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.
Burgernomics: The Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level.
Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors…Searches for ‘music,’ ‘audiobooks’ and other categories rank company apps first, a process some developers find unfair; Apple says algorithm doesn’t give own products an advantage…(paywall)
YouTube probably generates $16 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue, making the video service big enough to crack the top half of the Fortune 500.
SoftBank Rolls Out Second Tech Megafund, With Apple Among Top Investors…Japanese banks and Microsoft are among those that have committed to $108 billion Vision Fund 2 (paywall)
Tesla says its new self-driving chip will help make its cars autonomous
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.