“…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
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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
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…”
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…”
“…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
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
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“…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
“…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
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