Weekly#283

  • 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

Weekly#282

  • 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

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