• 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

• Scientists use CRISPR to make stem cells invisible to immune system
• Cedars-Sinai puts Amazon Alexa in patient rooms as part of a pilot program
• Walmart acquires Israel’s Aspectiva, which analyses UGC to recommend products to shoppers
• Chart: How the definition of “journalist” is changing
• Altimeter’s Top Digital Trends for 2019
• How Disney Built Star Wars, in real life
• Zūm, a ridesharing service for kids, raises $40 million
• ClassDojo, an app to help teachers and parents communicate better, raises $35M
• Tesla closing retail stores in shift to online-only sales strategy
• Google Translate is a manifestation of Wittgenstein’s theory of language
• An Ingenious Injection Can Create Infrared Vision
• SpaceX and NASA to Test Launch Crew Dragon, a New Ride to Orbit

• Apple’s Executive Shake-Up Readies Company for Life After iPhone…reordering priorities across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it works to reduce the company’s reliance on iPhone sales.
• Key Investors Are Unhappy With SoftBank Tech-Investment Fund
• Apple just hired ex-Microsoft exec Sam Jadallah to revamp its smart home business, and catch up to Google and Amazon
• Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
• Digital advertising in the US is finally bigger than print and television
• Opera Touch brings website cookie blocking to iOS
• The Future Is Here, Almost: Virtual Travel Becomes More of a Reality
• With $100 million and a lot of volunteer labor, SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft could be the first privately built vessel to reach the lunar surface.
• By 2040, Spaniards can expect to live to an average age of 85.8 years.
• Upskilling – The upcoming trend
• 11 EU states already meet their 2020 renewable energy targets
• SensorKnits: Architecting textile sensors with machine knitting

 

Instagram’s IGTV is testing Picture-in-Picture outside of the app! pic.twitter.com/lmeaMBDkwi

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 22, 2019

WOAH…!

Top 15 BEST global brands ranking for the last 19 years…

Watch big name tech companies take-over at the end!

h/t @Interbrand pic.twitter.com/oRdO7QH6js

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 21, 2019

• Amazon Launches Private Label Cosmetics in Europe
• Amazon is buying mesh router company Eero
• Life on the small screen [PDF]

• Amazon’s marketing spend soars to $8.2bn to rival P&G and Unilever
• Pinterest 100: The top trends for 2019
• Netflix Has Saved Every Choice You’ve Ever Made in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch‘
• This website automatically generates new human faces. None of them are real. They are generated through AI. Refresh the site for a new face https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
• New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators
• NASA Calls It Quits for Opportunity Mars Rover After 15-Year Mission
• Samsung bets big on network gear
• Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions
• Berkshire trims Apple stake, adds Suncor and Red Hat, exits Oracle
• Aluminum may be key to making exosolar systems with water worlds