• Why is there no Nobel Prize in technology?
• Scientists have built a new soft robot that can heal itself
• LinkedIn to launch Talent Insights, a new analytics tool, as it dives deeper into data
• Amazon brings Echo and Alexa to India and soon Japan, its first markets in Asia
• The Pixel market share chart Google
• Dropbox Redesigned After 10 Years With a Focus on Creativity
• Satya Nadella – Charlie Rose
• Google Hardware Event 2017
• Amazon has hired some 1,000 newly minted M.B.A.s in the past year
• Facebook quietly launches Mac and PC Workplace Chat apps with screen share
• Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS
• …Amazon is on track to sell more than 70 million Echos through 2022, according to BI Intelligence estimates…
• A new app called Dust aims to change that by automatically investing your spare change in bitcoin, litecoin, or ethereum.
• AIM is shutting down on December 15 after 20 years
• Netflix shares rise as company announces subscription price hike
• Google Cloud instances can now use 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
• AI and VR will help students get more from a K-12 education

• Elon Musk’s New Vision: Anywhere on Earth in Under One Hour
• Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
• 2017 is already the biggest year ever for data center investment in the U.S… $18.2 billion so far this year…
• The ICO, explained
• Everything SpaceX revealed about its updated plan to reach Mars by 2022
• Google is building a smart screen competitor to Amazon’s Echo Show
• Amazon has 5000 people just working on Alexa
• What the world’s financial bigwigs think about bitcoin
• Gibraltar Issues ICO Advisory Amid Drive Toward Blockchain Regulation
• Accenture Awarded Patent for ‘Editable Blockchain’ Tech
• A Huge Gravitational Wave Announcement Is About to Happen
• South Korea bans raising money through ICOs
• GV leads $10 million investment in audio broadcasting platform Anchor
• Toshiba signs $18 billion deal to sell its chip unit
• Gartner: Amazon Web Services on top of the public cloud, as Alibaba gains the most ground
• How to Survive Wall Street’s Robot Revolution

• Database provider MongoDB has filed to go public
• Uber loses its license to operate in London
• Baidu announces $1.5B fund to back self-driving car startups
• Here’s What’s Really Driving Bitcoin’s Price ( part 1 | part 2 )
• Google Cloud adds support for more powerful Nvidia GPUs. “…For companies working with machine learning workloads, having access to GPUs in the cloud provides them with flexibility to pay for what they use with by the minute pricing, and the sustained pricing model means if they end up running the GPUs for a sustained period of time, they get up to a 30 percent discount, depending on the usage. In other words, they don’t get whacked with a huge bill because they like the service…”
• Apttus is putting artificial intelligence to work on contract management
• Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to acq-hire 2,000 HTC engineers
• When is the internet going to change TV ads for real?
• “…More than 30 million people are now paying for a subscription streaming service in the U.S., which pushed streaming revenue up 48 percent, to $2.5 billion, in the first half of the year. Streaming now accounts for 62 percent of the U.S. music business…”
• Tesla’s remote upgrades to its vehicles during Hurricane Irma are the future of tech
• Spacex will call global internet satellite network Starlink
• Jack Ma: We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs
• Europe is Designing a New Particle Collider
• Here’s everything Tesla is working on right now

Video 2: Disrupt SF 2017 | Naval Ravikant and Vitalik Buterin

• The inside story of how Netflix transitioned to digital video after seeing the power of YouTube
• Whole Foods gives Amazon hundreds of return centers. A startup wants to give other e-commerce sites the same.
• Americans spent nearly a billion hours watching YouTube videos on Android this past July, according to new data released today by App Annie.
• Trello finally comes to the desktop
• Apple Watch Series 3: First impressions, LTE prices, and design choices
• iPhone 8, Apple TV 4K, and Apple Watch Series 3 now available for preorder with Sept. 22 arrival
• Mac OS High Sierra will be released on September 25
• Google Chrome will block auto-play video starting January 2018
• Alphabet Considers Lyft Investment of About $1 Billion
• Japan’s Softbank wants to invest $10 billion in Uber, but only if it gets a big discount
• Apple explains Face ID on-stage failure
• Angry Birds maker Rovio targets $1bn valuation
• Ericsson Mobility Report 2017
• Apple Begins to Roll Out 4K Movies in US iTunes Store
• Amazon waves goodbye to its one-click purchase patent
• Magic Leap reportedly looking to raise even more cash, this time at a $6 billion valuation
• The robots are coming for Mozart
• Cassini’s final moments
• Why did Ford build a ‘fake driverless car’ using a man dressed as a seat?
• Elon Musk: Tesla electric lorry to be unveiled in late October

• T-Mobile’s unlimited data family plans now include free Netflix
• NASA beamed a tweet into space in honor of Voyager 1’s 40th anniversary
• Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights
• Facebook just bid $600 million to stream Indian cricket matches. Will it try NFL games next?
• Putin and Musk are right: Whoever masters AI will run the world
• …Facebook’s secretive hardware unit, Building 8, would be the first to move into its new prospective China office…
• Boards Can’t Wait for CEOs to Prioritize Digital Change
• Google’s Street View cameras get quality boost
• According to the New York Times, the Red Sox used Apple Watch to receive messages about what kind of pitch was about to be thrown.
• The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera
• Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
• ICO funding hit a record $800 million in Q2 2017
• Five ways mobile technology can help in humanitarian emergencies
• Virtual U.S. Tutors Are Helping Chinese Kids Gain an Edge…Online schools battle with traditional tutoring academies for supremacy in an $80 billion market.
• Marine insurers adopt blockchain contracts

• Elon Musk startup ‘to spend £100m’ linking human brains to computers
• Inside Uber’s Choice of a New CEO
• Microsoft and Amazon partner to integrate Alexa and Cortana digital assistants
• Amazon has finally added multi-room audio support to its Echo devices, allowing users to simultaneously stream music over multiple speakers in their homes.
• “Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that’s in customers, technology or worldwide scale” Alibaba Cloud President Simon Hu
• Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work
• Can 10 Minutes of Meditation Make You More Creative?
• Amazon officially owns Whole Foods and is slashing prices by as much as 43 percent
• WhatsApp is testing verified business accounts
• What subscription services do you pay for and why?
• Medium: “How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code”
• Scientists in Australia have developed a drone run by shark-spotting software to detect sharks near coastal areas
• UK TV industry risks losing £1bn a year to Amazon, YouTube and Facebook
• Google launches augmented-reality camera platform for Android
• How YouTube perfected the feed

• the fully autonomous … branded cars will start hitting … around 2020 and 2021
  “…DRIVE PX 2 AI car platform began shipping just one year ago, more than 225 car and truck makers, suppliers, research organizations, and start-ups have begun developing with it…” “…NVIDIA expected its DRIVE PX 2 platform to be capable of delivering Level 3 autonomy for cars, trucks, and shuttles by the end of the year, and Level 4 autonomy by the end of 2018…”
• Infographic : Visualizing the Massive $15.7 Trillion Impact of AI
• Google and Walmart are partnering on voice shopping in a challenge to Amazon’s Alexa
• The solar eclipse was bigger for Facebook than any of the last four Super Bowls.
  Facebook says 66 million people “interacted” with the social network for the eclipse.
• Uber drivers have earned $50 million in tips in just over 50 days
• Full transcript: Lyft Director of Product Taggart Matthiesen on Recode Decode
• Salesforce slides past its $10B annual run rate target
• This European country may hold an ICO and issue its own cryptocurrency
• Uber’s first pitch deck
• Over a third of millennials say they’ll pay for Disney’s streaming service, survey finds
• Lilium, a German company building an electric ‘air taxi,’ makes key hires from Gett, Airbus and Tesla
• Top 7 startups from Y Combinator S’17 Demo Day
• Walmart’s streaming service Vudu hits Apple TV
• Innovation: HBR : How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones
• Google is sharing its management tools with the world
• Youtube Recommendation Algorithm 2016 Paper
• Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
• Ads of future will be 6 seconds

• Ford unveils its new electric truck made with DHL
• Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 Adds 5G And Deep Learning For First Time
• China will use blockchain tech for tax collection and invoicing
• Angry Birds’ Maker Rovio Plans IPO
• Pandora Names Sling TV’s Lynch as New CEO
• Amazon’s Alexa can now steer exoskeletons
• A 21-Year-Old Developer’s Robotic Arm could be the future of prosthetics
• Quantum Internet is 13 years away.
• Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
• Apple is bringing a billion dollar checkbook to Hollywood and wants to buy 10 TV shows
• Uber’s product manager of its developer platform, Chris Saad, is leaving the company
• You can now make free phone calls with your Google Home
• Amazon’s private label business is booming thanks to device sales, expanded fashion lines
• Spectacular Eclipses in the Saturn System
• Pirates 2.0: How hackers target shipping
• AI creates fictional scenes out of real-life photos
• The World’s Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
• Memories of fear could be permanently erased, study shows

• Ofcom Communications Market Report (3 August 2017) UK Stats
  • 3h32minutes spent watching broadcast TV per day
  • 183 minutes spent listening to radio per day (among radio listeners)
  • 25.3 million : Number of fixed broadband connections
  • 10.8 million:  Number of superfast broadband connections
  • 36.2 Mbit /s : Average actual fixed broadband speed
  • “…While 91% of UK adults watched live TV in an average week in 2016, data from BARB show that the amount of me UK adults spend watching has fallen since 2010, with a decline in average daily viewing me of 36 minutes (-14%) to 3 hours 51 minutes per adult (16+) per day in 2016…”
• Korea takes first step to introduce ‘robot tax‘
• Nvidia Once Ruled Video Games, Now It May Rule Self-Driving Cars
• By Buying Mobileye, Intel Jumps Firmly Into Driverless Car Race
• There’s a Plan To Rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes
• GM is beta testing a ride-hailing app for autonomous EVs
• Disney wants to make a huge shift in its business model — but it’s not ready to do it yet
• SoftBank is pumping $1 billion into the online sports apparel retailer Fanatics
• SoftBank leads $1bn investment in US biotech group…”…The investment in Roivant Sciences, which is developing experimental medicines for a range of illnesses spanning Alzheimer’s to rare diseases…“
• RBC Capital’s Mark Mahaney believes Snap will report ARPU of $1.19 per user in Q2, growth of 138 percent year over year.
• Michelin’s 3D-printed tire is as stunning as it is futuristic
• Fintech in China
• How can creative industries benefit from blockchain?
• SoftBank’s running list of deals show it’s the biggest, craziest investor in tech right now
• TV is moving to the internet faster than you probably think
• Facebook Watch and the reinvention of TV