Futureseek Daily Link Review; 01 December 2020

* AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology >>
* Moderna to Seek Health Regulators’ Approval for Covid-19 Vaccine >>
* Moderna Applies for Emergency F.D.A. Approval, shots by 21 Dec >>

* Google Plans a New Corridor for Internet Traffic >>
* TIME: BEST INVENTIONS OF 2020: 100 innovations changing how we live >>
* Virgin Orbit targets launch window on December 19 for second orbital test launch >>

* Two remote-control cars developed by high-school kids will compete in first-ever contest on MOON in 2021 >>
* Scottish homes will use 100-percent green hydrogen in world first >>
* How Smartphones Operate >>
* ServiceNow acquiring Element AI, Canadian startup building AI services for enterprises >>

* Everything You Need to Know About mRNA, the COVID-19 Vaccine’s Secret Weapon >>
* Practical Transaction Handling in Microservice Architecture >>

* Markets Waver Amid Expanding Pandemic, Rising U.S. Holiday Sales >>
* Moderna Soars on Plans to Seek Clearance for Covid Vaccine >>
* One person in the room with you has COVID-19. Here’s how long it takes to get infected >>

* Iran scientist ‘killed by remote-controlled weapon’ >>
* Researchers discover signalling pathways in wound healing >>
* “Manage the Mundane” : Marissa Mayer’s startup is all about “nice” >>

* Watergen signs deal with UAE’s Al Dhara to sell ‘water-from-air’ units to region >>
* 6 Israeli creations get showcased in TIME’s 100 Best Inventions for 2020 >>
* Joe Biden: President-elect fractures foot while playing with dog >>
* Causal AI Kaggle Competition, Hosted by Big Pharma >>

* Coronavirus, cloud and climate – technology dominated the C-Suite in 2020, expect same in 2021 >>
* 5G: China will account for nearly 80 per cent of global subscriptions by end-2020, Ericsson >>
* New trailers: Small Axe: Red White and Blue, Equinox, Sweet Home, and more >>
* The Best Cyber Monday Deals >>

* Cov-19: Scientists develop novel method to detect single virus particles >>
* Study says, ‘Rapid testing can eliminate spread of Covid-19 within weeks’ >>
* Researchers find genetic variations linked to Covid-19 severity >>

* Amazon cloud-computing outage was triggered by effort to boost system’s capacity >>
* Ericsson cranks up 5G forecast (again) >>
* Three UK hits reset on IT and 5G overhaul >>

* Comcast: Cybersecurity system has blocked 6 billion threats in 2020 >>
* TED: How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders >>
* Countdown: The city planting a million trees in two years >>

* Scientists capture 3-D images of tumors in subcellular resolution >>
* A new horizon: Expanding the AI landscape >>
* We’re as good as it gets: Intelligent life is extremely UNLIKELY to exist anywhere else in the universe because it took a series of miracles for humans to evolve, say scientists >>

* Ivy is multiplying across Europe’s forests as the climate warms >>
* China’s Chang’e 5 probe is the start of a new era of lunar exploration >>
* The Morning After: Microsoft tries to kill the pointless work meeting >>

* The Future of Work: ‘The Long Tail’ by Aliette de Bodard >>
* Ride-Hail Companies Are Making Life Harder for Scooters >>
* AWS going AWOL last week is exactly why less is more in cloud server land >>

* Toyota’s second-generation Mirai has a 400-mile range >>
* Gillmor Gang: Electrical Banana >>
* BBC Basic Editor >>
* Now in recession, India is faring worse than most major economies >>
* A Successful U.S. Missile Intercept Ends the Era of Nuclear Stability >>

* How Apple Just Changed the Entire Industry >>
* ‘A natural disaster … in all 50 states’ is unfolding just as travelers disperse nationwide after Thanksgiving >>
* DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 November 2020

* Shanghai: Get your food from these unmanned catering cars >>
* SpaceX Starship imminent flight to 15km, Bellyflop and Land >>
* Breaking Analysis: Cloud 2030 From IT, to Business Transformation >>

* Black Friday online shopping comes in $9B, $3.6B on smartphones >>
* ESA Is Going To Spend $102 Million To Remove a Single Piece of Space Junk >>
* Video Friday: These Giant Robots Are Made of Air, Fabric >>

* Covid-19 Hospitalizations in U.S. Surpass 90,000 >>
* A new way to map out dark matter is 10 times more precise than the previous-best method >>
* The Science of Well-Being, shares tips on how to feel happier right now >>

* A Bezos-backed plant-based milk made with AI, cabbage, and pineapple is now available >>
* Delivery meowstakes? Amazon apologises to PlayStation 5 buyers who received air fryers, foot massagers and CAT FOOD instead of their much-anticipated consoles >>
* Scientists might know why astronauts develop health problems in space >>

* Scientists find neutrinos from star fusion for the first time >>
* CRISPR gene editing of brain cells might prevent Alzheimer’s disease >>
* BMW wants to ‘redefine the scooter segment’ with this futuristic electric concept >>

* Cancer: Blood test for 50 types to be trialled by NHS >>
* Optical Conversion Tech Images Infrared “In Color” >>
* Bigblue wants to automate e-commerce fulfillment in Europe >>

* Virgin Hyperloop’s Jay Walder on the Future of Transportation >>
* Developer Successfully Virtualizes Windows for Arm on M1 Mac >>
* Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (follow-up) >>

* Leak exposes personal data for millions of Brazilian COVID-19 patients >>
* Synthetic skin that is as strong, stretchy and sensitive as a human’s and ‘can repair itself 5,000 times’ could be used in future prosthetics >>
* AI can turn spoken language into photorealistic sign language videos >>

* Zappos’ pioneering ex-CEO Tony Hsieh dies at 46 >>
* Microsoft’s ‘Project Latte’ Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 >>
* Black Friday online shopping surged over 21 percent amid the pandemic >>

* America’s Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups >>
* The Leaderless Organization >>
* The Future of Application Development >>

* Interpol Arrests 3 Nigerian BEC Scammers For Targeting Over 500,000 Entities >>
* Most Americans Object to Government Tracking of Their Activities Through Cellphones >>
* Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices >>

* An Extra 100 Ideas for Computing >>
* Dilbert: Saturday November 28, 2020: Zoom Happy Hour >>
* China Merchants seeks to bring smart ports to Belt and Road nations >>

* Digital technologies bring better life to people >>
* Biden Presidency Already Has Its First Conspiracy Theory: The Great Reset >>
* Iran blames Israel for killing top scientist >>

* World Economic Forum May Choose Non-Swiss Venue for 2021 >>
* Apple Suppliers’ Exodus From China Won’t Slow Down Under Biden >>
* House Will Vote on Bill Restricting Chinese Firms Listed in U.S. >>
* IBM: Rethink your workflows with AI and automation >>

* Stanford Increases Solar Cell Production Rates by Four Times and Up to Ten Times Lower Cost >>
* After demonstrating a facial recognition system that works on cows, moo-chine learning pioneer seeks growth funding >>
* AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock >>

* New Wind Turbine Blades Could be Recycled Instead of Landfilled >>
* World’s first fully electric RV can now go 249 miles on one charge >>
* As Comcast enforces data caps nationwide, will AT&T, Verizon, Charter and other internet providers follow? >>

* NASA can’t decide whether astronauts should wash their underwear >>
* Google Earth reveals suspected nuclear weapons facility in Pakistan >>
* Do Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine results stand up to scrutiny? >>

* Wall Street needs to relax, as startups show remote work is here to stay >>
* Amazon workers plan Black Friday strikes and protests in 15 countries >>
* UK R number below 1.0 for the first time since August >>

* Managing Someone Whose Life Has Been Upended >>
* India sets rules for commissions, surge pricing for Uber and Ola >>
* Facebook’s Libra could launch in January >>

* Moderna’s groundbreaking coronavirus vaccine was designed in just 2 days >>
* The Moon has Resources, but Not Enough to Go Around >>
* Weekly Space Hangout: November 25, 2020, Dr. Olivier Witasse, Project Scientist, the JUICE Mission >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 November 2020

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 November 2020

* Best Black Friday deals you can get right now >>
* Remote-controlled delivery carts are now working for the local Los Angeles grocer >>

* After Admitting Mistake, AstraZeneca Faces Difficult Questions About Its Vaccine >>
* Astra Likely To Run Additional Global Vaccine Test, CEO Says >>
* Messaging app Discord is the new social life for house-bound teenagers >>

* Germany’s national rail operator will experiment with hydrogen trains >>
* Black Hole Information Paradox Is Just About Solved >>
* Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder >>

* Can mass testing schemes stop the spread of the coronavirus? >>
* Pregnancy-style tests for Covid-19 and HIV would be ‘up to 100,000 times more sensitive’ if they used tiny diamond crystals >>
* TikTok’s deadline for a sale has moved to December 4th >>

* Everything You Already Forgot About 2020 >>

* AWS re:Invent 2020 Virtual Promo >>
* Your guide to artificial intelligence and machine learning at re:Invent 2020 >>
* Amazon Web Services outage subsides after unplugging services for hours >>

* Ubuntu Linux virtualized on M1 (success!) >>
* Apple is reportedly moving iPad production out of China >>

* GM Opens Up a New Front in Its Battle With Tesla: Batteries >>
* Ford’s 2021 F-150 Pickup Is a Mobile Power Station >>
* Elon Musk Talks Future Batteries and Compact Hatchback at European Battery Conference >>

* Daily Crunch: Amazon Web Services stumble >>
* Does AstraZeneca Vaccine Also Stop Covid Transmission? >>
* A 2-mile line in Arizona. A four-hour wait in Ohio. Millions seek help to avoid going hungry on Thanksgiving. >>

* SpaceX Ultra Heavy Starship Version 2 Could Launch Satellite Version of Project Orion >>
* Tomorrow’s Power Grid Will Be Autonomous >>
* Dilbert: Thursday November 26, 2020: Online Class Muted >>

* Exoplanet Imaging via a Fast New Camera >>
* A New Artist’s Illustration of the Extremely Large Telescope. So Many Lasers >>

* How Xpertal is creating the Contact Center of the future with Amazon Lex >>
* Announcing the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events >>
* Amazon Lex launches support for Latin American Spanish and German >>

* China’s Gen Z are coming of age: Here’s what marketers need to know >>
* This Company Wants to Put a Human-Size Hologram Booth in Your Living Room >>
* My podcast with Darren Lipomi: Tyler Cowen >>

* Did Viruses Create the Nucleus? The Answer May Be Near >>
* Another Win for Senolytics: Fighting Aging at the Cellular Level Just Got Easier >>
* Covid-19 pandemic could be stopped if at least 70% public wore face masks consistently: Study >>

* F-35A dropped an inert B61-12 nuclear bomb while flying at supersonic speed >>
* Staying Flexible With Hybrid Workplaces >>

* Driverless Cars Are Coming to an Area Near You and You Should Be Worried >>
* How to Create an AWS Continuous Deployment Pipeline >>
* Pushing AI to the Edge: Use Cases and What is Next [Part 2] >>

* Dow Drops Back Below 30000 Milestone >>
* Last call: Share your DevOps experiences at Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021 >>

* $1bn bid for Tokyo Dome planned by developer Mitsui Fudosan >>
* End of Covid mortgage holiday – will housing prices fall? >>
* Spectre wave of ‘managed sales’ of homes in March >>

* Israeli students’ electric car for elderly to compete in Dubai-based show >>
* U.S. sets new record for COVID-19 hospitalizations for 15th consecutive day >>
* Until vaccine, make 55-plus live separately to save lives, Israeli research says >>

* Why is China determined to launch digital currency? >>
* China tops world in AI patent filings, surpassing the US for the first time >>
* Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be able to run at 60fps on all next-gen consoles with new update >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 November 2020

* Amazon Web Services outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet >>
* Amazon sorry for Sidewalk ‘confusion’ >>

* SpaceX prepares Starship SN8 prototype for high-altitude test flight, next week >>
* Starship SN8’s final static fire in 4K Slow Motion! >>

* Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone >>
* Preventing Developer Burnout in the Age of Rapid Software Delivery >>
* B1M: How To Build in 2030 >>
* Eurobites: Vodafone, Ericsson trial safe-skies tech for drones >>

* Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). >>
* SK Telecom unveils next-gen AI chip, and ambitions >>
* Jeff Baumgartner on satellite broadband >>

* $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark >>
* AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn’t Up to Snuff >>
* Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV >>

* Diego Maradona: Argentina legend dies aged 60 >>
* The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga >>
* AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now >>

* Pandemic of Hunger >>
* When A.I. Falls in Love >>
* Pay-per-mile auto insurer Metromile is heading to public markets via SPAC >>

* Quantum X-ray microscope “ghost images” molecules using entanglement >>
* The next AI winter will be due to energy costs >>

* SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record seventh time >>
* SpaceX just launched a Falcon 9 rocket for the 100th time >>
* Candy floss machines could be used to make medical-grade N95 face masks >>

* A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’ >>
* One Nurse, Three Covid Hotspots >>
* SD Times news digest: GitLab 13.6 released, JetBrains DataGrip 2020.3 released, Amazon Managed Workflows available on Apache Airflow >>

* THE BEST SMART PET CAMERAS OF 2020 >>
* Protecting Mobile Apps and APIs from the Inside Out >>
* Automation Justification >>

* Using Cloud Computing To Build a Remote Organization >>
* Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else >>
* The difficult choice ahead for Americans relying on emergency unemployment benefits >>

* More people in the US are starting businesses because of Covid-19 >>
* A Credible Framework to Validate Startup Ideas >>
* Chaos Engineering on CI/CD Pipelines >>
* Nokia’s new CEO may face leadership brain drain >>

* Britain commits US$333 million to help carriers replace Huawei 5G >>
* The Morning After: ‘Flight Simulator’ update adds high-res US landmarks >>

* BARACK TO THE FUTURE: Barack Obama Reveals To Stephen Colbert That Donald Trump ‘Exceeded’ His Worst Fears >>
* Bringing your own R environment to Amazon SageMaker Studio >>

* Building natural conversation flows using context management in Amazon Lex >>
* China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Is Off to Bring Back a Moon Sample — and NASA Hopes to See the Data >>
* Here’s what we know about Earth’s new minimoon >>

* Can Detroit Catch Tesla? >>
* Turning the Body Into a Wire >>
* 6 million American households could face eviction on January 1 >>

* A Boston Dynamics robot dog is going to Chernobyl >>
* How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper >>
* Elon Musk claims Tesla is developing a 621 mile range battery and a smaller hatchback vehicle >>

* Scientists Are Becoming More Politically Engaged >>
* Astro’s Playroom director on making a PS5 showpiece >>
* Overcoming pandemic fatigue: How to reenergize organizations for the long run >>

* Will India get too hot to work? >>
* Apple M1 Mac users complain of Bluetooth issues >>
* Biden Must Repair—and Reinvigorate—Tech Diplomacy >>

* Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between public clouds >>
* IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale >>
* Imagine a World Without Apps >>

* Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, but >>
* Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies >>
* Amazon Web Services » Service Health Dashboard >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 November 2020

* Goodbye, Centralized Power Grid. Hello, Autonomous Energy Grids >>
* Coronavirus mRNA vaccines won’t just end pandemic. They could change vaccines forever >>
* Global Markets Rise After Trump Clears Way for Transition >>

* Apple Silicon M1 Mac mini review – speed today and a promise of more later >>
* Apple Car may automatically tint windows for better safety and privacy >>
* Apple researching real-time LiDAR surface tracking, other tech to record touch sensations >>

* World’s first: Drug guides stem cells to desired location, improving their ability to heal >>
* Percepto to create fleet of robots and drones to monitor industrial sites >>
* Watch a Porsche Taycan break the Guinness World Record for an EV drift >>
* Moderna chief medical officer: Vaccinated adults could still infect unvaccinated with COVID-19 >>

* LIVE: Starship SN8 Static Fire #4 >>
* Starship Refilling in Orbit – This changes everything >>
* Boston Dynamics’ Spot Is Helping Chernobyl Move Towards Safe Decommissioning >>
* Best and Worst Places to Be in the Coronavirus Era >>

* YouTube’s AI-generated video chapters could help you skip lengthy intros >>
* TikTok will add a flashing imagery filter to address epilepsy concerns >>
* MIT: Robots Aren’t the Biggest Threat to the Future of Work—Policy Is >>

* Yoga May Bolster the Brain Regions Most Affected by Aging >>
* Bumblebees can fly sideways to fit through tight gaps >>
* The new conversational Search experience we’re thankful for >>

* Sony says the PS5 would still be sold out without a pandemic >>
* Microsoft’S Phil Spencer On Launching The New Xbox And The Future Of Games >>
* Researchers use cutting edge technology to bioprint mini-kidneys >>

* Algorithm accurately predicts COVID-19 patient outcomes >>
* AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts >>
* YouTube’s algorithm is steering viewers away from anti-vaccine videos >>

* The Rocket Engine That Proves Solar Thermal Propulsion Isn’t Just a Crazy Theory >>
* Acquired: Virgin Galactic >>
* DECODED • EPISODE 5: Back to Work feat. Dave Fontenot >>

* Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies >>
* Critical Unpatched VMware Flaw Affects Multiple Corporates Products >>
* Android apps from Chinese internet giant Baidu found to leak sensitive data >>

* GitOps – DevOps for Infrastructure Automation >>
* Nokia’s Steve Vogelsang on the service provider network evolution >>
* 2021 outlook for SD-WAN >>

* Amazon Sidewalk: Connected convenience beyond your front door >>
* Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help >>
* Sudheesh Nair, ThoughtSpot | CUBE Conversation, November 2020 >>

* Hasty raises $3.7M in funding to speed up computer vision AI training >>
* Some Tech Workers Who Left Silicon Valley Are Also Changing Jobs >>
* Bio Eats World: Food as Medicine >>

* Vodafone UK builds up IoT offering with IoT.nxt >>
* Hefty fines for UK operators flouting Huawei restrictions >>
* iPhone 12 teardown showcases South Korean parts makers >>

* Google’s ‘Verse by Verse’ AI can help you write in the style of famous poets >>
* Google-backed Chinese truck-hailing firm Manbang raises $1.7 billion >>

* Trump finally agrees to Biden transition – but still not conceding >>
* New connection: Google plans fiber-optic cable linking Israel and Saudi Arabia >>
* Coronavirus updates: Fauci warns of ‘stunning number of deaths’ >>

* Satellite images appear to show China developing area along disputed border with India and Bhutan >>
* Four short links: 24 Nov 2020 >>
* Indirect procurement: Insource? Outsource? Or both? >>
* What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries >>
* Monday assorted links >>

* Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine ‘likely first to be widely used in UK’ >>
* Black Friday 2020: The best deals live now, buying advice, and everything else you need to know this week >>
* Tiny worm sacrifices itself to make milk for its hatching offspring >>

* Small Gatherings Spread the Virus, but Are They Causing the Surge? >>
* COVID Models Show How to Avoid Future Lockdowns >>
* Bottlenose dolphins may control their heart rates to avoid the bends >>

* Watch live as SpaceX tests the limits of Falcon 9 reusability with sixteenth Starlink satellite launch >>
* This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes >>
* This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing >>

* The Last, ‘Ultra-Cold’ Mile for Covid-19 Vaccines >>
* Roku adds AMC+ to its streaming channel >>
* Recycling robotics company AMP Robotics could raise up to $70M >>

* India bans 43 more Chinese apps over cybersecurity concerns >>
* Disney+ will debut a Taylor Swift ‘Folklore’ concert film this week >>
* Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 >>

* China’s Chang’e-5 mission is off to collect samples from the Moon >>
* Biden-Harris team finally get their transition .gov domain >>
* This Gates-backed, MIT-based biotech company solves a key vaccination problem >>

* Want to be a Global Entrepreneur? Here’s How You Can Do It >>
* Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion? >>
* Tuesday November 24, 2020Working At Home Benefits >>

* Gravitational lenses could be the key to measuring the expansion rate of the Universe >>
* Ep. 585: Super Earths, Mini-Neptunes & Gas Dwarfs >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 November 2020

* Sounds Strange, But There Could Be Too Many Vaccines >>
* Breaking Analysis: Sparked by COVID, CISOs see permanent Shift in Cyber Strategies >>

* Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS >>
* I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) >>
* Apple suppliers eye 5G private network boom >>

* Israeli scientist claims to ‘reverse’ aging in blood cells >>
* Qantas CEO tells international flyers: no Covid vaccination, no travel >>
* How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism >>

* Who Should Get a Covid-19 Vaccine First? >>
* Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is up to 90% effective, according to interim data >>
* Introducing Greenlake Day >>

* China is about to launch its most advanced mission to the moon yet >>
* Watch China launch a lunar RETURN mission on their Long March 5 rocket! >>
* Spacex Starlink Launch | LIVE >>

* Sex, Lies, And Video Games >>
* A copy of ‘Super Mario Bros. 3’ sold for $156,000 >>

* Moderna’s CEO sold nearly $2 million of his stock ahead of the company’s emergency use vaccine filing. He’s now worth $3 billion. >>
* China’s Surveillance State Sucks Up Data. U.S. Tech Is Key to Sorting It. >>

* Quantum Memory Milestone Boosts Quantum Internet Future >>
* Prime vs. Fresh vs. Pantry vs. Whole Foods: Every Amazon grocery delivery service, compared >>
* Hacking into your robot vacuum to eavesdrop on your home Hacking into your robot vacuum to eavesdrop on your home

* Israel-UK teams to use AI to help flag patients at risk for osteoporosis >>
* These Algorithms Could Bring an End to the World’s Deadliest Killer >>
* Watch live as SpaceX tests the limits of Falcon 9 reusability with sixteenth Starlink satellite launch >>

* Serverless Visitor Counter Badge with Azure Functions >>
* Will 2020 mark the end of Black Friday? >>
* Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators >>
* Researchers 3D bioprint realistic human heart model for the first time >>

* Troubling odds of spreading Covid-19 at your Thanksgiving gathering >>
* Why value stream management is a must-do, not a “nice to do” >>
* Why Replace Traditional Web Application Firewall (WAF) With New Age WAF? >>

* DevTerm is Lifestyle >>
* AWS Step Functions: When They Might Come In Handy >>
* AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless Part I: Security >>

* No, SRE Is Not the New DevOps – Unless It Is >>
* GM to Recall Nearly 6 Million Vehicles >>
* Crypto for Creators: From Art Galleries to ‘Tokenized’ Collectibles >>

* What’s next for CSPs? >>
* Chinese court orders wildlife park to delete facial recognition data as privacy concerns grow among Chinese citizens >>
* Black Friday deals: what time sales start at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and more >>

* Joe Biden’s Student Loan Plan Is a Very Bad Sign >>
* HomeEnergyBreakthrough Material Enables No Electricity Sterilization Will Save Thousands of Lives
* Why are young, healthy people eager to take the Covid-19 vaccine? >>

* Breakthrough Material Enables No Electricity Sterilization Will Save Thousands of Lives >>
* Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything? >>
* A High Resolution, Cross-Eyed Look at the Entire Surface of Mars >>

* How DeepMap optimizes their video inference workflow with Amazon SageMaker Processing >>
* The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust >>
* Sunday assorted links >>

* Rethink capabilities to emerge stronger from COVID-19 >>
* The Marvelous MacBook Air M1 >>
* Covid-19 reinfection unlikely for at least 6 months, study finds >>

* Bill Gates, the Virus and the Quest to Vaccinate the World >>
* Will ‘Vision AI’ Be The Next Frontier for Developers? >>
* Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang >>
* Retrospective: November 10-day virtual meditation retreat >>

* Google brings ‘The Mandalorian’ to AR in its new app >>
* Google Assistant can finally schedule your smart lights >>
* Gatik’s self-driving box trucks to shuttle groceries for Loblaw in Canada >>

* Equity Monday: Good vaccine news, three rounds and why IPOs are trending >>
* Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska >>
* Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide? >>
* Corporate consolidation could spell trouble for COVID-19 vaccine production >>

* SpaceX Dragon Uses LIDAR >>
* Commercial Shipping Could Be Faster and Better Like the Nuclear Navy >>
* Dilbert; Monday November 23, 2020: Share Your Screen >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 November 2020

* SpaceX Starship prepares for flight, SpaceX and NASA make history with Crew 1 >>
* Video Friday: Matternet Launches Urban Drone Delivery in Berlin >>
* Why We Need a Robot Registry >>

* Google is testing an AI system to help vision-impaired people run races >>
* How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade >>
* Watch SpaceX launch a satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans >>

* 16 Minutes #47: Transparency in Pricing, Ruling Healthcare >>
* Now that’s multicloud: CIA awards multibillion-dollar contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM >>
* Sure Looks Like Humans Have Found a Way to Reverse Aging >>

* Our editors discuss the M1 Macs with Walt Mossberg >>
* Worlds Largest Radar Astronomy Dish To Be Demolished! >>
* Without the Arecibo telescope, our search for intelligent life is hamstrung >>

* Is the Great Stagnation over? >>
* Covid travel markets in everything >>
* Landlords skirt COVID-19 eviction bans >>

* Twitter says it will give @POTUS account to Biden on Inauguration Day >>
* Covid-19 is a case study in how universal basic income can fix hunger >>
* How restaurants are reclaiming their businesses in the era of food delivery >>
* Akka Cluster and Red Hat OpenShift A Symbiotic Relationship >>

* The Reality of Testing in DevOps >>
* Deep Learning Has Reinvented Quality Control in Manufacturing—but It Hasn’t Gone Far Enough >>

* SpaceX Starlink launch: How to watch Falcon 9 hit a big milestone tonight >>
* SD Times news digest: Infragistics updates Ignite UI for Angular 11, Buildkite expands GitHub integration, and Rust 1.48 >>
* App testing: how companies are getting it right — and wrong >>
* Moving your SaaS company Up Market with LB Harvey, Front >>

* TED2020: Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus? >>
* NB-IoT is still traveling nowhere fast >>
* Russia’s long 5G wait goes on >>
* FDA clears emergency use of lab-made antibodies to treat COVID-19 >>

* The first COVID-19 vaccines will likely require two shots >>
* Charli D’Amelio hits 100 million TikTok followers >>
* Giving thanks during a pandemic >>

* We Have No Idea What Happens Next >>
* New trailers: One Night in Miami, Chaos Walking, Justice League, and more >>

* Covid: First Americans ‘could get vaccine in early December’ >>
* Scientists Have Re-Analyzed Their Data and Still See a Signal of Phosphine at Venus. Just Less of it >>
* BMW’s Mini created a futuristic concept electric car that looks like a living room inside and has seats that can turn into a daybed >>

* Amazon Pharmacy is going to be the first big test of public trust in Prime >>
* T-Mobile becomes the first US carrier to activate ‘988’ that connects customers directly to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline >>

* World’s first ‘antibacterial smartphone’ uses silver ions to reduce the spread of microbes by 99.9 per cent in 24 hours >>
* Human genes are inserted into MONKEY BRAINS causing them to expand in unnerving Planet of the Apes-style experiment >>

* Music from the heart, with an AI assist >>
* Amazon Prime Video Channels will reportedly lose HBO access next year >>

* Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020 >>
* Machine learning text-generating models can write like humans, but they don’t have common sense >>
* How to find the best deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020 >>

* Google Pay: What opting into personalized offers can really mean for your privacy and finances >>
* Microsoft’s Windows turns 35 today >>

* Amazon nabs worldwide rights for ‘Coming to America’ sequel >>
* Amazon adds X-Ray features to its music service >>
* Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 Yacht Te Rehutai First Sail Auckland November 20, 2020. >>

* TEDWomen 2020: How COVID-19 human challenge trials work — and why I volunteered >>
* The death curve is going vertical >>
* No silver bullet: COVID-19 sparks permanent shifts in cybersecurity >>
* COVID-19 is like running a marathon with no finish line. What does sports science say about how we can win it? >>
* Mexico tops 100,000 dead as its pandemic worsens >>
* Coronavirus roars back in Brazil as infections top six million >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 November 2020

* Rocket Lab tested its parachute system on a live booster for the first time >>
* Pfizer seeks emergency authorization from FDA for COVID-19 vaccine, 50 million doses possible by next month for front-line workers >>
* Coronavirus: Covid-19 now killing one person every eight seconds >>
* The Tech Behind the Leading Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates >>

* Digital media merger: BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon >>
* Without the Arecibo telescope, our search for intelligent life is hamstrung >>

* Amazon lays off Prime Air staff as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing >>
* OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, aims to begin launching satellites again on December 17 >>

* A 3D Printed Apartment Building Is Going Up in Germany >>
* 16 Minutes #45: Apple Silicon — A Long Game, Changing the Game >>
* M1 Mac mini logic boards with 10 Gigabit Ethernet show up in service part list >>

* Why Martyte helped to damage a SpaceX Starship Raptor engine! >>
* Watch Rocket Lab try to recover a booster for the first time! >>
* The Reality of Testing in DevOps >>

* Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says ’empowered women’ key to global economic recovery >>
* Bessemer’s Byron Deeter thinks SaaS companies could grow even faster in 2021 >>

* Zero Trust Network Security for Containers and Kubernetes >>
* Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks launch the GitOps Working Group >>
* Facebook Messenger Bug Lets Hackers Listen to You Before You Pick Up the Call >>

* Lime plans for ‘modes’ beyond bikes and scooters in 2021 >>
* When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks ‘Official.’ A Woman? ‘Smile’ >>
* Why We’re Building Observable >>

* DevOps Virtual Forum Panel 2020 >>
* A Technical Deep Dive on the Data Cloud >>
* Glyn Martin, BT Group | DevOps Virtual Forum >>
* Mobilizing Data for Marketing – Transforming the Role of the CMO >>

* Data Cloud Summit 2020: Preshow >>
* Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester | DevOps Virtual Forum Promo >>
* Before machine learning can become ubiquitous, here are four things we need to do now >>
* While Airlines Shrink, Southwest Goes Big >>

* Pfizer, BioNTech to Seek FDA Approval of Coronavirus Vaccine Today >>
* Journal Club: Decoding Developmental Disorders >>
* Hong Kong Virus Cases Surge Again as City Sees ‘Fourth Wave’ >>

* APEC chiefs, including Trump, agree on free and fair trade >>
* PM Modi chairs meeting to review India’s Covid-19 vaccination strategy >>
* One more Chinese COVID-19 vaccine enters late-stage human trials >>

* Huawei leads the world in wireless communication patents in 2020, ahead of Qualcomm — report >>
* Can artificial intelligence give elephants a winning edge? >>
* Podcast: The Marvelous MacBook Air M1 >>

* WINDOWS TURNS 35: A VISUAL HISTORY >>
* The Tragedy Of A Ruined Telescope >>
* Almost a million people have been given an experimental Chinese coronavirus vaccine, pharmaceutical giant claims >>
* Hubble Catches Possible ‘Shadow Play’ Of The Disk Around A Black Hole >>

* New test reveals AI still lacks common sense >>
* Deep learning helps robots grasp and move objects with ease >>
* Pandemic could lead to profound shift in parenting roles, say experts >>

* ‘A massive headache’: European leaders put off Covid Christmas decisions >>
* Scientists discover roles for a cellular motor in cancer >>
* Your eyes can reveal your decisions before you’ve even made them >>

* First complete T-rex skeleton locked in a fight to the death with a Triceratops is finally revealed >>
* Legendary Arecibo Telescope Will Close Forever, and Scientists Are Reeling >>
* The Pitfalls of Telehealth — and How to Avoid Them >>
* Putting Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max Is a Smart Move >>

* MeowTalk: New app which can translate your cat’s meow >>
* Gillmor Gang: Apple Tacks >>
Estimates Hate Speech Seen In 1 Out of 1,000 Views On Its Platform

* Facebook Estimates Hate Speech Seen In 1 Out of 1,000 Views On Its Platform >>
* Facebook labeled 180 million posts as ‘false’ since March >>
* How Facebook’s AI Tools Tackle Misinformation >>

* How Apple’s M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers >>
* Updating the View of the Post-Pandemic Future >>

* Elon Passes Zuckerberg as Tesla Nears $500 Billion >>
* Coordinated Robotics Wins DARPA SubT Virtual Cave Circuit >>

* Weekly Space Hangout: November 18, 2020 – Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Planetary Scientist and Dragonfly Mission Architect >>
* A 100-Meter Rotating Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon? Yes Please. >>
* Detecting hidden but non-trivial problems in transfer learning models using Amazon SageMaker Debugger >>

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* Magnetic spray turns objects into mini robots that can deliver drugs >>
* Here Is a Photo of a Single Atom >>
* Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled >>
* With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer DNA >>

* Over 1 million children have been infected with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic >>
* U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 250,000 >>
* 2020 US election campaigns smashed all records: $14bn >>

* Wonder Woman 1984 coming to HBO Max (and some US theaters) on Dec. 25 >>
* Marissa Mayer wants to build a better address book on your phone >>
* Introducing Sunshine Contacts: >>
* Cerebras’ wafer-size chip is 10,000 times faster than a GPU >>
* SpaceX Boca Chica – Starship SN15 appears amid SN11 Stacking and Lunar Mock Up outfitting >>

* Scientists create diamonds in just MINUTES for first time inside a lab at room temperature >>
* Application of AI in sports industry yields great fruits >>
* Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor >>
* Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police >>
* Microsoft Azure Data Lake >>

* The Importance of Visibility and Security of Critical Applications in Cloud Environments >>
* Do You Need Release Management in a DevOps World? >>
* Rollbar to improve code with new AI-assisted workflows and automation-grade grouping >>

* Reimagining the way businesses operate >>
* The future of payments is frictionless—now more than ever >>
* McDonald’s Is Making a Plant-Based Burger; You Can Try It in 2021 >>
* What are mRNA vaccines and how useful will they be? >>

* We can’t be certain the coronavirus vaccines will stop the pandemic >>
* Warehouse robots upgraded to make packing decisions 350 times faster >>

* Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles >>
* Jinx launches a text-to-buy dog food platform, with help from Initialized Capital >>
* An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI >>
* AI Researchers Made a Sarcasm Detection Model >>

* Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures >>
* As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever >>
* How to Get Started with AIOps >>
* Manoj Nair, Metallic | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 >>

* Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian outlines ‘open cloud’ vision >>
* Nvidia smashes earnings forecast with record revenue, but shares sag >>
* Why Aren’t Covid Tracking Apps More Effective? >>

* Disney gets behind open cache tech for streaming >>
* Vodafone to launch open RAN in Ireland next month >>
* India’s Economy to Struggle With Effects of Virus Through 2025 >>

* Oxford Study Confirms Astra Covid Shot’s Response in Elderly >>
* Sony PS5 sells for twice its retail price in Hong Kong >>
* Microsoft brings new shopping tools to its Edge browser >>
* Tech in the Biden era >>

* Apple’s first-gen M1 chips have already upended our concept of laptop performance >>
* A Facebook Messenger Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Listen In >>
* TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE: Here’s The Complicated Reasons Why Bees Are Dying Off >>
* LG OLED becomes official TV partner for Xbox Series X >>

* Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn’t Pitch Black After All >>
* A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century >>
* India’s attitude to arranged marriage is changing. But some say not fast enough >>
* 3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for surgeons (w/video) >>

* Is Boeing’s 737 Max now safe and when will it return to service? >>
* How the Out-of-Control Pandemic is Speeding the Testing of Vaccines>>
* Elon Musk is $8 billion away from surpassing Bill Gates as the world’s second-richest person >>
* 4 COVID-era trends impacting the business process outsourcing industry >>
* Portable device uses solar power to sterilise medical equipment >>

* Harley Davidson unveils its first ever electric bike – the $3,399 Serial 1 >>
* AI that can diagnose tinnitus from brain scans may improve treatment >>
* Twitter slows down its ‘fleets’ rollout to deal with technical issues >>
* Silicon Valley Needs a Shakedown with Chamath Palihapitiya >>

* Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society >>
* What is AI? We made this to help. >>
* Weather forecasts get an AI update with Atmo as businesses grapple with climate-related catastrophes >>

* This $99 gadget helps you make music, no skill required >>
* Cloud gaming >>
* Nvidia says microservices will drive a SmartNIC into every server >>
* NASA has a mind-blowing plan to map rising sea levels from space >>
* COVID-19 has changed what benefits we expect from our employers >>
* Dilbert: Thursday November 19, 2020: Dilbert Not On Mute >>

* AI System Beats Supercomputer in Combustion Simulation >>
* Earth’s toughest bacteria can survive unprotected in space for at least a year >>
* Understanding Algorithms With Sinead Bovell >>

* How 5G Is Expanding The Internet of Things To Build A Better World >>
* Epic Games drags Apple through AU court as Fortnite spat continues >>
* Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell >>
* Incorporating your enterprise knowledge graph into Amazon Kendra >>

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* Amazon Web Services APIs can allegedly be exploited to steal user data >>
* Covid-19: Chinese vaccine ‘successful in mid-stage trials’ >>
* Boeing’s 737 MAX to Fly Again >>

* The Ultimate: Astronomers want to put a huge telescope on the moon to study the Big Bang >>
* Ultimately Large Telescope: 100-metre liquid-mirror star scanner on the Moon >>

* Twitter launches Fleets, 24-hour ‘stories’ similar to Snapchat and Instagram >>
* Twitter’s new Stories feature ‘Fleets’ is struggling under the load >>

* Bella is a new challenger bank with a text-based interface >>
* Apple dropping App Store fees to 15% for users with under $1 million in revenues >>

* The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed >>
* Emissions of greenhouse gas nitrogen dioxide dropped by a FIFTH worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, NASA finds >>
* Mini’s Vision Urbanaut concept looks like a living room on wheels >>

* Up for Debate Does Microservices Simplify or Complicate >>
* Oppo reveals new mobile tethered smartglasses with gesture control >>
* Pfizer Says It’s On Track to Seek Covid-19 Vaccine Approval in Days >>

* Three Focus Areas of IoT In Coming Year >>
* AWS Step Functions Use Cases >>
* The Navy Has Shot Down an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for the First Time >>

* 16 Minutes #45: Apple Silicon — A Long Game, Changing the Game >>
* Georgia’s Secretary of State Defends the Election >>
* Why Aren’t Covid Tracking Apps More Effective? >>

* SpaceX asks India for regulatory changes for Starlink >>
* Podcast: What’s the story with satellite broadband? >>
* Podcast: Frost & Sullivan’s rosy outlook for SD-WAN market >>

* Vietnam emerges as sole economic winner in Southeast Asia >>
* $6 Billion Linux Deal? SUSE IPO Rumored >>

* Uh-Oh, Scientists Used Human Genes to Make Monkey Brains Bigger >>
* Pandemic fuels global ‘debt tsunami’ >>
* DECODED • EPISODE 4 -Rookie Year feat. >>

* SpaceX Starship Engine: Problem solved! & Crew Dragon Crew-1 Flight Summary >>
* SpaceX Boca Chica – SN9 Transporter Testing >>
* Flyover Gallery 11/13 sneak peak >>
* The $380-billion trend turning fast fashion on its head >>

* TED@BCG: What happens after we develop a COVID-19 vaccine? >>
* TEDWomen 2020: A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life >>
* TED@PMI: The mood-boosting power of crying >>

* Demystify the DevOps Landscape with the Periodic Table of DevOps Tools >>
* Collaboration and APIs: The key to innovating with legacy systems >>
* Lloyd is a human-powered GPS for your career >>

* Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform? >>
* Microsoft Azure Data Lake >>
* New Covid-19 testing measures coming for border workers >>

* ‘It’s a terrible situation’: Inside a government bureaucrat’s pressure-filled decision to delay the transition >>
* Listen API: Podcast Search & Directory API >>
* Deep Space Challenges Rad-Hard IC Development >>

* Bluetooth® Technology: The Smart Path to Wireless Reliability >>
* The state of AI in 2020 >>
* Meeting the future: Dynamic risk management for uncertain times >>

* Mini-satellite maker >>
* Bill Gates says in-person meetings aren’t the ‘gold standard’ anymore and that 50% of business travel will go away even after pandemic >>
* US Navy’s huge uncrewed robot ship has journeyed through Panama Canal >>

* Dinosaurs were THRIVING and producing new species prior to the asteroid impact >>
* Tapping into digital nomadism and ‘deep work’ trends, Skimlinks founder raises $1.5M for Flown >>

* On Exactitude in Technical Debt >>
* Motional’s fully driverless cars are coming to Nevada’s roads for testing >>
* LAPD bans the use of Clearview’s controversial facial recognition software >>

* Instagram finally lets you search for posts by keyword >>
* Donald Trump fires election cybersecurity director Christopher Krebs >>
* Digital Health Tools Offer New Opportunities for Personalized Care >>

* Device that combines air circulation with UV-C light deployed in first U.S. homes to help decrease COVID-19 transmission >>
* Russia, China, the U.S.: Who Will Win the Hypersonic Arms Race? >>
* IoT Makes Fire Detection Systems Smarter >>

* Dilbert: Wednesday November 18, 2020 Information From Carl >>
* Merging Black Holes and Neutron Stars. All the Gravitational Wave Events Seen So Far in One Picture >>
* Fast radio bursts within the Milky Way seem to be coming from magnetars >>