Virality, Gaming Culture, and Tech Insights

The SEC does indeed sue Ripple, and that could be a bigger deal than I thought. Twitter won’t hand over the @Potus Twitter followers to Biden. What Zoom wants to do for its next act beyond video. Controlling your AirPods with your teeth. And, special for this week, a Long Holiday Weekend edition of the Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• SEC Sues Ripple Over 7-Year, $1.3B ‘Ongoing’ XRP Sale (CoinDesk)
• Biden @POTUS Account Reset to Zero With Trump Followers Out (Bloomberg)
• Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app (TechCrunch)
• Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (The Information)
• Apple Patent reveals new Through-Body' input for AirPods allowing users to control functionality by touching their face, clicking their teeth & more (Patently Apple)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Data Centers (NYTimes)
• The North Carolina Kid Who Cracked YouTube’s Secret Code (Bloomberg)
• What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (The Washington Post)
• Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help (Bloomberg)
• Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian (Logic Magazine)
• Star Wars toys keep changing, and leaving kids behind (Polygon)
• Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World (The New Yorker)

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