Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 October 2020

* Boston Dynamics’ Spot is getting an arm and self-charging dock next year >>
* Facebook. Well contained. Keep the rest of your life to yourself. >>
* PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network >>

* GMC’s 1,000HP Hummer EV is an ‘all-electric supertruck’ >>
* NASA’s OSIRIS-REx successfully collected bits of an orbiting asteroid >>
* OSIRIS-REx survived its touchdown on asteroid Bennu—now we wait to see if it got a sample >>
* Amazon Prime members get free one-hour grocery pickups at Whole Foods >>

* The Government Sues Google >>
* US Justice Dept: Google paid handset makers for search dominance >>
* Google: A deeply flawed lawsuit that would do nothing to help consumers >>

* SpaceX Boca Chica – Starship SN8 ready for nosecone arrival and mating >>
* SpaceX Starlink – The Internet Revolution – Beta tests going public soon! >>

* HCL Volt MX low-code solution for professional developers >>
* Tricentis AI-powered test automation, NetBSD 9.1 released, and AWS porting assistant for .NET now open source >>
* Wrike launches new AI tools to keep your projects on track >>

* Landing AI launches new visual inspection platform for manufacturers >>
* Descript, Andrew Mason’s platform to edit audio by editing text, now lets you edit video, too >>
* Future of Active Host Vulnerability Monitoring >>

* A US lab used rockets to launch a semi-truck into a new tractor trailer built to transport nuclear weapons >>
* Scientists accidentally discover new organ in human head >>

* VR Roulette Episode 5: Punching Pigs, Quidditch And Doritos >>
* Breaking the Latency Barrier >>

* Microsoft’s ‘PIVOT’ Haptics Research Could Make Throwing A Ball In VR More Believable >>
* Aleph Farms cooks up plan to grow cultured steaks on Mars >>

* Optical navigation enables sample collection from asteroid >>
* Geotab Keyless helps car-sharing fleets pool assets >>
* VBOX Indoor Positioning System. Speed & position — anywhere. >>
* How To Protect Yourself From Unexpectedly High AWS Bills >>
* The Eleven Defining Characteristics of Modern Software Architecture >>
* Image Processing Techniques That You Can Use in Machine Learning Projects >>

* Low-code vs model-driven: are they the same? >>
* Carrier networks must integrate and automate to chase innovation >>
* Ericsson rides high on China 5G boom >>

* Coronavirus is causing ‘academic Darwinism’ as campuses stay closed >>
* China develops high-speed train to run on different rail systems >>

* 60,000 volunteers receive Chinese COVID-19 vaccines in phase-3 trials >>
* Is Netflix actually making the cultural equivalent of billion-dollar movies? >>
* How COVID-19 infected the world with lies >>
* 41.3 m confirmed infections, 1.13m deaths. Spain hits 1 million infections >>
* Long Covid: Who is more likely to get it? >>

* When User Experience Means Life or Death >>
* Scientists Can Now Take Virtual Walks Through Human Cells >>
* Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2020 Blurs the Line Between Tools and Toys>>

* Why ‘digital’ is no different when it comes to valuation >>
* When governments turn to AI: Algorithms, trade-offs, and trust >>
* Adobe gives Photoshop 2021 even more Sensei AI power, brings livestreaming to Photoshop for iPad >>
* Mass-spectrometry breakthrough paves the way to detecting viruses >>

* US election 2020: Trump’s impact on the environment, health and space >>
* Presidential Debates Have Shockingly Little Effect on Election Outcomes >>
* Is the coronavirus evolving and will it become more or less deadly? >>

* Your photos delivered monthly from Google Photos >>
* The science and technology of sound sleep >>
* Quibi chairman reportedly looked into selling its content library >>

* Google Assistant can now play Spotify podcasts on your Nest speakers >>
* Ford will use its Escape SUV to power a self-driving car service >>
* Wow, Betelgeuse Might Be 25% Closer than Previously Believed >>
* It’s still possible to detect the site of the 2017 kilonova explosion >>