Reads: Beach House Interview, Google's Messaging Mess & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. Beach House are Loving Losing Life - Stereogum
2. Zelle, the Venmo Rival, Proves Vulnerable to Fraud - The New York Times
3. How Looming Privacy Regulations May Strengthen Facebook and Google - The New York Times
4. The Facebook Fallacy: Privacy is Up to You - The New York Times
5. Where Countries are Tinderboxes and Facebook is a Match - The New York Times
6. 21 Books You Don't Have to Read - GQ
7. How to Buy a Piece of India's Burgeoning Instagram Economy - Motherboard
8. Why iPhone Notifications Need an Overhaul - The Verge
9. Chat is Google's Next Big Fix for Android's Messaging Mess - The Verge
10. What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial Is Stopped? - Mosaic
11. Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry - The New Yorker
12. The Machines That Could Darken the Sun to Stop Climate Change - Earther
13. We're Underestimating the Mind-warping Potential of Fake Video - Vox
14. Why Most Men Still Don't Casually Wear Dresses - Racked
15. Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy Society - Select All
16. Explainer: What is a blockchain? - MIT Technology Review