News

Africa study shows mankind 100,000 years older than thought. Link

In buying Boston Dynamics, SoftBank is betting big on walking robots potentially ending Alphabet’s flirtation with the world of humanoid and industrial robots. Link

The best startup accelerators of 2017. Link

Why is Google digitising the world’s fashion archives? Link

Tesla just passed BMW in market cap. Link

Cybersecturity’s next frontier: 80+ companies using artificial intelligence to secure the future. Link

Understand the tech billionaire archetype. Winston Chesterfield, Director of Custom Research at Wealth-X provides an overview of the world’s billionaire population and takes a closer look at the archetype of a “typical” tech billionaire. Link

A team of Stanford psychologists and AI experts created Woebot, a cheeky personalised chatbot that uses brief daily chat conversations, mood tracking, curated videos, and word games to help people manage mental health. Link

Blog Posts

Why do we lie? National Geographic explores the science behind our complicated relationship with the truth. Link

Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. Link

Interesting Statistics

Access to Wikipedia (by platform). Link

Sony has sold 1 million Playstation VR headsets. Link

Video: First phonographic record played in space

Third Man Records has officially made history in celebration of their 7th anniversary by launching the first record played in space

Detours

You’d be a better communicator if you weren’t so afraid of embarrassing yourself. Link

The days and nights of Elon Musk: How he spends his time at work and play. Link

Retail Therapy

Make 2017 a scrub-free summer with Grillbot…the automatic grill cleaning robot. Link

Contemplation

“I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.”

(Kevin Plank, Under Armour founder)