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  • Slack’s stock climbs on possible Salesforce acquisition
  • AI can run your work meetings now
  • HBO Max, for instance, has around 9 million users; Roku has 46 million users, giving it an estimated 30 percent of the streaming device market.
  • SpaceX Starlink engineers take questions in Reddit AMA—here are highlights…Expanded beta is coming in January, and there’s no plan for data caps.
  • Alibaba vies for a piece of China’s booming EV market
  • Thanksgiving online shopping hits record $5.1B, up 21.5% on 2019, 47% of sales via mobile
  • Bigblue wants to automate e-commerce fulfillment in Europe
  • SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record seventh time
  • Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C, tops 2 million members
  • 1% of farms operate 70% of world’s farmland
  • Microsoft hints at turning Xbox into an app for your TV
  • How my electric car is helping to power my home
  • China launches ambitious mission to land on moon and return samples to Earth
  • “The Queen’s Gambit” set the record as the most-watched scripted limited series to date on Netflix — with 62 million member accounts tuning in to the show in the first 28 days, according to the company.
  • Imagine a World Without Apps
  • How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper