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

Weekly#273

  • 20 takeaways from Meeker’s 294-slide Internet Trends report
  • Recode’s 2018 Code Conference Video Playlist
  • Conversions@Google 2018
  • Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for China
  • AWS’s Neptune graph database is now generally available
  • Airbnb’s new Stories feature is an attempt to sell a new business line: Travel services
  • Amazon will now directly pay top Alexa ‘kid’ skill developers in the U.K. and Germany
  • Nvidia’s mini supercomputer is the fastest single computer humanity has built
    “…with a half-terabyte of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) it is said to be capable of replacing as many as 300 CPU-driven servers on its own, offering a much more powerful and compact computing solution for data-driven tasks…”
  • How Amazon’s robot warehouses swing into action the moment you press ‘buy’
  • Watch Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic test its tourist spaceplane
  • Artificial intelligence can recognize you by the way you walk…“…“Each human has approximately 24 different factors and movements when walking, resulting in every individual person having a unique, singular walking pattern…”
  • SoftBank’s investment into GM’s Cruise
  • “…A research team at Harvard is now building molecules one atom at a time. The goal is to better understand the minimal requirements and exact properties of the chemical reaction…”
  • why AT&T decided to buy Time Warner, according to CEO Randall Stephenson…“A key variable is the direct relationship with the customer, and a lot of the media companies don’t have that direct relationship with the customer…” 
  • The experience economy will be a ‘massive business,’ according to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

Weekly#272

  • 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