High-Tech Farming, Growing Kale in a Factory (video)

This High-Tech Farmer Grows Kale in a Factory

In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions -- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever? Bloomberg.com video published Sep 20, 2018.

At Bowery, we're committed to growing the purest produce possible. To us, that means using zero pesticides and non-GMO seeds. We distribute our greens locally and control the entire process from seed to store.

Editor's note: the marriage of agriculture and technology is an evolving story. Bowery Farming's focus on fresh produce involves locally grown produce with consistent quality control and production management in order to serve as a trusted, reliable source to its customers and consumers.

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Saildrones: The Robots Roaming the High Seas (video)

The Robots Roaming the High Seas

Bloomberg.com video published May 15, 2018: Intelligent, indestructible and with no humans on board, these sailboats are plotting their own course through the waters of San Francisco Bay. If  Founder & CEO Richard Jenkins gets his way, soon there’ll be hundreds of them – trawling the oceans for data. Video by Victoria Blackburne-Daniell, David Nicholson.

Saildrone Inc.--"Ocean data redefined"--Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale, building the world's largest high resolution ocean datasets, working with governments and private companies around the globe. Headquarters: Alameda, CA USA. Richard Jenkins, Founder & CEO.

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Tech Review | Robot Revolution: A New Age of Manufacturing (video)

Tech Review (TR 2018-02-03)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Robot Revolution: A New Age of Manufacturing, 2) China: Financial Risks, 3) Investing: The Week: SELL-OFF, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Robot Revolution: A New Age of Manufacturing (video)

Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) video above published Feb 1, 2018: Hundreds of millions of jobs affected. Trillions of dollars of wealth created. These are the potential impacts of a coming wave of automation. In this episode of WSJ's Moving Upstream, we see the next generation of industrial robots, what they're capable of, and whether they’re friend or foe to low-skilled workers.

2) China: Financial risks facing China worse than in US before global crash, former finance minister says | South China Morning Post | scmp.com 30 January, 2018.

• HNA to Face $2.4 Billion Liquidity Crunch This Quarter | Bloomberg.com: January 30, 2018 

• Chinese Stocks Tumble As Hong Kong Officials Monitor Surge In ATM Withdrawals | ZeroHedge.com Feb 1, 2018: "... when will China devalue again? it's already got the capital outflows anticipating it ..."
• Chinese Liquidity Crunch Begins As Stocks Sink: Bankers Begging Friends For Deposits On WeChat | ZeroHedge.com

• China’s HNA tries to navigate turbulent times | ft.com: Once the darling of Beijing’s overseas corporate expansion plan the group has fallen out of favour and faces a cash crunch.

• Cracks Are Showing in China's Shadow Banking Industry | Bloomberg.com: "Recent payment delays shake confidence of Chinese depositors"

3) Investing

The Week: SELL-OFF--

Why? Veteran Trader Art Cashin On Why Stocks Are Plunging | CNBC - YouTube.com: inflation fears, drama in D.C. [Editor's note: I'd add concerns over China (see above), and Fed Policy--interest rates and shrinking the Fed balance sheet--Fed’s QE Unwind Accelerates Sharply | WolfStreet.com.]

Investing Notes:

• ZeroHedge.com: "The Atlanta Fed's latest GDPNow forecast for Q1 economic growth has started at an impressive 4.2%..."
• Things are going GREAT in the eurozone, so why isn’t the ECB raising rates? | MarketWatch.com: "with rates this low [negative], the bank [ECB] essentially has exhausted its emergency tool kit in case of another, unexpected crisis."
• On the other hand, maybe things aren't so great in the eurozone: Bridgewater Triples Bets [short positions] Against Italian Firms to $3 Billion | Bloomberg.com ahead of elections in Italy on March 4, 2018. See also: Deutsche Bank posts third consecutive annual loss in 2017--reuters.com.

• Massive Cryptocurrency Heist Spurs Call for More Regulation | Bloomberg.com: nearly $500 million theft of digital tokens from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc.
• Singapore Overtakes China as Largest Asian Investor in U.S. Property | Bloomberg.com: due to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund’s purchases, including its $988 million investment in 60 Wall St., New York.
• Why Warren Buffett Is Spot-On With His Vanguard Fund Advice | InvestorPlace.com

• Wall Street Can't Hold Back Vanguard's Low-Fee Ocean | Bloomberg.com: replicating investment styles used by Wall Street stock pickers "at a fraction of the cost"--"Wall Street will have to lower fees."
• This Week's Question: When does GE get kicked out of the Dow?

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• Chasing Amazon, Google to Create a Cloud App Marketplace | Bloomberg.com

• Chasing Apple, Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC’s smartphone division | TechCrunch.com.

• Chasing Uber, Google confirms investment in Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek.

• Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia | WSJ.com: "Saudi giant has sought to wean itself off oil; a deal with the California tech behemoth would help."

• Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada | Recode.net

• Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase tackle health care costs--Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman--“The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy. Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable.”
• Apple Slashes iPhone X Production In Half After Disappointing Holiday Sales | ZeroHedge.com
• China smartphone growth ends--BBC.com, and Verizon Drops Plan to Sell Phones From China's Huawei,| Bloomberg.com: "Carriers pressured by U.S. government to avoid handset maker."
• Jackpotting: Hackers make ATMs spit out lots of cash--stltoday.com. 
• NYTimes.com: Devumi.com uses 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers. 
• Tech Companies Are Under Pressure Everywhere Except Where It Matters | theintercept.com: everywhere but the FTC. 

From the Reuters.com feed:

• Google, Tencent, Sequoia China join $15 million funding for pharma startup XtalPi which uses AI, cloud computing and quantum physics to improve drug design processes.

• Facebook makes privacy push ahead of strict EU law (GDPR)

• China's Xiaomi back to top five vendor as global smartphone market shrinks--the BIG 5: Samsung, Apple, Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi.

• Alibaba, Foxconn lead $350 million funding in Chinese electric car startup Xiaopeng Motors

• Alibaba-backed online lender MYbank owes cost-savings to home-made tech

• Japan's Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1 billion deal, create joint venture

• Google's G Suite is no Microsoft killer, but still winning converts

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Ex Machina Director, Writer, Producer, Alex Garland Talks at Google (video)

Alex Garland: "Ex Machina" | Talks at Google - Writer, producer, director Alex Garland visited Google to discuss his directorial debut movie EX MACHINA. Moderated by Dana Han-Klein.

"Ex Machina" is about young coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private retreat belonging to the reclusive CEO of the company. Upon his arrival, he learns that he must participate in a bizarre experiment which involves interacting with the world's first true artificial intelligence (AI), which comes in the form of a beautiful female robot. (Published on Apr 13, 2015)

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Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava and Nathan intensifies.

This Ex Machina still is now like the go-to stock photo for every news item about robot sex. glad to be of service... pic.twitter.com/mYn2UHqQhl

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