Weekly#247

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  • Amazon Plans to Send Alexa to the Office wsj.com
  • Netflix’s ‘Skip Intro’ Button Makes TV Ever More Like an App theatlantic.com
  • Microsoft is bringing clever tabs to every Windows 10 app theverge.com
  • Hulu’s new UI and live TV service are now on Samsung’s 2017 smart TVs theverge.com
  • Amazon will let Alexa developers use voice recognition to personalize apps theverge.com
  • Google’s AI knows when a stranger is looking at your phone theverge.com
  • AWS launches GuardDuty, its new intelligent threat detection service techcrunch.com
  • Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips techcrunch.com
  • Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth electrek.co
  • Verizon says it will have 5G service in five cities by the end of next year theverge.com
  • aws re:invent product announcements aws.amazon.com
  • Google is making a computer vision kit for Raspberry P theverge.com
  • Google May Reunite With Nest as It Takes on Amazon wsj.com
  • Ginkgo Bioworks, ‘the organism company,’ is now worth over $1 billion recode.net
  • SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch will now take place in 2018 techcrunch.com
  • AT&T’s LTE-M Button is basically a programmable 4G Amazon Dash Button for businesses techcrunch.com
  • Volvo’s car subscription service sounds like good way to get the new XC40 techcrunch.com
  • Amazon’s AWS Cloud9 IDE lets you write, test, and debug code in your browser thenextweb.com
  • Google Assistant can now locate a handyman near you thenextweb.com

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