Futureseek Daily Link Review; 5 July 2020

* Rocket Lab launch fails second stage burn, causing a loss of vehicle and payloads >>
* Festo’s New Bio-Inspired Robots Include Feathery Bionic Bird >>
* Video Friday: Quadruped Robot HyQ Learning the Ninja Walk >>

* The Tour de France Is Going Virtual, and It Starts This Weekend >>
* Smart Soccer and Basketballs are making sports training possible in stay at home era >>
* UK government takes $500 million stake in space exploration firm OneWeb >>

* PlayStation’s secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory >>
* Will the Tech Workplace Ever Be the Same Again? >>
* Guy Compares The Video Samsung S20 Ultra With A Hollywood Movie Camera >>

* When life gives you lemons, print money with Lemonade >>
* Right-handed bias of DNA of all living things may be down to cosmic rays blasting earth >>
* Harry Potter ‘open world’ video game is in the works >>

* Best streaming: Disney Plus, Netflix, Apple TV+, Now TV, Amazon Prime compared >>
* Future of work in Japan: Accelerating automation after COVID-19 >>
* Unlocking growth in small and medium-size enterprises >>

* $10 Trillion Rally Hinges on Earnings Nobody Has a Clue About >>
* New trailers: Pixar’s Soul, Beyoncé’s Black is King, and more >>
* Watch This Guy Set A World Record For Hang Gliding The Farthest Without Stopping >>

* Getting the feels: Should AI have empathy? >>
* Global freight flows after COVID-19: What’s next? >>
* Hacked by Police >>

* Can a Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves? >>
* Boeing’s 737 Max is Being Readied for a Comeback. Need to Know >>
* Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass >>

* Businesses Tell Insurance Companies: Pay Up >>
* World’s first 3D-printed vegan steak is here and could hit restaurants soon >>
* It Was Almost Certainly an Asteroid Impact that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs. In Fact, Volcanoes Might Have Helped Life Recover >>

* Tesla Can Get to $14,000 Per Share Even Without Robotaxi >>
* Printing Out the World >>
* 5G Was Going to Unite the World—Instead It’s Tearing Us Apart >>

* Are we making spacecraft too autonomous? >>
* Delivery Apps Need to Start Treating Suppliers as Partners >>
* FaceApp is cool again, and adamant it’s not a privacy minefield >>

* Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web >>
* How to Curate Your Digital Persona >>
* Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app >>

* R&D: Tech giants unveil breakthroughs at computer vision summit >>
* We need a new field of AI to combat racial bias >>
* Wait, Are We Going to Have Two Pandemics? >>

* Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections >>
* Tech billionaire Peter Thiel may ditch Trump because he thinks Trump will lose >>
* Welcome to tinc! >>

* Tanzu, the VMware Kubernetes Distro for Developers >>
* Vodafone UK readies for standalone 5G future >>
* Pandemic spotlights need for simplified and automated self-service tools >>
* Vodafone’s cloud-native journey: A mix of old school and new >>

* The tragic allure of Alaska’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus >>
* Will gallium nitride electronics change the world? >>
* IBM Quantum offers advanced system access at no cost to academic researchers >>
* Disney axes 4K re-release of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in UK cinemas >>

* House approves $100 billion in broadband funding for rural areas >>
* WHO Sees First Results From COVID Drug Trials Within Two Weeks >>
* First atomic-scale map of human enamel shows how cavities form >>

* US Navy to send two aircraft carriers and several warships to South China Sea >>
* Thousands of US troops will shift to Asia-Pacific to guard against China >>
* China Has First-Strike Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon >>
* Meltdown Crisis >>
* This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunami >>

* Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th >>
* Stelter: Trump’s speech won’t make sense to most people >>
* The Mass Exodus From Beijing Is On >>
* Argentina records highest number of Covid-19 fatalities in single day >>
* Hillary Clinton says she ‘would have done a better job’ at handling the coronavirus pandemic >>

* India: No international flights until July 31 >>
* India gets its first plasma bank: All you wanted to know about this treatment for Covid-19 >>
* Inside China Tech: with India’s app bans and US reshoring, are Chinese tech lifelines being cut? >>

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