- Facebook, Cambridge Analytics (in Turkish)
- The world will add 70,000 solar panels every hour in the next 5 years
- The new algorithm will allow for simulating neural connections of the entire brain on future exascale supercomputers…is intended to allow simulation of the human brain’s 100 billion interconnected neurons on supercomputers…
- Computer scientists have created a neural network that can self-replicate…“Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems,” they argue in a paper popped onto arXiv this month…
- Jeff Bezos gave a sneak peek into Amazon’s future…“ machine learning, home automation, robotics, and space exploration”
- Microsoft begins to push for Windows Server 2019
- Artificial Intelligence Detects Construction Problems
- A bot named ‘Goldie’ has answered nearly 1 million questions for EY employees in human resources
- Robotic Fish Swims in the Ocean
- America’s Changing Workforce: Independent and Gig Workers
- How JavaScript works
- Affectiva’s Automotive AI could keep distracted and drowsy drivers from causing accidents
- Apple’s newly proposed emojis are more inclusive for those with disabilities
- A material supreme: How graphene will shape the world of tomorrow
MIT researchers at MIT found that graphene can function as a superconductor - Dutch court rules that Bitcoin is a legitimate ‘transferable value’
Weekly#262
- Spotify’s first day of trading will be April 3
- …Apple’s market cap is at an all-time high of more than $922 billion. Soon it could be the first company to reach a $1 trillion valuation…
- Facebook launches Express Wi-Fi app for its local-operated hotspots
- Don’t foul this free-throwing Toyota basketball robot
- Amazon’s top original shows generated an estimated 5M new Prime members
- Experian acquires UK’s ClearScore and its financial product matching engine for $385M
- Astronaut’s DNA no longer matches that of his identical twin, NASA finds…Preliminary results from NASA’s Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly’s genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago…
- Russia will launch a mission to Mars in 2019
- GM is spending $100 million on production-ready autonomous cars
- Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go
…The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead - Lyft will build self-driving cars with top auto parts supplier Magna
- China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education
- With millions of users, WeChat’s mini-programs draw favor among the diverse range of businesses
Weekly#261
- YouTube Studio exiting beta, adds new metrics for impressions, unique viewers
- Netflix is worth more than GE or Ford
- Airbnb has hired a former head of Amazon Prime to run its core business
- Netflix says 70 percent of its streams end up on connected TVs
- Next big Windows update will bring hardware-accelerated machine learning
- The nine types of startups Y Combinator thinks the world needs in 2018
- Self-Flying Aircraft Can Be a $30 Billion Industry by 2036, Study Suggests
- SpaceX launches its largest satellite ever
- Digital Transformation Review 11 – Artificial Intelligence Decoded
- How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt
- Next Up for Amazon: Checking Accounts
- Drones help bring back electricity in Puerto Rico
- Ethereum’s smart contracts are full of holes
- Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP
- Twitter may eventually let anyone become verified
- Notes from Coursera Deep Learning courses
Weekly#260
- Amazon is taking photos of your front door to show when packages have been delivered
- Google launched a simple browser-based sequencer for making music
- Amazon is reportedly trying to turn Alexa into a real-time translator
- Uber is driving patients to their doctors in a big grab for medical transit market
- Amazon buys itself Ring, its second-biggest acquisition after Whole Foods
- Square’s Venmo competitor — the Cash app — had more than seven million customers in December
- Mobile World Congress shifts focus from gadgets to 5G
- Telegram hits 100m users and commits to remaining ad-free
- Self-driving cars will profoundly change the way people live
- Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling
- Toyota venture to spend $2.8 billion to develop self-driving technology
- Moon to get first mobile phone network
- Building Your Smart Applications with Amazon AI
Weekly#259
- Google Assistant will support over 30 languages by year-end, become multilingual
- SpaceX misses catching Falcon 9 rocket fairing with a giant net on a big ship
- SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites — the first of nearly 12,000
- Google says more than 40 carriers and device manufacturers now use its platform for RCS, the next generation of SMS
- Gartner reports first ever global decline in smartphone sales
- Harley Davidson’s EV debut could electrify the motorcycle industry
- The line between Airbnb and your average hotel is thinning…Airbnb is rolling out programs like hotel bookings and loyalty programs that make it look more like the industry it is trying to disrupt…
- Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year
- Amazon is now worth more than 2.5 Walmarts
- Nike’s latest Air Jordan sneaker ‘drop’ showcased the potential of Snapchat commerce
- Circle has bought Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange, for around $400 million
- As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change
Weekly#258
- Twitter, YouTube, Amazon and Verizon are competing for streaming rights to the NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’
- Atari stock jumps 52% on plans for nostalgia-backed cryptocurrencies
- Dyson Plans To Build Three Electric Cars
- GPUs on Google’s Kubernetes Engine are now available in open beta
- Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand
- SpaceX will launch the first of its global internet satellites
- Website follows journey of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster through space
- Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO
- Hasbro Is Getting Into Crowdfunding
- 13 ways AI will change your business in 2018
- Digital Transformation Infographic
- New AWS Developer Training in Collaboration with edX.org
- China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley
Weekly#257
- Uber Agrees Not to Use Waymo Technology in Self-Driving Cars…Under settlement, Uber also will give Waymo equity worth about $245 million
- Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS
- Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, will be live from Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 pm PT / 10:30 pm ET.
- 5 Disruptions to Marketing, Part 5: Artificial Intelligence (2018 Update)
- Scott Galloway at DLD Munich 2018
- DLD 2018 Videos
- “…The 230-foot rocket, which featured 27 engines with the combined thrust of some 18 Boeing Co. 747 jumbo jets, climbed into clear skies at 3:45 p.m. local time. It carried a Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload and publicity stunt…”
- This electronic skin can heal itself — and then make more skin
- Siri on HomePod Correctly Answered 52.3% of Queries in New AI Test
- The rise of personal searches
- Apple sold more watches than Rolex, Swatch, and the rest of the Swiss watch industry combined
- Welcome to the Post-Text Future
Weekly#256
- The UX of AI (Google Design)
- Digital in 2018 Global Overview
- How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You
- WhatsApp 1.5 B monthly active users
- Amazon has posted a profit for 11 straight quarters
- Augmented Reality helps surgeons to ‘see through’ tissue and reconnect blood vessels
- Chinese satellite uses quantum cryptography for secure video conference between continents
- Bias Is the Real AI Danger
- The Autonomy Ecosystem: From Self-Driving Cars to Beyond!
- Apple has ~75% of the wearables market
- Can big data predict which bills will pass Congress?
Weekly#255
- 2017 Retrospective: A Monumental Year for the App Economy
- Facebook bought a startup that specializes in verifying government IDs
- Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
- Netflix now has nearly 118 million streaming subscribers globally
- Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
- Photos: Here’s what the new Amazon Go cashierless convenience store looks like
- Facebook appoints a new AI research head
- Apple will release its HomePod on February 9
- Alexa’s cousins have plans to infiltrate the financial industry
- Google is working on bringing AR to Chrome with downloadable 3D objects
- Stripe will end bitcoin support because customers aren’t interested
- Google Assistant can now match voices to specific Netflix profiles
- DJI is taking over every inch of the drone market
- First Look at Nintendo Labo
- Airbnb reached full-year profitability for 2017, and it’s adding a former Amex CEO to its board
- Davos World Economic Forum 2018 Videos
- Annual smartphone shipments in China declined for the first time in 2017
- Research into full-body tracking at Facebook hints at broader AR/VR ambitions
- Meg Whitman to Lead Mobile-Video Startup New TV
- WEF 2018: AI is more profound than electricity or fire, says Sundar Pichai
- UK teenagers are to be taught about artificial intelligence with the launch of a new deep learning teaching kit
- 5 ways voice assistance is shaping consumer behaviour
- the new AI-related company has been created in the UK every week for the last three years.
- Netflix is five times cheaper than Pay TV on an hourly basis:
Pay TV: $0.73/hour
Netflix: $0.15/hour
Weekly#254
- Now Open – Third AWS Availability Zone in London
- Amazon brings voice control to its Alexa app for Android, with iOS coming soon
- Apple has hired tech team from data science startup SVDS
- …Foursquare’s data, with over 3 billion visits/month around the globe, 105 million global venues, and 25 million people globally…
- a new TV series with MSNBC about tech, jobs and the future
- Facebook wants more people watching videos together at the same time…a new feature called “Watch Party” to try and make that happen…
- Tech Nation 2018 UK Survey
- Microsoft execs say in 20 years we’ll all have digital assistants that will be our alter egos — and we need to set ground rules while we still can
- Google’s mysterious new operating system looks completely different from Android
- Amazon raises price of its Prime membership