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
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
…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
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”
…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…