Can Minecraft Earth be the killer app for AR? Are the best and brightest shunning working at Facebook? Has drone maker DJI beaten GoPro at its own game? And do I have some killer weekend longreads suggestions? You better believe I do.
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- Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in $1.30 billion deal (Reuters)
- MINECRAFT EARTH GOES A STEP BEYOND POKÉMON GO TO COVER THE WORLD IN BLOCKS (TheVerge)
- Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to recruiters who worked there (CNBC)
- Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019 (VentureBeat)
- DJI is out-GoProing GoPro with its own action camera (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber I.P.O. Evaporated (NYTimes)
- WHY I (STILL) LOVE TECH: IN DEFENSE OF A DIFFICULT INDUSTRY (Wired)
- Editorial: Why Apple created Apple TV+ rather than buying Netflix (AppleInsider)
- The Pivot (Asymco/Horace Dediu)
- AS COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT TAKES OFF, THE AVIATION INDUSTRY GETS PROTECTIVE OF AIRSPACE (The Verge)
- The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYTimes)
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