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 Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. 1. Business Insider has been playing with Apple's new iPhone X for 18 hours. Here's what we make of it. 2. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Chinese President Xi Jinping. The meeting took place at an annual gathering of advisers to Beijing's Tsinghua University business school. 3. Waymo's CEO said self-driving cars are "really close" to being ready for the road. The company invited Business Insider and other journalists to a testing facility at a decommissioned Air Force base to see the cars in action. 4. Nintendo is almost doubling its profit forecast due to massive sales of the Switch. The Japanese video company raised its full-year operating profit forecast to 120 billion yen ($1 billion, £760 million), as supply shortages on its new games console finally began to ease. 5. Sony is expecting to make its best-ever annual profit due to strong sales of image sensors used in smartphones and other devices. The Japanese electronics firm forecast profit of 630 billion yen ($5.57 billion) for the year ending March, up from 500 billion yen estimated three months ago. 6. Spotify won't work with Siri on Apple's HomePod. The device will go on sale in December for $349 (£264). 7. Facebook said that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two year period as part of an effort to sway US politics. About 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time. 8. Netflix confirmed that "House of Cards" will end with season 6. The confirmation came a day after star Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct. 9. Slack, the $5 billion work chat startup, has hired Google exec Brian Elliott. He will spearhead an important expansion effort and help it keep a leg up amid growing competition from Microsoft and $10 billion Aussie software giant Atlassian. 10. A BMW sports car once owned by Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is going up for auction. It's expected to sell for up to $400,000. | 
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