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This Week's Stories: 

•  Goodbye Larry and Sergei
•  What "Other Bets" should Google kill?
•  Google's biggest challenge for the next 10 years: the death of advertizing
•  How would you break apart Google?
•  Fired Google employees sue
•  Everything you need to know about Amazon re:Invent
•  Amazon's AI Composer isn't quite there yet
•  Everything else you need to know about Amazon re:Invent
•  AWS is Amazon's real business
•  Facebook turns to AI to deal with awkward Thanksgiving conversations
•  Is Peleton sexist?
•  RIP Lil Bub
•  Stacey gets super nerdy about T-Mobile's new 5G launch

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Links

• Larry up and out; Sundar up as the new uberboss
• Larry Page, Alphabet’s absentee CEO, is stepping down after a challenging year for Big Tech
• Factbox: Alphabet's 'Other bets' in focus as Google's Pichai takes helm
• Google Stadia's launch has been nothing short of a nightmare
• Fired Google workers will file federal complaint alleging the company wrongfully terminated them
• Google Photos rolling out manual face tagging feature, but with a caveat
• Google Assistant on Android TV gains support for Hindi and Vietnamese
• Google Photos debuts in-app sharing conversations to supersede dubious single-photo albums
• Santa Tracker
• Amazon’s cloud business bombards the market with dozens of new features as it looks to preserve its lead
• Amazon is now offering quantum computing as a service
• AWS's DeepComposer music keyboard is powered by AI
• Peleton dystopian commercial
• Lovable Lil Bub, one of the internet's most famous cats, dies at age 8 - CNET
• Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle - The New York Times
• The Intoxicating History of Gin
• Illumiknobi
• Most popular GIFs of 2019