Recode Staff

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Plus: Tumblr is banning adult content starting Dec. 17; robot janitors may already be cleaning floors at your Walmart; Taco Bell weddings; the song that reduces anxiety by 65 percent.

Plus: Uber is negotiating a multibillion dollar takeover of a leading scooter startup; AirPods are Apple’s best growth product for the foreseeable future; things are looking up at the drone industry’s biggest global expo.

Plus: Silicon Valley leaders are headed to D.C. again next week; Forbes reveals its Top 50 Women in Tech list; YouTube now has its own version of Stories; millennials aren’t killing watches after all.

Plus: Microsoft won a $480 million contract from the Army for HoloLens AR headsets; most U.S. teens believe that social media is actually good for them; elite mall Santas can make $20,000 for the season.

Plus: A former Facebook staffer posted a memo detailing what he calls its “black people problem”; YouTube will jump its own paywall and make its original programming free; a Houston ATM was feeling generous.

Plus: General Motors will shut five factories and cut more than 14,000 jobs; Airbnb finds its new CFO at Amazon; Chinese scientists are creating the first genetically altered babies; and, oh yeah — NASA landed a robot on Mars again.

Plus: Facebook and the White House try to sneak bad news past us over the holiday; Jeff Bezos awards $97.5 million to 24 U.S. nonprofits in the first stage of his Day One Fund; Disney is facing princess backlash.