Fri. 05/01 - Sometime Sanity Wins (ICANN Edition)

ICANN finally does the right thing on the whole .org mess. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Could Amazon face actual perjury charges? Reddit walks back those chat rooms. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• A Private Equity Firm Is Blocked From Buying .Org (NYTimes)
• Amazon says it’ll spend $4 billion or more dealing with COVID-19 (The Verge)
• House lawmakers demand Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify in antitrust probe, threatening potential subpoena (Washington Post)
• Reddit removes chat room feature after one day due to site-wide bug (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers (Quanta)
• The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic (VentureBeat)
• This Should Be V.R.’s Moment. Why Is It Still So Niche? (NYTimes)
• Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them (Apple Insider)
• How Well Can Algorithms Recognize Your Masked Face? (Wired)
• Inside the MIT spinoff that’s making Inception-style dream manipulation possible (Digital Trends)
• You Have a TikTok Hit! Now, Quick — Change the Title (Rolling Stone)

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