Tech Innovations and Sponsors in the Spotlight

With Apple, Google and Microsoft all signed up to offer FIDO Alliance technology, are we about to hear about some big passwordless tech at all the developers conferences this summer? China wants the whole country to turn in their foreign made laptops. Fortnite is available everywhere, including iOS, thanks to Microsoft. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

Sponsors:

• HubSpot.com
• Ortto.com

Links:

• Apple, Google, Microsoft Back 'FIDO' Tech to Dump Passwords on Websites and Apps (CNET)
• China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs (Bloomberg)
• Epic's Fortnite Now Free to Play on Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console (CNET)
• Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™

• Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise (Wired)
• Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
• Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled (CNN)
• A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
• The Endgame (Newcomer)

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