Fungi Could Manipulate Bacteria to Enrich Soil With Nutrients
• GM expects to offer personal self-driving vehicles to consumers this decade
• Apple is Holding the Web Back with ‘Uniquely Underpowered’ iOS Browsers, Reveals Google Engineer
• Uber’s First Quarter Shows Food Delivery’s Continuing Strength (WSJ)
• Starlink can serve 500,000 users easily, several million “more of a challenge”
• In A Post-Covid World Customers Will Be Revenge Shopping
• World’s largest compressed air grid “batteries” will store up to 10GWh
• Scientists Discover That the Shape of Light Changes Our Vision
• EBay says open to accepting to cryptocurrencies in future, exploring NFTs
• The rise of Japan’s loyalty point influencers

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The microphone on @NASAPersevere's SuperCam caught sound during #MarsHelicopter’s 4th flight. The rumbling is Martian wind, but those rhythmic hums come from Ingenuity. Scientists made it easier to hear by isolating the 84 Hz blade sound. https://t.co/uua5h40BPL pic.twitter.com/fGWlMRpVji

— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) May 7, 2021

• What history tells you about post-pandemic booms (The Economist)
• Enabling the mass adoption of autonomous driving
• Amazon crosses $100 billion in sales in huge first quarter
• Among Us is finally coming to PS4 and PS5, three years after its 2018 debut
• China to report first population drop in five decades
• Report: Apple’s M2 chip has entered production and will ship as soon as July
• Between “pay with your face” programs in supermarkets and facial recognition cameras in the metro
• Instead of rushing to rebuild Barbados’ Covid-ravaged tourism industry, one startup is opting for slow investment.
• ‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000
• What cities need now
• The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
• Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died
• Smartphone shipments jumped 27% globally in Q1, 347 milion units
• Blue Origin will start selling tickets for New Shepard space tourism flights on May 5
• Waymo’s New CEOs Say Self-Driving Unit Eyes Outside Funding
• Amazon’s ads business is generating nearly $7 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
• China plans to launch the core module for its first permanent space station this week in the latest big step forward for the country’s space exploration program.
• Instacart Expands Online Food-Stamp Payments, Challenging Rivals
• Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one
• ‘Self-driving’ cars to be allowed on UK roads this year
• Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home

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