Futureseek Daily Link Review; 31 July 2021

* Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains >>
* Government denies Blue Origin’s challenge to NASA’s lunar lander program >>
* Huawei, once a 5G leader, can’t offer 5G in its newest phones >>

* An endlessly changing playground teaches AIs how to multitask >>
* Engadget Podcast: Activision’s walkout and toxicity in gaming >>

* Porsche enters ‘space race’, invests in satellites and rocket technology >>
* Video Friday: Android Printing >>
* IBM’s AI can predict how Parkinson’s disease may progress in individuals >>

* Facebook open-sources robotics development platform Droidlet >>
* Porsche’s first self-driving vehicle could be an all-electric minivan >>
* China hatches a plan to lead in the adoption of new internet protocol as Beijing eyes internet of things >>

* Russian Hackers Continue With Attacks Despite Biden Warning >>
* Outhacking the Hackers: The Future of Cybersecurity >>
* 38% of Remote Workers Work From Bed >>

* Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They’re Probably Just Frozen Clay >>
* SpaceX Starship final push to orbit has begun! >>
* Best vaccine incentive might be paid time off >>

* Elon Musk Shares Pic of Super Heavy Booster’s Inner Workings >>
* Elon Talks Starship Upmass Capabilities >>
* Eleven Refuelings for Complete SpaceX Lunar Mission >>

* Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. >>
* Weight Lifting, an Original Olympic Sport, May Be Dropped >>
* Covid clusters among the vaccinated are killing our back-to-normal dreams >>

* New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered >>
* Markets Rise More Than 1% During July >>
* Podcast: Gary Bolton on training the next wave of fiber techs >>

* Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. >>
* Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees ‘a de facto global tax on the Internet’ >>
* Flock CEO on data strategy behind commercial drone insurance >>
* IT leaders put growth over security, survey finds >>

* Red Hat and Nutanix Strategic Partnership >>
* Less Compliant Than the Sum of Its Parts: How Open Source Can Bite You >>
* No Niche: Status Quo of the OSS Market >>
* Start Machine Learning in 2021 >>
* 6 Cloud Security Risks Hiding Inside Your Cloud Estate >>

* THE AMERICAN DREAM – Zhang Clan Odyssey on Gold Mountain | TEDx >>
* Mindful on Purpose: Inner Work for Leaders | TEDx >>
* An Appointment With Life: Taking Refuge In The Four Noble Truths | TEDx >>
* Wild horses: a world of death threats, bureaucracy, and controversy | TEDx >>

* Surfing’s Next Sea Change – Using Data to Improve the Ride >>
* Biology brief: How DNA and proteins work >>
* The prospects for developing countries are not what they once were >>

* Staying Visible When Your Team Is in the Office…But You’re WFH >>
* Delta fears grip Argentina, prompting authorities into action >>
* New virus outbreak worst since Wuhan, say Chinese state media >>

* Covid-19 pandemic: Japan widens emergency over ‘frightening’ spike >>
* They Spurned the Vaccine. Now They Want You to Know They Regret It. >>
* How did Australia’s vaccine rollout turn into a ‘train wreck’? >>

* Inhaled COVID-19 vaccine found safe in phase-1 human trials >>
* Covid-19 news: Pregnant women in England urged to get vaccinated >>
* Why Do Variants Such as Delta Become Dominant? >>

* China-ASEAN trade skyrockets by 85 times in three decades >>
* Unpacking IBM’s Summer 2021 Announcement >>
* FBL19 – Kevin Kelly: Techno-Optimism, China, & Risk vs Regulation >>

* Despite strong cloud growth, Amazon shares fall on revenue shortfall and lower guidance >>
* Yarn: 3.0.0 >>
* Facial expression software knows which Olympic medal makes you happier and why >>
* Ninja’s new ice cream maker has me rethinking my addiction to store-bought >>

* Swimply lets you swim in a stranger’s pool. It’s less weird than you think >>
* ‘Doctor Who’ needs to evolve to survive >>
* Amazon’s earnings show why Andy Jassy is now in charge >>
* US Air Force’s First Hypersonic Missile Test Attempt Fails, Again >>

* A ‘Shape-Shifting UFO’ Was Filmed Flying Near a Plane. Here Are the Facts >>
* Elon Musk Backs Epic in Fight Against Apple Over App Store Fees >>
* 32 Awkward Pictures Of Olympic Diving That Will Never Not Be Funny To Me >>

* China nuclear: Taishan reactor shut down over damaged fuel rods >>
* Orbital Launch Table Rolled Out – Launch Tower Section 9 lifted into Place >>
* Coronavirus: Latest on COVID-19 from around the world overnight – Saturday, July 31 >>

* Enabling SREs to Streamline Service Delivery With Advanced Monitoring >>
* 2degrees names new chairman – who will take over if IPO proceeds >>
* Tencent Is World’s Worst Stock Bet With $170 Billion Wipeout >>
* YouTuber Won $10,000 Bet With a Physicist Over Wind-Powered Vehicle >>

* Gillmor Gang: Social climbing >>
* ‘Jungle Cruise’ is now available in theaters and on Disney Plus >>
* Artificial Intelligence learns better when distracted >>

* Can Virtual Reality Teach Empathy? >>
* Unemployment Crisis — 40% Of Americans Are About To QUIT Their Jobs >>
* This app wants you to consent before having sex >>
* Engadget: Activision’s walkout and toxicity in gaming >>

* Three keys to building a more skilled postpandemic workforce >>
* Tesla AI Day August 19 – Expect Tesla AI to 2030 Vision >>
* Fixing the Future: It’s Easy for Computers to Detect Sarcasm, Right? >>

* Intel: Back on Top by 2025? >>
* IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device >>
* Cozy Futurism – False Choices Without Substance >>

* Robinhood’s Shares Fall 8.4% in Public Trading Debut >>
* Windows 11 Now Has Its First Beta Release >>
* Tesla Battery Supplier CATL Debuts Cheaper Sodium-Ion Batteries >>
* Midsize Companies Need a Systematic Approach to Cost Analysis >>

* Analyze customer churn probability using call transcription and customer profiles with Amazon SageMaker >>
* Blue Origin Offers a $2 Billion Discount to get Back in the Lunar Lander Game >>
* The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole >>

* Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS “Emergency” >>
* Ship 20 Readied for Aft Flaps | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* SpaceX INSANE NEW Nuclear Starship?! >>

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Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 July 2021

* Orbital Launch Table Rolled Out – Launch Tower Section 9 lifted into Place | SpaceX >>
* Robot arranges 100,000 dominoes into a Super Mario Bros. mural in one day >>
* Samsung boosts income 73% on higher chip prices, demand >>

* A Particle Just Did Something That Changed the Nature of Reality >>
* Facebook’s next product will be its long-awaited Ray-Ban smart glasses >>
* Thruster Misfire? Russia’s New ISS Module Just Turned the Station Out of Position >>
* Huge asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from ‘safe’ area of main asteroid belt >>

* Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day But a 10-Story Building Can Be >>
* AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a few photos >>

* Ford Has Almost 70,000 Chipless Vehicles Waiting in Storage >>
* Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos >>
* Biden Seeks New Cybersecurity Standards for Critical Infrastructure >>

* Researchers are concerned about the possibility that COVID-19 might lead to dementia >>
* The Question Medical AI Can’t Answer >>
* Container ship that blocked Suez Canal finally reaches Rotterdam, begins unloading cargo >>

* Entire Buildings Can Be Wrapped in Jackets to Save Energy >>
* Army to enforce stay-at-home orders as Delta spreads through children >>
* How Trying to Secretly Fart Landed Me In The Hospital >>

* SAP will bring more software services to Google Cloud through expanded alliance >>
* Pfizer Data Suggest Third Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Strongly’ Boosts Protection Against Delta Variant >>

* Facebook will require employees to be vaccinated before returning to campus >>
* The future of social media looks a lot like QVC >>

* Is McKinsey wrong about the financial benefits of diversity? >>
* UK economy is barreling toward normalcy >>

* Jodie Whittaker’s run on Doctor Who will end in 2022 >>
* More New Black piping SpaceX Starbase, Boca Chica, TX >>
* Best of the a16z Podcast, Now on Future >>
* Meaning of Emoji >>
* Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real >>

* Congress may ask for 100Mbit/s download speeds in ‘underserved’ areas >>
* Peacock’s global streaming strategy takes flight with Sky >>
* Podcast: NTT tracks Kaseya ransomware attack >>
* Facebook sees 56% growth but fears regulators, iOS >>

* Unrest and economic underperformance haunt the emerging world >>
* Economy Recovers Pandemic Losses, but Faces New Test >>
* China’s top court empowers people to say ‘no’ to facial recognition use by private businesses >>
* Clockwise is a meeting cost calculator designed to encourage more efficient meetings. >>

* Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December >>
* True ‘shift left and extend right’ security requires empowered developers >>
* Motorola debuts Edge 20 flagships globally with fast refresh screens and 108-megapixel cameras >>
* It’s not just you, streaming the Olympics is a mess >>

* Why is “Meritocracy” conformity with China? | TEDx >>
* Dear 16-Year Old Girl | TEDx >>
* The power of not knowing | TEDx >>
* The informal settlements reshaping the world | TEDx >>
* Moving Forward from Failure | TEDx >>
* What is True Leadership? | David Mammano | TEDx >>
* Why You Should Make Your Own Decisions | TEDx >>
* The Power and Pitfalls of the Mind | Nayab Rafiq | TEDx >>

* The Summer Intel Fell Behind >>
* Greatest clusterf*ck in Women’s Gymnastics history. >>
* Here’s An Impossible Domino That Bounces Back Up After It Falls Over >>

* OpenAI releases Triton, a programming language for AI workload optimization >>
* Cloud Engineers Try Policy-as-Code to Cure Misconfiguration Woes >>

* Lessons learned from the smartest Software Engineer I’ve met >>
* Police Department Found Using a Tesla Model 3 is Cost-Effective >>
* Every Country Has A Different Award For Olympic Gold Medalists >>
* From out of Biles’ shadow, America discovers a new star >>

* How can I create and connect to an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance? >>
* How do I use AWS Backup to restore an EC2 instance with an encoded authorization failure message? >>
* Finance-Level Security on Deployments With Earnin, AWS and Armory >>

* Ai Spots Early Eye Changes That Signal Diabetic Retinopathy >>
* Orchestrate XGBoost ML Pipelines with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow >>
* Water Vapour has Been Discovered at Ganymede >>
* This is how you get Tatooines. Binary Star Planet Formation >>

* Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus >>
* AWS to retire EC2-Classic >>
* Apple, Google, Microsoft profits soar in latest quarter >>

* Rocket Lab launches US Air Force’s new Space Force >>
* Shopify’s Q2 results beat estimates as e-commerce shines >>
* FDA clears Synchron’s brain-computer interface device for human trials >>
* Expanding our cloud infrastructure to support Australia’s digital future >>

* Huawei’s P50 lineup is powered by HarmonyOS 2 but lacks 5G >>
* The Unappreciated Importance of Cats, (to Medical Science) >>
* New Zealand is rated as the best place to survive a cataclysmic global collapse >>

* Elon Musk announces Tesla’s AI day next month >>
* Former President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter for ‘blacklisting and canceling’ >>
* A Step Closer to General AI >>
* Author Talks: Jeffrey E. Garten on the meeting that transformed the global economy >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 July 2021

* Could you beat this bipedal robot’s 5K run time? >>
* All-Electric Flying Taxi Firm Completes a 150-Mile Test Flight >>
* Volocopter Has Nailed the First Crewed Test Flight of an eVTOL >>

* DevOps still ‘rarely done well at scale’ concludes report after a decade of research >>
* DeepMind’s XLearn trains AI agents to complete complex tasks >>

* Covid: No quarantine for fully jabbed US and EU travellers >>
* Google will require coronavirus vaccines for returning office employees >>
* Coronavirus: Latest on COVID-19 from around the world – Thursday, July 29 >>
* As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger >>
* Pfizer says 2021 COVID-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln, sees need for boosters >>

* Apple’s record $81.4 billion Q3 obliterates Street expectations >>
* Apple iPhone sales jump 50% despite chip shortage ahead of fall iPhone 13 launch >>
* Microsoft’s profits skyrocketed by 47 percent in Q4 >>
* Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall >>
* Google parent Alphabet made a whopping $61.9 billion last quarter >>
* Google’s profits soar as revenue rises 62 percent. >>

* 50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon >>
* Facebook recall: What to do if you ordered an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset >>
* Same-day delivery apps need more than speed to survive post-pandemic >>

* Lift of Starship Orbital Launch Tower Section #9 >>
* SpaceX Launch tower section 9/ 8b stacked. More pulleys needed. >>
* SpaceX are planning to build another much larger high bay >>

* AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers >>
* Future of Robotics in India and Opportunities | TEDx >>

* Robinhood’s $35 billion IPO is a bet on Gen Z >>

* AI Podcast: Matt Ginsberg Built a GPU-Powered Crossword Solver to Take on Top Word Nerds – Ep. 148 >>
* FBL19 – Kevin Kelly: Techno-Optimism, China, & Risk vs Regulation >>
* Studies show cybersecurity skills gap is widening as the cost of breaches rises >>

* How Hightouch uses ‘reverse ETL’ to sync data from warehouse to SaaS apps >>
* The Olympics without Fans Is Harming Athletes’ Performance >>
* Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine’s protection against severe disease holds steady over six months >>

* How enterprise architects need to evolve to survive in a digital world >>
* Rolls-Royce Tests 2.5 MW Generator for Hybrid Aircraft >>
* General Atomics Unveils Aircraft-Launched Combat Drone Rendering >>

* Uber is moving into flower deliveries >>
* Using AI to map Africa’s buildings >>
* Tidal turbine in Orkney starts generating power >>

* Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller >>
* You are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance. >>
* Olympians are influencers now too >>

* Human Resources with Artificial Intelligence | Diksha Rathod | TEDx >>
* How modern science is turning our foods into medicines | David Julian McClements | TEDx >>
* Depressed and unhappy? Why you should have pets? | Minh Nguyễn Đình | TEDx >>

* B1M: Mumbai’s $1.7BN Coastal Road Explained >>
* Positive aspects of talking about your feelings out loud | Akshita Manra | TEDx >>
* Huawei demotes AV chief over Tesla ‘killing’ comments >>
* Mapping out edge computing: How dense is it? >>

* 4 Open Source Tools That Will Change How You Manage Kubernetes >>
* Snapchat’s map now helps you keep track of where you’ve been >>
* Protecting SUSE Rancher Container-Based Applications With Cloud-Native Backup and Recovery >>

* Built your SaaS faster with Next.js + Serverless >>
* How could gene therapy change healthcare in the next ten years? >>
* Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It >>

* Google Cloud: External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now available >>
* From Stolen Laptop To Inside The Company Network >>
* Apple takes pole position in the 5G race >>

* Beijing Regulators Zero in on Chinese Big Tech >>
* Hong Kong’s first Olympic gold since handover brings rare unity >>
* Olympics latest: Japan’s Hashimoto wins men’s gymnastics gold >>

* Fourth America is Almost Over — Americans Want a Divorce. >>
* US is doing everything to make and spread lies about COVID-19 >>
* Nine questions regarding COVID-19 the U.S. should answer >>
* “America first” largest strike against multilateralism >>

* One in 10 workers to lose job in Sydney as food prices surge >>
* Why Are Male Gymnasts So Strong And Jacked? >>
* Announcing specialized support for extracting data from invoices and receipts using Amazon Textract >>
* A travel boom is looming. But is the industry ready? >>

* Bioprinted Ear and Nose Cartilage Reconstruction Closer Than Ever to Clinical Trials in the UK >>
* Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka highlight the 24-hour rolling hell of Big Sport >>

* Brazil: Why are so many pregnant women dying from Covid? >>
* Cassandra 4.0 finally out of the gates after being delayed for last-minute bug swat >>
* Between 2020 and 2021, the Earth’s vital signs got worse >>
* Biden warns ‘real shooting war’ will be sparked by severe cyber attack >>

* Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system >>
* Daily Crunch: No-code startup Bubble pops with $100 million Series A round >>
* Search API startup Algolia raises $150 million at $2.25 billion valuation >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 July 2021

* Citizen is Now Paying New Yorkers To Livestream Crimes >>
* Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe >>
* Quartz Daily Brief: Bezos And Nasa, China’S Tech Crackdown, Magnetic Concrete >>

* Intel’s revised roadmap looks beyond 1 nanometer chips >>
* Intel changes its manufacturing language as moves to angstroms >>
* Intel’s Ambitious Plan to Regain Chipmaking Leadership >>

* LIVE: Lift of Starship Orbital Launch Tower Section #9 >>
* SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System Moon Shot – You may be surprised what is possible! >>
* SpaceX working on design for Starship 2.0! >>

* Disney+ is launching a mobile-only plan in India that costs $6.70 per year >>
* Morning After: Lucasfilm hired a YouTuber with deepfake skills >>
* Tesla breaks its own delivery record by building and shipping 200,000 vehicles in Q2 >>

* Simone Biles shows why it’s time to put less weight on winning >>
* TED “Everything happens for a reason” — and other lies I’ve loved >>
* New leadership secrets | TEDx >>
* Acquired: Andreessen Horowitz Part I >>

* Standalone shaping up to be 5G’s next big flop >>
* Big Tech Sinks Stock Market in Runup to Earnings: Markets Wrap >>
* The RapidSOS EC-1 >>

* The new Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer will convince you to see this movie >>
* How to turn yourself into a cartoon for your next Zoom call >>
* DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play >>

* Scientists Bred Healthy Mice Using Artificial Eggs and Ovaries Made From Stem Cells >>
* Mark Zuckerberg is no astronaut, so he’s rocketing Facebook into a virtual universe instead >>
* Elon Musk knocked Apple, bemoaned the microchip shortage, touted self-driving cars on earnings call. 12 best quotes. >>
* Amazon rejects speculation about bitcoin payment plans as untrue, but says it’s still exploring crypto >>

* Military investigating futuristic ‘directed energy’ weapons could use beams of high-powered energy to destroy enemy nuclear missiles and form protective ‘force-fields’ >>
* How Olympic Tracking Systems Capture Athletic Performances >>
* Searching for ‘extraterrestrial technological civilizations’ using AI to identify alien-built satellites and UFOs >>

* Shopify allows merchants to sell NFTs directly through their storefronts >>
* Terraform Course – Automate your AWS cloud infrastructure >>
* AWS Supports You – Optimizing Costs with AWS Lambda >>

* Raytheon’s Coyote Drone Beats Drone Swarm in US Army Test >>
* Iron-Air Battery Stores Energy at 10% the Cost of Lithium-Ion >>
* Scientists Develop ‘Food Generator’ That Turns Plastic Into Edible Protein >>

* The Delta Variant: How Companies Should Respond >>
* How Much Should You Worry About The Delta Variant? >>
* Tracking the Delta variant: Coronavirus update, July 2021 >>
* Tokyo hits record 2848 Covid cases days after Games begin >>
* NSW 172 new COVID-19 cases >>
* US could see daily COVID-19 cases quadruple next month >>
* The vaccine mandate ‘tipping point’ >>
* Fauci Wants To Make Vaccines for the Next Pandemic Before It Hits >>

* Google TV update brings Discovery+ and more live TV to the Android app >>
* HBR IdeaCast / Episode 811: Building Successful Hybrid Teams >>
* Breaking Free from a “9 to 5” Culture >>
* Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology >>

* Unrest, Covid and Economic Despair in South Africa >>
* Australia’s largest bank accuses Apple of leaning on its market power >>
* Nearly a quarter-century later, why is C++ still so popular? >>

* China offers a masterclass in how to humble big tech, right? >>
* Robinhood takes its IPO to the masses >>
* Cloud Native Panel >>

* ASAPP’s CLIP dataset helps train AI to read clinical notes more efficiently >>
* TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability: Generalizable Results From 288 Brands >>
* Hubble finds evidence of water vapor on Jupiter’s largest moon >>

* COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning >>
* Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database >>
* The Simpsons gets home arcade cabinet for 30th birthday >>

* Tesla pushes back Semi truck release to 2022 >>
* End of American exceptionalism in the Olympic pool >>

* Booster 4 Downcomer Installed + Elon Spotted at Starbase >>
* New Methane Transfer Tube Delivered for Future Vehicle | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube >>

* Europe Launches new Robotic arm, to Crawl Around ISS Like an Inchworm >>
* Perseverance is About to Collect the First Sample on Mars That Could Eventually be Returned to Earth >>
* Global dementia cases will nearly TRIPLE to more than 152 million by 2050 >>

* Wild Pigs Release as Much Carbon Emissions as 1 Million Cars >>
* Clouds May Speed Up Global Warming >>
* What Emergency Responders Can Learn from the Business World >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 27 July 2021

* With post-pandemic AI, we’ve now stepped into the Age of Acceleration >>
* A magnetic helmet shrunk a deadly tumor in world-first test >>
* Microsoft Warns of LemonDuck Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems >>

* Monetization of Fun | Get Paid for Playing >>
* Autonomous quadrotor beats two human pilots in a drone race >>
* World is So Messed Up, We’re Inventing New Forms of Trauma >>

* Amazon reportedly has a ‘key’ to thousands of apartment buildings in US >>
* TEDx: Clearing your path to Adventure >>
* TEDX: Expanding Science with 4D Printed Polymers >>

* The SaaS Org Chart >>
* Drought-plagued Asia aims to harness the rain with weather control >>

* Swedish study will pay people to get vaccinated >>
* NVIDIA’s Face Generator AI: This Is The Next Level! >>
* Light Reading Recap: Week ending July 23 >>

* Tesla Model 3 Wades Through Flooded Streets In ‘Boat Mode’ >>
* Researchers are testing concrete that could charge your EV while you drive >>

* Yes, a Sex Toy Company Is Launching a Rocket Into Space Filled with Sex Toys >>
* ‘Disinformation for Hire’ is Becoming a Booming Industry >>
* Can Camp Help Kids Break Their Tech Habit? >>

* Japan pitches ‘Society 5.0’ to keep its edge in tech and science >>
* git-blame-someone-else >>
* About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1 >>

* Blue Origin offers NASA $2 billion in last-ditch attempt at lunar lander contract >>
* Apple could signal new coronavirus and chip shortage troubles ahead of iPhone 13 >>
* I don’t: my very modern marriage >>
* Chimpanzees Were Observed Killing Gorillas For the First Time >>

* ‘Acoustic Tweezers’ Pick Up Objects Using Only Sound Waves >>
* Russian ISS Module Has Detached and Burned Up in Earth’s Atmosphere >>
* Floods in London are the latest sign big cities aren’t ready for climate change >>

* Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1 >>
* SpaceX complex launch tower section 8b pre-assembly for crane >>
* Starship Tests Payload Bay Design, Booster 3 Static Fire, New Test Rig Built >>

* Offshore wind to power Japan’s biggest green hydrogen plant >>
* Cube: Aamir Lakhani, FortiGuard Labs >>
* Tackling Asia’s talent challenge: How to adapt to a digital future >>

* Arm’s New Flexible Plastic Chip Could Enable an ‘Internet of Everything’ >>
* Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting Bitcoin >>
* Vaccine antibody levels start to wane at around 2–3 months >>
* NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes 10th flight, clocking up a total distance of one MILE >>

* Science of the Summer Olympics >>
* Simone Biles: An introduction >>
* Japan’s Olympic golds show its rise as a skateboarding superpower >>
* Olympics latest: Hidilyn Diaz wins Philippines’ first-ever gold medal >>
* Olympics Updates: Russia Wins Men’s Gymnastics Gold >>

* The biological intelligence explosion >>
* Brin’s UFO Questions >>

* Cats are more susceptible to Covid-19 than dogs: Almost 10% of pet felines have coronavirus antibodies compared to just 1% of pups, study finds >>
* Delta Variant Is the Symptom of a Bigger Threat: Vaccine Refusal >>
* Half of all US states make people filing for unemployment submit to facial-recognition software >>

* NASA is using artificial intelligence to take better pictures of the sun >>
* Margin of Error >>
* 7 Strategies to Break Down Silos in Big Meetings >>

* Equity Monday: China boosts pressure on its tech sector as Duolingo’s IPO >>
* QR Codes Are Here to Stay >>
* Teen Loneliness Has Increased in 36 Countries. The Reason May be Smartphones >>

* This Microsoft-Powered Ai-Enabled Robot Cleans Up Cigarette Butts Littered On The Beach! >>
* Smart Trains: A Long Journey to Transportation Revolution >>
* Deploying Microsoft’s New Linux Distribution as a VM >>

* Blaming China is handy when trying to keep telco infrastructure away from Beijing >>
* Uber found to have interfered with privacy of over 1 million Australians >>
* Stars sped up by black holes may outshine supernovae when they collide >>

* During Lockdown, Couples Were Happier When They Blamed The Pandemic For Their Stress >>
* China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030 >>
* DeepMinds AlphaFold Will Solve Most Protein Structures by End of 2021 >>

* Observing the Night Side of Venus is Actually Pretty Tricky >>
* Denmark’s $34BN Energy Islands Could Solve Europe’s Power Problem >>
* Life Beyond Knowledge TEDx >>
* Dow Closes Above 35000 for the First Time >>

* Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks >>
* From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers >>
* Virtual Comic-Con Includes Trailers For ‘Blade Runner’ Series, ‘Dune’ Movie – and NASA Panels >>

* YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation >>
* New trailers: Dune, Star Trek: Prodigy, The Last Duel, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and more >>
* 18 People Shared The Wildest Reasons They’ve Had To Fire An Employee >>
* Harvard Scientists May Just Have Uncovered the Holy Grail of Battery Technology >>

* ‘Nuclear Power’s Reliability is Dropping as Extreme Weather Increases’ >>
* Amazon Wants Apartment Buildings to Install a ‘Key’ System that Lets Them Enter the Lobby >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 July 2021

* SpaceX’s Mechazilla Rises, Starliner Prepares, Nauka Launch, Wally Funk’s flight to Space >>
* Boxabl aims to build foldable homes in 90 minutes >>
* Automakers have battery anxiety, so they’re taking control of the supply >>

* a16z Podcast: Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents >>
* Neuralink Update – July 2021 >>
* Panel Discussion: The Changing Face of Software Security >>

* Low code: A promising trend or a Pandora’s Box? >>
* Moon has Been Mildly Preventing Coastal Erosion, in the 2030s, That Protection Ends >>
* Tiny Light Sails Could be Used to Explore the Solar System Today >>

* Russia Disconnected Itself From Global Internet in Tests >>
* Exoskeletons Could Improve Bowel Movements in Spinal Cord Injury Patients >>
* Deadline 2024: Why you only have 3 years left to adopt AI >>

* This All-Electric Motorcycle Actually Self-Balances as It Follows You >>
* Solar-Powered Desalination Device Aims to Deliver Water to 400,000 Kenyans >>
* Oculus makes it easier to create mixed reality apps >>

* Why the US can’t just beam internet into authoritarian states like Cuba >>
* Dune: Our thoughts on the first 10 minutes of the movie >>
* Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds >>

* Cloud’s new equilibrium at the edge >>
* A new Balloon-Based Observatory Could Produce Images as Fine as Hubble >>

* Prince Charles and Jony Ive launch a new design lab backed by Amazon >>
* AI Weekly: OpenAI’s pivot from robotics acknowledges the power of simulation >>

* FAA Just Changed Its Rules. Neither Bezos Nor Branson Are Astronauts Now >>
* NASA clears Boeing Starliner for July 30th test flight to ISS >>
* T-Mobile 5G home internet: Hands-on >>

* Researchers Found a Malicious NPM Package Using Chrome’s Password-Recovery Tools >>
* Russia Just Launched a New Science Module to the Space Station >>
* Covid-19 news: Longer gap between Pfizer shots may boost antibodies >>

* Chest-mounted video camera and vibrating wristband system developed by scientists could reduce collisions for visually-impaired people by 37% >>
* NASA’s $10 BILLION James Webb Telescope will explore a planetary system 63 light-years from Earth >>

* The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online >>
* The US economy’s boom is far from over – even with the Delta surge >>
* Meet the typical Walmart shopper, a 59-year-old white suburban woman earning $80,000 a year >>
* The week the Delta variant threatened the economy >>

* After Tokyo, we should bring the Olympic charade to an end >>
* The 21st-century corporation: A conversation with Brian Chesky of Airbnb >>
* Building a tech-services ecosystem to deliver products—not applications >>

* Entire Plane Evacuated Over a Teen’s Moronic AirDrop Prank >>
* When Did Everyone Start Hating Jeff Bezos? >>

* How AI Will Help Keep Time at the Tokyo Olympics >>
* ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ trailer is a treat for ‘Voyager’ fans >>
* Engineer Builds Self-Launching Miniature Roller Coaster With 3,000 Parts >>
* As moratoriums lift, will America face a wave of foreclosures and evictions? >>

* Attitudes towards experimenting on monkeys are diverging >>
* A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to icy Jupiter moon >>
* Vodafone CEO teases M-Pesa IPO >>

* Intel warns of shortages, but trumpets open RAN >>
* Detect defects and augment predictions using Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon A2I >>
* How a spectator-free Olympics upended Tokyo’s big transit plans >>

* The Age of Disintegration >>
* Windows 11 is Beautiful, Because Microsoft is Finally Sweating the Details >>

* I Thought Having Children In My Twenties Would Make Life Easier In My Forties — I Was Wrong >>
* Google’s Translatotron 2 removes ability to deepfake voices >>
* JRE: #1686 – Ari Shaffir >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 July 2021

* Tokyo Olympics. They look and feel different to other Games, but they are here at last. >>
* Surreal Olympics curtain raiser a taste of what is to come >>
* TED-Ed: Ancient origins of the Olympics >>
* Tokyo Olympics is on. Can you outrun the jargon? >>
* Olympics Could Be a Covid-19 ‘Super-Evolutionary Event’ >>
* World has 193 countries, so why are there 205 teams in the Olympics? >>

* Bring Back Uninterrupted Work: The Generational Divide in Software Developers >>
* McKinsey’s “Agile Transformation Office” is the Final Nail in the Coffin >>
* You Aren’t Lazy. You Are Overstimulated. >>

* Forget the Work-Life Balance. Tailor your Life! | TEDx >>
* Alphabet launches robotics venture Intrinsic to train industrial robots with AI >>
* No humans needed? | Artificial Intelligence to Program Robots >>

* 100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled >>
* Judges reject Viasat’s plea to stop SpaceX Starlink satellite launches >>

* Neuton.AI – No-Code Artificial Intelligence for All >>
* Apiway 2.0: Platform for Software Battle & No-Code Community >>
* Breaking Analysis: ServiceNow’s Collision Course with Salesforce.com >>

* Holy grail of batteries: Scientists develop an ‘iron-air’ battery that stores electricity for days through rusting – fraction cost of lithium-ion equivalents >>
* Vergecast: Jeff Bezos in space, RCS on Verizon, and Biden on Big Tech >>
* Soft Robot Hand Is First to Be Fully 3-D-Printed in a Single Step >>

* Arm researchers have created a flexible 32-bit computer chip made from plastic >>
* Facebook brings cloud gaming to Apple devices with a web app >>
* Micrometeorites Churn up Surface of Europa, to Find Life, You Need to dig Down a Meter >>

* Elon Musk: ‘Extremely Safe’ Nuclear Plants Possible >>
* The business of fitness: Building the Tone House brand >>
* Bio Eats World: Engineering an Epigenome Editor >>

* US Air Force Says Real-Life Force Fields Are ‘On the Horizon’ >>
* LightRead: How telcos and cloud providers get along >>
* DeepMind’s AI uncovers structure of 98.5 per cent of human proteins >>

* We’re Losing the Battle for the Future >>
* Wellness in 2030 >>
* Security as code: Best (maybe only) path to securing cloud applications and systems >>

* Dune | Official Main Trailer >>
* SpaceX Starship: RAMPING UP the game again! >>
* Scientists Have a new way to Predict the Most Damaging Solar Storms >>
* NASA’s InSight probe reveals the first detailed look at the interior of Mars >>

* Astronomers spot possible moon-forming region for the first time >>
* Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice >>
* ‘Next-Generation’ Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted into First US Patient >>

* Raptor Engine Removed from Super Heavy Booster 3 | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* Researchers find new attack vector against Kubernetes clusters via misconfigured Argo Workflows instances >>
* Cloud Unfiltered: EP118 – A talk with Accenture >>

* Is the UK’s pingdemic good or bad? Yes. >>
* Airbnb CTO says graph neural networks will be big in 2021 >>
* Why unstructured data is the future of data management >>
* StoryMaze provides you with an interactive erotic storytelling >>

* Emotional Fitness: The Underrated Secret to Success: TEDx >>
* Delta variant is dramatically spreading among unvaccinated Americans >>
* QUARTZ BRIEF: Funeral In Haiti, Olympics Opening Ceremony, Dumpster-Diving Birds >>

* These are the countries where the delta variant of Covid-19 is now dominant >>
* Find Your Spark in the AI Fireworks | TEDxFS >>
* Disrupting Conventional Speech | TEDxFS >>
* Are you switching people on or depleting them? | TEDx >>
* Spain doles out 700MHz spectrum for $1.1B >>

* An Ad Executive’s New Challenge: Selling the Vaccine >>
* Netflix Wants to Play in the Gaming Industry >>
* Vaccine Makers Seek to Apply mRNA Tech to Flu >>

* Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights >>
* A 3°C world has no safe place >>

* Malaysian police flatten US$1.25 million worth of bitcoin-mining machines with steamroller >>
* Watch a Massive Military Jet Fly Between Buildings in Australia >>
* Corning’s new Gorilla Glass protects smartphone cameras while letting in more light >>
* AWS Supports You – Reducing Your Storage Cost with Tiered Object Storage >>

* The Delta variant could make the American shopper go back into lockdown, BofA says >>
* NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity is gearing up for its TENTH flight >>
* Please, a Moment of Silence for Comic-Con >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 July 2021

* A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come >>
* DeepMind puts the entire human proteome online, as folded by AlphaFold >>
* Morning After: How and where to watch the Tokyo Olympics >>

* Watching the Olympics has doubled in price for cord-cutters >>
* Get ready for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with Google and YouTube >>
* Akamai DNS failure crippled the Internet for two hours >>

* A DNS outage just took down a large chunk of the internet >>
* We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One >>
* Jack Dorsey hopes bitcoin can bring about world peace >>

* Scientists Just ‘Looked’ Inside Mars. Here’s What They Found >>
* The age-old Android vs iOS and Google vs Apple debate will never end >>

* MARK IN THE METAVERSE: why social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’ >>
* Stratospheric Balloons Take Monitoring and Surveillance to New Heights >>
* LG improves its wearable air purifier with a built-in mic and speaker >>

* YouTuber Makes the World’s Brightest Flashlight >>
* Astronomers may have spotted a distant alien moon being born >>
* Make Appsec Tools Seamless In Devops Pipelines >>

* Improving Pipeline Efficiency With Enhanced Notifications and Response Automation >>
* DNA from dead 93-year-old butterfly specimen confirms first known insect to go extinct because of human development >>

* How Is China Turning Deserts Into Arable Lands? >>
* A Tesla Boat? The Vehicles Survive Torrential Floodwaters >>
* Why Are People Obsessed With the Shape of Jeff Bezos’ Rocket? >>
* New Algorithm Flies Drones, Beats Pace Set by Human Pilots >>

* A New Drug Successfully Killed Breast Cancer Cells in Mice >>
* Research: Why Rejected Internal Candidates End Up Quitting >>
* How We Gain Control by Giving It Away | Jacob Wittenberg | TEDx >>

* As the Delta variant spreads, vaccine conspiracy groups on Facebook have doubled >>
* Amazon Redshift Console – see how it works! | Amazon Web Services >>
* What Will The James Webb Space Telescope Find? >>

* Opportunity in Every Difficulty | Pratishtha Deveshwar | TEDx >>
* Amazon defends alleged GPU-killing game, but will patch it anyway >>
* The Amazonification of Space Begins in Earnest >>
* HBO Max subscribers surge in Q2 thanks to day-and-date Warner Bros. movie releases >>

* Clubhouse Is Now Out of Beta and Open To Everyone >>
* Drones Are Zapping Clouds With Electricity To Create Rain In UAE Project >>
* The Next Frontier for Phone Cameras: Stronger, Clearer Glass >>

* Facebook Messenger is stepping up its emoji game >>
* The next Grid game uses the same virtual set tech as ‘The Mandalorian’ >>
* Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 >>

* Zoom adds third-party apps to video calls >>
* Russia’s ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues >>
* Here are the First New Pictures From the Fully Operational Hubble >>

* Ions Surf Through Jupiter’s Magnetic Field, Triggering its Auroras >>
* Gen Z doesn’t know a world without fast fashion >>
* Guy Somehow Scores A Basket With This Insane Trick Shot >>

* AlphaFold: Protein Structure Database >>
* Meet the world’s first genetically engineered MARSUPIALS >>
* Old people learn new skills faster if it helps others >>

* Researchers develop fake spider silk that’s stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar by cutting silk-producing genes into bacteria >>
* Pfizer will turn to a plant in Africa to help supply the continent with vaccines next year. >>
* Why the 2nd Dose of Pfizer Vaccine Is So Crucial >>

* Zoom Apps: How the video conferencing experience is changing >>
* Vaccine immune response linked to age >>
* Improving Pipeline Efficiency With Enhanced Notifications and Response Automation >>
* Why humans will perish rather than become grabby aliens >>

* Data on the great stagnation >>
* The birth of exomoons >>
* AI-enabled BeachBot robot to clean up cigarette butts on beaches >>
* It’s showtime! How live commerce is transforming the shopping experience >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 July 2021

* QUARTZ DAILY BRIEF: Brisbane Olympics, Netflix Growth, Overachieving Octopus >>
* 2032 Games: Brisbane confirmed as Olympic and Paralympic host >>
* SD Times news digest: Dremio launches SQL Lakehouse Service, Fastly launched JavaScript in Compute@Edge, Crystal 1.1 released >>

* Which covid-19 vaccine is the most widely accepted for international travel? >>
* What Wally Funk’s pursuit of going to space can teach us about achieving goals >>
* Brisbane 2032 is the first test of the Olympics’ new host-city bidding system >>

* ‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’: Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients >>
* Vaccines Dramatically Reduce Deaths >>

* B1M: The True Scale of the World’s Largest Airports >>
* New Raptor Boost Engine “R2B2” Delivered for Super Heavy >>
* NASA Perseverance rover gears up to collect its first Mars rock sample >>

* Galaxy S22 rumors: Samsung’s new lineup could support 65W charging >>
* Netflix to dive into video games with ad-free mobile gaming at no extra cost >>
* Netflix says its gaming push will begin with mobile >>

* Buildman: Faster Development Build In The Cloud >>
* Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service >>
* J.&J. Vaccine May Be Less Effective Against Delta, Study Suggests >>

* YouTube to pilot test shopping from livestreams with select creators >>
* AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance >>
* HBO Max starts streaming full episode pilots in Snapchat >>

* Modernizing Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS >>
* The Future of CI/CD >>

* Ransomware hacks are pushing cyber insurance premiums to record levels >>
* TED: The De Colonizing Of Beauty >>

* How I built my first serverless robot and won $1000 >>
* Trends that will define 2021 and beyond: Six months on >>
* A new IT operating model to better serve employees >>

* Google Maps can now show New Yorkers how busy individual subway cars >>
* Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin has sold nearly $100 million worth of tickets >>
* Hubble 2.0? Scientists will launch a telescope to the upper atmosphere carried by a helium balloon the size of a STADIUM next year >>

* Eurobites: Vodafone turns to Nokia’s machine learning for network mending >>
* Netflix gears up for gaming, with initial focus on mobile >>

* Podcast: Is the hyperscaler and telco relationship parasitic or symbiotic? >>
* Does Gallium Spell the End of Silicon? >>
* Dow Up 200 Points as Market Rebound Continues >>

* Britain tests the limits of mass vaccination >>
* Netflix, season 3: The streaming star looks for a new post-pandemic storyline >>
* Apple to go all in on 5G for its 2022 iPhone lineup >>

* As childbirths near record low, China scrambles to boost families >>
* China unveils details of three-child policy, support measures >>
* U.S. Life Expectancy Plunged in 2020, Especially for Black and Hispanic Americans >>

* How Data-Driven Secure DevOps Influences People, Processes, and Technology >>
* Laying the Groundwork for Observability >>

* Mark Roberge, Stage 2 Capital & Paul Fifield, Sales Impact Academy >>
* Summer Blog Backlog: Distributed Systems >>
* Here’s Why You Can Get Covid — Even If You’ve Been Vaccinated >>

* Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features >>
* Here’s What It’s Like To Experience Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta 9 In A Tesla Model Y >>
* Russia Unveils Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet To Take On F-22s, F-35s >>

* Importance of AI in Today’s World >>
* The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities >>
* What are the new sports at the Tokyo Olympic Games? >>

* ‘That’s where the risk is’: One in 10 infected people caught COVID at work >>
* 600 kilometers(373 miles) per hour! China unveils world’s fastest maglev train >>

* TEDX: Why I Want my Voice Assistant to Speak Spanglish >>
* TEDX: Opportunities are Everywhere, Let’s Gamble on It >>
* TEDX: The circle for life >>
* TEDX: Resilience for COVID-19 and Beyond >>

* This Tiny Electric Car Is Solar-Powered and Costs $6,800 >>
* Cloud Computing’s Coming Energy Crisis >>

* NASA reveals first images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope after coming back >>
* Richard Branson and Elon Musk wish Jeff Bezos luck before billionaire headed to space >>
* Wally Funk, 82, announces she wants to return to space as soon as possible >>

* Now Instagram can translate Stories text into over 90 languages >>
* 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Discovered In Tibetan Glacier Ice >>
* 9 Tactics for Better Remote Negotiations >>

* How to Say No to “Grabbing Coffee” >>
* Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked is happening online on August 11th >>
* Apple delays recalling staff to offices until October as Delta variant romps across US >>

* Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x >>
* How to Keep the Automotive Chip Shortage From Happening Again >>
(IEEE+Spectrum)
* India Excess Pandemic Deaths Estimated at 4 Million >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 July 2021

* New 600km-372-Mph Maglev Train Rolls Off the Assembly Line in China >>
* Super Heavy Booster 3 Static Fires for the First Time | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* Jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle which can travel 300 mph and has a price tag of $380,000 completes first flight testing >>

* Jeff Bezos appreciates your efforts to get Jeff Bezos to space >>
* The real problem with Jeff Bezos and other billionaires going to space >>
* As Jeff Bezos Takes Off, Where Is the Space Industry Headed? >>
* Blue Origin completes its first crewed spaceflight with Bezos onboard >>
* Rewatch: Blue Origin Launches Jeff Bezos to Space on First Crewed New Shepard Mission >>

* Dow Rebounds After Biggest One-Day Decline in Months >>
* Commentary: U.S. sanctions nothing but bluff and bluster >>
* Dropbox makes automatic camera uploads available to all free users >>

* Communal Computing’s Many Problems : Where user-centric computing goes wrong >>
* The digital mismatch: Companies know they’re vulnerable to digital disruption. >>
* China unveils design for first waterless nuclear reactor >>

* New AI-Based Augmented Innovation Tool Promises to Transform Engineer Problem Solving >>
* COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned? >>
* China Secretly Flew A Space Plane That Takes Off Vertically Like A Rocket >>

* First Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted In the US >>
* Why the Olympic Games should be scrapped forever >>
* Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon have a dirty shipping problem >>

* The Problem With TikTok’s “Pick-Me Girl” Trend Is More Complicated Than You Think >>
* Russia Successfully Tests Tsirkon, Its Hypersonic Cruise Missile >>
* This New Electric Car Mines Crypto While It Charges >>

* Betting on the Olympics is open for the first time to millions of Americans >>
* Quartz Daily Brief: Oregon Inferno, Bezos In Space, Pure Shellfish-Ness >>
* The Age of Cheap Stuff is Over >>
* Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion >>

* Dependency Confusion: How Easy Is It to Hack Into Organizations & What Are the Available Solutions? >>
* How Data-Driven Secure DevOps Influences People, Processes, and Technology >>
* Bren Briggs, Hypergiant | CUBE Conversation, July 2021 >>

* ‘iPad mini 6’ rumored to use same A15 chip as ‘iPhone 13’ range >>
* Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate >>
* SQLLite: 35% Faster Than The Filesystem >>

* Why Agile Will Continue to Fail >>
* Burnout? Nope. Bore-Out. >>
* Is Your Test Automation on Track? Maintenance is the key >>

* GitHub Copilot sparks debates around open-source licenses >>
* Hard to see how paying ransoms ever ends well: Telstra CEO >>
* VzLinux Is the RHEL-based Linux Operating System You’ve Never Heard of >>
* Microservices at scale: A complexity management issue >>

* Apple Arcade is getting a musical take on Tetris >>
* China unveils 600 kph superfast maglev train >>
* Did COVID-19 Leak From a Lab? It’s Complicated >>

* Naomi Kawase’s Olympic film promises to be like nothing you’ve ever seen before >>
* The latest on the Covid-19 pandemic as Olympics approach >>
* Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier >>

* ‘The fashion industry should be as diverse as its consumers’ >>
* Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, June 2021 >>
* IBM’s new AI tool figures out exactly how much carbon each tree can capture >>

* Covid patients urge public to ‘be careful’ as restrictions ease >>
* Why returning to office will be 10 times harder than the transition to working from home >>
* Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83% of U.S. Cases >>
* Australia’s covid-free status crumbles as delta variant takes hold >>

* Can A.I. Grade Your Next Test? >>
* Imagine an AI with an imagination >>
* 11 powerful websites that can replace your desktop software >>

* YouTube acquires Indian social commerce startup Simsim >>
* How an Unproven Alzheimer’s Drug Got Approved >>
* why is Pluto worth visiting again? >>

* Season 4, Episode 12: The Great Re-Norming >>
* Ignoring Intel Rumors, GlobalFoundries Will Do $1-billion Expansion >>
* Are 5G-connected cars the future of driving? >>

* 12 Robotics Teams Will Hunt For (Virtual) Subterranean Artifacts >>
* NSF Engineering Alliance to Help Set Course for Research >>
* We Need to Fix Space Junk Before It’s Too Late >>