In an Unprecedented Move, Universal Is Sending Theaters a Patched Version of Cats | Link VMware closes $2.7B Pivotal deal as it sets course for a Kubernetes-powered future – SiliconANGLE | Link Facebook Is Building an Operating System for Future Devices – Bloomberg | Link Amazon wants to patent tech that uses veins in your hands to ID you | Link Humanity Is Sending 3 New Rovers to Mars in 2020 to Look for Signs of Life – VICE | Link Google cafeteria workers unionized, saying they’re “overworked and underpaid” – Vox | Link Samsung reveals Galaxy S10 Lite, Galaxy Note 10 Lite ahead of CES 2020 – CNET | Link
Pixel 4 will automatically screen robocalls and center your Duo videos | Engadget | Link Alphabet’s Google Assistant rolls out Arabic service across the Mena region – The National | Link Goodbye, Project Scarlett, Hello Xbox Series X – Exclusive First Look And Interview – GameSpot | Link Middle Eastern Nation First to Buy Drone Armed With Machine Gun | Link Apple, Google, Amazon, Zigbee partner on smart home | Link Facebook acquires Spanish cloud video gaming company PlayGiga | Link Apple Has Top Secret Team Working on Internet Satellites – Bloomberg| Link
Facebook buys ‘Beat Saber’ VR game maker Beat Games | Link India reveals Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander crashed – CNET | Link Black Friday: French MPs call for sales frenzy to be banned | The Independent | Link Amazon Rolls Out Quantum-Computing Service – WSJ | Link Europe’s space agency approves the Hera anti-asteroid mission | Engadget | Link Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in Amazon’s history – CNN | Link In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India | TechCrunch | Link Era Ends for Google as Founders Step Aside From a Pillar of Tech – The New York Times | Link
Bill Gates overtakes Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world at $110 billion | Daily Mail Online | Link HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s bid to acquire the company | Link Google moving from weekly TGIF’ meetings following leaks – 9to5Google | Link PayPal announces $4bn acquisition of deal-finding company Honey | Financial Times | Link Physicists Claim They’ve Found Even More Evidence of a New Force of Nature | Link Apple online store customer reviews have been removed – SlashGear | Link Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s electric Cybertruck | Link
Apple’s ‘sexist’ credit card investigated by US regulator – BBC News | Link Alibaba Singles Day 2019: Record sales on biggest shopping day | Link Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans – WSJ | Link SpaceX Just Launched 60 Starlink Satellites (And Nailed a Milestone Rocket Landing) | Space | Link Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses — The Information | Link Disney Plus has nearly 2 million preorder subscribers in US: Jumpshot – Business Insider | Link Restructured Docker Inc. Sells Platform Business to Mirantis – Container Journal | Link A year after Microsoft acquired it, GitHub releases first mobile app – Business Insider | Link Stanford Medicine publishes full results from the Apple Watch Heart Study – 9to5Mac | Link Project xCloud streaming tech is coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020 | VentureBeat | Link Amazon will challenge Pentagon’s award of $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft – The Washington Post | Link GitHub wants code to survive the apocalypse in an Arctic vault – CNET | Link
Microsoft Japan: 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40% | Link Photoshop for iPad is out now – News – Digital Arts | Link Disney CEO admits they released ‘too many Star Wars films over a short period of time’ – CNET | Link Drone registration made compulsory as UK scheme launches | Technology | The Guardian| Link Facebook rebrands to separate company from the social media app | Link PlayStation Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida steps down – Polygon | Link BritBox: UK broadcasters enter the streaming wars as new service launches – BBC News | Link
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It looks like EA is coming back to Steam • Eurogamer.net | Link Netflix open-sources Polynote to simplify data science and machine learning workflows | Link NVIDIA SHIELD TV (2019) and Pro official: Android TV, AI upscaling, new remote – SlashGear | Link Create new documents instantly with Google’s .new domain | TechRadar | Link DJI Mavic Mini an ultralight drone with 2.7K camera, 30-minute battery for $399 – CNET | Link Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing smartwatch maker at $2.1 billion | Link
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NordVPN, TorGuard Hit by Hacks Involving Insecure Servers | News & Opinion | PCMag.com | Link Jeff Bezos Is No Longer The Richest Person In The World After Amazon Stock Plunges | Link Tesla Solar Roof V3 is ready for scale as Elon Musk reveals “Solarglass” – SlashGear | Link
Pixel 4 leaks at Best Buy Canada w/ specs, comparison – 9to5Google | Link Uber lays off about 350 across multiple divisions | Link WeWork reportedly expected to lay off 2,000 workers as soon as this week | Link Google Pixel 4 event 2019: Pixel Buds, Pixelbook Go and everything Google announced – CNET | Link Nasa unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing – BBC News | Link Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed – VICE | Link Virgin Galactic Unveils Under Armour Spacesuits and ‘Spacewear’ for Space Tourist Flights | Space | Link Latest NVIDIA Shield TV Pro leak shows a bigger, better remote | Link
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PlayStation 4 System Update 7.0 Releases This Week; Offers New Party Features and brings Remote Play to Devices Running Android 5.0 and Up | Link Adobe shuts accounts in Venezuela to comply with US sanctions | Financial Times | Link Amazon unveils new Kindle e-reader for kids and refreshes Fire HD 10 tablet – GeekWire | Link The PlayStation 5 release is really happening in 2020, according to Sony – CNET | Link AMD developing barebones PC kit to take on Intel NUC platform – NotebookCheck.net News | Link Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe quit Facebook’s Libra | Financial Times | Link
