Fri. 10/11 - Gruber Says Tim Cook's Email "Doesn't Add Up"

More on Apple’s China controversy, hands-on with Google’s Pixelbook Go laptop, Twitter returns to the Mac, Africa’s first homegrown smartphone, SpaceX and NASA kiss and make up, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball)
• Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery] (9to5Google)
• Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
• Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company)
• NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
• Apple Launches In-House Studio With 'Band of Brothers'/'The Pacific' Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter)

Weekend Longreads:

• Is Amazon Unstoppable? (The New Yorker)
• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic)
• When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic)
• Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker)
• The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired)
• The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient)
• Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes)

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