• Facebook is now labeling political ads…Political advertisers will also need to register with Facebook by “confirming their identity and location.
• Netflix is now worth more than Comcast. 150 B USD
• Snap is launching an accelerator to try and invest in the next big media business
• Slideshare: 4 Facts Every Exec Must Know About A.I. Automation
• Sony: Next PlayStation is at least three years off
• Solar To Surpass Wind In 18 Months, Become Fourth Largest Energy Capacity In The World
• China is exporting facial recognition software to Africa, expanding its vast database
• All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years
• “…More than 23.4 million people will open the Starbucks app to pay for their coffee or tea at least once every six months in 2018, according to eMarketer, which just edges out Apple Pay’s 22 million biannual users. Google Pay trails in third place, with 11.1 million people using the service to pay once every six months…” QZ
• Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
• Scientists discovered massive hidden canyons in Antarctica that could spell bad news for the rest of the planet
• Building Uber’s Future in France
• “…If the United States wants to capitalize on the opportunities created by AI, companies, and policymakers need to think critically about how to encourage workers to invest in new skills and become lifelong learners...” The Hill
• “…Intel collaborates with Novartis on the use of deep neural networks (DNN) to accelerate high content screening – a key element of early drug discovery. The collaboration team cut time to train image analysis models from 11 hours to 31 minutes – an improvement of greater than 20 times…”
• Path Math: How AI Can Find a Way Around Pathologist Shortage…testing an AI microscope that could help address the pathologist shortage. The GPU-powered device automatically scans and analyzes blood smears and other biological samples to detect problems.
• Microsoft is creating an oracle for catching biased AI algorithms
• Bioprinting is the next medical revolution
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018
• Facebook trained its AI using 3.5 billion Instagram images
• Gartner: Global business value from AI will reach $1.2 trillion by the end of 2018

• YouTube adds a new section for displaying additional credits for songs
• YouTube revamps its Red subscription service to offer standalone music streaming
• Pluralsight prices its IPO at $15 per share, raising over $300M
• Google acquires Cask Data to beef up its tools for building and running big data analytics
• Food delivery’s untapped opportunity
• Hulu’s mobile and web apps get the new live TV guide, better recommendations and more
• PayPal will spend $2.2 billion to buy the Square of Europe — iZettle
• Elon Musk details his plan to rid LA of traffic with $1 rides on the Boring Co. ‘Loop’
• Google Chrome is removing the secure indicator from HTTPS sites in September
• In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?
• The Verge obtained a leaked copy of an internal Google video that offers a “Black Mirror”-style vision of how data could direct human behavior.
• Gmail can now autocomplete entire emails with a new feature called Smart Compose
• California To Require All New Homes To Have Solar Panels Starting In 2020

• The meaning of the Vision Fund
• McKinsey. Platform Plays
• Apple is reportedly working on a new credit card
• Dropbox said it had more than 500 million registered users of both its free and paid services. (11.5 million paying users, the average revenue per paying user was $114.30, compared to $110.79 for the same period last year.
• Nvidia…Sales of graphics-processing chips designed for use in data centers soared 71% year over year to $701 million
• Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried?
• Facebook is implementing a massive product reorganization
• Google I/O Keynote Video  and 15  announcements
• F8 2018 Sessions
• Apple is worth $945 billion
• Klout is shutting down
• Android P looks exciting, but only about 6% of phones are running the latest version of Android
• The challenge: Describe programming in five words.
• Ben Evans: Coming soon – captchas for phone calls.
• ​SK Broadband rolls out 2.5Gbps internet

• Why is AT&T trying to buy Time Warner?
  “…Simply put, AT&T is having a hard time retaining customers…They’re in a pricing war with Verizon; cellphone bills keep going down, which is great for us, but not great for the companies. They think, by buying Time Warner, they’ll be able to create new kinds of online video and also sell what’s known as targeted advertising. They’ll marry AT&T’s data with Time Warner’s content and sell ads at a higher rate.”
• Twitter made more than $287 million from video ads last quarter.
• Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to a $26 billion merger
• Spotify 2018 Q1
• Google Kubeflow, machine learning for Kubernetes, begins to take shape
• Teaching robots to learn how to learn
• Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation
• Twitter : Apple Watch update. 46 million sold. User base likely 40 to 43 million

• Amazon’s new Alexa-powered Dot encourages kids to use the word ‘please’
• Twitter is making money now, so it’s going to start hiring more people
• Amazon’s newest delivery option for Prime members: Inside their car
• Google’s smart-home gadget brand generated $726 million in revenue last year.
• Andreessen Horowitz is preparing to launch a separate fund for crypto investments
• YouTube Says Computers Are Catching Problem Videos
• SuitX is bringing down the price of robotic exoskeletons
• Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B
• IFTTT raises $24M led by Salesforce to expand its platform to ‘connect everything’
• Nintendo’s annual profit rockets by 500% after selling 15M Switch consoles
• Amazon’s AWS and advertising businesses are fueling its retail dominance
• BBC Sound Effects
• Face Recognition Commercialization
• AR
• new Gmail

• Netflix added more than seven million subscribers during Q1
• Walmart is in advanced talks to acquire Amazon’s India rival Flipkart
• SoftBank is in talks to invest in data storage company Cohesity at a $1 billion valuation
• SpaceX’s valuation is expected to climb to $24 billion
• Google initiative looks to preserve walkable copies of Earth’s historical sites on the web
• Scientists accidentally create a mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
• This clever new font combines braille with Latin and Japanese alphabets
• Uber Eats is the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S.
• Jeff Bezos says Amazon has more than 100 million Prime members
• Netflix launches 30-second preview videos on mobile
• EarthNow promises real-time views of the whole planet from a new satellite constellation
• McKinsey: Notes from the AI frontier insights from hundreds of use cases
• China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education
• Apple is planning to launch a premium subscription for news, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
• Chaos Engineering
• React OS
• Personalize Your Alexa Experience in Minutes with Alexa Skill Blueprints

• How much would you pay for Facebook without ads?
• SpaceX’s president says we’ll be able to take a rocket to Shanghai — or Mars — ‘within a decade’
• A cryptocurrency startup is investing cryptocurrency in a cryptocurrency fund that invests in other cryptocurrency startups
• Uber users will be able to book e-bikes, buy public transit tickets and rent a car via the Uber app — and it’s all part of a bigger plan
• AT&T’s 5G trials produce gigabit speeds and 9ms latency
• Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover nearly 6,000 previously unknown species of virus.
• Disney kicks off its streaming future today with ESPN+
• new Gmail design
• Apple Music now has over 40 million subscribers
• Apple is developing a TV show based on Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series
• Digital license plates are set to be tested in Dubai
• Spotify to offer TV and movies in drive to boost growth
• Retail AR
• bring #horror movies to life in AR
• Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company

• How Do You Count Endangered Species? Look to the Stars
• Elon Musk’s Neuralink files permit to build the biological research lab
• Google has reached its 100pc renewable energy purchase goal
• Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users
• Scammers abused Facebook phone number search
• Waymo tests for the weirdest possible situations
• EmTech Digital 2018 coverage
• How $1 flows from Spotify to recording artists
• Amazon’s Lord of the Rings will be the ‘most expensive TV series ever
• Digital Transformation | AWS Webinar
• Deep Learning: Application Landscape – March 2018

• …With cord-cutting accelerating and over-the-top (OTT) viewing on the rise, outlays on TV ads will slip 0.5% in 2018 to $69.87 billion. As a result, TV’s share of total US media ad expenditures will drop from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year…
• Facebook will cut off access to third-party data for ad targeting
• GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains
• Pandora launches automatically generated personalized playlists
• Apollo 17 Crew Members Think We Need To Go Back To The Moon Before Pursuing More Distant Journeys
• DARPA eyes new neural interfaces to connect warfighters hands-free to advanced military systems
• ARKit app downloads exceed 13M in 6 months, nearly half are games, the report says
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts predict a space market that is worth $339 billion today will grow to $2.7 trillion by 2045.
• Foxconn buys peripheral maker Belkin for $866M
• The Ikea Manual Of The Future Looks Amazing
• FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network