• 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

• Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets
• Google’s got a chief decision scientist. Here’s what she does
• Ikea Catalog Covers | Argos Catalog
• The five keys to a successful Google team
• 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets
• McDonald’s delivery is now available across 950 of its sites across the UK and accounts for just over 10% of all its UK business
• Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion
• Small satellite startup Kepler opens sign-ups for its IoT developer kits
• Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019’s tech?
• Google Introduces Huge Universal Language Translation Model: 103 Languages Trained on Over 25 Billion Examples

• AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data (paywall)
• Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
• Tesla Returns To Profitability, Smashes Analyst Estimates
• “The Last of Us Part II” is now scheduled to arrive on PlayStation 4 on May 29, 2020
• Some of the universe’s heavier elements are created by neutron star collisions
• Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India
• An Uber boss insists its flying taxis will be fully functional by 2023, and says the company is talking with NASA to find a way to manage air traffic
• The think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative reported that four in five coal plants in the European Union were unprofitable and utilities faced losses of nearly 6.6 billion euros this year.
• Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US
• No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.
• ‘Whoa, it worked!!’: Elon Musk successfully tweeted using a Starlink satellite for the first time…SpaceX plans to start offering Starlink broadband services in 2020
• “If you’re creating a paid-for product, you have to start charging from day one.”
• AI Weekly: In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
• Archive of memos
• Gartner’s top 10 strategic predictions for 2020

• SpaceX seeks permission to launch 30,000 more satellites
• Rocket Lab successfully launches fifth Electron rocket this year
• Generation Z doesn’t always want to hear from you, they’re less likely than millennials to be okay with being reachable at all times.
• University of Artificial Intelligence launched in Abu Dhabi
• Few aeroplanes land automatically but new systems could make this the norm
• Netflix Q3 earnings exceed estimates, despite disappointing US subscriber growth
• Volvo unveils its first electric car, the XC40 Recharge
• Canva, now valued at $3.2 billion, launches an enterprise product
• Google Maps adds more Waze-like features, including driving-incident reports
• Nintendo announced Thursday that they had sold 15 million units of Switch console in North America
• HBO Max scores all 21 Studio Ghibli films