• Facebook Tunes Into Television’s Market (The social network is developing an app for television set-top boxes, hoping to tap more ad dollars, $70 billion TV ad market)
• Mozilla kills off open source IoT project
• Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Endorse 23 Principles for AI
• A little-known part of Amazon is growing fast — and directly competes with Google and Facebook
• PayPal’s CEO reveals the 2 key trends that are driving the fintech revolution
• Snapchat files for a $3 billion IPO
• The State of Sales & Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies
• Scientists have invented paper that you can print with light, erase with heat, and reuse 80 times
• The Booming Demand for Commercial Drone Pilots
• PSA: The PlayStation 4 will get external HDD support with firmware 4.50
• iPhone 8 concept reimagines the home button with a Touch Bar-like interface
• Disposable drone could one day save your life
• Smart Cities, How 5G can help municipalities becomes vibrant smart cities [PDF]
• The Most Innovative Companies 2016
• Spurious Correlations
• Competing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• The voice-first user interface has gone mainstream
• The UX of Voice: The Invisible Interface
• Working from home? Google wants to create a drone to go to meetings for you
• Snap has a $2 billion contract with Google for cloud services
• Facebook’s AI now lets you search for photos by their content
• Google is killing its experimental Hands Free payment app

• Toshiba to Sell Part of Its Chip Business
• Google Parent Alphabet Finds New Growth Beyond Search
• Amazon Expands Into Ocean Freight
• Digital in 2017 Global Overview
• Xiaomi executive Barra joins Facebook to lead virtual reality business
• Google sales poised to overtake Microsoft in changing of the guard
• Comcast mobile phone service coming in 2017 with wireless/cable bundles
• Microsoft HoloLens: sales figures are in the ‘thousands‘
• Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight
• A Challenge to the ‘Secular Stagnation’ Theory, A new paper argues aging populations have not had a negative effect on growth—and one reason may be robots
• Google brings AI to Raspberry Pi
• Details on Snap’s $25 billion IPO are expected to be revealed next week
• Netflix and Amazon dropped millions on these Sundance movies everyone will be talking about

• Three New Predictions for Automation and Jobs
• Tesla Boosts Range of All-Electric Model S to 335 Miles
• Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products
• Amazon is crushing Walmart, eBay, and Target in the growing mobile shopping space (…Amazon’s mobile app is increasing its penetration rate in the US, with 50% of US online shoppers now on its app…)
• Amazon just launched virtual ‘Dash’ buttons for one-click buying from the homepage
• Video is the new HTML
• Report Digital Transformation Initiative Professional Services Industry [PDF]
• Apple files a billion-dollar royalty suit against Qualcomm
• Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.
• Tesla’s second generation Autopilot could reduce crash rate by 90%, says CEO Elon Musk
• Top 20 Growth Hacking Articles from Issues 1–4 of growth.email
• Google’s former king of search is joining Uber to lead the engineering team
• Google Maps may soon tell you how bad the parking is at your destination
• 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020
• World Economic Forum Videos
• Strategic Update: The Future of Innovation
• Artificial Intelligence

• Atlassian to Buy Trello for $425 Million
• Facebook to Test Mid-Roll Video Ads
• Amazon Echo -> 4% of American households… Apple’s Siri handles over 2bn commands a week, and 20% of Google searches on Android-powered handsets in America are input by voice (Economist)
• 7 bot trends to watch in 2017
• Just one autonomous car will use 4,000 GB of data/day.. vehicles will generate and consume roughly 40 terabytes of data for every eight hours of driving.
• All electric trains in the Netherlands now run on wind energy
• Google quietly shut its internet drone project last year
• Fitbit reportedly held talks to acquire Jawbone
• iOS revenue to surpass $1 trillion this year
• Why Norway is killing FM radio
• Deep Learning at Gilt
• Amazon Web Services has opened a London region
• Netflix’s content boss explained the reason he bet big on ‘The Crown,’ its Golden Globe winner
• Apple captures more than 40% of wireless headphones market in the US.
• An average of 2,700 (!) apps were released daily in the Google Play Store, compared with 1,800 in the Apple App Store.
• Amazon Web Services quietly buys cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud protections
• An Essential Guide to WeChat Mini Apps
• For Non-Tech Companies, if You Can’t Build It, Buy a Start-Up
• Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager
• The mobile app gold rush may be over

 

• The Robotic Grocery Store of the Future Is Here
• 5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017
• Apple Confirms $1 Billion Investment in SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund
• Tesla sold a total of 76,230 cars and sport-utility vehicles last year.
• A Third Of Consumers Say They Would Exchange Personal Info For Content
• Holiday Spending on Mobile Games Nears $1 Billion
• Hyundai Shows Off Wearable Robots to Help Paraplegics, Elderly
• SpaceX Launch Video : Team, Passion, Culture (Youtube)
• Google’s A.I. is training itself to count calories in food photos
• Bose is building ride-smoothing tech for autonomous cars
• PlayStation 4 sales surpass 53M, Uncharted 4 moves 8.7M
• Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System
• Amazon delivered over 2 bn items globally in 2016
• Minecraft has now sold over 25 million copies on PC and Mac
• A.I. Downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfight simulation
• Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI
• Ford plans to take Amazon’s Alexa for a ride
• Apple’s App Store Sales Top $28 Billion
• Amazon Brings Fire TV Experience to Third-Party TV Sets
  (In a move mirroring Roku TV, Amazon is partnering with lower-priced TV brands including Seiki and Westinghouse)
• Wind power overtakes coal for first time in UK

Twitter

• Transparent Video
• The avg Web page size today is equal to installing Doom back then

• Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door
• 14 busy tech leaders share their tips for managing everyday work and life
• Volkswagen acquires PayByPhone, a parking payment app used by 12.5M users in 300 cities
• Tencent invests in mapping company to serve driverless cars (Autonomous cars requires centimeter detailed maps)
• Five industries under threat from technology
  (Travel agents, manufacturers, insurers, advisers and car repair garages face strain)
• The Best Podcasts for Self-Improvement
• AT&T Blocks Robocalls Before They Ring, If You Have the Right Phone
• A pre-CES 2017 look at the state of autonomous vehicles
• Volvo integrates Skype for Business in its 90 series vehicles
• The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella is still looking good on Wall Street
• This Robot Is Better Than Most Humans At Foosball (Twitter)
• Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
• The 2016 WeChat Data Report

• Mobile eating the world, Ben Evans
• Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1 Billion in Satellite Startup OneWeb
• The Tesla Advantage: 1.3 Billion Miles of Data, Silicon Valley and Detroit can’t keep up with Elon Musk’s trove of real-world metrics.
• Scientists Have Officially Entered the Weird World of Bacteria-Powered Batteries
• Konami Climbs as Smartphone Soccer Game Downloads Hit 4 Million
• DeepMind signs up second NHS trust to health app, Artificial intelligence company hopes to alert doctors to patients at risk
• Honda and Alphabet Talk Driverless-Car Partnership, Under proposed partnership, companies would test Waymo’s sensors, computers and software in Honda’s vehicles
• AT&T’s DirecTV Now Gets Off to a Bumpy Start
• What was the most important technology of 2016?
• Vodafone eyes role in traffic control for drones
• Canada sets universal broadband goal of 50Mbps and unlimited data for all
• Ten people to get NHS bionic eyes
• Here’s what 22 tech stars have on their home screens
• Voyager 1, at a distance of 137 AU, is headed toward the Ophiuchus constellation in the north, while Voyager 2, 113 AU out from the home star, is speeding toward the Pavo constellation in the south.
• How YouTube is Shaping Content and Culture
• YouTube in the Living Room – Online Video Becomes Part of the Furniture

• Tencent: Inside China’s ‘killer app’ factory
• Instagram hits 600m user milestone
• Ikea’s smart home (source)
• Live on Twitter: Broadcasting Video From the App
• GE’s Software Future Starts With Selling Computer Hardwaret o help industrial customers move data between their equipment and its cloud services
• General Electric to Buy Two Tech Startups for Its Digital Business
  GE is acquiring Wise.io Inc., a machine learning firm, and Bit Stew Systems Inc., which enables the ‘ingestion’ of masses of data for industrial applications
• Let’s build an Airport – How to estimate large scale projects
• Apple, Spotify Face Upstart Rival in Streaming Music: China’s Tencent
  (Joox music-streaming service)
• Amazon reportedly building app to connect truckers with shippers, possibly putting pressure on Convoy
• ‘Super Mario Run’ Jumps to Top of App-Store Charts
• Azure in the car: Microsoft and TomTom partner on location services for U.S. automakers
• Subscriptions offer a more stable base of recurring revenue than traditional licenses, but Adobe hasn’t simply been replacing one form of sales for the other.
• Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand
• Air-launched rocket puts eight CYGNSS microsatellites in orbit to study hurricanes

2017 Trends

• The Future 100, emerging trends for 2017 [JWT]
• Fjord Trends 2017
• PSFK Forecast 2020

• Over the past 18 months, Accenture estimates that it has automated 17,000 tasks and roles, saving it around 20m hours of work per year
• Amazon Go Video (Youtube)
• Uber in Artificial-Intelligence Drive After Buying Startup (Geometric Intelligence)
• Bill Gates On His Five Favorite Books Of 2016
• Charlie Rose : A look at virtual reality with Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and C.E.O. of Oculus.
• Charlie Rose : A look at artificial intelligence with John Kelly, senior vice president of cognitive solutions and research for the IBM Corporation.
• New Nordstrom mobile chatbot is ready to help shoppers find the perfect holiday gift
• Amazon Web Services expands with its first Canadian region
• Moving to the cloud requires (and attracts) scarce, expensive talent, say 3 big AWS users
• Microsoft just completed its $26B LinkedIn acquisition: Here’s what they’re going to do first
• Magic Leap is actually way behind, like we always suspected it was
• AngelList Buys Product Hunt, a Marriage of Two Beloved Silicon Valley Sites
• The Hierarchy of Engagement
• 2017 Google will reach 100% renewable energy for global operations
• Google Opens its Digital Assistant to Developers in Race Against Amazon’s Alexa
• Google Asisstant API
• Facebook Messenger Platform v1.3 Features
• Amazon Alexa API
• Apple Music Hits 20 Million Paid Subscribers
• Fast Path to a Great UX — Increased Exposure Hours

Twitter

• @cdixon : Steve Jobs: “there is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product.”
• @cdixon :
  2016 League of Legends finals: 43M viewers
  2016 NBA finals: 30.8M viewers
• @morellimarcp : #Robotics market 2015 by @BCG ($ 26B)
• @lukew: “no one will ever…”