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A layer of payment service providers and open APIs will see many startups start to massively simplify the friction of sending and receiving payments.
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If you looking at building a startup in the payments space, UPI is just the beginning of the NPCI's work. A next giant step to think about is the Bharat Bill Payment scheme – a simpler bill payments infrastructure. Read more about it in this entertaining overview of Raghuram Rajan-bhai's strategy and applied examples of "lukkha-type customers"

Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. It aims to develop a ‘nanocraft’ – a gram-scale robotic space probe – and use a light beam to push it to 20 percent of the speed of light. If successful, a flyby mission could reach Alpha Centauri about 20 years after launch, and send back images of any planets discovered in the system.

Read Inside a Billionaire's New Interstellar Mission

After a glorious 50 years, Moore’s law—which states that computer power doubles every two years at the same cost—is running out of steam. Read about the history of future of computing power in After Moore's law

Sarah Travel of Greylock Partners describes engagement as "the fuel to build an enduring, billion dollar business". This is a solid framework to use when thinking about your own product. Read more about it in The Hierarchy of Engagement

I want to lick this infographic in How a Car Engine Works

Beyond the new low-priced iPhone SE, Apple is pushing hard on India - the big move is selling used iPhones for cheap. Of course this is not going down well with smartphone players like Micromax, Karbonn, Samsung and Intel that dominate the low-end markets. They are lobbying against Apple citing electronic waste (wtf!) and that Modi's "Make in India will turn into Dump in India".
My guess is that ab koi na koi paise khayega - ya Apple se, ya local players se. Apple's Push to Flood India With Used iPhones Ignites Backlash