- Goodreads: Best Books of 2020
- Peloton, Pizza and Videogames Grow in Stay-at-Home World (WSJ)”…Consumers holed up during the coronavirus pandemic redirected their travel and entertainment dollars toward pizza, videogames, home-exercise equipment and luxury goods, according to several companies that provided business updates Thursday…”
- Sony confirms the PS5 won’t support SSD storage expansion at launch
- Proposition 22, created to decide the future of the California gig economy, has passed.
- Battery-Free Underwater GPS
- Apple will require apps to add privacy ‘nutrition labels’ starting December 8th
- Gamelist for PS5 and XBox
- WhatsApp finally begins rolling out payment service in India
- Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M funding round
- Amazon to invest $2.8 billion to build its second data center region in India
- Netflix tests a programmed linear TV and movie channel in France
- Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai hits $5.3 billion valuation
- Bentley is making the shift to an all-electric lineup
- Amazon launches its first Amazon Air regional hub in Europe
- The T-cell immune response to covid lasts at least six months
- Apple TV is coming to Xbox consoles on November 10th
- YouTube brings in $5 billion in ad revenue as Alphabet and Google bounce back”…YouTube now has more than 30 million music and premium paid subscribers — 35 million, including free trials — and YouTube TV has more than 3 million subscribers…”
- Happy 13th birthday, Android.
- The pandemic has created a middle class private jet boom
- How a UK supermarket nourished Silicon Valley’s critics (FT)
- NASA’s Voyager 2 receives first commands since March, sends back a hello
