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 >>