Space X, Starlink Wants More Satelites, Microsoft's Big Contract, Open AI, and more

This week we discuss how all of these streaming services are causing subscription fatigue.  There are new trailers for Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalkers and the Mandalorian. Space X announces its plans to launch Starships to the moon in 2022 and Starlink gets approval to increase its satelite plan to 42,000.  Microsoft wins the bid for a major government contract and they begin investing in Elon’s Open AI. Google claims to have gained quantum supremacy with its latest quantum computing test. We also have a new record for the longest flight after the Airforce spy plane lands after 780 days.  

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Links to topics discussed:

Subscription fatigue

• • https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/10/21/disney-apple-tv-netflix-amazon-can-we-tame-subscription-fatigue/3995686002/?fbclid=IwAR2oRlSZDeQl0OeWYqLpyRBG8UV8rjSPFHbE7PzA-yVLWBW8jH4UHKm-9d4
  • Apple TV free to Apple, Disney+ free to Verizon

Star Wars final trailer and Mandalorian trailer released

• • https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/10/23/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-runtime-revealed-and-its-kind-of-insane/?fbclid=IwAR2LhhHsK95SiUkq06jh1Xe5HisvKe5Pt08-Lv69X_U_TJD3-XZ8tlUPgEo#776576812077

Starlink to launch 42,000 total satelites

• • https://www.foxnews.com/science/elon-musk-plots-to-put-30000-more-internet-satellites-into-orbit-as-critics-warn-hell-trap-humans-on-earth?fbclid=IwAR3Tq6Zu3djr0oIDnsTV7y5XgJZQg2OIXsfng0wYPtP_h8KUYmImHgMqPaM

Elon uses Starlink to send out a Tweet. 

• • https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/?fbclid=IwAR3Ib5-pBkkXecZRGmcd2WyElzHuTahBykHGpDufnvUhuzDQwGX5jJTc1RY
  • https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-internet-service-2020.html?fbclid=IwAR14ucquYCBUCxL0-EFaSRd8YLaAh0wtetc3y3brKBxVjYmrsyX33pQbsZo

SpaceX wants to land Starship on the moon by 2022 with passengers 

• • https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/spacex-wants-to-land-starship-on-the-moon-before-2022-then-do-cargo-runs-for-2024-human-landing/?fbclid=IwAR3lPAP7dd_Df9WD2-ao680hC6Qni-X0Vqhnm5OdCnFyFHMrew_zp6BB6Is

Microsoft has invented $1bil in Elon’s Open AI

• • https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-ai-openai-microsoft-artificial-intelligence-funding-a9016736.html?fbclid=IwAR2I7Grkz-IbQCub45qt7X-Igy-dVk0bmJtamEGkGp3klujf1fL9NFc7g6E

Microsoft wins $10bil government contract for cloud computing

• • https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/microsoft-wins-major-defense-cloud-contract-beating-out-amazon.html?fbclid=IwAR14ucquYCBUCxL0-EFaSRd8YLaAh0wtetc3y3brKBxVjYmrsyX33pQbsZo

Jeff Bezos nearly lost richest man alive title

• • https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-to-lose-status-as-worlds-richest-man-as-amazon-stock-tumbles-105615138.html

Big leap for quantum computing

• • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/google-quantum-computer-supremacy-claim?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science

Air Force space plane lands after a record 780 day flight

• • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-x-37b-spaceplane-returns-to-earth-after-780-day-mission/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e&fbclid=IwAR1u7ga6kIdJlkze-dP7ylAPicJrj5dbM9XV_CTlYwayeYhfLO5QXQlFhyU