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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✔️ 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@Quicktakepic.twitter.com/ATNWr29r8f
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.
Teaching children to play chess found to decrease risk aversion
“…How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know…One out of every four users who visits a Stack Overflow question copies something within five minutes of hitting the page. That adds up to 40,623,987 copies across 7,305,042 posts and comments between March 26th and April 9th. People copy from answers about ten times as often as they do from questions and about 35 times as often as they do fromcomments…”
Microsoft Outlook now lets you end all meetings early to give your brain a rest…Back-to-back meetings can now have a break in between
“…In certain applications, hydrogen is a promising contender for a carbon-zero fuel. Which countries are leading the race for its implementation?Hydrogen is the lightest gas with the lowest density. It is also plentiful; it is stored in water (H2O) and hydrocarbons, such as methane (CH4), but cannot be captured. It has to be separated in its compound state to produce a useable fuel. (In liquid form, hydrogen is 1/800 the volume of hydrogen in its gasstate.)…”
Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins $2.9 billion NASA moon landing contract
Amazon Opens London Augmented Reality Salon to Showcase Tech
Chat App Discord Ends Takeover Talks With Microsoft…now focused on a potential public listing in the long term