Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 April 2021

* Atlassian reveals Open DevOps vision >>
* TED: What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again>>
* India’s reputation is taking a battering in international media >>

* Elon Musk’s War on Regulators >>
* NYPD stops using Boston Dynamics’ robodog following backlash >>
* Robotic harvester plucks an apple every 7 seconds >>

* NASA wants to go farther and faster for fourth Mars helicopter flight >>
* NASA is now Planning a Mission to go 1,000 AU From the Sun, Deep Into Interstellar Space >>
* Blue Origin will start selling tickets for New Shepard space tourism flights on May 5 >>

* ‘Smart’ immune cells kill tumours and stop them regrowing in mice >>
* China launches main part of its first permanent space station >>
* First MMA competition in SPACE will see two fighters battle in zero gravity >>

* Introducing Amazon Nimble Studio >>
* Flight of the world’s largest aircraft | Stratolaunch >>
* Royal Caribbean is building the new world’s largest cruise ship despite pandemic >>

* Apple’s M1 Mac shines as iPhones fly off (virtual) store shelves >>
* Apple posts record $89.6B in Q2 revenue on back of across-the-board growth >>
* Huawei down, LG out, but smartphone market on the up >>
* Ultra-Small ‘Multiplexer’ Silicon Chip Could Enable 6G And Beyond >>
* U.S. Recovery Gains Steam as Spending Fuels 6.4% GDP Growth >>
* U.S. Economy Rebounds as Pain Caused by Pandemic Eases: Live Updates >>
* China expected to see 8.1% GDP growth in 2021 >>
* Half a million enterprises in S China’s Guangdong gain access to cloud services >>

* JetBrains releases CI/CD solution TeamCity Cloud >>
* Back To Back Video Meetings Are Making You Stressed Says Microsoft >>

* Researchers Scoured Billions of Links and Found the Internet Is Both Expanding and Shrinking >>
* F5 BIG-IP Found Vulnerable to Kerberos KDC Spoofing Vulnerability >>
* Chinese Hackers Attacking Military Organizations With New Backdoor >>
* LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020 >>
* A New PHP Composer Bug Could Enable Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks >>

* How to Build a Serverless Full-stack Application Using Git, Google Drive, and Public CI/CD Runners? >>
* Remote Developing with VsCode on AWS Cloud9 EC2 Instance >>

* Light Reading Podcasts: The Divide: Stealth’s Shrihari Pandit on bringing fiber to underserved business communities >>
* Podcast: Nick Feamster on how the pandemic highlighted our biggest network needs >>
* Hack My Java Application:How Snyk and Red Hat Help Developers Stay Performant and Secure >>

* Cyber Attacks From the Open Source Perspective >>
* Apple warns of iPad and Mac supply issues in second half of 2021 >>
* Dear wireless carriers: the 5G hype needs to stop >>

* Scientists Simulate Mars Exploration in Hawaiian Lava Tubes >>
* Flight Canceled After Man Throws 6 Coins Into Plane Engine for ‘Good Luck’ >>
* The White House May Have Been Targeted With an Invisible ‘Energy Attack’ >>

* The looming crisis in Brussels that no one is talking about >>
* Investment in construction automation is essential to rebuilding US infrastructure >>
* BT Sport sale would aid fiber rather than football focus >>
* Inside the World’s Worst Covid Outbreak Yet >>

* Google’s Univision Cloud Deal Highlights Debate Over Bundling Services >>
* Author Talks: Josh Linkner on how everyday people can become everyday innovators >>
* SaaS, open source, and serverless: A winning combination to build and scale new businesses >>
* Notes on Robert McIntyre’s Brain Preservation Talk at the Long Now Foundation >>

* Imagen AI uses artificial intelligence to edit your photos in Lightroom >>
* Five ways we’re making Google the safer way to search >>
* Amazon will raise pay by up to $3 per hour for 500,000 workers >>

* Why bringing Martian rocks back to Earth is a bad idea >>
* Boarding planes back-to-front to cut covid risk actually doubled exposure because MORE passengers clustered >>
* A baby’s first poo reveals if they are at risk of allergies and asthma >>

* Wristband that turns body heat into electricity can power an LED >>
* Vectra AI $1.2B valuation for its network approach to threat detection and response >>
* Computer vision in AI: The data needed to succeed >>

* This web app uses computer vision to teach you the ASL alphabet >>
* ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ PS5 and Xbox Series X/S update arrives this summer >>
* Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better >>

* Red Hat’s AI/ML Technology Partnerships >>
* SpaceX Starship SN15 Postponed >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 April 2021

* Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies at the age of 90 >>
* For First Time, Electronics Printed On Paper Can Be Fully Recycled >>
* Android earthquake alerts are now live in Greece and New Zealand >>

* CES will return as an in-person event in 2022 >>
* We’ll soon be able to tell whether you are immune to covid-19 >>
* A blueprint for telecom’s critical reinvention >>
* Beyond digital transformations: Modernizing core technology for the AI bank of the future >>

* Atlassian launches a Jira for every team >>
* Introducing Jira Work Management >>

* NASA shares bird’s-eye-view photo of Perseverance taken by its Ingenuity helicopter >>
* Netflix launches its shuffle feature, now called ‘Play Something,’ to users worldwide >>
* Beefing over beef is a distraction the climate movement can’t afford >>

* Earth’s glaciers have shrunk by 267 BILLION tonnes per year since 2000 – 21% of rising global sea levels >>
* AI assists doctors in interpreting skin conditions >>
* World’s Richest Men Are Brawling Over the Moon >>

* EU pivots to Pfizer with world’s biggest Covid-19 vaccine deal as it sues AstraZeneca >>
* Ford’s Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line >>
* DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach >>

* India Covid: Hospitals overwhelmed as deaths pass 200,000 >>
* You can now book a COVID-19 vaccine through Uber >>
* Biden’s $80 billion in proposed IRS funding would be a game-changer >>

* How Shopify aims to level the playing field with its machine learning-driven model of lending >>
* Here’s Samsung’s new flagship laptop series, the Galaxy Book Pro >>

* Working from home could soon mean working from someone else’s home >>
* Researchers identify genes linked to severe repetitive behaviors >>

* Leaked AI report could hint at future for US regulation >>
* #1641 – Matty Matheson >>

* Snorkel Tackles AI’s Most Tedious Task >>
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 to focus on driving edge adoption >>
* Why Gas Stations Might Run Out Of Gas This Coming Summer >>
* Mad Max superyacht concept powered by airplane jet engines >>
* Story of automobiles and World Expos begins in Philadelphia debtor’s jail in the 1830s. >>

* YouTube is a Media Juggernaut That Could Soon Equal Netflix in Revenue >>
* World’s First Triple-Drop Delivery Drone Takes Off >>
* AMD smashes earnings expectations by almost doubling revenue >>

* Google expands its Android-based earthquake alerts outside the US >>
* Indian food delivery startup Zomato files for $1.1 billion IPO >>

* Jim Whitehurst, IBM | IBM Think 2021 >>
* Roberto Calandrini, SNAM | Red Hat Summit 2021 Virtual Experience >>
* Paul Cormier, Red Hat | Red Hat Summit 2021 Virtual Experience >>
* Bob Wise, AWS & Peder Ulander, AWS | Red Hat Summit 2021 Virtual Experience >>
* Pure Storage Convergence of File and Object full stream >>

* Increasing use of facial recognition technology in China faces backlash from city governments >>
* India’s vaccine material shortage reveals unfair supply chain that tilts towards the rich world >>

* Digitalization injects vitality into China’s real economy >>
* Covid-19 Live Updates: As India’s Deaths Surpass 200,000, Focus on Variants’ Role Grows >>
* The magical realism of Tesla >>

* China’s population appears to be shrinking >>
* Why are American workers becoming harder to find? >>
* Health Officials See Vaccines Cutting Covid-19 Infections >>
* 2021 McLaren 620R first drive review: Unapologetically brutal >>

* Google’s Univision Cloud Deal Highlights Debate Over Bundling Services >>
* Energy Secretary Granholm on the Future of Oil >>
* Countdown: Cities are driving climate change. Here’s how they can fix it >>

* FluBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Quickly Across Europe >>
* Hackers Exploit 0-Day Gatekeeper Flaw to Attack macOS Computers >>
* Minnesota University Apologizes for Contributing Malicious Code to the Linux Project >>

* The Radio We Could Send to Hell >>
* Three Decades in the Making, China’s Space Station Launches This Week >>
* Atlassian to send Jira into places only Excel dares to tread >>

* Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers >>
* First Floating Island City Can Help Coastal Communities Survive Climate Change >>
* Passion Is Linked To Greater Academic Achievement — But In Some Cultures More Than Others >>

* MIT Finds CDC COVID Six-Foot Rule Is Wrong >>
* Mars has the Right Conditions for Life Just Under the Surface >>
* Loud and clear: AI is improving Assistant conversations >>
* Morning After: Sony is selling a lot of PS5s >>

* How Indians are crowdsourcing aid as covid surges >>
* Arc opens its remote career platform to all software developers >>
* A Mini Suez Canal Teaches Mariners to Navigate Through the Real Thing >>

* What did the pandemic mean for Microsoft? A 44 percent jump in profits. >>
* Google owner Alphabet posts big gains after pandemic uncertainty >>

* ‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ update lets you turn off cinematic kill animations >>
* Covid-19 news: India passes grim milestone of 200,000 deaths >>

* India Blames a Virus Variant as Its Covid-19 Crisis Deepens >>
* Virtual reality could help improve balance in older people>>
* Self-driving cars could be on British roads by the end of the year – but only at 37mph >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 April 2021

* Drone-Like ‘Hoverboard Aircraft’ Lifts Off In Viral Videos >>
* Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Challenges NASA Over SpaceX Moon Lander Deal >>
* Incredible self-driving electric car concept can hoover up the pollution from other vehicles >>

* This metal is more valuable than gold >>
* Physicists net neutron star gold from measurement of lead >>
* Deepfake satellite images pose serious military and political challenges >>

* Apple’s ‘M2’ processor enters mass production for MacBook Pro >>
* Apple’s next-gen ‘M2’ Mac processor has reportedly gone into production >>
* Apple to invest $430 billion over five years in US, including $1B campus in North Carolina >>

* Lyft is selling its self-driving unit to Toyota for $550 million >>

* World Is Waking Up To Indias Plight Too Late >>
* India’s Covid-19 vaccination strategy is a mess of its own making >>
* A nightmare on repeat – India is running out of oxygen again >>
* India Covid: The messages deciding between life and death >>
* Oxygen Express trains deliver supplies as India hit by covid-19 surge >>

* Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies >>
* AI influences people’s decision to swipe right in dating apps by repeating certain profiles >>
* IoT for the Disabled – Breaking Barriers and Changing Lives >>
* JRE: #1640 – Josh Rogin >>

* Tesla wants to make every home a distributed power plant >>
* New Headsets Let Police Control Drone Swarms ‘Hands Free’ >>
* World’s First Unmanned Commercial Heavy-Lift Helicopter Takes Flight >>

* China’s State-Owned Rocket Company Allegedly Cloned a 4-Year-Old SpaceX Render >>
* Nuclear Fusion Is No Longer Science Fiction >>
* CDC Says Vaccinated Americans Can Go Outside Without a Mask >>
* FCC Green-Lights SpaceX Satellite Plans >>

* These cellular clocks help explain why elephants are bigger than mice >>
* Orbital Launch Site Tower Rises and SN16 Nosecone Mated >>

* Viz.ai: Improving Outcomes for Stroke Victims Using Artificial Intelligence >>
* NVIDIA GTC 21: Healthcare Special Address >>
* Starship SN15 Static Fire >>

* China is about to start building a space station in orbit >>
* How TSMC has mastered the geopolitics of chipmaking >>

* Rocket maker Polyakov nabs smallsat firm Dragonfly >>
* Waterways are drying up in key South American crop-shipping hubs >>
* This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth >>
* Welcome to swimlanes.io >>

* America Study Confirms That House Flies Can Carry SARS-CoV-2 Virus Up To 24 hours After Exposure And Are Potential Vectors! >>
* China’s Mars rover gets a fitting name: Zhurong, for god of fire >>
* Wingcopter debuts a triple-drop drone to create ‘logistical highways in the sky’ >>

* Red Hat Summit 2021 Virtual Experience >>
* Red Hat bakes cloud security into the heart of Red Hat OpenShift >>
* Red Hat extends its focus to the network edge >>
* How Vodafone Greece Built 80 Java Microservices in Quarkus >>

* With Workfront, Adobe combines automated workflow with customer experience >>
* Checkov 2.0: Context-Aware Security Scanning for Infrastructure as Code >>
* What too many workplaces get wrong about family benefits >>
* US population time bomb muddles economic race with China >>

* SaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers >>
* Evidence of an impending breakup may exist in speech patterns >>
* Banana Capital’s debut fund is for internet-first founders >>

* What Role Will At-Home COVID-19 Tests Play in an Increasingly Vaccinated World? >>
* TEDxBoise: The intergenerational wisdom woven into Indigenous stories >>
* MyBundle.TV coaches viewers on cutting the pay-TV cord >>

* SpaceX needs approval for India StarLink services – report >>
* BT on the back foot after 5G spectrum shake-up >>
* China-Europe freight train hub tops 1,000 global parcel containers >>
* Brompton Electric hands-on: A tiny folding e-bike for daily commutes >>

* How to set up Oculus Air Link >>
* NASA’s Mars helicopter travels farther and faster on its third flight >>
* Elon Musk says Tesla made ‘significant mistakes’ with solar roof project >>

* New Zealand could be invited to join travel bubble with Hong Kong, Singapore >>
* Tokyo 2020 Olympics schedule: day-by-day planner, key highlights and guide to the big events >>
* Solid-State Battery Status >>

* Tesla Model Y Will Be Top Selling Car By Revenue in 2022 >>
* Orbital Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Demo By 2025 >>
* SpaceX was approved to fly thousands more satellites at a lower orbit despite pushback from competitors >>
* Elon Musk says Tesla’s logistics problems made ‘World War II look trivial’ >>

* SpaceX launches TENTH batch of new Starlink satellites into orbit for 2021 >>
* Happy Cow or Thinking Pig? AI system can detect nine different emotional states in FARM ANIMALS >>
* YouTube is back online after the streaming giant crashed around the world for thousands of users >>

* Amazon now offers Key in-garage grocery deliveries in 5,000 cities and towns >>
* Master Microsoft Azure, Ansible and Git for $30 with four prep courses >>
* One in four people in England exercised less during and after lockdown >>

* Is Microsoft Teams down? Company confirms service is back after outage. >>
* A Japanese Stunt Team Put Together This 50-Second Action Demo, And The Choreography Is Amazing >>
* A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch >>
* Tesla built, sold and shipped more vehicles in this last quarter than ever before >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 April 2021

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 April 2021

* Zoom’s Immersive View could make video calls feel a bit more in-person >>
* Mobile network signals could be used to measure smoke levels and air quality >>
* Luminar’s LIDAR will take flight in new partnership with Airbus >>

* Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’ >>
* Delhi has cremated so many victims that authorities are getting requests to cut down trees in city parks to fuel funerals >>

* 325% surge in lumber prices over the past year has pushed new-home prices up >>
* Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines >>
* A single pint of beer contains up to 2 million bubbles >>

* Oscars 2021 winners: The full list, from Nomadland to Chloé Zhao and Daniel Kaluuya >>
* China censored social media posts about Chloé Zhao’s Oscar win >>
* Oscars failed its one job: to make viewers interested in the movies >>
* Netflix won seven Oscars last night >>
* Oscars 2021 review: this amateurish ceremony blew its one job – to get us back into cinemas >>
* Even the Oscars are sick of Zoom >>

* Chargeable Atomic Battery for Much Faster Space Probes >>
* Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers >>
* iOS 14.5 is here. Everything we know about Apple’s new OS, available to download now >>

* Countries Pledge Aid as COVID-19 Overwhelms Hospitals in India >>
* India exported millions of vaccine doses during its own Covid emergency >>

* The pandemic could remake public transportation for the better >>
* Debbie Vavangas, IBM Services | IBM Think 2021 >>
* Archaeologists May Have Found The World’s Oldest Home >>

* Study Confirms You Can Infect Your Cat With COVID-19 >>
* An ancient coronavirus swept across East Asia 25,000 years ago >>
* All Your Macs Are Belong To Us >>
* The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering >>

* Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions >>
* The latest on the coronavirus pandemic and vaccines >>
* A digital skills gap signals a rebound in tech services spending >>

* Telcos bet on Red Hat OpenShift for network modernization >>
* Application Security: Moving at the Speed of DevOps >>
* The Kubernetes Network (Security) Effect >>
* Digital transformation spurs China’s high-quality growth >>

* Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Administration to Share AstraZeneca Doses With Other Nations After Safety Review >>
* TSMC to invest $2.8bn in China to ramp up auto chip production >>
* Singapore leads world in opening COVID-safe MICE facilities >>

* What history tells you about post-pandemic booms >>
* What’s Driving Tech Startups’ Deal Frenzy >>
* Battle brews between Roku and YouTube TV >>

* OneWeb nearer to a two-horse space Internet race >>
* The U.S. Navy’s New Unhackable GPS Alternative: The Stars >>
* TEDx: “Let the paint dry” — a lesson in creativity, career and patience >>

* Serverless Architecture Patterns in AWS >>
* Zoom’s Immersive View puts up to 25 people inside one virtual background >>
* AT&T’s entry and mid-level fiber plans get a 200 Mbps speed bump >>

* Airbus taps Luminar to test how lidar could be used to make flying safer and autonomous >>
* Cloud security threats are growing – crucially, is your skills toolkit keeping pace? >>
* This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch >>

* Imaging an Alpha Centauri Planet >>
* Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought >>
* LIVE: Starship SN15 Static Fire and ULA Launches NROL-82 on Delta IV Heavy >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 April 2021 >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 April 2021

* Ingenuity: Nasa’s Mars helicopter makes it three from three >>
* Mars Helicopter Ingenuitys 3rd flight in 4K for 100 meters distance >>
* Breaking Analysis: A Digital Skills Gap Signals Rebound in IT Services Spend >>
* Amazon’s New $2.5 Billion Headquarters >>

* Dutch politicians were tricked by a deepfake video chat >>
* Launch Site Prepped for SN15 Static Fire & Test Flight | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* Covid: Countries send aid to ease India’s oxygen emergency >>
* Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines >>

* The world is starting to grasp the true toll of India’s Covid-19 crisis >>
* Devastating epidemic ‘may drag Indian economy back to 20 years ago’; China stands ready to help >>
* Social media platforms become triage centers as India struggles with a COVID-19 surge >>

* Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile >>
* Samsung launches software update to turn older Galaxy phones into IoT devices >>
* China could ‘control the global operating system’ of tech, warns UK spy chief >>
* Introducing Handoff: Serverless Data Pipeline Orchestration Framework >>

* Why Africa is Becoming the Land of Startup Opportunity >>
* WTF is Self Collateralized Stablecoin And How Does It Work? >>
* I’ve code reviewed over 750 pull requests at Amazon. Here’s my exact thought process. >>

* 16 Minutes #62: What’s New at Apple — AirTag, iMac, iPad Pro, & More >>
* Africa’s covid-19 vaccination drive is off to a slow start >>
* Made in Quebec Strawberries Offer Hope for Food Autonomy >>

* Michigan’s Covid Wards Are Filling Up With Younger Patients >>
* PODCAST EPISODE #1639 – Dave Smith >>
* Heroku-style deployments with Docker and git tags >>
* Launch Your App >>
* Building a creator-focused OS >>

* Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin >>
* Interview: Apple executives on the 2021 iPad Pro, stunting with the M1 and creating headroom >>
* Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material >>

* Life in 2050: A Glimpse at Warfare in the Future >>
* Argentinian Citizen Buys Country’s Google Domain for $5 >>
* The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations >>
* Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months >>

* Indonesian navy submarine found split into three on sea bed >>
* Perseverance Rover’s Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity’s Third Flight >>
* 4 Astronauts Float Into the International Space Station and Open Arms >>
* Animation Shows how Saturn’s Rings Move at Different Speeds >>

* Is SpaceX’s Starlink Becoming the World’s Dominant ISP? >>
* Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin >>
* How 3D Scanning is Reinventing Paleoanthropology >>

* Talking Tech: Apple and Facebook dominate the week, but holograms are the future >>
* April 26 Live Broadcast: Delta IV Heavy NROL-82 >>
* The strategy-analytics revolution >>

* Advancing AI With a Supercomputer: A Blueprint for an Optoelectronic “Brain” >>
* Non-batty consciousness >>
* Machine/Robot/AI rights >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 April 2021

* SpaceX Starship SN15 gears up for launch, Crew 2 success & Ingenuity flies (twice) >>
* New space radar in Costa Rica can track even tiny orbital debris >>
* Why does Starship belly flop? >>

* Gravitricity battery generates first power at Edinburgh site >>
* World’s Most Powerful Tidal Turbine Is Almost Complete >>

* The Right to Crash Cars Into People >>
* Disney’s latest robot will bring Groot and other characters to life >>
* AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed >>

* Touching the future >>
* Vergecast: the two Apple events from this week >>
* Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis LIVE on $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal >>

* Japan to declare state of emergency ahead of Olympics >>
* Get ready for the weirdest Oscars ever >>
* Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs >>

* Video Friday: Ingenuity on Mars >>
* AI Podcast: NVIDIA’s Julie Bernauer Talks Setting Up One of World’s Fastest Supercomputers – Ep. 141 >>
* Elon Musk will host ‘Saturday Night Live’ on May 8th >>

* Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life >>
* Breaking Analysis: Tech Spend Momentum but Mixed Rotation to the ‘Norm’ >>
* Why is it so hard to get oxygen cylinders in India? >>

* How Soccer Fans Killed the Super League >>
* And the winner is…who cares? >>
* Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds >>

* Scientists Map 22-Million-Year Long Journey of an Asteroid to Earth >>
Portable Lantern Can Be Charged By Salt Water or Urine
* Alphabet’s X lab reveals project to develop technology for power grids >>
* Sex Doesn’t Sell, GitHub Does >>

* This Portable Lantern Can Be Charged By Salt Water or Urine >>
* Bionic Vision System Lets the Blind See Again >>

* India is putting oxygen tankers on special express trains as hospitals run out of supplies >>
* How will AI be used in the next decade? >>
* Why millions of workers are planning to switch jobs after the pandemic >>

* Super Heavy Thrust Dome Spotted | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* China unveils latest drone countermeasures at radar expo >>
* AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2021 >>

* Scientists Engineer Device That Can Fine Tune the Color of Light >>
* World’s ‘most powerful’ tidal turbine is nearly ready to power on >>
* Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system’s neighbourhood >>
* Cryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State >>

* Apple expected to launch AR headset, and 48-megapixel iPhone, in 2022 >>
* AirTags vs. Tile vs. Samsung SmartTag: Here’s how Apple compares to the competition >>
* Great Malaria Vaccine News >>

* Oculus is rolling out its new and more expressive avatars starting today >>
* Apple plays down AirTags stalking concerns >>
* Pizza delivery firm Papa John’s commits to using more of Google’s cloud >>

* EU wants to become the world’s super-regulator in AI >>
* Vladimir Putin is growing ever more repressive as he loses support >>
* India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world >>

* Automation in the 5G core >>
* Tesla Crashes Raise Safety Concerns in Congress >>
* MyBundle.TV coaches viewers on cutting the pay-TV cord >>

* 27% of small businesses affected by pandemic have closed, says new study >>
* Consumption fell 26% in March 2021 from previous year, says study >>
* Tech jobs dip but still in demand amid COVID-19 economic downturn >>

* Crew-2 Mission | Approach and Docking >>
* SpaceX Successfully Launches Crew-2 Mission for NASA >>
* International Space Station Is About To Get Crowded, And It’s Running Out Of Beds >>
* An Unidentified Object Was Flying Just 28 Miles From SpaceX’s Spacecraft >>

* Helicopter Ingenuity’s first aerial color 4K photo of Mars >>
* Alphabet’s Wing Seeks Expanded US Drone Flight Permissions >>
* Over $200 Billion Wiped Off Cryptocurrency Market in a Day >>

* Talking Brains, Hardware, and Privacy With Facebook’s AR Guru
* No, This Mysterious Chinese Drone Isn’t Better Than the B-21 Raider >>
* UK cyber spy chief warns China’s tech power could allow it to ‘control the global operating system’ for 21st century >>

* US-China tech war: congressional think tank urges Biden to team up with Japan, EU to counter Beijing’s semiconductor push >>
* China strengthens data protection in facial recognition >>
* How to launch a new business: Three approaches that work >>

* Fulfilling the promise of advanced analytics in oncology >>
* Watch Blood Cells Stream around an Air Bubble—It’s Very Soothing. >>

* Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. >>
* New Rules Allowing Small Drones To Fly Over People In US Take Effect >>
* Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free-walking robot that will make you believe in Groot >>

* Honda aims to shift car sales entirely to EVs by 2040 >>
* APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night II >>
* Will AI dominate in 2021? A Big Question >>

* The new M1 iMac highlights everything that’s wrong with Apple >>
* The end of “your database” >>
* Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux >>

* Infrastructure as Code’s Broken Promises >>
* The nations with the most ambitious climate commitments, ranked >>
* What happened on April 23, 2021 >>

* How a Cryptocurrency Company Went Mainstream >>
* India orders Twitter to pull tweets criticizing its COVID-19 response >>
* Samsung Galaxy A52 5g Review: A Midrange Phone That Will Last >>

* First Ever Look At A Top Secret Soviet Space ‘Missile’ >>
* Here’s Why People Are Leaving California In Droves >>

* Engadget: Hands on with Apple’s AirTags and, yes, the purple iPhone >>
* Robots master physical skills with AI deep learning technique >>
* Jeff Bezos championed invention, failure, and customer obsession in his 24 shareholder letters. Here are 25 best quotes. >>

* Dish stock jumps after company announces Amazon cloud deal for 5G buildout >>
* Alexa, to be or not to be? Amazon’s smart assistant has learnt to speak Shakespearean >>
* India Hospitals turning patients away, cases skyrocketing. But Prime Minister Modi is on campaign trail and ignoring crisis. >>
* Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around Web (Through April 24) >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 April 2021

* Mars Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes second, riskier flight to 5 meters altitude >>
* How to watch SpaceX’s third crewed mission to the ISS >>
* NASA’s Perseverance rover turns a tiny bit of Mars air into breathable oxygen >>

* Teams Are Racing to Find a Submarine Before the Crew Runs Out of Oxygen >>
* If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? >>
* Amazon’s cashierless tech could be ready for full-size supermarkets >>

* Covid-19: Delhi hospitals run out of oxygen supplies >>
* India Sets World Record For New Covid Cases With 314,000 Infections >>
* Video from India shows people dying on stretchers outside an overwhelmed hospital as COVID-19 cases surge >>

* Mexican Drug Cartel Used Explosive Drones on Police >>
* A New Approach to Secure Web Gateways: Breaking Up With Your On-Premise Web Proxy is a No Brainer >>
* AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls >>

* Majid Al Futtaim’s new growth formula: Innovate fast, stay ahead, work the ecosystem >>
* Algorithms can sway people when making online dating decisions >>

* Engadget: Breaking down Apple’s Spring 2021 event >>
* iPhone 12 in purple hands-on: Should you buy it or wait for iPhone 13? >>

* Blue Origin’s Latest New Shepard Flight is a Success, With Passengers Climbing on Board (and Getting off Again Before it Flew) >>
* Super Heavy BN2 Aft Dome Section Flipped – Orbital Launch Site Construction | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* SpaceX has denied OneWeb’s claim that their satellites almost collided – and accused it of deliberately misleading the press >>

* Robot taught table etiquette can explain why it won’t follow the rules >>
* Cost of Account Unlocks, and Password Resets Add Up >>
* Brain chips like Neuralink could lead to companies harvesting our memories to better market their products, experts >>

* Netflix shares plunge 9% on growth slowdown >>
* TED: How to talk about climate change so people actually care >>
* Meet Virtual Reality, Your New Physical Therapist >>

* Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage >>
* New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos >>
* Artificial intelligence model predicts which key of the immune system opens the locks of coronavirus >>

* Introducing Instant Checkout >>
* U.S. Unemployment Claims Fall to New Pandemic Low >>
* EU Proposal Seeks to Limit AI, Facial Recognition >>

* Autonomous Networks accelerate transformation of industries >>
* Surgeon performs simulated breast cancer surgery on a balloon >>
* Comcast takes another step toward ’10G’ with test of a multigigabit chip >>
* Apple targeted in $50 million ransomware attack resulting in unprecedented schematic leaks >>

* Huge superyacht squeezes down narrow Dutch canals >>
* Someone Reportedly Purchased Google Argentina Domain After Company Forgot To Renew on Time >>
* American Honey Is Radioactive From Decades of Nuclear Bomb Testing >>

* Verizon’s Anand Shah on why private networks are a big opportunity >>
* These Might Be the Fastest (and Most Efficient) AI Systems Around >>
* Carmack: Facebook Could Push System-Wide Depth-Aware Comfort Settings >>

* Everything Announced At Today’s Oculus Gaming Showcase >>
* Pfizer Confirms Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Were Sold in Mexico and Poland >>
* Watch China’s First Aircraft Carrier Recover a Fighter Jet >>

* Managing Open Policy Agent at Scale >>
* Companies May Have Unrealistic Expectations of Their Data Infrastructure >>

* Russia’s president menaces his people and neighbours >>
* Putin warns West of harsh response to unfriendly acts >>
* Xi calls for jointly building life community for man, nature >>
* Biden: This will be ‘decisive decade’ for tackling climate change >>

* Taiwan’s worst drought in decades adds pressure to global chip shortage >>
* The Flu Disappeared During The Pandemic. Predicting Its Return Is Difficult >>
* ConnectMaine’s Peggy Schaffer on the ‘street-by-street battle’ for broadband >>

* New Horizons is Now 50 Astronomical Units Away From the Sun >>
* Customer care as a service: Outsourcing can help your startup wow clients 24/7 >>

* Google’s Anthos multicloud platform gets improved logging, Windows container support and more>>
* Apple’s new AirTags are as simple as they should be >>
* Why a James Bond Film Will Never Premiere on Netflix >>

* Microsoft and the UK will build the world’s ‘most powerful’ weather supercomputer >>
* Sun-like stars spotted ejecting huge bursts of matter into space >>
* NASA’s Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars for First Time >>

* Netflix and HBO Max’s Q1 subscriber growth results show how crucial international expansion is to the streaming wars >>
* In ‘Moon Landing of Genomics,’ Scientists Sequence Ancient DNA From Dirt >>

* The ascent of Nordic companies in the global machinery market >>
* Author Talks: Tsedal Neeley on why remote work is here to stay—and how to get it right >>
* Watch SpaceX launch 4 astronauts to the ISS! >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 April 2021

* Why in the world is Amazon opening a hair salon? >>
* What if Starship Didn’t Do a Landing Burn at All? >>
* Why AI That Teaches Itself to Achieve a Goal Is the Next Big Thing >>

* Google Meet gets a refreshed UI, multipinning, autozoom and more >>
* Any video conferencing app can use the iPad Pro’s fancy zoom and pan camera >>

* Engineering Bias Out of AI >>
* Touching the Future >>
* Self-balancing bicycle can right itself even when making turns >>

* Why the New iMac Might Be Apple’s Most Brilliant Product Ever >>
* Amazon’s New $5 Billion Headquarters >>
* Samsung opens beta on Galaxy Upcycling to breathe new life into old phones >>

* OneSoil raises $5 million for its farm monitoring tech >>
* A Clubhouse Bug Let People Lurk in Rooms Invisibly >>
* Apple Iphone 13 Vr Concept Mashes Up To Envision The Future Of Cupertino Giant-Proof >>

* Lasers To Lunar Arks: Cryopreservation Heats Up >>
* From WinZips to Cat GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression >>

* This is your brain on Zoom >>
* What we’re learning from the rare cases of COVID-19 in vaccinated people >>
* Big iPad, Mini LED: why Apple’s new iPad Pro display is better and brighter >>

* Court finds Google misled Australian consumers on how it collected location data >>
* Stolen Quanta documents show MacBook Pro with SD card slot, MagSafe >>
* Hackers threaten to leak stolen Apple blueprints if $50 million ransom isn’t paid >>

* Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves >>
* Tyrannosaurs enjoyed leisurely stroll at only 2.8mph, analysis of their tails reveals >>
* China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station >>

* EU releases sweeping draft legislation for regulating AI >>
* Amazon lands rockets for its satellite broadband >>
* 5G evolution outlook beyond 2025 >>

* TED : How your memory works — and why forgetting is totally OK >>
* Cloud Unfiltered: Ep114 -IT at the Speed of Dev >>
* B1M: The World’s Greatest Compromise >>

* The Hongqi S9 is the start of a new chapter in China’s automotive story >>
* Gogoro is bringing its electric scooter and battery tech to India >>

* Acquired: Berkshire Hathaway Part I >>
* Chaos to Clarity: BizOps for Digital Transformation >>
* Juan Loaiza, Oracle | CUBE Conversation 2021 >>

* New Hack Tool Links Facebook Accounts to Private Emails >>
* Flying Electric ‘Seaglider’ Ferry May Be the Best Way To Travel Between Coastal Cities >>
* You Can Finally Feel What Happens in Virtual Worlds >>

* Microsoft provides new details about Visual Studio 2022 release >>
* DevSecOps Introduction: Clear Instructions on How to Build a DevSecOps Pipeline in AWS [Part 2] >>
* Okta’s Platform to Outsource Identity Management for Busy Developers >>

* Chinese scientists build unmanned amphibious aircraft >>
* Xi to attend Leaders Summit on Climate >>
* Microsoft enables Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers >>

* Researchers use laser paintbrush to create miniature masterpieces >>

* Enforce VPC rules for Amazon Comprehend jobs and CMK encryption for custom models >>
* Dilbert: Wally Takes A Sick Day >>
* Court finds Google misled Australian consumers on how it collected location data >>

* Holographic Endoscope Potential for In situ Cell Level Diagnostics >>
* Inside the glass fibers connecting our wireless world >>
* Second GSE Tank Arrives at the Orbital Launch Pad | SpaceX Boca Chica >>

* Biden Says Chauvin’s Murder Conviction Could Be a ‘Giant Step Forward’ >>
* How America’s CEOs responded to the Derek Chauvin verdict >>
* Lawmakers propose ban on police buying access to Clearview AI and other data brokers >>
* Always be ready to answer the question ‘Why should we hire you?’ at interviews, says career expert—3 best examples >>

* Amazon’s New Quantum Computer Design Relies On Tiny Schrödinger’s Cats >>
* People do not seem to comprehend’: Uruguay ICU staff decry pandemic laxity >>
* Africa’s vaccination push hampered by India export curbs >>

* Amazon is bringing its palm-reading payment tech to Whole Foods stores >>
* TP-Link’s latest WiFi 6 mesh system starts at $280 >>

* AirTags Are the Perfectly Boring, Functional Future of AR >>
* The Morning After: Meet the new iMacs, iPad Pros and Apple TV 4K >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 April 2021

* Apple Event — April 20 >>
* Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors >>
* Mission Update: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Launch >>

* Apple event 2021: New Apple TV 4K, purple iPhone 12, AirTags and more >>
* Apple’s Spring Loaded event: the 8 biggest announcements >>

* 16 Minutes #61: J&J Vaccine Pause; FBI Removes Code in Hacked Exchange Servers >>
* Cerebras continues ‘absolute domination’ of high-end compute, with world’s hugest chip >>

* Tesla’s Elon Musk Comments on Fatal Crash in Texas >>
* Elon Musk: Data recovered ‘so far’ shows Autopilot not enabled in Houston crash >>

* Redis reinvents itself as a real-time data platform, with an AI kicker >>
* IBM surprises investors with return to growth in first quarter >>

* How Joe Biden is reshaping America’s global role >>
* mRNA Vaccines Are Taking On Covid. What Else Can They Do? >>

* J&J Says Covid-19 Vaccine Added $100 Million to Its Sales >>
* Rivals Raise Concerns About SpaceX’s Starlink Project >>
* Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 Announced >>

* The AI arms race has us on the road to Armageddon >>
* Indian airline holds record after 47 out of 188 passengers on a flight tested positive. >>

* NFTs and AI Are Unsettling the Very Concept of History >>
* IKEA’s Revamped AR App Lets You Design Entire Rooms >>
* China can ‘grapple’ US satellites with robotic arm, commander says >>
* TED: Earth’s original inhabitants — and their role in combating climate change >>
* TED: The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines >>
* Node.js 16 now available >>

* A Tail Lets Carnegie’s Cat-Like Robot Jump With Surprising Dexterity >>
* Elon Musk unseated as world’s second-richest person by luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault >>
* Israeli tech said to give precise, knife-free skin cancer diagnosis in seconds >>

* First driverless SkyShuttle rail transit system put into operation in Chongqing, SW China >>
* Toyota’s first electric vehicle will hit the road in 2022 >>
* Google adds Pac-Man, Hello Kitty, Gundam mechs, and more to AR search >>

* Scientists Reconstruct Stone Age Bear Genome From Cave Soil Samples >>
* Optus believes telco customers want the ability to disconnect >>
* Woolworths to bump up stake in analytics firm Quantium >>

* Sony AI teams up with Korea University to map out new food flavour combos >>
* Tesla stole the spotlight at China’s premier auto show for all the wrong reasons >>

* Why it’s so hard to get a new bike right now >>
* Streaming encryption for wormhole-crypto >>
* Workflow86 is a no-code platform where anyone can build custom workflow automation tools by just dragging and dropping modules together. >>

* UK invokes national security to investigate Nvidia’s ARM deal >>
* How Safe Are You From Covid When You Fly? >>
* Tesla promises new China data centre as Beijing lays down the law on local storage of EV data >>

* Vanuatu bans travel after COVID-positive body washes ashore in Port Vila >>
* Where Americans Moved To — And From — During The Pandemic >>
* Covid-19: US to advise against travel to 80% of countries >>
* Indian sex workers lose their bank >>

* Starship SN15 prepares for flight following major NASA vindication >>
* Machine Learning Drive Innovation in Civil Engineering at Stevens >>

* Robots Versus Toasters: How The Power of Movement Plays Tricks On Human Brains >>
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* Dilbert: Tuesday April 20, 2021: Zooming Right >>
* APOD: Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars >>

* Flying On Mars Fueled With Open-Source Software >>
* What Went Wrong with the Boeing 737 Max? >>
* UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights >>

* Facebook will now let you export posts directly to Google Docs and WordPress >>
* Facebook announces new audio products >>
* Microsoft to expand testing of its Xbox Cloud Gaming service on Windows PCs, Apple iPhones and iPads >>

* Keep Your Openshift Cluster Operators Highly Traceable Using GitOps >>
* Sleeping Too Little in Middle Age May Increase Dementia Risk, Study Finds >>
* Watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Launch to the International Space Station >>

* Apple debuts colorful 24-inch iMac with M1, upgraded camera and audio >>
* Apple introduces new iPad Pro featuring breakthrough M1 chip, ultra-fast 5G, and stunning 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display >>
* Apple launches new iPad Pro with M1 processor >>
* Why does the new M1 iPad Pro have 16GB of RAM? >>
* iMac 24 >>
* Apple TV 4K >>
* Apple introduces AirTag >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 20 April 2021

* NASA’s Mars helicopter becomes the first aircraft to fly on another planet >>
* After NASA’s Historic First Flight: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Update >>
* Apple’s spring iPad and iMac event: How to watch on April 20 >>

* ‘iPhone 13’ to bring mmWave 5G to more countries >>
* Xbox Cloud Gaming beta arrives on iOS and Windows PCs >>
* Are self-driving cars RACIST? Autonomous vehicles may struggle to recognise dark-skinned faces in the dark >>

* How the Pandemic Turbo-Charged Payments Processor Stripe >>
* China’s largest ‘ghost city’ booms again thanks to education fever >>
* Space is the final frontier for archaeologists >>

* Toyota finally gets off its ass and announces a real electric vehicle strategy >>
* UFO Sightings May Just Be Enemy Drones Gathering US Intel >>
* SCRUB: Stratolaunch postpones flight of the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan >>

* Inside the rise of police department real-time crime centers >>
* We Can Barely Handle Pandemic That Has A 0.5 Percent Mortality Rate: What Would Happen At 10% >>
* Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Shows the Effects of Climate Change >>

* Amazon buys nine ULA rocket launches for its space internet satellites >>
* Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81 >>
* Exhibition on innovative medicines and medical equipment opens in Hainan province >>

* Over 192 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered across China >>
* U.K. Adds India to Travel Ban List Amid Covid Variant Fears >>
* Masergy amps up AIOps service for enterprises >>

* 16 Minutes #61: J&J Vaccine Pause; FBI Removes Code in Hacked Exchange Servers >>
* Small Businesses Shift Ad Strategies Ahead of Apple iOS Update >>
* Unity launches synthetic datasets for computer vision AI >>

* Siemens will use Google’s AI to enable more efficient factory automation >>
* TED: Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? >>

* Huawei ‘may have eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network’s calls’ >>
* Apple announces April 20 special event – iPad Pro, AirTags expected >>
* Wearable Biofuel Cells Could Produce Electricity From Human Sweat >>

* Airbus Wants to Use Lasers to Connect Aircraft to the Internet >>
* The complete guide to NFTs >>

* Budget 2021: Square Kilometre Array scores AU$387 million >>
* Russia Is Reportedly Abandoning The International Space Station >>
* Fermilab’s Muon g-2 Experiment Finally Gives Particle Physicists a Hint of What Lies Beyond the Standard Model >>
* How Does Water go From Interstellar Clouds to Habitable Worlds? >>

* Roman Space Telescope Will Also Find Rogue Black Holes >>
* 3 The Interestingly about inside Starship factory, SpaceX doesn’t want be detect >>
* A mysterious structure of the orbital launch tower appears at Starbase. SN15 assembles new Raptors >>

* AppsONCloud Promo >>
* US Banks Deploy AI To Monitor Customers, Workers Amid Tech Backlash >>
* Microsoft’s ‘Netflix-for-Gaming’ Service Launches on iPhone and PC This Week >>

* AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2021 >>
* Drones are delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Africa through ‘highways in the sky’ >>
* Scientists may find ALIENS by 2026 thanks to a new telescope >>

* Human share genes with 555-MILLION-year-old headless ‘sea monsters’ that help the body repair damaged parts and eliminate virus-infected cells, study finds >>
* Vodafone warns employment ‘may be terminated’ if workers stranded during personal trans-Tasman travel >>
* Watch the first footage of a helicopter on Mars >>