- WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
- WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product “Business API“
- Boeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight
- some Netflix error messages (Twitter)
- New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
- Walmart pilots a grocery-picking robot to fulfill customers’ online orders
- Will self-driving cars kill parking?
- Arm acquires data management service Treasure Data to bolster its IoT platform
- Rent the Runway bet on the death of clothing ownership — and now it’s doubling down
- Musk Confirms Massive Compute Required, But Is Developing Their Own Processor The Right Direction?
- Fortnite is ditching Google Play in a grab for even more money
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- Google joins the race to $1 trillion
- SpaceX’s Third Hyperloop Pod Competition
- Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox range reportedly includes a powerful console and a game streaming device
- Yelp now tells you how clean your favorite restaurant is
- Luke Wroblewski: What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design
- SoftBank Plans Payments Service for Japan by Year-End
- Europe launched four more Galileo satellites on Wednesday, taking the number in orbit to 26 and moving a step closer to having its own navigation system
- In a novel study to find out how early our instinct for cooperation begins, Yale researchers performed an experiment with kids between the ages of four and 10.
- It is not the brain that determines if people are right or left-handed, but the spinal cord
- Google is building “virtual agents” to handle call centers’ grunt work
- What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages
- AI defeats elite doctors in diagnosis competition
- Netflix is adding over 100 new user profile icons
- Google Cloud Next Conference Videos
Weekly#281
- An executive’s guide to AI
- Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTO
- How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day
- WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation
- Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
- Disney’s streaming service is resurrecting ‘The Clone Wars’
- For the first time, Microsoft brought in more than $100 billion in the last year
- Extremely high-res outtakes from Apollo 11’s 1969 moon landing
- all of Recode’s interviews from Code 2018
- Microsoft Emerges as Clear No. 2 in Cloud Computing
- How Does Spotify Know You So Well?
- China pours $1 billion into a ‘Hyperloop’ for cars
- Toshiba’s flash chips could boost SSD capacity by 500 per cent
- Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers
- A new report estimates that “Fortnite: Battle Royale” has generated a billion dollars in revenue.
- Google has been stealthily working on a successor to Android, and engineers reportedly want to start rolling it out within three years
- Robots as nurses’ assistants
- Facebook’s AI tourist finds its way around New York City by asking for help from another algorithm
Weekly#280
- For the first time, Netflix tops HBO for most Emmy nominations
- Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem
- Project Loon and Project Wing graduate from Google X
- Apple partnered with Blackmagic Design on an external GPU for MacBooks
- Broadcom acquires CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash
- Technology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones
- SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics
- Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
- Adobe could bring Photoshop to the iPad
- Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
- From Twitter : Amazon has more than twice as much of the online retail market as its next 10 competitors combined
- 3-D metal printing
Weekly#279
- “…Tesla says it has reached a manufacturing milestone, producing more than 5,000 Model 3 sedans in a week. Now the electric-car maker must prove it’s not a one-time achievement...”
- VW plans to launch an all-electric car sharing service next year
- The Story Of WinRAR’s Neverending 40-Day Trial
- A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
- Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
- Home security is expected to be a $47.5 billion business by 2020
- Google is Reportedly Looking to Take Over Call Centers With Its Duplex AI Assistant…”…The research firm ResearchAndMarkets projects the cloud-based customer call-centre market will reach about $21 billion by 2022—up from $6.8 billion in 2017…”
- Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog
- Wireless speaker maker Sonos Inc files for IPO
- Renault aims to launch Paris car-sharing scheme in September
- “…Netflix will spend $12bn-13bn on content this year, $3bn-4bn more than last year. That extra spending alone would be enough to pay for all of HBO’s programming—or the BBC’s…”
Weekly#278
- Facebook’s new patent
- Amazon private label
- Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy PillPack for $1 Billion
- Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles
- Now AI is beating us at our favorite video games
- Verizon is shutting down go90
- New York to Boston in 36 minutes thanks to VTOL air taxi, says Transcend Air
- Snap is launching a gaming platform
- Airbnb aims to be ‘ready’ to go public from June 30, 2019, creates cash bonus program for staff
- The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Google Maps may be getting Waze’s best feature: incident reporting
- New study: Wind power will work on Mars. This is a game-changer.
- Google researchers created an amazing scene-rendering AI
Weekly#277
- Developers can now take Google App Maker out for a test drive
- IBM Unveils System That ‘Debates’ With Humans
- Amazon launches an Alexa system for hotels
- The top ten games from E3 2018
- Roblox, the hit gaming company you may not have heard of, could be worth $2.5 billion
- Amazon’s try-before-you-buy fashion service is now available to all Prime members
- AT&T launches a low-cost live TV streaming service, WatchTV
- PayPal to buy Simility, a specialist in AI-based fraud and risk management, for $120M
- The Legend of Nintendo
- New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks
- Microsoft matches Google Lens with AI-powered visual search for Bing
- Google Assistant’s Continued Conversations feature makes voice commands less awkward
- 6 Free UX Design Courses From Top Universities Worldwide
- Affordable Satellite Communication By Bivystick
- Live image detection with iOS 12
- The market cap of Netflix just passed Citigroup
- How robots are changing the farming industry
- US Digital Currency
- Uber drivers made more than $600 million in tips in one year
Weekly#276
- Amazon 3.5 million USD competition to make Alexa Chat like a human
- AT&T can buy Time Warner. What does that mean for everyone else?
- Machines learn language better by using a deep understanding of words
- How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
- Microsoft tech may help Walmart get rid of cashiers and checkout lines
- Apple bans developers from creating, selling user Contacts databases
- A new feature in the iPhone operating system shows how much time you spend on your phone.
- Dreams is a new company that’s reformatting TV for smartphones.
- Goto Conference Videos
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Weekly#274
- McKinsey: Achieving business impact with data
- This AI Can Clone Any Voice, Including Yours
- The US passed China with a supercomputer
- The Apple Watch will soon ditch its mechanical buttons, the report says
- Tesla says the Model 3 body line is now 95% automated
- Tesla’s version 9 software update is coming in August
- Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV. That’s a first.
- Spotify is starting to compete with the music labels by signing direct deals with music acts
- Hans Vestberg to take over as Verizon’s CEO in August
- Apple introduces the AI phone