…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…
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
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)
“…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