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Google says it will hand over it's self-driving car to traditional car makers. Sad face. In other news, hear how the adtech and martech sectors are progressing, hear the Chuck Berry documentary sitting in a drawer for 40 years, and two perspectives on the election.

Last week we featured Mary Meeker’s predictions. This week the Luma people, who invented the Lumascope – that bewildering landscape of adtech and martech companies – and now give their verdict on the two industries, and suggest there is growing appetite for IPO after several false-starts over recent years.

But phoney adtech stats devalue the medium, says Dominic Mills.

The Guardian has decided to abandon the presses that produce its 'Berliner' format paper, and will now be published in a tabloid format using Trinity Mirror's presses.

Google has binned the 'Firefly' project, which is one of the lovliest things ever, and will instead focus on using existing manufacturers to produce its self-driving cars.

What Snapchat has in store for media buyers and brands, and this is The Drum’s overview.

Google launches London digital skills academy during Tech Week London.

The Chuck Berry documentary that sat in a drawer for 40 years.

Designers tackle the worst volume buttons ever, and the best book covers ever.

Travis Kalanick’s reign over Uber may be coming to an end as he takes a leave of absence. But while he ponders his future, executive Emil Michael has left the company. The board will run the company in the interim.

Stephen Fry on why technology is neutral, but the way we use it isn’t.

The Arctic seed bank, designed and built so far north to ensure the seeds are kept cold and safe is to have a multi million dollar upgrade because warming temperatures have meant melting permafrost and flooding.

Apple’s new focus on Augmented Reality could potentially revitalise this beleaguered sector – analysts were impressed by the demo at the recent Apple conference:

Gary Vaynerchuk believes that audio will be the first breakthrough media before we get to AR/VR and so on.

Perhaps surprisingly, streaming revenue has just passed CD and vinyl sales for the first time.

An interview with the founder of The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed Jonah Peretti. He’s always entertaining and always interesting.

The New York Times opens to Google-powered AI moderation.

How to avoid burn-out and be more creative (according to Google employees).

Google aims to block the ‘more annoying’ ad formats with new iterations of the Chrome browser.

Amazon plans another new smartphone. The ‘Fire’ phones were considered a failure, so these swing the other way, dubbed ‘Ice’ and aimed at emerging markets.

By the time you read this, there’s a good chance Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person as Amazon stock rises.

Moby gives away a free album of music, on faux-White House letterhead and great release here.

Two perspectives on the election.

First, the New Yorker's book of Jeremy Corbyn.

Then, Carol Ann Duffy's take on the election (there's no title):

In which her body was a question-mark

querying her lies; her mouth a ballot-box that bit the hand that fed. Her eyes? They swivelled for a jackpot win. Her heart was a stolen purse;

her rhetoric an empty vicarage, the windows smashed.

Then her feet grew sharp stilettos, awkward.

Then she had balls, believe it.

When she woke,

her nose was bloody, difficult.

The furious young

ran towards her through the fields of wheat.

Finally, Wieden & Kennedy's final ad for Finish (and it's a cracker):