More on Apple’s China controversy, hands-on with Google’s Pixelbook Go laptop, Twitter returns to the Mac, Africa’s first homegrown smartphone, SpaceX and NASA kiss and make up, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball)
Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery] (9to5Google)
Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company)
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
Apple Launches In-House Studio With 'Band of Brothers'/'The Pacific' Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter)

Weekend Longreads:

Is Amazon Unstoppable? (The New Yorker)
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic)
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic)
Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker)
The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired)
The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient)
Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes)

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