“…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
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.