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Uber and Lyft continue to lose money hand over fist, Huawei has a backup OS plan, Piano has a smarter paywall for news outlets, people are texting their “number neighbors” and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Mealime CognitoHQ.com Links: Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (NYTimes) Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android (Engadget) Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ) How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far (NiemanLab) Here's why the internet is obsessed with 'number neighbors,' a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker) I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (Bloomberg Businessweek) How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard) Python is eating the