Weekend Reading List: From the story of Android to why people are afraid to criticise Apple

Our pick of 10 stories for this Weekend Reading List attempts to give you a wide range of reading with a bit of cinema, dollops of history and a pinch of security for that perfect blend.

1. The story of Android: How a flailing startup became the world's biggest computing platform.

2. Apple's Tim Cook leads different: Since replacing the legendary Steve Jobs, Tim Cook has led the iBehemoth to even greater financial success. Along the way he's changed the culture of the company-and found his public voice as a leader.

3. How Facebook is nailing mobile: A company can't easily shore up its weaknesses, especially when it grows to the size of Facebook, but the social network has managed to slowly but surely reinvent itself on mobile in a way that makes sense and resonates with users.

4. The war over who Steve Jobs was: Walter Isaacson's official biography of Apple's genius leader is being challenged by a new book supported by Jobs's inner circle.

5. A brief history of computer-generated actors: When actors die or age it's often up to CGI actors to complete scenes and make sure a movie gets made. A look at how they've developed over the years

6. At Kodak, clinging to a future beyond film: What happens when a tech company is left for dead but the people left behind refuse to give up? At Kodak, the answer is to mine its patents for gold.

7. Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web: Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There's a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world.

8. The instrument that's the key to electronic music's future: The human-friendly touch controls on the Linnstrument allow electronic musicians to realize previously unattainable levels of expressiveness and nuance.

9. Passphrases that you can memorize - but that even the NSA can't guess: 'Diceware' makes it easy to secure your hard drive, password database, or email against the world's most powerful hackers.

10. The fear of Apple: How and why it is more convenient not to risk questioning powerful industry leaders.