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.
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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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