Exploring Quantum Communication, Sex Robots, and Vaporwave Culture

YouTube shuts down channels over Hong Kong content, some of Facebook’s Libra partners are having second thoughts, the WSJ finds some shady items on Amazon, the reviews of the Galaxy Note10+ are in, and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests (CNBC)
• Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project (Financial Times)
• Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products (WSJ)
• SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10 PLUS REVIEW: SHOULD YOU SPEND FOR THE STYLUS? (The Verge)
• The Galaxy Note 10+ Is Damn Near Perfect (Gizmodo)
• REVIEW: SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE10+ (Wired)

Weekend Longreads:

• Top 10 Crypto Memes (BRD)
• All 84 startups from Y Combinator's S19 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)
• Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator's S19 Demo Days (TechCrunch)
• The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne (Forbes)
• The Sports News Site Haters Love to Dunk on Keeps Signing Up Subscribers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront (Washington Post)
• YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING SEX WITH ROBOTS (Wired)
• Sad cartoons and melancholic hip-hop inspired YouTube’s new vaporwave scene (Polygon)

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