NASA’s first all-electric experimental X-plane is ready for testing
Maisie Williams’ startup Daisie is preparing for new partnerships, funding
HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits
NASA shares 3D Moon data for CG artists and creators
PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
Amazon’s video app is back in Apple’s App Store. But get ready to see more streaming fights.
3D-printed rocket company to begin commercial launches in 2021
The Netherlands Surpasses Wildest Predictions For Tesla Model 3 Sales
Nasa invites bids from firms to build lunar lander for 2024 mission
The rise of the financial machines (Paywall) “…Funds run by computers that follow rules set by humans account for 35% of America’s stockmarket, 60% of institutional equity assets and 60% of trading activity…”
“…Rising precious metals prices are luring criminals to target catalytic converters which use platinum, palladium or rhodium…”
Text-generating AI is getting better and better — but it’s not yet contest-winning good.
Eating crabs ordered on your phone and delivered to your door in half an hour while scrolling through TikTok videos using the inbuilt gesture control on a Huawei phone.
This is peak China 2019 pic.twitter.com/PL63fKQY2a
“…companies all have multi-class stock structures, meaning that some of their stock — usually that which belongs to the founders — has much more powerful voting rights than others and therefore much more impact when it comes to companydecisions…”
Paperspace adds machine learning model development pipeline to GPU service
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells
Car subscription service Cluno discloses €140M in debt financing
Equinor wins opportunity to develop the world’s largest offshore wind farm
Struggling Farmers See Bright Spot in Solar ($)…“…Farmers have two options for adding solar power on their farms: lease land for energy companies to generate power to funnel electricity into the grid, as the Nielsens are doing; or install their own solar panels to cut their electricity bills. Both methods can amount to more than $1,000 a month in improved margins, according to farmers and renewable-energy advocates…”
Energy and food together: Under solar panels, crops thrive
Generate income by generating power – Hong Kong homes close to selling solar power under new ‘feed-in tariff’ scheme
Alibaba unveils self-developed AI chip for cloud computing services
IKEA expects to offer home solar panels in stores across all its markets in 2025
From Ben Evans
Pinterest’s Lens can now recognize 2.5 billion home and fashion objects
Facebook experiments with AI-powered styling program
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products ($)
…And now scientists believe the changing climate may put our brains at risk. A new analysis predicts that by 2100, increasing water temperatures brought on by a warming planet could result in 96 percent of the world’s population not having access to an omega-3 fatty acid crucial to brain health and function…
Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished…an overall decline of 29 percent from 1970.
Mini Transformers: Scientists Have Created a Robot Made of Robots
Fiat Chrysler will set up an experimental fleet of up to 700 electric cars to test vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, which allows power grids to use energy stored in car batteries to face demand during peak hours.
Fintech Company Stripe Joins Silicon Valley Elite With $35 Billion Valuation (WSJ: paywall)
The US government projects the number of workers over 75 will double in the next decade
60 Uses of Graphene – The Ultimate Guide to Graphene’s (Potential) Applications in 2019
Samsung to Launch Smartphone Meant to Make Blockchain Friendlier (paywall)
Revenue from recorded music in the U.S. rose 18% to $5.4 billion in the first half of the year (paywall)
The Time Netflix Considered Selling Itself to Amazon for Peanuts…In 1998, Netflix’s co-founders made a trip to Seattle that could have changed the world as we know it (paywall)
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment…”…From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’…”
Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says
Australian Government invest 15 million in Evie ultra-fast EV charging network
Coursera makes its first acquisition, Rhyme Softworks, to power new Coursera Labs offering
SpaceX’s Starhopper Successfully Completes Final Test Flight…”Starhopper will never see space, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hopes its successor, called Starship, will eventually transport up to 100 people (and roughly 150 tons of cargo) to far-off destinations such as the Moon or Mars…”
German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist
Matrix 4’ Officially a Go With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
Nasa mission to Jupiter moon Europa moves step closer to launch…Mission that could shed light on possibility of life on icy rock is expected to lift off in 2025
LightSail 2, Pushed by Sunlight, Raises Its Orbit by 10,500 Feet in Just Two Weeks
Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity. It’s a high-protein, flour-like ingredient that contains 50 percent protein content, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbs.
Hyundai’s first car with a solar roof is available in Korea…The solar panels are expected to charge 30 to 60 percent of the battery per day. With six hours of daily charging, it could theoretically increase drivers’ travel distance by an extra 1,300 km (about 807 miles) per year.
Xiaomi Is Developing A Smartphone With Solar Panel
Tokyo offers $1 billion research grant for human augmentation, cyborg tech…Artificial hibernation is also of interest to the Japanese government.
Apple rolls out Apple Card Preview to select users
Apple expands its bug bounty, increases maximum payout to $1M
Samsung is bringing PC game streaming to the Note 10
Artificial intelligence is quietly disrupting the fragrance development process
A Wikipedia for Generation Z…Famous Birthdays has become a go-to database of teen culture—and is ushering in a whole new generation of stars.
AI’s new workforce: the data-labelling industry spreads globally (paywall)
The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones…First-time internet consumers are connecting to the web on a new breed of device costing about $25
LightSail 2 becomes first spacecraft to change orbit using sunlight
How Robots Change the World, Oxford Economics [PDF]
How to prepare children for the jobs of the future
Physical factors such as natural light, temperature and air quality can increase the learning progress of primary school pupils by as much as 16% in a year.