10 things in tech you need to know today, November 29

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Thursday.

1. 
   Internal documents show Facebook considered charging
   advertisers and developers for access to user data, The Wall
   Street Journal reports. The documents are from
   court filings in the US, and are a small window on a cache
   of papers British politician Damian Collins plans to publish.
2. 
   Elon Musk’s Boring Company axed plans to build a massive tunnel
   under Los Angeles. The decision came after several
   local groups sued the city over its plan to exempt the project
   from environmental regulations and The Boring Company settled
   with them.
3. 
   Microsoft surpassed Apple as the most valuable US company when
   markets opened on Wednesday. Apple stock is on
   course to have its worst month since 2008, dropping 21% and
   wiping out over $200 billion in value.
4. 
   Uber’s plan to buy UK delivery giant Deliveroo has stalled,
   with the two sides said to be “miles apart” on
   valuation. Uber reportedly offered less than the
   company’s current $2 billion valuation, while Deliveroo is
   pushing for $4 billion.
5. 
   Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy roasted Larry Ellison by
   turning the Oracle founder into a cartoon-like face peeking
   over a wall. “People are sick of it, and now they
   have choice,” Jassy said of Oracle’s databases.
6. 
   A San Francisco politician is trying to get Mark Zuckerberg’s
   name removed from the hospital to which he donated $75
   million. Earlier this year, nurses at the
   Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital protested the
   facility’s attachment to the Facebook CEO.
7. 
   The FTC will investigate whether a multi-billion dollar
   business model is getting kids hooked on gambling through video
   games. The Federal Trade Commission will
   investigate the use of loot box micro-transactions in video
   games at the request of US Senator Maggie Hassan of New
   Hampshire.
8. 
   Facebook is expanding its local news feature “Today In” to more
   than 400 US cities. “Today In” shows users news,
   posts, and events from their local area, but it also provides a
   new avenue through which misinformation and fake news could
   spread.
9. 
   You can now buy a Big Mouth Billy Bass that works with Amazon
   Alexa. The fish’s lips will even sync up with what
   Alexa is saying.
10. Amazon is releasing a $400
    self-driving toy car. You can program the
    DeepRacer to drive itself via a technique called reinforcement
    learning, which means it learns through trial and error.

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