“The world’s largest retailer … is testing a delivery program in Silicon Valley that would allow customers to use smart-home technology to remotely open the door for delivery workers and watch a livestream of the delivery by linking their phones […]
Abigail Johnson, CEO of the gigantic investment firm, spoke at length about the firms work in blockchain at a conference in New York. They’re making venture investments, partnering with Coinbase, and even have a bitcoin and ether mining operation that […]
“In its first year, the Post has produced around 850 articles using Heliograf [it’s homegrown AI technology]. That included 500 articles around the election that generated more than 500,000 clicks…” | learn more
Ben Thompson updates his views on Aggregators and Super-Aggregators in his latest Stratechery post. This is a very unique and interesting view of business models, and a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of the future of tech companies. | learn […]
“Chicago, described by President Trump and others as a hellish, dystopian crime scene akin to a ‘war-torn nation’ and ‘worse than Afghanistan’ is about to shatter all of its tourism records, including the one it set last year.” | learn more
Geoffrey Hinton, pioneer of the back-propagation method of training computers, “says his breakthrough method should be dispensed with, and a new path to AI found.” | learn more
You may recall Elon Musk’s new venture to create a BMI that’s directly connected to your brain. The team at CNTRL-Labs thinks that’s a bit more than the market will bare, so instead they’ve figured out how to read your […]
I’ve written about vertical farm startup Plenty before, and now that they’ve raised an additional $200MM from SoftBank, it’s time for another look at their progress and vision. Reminder: “All told, Plenty says, its technology can yield as much as […]
“The ‘MasSpec pen’ … looks a lot like a big, white sharpie with a cord running down the back. When doctors touch the tip of the pen to a suspect tissue sample, and press a pedal, the pen releases a […]