• Airbus Poised to Overtake Boeing as Biggest Plane Maker /paywall
• Nintendo announces a handheld Nintendo Switch Lite for $199
• Virgin Orbit performs a successful drop test of its LauncherOne rocket launch system
• Google’s internet balloon project is about to start its first commercial trial
• China Internet Report 2019
• It takes seven to ten years to get to real liquidity in a portfolio of early stage venture investments.
• Waymo has now driven 10 billion autonomous miles in simulation
• Growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving
• The future of autonomous vehicles runs off roads and on to farms, construction sites and mines
• Surgeons perform first bioengineered blood vessel transplant in military patient
• German banks are moving away from SMS one-time passcodes
• Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users
• Scientists 3D-print human skin and bone for Mars astronauts
• New CRISPR platform expands RNA editing capabilities
• The United States is headed for a battery breakthrough
• Will Your Job Still Exist In 2030?
• The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

• Apple Music Hits 60 Million Subscribers
• Bill Gates at Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Video
• Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
• Google and Facebook Are Sucking the Brains Out of Europe…Europe is too worried about protecting old metal-bashing industries and not nearly enough about the exodus of deep-tech startups to the U.S…
• Amazon introduces computer vision into warehouses (FT: paywall)
• WeChat wants to own tourism…MyHelsinki is a first stab at intermediating Chinese tourism dollars
• Apple’s iOS 13 update will make FaceTime eye contact way easier
• According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the iOS App Store and Google Play combined brought in $39.7 billion in worldwide app revenue in the first half of 2019
• Bitcoin’s energy consumption ‘equals that of Switzerland’…around seven gigawatts of electricity, equal to 0.21% of the world’s supply…That is as much power as would be generated by seven Dungeness nuclear power plants at once.
• GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it
• NASA’s Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life
• The consulting firm Moody’s Analytics says climate change could inflict $69 trillion in damage on the global economy by the year 2100
• After the Honeymoon Ends: Making Corporate-Startup Relationships Work (BCG)

• Millennials don’t want to get drunk. What do they want? Apéritifs.
• SpaceX’s latest Falcon launch has put a solar sail into orbit.”…LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project from The Planetary Society. Our LightSail 2 spacecraft, launched 25 June 2019, aims to become the first spacecraft in Earth orbit propelled solely by sunlight…” Kickstarter Campaign Link (2015)
• Google’s new media literacy program teaches kids how to spot disinformation and fake news
• Jony Ive is leaving Apple to launch a new firm
• Enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft and Salesforce
• NASA restores Apollo Mission Control to its 1969 Moon landing condition
• The cost of an ad-free internet: $35 more per month
• The Pentagon has a laser that identifies people by their heartbeat
• Tesla is quietly developing its own EV battery cells

Pivoting to digital maturity

• Ericsson Mobility Report June 2019 [PDF]
• Amazon expands air cargo fleet with 15 more planes, will have 70 planes by 2021
• Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency
• Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot
• Google Maps is filled with false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
• Slack valued at more than $20bn in stock market (Paywall)
• Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry
• Why the age of electric flight is finally upon us
• Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again
• iOS 13 will remind you to cancel your subscription when you delete an app

• Microsoft to Test New Videogame-Streaming Project (Paywall)
• Netflix Exec Reveals Character Details for ‘Stranger Things’ Game, Teases Mobile Content
• In upcoming versions of iOS and macOS, the new Find My feature will broadcast Bluetooth signals from Apple devices even when they’re offline, allowing nearby Apple devices to relay their location to the cloud
• A Californian business is using A.I. to change the way we think about energy storage
• The electric scooter wars won’t end
• SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, committing $2B to invest in Latin America
• Semi-autonomous robots to make decommissioning nuclear reactors faster and safer
• Barclays estimates Uber has 140,000 drivers in California and Lyft 80,000. That implies that Uber would owe about $222 million in payroll taxes and training costs each year, and Lyft $127 million, if drivers were considered employees.
• Huawei looks to self-driving cars in bid to broaden AI focus. (Paywall)
• Lab-Grown Meat Will Overtake Plants by 2040
• The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here

Internet Trends 2019 by on Scribd

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Mary Meeker

• The NHS App: a platform for innovation
• In summary: Everything Apple announced in its WWDC 2019 keynote
• George R.R. Martin’s next project is reportedly the video game, Elden Ring
• Audi proves two little screens are better than one big screen
• How to follow (and listen to) Recode’s 2019 Code Conference
• Amazon’s real robot innovation is in the warehouse
• Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
• Disruption Starts with Unhappy Customers, Not Technology
• Turkey Birth Rate 2017 2,07  2018 1,99  (below 2.1)
• NASA’s Mars Helicopter Testing Enters Final Phase
• Robots will take over manufacturing industry by 2024

• US launches large-scale project to store renewable energy
• The 2050 Project
• What Comes After Open Offices? It Doesn’t Matter, As Long As Culture Comes First
• MSC, CMA CGM to board Maersk’s shipping blockchain platform
• Apple’s time-saving Apple Pay Express Transit feature is coming to London
• Turn a photo of data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a snap
• Technology Drives Deals Because No One Wants to Be the Next Blockbuster
• How new wave of robotic automation is reshaping industry
• Foursquare buys Placed from Snap Inc. on the heels of $150M in new funding
• What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2019
• Uber Eats, micromobility services are growing faster than Uber’s core ride-hailing business
• How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident

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• TransferWise now valued at $3.5B following a new $292M secondary round
• Revolut launches Group Vaults as an alternative to joint accounts
• Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions
• NASA picks satellite maker Maxar to build the first crucial piece of its new lunar space station
• The Age of Robot Farmers…Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
• 5G could mean less time to flee a deadly hurricane, heads of NASA and NOAA warn…”…It’s because one of the key wireless frequencies earmarked for speedy 5G millimeter wave networks — the 24 GHz band — happens to be very close to the frequencies used by microwave satellites to observe water vapor and detect those changes in the weather. They have the potential to interfere. And according to NASA and NOAA testimony, they could interfere to the point that it delays preparation for extreme weather events…”
• Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant
• The Number of ATMs Around the World Has Fallen for the First Time
• PlayStation believes the streaming era is upon them.”…PlayStation Now expansion a key element of Sony’s next-gen plans. [PDF]
• ABB launches blockchain-based inverters for solar energy

• Disney takes over Hulu from Comcast as stream wars heat up…Comcast also will be allowed to sell its 33% stake in Hulu to Disney in 2024 at a valuation of at least $27.5 billion
• AT&T will pull popular shows like Friends from streaming competitors, says CEO
• Stranger Things’ amazing Lego set takes the Upside Down literally
• San Francisco becomes the first US city to ban facial recognition by government agencies
• Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode
• VW’s new electric car passes 10,000 orders in just 24 hours
• Microsoft exec explains how the Windows 10 upgrade cycle is driving sales growth — and it’s only halfway done…Windows 7 support ends in January 2020, and Office 2010 support ends in October 2020.
• Uber launches a new tool to help cities track average vehicle speeds by street
• Google’s combining all its travel planning features under a site called Trips
• The next Star Wars movie hitting theaters in 2022 will be from Game of Thrones’ Benioff and Weiss
• McKinsey Skill shift: Automation and the future of the workforce
• WSJ: McDonald’s Strategy to Personalize Ordering
• “…In 2015, about 54 percent of product searches started on Google, and 46 percent started on Amazon. By 2018, the numbers had flipped, according to the marketing analytics firm Jumpstart…Google said on Tuesday that it planned to beef up its e-commerce with a shopping feature that would allow people to make purchases directly from searches, images and YouTube videos. By clicking ads in those settings, a shopper would buy products through Google.” Nytimes