• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
• Lego introduces a new STEM Star Wars kit
• Spotify’s leanback instant listening app Stations hits iOS
• A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers away
• “…Carnegie Mellon University research has found ways to read “complex thoughts“ based on brain scans, and output text accordingly. The university’s study demonstrated that complex thinking could enable its A.I. to predict the next “sentence” in the thought process…”
• Tesla’s Powerwall as the beating heart of your home

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• BCG: The Most Innovative Companies 2019
• Built Robotics brings self-driving to construction
• Shopify is expanding its efforts in brick-and-mortar retail with the launch of its new retail hardware collection.
• Comcast is in talks to sell its 30% stake in Hulu to Disney
• Amazon’s warehouse-worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor’s involvement
• Automation Could Wipe Out Almost Half of All Jobs in 20 Years
• A Excavator Operator at Bauma in Germany digging at a jobsite in South Korea
• Future Of Retail: How Brands Should Handle Automation In 2019
• 20 Examples Of Machine Learning Used In Customer Experience
• Lettuce-Farming Robots Might Grow Your Next Salad
• NASA and FEMA are practicing what would happen if an asteroid hits the Earth
• Apple Considered Purchasing Intel’s Smartphone Modem Chip Business

• Qualcomm  stock surged after the announcement that the company has settled its  lawsuits with Apple
• Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $170 million investment
• Netflix added 9.6M subscribers in Q1, with revenue of $4.5B.. .148.9 million paid streaming subscribers…
• AI is helping retro games look like new
• YouTube is finally coming back to Amazon’s Fire TV devices
• Someone Listed a T-Rex on eBay, and Paleontologists Are Furious
• Hindsight 2070: by  15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us.” By VOX
• How do you hire a great growth marketer?
• Uber’s self-driving car unit raises $1B from Toyota, Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spin-out
• Microsoft Acquires Express Logic To Boost IoT
• GSMA, specified that 5G’s latency should be 1 millisecond, which is 50 times better than 4G’s current 50 milliseconds.
• Apple revamping Find My Friends & Find My iPhone in unified app, developing Tile-like personal item tracking
• West Virginia Will Use Blockchain Voting in the 2020 Presidential Election
• 46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles
• Intel quits 5G modem business hours after Apple settles with Qualcomm

• The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany’s Empire of Engines
• Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
• Disney+ streaming service launches on November 12, with a price of $6.99 per month…The Mandalorian Will Be Available on Disney+…The Simpsons will stream exclusively…
• Skype now lets you share your Android or iOS phone screen on video calls
• Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
• DHL launches Africa eShop app for global retailers to sell into Africa
• Computer Scientists Play Key Role in First Image of Black Hole
• Google’s Next Big Money Maker Could Be the Maps on Your Phone…Google Maps is an indispensable part of life for more than 1 billion people, who use it to commute, explore new cities or find a hot new restaurant
• Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
• Gartner and IDC agree: Global PC shipments fell to exactly 58.5 million in Q1 2019
• Google Chrome engineers want to block some HTTP file downloads

M87 Black Hole Size Comparison https://t.co/wwzQ44nO8a https://t.co/wKfeSkW6U9 pic.twitter.com/pfRPc17O2D

— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) April 10, 2019

• Falcon Heavy’s first real launch on Sunday is the dawn of a new heavy-lift era in space
• Skype now supports up to 50 group call participants, topping rivals
• Amazon reportedly readying its Alexa-powered answer to AirPods
• Amazon’s Rise in Ad Searches Dents Google’s Dominance : WSJ
• Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in Paid U.S. Subscribers: WSJ
• 8 Top Findings in Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2018-19
• Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to make their owners money by competing with Uber, Lyft
• Useable energy stored in different materials, by weight
• Amazon will launch thousands of satellites to provide internet around the world
• New battery will give electric cars over 600 miles of range

• Palantir wins $800 million contract to build the U.S. Army’s next battlefield software system
• The best thing about Apple’s new TV app is that you don’t need an Apple TV
• The 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s March event
• Sony celebrates 4.2 million PSVRs sold — or about twice as many Sega CD accessories
• A new Star Wars audio-only novel will explore Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress’ backstory
• Warner Music will release 20 albums made by an algorithm this year
• McDonald’s spent a reported $300 million to acquire an AI company
• Apple’s new credit card means the tech giant is now battling the same banks that built Apple Pay
• How Apple Card works
• Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

A devastating development for the Jurassic Park franchise. pic.twitter.com/G2kXuv9TLo

— Eugene Wei (@eugenewei) March 19, 2019

Apple’s plan for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services

Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising $400M at more than $7B valuation

Paris to tax scooter and bike services

Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook

Chinese electric buses making biggest dent in worldwide oil demand…The report estimates that “for every 1,000 electric buses on the road, 500 barrels of diesel are displaced each day.”

Robots enable bees and fish to talk to each other

Global Box Office Flat in 2018, Netflix and Subscription Services Rise in Popularity

Ford will invest $850 million to add more production capacity for EVs

Korea to shift all commercial vehicles to fuel cell energy by 2035

Solve it can you? Speak Yoda how to

How Frito-Lay Applies Machine Learning

Teach Yourself Computer Science (a DIY curriculum)

• Lambda School. Link2
• Rakuten TV expands to 42 European countries, gets direct button on Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense remotes
• MIT’s deflated balloon robot hand can pick up objects 100x its own weight
• Uber reportedly raising $1B in deal that values self-driving car unit at up to $10B
• Ford is expanding its self-driving vehicle program to Austin
• A Chinese subway is experimenting with facial recognition to pay for fares
• The just-published Global Environment Outlook 6 was produced by 250 scientists and experts from more than 70 countries. “…The 700+ page report offers warnings on climate change, biodiversity, and freshwater pollutants, which “will see anti-microbial resistance become a major cause of death by 2050 and endocrine disruptors impact male and female fertility, as well as child neurodevelopment…” [REPORT]
• Volkswagen boosts electric vehicle production by 50% with 22 million BEVs by 2029
• U.S. esports advertising revenue to top $200 million by 2020
• RTL to invest in streaming services
• Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio
• The web in 30 years? It’ll be beyond our imagination, says Tim Berners-Lee
• Nine companies are steering the future of artificial intelligence
• Introducing Scratch 3.0: Expanding the creative possibilities of coding

• OECD Report : New technologies and 21st century children: Recent trends and outcomes
• New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild
• YC’s latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K ‘flying motorcycle’
• Airbnb is acquiring a hotel company. So is Airbnb now a hotel company?
• A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking. Mark Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Emulate China’s WeChat. Can It?
• “The rise in unprofitable IPOs reflects the general preference in both public and private markets for growth over profitability,” Paul Condra, lead analyst of emerging technologies at startup research firm PitchBook, told Recode.”
• SpaceX CEO Musk’s security clearance under review
• The PS4’s Remote Play update now lets you stream to iOS devices
• From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners
• Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password