Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 February 2020

* ‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos >>
* The rules of the tech game are changing: A new phase in the global tech contest is under way >>
* Apple-Kia partnership not dead yet, report claims >>
* AI Teaches Itself Diplomacy >>

* Artificial intelligence is killing choice and chance – changing what it means to be human >>
* Video Friday: A Blimp For Your Cat >>
* Australia passes world-first new law forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news content >>

* Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine cleared for expected FDA authorization within days >>
* Clubhouse’s Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Explosive Growth >>
* a16z Podcast: All About Ransomware >>
* Product Management for AI >>
* #1428 – Brian Greene >>

* What’s the story: Mike Dano follows the money in the $81B C-band spectrum auction >>
* Vergecast: 2021 plans for Spotify, Paramount Plus, and 5G >>

* Starship SN10 Static Fires for the Second Time >>
* SpaceX Boca Chica: Starship SN15’s Nosecone Stacked >>
* Sergey Brin’s airship aims to use world’s biggest mobile hydrogen fuel cell >>

* Huawei steers course to make its own cars – report >>
* Testing the Mars Helicopter Delivery System on NASA’s Perseverance Rover >>
* Restaurants Look for Ways Around Food-Delivery Apps >>

* 16 Minutes #56: When Christie’s Meets Crypto — The NFT Moment >>
* NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission Real-time Tracker >>
* AI Recodes Legacy Software to Operate on Modern Platforms >>

* Our Brains “See” Beams Of Motion Emanating From People’s Faces Towards The Object Of Their Attention >>
* An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis >>
* TED@BCG: The value of your humanity in an automated future >>

* AI smashes video game high scores by remembering its past success >>
* AI helps explain your microbiome >>
* Atlassian is acquiring Chartio to bring data visualization to the platform >>

* Lawmakers Push Amazon for Public Disclosure on SolarWinds Hack >>
* Fixing Problems Before They Happen at NASA >>
* Facebook’s Australian Struggles Cast Shadow on Net Policy Around the World >>

* Is GitOps Replacing DevOps? >>
* 7 Simple Ways to Reduce Your AWS Spend >>
* Digital sustainability >>
* McKinsey suffers from collective self-delusion >>
* America’s Immigration System Is a COVID Superspreader >>

* First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year >>
* COVID, Quickly Episode 1: Vaccines, Variants and Diabetes >>

* COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language >>
* Perseverance rover runs on processors used in iMacs in the 1990s >>
* Translate and analyze text using SQL functions with Amazon Athena, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Comprehend >>

* Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations >>
* Biden’s COVID Plan Is Just a Beginning >>
* Google uses underwater fibre-optic cable to detect earthquakes >>
* Atomically Precise Sensors Could Detect Another Earth >>

* Harvard Commencement to Be Virtual Again >>
* Scientists develop laser system that generates random numbers at ultrafast speeds >>
* The World’s First 3D Printed School Will Be Built in Madagascar >>
* 3D Printed Home Technologies Scaling Up Around the World >>

* Zoom will launch automatic closed captioning for all free accounts >>
* Robotic dogs serve beer to bar patrons in Spain to prevent spread of COVID-19 >>

* Dogecoin Was a Joke. Now It’s Worth $7 Billion. >>
* An Interview With a Member of the Facebook Oversight Board >>
* Beats x Broadband: a fiber-fueled music masterclass >>

* New Paramount+ streaming service is courting fans with ‘Frasier’ revival, ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ >>
* Quantum systems learn joint computing >>
* Google uses underwater fibre-optic cable to detect earthquakes >>

* We’ve finally figured out why there were no medium-sized dinosaurs >>
* NASA’s Parker Solar Probe snaps a stunning photo of Venus from 7,693 miles away >>

* Analysis of hominin Ardi’s hand suggests ancestors were ‘swinging from trees like chimps’ until at least 4.4 million years ago >>
* Boeing 777 Makes an Emergency Landing in Moscow After Engine Warning >>
* Has McKinsey Lost Its Luster? More tough headlines for the consulting firm. >>
* The Future of Car Navigation Has Arrived >>

* Will Robots Make Good Friends? Scientists Are Already Starting to Find Out >>
* Our people are our destiny: Capability building at Volvo Cars >>
* Look for skills, not credentials: Beth Cobert on tapping into talent >>

* Capability building in 2030 >>
* AI promises to make life easier. But it could also change what it means to be human >>
* The Rumored Apple Car Is Bad News for Elon >>

* Virgin Galactic delays space tourism flights to early 2022 >>
* Engadget Podcast: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has landed! Now what? >>
* How Savvy Midsize Firms Increase Sales in a Virtual World >>

* Facebook agrees to some policy changes in response to Oversight Board recommendations >>
* Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels Community Showcase >>
* Treat Smart City Tech like Sewers, or Better >>
* F-35 Program Could Be Cancelled in 2023 >>

* Israel Has High COVID Vaccination Level But Still Has COVID Problems >>
* Fisker Inc. has ‘completely dropped’ solid-state batteries >>
* Airlines ground dozens of Boeing 777 planes after engine failure over Denver >>
* This hydrogen paste has a similar range to that of gasoline and could revolutionize the transport industry >>

* The New Work-From-Home Uniform: A Business Suit That’s Pajamas, Too >>
* On Chinese-Owned Technology Platforms >>
* SpaceX blames failed Falcon 9 booster landing on heat damage >>

* Pfizer is testing a 3rd booster shot to bolster its COVID-19 vaccine against new variants >>
* New Coronavirus Variant Is Spreading in New York, variant contains mutation thought to help the virus dodge the immune system >>
* A Better Way to Zap Our Brains >>
* US Navy successfully tests an orbiting solar panel the size of a pizza box that could one day beam power from space to ANYWHERE on Earth >>

* Virtual computer chip tests expose flaws and protect against hackers >>
* Why Queen Elizabeth Carriers Have Twin Islands? >>
* Biden will review tech supply chains to reduce dependence on China >>
* Starlink Will Hit 300Mbps and Expand To ‘Most of Earth’ This Year >>

* Paramount+ snags long-awaited ‘Halo’ TV series from Showtime >>
* Sex Tapes, Hush Money, and Hollywood’s Economy of Secrets >>
* Blue Origin pushes New Glenn orbital rocket’s first flight to Q4 2022 >>

* Robotics roundup >>
* Paramount+ will cost $5 per month with ads, or $10 without >>
* Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile spent $78 billion on C-band spectrum for 5G >>

* Paramount+ will cost $4.99 per month with ads >>
* Facebook says it will pay $1.3 billion over three years to news media >>
* Span Smart Electrical Panel: Those with solar-powered homes will find this app-control electrical panel indispensable. >>
* Coinbase files to go public in a key listing for the cryptocurrency category >>

* How to Stay Optimistic (When Everything Is Awful) >>
* China Targets 2030 Long March 9 Super Heavy Rocket >>
* AI and Smartphones Are Improving Early Cancer Detection >>

* FAA Aerospace Forecast 2020-2040 >>
* Using container images to run TensorFlow models in AWS Lambda >>
* Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it’s had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you >>
* Using AI to explore the future of news audio >>

* Clubhouse Is Booming. So Is the Ecosystem Around It >>
* Cygnus X-1 was the First Black Hole Ever Found. New Measurements Show it’s Much More Massive Than Previously Believed >>
* Facebook clears the air as Media Bargaining Code passes both Houses >>
* How Jeff Bezos changed the economy, in charts >>

* Thanks to US laws, sex workers are fighting to stay online >>
* Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive CNAME Cloaking Technique >>
* Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware >>
* The Top Free Tools for Sysadmins in 2021 >>

* Building AI-Based Trading Algorithms – An Interview with Kiran Mannam, CEO at Rocket Vault Finance >>
* smoothstep.io is a toolkit for building animations in the WebGL Shader language. >>

* Sandy Carter, AWS | CUBE Conversation, February 2021 >>
* Hollywood Director Lee Daniels on a Changing Film Industry >>
* Bitcoin Slides in Worst Weekly Drop Since March Amid Selloff >>
* By bringing AI to surgeries, startup hopes to close knowledge gaps >>

* Mobileye teams up with French firms to develop self-driving shuttles by 2023 >>
* Aussie battle with tech Goliaths could slingshot in favor of tiny Israel’s media >>
* How Google’s Grand Plan to Make Its Own Games Fell Apart >>