Imitations, Innovations, and Wi-Fi Evolution

Airbnb says it will have an IPO in 2020, Twitter exposes more bad state actors, a French court says Steam digital games may be resold in the EU, hold the phone on upgrading your iPhone to iOS 13, Amazon plays free with Allbirds, Tinder brings a new meaning to the word Bandersnatch, and this week’s long-reads suggestions, including a deep dive into the problems with pilot training and Boeing’s 737-MAX.

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Links:

• Airbnb Says It Plans to Go Public in 2020 (New York Times)
• Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020 (Airbnb)
• Twitter suspends account of former top Saudi aide implicated in Khashoggi killing (Washington Post)
• Disclosing new data to our archive of information operations (Twitter)
• French court rules that Steam’s ban on reselling used games is contrary to European law (Polygon)
• New features available with iOS 13 (Apple)
• Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe (The Verge)
• Inside Tinder’s Secret Streaming Series (Variety)
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? (New York Times)
• How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen (Wired)
• The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution (Six Colors)
• Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis (Wired)
• iOS and iPadOS 13: The MacStories Review (MacStories)

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