Sunday News 204 June 19th, 2022 Click to see in browser Tom Hanks explains it all. A great interview by the American actor with Azorean rootsSunday News is a selection of the links posted daily by the  Explora community. I can add you if you want (you need to have a Facebook account). Newcomers can check previous Sunday News editions here. If you are a new reader, you may catch up by reading Sunday News’ First, Second and Third Year Highlights.Antonio CamaraEducation Instrument-building festival challenges, inspires, by Cornell Resounds ProjectA Silicon Valley Summer Camp wants kids to ditch the canoes for holographic codingHealth New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function The 4 ways you might live forever, by Tomas Pueyo Sports Magic Johnson and the coolest mixtape in NBA history Netflix enters bidding for F1 rights Mobility Via Paul Krugman What key factors influence gas prices? A living room on a skateboard: how electric vehicles are redefining the car Electric vehicle outlook 2022, by Bloomberg China launched the world’s first AI-operated aircraft carrier, an unmanned vessel capable of launching dozens of drones Cities, Nature and Clean Tech 5 clever ways that malls are being reinvented across the U.S. Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights, and the growing field of sensory urbanism Inside the experimental world of animal infrastructure How animals perceive the World Plants appear to be breaking biochemistry rules by making ‘secret decisions’ Can Democracy include a World beyond humans? “A truly planetary politics would extend decision making to animals, ecosystems, and potentially AI” Warning! Signs are not enough to save beachgoers from deadly currents Developing new companies Building American dynamism. “You can’t be a successful investor if you look at the world with ironic detachment. If you are a naysayer. Or a cynic. Skeptical, yes, of course. But fundamentally you have to believe that individuals with tremendous willpower can do things. Great, shocking, inconceivable things” Meta will pivot the Portal away from consumers Apple just wrecked 15+ startups in less than 1 hour How Big Tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum How to build trust in a market place, by Lenny Rachitsky The huge losses of blockchain Metaverse companies In defense of crypto (currency), by Matthew Green The Bitcoin salvation scenario, by Noah Smith Prada plans monthly product, NFT drops. Read also Emeralds, rubies and NFTs: Inside Bulgari’s new-era high jewelry The Network State Book. A book by Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) on how to start a new country Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down? By Noah Smith The Global Economic Shift (2006-2036) AR/VR/AI/IoT/Quantum Computing/Metaverse/Bio The future of augmented reality glasses with Lumus. Long but great Hands-on Ultraleap Stratos: feel the touch in XR without gloves! Apple’s Coolest iOS 16 feature lets you drag subjects right out of images Amazon launches virtual try-on for shoes What exactly was Google’s ‘AI Is Sentient’ guy actually saying? Alternate histories and GPT-3 Sound: The new uncharted dimension of the Metaverse Marc Andreessen explaining a Web 3 use case to Tyler Cowen Far out Mighty mini-thermometer detects tiny temperature changes Tree rings shed light on a Stradivarius mystery Things you are allowed to do Excuses from the future Book review: “Slouching Toward Utopia”, by Noah Smith. “Brad DeLong tells his story of the 20th century” Minority Report tried to warn us about technology How people from 1955 imagined technology of the future