A Superhuman mea culpa, no mea culpa but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake, inside Walmart’s turf battles over ecommerce, HQ Trivia lays off staff, and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro (9to5Mac)

HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions (TechCrunch)

Inside the conflict at Walmart that’s threatening its high-stakes race with Amazon (Recode)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting (Forbes)

Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs (Ars Technica)

Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q (Ars Technica)

How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear (BuzzFeed News)

Hayflick limit (QZ)

Books Recommendations:

The Dog Stars

Orphan X

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