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• Amazon will soon offer to deliver packages to your garage so they don’t get stolen – CNBC | Link
• HTC unveils Vive Cosmos stand-alone VR headset, designed for ease of use – Polygon | Link
• Amazon passes Microsoft to become world’s most valuable public company – Business Insider | Link
• DJI introduces a smart remote controller with built-in display – DroneDJ | Link
• Google Assistant Connect makes adding Assistant easier – 9to5Google | Link
• Amazon Dash Buttons Ruled Illegal in Germany | Link
• Xiaomi’s five-year plan is a $1.5 billion bet on smart homes | TechCrunch | Link
• Netflix sued by ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book publisher over ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ | Link

• China’s Chang’e 4 spacecraft to try historic landing on far side of moon ‘between January 1 and 3’ – South China Morning Post | Link
• Google’s Experimental Radar Sensors That Replace Buttons With Gestures Get FCC Approval | Link
• Nasa’s New Horizons: ‘Snowman’ shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed – BBC News | Link
• Chinese spacecraft successfully lands on moon’s far side and sends pictures back home | Science |Link
• Amazon touts 100 million Alexa devices sold ever following huge holiday boost – 9to5Mac | Link

• After Pluto, Hopkins-led New Horizons mission nears an object ‘beyond the known world,’ Ultima Thule – Baltimore Sun | Link
• Elon Musk promises 100 percent European Supercharger coverage next year | Link
• Flagship iPhones to be made in India, not just low-cost models – 9to5Mac | Link

• Apple Car Design Talk Renews After Hiring of Tesla Designer Andrew Kim | Fortune | Link
• Hong Kong: Bitcoin ‘millionaire’ throws money from rooftop, gets arrested | Link
• Google announces $1 billion Hudson Square New York campus – 9to5Google | Link
• Amazon Digital Day will offer deals on books, movies, apps, and more on December 28 | Android and Me | Link
• FCC levies $900,000 fine against Swarm for unauthorized satellite launch – GeekWire | Link
• Google is deprecating the Android Beam API used to share files with NFC | Link
• Stunning images reveal gigantic ice filled crater 50 miles wide on the surface of Mars | Daily Mail Online | Link

• It’s Official! NASA’s Famed Voyager 2 Spacecraft Reaches Interstellar Space | Link
• Google CEO tells Congress why Trump comes up on searches for ‘idiot’ | Link
• Rocket Lab to Launch 10 Cubesats for NASA Next Week | Link
• Amazon Go mini food store opens in Seattle | Link
• Amazon workers in New York launch campaign to unionize – CBS News | Link
• U.S. Users Can Now Give Google Assistant a British or Australian Accent | Digital Trends | Link
• Apple to Add $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Tex., in Broad U.S. Hiring Push – The New York Times | Link

• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrives at the asteroid Bennu today – CNN | Link
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 | Windows Central | Link
• Valve brings Steam Link to Raspberry Pi – Polygon | Link
• California clears final hurdle for state solar mandate for new homes | Link
• China Outraged at Arrest of Huawei CFO in Canada After U.S. Request | Link
• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai admits Russian interference in net neutrality debate – CNET | Link
• Clues in Marriott hack are said to implicate China – CNBC | Link
• Global Carbon Emissions Reached New High In 2018, Scientists Say | HuffPost | Link
• China launches Chang’e-4 spacecraft for pioneering lunar far side landing mission – SpaceNews.com | Link

• sGoogle facing fine in Russia for allegedly not purging banned Google facing fine in Russia for allegedly not purging banned websites – Search Engine Land | Link
• Amazon Restaurants closes London delivery service after two years | Link
• Touchdown on Mars! NASA’s InSight Lands to Peer Inside the Red Planet | Link
• Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies – The New York Times | Link
• Amazon launches AWS Ground Station to help companies transmit satellite data – VentureBeat | Link
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai will reportedly testify to Congress on Dec. 5 – 9to5Google | Link
• Project Fi is now Google Fi and officially supports more Android phones – Android and Me | Link
• NASA turns to private companies for future moon missions – CBS News | Link
• Russia Announces Plans to Establish Moon Colony by 2040 | Link
• Nine people face charges for allegedly selling Samsung’s curved-edge display technology | Link
• Airbnb to Expand From Vacation Rentals Into Designing Homes | Fortune | Link

• Nasa’s first planet-hunter, Kepler space telescope, put to rest with final commands – Education Today News | Link
• NASA considers selling trips to space tourists | Link
• France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence | WIRED UK | Link
• Xiaomi gobbles up selfie phone brand Meitu as revenue jumps 49% – TechCrunch | Link
• Amazon opens up Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit to all wireless headphone and wearable device makers – VentureBeat | Link
• H1Z1’s esports league collapses as teams go unpaid – Polygon | Link

It’s the chinese Single’s Day!

• Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service | ZDNet | Link
• Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8 billion in sales in 24 hours | Link
• Amazon Announces New York and Virginia as HQ2 Picks – The New York Times | Link
• EA Reveals the Details of C&C Remastered | Link
• After some uncertainty, Telltale Games is closing for good – PC Gamer | Link
• Google closes bipedal robot unit Schaft, staff dispersed – ZDNet | Link
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ out now: $25 for cut-down Pi 3 B+ with quad-core CPU – ZDNet | Link
• How much does a kilogram weigh? Depends on your ‘Planck constant’ – Reuters | Link
• FCC Approves Order to Enhance GPS With Galileo Location System | Link
• Google Pixel 3 Lite appears in new leak – Android and Me | Link
• Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 – Thurrott.com | Link

• Amazon warehouse collapse in Baltimore leaves two dead | Link
• VIVA Kuwait Signs Initial Agreement To Fully Acquire QualityNet | Link
• Spotify now available in the Middle East and North Africa, if you have an invite | Link
• Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations
  (Long Island, NY, and Crystal City, VA)  – The New York Times | Link
• VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes – TechCrunch | Link
• Chinese surveillance grows stronger with technology that can recognise people from how they walk | Link
• Amazon launches Alexa, Echo devices, and Amazon Music in Mexico | VentureBeat | Link
• Google Changes Policies on Sexual Misconduct After Staff Walkout | Fortune | Link
• China’s Xinhua agency unveils AI news presenter – BBC News | Link
• Amazon makes Alexa for PC app available for Windows 10 – ZDNet | Link
• More Apple products are coming to Amazon under a new deal | Link