• Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019
• Grab and Singtel team up to apply for a digital full bank license in Singapore
• Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in ‘robot taxis’
• Tesla’s market cap is now double Ford’s, after being eclipsed by it eight months ago
• Will Apple get rid of the charging port, too? All signs point to portless iPhones
• How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
• Amazon’s Biggest Threat Isn’t a Huge Competitor but a Collective
• These Breakthroughs Made the 2010s the Decade of the Brain

• Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices
• Fjord 2020
• SpaceX achieves key safety milestone for crewed flight with 10th parachute test
• The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People
• “…In 2016, researchers at Harvard and Syracuse University found that human cognitive function declined by about 15 percent when indoor CO₂ reached 945 parts per million, and crashed by 50 percent when indoor CO₂ reached 1,400 parts per million…”
• Fintech’s next decade will look radically different
• Amazon wants to patent technology that could identify shoppers by their hands
• A.I. Is Making it Easier to Kill (You). | NYT
• Elon Musk says Tesla will add Disney+ to its vehicles ‘soon’
• The State of JavaScript 2019
• Uniqlo’s Tokyo warehouse is 90 percent robotic and yes, the robots can even fold shirts
• VW’s prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage
• ‘This is the farming of the future’: the rise of hydroponic food labs
• Spotify will ‘pause’ political ads in early 2020
• A new trend: customers caring about how their purchases affect the planet
• Futuristic hotels for business travelers in China and Japan

• Over 1,500 Ring passwords have been found on the dark web
• Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany
• Abu Dhabi leads $167 million investment in Spanish delivery app Glovo
• Broadcom Looks to Sell Unit That Could Fetch $10 Billion | Credit Suisse helping chip maker find a buyer for its RF wireless-chip unit (paywall)
• The Earth’s magnetic North has moved 1,400 miles since it was discovered in 1831
• Amazon will establish a new headquarters for its Kuiper satellite broadband project
• SpaceX successfully launches Kacific 100Mbps satellite…The satellite will provide connectivity to remote areas across 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Amazon Logistics division was on track to deliver 3.5 billion packages globally in 2019 — which accounts for approximately half of all of its worldwide orders, according to a spokesperson. (For comparison, UPS, which was founded 112 years ago, delivered 5.2 billion packages and documents for all of its customers in 2018.)
• Nvidia unveils Orin, its next-gen SOC for autonomous vehicles and robots
• The Machines Are Learning, and So Are the Students…[1]
• Airbnb is a platform not an estate agent, says Europe’s top court

• Pandora launches interactive voice ads
• DataRobot is acquiring Paxata to add data prep to machine learning platform
• Robot bartending company is handing out cash to the people it is replacing
• Google Assistant’s interpreter mode is coming to iOS and Android
• Blue Origin has now flown – and landed — the same rocket six times
• Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and COO
• Chrome now warns you when your password has been stolen
• NASA releases Martian water map for future astronauts

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”
• Rocket Lab launches 10th Electron mission with successful rocket booster re-entry
• Media Landscape
• How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells
• The first computer chip with a trillion transistors (paywall)
• Waymo robotaxi app arrives on the App Store
• 41 Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics
• Amazon pushes cloud revolution into its second phase…AWS offers to put its cloud into the datacentres of its customers (paywall)
• AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA…
• AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Tuesday, December 3rd
• AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Wednesday, December 4th

• Alexa’s voice can now express disappointment and excitement
• QZ:  The World In 50 Years
• Pi-rate Radio
• Farmers Put Cows in VR So They Can Chill
• Yes, electric vehicles really are better than fossil fuel burners
• How does a Brain-Computer Interface Work?
• Scientists hit 21.6% perovskite cell efficiency using concentrator PV
• Elon Musk: Tesla Cybertruck already has 200,000 pre-orders
• Deutsche Telekom looking into a possible merger with Orange: Handelsblatt
• Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru…Loon’s solar-powered balloons reach altitudes of more than 12 miles (19.3 kilometres) above Earth and can cover areas within a 25-mile radius. Over the last decade, the company has improved the balloons’ life span to an average of 150 days (the record so far is 223 days).
• How heat from the sun could help clean up steel and cement
• Uber’s Shared Driver Accounts (paywall)

• VTEX, an e-commerce platform used by Walmart, raises $140M led by SoftBank’s LatAm fund
• Time: Best Inventions of 2019
• Storing Energy in Hydrogen
• To cut down on bugs, Apple is changing how it develops its software
• Google is killing Google Cloud Print
• Why a robot pizza startup could be worth $4 billion
• “Knowledge workers” could be the most impacted by future automation
• Disney says its new Disney+ streaming service is so popular you can’t stream it
• 10 lessons for Disney, Apple, and all the new streaming companies trying to take down Netflix
• Google guesses what your political leanings are—but it’s a secret

• Tesla will unveil its ‘Cybertruck’ electric pickup on November 21st
• Travis Kalanick’s Secret Startup, CloudKitchens (paywall)
• Whatsapp is introducing Catalogs for Small Businesses
• Alipay launches international e-wallet, giving foreigners access to mobile payment platform in first for China
• Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses
• More than 90% of large publishers use the Google ad server, DoubleClick for Publishers (paywall)
• Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance—Banking (paywall)
• Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?
• New NASA app puts you in the pilot’s seat of Boeing’s Starliner or SpaceX’s Crew Dragon
• The Curiosity rover detects oxygen behaving strangely on Mars
• Disney+ has already attracted over 10 million subscribers
• Dell Unveils Subscription Model to Counter Amazon, Microsoft
• SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two rocket reuse records
• Google wants Chrome to offer instantaneous and native app-like experiences
• The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep
• It Takes Two: How to Turn Job-Sharing Into a Promotion…and Another

• Elon Musk says building the first sustainable city on Mars will take 1,000 Starships and 20 years
• Yandex has built a fleet of self-driving food-delivery robots
• researchers from the University of Oxford recently determined that the probability of our entire species going extinct in any given year is as high as one in 14,000.
• Electric cars are changing the cost of driving
• Canso spaceport partners with U.S. company to recycle rockets in space…including hotels, research parks, fuel depots and storage centres.
• Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Cheats
• Kepler achieves a world-first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic
• OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share
• Microsoft Hololens 2
• SoftBank Reveals $6.5 Billion Loss From Uber, WeWork Turmoil