News

Easyjet to fly battery-powered planes within the next decade. Link

Vacuum company Dyson is building an electric car. Dyson says the car will be unveiled in 2020 and will be ‘radically different’ to other vehicles in the market. Link

Fidelity Investments will allow its clients to see their holdings of bitcoin and other virtual currencies held on digital asset exchange Coinbase on the company’s website, said Chief Executive Abigail Johnson on Tuesday. Link

Tekcapital’s Lucyd launches $10m blockchain funding round to develop its augmented reality glasses. Link

How Walmart turned its $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com into its greatest weapon against Amazon. Link

TaskRabbit, the on-demand platform for hiring people to do everything from building furniture to standing in line for you at the Apple Store, has sold itself to IKEA. At IKEA, you buy stuff that’s cheap partly because there’s no service, but then spend more money to get service — and it looks like IKEA has finally noticed. Link

VC continent: Europe’s top venture capital investors by country. Link

Blog Posts

You definitely do not need it…but in any case…16 psychological tricks to make people like you. Link

The dying art of disagreement. Link

Interesting Numbers

More than 30 million people are now paying for a subscription streaming service in the U.S., which pushed streaming revenue up 48%, to $2.5 billion, in the first half of the year. Streaming now accounts for 62% of the U.S. music business. Link

$5.1 million is the amount that Jeff and Mark Bass made last year from royalty rights they hold in Eminem’s song catalog. Now the pair is selling up to a quarter of those rights to a start up that’s promising investors a share of those royalties, which they say will increase over time. Link

Video: How not to land an orbital rocket booster

Detours

Warren Buffett’s “2 List” strategy: How to maximize your focus and master your priorities. Link

Are you a psychopath? Let us have a look at your playlist. Those with highest psychopath scores were among the greatest fans of Blackstreet hit No Diggity, with Eminem’s Lose Yourself also rated highly. Link

Retail Therapy

How to survive the apocalypse. President Trump threatens to “totally destroy North Korea.” Another hurricane lashes out. A second monster earthquake jolts Mexico. But is there anything you can do to prepare? Link

Contemplation

“Be flexible in your plans, because a rigid itinerary is lethal to a good time.”

(Anthony Bourdain…who averages 200-plus days on the road each year)