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Storm clouds everywhere! Tech stocks in bear market territory, crypto in full-on meltdown territory… but video games might help solve science’s gender problem and this one spacebar trick might make your iPhone insanely more useful. Oh, and the weekend Longreads suggestions.

Links:

• It's Official: Once Mighty FAANG Stocks Have All Entered a Bear Market (Fortune)
• Silicon Valley wages have dropped for all except highest-paying jobs: report (The Mercury News)
• Bitcoin drops 12% to below $5,000 (CNBC)
• Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues (The Verge)
• Video games could be a short-term answer to science’s gender problem (The Conversation)
• “The space bar trick” is the most amazing feature in iOS 12, and the internet just realized it (Fast Company)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads:

• How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes (NiemanLab)
• Self-driving trucks in US offer window into where machines may replace humans (Christian Science Monitor)
• When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home (The Atlantic)
• The Case Against Quantum Computing (IEEE Spectrum)
• HOW GOOGLE AND AMAZON GOT AWAY WITH NOT BEING REGULATED (Wired)
• How to Use an iPod Touch as a Secure Device Instead of a Phone (Motherboard)
• Scientists say goodbye to physical definition of the kilogram (The Verge)