Welcome to our tech news round-up from November 2019, designed to find those subtler stories you may have missed rather than the ones you know already. Do please add any similarly obscure ones that you’ve spotted in the comments section below!
- Google claims ‘quantum supremacy’ for computer
- Are cigarettes responsible for modern marketing methods?
- Microsoft pips Amazon for $10bn AI ‘Jedi’ contract
- Uber in fatal crash had safety flaws say US investigators
- No-one understood our idea, but now it’s worth over $1bn
- Alibaba sees strong sales as Singles’ Day beats record
- BritBox: ‘inappropriate’ classic UK TV shows to be kept off service
- Motorola Razr flip phone revived with foldable screen
- Is China gaining an edge in artificial intelligence?
- Disney+ debut hit by tech glitches, company blames demand
- Ford unveils all-electric car – the Mustang Mach-E
- Xbox chief: ‘We discussed whether we should even do another console’
- Dopamine fasting: why Silicon Valley is trying to avoid all forms of stimulation
- Labour spends five times more than Tories on Snapchat ads
- Jeremy Corbyn’s broadband plan: how it differs from Australia’s NBN, the ‘blunder down under’
- Amazon gets closer to getting Alexa everywhere
- Go master quits because AI ‘cannot be defeated’
- Netflix takes over its first cinema by leasing New York’s historic Paris
- Uber reported losses that would make WeWork blush – and that’s the good news
