Tech
- Mixpanel yearly report on e-commerce benchmarks Mixpanel
- Amazon Echo now learns how to recognise who’s talking Express
- Gaming company Starbreeze files for reconstruction Di
- Atomico announced Angel investor network DiDigital
- Kognity, selling smart educational material to schools wins Di Startup Tour 2018 DiDigital
Media
- Google, United Screens and Splay One in new unique deal DiDigital
- How TVs only get dumber – without Playpilot that is WSJ
- Netflix announces move to acquire Roal Dahl’s stories TheGuardian
- Youtube to pull out of scripted content HollywoodReporter
- Spotify release 2018 Wrapped – listening habits from the year. For instance the company revealed there are 28,802 playlists titled “God is a woman” and 6 named “God is a man” Wired
- Ofcom calls for rally to beat/compete against international SVOD services like Netflix and Amazon FT
Transportation
- GM to discontinue production of 5 models and laying off 14,000 employees in the US to prepare for worse times and because trade wars hurt their production NyTimes
- Uber in talks to acquire Bird (or maybe Lime) TheVerge
- Tesla now produce 1,000 Model 3 every day raising to reduce cost and keep productivity Electrek
XR
- Sonic the hedgehog comes to AR UploadVR
- Virtual desktop now available on Oculus Go RoadtoVR
- How would voice and visual search impact the coming two decades EConsultancy
- British Wave Optic signs deal with Google as supplier of AR glasses hardware Telegraph
- Hololens wins USD 400 M bid on AR technologies for the US Army Wired
- Ericsson showcases how fast 5G can be with VR game BBC
- Techcrunch article saying there are bright spots in the VR market now TechCrunch
- DigiLens working on holographic AR lenses raise capital from Niantic and Mitsubishi VentureBeat
Statistics
NASA have released some beautiful pictures of Mars BeautyofPlanet
