The ‘future book’ is here, but it’s not what we expected Facebook launches petition feature 2019 Predictions for Big Tech and Beyond (Scott Galloway ) PEW Study: Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts a16z Notes on Security in 2019 Why Forgetfulness Might Actually Help You (WSJ ) ...Forgetting can help us block out useless or outdated information and keep us from fixating on a single set of ideas or thoughts. And contrary to the notion that forgetfulness reflects a withering of brain cells, scientists say it can actually be driven by the growth of new neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region linked to memory… Apple cuts 200 staff from its Project Titan autonomous car division Samsung is getting into robotics Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes World Economic Forum: The Global Risks Report 2019 Video PDF The Mac App Store welcomes Office 365 Jaguar tests self-driving cars that project their next move
Tesla unveils first home charging station that can be plugged into a wall outlet IBM and Vodafone form $550M venture to develop cloud, 5G and AI business solutions Coursera moves into healthcare education with 100 courses and 2 masters degrees AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS New pre-seed fund powered by First Round Capital will target recent graduates The history of Netflix price increases in a single chart CES 2019: A Show Report Birds Can See Earth’s Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That’s Possible China grows first ever plant on Moon Gradually, Then Suddenly Facebook’s 10 Year Challenge Hydrogen Cells Best Batteries in Hour-Long Drone Test Flight Google’s new US data centers will run on 1.6 million solar panels Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift Payments company Square launches debit card for small businesses CES 2019
Alibaba acquires German big data startup Data Artisans for $103M Nvidia dives into a new business segment with Drive AutoPilot Toyota is developing fighter jet-inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it Amazon’s cashierless Go stores could be a $4 billion business by 2021, new research suggests Apple’s growing attraction to non-iPhone revenue in one chart. Services now account for 16 percent of Apple sales . Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs, because Apple wants to be a service company CRISPR might soon create spicy tomatoes by switching on their chili genes Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019 32 new unicorns are romping in Silicon Valley this year Physics explains why time passes faster as you age Amazon’s IMDb launches a free streaming service, Freedive Report: Amazon to double down on gaming with a new streaming service The Instagram-Husband Revolution Strong and Weak Technologies Google Assistant will soon be able to translate conversations on-the-fly with ‘Interpreter Mode ’
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China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon FT: Chinese merchants refuse cash as mobile payments take off US founders predict the best entrepreneurs will come from these 11 companies Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis Battery-powered, full-body exoskeleton lets users lift 200 pounds Scientists Have ‘Hacked Photosynthesis’ In Search Of More Productive Crops Apple App Store breaks records, customers spent $1.22B in one week Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers Challenger bank Monzo has quietly begun working on a U.S. launch Scratch 3.0 is now available 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s 2019 predictions Engineers can now reverse-engineer 3D models More than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold VIDEO
2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts Belgian drone traffic management startup Unifly raises €14.6 million New solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy A homework app that instantly solves problems for students with the snap of a photo is now worth $3 billion Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory Fortnite sends Epic Games to a $3B profit in 2018: Report Amazon’s R&D spending is poised to top the GDP of Iceland …Amazon has ramped its research and development spending in the last decade, growing it from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $22.6 billion in 2017… The EU is giving Netflix and Amazon two years to make 30% of their catalogues European You can catch a mood from watching YouTube videos Netflix releases interactive episode of dystopian drama Black Mirror Preemptive Transformation: Fix it before it breaks Naval Twitter | Naval Quotes
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For the first time, a Chinese car is coming to the US—and it’s electric …China adds a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks…
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AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
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Google Lens can now identify more than one billion products—four times the number it covered at launch .
Scientists to give artificial intelligence human hearing
SoftBank’s Vision Fund is preparing to invest $1 billion in Grab
Amazon Air expands with 10 more cargo aircraft, bringing fleet to 50 planes
Google AI Principles updates, six months in
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International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B
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Starbucks adding delivery services to more than 2,000 stores via Uber Eats
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A Google-backed vertical farm startup just raised another $90 million to build in cities across the US
Electric cars will soon be cheaper to make than gas cars: battery-maker ...Electric vehicle batteries will cost less than $100-per-kWh to make by 2020; and less than $50-per-kWh by 2025.. .
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DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling
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Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown
Amazon wants brands to advertise Alexa voice shopping — essentially for free
AWS has %51.80 market share with 27 B USD revenue run rate.
AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
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newest Wi-Fi protocols: 802.11ax and 802.11ay
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Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
Researchers estimate that Python, Javascript, and R contribute billions to GDP
Andrew Chen: What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what .
A new slow thinking movement
Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech
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Solar geoengineering could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ – report
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Verizon will reportedly support iPhone eSIMs and dual SIMs in December
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French tobacco shops to sell bitcoins via fintech company
Blizzard is working on a Pokémon Go style Warcraft game
One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
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