Weekly#310

    • Amazon, Sequoia invest in self-driving car startup Aurora
    • Netflix launches ‘smart downloads’ feature on iOS to automate offline viewing
    • The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
    • Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
    • Facebook Acquires Visual Shopping Startup to Bolster AI Work
    • Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor
    • Apple’s internal hardware team is working on modems now, likely to replace Intel
    • Affectiva’s AI hears your anger in 1.2 seconds
    • Amazon reportedly reconsiders New York expansion

Weekly#309

  • Tesla Model Y is coming in 2020
  • Apple is getting closer and closer to spelling out its TV strategy
  •  The forthcoming WarnerMedia streaming service will be partially supported by ads
  • Roughly half of Instagram’s users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day. That 500 million daily user count is up from 400 million in June 2018
  • Facebook’s banned research app
  • Columbia Engineers Translate Brain Signals Directly into Speech
  • Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
  • Robot learns to play Jenga
  • Apple Exerts Power as Privacy Protector
  • Amazon Web Services brought in more money than McDonald’s in 2018
  • How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company? Ask Satya Nadella
  • 10 leading companies are trying to make powerful, low-cost lidar

Weekly#308

  • The ‘future book’ is here, but it’s not what we expected
  • Facebook launches petition feature
  • 2019 Predictions for Big Tech and Beyond (Scott Galloway)
  • PEW Study: Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data
  • App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts
  • a16z Notes on Security in 2019
  • Why Forgetfulness Might Actually Help You (WSJ) ...Forgetting can help us block out useless or outdated information and keep us from fixating on a single set of ideas or thoughts. And contrary to the notion that forgetfulness reflects a withering of brain cells, scientists say it can actually be driven by the growth of new neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region linked to memory…
  • Apple cuts 200 staff from its Project Titan autonomous car division
  • Samsung is getting into robotics
  • Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes
  • World Economic Forum: The Global Risks Report 2019 Video PDFThe
  • Mac App Store welcomes Office 365
  • Jaguar tests self-driving cars that project their next move

Weekly#307

  • Tesla unveils first home charging station that can be plugged into a wall outlet
  • IBM and Vodafone form $550M venture to develop cloud, 5G and AI business solutions
  • Coursera moves into healthcare education with 100 courses and 2 masters degrees
  • AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS
  • New pre-seed fund powered by First Round Capital will target recent graduates
  • The history of Netflix price increases in a single chart
  • CES 2019: A Show Report
  • Birds Can See Earth’s Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That’s Possible
  • China grows first ever plant on Moon
  • Gradually, Then Suddenly
  • Facebook’s 10 Year Challenge
  • Hydrogen Cells Best Batteries in Hour-Long Drone Test Flight
  • Google’s new US data centers will run on 1.6 million solar panels
  • Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift
  • Payments company Square launches debit card for small businesses
  • CES 2019

Weekly#306

  • Alibaba acquires German big data startup Data Artisans for $103M
  • Nvidia dives into a new business segment with Drive AutoPilot
  • Toyota is developing fighter jet-inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it
  • Amazon’s cashierless Go stores could be a $4 billion business by 2021, new research suggests
  • Apple’s growing attraction to non-iPhone revenue in one chart. Services now account for 16 percent of Apple sales.
  • Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs, because Apple wants to be a service company
  • CRISPR might soon create spicy tomatoes by switching on their chili genes
  • Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019
  • 32 new unicorns are romping in Silicon Valley this year
  • Physics explains why time passes faster as you age
  • Amazon’s IMDb launches a free streaming service, Freedive
  • Report: Amazon to double down on gaming with a new streaming service
  • The Instagram-Husband Revolution
  • Strong and Weak Technologies
  • Google Assistant will soon be able to translate conversations on-the-fly with ‘Interpreter Mode’

Weekly#305

  • China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon
  • FT: Chinese merchants refuse cash as mobile payments take off
  • US founders predict the best entrepreneurs will come from these 11 companies
  • Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis
  • Battery-powered, full-body exoskeleton lets users lift 200 pounds
  • Scientists Have ‘Hacked Photosynthesis’ In Search Of More Productive Crops
  • Apple App Store breaks records, customers spent $1.22B in one week
  • Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers
  • Challenger bank Monzo has quietly begun working on a U.S. launch
  • Scratch 3.0 is now available
  • 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s 2019 predictions
  • Engineers can now reverse-engineer 3D models
  • More than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold

Weekly#304

  • 2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts
  • Belgian drone traffic management startup Unifly raises €14.6 million
  • New solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy
  • A homework app that instantly solves problems for students with the snap of a photo is now worth $3 billion
  • Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
  • Fortnite sends Epic Games to a $3B profit in 2018: Report
  • Amazon’s R&D spending is poised to top the GDP of Iceland…Amazon has ramped its research and development spending in the last decade, growing it from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $22.6 billion in 2017…
  • The EU is giving Netflix and Amazon two years to make 30% of their catalogues European
  • You can catch a mood from watching YouTube videos
  • Netflix releases interactive episode of dystopian drama Black Mirror
  • Preemptive Transformation: Fix it before it breaks
  • Naval Twitter | Naval Quotes

Weekly#303

  • For the first time, a Chinese car is coming to the US—and it’s electric…China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks…
  • Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
  • AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
  • Globally, new solar power plants added almost 35% to new power generating capacity in 2017
  • SoftBank Leads $385 Million Bet on Fair, a Subscription-Car Startup
  • App Store Review guidelines hint that users will soon be able to gift in-app purchases, not just apps
  • Google Lens can now identify more than one billion products—four times the number it covered at launch.
  • Scientists to give artificial intelligence human hearing
  • SoftBank’s Vision Fund is preparing to invest $1 billion in Grab
  • Amazon Air expands with 10 more cargo aircraft, bringing fleet to 50 planes
  • Google AI Principles updates, six months in

Weekly#302

  • Facebook wants you to buy HBO on Facebook and watch HBO on Facebook
  • 2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts
  • Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
  • Facebook open sources PyText NLP framework
  • AI 2018 Index – Annual Report
  • AI Transformation Playbook
  • This drone shrinks to fit
  • International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B
  • Netflix is testing a new feature that lets you instantly replay scenes (for some reason)
  • Starbucks adding delivery services to more than 2,000 stores via Uber Eats
  • Starting in 2020, all new homes in California must come with solar panels. Builders are getting ready
  • A Google-backed vertical farm startup just raised another $90 million to build in cities across the US
  • Electric cars will soon be cheaper to make than gas cars: battery-maker ...Electric vehicle batteries will cost less than $100-per-kWh to make by 2020; and less than $50-per-kWh by 2025...
  • Powering customer journeys in the age of AI
  • At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency

Weekly#301

  • Samsung will release a 5G phone in 2019
  • DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling
  • The friendship that made Google Huge
  • SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
  • AWS re:invent Slides
  • Here’s how far you’ll need to travel from McDonald’s to Burger King for a 1-cent Whopper
  • Navigating the Data Science Careers Landscape (part 1)
  • What Does an Ideal Data Scientist’s Profile Look Like? (part 2)
  • The semiconductor industry and the power of globalisation
  • Comcast, Fox, Disney and WarnerMedia currently account for about 20 per cent of Netflix’s content library… (Netflix Originals 8 per cent)
  • Twelve Key Emerging Technologies