Fri. 11/16 - How Much Money Does Airbnb Make?

Airbnb opens the kimono, a disc-less Xbox, Facebook pushes back on controversy, SpaceX gets a key go-ahead, and the weekend longreads suggestions.Links:Airbnb booked more than $1 billion in third quarter revenue (CNBC)Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (Thurrott.com)Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ)‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes)Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (The Verge)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired)Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine)The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (Motherboard)How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (First Round Review)THE HAIL MARY PLAN TO RESTART A HACKED US ELECTRIC GRID (Wired)Space Camp grows up (Mashable)

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