| Silicon Valley's year of backlash, Amazon's record-breaking holiday and history lessons for Mark Zuckerberg. Here's your Daily Crunch for December 26, 2018. 1. Silicon Valley's year of reckoning A look back at some of the most impactful stories of the year in tech news, with one big theme: In 2018, the long-held belief that Silicon Valley is on the right side of progress was called into question, over and over again. As startups grow bigger and richer, amassing more power and influence outside of the Valley, a reckoning has played out in government and business, as we see with stories like the Google employee protests, the first self-driving car fatality and scrutiny over the links between Silicon Valley and Saudi Arabia. 
2. Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday, 'tens of millions' of new Prime subscribers Amazon said its top devices sold over the holidays were the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K and the Echo. Millions of Fire TV devices, Fire tablets and Kindle devices were also sold. 3. What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg Natasha Lomas argues that Zuckerberg might be obsessing over the wrong bit of history. Or perhaps he didn't study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough. 4. Two years later, I still miss the headphone port Bluetooth headphones? Whoops, forgot to charge them. Or whoops, they're trying to pair with my laptop even though my laptop is turned off and in my backpack. 5. We finally started taking screen time seriously in 2018 Please peruse this piece, if only the perfect skeleton-and-smartphone stock photography. 6. Why you need to use a password manager Nobody likes passwords, but they're a fact of life. And while some have tried to kill them off by replacing them with fingerprints and face-scanning technology, neither are perfect and many still resort back to the trusty (but frustrating) password. 7. Remembering the startups we lost in 2018 Sadly, not all startups that burn bright ultimately make it. In fact, most don't. As we wrap up this year and look forward to the next, let's take a moment to remember some of those startups we lost in 2018. | 
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