Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 October 2020

* Phase One XT takes photography to a new level, 151-megapixel camera system. >>
* Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets >>
* Apple One now available, bundling Apple’s services into a single subscription >>

* A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins >>
* Waymo Pulls Back The Curtain On 6.1 Million Miles Of Self-Driving Car Data In Phoenix >>
* PORTL Hologram raises $3M to put a hologram machine in every home >>

* Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next? >>
* Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning >>
* Futuristic E-Bike Comes With A Sleek Design Featuring Hubless Wheels >>

* WhatsApp is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day >>
* Face mask injected with antiviral chemicals that ‘attack’ infected droplets breathed out by the wearer could help stop the spread of Covid-19 >>
* US faces record surge of coronavirus cases as election looms >>

* Software can spy on what you type in video calls by tracking your arms >>
* Taiwan Semiconductors 2 Nanometer Future and Beyond >>
* Xi Jinping promises China will be more open to international scientific cooperation despite drive for hi-tech self-reliance >>
* Alibaba deploys autonomous logistics robots for ‘Double 11’ package delivery >>

* Digital economy starts a new engine of development in China >>
* Roborace engineer explains why a driverless racecar drove into a wall >>
* Millions of Americans are voting for the first time this year, and it’s not just young people >>
* Silicon Valley backs Biden to mend Trump’s US-China tech rift >>

* Tech Rout Sends Stocks to Worst Week Since March: Markets Wrap >>

* Open RAN might not be ready for America’s big 5G push >>
* Facebook looks to AR to build beyond ads >>
* During the pandemic, Alphabet spells advertising success >>

* Podcast: Pandemic’s pull on network traffic patterns >>
* What’s the story: Light Reading’s Mike Dano talks about Rivada and the DoD’s 5G ambitions >>
* In Defense of the IPO and How to Improve It, Part 2: Peeking Behind the Pop >>

* Dow Sheds 400 Points; Nasdaq Down 2.8% >>
* Covid’s Grip on a Rural Hospital >>

* Cloud and ad spending lift earnings at Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook >>
* Countdown: The case for stubborn optimism on climate >>
* Lightbend Survey: Cloud Native Is a Process, Not a Place >>

* Nextdoor: Test Challenges Two Weeks Before Launch >>
* lobe.ai Discover all the machine learning models you can train with Lobe. >>

* 15 Passion Economy Subscription Marketplace Ideas >>
* Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? >>
* The top 3 pain points of test automation, and how to overcome them >>
* Censored by China, under attack in America: what’s next for WeChat? >>

* JRE #1558 – TRISTAN HARRIS >>
* Twitter (with Dick Costolo) >>
* Contactless payments here to stay thanks to COVID-19, Cook says >>

* Notes of interest from Apple’s Q4 2020 and annual earnings report >>
* Apple’s $64.7B Q4 beats Street estimate, but China sales flag >>
* KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms >>

* Browser Bugs Exploited to Install 2 New Backdoors on Targeted Computers >>
* The SaaSOps Show: A Deep Dive Into SaaS Discovery >>
* A new growth formula for manufacturing in India >>

* Growth through a downturn >>
* Nine scenarios for the COVID-19 economy >>
* The technology industry in 2020 and beyond >>

* The telecom sector in 2020 and beyond >>
* Novid — a pre-exposure notification system for Covid (and other things) >>
* DARPA’s newest sub-hunting weapon is… Shrimp >>
* Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains >>

* Building a real-time conversational analytics platform for Amazon Lex bots >>
* NASA releases new spooky space-themed posters about extreme places in the Universe >>
* New Simulation Shows Exactly What’s Happening as Neutron Stars Merge >>

* Weekly Space Hangout: October 28, 2020, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, SETI Institute >>
* $850 Billion Potential of Error Corrected Quantum Computers >>
* Are Electronic Media Any Good at Getting Out the Vote? >>

* Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots >>
* Nextbigfuture Interviews Honeywell on Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers >>
* Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities >>
* Dilbert: Friday October 30, 2020Code Reuse >>

* Big Tech earnings: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, and Twitter all report results on the same day >>
* Alphabet’s revenue recovers despite looming antitrust lawsuit >>
* Amazon crushes Q3 expectations even without Prime Day bump >>

* While we were staying home, Amazon amassed $96.1 billion in sales >>
* Amazon Web Services reports $11.6 billion third-quarter revenue, up 29% year over year >>
* Apple slides 4% on disappointing 4th quarter iPhone sales and lack of forward guidance >>

* Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B >>
* Amazon’s Dash Smart Shelf can re-order almost anything you can fit on it >>
* Comcast says Peacock has nearly 22M sign-ups >>
* How IBM Research Is Differentiating Its Hybrid Cloud Platform with AI >>

* Meet the 11 startups graduating from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator >>
* NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its asteroid sample >>
* Netflix is Raising the Price of Its Most Popular Plan To $14 Today, Premium Tier Increasing To $18 >>

* Google: Reflecting on our work with Asian newsrooms >>
* What really happens if Republicans get rid of Section 230 >>
* Algorithm trained with hundreds of zombie faces can transform selfies into blood thirsty undead corpses >>

* Seven Ways the Election Will Shape the Future of Science, Health and the Environment >>
* flowoid – No-Code Automation >>
* Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find reef taller than Empire State Building >>

* AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world >>
* Trump is Going to Lose the Vote. But He Could Still Win the Election. >>
* When will SpaceX’s Starship SN8 fly? >>
* Video streaming and deep learning: Using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with Deep Java Library >>
* Bringing real-time machine learning-powered insights to rugby using Amazon SageMaker >>