https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/19/google-alphago-zero-ai/

Brad Parscale started his digital career in bookstores, tapping people on the shoulder while they were browsing the web design section and pitching them his own website creation services.

Then one day in 2011, he was eating an omelette when he received an email from the Trump Organization asking him to pitch for a web design project for one of Donald Trump’s real estate projects. Other assignments followed until 2015, when another email arrived.

“It said: ‘Donald Trump is thinking about running for president and we need a website in two days,'” Parscale told CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday.

“So I wrote back and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it for $1,500,'” he added. “And by the end (of the election campaign) it was $94 million.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/donald-trumps-digital-campaign-directors-company-paid-94-million.html?recirc=taboolainternal

U.S. politicians have been warning for years that America couldn’t let China win the clean energy race. That’s exactly what has happened, with the trends most stark in electric cars, solar and nuclear energy.

https://www.axios.com/why-china-is-winning-the-clean-energy-race-2496091771.html

Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder who changed the world alongside Steve Jobs, has today announced the launch of Woz U.

According to the release, Woz U will start as an online learning platform focused on both students and companies that will eventually hire those students. Woz U is based out of Arizona, and hopes to launch physical locations for learning in more than 30 cities across the globe.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/steve-wozniak-announces-tech-education-platform-woz-u/

Over 500 million people are inadvertently mining cryptocurrencies through their computers after visiting websites that are running background mining software, researchers have discovered.

http://www.newsweek.com/500-million-pcs-secretly-mining-cryptocurrency-research-bitcoin-683982

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/apple-ceo-tim-cook-learning-to-code-is-so-important.html

https://theoutline.com/post/2388/google-is-really-good-at-design

Facebook is going to ship a standalone VR headset called Oculus Go next year. The headset, which won’t require a PC or phone to run, will be available early next year for $199.

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/oculus-go-1202587073/

Moscow Has Turned Kaspersky Antivirus Software Into a Global Spy Tool, Using It To Scan Computers For Secret US Data – http://www.slashdot.org/story/332275