| Facebook Watch gets more social, a Seattle startup plants trees from the air and we review the PlayStation Classic. Here's your daily Crunch for November 27, 2018. 1. Facebook launches Watch Party for all, tests Live PiP commentating Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it's hoping to differentiate through the company's core strength: social. Watch Party had previously launched in Groups and been in testing with other types of accounts. But now any profile or business can post a Watch Party invite. 
2. That night, a forest flew Wildfires are consuming our forests and grasslands faster than we can replace them. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat this growing problem with a modern toolkit that scales: drones, artificial intelligence and biological engineering. 3. Review: The PlayStation Classic takes you back to the '90s, for better and for worse Do the games have anything to offer besides nostalgia? The answer varies from title to title. 4. GM plans to cut more than 14,000 jobs, close factories as downturn looms GM said it will cut its salaried workforce in North America by 15 percent — and its executives by 25 percent — as well as no longer allocate products to three assembly and two propulsion plants. 5. Quip raises another $40M for dental care products and services This comes a couple of months after Quip partnered with Target to sell its products, and about six months after Quip raised $10 million from Silicon Valley Bank and acquired Afora, a New York-based startup that offers an alternative to traditional dental insurance. 6. Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free According to a newly released statement by Matt Wood, an eight-year veteran of Amazon and a general manager of deep learning and AI at the company, there are more than 45 hours across 30 different courses that developers, data scientists, data platform engineers and business professionals can take gratis. 7. Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown Last night's 10 minutes of terror as the InSight Mars Lander descended to the Martian surface at 12,300 MPH were a nail-biter, but now the robotic science platform is safe and sound — and has sent pics back to prove it. | 
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