• Facebook wants you to buy HBO on Facebook and watch HBO on Facebook
• 2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts
• Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
• Facebook open sources PyText NLP framework
• AI 2018 Index – Annual Report
• AI Transformation Playbook
• This drone shrinks to fit
• International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B
• Netflix is testing a new feature that lets you instantly replay scenes (for some reason)
• Starbucks adding delivery services to more than 2,000 stores via Uber Eats
• Starting in 2020, all new homes in California must come with solar panels. Builders are getting ready
• A Google-backed vertical farm startup just raised another $90 million to build in cities across the US
• Electric cars will soon be cheaper to make than gas cars: battery-maker ...Electric vehicle batteries will cost less than $100-per-kWh to make by 2020; and less than $50-per-kWh by 2025...
• Powering customer journeys in the age of AI
• At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency

• Samsung will release a 5G phone in 2019
• DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling
• The friendship that made Google Huge
• SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
• AWS re:invent Slides
• Here’s how far you’ll need to travel from McDonald’s to Burger King for a 1-cent Whopper
• Navigating the Data Science Careers Landscape (part 1)
• What Does an Ideal Data Scientist’s Profile Look Like? (part 2)
• The semiconductor industry and the power of globalisation
• Comcast, Fox, Disney and WarnerMedia currently account for about 20 per cent of Netflix’s content library… (Netflix Originals 8 per cent)
• Twelve Key Emerging Technologies

Old: “we have vast amounts of data. What can ‘SQL’ tell us about it?”
New: “we have vast amounts of data. What can ‘AI’ tell us about it?”

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 4, 2018

Pretty soon smartphones will be the only reason to have a fixed line. https://t.co/5u6X4gINyt

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 5, 2018

Next time when a founder says that they use #AI , I will require them to locate their AI framework and method on this map and explain the maturity of it in a few sentences. @IdaCapital pic.twitter.com/Nb0svIg9K4

— Cem Baytok (@baytok_cem) December 5, 2018

• YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
• Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown
• Amazon wants brands to advertise Alexa voice shopping — essentially for free
• AWS has %51.80 market share with 27 B USD revenue run rate.
• AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
• AWS Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
• AWS reinvent videos
• AWS launches a managed Kafka service
• Goto Conference videos
• newest Wi-Fi protocols: 802.11ax and 802.11ay
• FT Books of the Year 2018
• Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
• Researchers estimate that Python, Javascript, and R contribute billions to GDP
• Andrew Chen: What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.
• A new slow thinking movement
• Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
• Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech

Cool use of digital projection to spell out the story on this relief step-by-step. pic.twitter.com/4kpChVCwsr

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) November 25, 2018

lesson from teen cousins who live in LA: when teens have big parties they make a new insta account ~for the party~ and people have to request to follow it, and an approval means you can come to the party??? and you have to show your insta to get into the party (there is security)

— mo mcbirney (@motormo) November 25, 2018

• Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook’s latest crisis
• Why flammable ice could be the future of energy
• Solar geoengineering could be ‘remarkably inexpensive’ – report
• When the Tech Mythology Collapses
• Verizon will reportedly support iPhone eSIMs and dual SIMs in December
• Boss as a service
• Satellites and rockets are getting smaller. Why not rovers, too?
• Chrome is getting scrollable tab bar, Google confirms
• French tobacco shops to sell bitcoins via fintech company
• Blizzard is working on a Pokémon Go style Warcraft game
• One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

• Elon Musk : “Deleted my Tesla titles last week to see what would happen. I’m now the Nothing of Tesla. Seems fine so far.” Twitter, QZ Article
• The three traits Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks for in leaders
  • Attribute #1: The ability to create clarity when none exists
  • Attribute #2: A knack for sparking energy
  • Attribute #3: An ability to succeed in “an over-constrained space”
• These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
• BlackBerry is buying Cylance for $1.4 billion to continue its push into cybersecurity
• SpaceX launched and landed another used Falcon 9 rocket (18th mission in 2018)
• Instagram will now let users shop items from video posts
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wins FCC Approval to Deploy 7,518 Satellites
• Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021
• Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ produce electrical patterns that resemble those of premature babies
• List of jobs of 2028 that don’t exist yet. (Reddit)
• Microsoft launches cloud-based development kit for blockchain

• Fortnite Breaks Records on YouTube for Concurrent Gaming Livestream Viewers (over 1.1 million viewers)
• Unlocking success in digital transformations
• Elon Musk: The Recode interview
• A Holographic Display for 3D Creators
• Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
• The eight types of AI you should know about
• Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
• Netflix’s hackathon
• Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+
• Xiaomi is opening a retail store in London as it extends its Europe push
• David Attenborough to voice Netflix’s nature conservation series, Our Planet
• Three challenges facing blockchain technology
  • Finding good enterprise-level blockchain software developers
  • Avoiding the temptation of regulation
  • Reaching critical mass

• Epic Games, Developer Of Fortnite, Now Valued At More Than $15 Billion... The company has raked in more than $1 billion in revenue from these so-called microtransactions over the past year, according to estimates from SuperData…
• Britain’s mobile challenger bank Monzo has become one of the most valuable startups in Europe, today reaching a £1 billion ($1.31 billion) valuation in its latest funding round
• IBM is making the third-largest tech acquisition ever
• Apple’s Mac business now has 100 million active devices
• Why Airbnb will be worth more than Uber
• Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation
• Facebook 100B messages & 1B Stories/day
• Hydrogen gas trial in western Sydney could unlock $1.7bn in renewable exports
• Windows 10’s Next Update Brings a “Zoom” Feature to the Console
• Machine-learning algorithm beats 20 lawyers in NDA legal analysis
• The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
• Visual network map of MegaTrends to 2050
• The future of the TV and video landscape by 2030

• Project Stream
• Can Germany survive the ‘iPhone moment’ for cars? (FT)
• Berlin’s Emil launches pay-per-mile car insurance
• The future of photography is code
• How Netflix drives culture, in one chart
• Dyson chooses Singapore for new electric car plant
• Tearing Apart Teslas to Find Elon Musk’s Best and Worst Decisions
• “Hardware Industrial Design is about space, Software Design is about time“
• Dropbox expands Paper into planning tool with timelines
• The automated programmer, called Repairnator, wrote patches good enough to fool actual human engineers.
• Amazon’s most important businesses are all slowing down

• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65
• Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever
• Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
• 10 qualities you need to develop to improve your emotional intelligence
• Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9
• Adobe launches Premiere Rush CC, a video-editing app made for YouTubers
• Amazon requires one minute of human labour to get a package onto a truck, but that number is headed to zero. Autonomous warehouses will merge with autonomous manufacturing and delivery to form a fully automated supply chain. (Twitter source)
• Netflix Reports Strong Growth in New Subscribers
• Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO…”Uber would be worth more than Detroit’s Big Three automakers combined. GM $45.3 B, Ford $35.1 B, Fiat Chrysler $31.8 B”