• Recode summary : WWDC 2017: Everything important Apple announced at its big event
• SoftBank unit buys robotics businesses (Boston Dynamics and Tokyo-based Schaft)  from Alphabet Inc. Google acquired 9 robotics company in 2014.
• External Graphics Development Kit
  macOS High Sierra brings support for external graphics processors to the Mac for the first time. The External Graphics Development Kit enables you to develop and test demanding graphics-intensive apps, including VR content creation, on any Mac with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity.
• Siri is set to play a much larger role in the Apple’s products.
• Apple plans micro-LED displays for wearables: sources. The technology could cut reliance on Samsung and come as soon as 2018
• QR code changed China’s social habits, …It’s being used to encourage tipping at restaurants, receive cash gifts at weddings…
• Apple announced the future this week (VRKit, ARKit, HomePod)
• The U.K. has the fastest mobile speeds, with an average of 26 megabits per second, according to the latest State of the Internet Report by content delivery company Akamai.
• Pinterest raised another $150 million and is now valued at more than $12 billion
• Lyft is working with a third self-driving tech company
  …It’s a smart strategy for Lyft. Instead of spending money and time trying to build its own autonomous tech the way Uber is, Lyft is left with plenty of resources to pour into perfecting the efficiency of its network as well as user experience…

  The industry has yet to determine what will become the most important part of the self-driving ecosystem, though many experts have their thoughts. For Lyft, the ideal outcome is that the auto industry will eventually look a lot like airlines where customers know and make decisions based on the network — Delta, JetBlue, etc. — rather than the make and model of the plane itself…

• Snap just acquired Placed, a company that tracks whether online ads actually lead to offline purchases. Google also announced this feature last month.
• Domino’s Pizza shares have risen by around 1,500% since its IPO in 2004
• Apple finally made it easy to share WiFi passwords
• …today’s turbines are more cost-effective, more reliable, and generate vastly more electricity— 22 times more electricity than an average turbine installed in 1990…
• What Marketers Should Expect from Search in the Future
• IKEA to try selling through third parties
• Sony’s PlayStation VR headset sales top one million units
• Amazon Imagines a Future of Infinite Computing Power
  …When David Limp thinks about the future of Alexa, the AI assistant he oversees at Amazon, he imagines a world not unlike Star Trek—a future in which you could be anywhere, asking anything, and an ambient computer would be there to fulfil your every need.
• Amazon Patents A Shipping Label With Built-In Parachute For Dropping Deliveries From Drones
• Charlie Rose: Patrick Collison, the co-founder and C.E.O. of digital payment company, Stripe.
• iOS 11 can automatically delete apps to save space
• This Email Startup Wants You To Go Shopping In Your Inbox
• Consulting firm to Wall Street: Don’t worry about blockchain’s cost — just start working with it
• This Robot Can Complete a 2-Hour Brain Surgery Procedure in Just 2.5 Minutes

“…In 1979, General Motors employed more than 800,000 workers and made about
2:0511 billion U.S. dollars. In 2012, Google made about 14 billion U.S. dollars while
employing 58,000 people…”

• Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2017 (You can reach presentation from the below, or watch 32 minutes of video from this link)

• Summary
  • Global Internet Users = 3.4 Billion / %46 Penetration
  • Global Smartphone Unit Shipments = Continue to Slow…
  • Global Smartphone Installed Base = 2.8B
  • Internet Usage (Engagement) = Solid Growth…+4% Y/Y…
    Mobile >3 Hours / Day per User vs. <1 Five Years Ago, USA
  • Ad Growth =Driven by Mobile
  • Online Advertising = Growth Accelerating, +22% vs. +20% Y/Y…
    Mobile $ > Desktop (2016) on Higher Growth, USA
  • Advertising $ = Internet > TV Within 6 Months, Global
  • Google + Facebook = 85% (& Rising) Share of Internet Advertising Growth, USA
  • Ad Measurability =
    Can Be Triple-Edged…
    When Things Are Measured =
    People Don’t Always Like What They See…
    Users Don’t Always Like Data Collected
  • Leading Platform Ad Offerings =
    Rapidly Improving with Back-End Data + Front-End Measurement Tools + Targeted Delivery of Ads Users Increasingly Want
  • A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords. – Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder / CEO, 4/17
  • Google Assistant-  Nearly 70% of Requests are Natural / Conversational Language, 5/17
  • 20% of Mobile Queries Made via Voice, 5/16
  • Amazon Echo
    Echo = Shopping + Media
    Echo Look = Shopping + Recommendations
    Echo Show = Video + Voice Calls
  • …eCommerce Growth = +15% Y/Y… Accelerating, Again, USA…
  • Amazon Subscription Store = Central Hub for Monthly Services, 4/17
•  Video: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings onstage at Code Conf
• Code Conference 2017 other videos
• Google Home now available for pre-order in Canada
• Alphabet’s Waymo is also exploring self-driving trucking
• Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year
• LG launches a mobile payment service in Korea
• Intel CEO explains why he spent $15 billion on Mobileye (the Israeli auto startup,  the leader in computer vision for autonomous driving technology
• The experts predict that AI will outperform humans in the next 10 years in tasks such as translating languages (by 2024), writing high school essays (by 2026), and driving trucks (by 2027).
• According to internet consulting firm iResearch, payments made via mobile devices by Chinese consumers last year reached 38 trillion yuan (US$5.5 trillion, HK$43 trillion), more than half the nation’s GDP
• Hyperloop transportation test facility opens in the Netherlands
• Google Sheets is getting smarter today. After adding the machine learning-powered “Explore” feature last year, which lets you ask natural language questions about your data, it’s now expanding this feature to also automatically build charts for you
• Nutella employed an algorithm to design its packaging
• Watch: Ray Kurzweil Predicts When We’ll Be Able to Program Matter
• Intel predicts a $7 trillion self-driving future
• …There’s already an argument that being able to interrogate an AI system about how it reached its conclusions is a fundamental legal right. Starting in the summer of 2018, the European Union may require that companies be able to give users an explanation for decisions that automated systems reach…

 

• An executive’s guide to software development (McKinsey)  “…In his 2013 message to GE shareholders, CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt wrote, “We believe that every industrial company will become a software company.”
• Product managers for the digital world (McKinsey)
• An operating model for company-wide agile development (McKinsey)
• Wall Street to CEOs: The Future Is Now
  “…Ford Motor Co.’s  recent decision to boot then-Chief Executive Mark Fields, a 28-year veteran of the company, exemplified a shift in the priorities of big companies across the U.S. The message is simple: In an age of rapid disruption by the software and tech industries, a leader have to pick up the tempo and make riskier bets sooner… or else…”
• European Digital Wallet Landscape
• Google’s New Feature Can Match Ad Clicks With In-Store Purchases
• South Korea has the highest concentration of robots in the world

• Drones transform working lives. Unmanned aircraft are employed in professions from archaeology to farming
•  Elon Musk’s Boring Company releases new images of its electric vehicle concept for passengers
• A Chinese company is offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers
• NASA just released the first inside-look of Jupiter’s rings

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces his latest book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.”

From Twitter

 

#IT trends radar 2017 !#AI #DataScience #ML #IoT #IIoT #bigdata #fintech #blockchain #insurtech #martech via @BourseetTrading @jblefevre60 pic.twitter.com/kI46QGe1b6

— Sarah Todd (@Sarahetodd) May 26, 2017

 

Gatwick Airport now has 2,000 beacons for indoor navigation https://t.co/qsi5iGHCLh by @riptari

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) May 25, 2017

 

Top Prediction #Algorithms in One Picture: https://t.co/DHqZa7qmAI #abdsc #BigData #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #PredictiveAnalytics pic.twitter.com/SG481I5ISr

— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) May 20, 2017

 

“Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played. But this year, it became like a god of Go” https://t.co/AJ0uEoSrUM

— Steve Jang (@stevejang) May 24, 2017

 

So Morgan Stanley is pretty bullish on the Waymo opportunity. pic.twitter.com/nJKs025BNi

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) May 24, 2017

 

Cheat sheet of 19 different business models https://t.co/aZsqP4GzFL pic.twitter.com/lvLC6C5BvP

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) May 23, 2017

 

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• Google I/O 2017: Everything important that Google announced
• Uber’s Future May Rely on Predicting How Much You’re Willing to Pay
• Building for Billions (Google Developer Site)
• Key Statistics
  • 2  billion active Android devices
  • 500 million active Google Photos users
  • 1.2 billion videos and photos uploaded to Google Photos every day.
  • Users navigate more than 1 billion kilometers per day with Google Maps.
  • Google Drive has 800 million users.
  • People watch 1 billion hours of YouTube videos a day.
  • Google’s speech recognition technology now has a 4.9% word error rate
• 20 Questions With Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri
• Uber Freight : Uber for trucks is here… matching commercial shippers with truck drivers looking for a job. Freight rides can be booked several weeks in advance or on the same day. Ad Video
• Amazon is now worth two Walmarts ( $459 billion vs Walmart’s? $228 billion)
• 10 home batteries that rival Tesla’s Powerwall 2
• Nike made an interactive track that lets you race an LED ghost of yourself
• Norway to build first self-sailing electric cargo ship...Initially the ship will be manned, but remote operation is expected to begin in 2019 and fully autonomous operation in 2020, the companies said
• HBR : Drones go to work
• The future of robots and Artificial Intelligence is being led by these 8 companies
• Google is training computers to predict when you might get sick
• HPE unveils ‘world’s largest’ single memory computer (160TB of memory)
• Google will make 1,000 Cloud TPUs (44 petaFLops) available at no cost to ML developers
• Spacex closer to goal of launching every two weeks
• Eric Schmidt Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Medium is recording audio versions of its top stories
• Musical.ly Talking With Viacom, NBC for Original Shows
• Amazon Sets Sights on U.K. Grocery With Checkout-Free Trademark

 

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• Nvidia CEO: Software Is Eating the World, but AI Is Going to Eat Software
• Battle to Provide Chips for the AI Boom Heats Up
• Softbank leads $500 million investment into UK virtual reality start-up
  “… Improbable was founded just five years ago by two Cambridge University computer science graduates in order to create large-scale virtual worlds and simulations. ‘Simulation on a massive scale’…”
• SoftBank Nears Closing on $100 Billion Tech Fund
• Apple’s Latest Record: An $800 Billion Market Cap
• “…But Snapchat can still say it has a unique offering, according to App Annie. The app data firm measured user behavior during the fourth quarter and said that on an average day, 35 percent of Snapchat’s daily users in the U.S. aren’t reachable on Facebook that same day, and 46 percent can’t be found on Instagram. About 61 percent of Snapchat’s fans aren’t watching YouTube on a given day, either. Snap said it had 60 million daily active users in the fourth quarter in the U.S. and Canada…”
• Visual Studio for Mac
• Officially, it’s so Linux admin scripts can run on Windows.
• Google’s “Project Treble” solves one of Android’s many update roadblocks“…This is not a magic bullet that will solve all of Android’s update problems, however. After an update is released, Google lists three steps to creating an Android update:

  1) Silicon manufacturers (Qualcomm, Samsung Exynos, etc) “modify the new release for their specific hardware” and do things like make sure drivers and power management will still work.
  2) OEMs (Samsung, LG, HTC) step in and “modify the new release again as needed for their devices.” This means making sure all the hardware works, rebranding Android with a custom skin, adding OEM apps, and modifying core parts of the Android OS to add special features like (before 7.0) multi-window support.
  3) Carriers add more apps, more branding, and “test and certify the new release...”

• Ransomware attack appears to be targeting institutions in several European countries.
• 15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa
• Apple invests $200m in iPhone glassmaker Corning (Supplier is first beneficiary of $1bn fund to promote US manufacturing jobs)
• Newly Developed ‘Bionic Skin’ Enables the Sense of Touch in Robots
• Newly Developed Method Makes Printing Glass Objects in 3-D a Reality
• “Artificial blowhole”generates electricity from ocean waves
• Sweden GDP vs. what China spent on eating out in 2016
• Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible

 

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• Facebook beats in Q1 with $8.03B revenue, faster growth to 1.94B users
• Facebook holds 16% of the global digital-ad market, behind Google’s 33% share, says forecasting firm eMarketer.
• WhatsApp’s ‘Status’ Snapchat clone hits 175M daily users in 10 weeks (15 percent of the messaging app’s 1.2 billion users.)
• Fitbit stock jumps 10% after beating in Q1 with 3 million devices sold
• Verizon sells its private cloud and managed hosting businesses to IBM
• There are 147 teams competing in XPrize’s broad-ranging AI competition
• InVision picks up TrackDuck to better integrate with Atlassian products.This is InVision’s seventh acquisition in the last 16 months.
• Apple’s services business grows 18% (quarter’s revenue from services was $7.04 billion)
• Facebook Messenger rolls out Instant Games worldwide
• SpaceX plans to launch first internet-providing satellites in 2019
• A space engine that could make flying into orbit commonplace
• Self-Driving EVs Will Mean 200 Million Fewer Cars in U.S. by 2030, Study Claims
• New device can harvest indoor light to power electronics
• Walmart has applied for a patent to track how much toothpaste and milk you use at home
• Google is testing a job-search feature that could rival LinkedIn—and Facebook
• Amazon Echo touchscreen device shown for the first time in new leak
• Citi lists Netflix, Tesla as potential takeover targets for Apple (Netflix (NFLX.O), Walt Disney (DIS.N), Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O), Electronic Arts (EA.O) Take Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O) and Hulu)
• Europe’s aviation safety authorities have proposed rules for operating small drones that include requirements for geo-fencing technology to prevent them from straying into banned areas and a “dos and don’ts” leaflet to be inserted in retail packaging.
• Amazon plans to open a new center in the university city of Cambridge for scientists developing technologies including the Alexa digital assistant used in its Echo speakers. Able to house more than 400 scientists and engineers when it opens in the autumn

 

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• Almost two weeks after Apple Inc. secured permission to test its autonomous-car technology in California, the first images of the vehicle have been captured on Silicon Valley roads…California has so far granted autonomous car testing permits to 30 companies, a mix of tech players, startups, carmakers and automotive suppliers…
• …Netflix Inc. recommends a minimum connection speed of at least 5 megabits a second to watch basic HD video, while Amazon recommends at least 3.5 megabits….
• Google’s parent company Alphabet on Thursday reported $24.8 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2017, a 22 percent jump from the same period last year..
  …Google added 1,939 workers in the quarter, the vast majority of them product managers and engineers, with hiring growth concentrated in the company’s cloud services
• Amazon Web Services Annual Run Rate  $14.6 billion
• Microsoft Intelligent Cloud (including Azure) Annual Run Rate $6.8 billion.
• According to Synergy Research Group, AWS controlled 40 percent of the public cloud services market as of early February, compared to 23 percent for Microsoft, IBM and Google combined.
• Elon Musk’s giant tunnel boring machine arrived at SpaceX – first pictures
• Google Is Becoming “A.I. First
• Is This Tiny European Nation a Preview of Our Tech Future?
• Tesla starting its roll out a new Automatic Emergency Breaking (AEB) feature to its Autopilot 2.0 hardware as reported yesterday by Electrek. AEB, developed from scratch, will raise the safety standards of its cars.
• Cryogenically frozen brains will be ‘woken up’ and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon. Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants.
• 5 Crazy Things Brain Interfaces Might Make Possible
  • Control Your Computer with Your Mind
  • True Next-Gen Gaming
  • Truly Emotionally Aware Technology
  • Don’t Control a Robot Arm. Have a Robot Arm
  • Control Your Own (or Someone Else’s) Brain
• E-bikes are becoming a hit with consumers “Our business in the past five years has gone from e-bikes being 10 percent of what we sell to now closer to 90 percent“
• Dubai has quickly grown into a global hub for trade. Now, it’s planning to use blockchain as the basis for its economy, further enhancing this status.
• 5 infographics that explain one year of blockchain news
• Amazon unveils logistics services revenues for first time ($6.438bn in sales in the quarter, which is more than one in six dollars of total revenues)
• A recent study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated there are at least 80m Prime members in the US, and millions more overseas.
• Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)