Fri. 12/27 - All Hail Baby Yoda!

A late holiday gift for YouTube creators, an important new rule for drone operators, to what degree has the Chinese government enabled Huawei’s success, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• YouTube gives creators more control over copyright claim disputes with new update (The Verge)
• New rule would make it possible to track and identify nearly all drones flying in the U.S. (CNBC)
• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise (WSJ)
• Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network (Pro Publica)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle (NYTimes)
• Netflix was the best-performing stock of the decade, delivering a more than 4,000% return (CNBC)
• 11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+ (MatthewBall.vc)
• Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch. (WSJ)
• How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars (Fast Company)
• THE 84 BIGGEST FLOPS, FAILS, AND DEAD DREAMS OF THE DECADE IN TECH (The Verge)

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