| Samsung reveals plans for a 5G phone, Amazon's cloud infrastructure business is getting more ambitious and DeepMind is getting smarter. Here's your Daily Crunch for December 3, 2018. 1. Samsung will release a 5G phone in 2019 Samsung tipped its hand again, revealing another key piece of its 2019 roadmap. The company will be revealing a proof of concept this week at the annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui. The news finds Samsung joining a handful of companies promising to deliver 5G smartphones in 2019, including OnePlus and Motorola. Samsung's chief competitor Apple, meanwhile, is not expected to embrace the technology until 2020. 
2. AWS wants to rule the world As AWS moves into more areas of the enterprise computing stack, the team is showing its desire to dominate every aspect of the enterprise computing world. 3. NEA spin-out NewView Capital raises $1.35B for its debut growth fund Companies are staying private longer, and New Enterprise Associates has a new plan to combat the negative implications of the trend. The VC firm has invested in a spin-out fund called NewView Capital and sold 31 of its late-stage portfolio companies to the effort. 4. DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling Understanding protein structures is important in disease diagnosis and treatment, and could improve scientists' understanding of the human body — as well as potentially helping to support protein design and bioengineering. 5. Trackr rebrands to Adero, pivots to finding whereabouts of groups of items Today, Adero is officially making its debut, with a product that builds and expands on the Trackr by providing a system to organize multiple groups of items — not just so you can find them when they've been misplaced, but also so you can be proactively alerted when you've forgotten something. 6. Report: Amazon is testing cashierless checkout for larger stores The system, which involves an array of cameras to track shoppers' purchases, has been rolling out this year to smaller convenience stores across the U.S., in cities including Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco — and soon, New York. 7. Monday is catch-up-on-podcasts day This week, Equity looks at Asana's latest funding round. | 
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