- YouTube is building its own talent agency for creators, often investing $000s in seed capital
- Interview with a hacker who built a fake news powerhouse during the Trump years
- ASML is the most important company you’ve never heard of – keeping Moore’s Law alive, and our phones, cars, etc filled with microchips
- This python script reduces entire novels to their punctuation, speaks volumes about how we write
- Unfolded already: stunning infographics from circa 1900 on African-American life by Civil Rights pioneer WEB du Bois
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- Some VCs are so into the future they’re investing in prehistory – one start-up’s got $15m to bring back woolly mammoths.
- Reading sci-fi makes you better at business. Tell that to your English teacher.
- Furby Organ Guy is at it again. This time, it’s tidal-waving Teletubbies.
- Tech marketers! Fed up with talking about digital transformation? Sadly, it appears it’s barely started…
- Finally, without wanting to worry anyone, a coronal mass ejection (i.e. nasty solar storm) could fritz the Internet.
- Climate change is dominating the headlines, so here’s a bunch of tech that could put global warming into reverse. Precision fermentation, anyone?
- Google’s simulated Time Crystal challenges the laws of physics. Rick and Morty got there first!
- Intriguing account of the lengths Facebook is going to stop research into misinformation on its platform.
- Buy! SpaceX! Orbital! Billboard! Ads! With! Dogecoin! Well, maybe.
- An abundant new source of vital metals has been found. And it isn’t meteors.
- Could affiliate ads save magazine publishers?
- China’s govt could force Didi to delist from NYSE
- The shift from fossil fuels could make them dirtier (in the medium term)
- Lab geeks have worked out how to turn plastic into food
- Record-breaking drone swarm creates light sculpture in the sky over Shanghai
- Funnel plots highlight bias in scientific research – here, debunking the theory that leaded petrol causes crime.
- Top meat trader Cargill thinks plant protein will “cannibalize” its beef business.
- Renderporn is what happens when interior designers go nuts digitally.
- Sustainability reporting isn’t helping the world become more sustainable.
- Click here to rain anywhere on America (dreamy ASMR CG animation based on US Geographical Service data).
- President Biden nearly caused a national security incident using Venmo to send money to his grandkids.
- Amazon probably doesn’t understand what it sells.
- Mushrooms. Mycelial networks. Motorways. Mind blown. READ.
- Net zero by 2050? We haven’t invented half the tech we’ll need yet, says the IEA.
- The world’s first teleportation tech? It could only be 6G.
- Extraordinary before / after video of a smart suit using electrical muscle stimulation to arrest symptoms of cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s, etc.
- Visually stunning, if one-sided, report on the future of work a la Google. Good use of embedded video illustrations here!
- An hour of Netflix apparently has a similar carbon footprint to 15 minutes of air conditioning. Or, you know, you could go for a walk.
- Rio’s favelas don’t appear on digital maps. Now MIT researchers have 3D mapped them in huge detail with LIDAR (also found in autonomous cars).
- 100 AI startups to watch in 2021 courtesy of CB Insights. Healthcare and deep tech dominate.
- Most rare diseases are untreatable. Some affected families are using crowdfunding to pay for drug development themselves, raising big ethical questions.
- Drastic is a science-focused investigation group similar to Bellingcat. It is taking on the Chinese government on the origins of COVID-19.
- Star Trek helped save the whales. No, seriously.
- Adidas’ latest Stan Smith sneakers are made with vegan leather derived from mushrooms
- Four cyborgs explain how they’ve fused their bodies with tech. Battery life a bit of an issue!
- This chart will make you think twice about your next hamburger and vindicates vegans.
- Half of Pakistan’s 220m people are unbanked. Stripe smells an opportunity.
- Are Facebook and Google a busted flush? The FT has its suspicions.
- Special! in 1985, Channel 4 made a film about an AI TV presenter that exposes a sinister adtech play. His name, of course, was Max Headroom.
- List of 10 digital health “megadeals” over $100m this year. Mental health startups dominate.
- Buy a NFT digital house to hang your NFT digital artworks in
- What are you worth on the Dark Web? Facebook credentials cost nearly the same as GMail ones these days (h/t Michael)
- Talking of Facebook – telling interview with its head of AI on its struggles with fairness v disinformation
- More on the (micro) chips shortage. OEMs often use extreme queue jumping tactics when supplies get tight
- Confusing causation and correlation is dangerous. Delays to AZ covid vaccinations over thrombosis concerns will cost more lives