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Unity has upset game developers across the world with new pricing changes. France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over radiation concerns. Lots of extra drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. And Stability AI gets into the generative music generation game.
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- Unity has introduced new fees that could have dire effects on the entire game industry, from indies to Xbox Game Pass (UPDATE) (Windows Central)
- Sony has launched a major PlayStation 5 system update (VGC)
- Apple disputes French findings, says iPhone 12 meets radiation rules (Reuters)
- Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max Pushes Up the Price (WSJ)
- iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max hands-on (The Verge)
- Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans (TechCrunch)
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All the headlines from the iPhone event today at Apple HQ. Why is Meta blocking some basic terms on their new Threads search feature? TikTok Shop is rolling out broadly. And the US Copyright Office keeps knocking down copyright claims for AI generated Art.
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- Apple Watch Series 9 Unveiled With S9 Chip, 'Double Tap' Gesture, and More (MacRumors)
- Apple announces new Apple Watch Ultra 2 (9to5Mac)
- Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (The Verge)
- Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max announced with titanium bodies and an Action Button (The Verge)
- Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 (VideoCardz)
- Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (Washington Post)
- TikTok Popularizes Products. Can It Sell Them, Too? (NYTimes)
- US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image (Reuters)
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The EU has listed 22 services falling under its Digital Markets Act. Britain pulls back from an encryption law. And if that’s not enough, the Google antitrust trial begins next week so the modern antitrust era is officially here. Which cars are spying on us? Maybe all of them. Who has all the money in crypto? And the new law here in NYC that could change Airbnb forever.
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- EU Challenges Apple, Microsoft in New Push to Rein in Big Tech Dominance (Bloomberg)
- UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging (Financial Times)
- In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google (NYTimes)
- There are just six bitcoin billionaires in the world, new crypto super-rich report says (CNBC)
- If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare (Gizmodo)
- The End of Airbnb in New York (Wired)
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The FBI took down a huge botnet. OpenAI is apparently ahead of schedule in terms of making a ton of revenue. Why Samsung wants to apply AI to your refrigerator. Why OnStar is doubling down on AI. And we officially have the deets on the iPhone event scheduled for next month.
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- Qakbot botnet dismantled after infecting over 700,000 computers (BleepingComputer)
- UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI (FT)
- OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending (The Information)
- Samsung debuts its own 'AI-powered' smart recipe app (Engadget)
- GM is using Google’s AI chatbot to handle simple OnStar calls (The Verge)
- Apple Announces 'Wonderlust' Event Expected to Feature iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9 and More (MacRumors)
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Google’s Cloud Next conference drops a ton of AI announces. OpenAI releases a business-oriented version of ChatGPT. The regulators have come for NFTs and now the question is, are all NFTs securities, or just the ones they just fined? And let me introduce you to Twitch’s big new competitor. But are they really eating their lunch or just a front for gambling related streaming?
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- Google to Add AI Models from Meta, Anthropic to Its Cloud Platform (Bloomberg)
- The new Google Chat borrows from Slack, Teams, Discord, and even ChatGPT (The Verge)
- Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you (The Verge)
- OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers (TechCrunch)
- Musk, tech CEOs to attend Schumer’s AI Senate forum (The Hill)
- SEC takes first action against an NFT project as an unregistered security (The Verge)
- Twitch competitor Kick is dividing the internet's top streamers (NBCNews)
- Robotaxis hit the accelerator in growing list of cities nationwide (Axios)
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Apple looks to refresh the iPad to reinvigorate sales. Huge network crash is grounding planes in the UK. Some tentative sign that the Tech IPO window might be creaking open. Do you need a 100 year domain renewal? And the Silicon Valley bigwigs who are investing big money to build a new Bay Area city from scratch.
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- Apple Bets on Revamped iPad Pro to Reignite Sluggish Tablet Sales (Bloomberg)
- China’s BYD to Pay $2.2B to Expand Business With Apple (The Information)
- UK air traffic control hit by network-wide failure (The Guardian)
- Klaviyo files to go public in latest sign of life for IPO market (CNBC)
- WordPress Announces 100-Year Domain Name Registrations (Search Engine Journal)
- The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch (NYTimes)
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Amazon has apparently held talks with Disney about maybe teaming up for a streaming ESPN partnership. Dropbox ends its unlimited storage option. Shein takes over Forever21. A product release so star-crossed, it’s being recalled after just 3 months. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Amazon in Talks With Disney About ESPN Streaming Partnership (The Information)
- Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change (Bloomberg)
- Shein Strikes Deal With Forever 21 (WSJ)
- Citizen Is Suspending Sales of Its New Wear OS Smartwatch (Wired)
- Threads on the web widely rolling out (9to5Google)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Happened to Wirecutter? (The Atlantic)
- Michael Mann Fulfills a 30-Year Journey Directing the Operatic, Thrilling ‘Ferrari’ — And Teases ‘Heat 2’: ‘I Don’t Think About Mortality. I’m Busy’ (Variety)
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Nvidia gives new meaning to the words “earnings beat.” Meta announces Code Llama. TikTok might start banning links to Amazon. SpaceX wants Starlink to be viable in cities too. And turning thoughts into speech via an AI interface becomes real.
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- Nvidia tops estimates and says sales will jump 170% this quarter, driven by demand for AI chips (CNBC)
- Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama (The Verge)
- TikTok Shop on Track to Lose More Than $500 Million in U.S. This Year (The Information)
- Epic offers devs 100 percent of net revenue for six months of EGS exclusivity (Engadget)
- SpaceX Working with Cloudflare to Speed Up Starlink Service (The Information)
- Brain implants give a voice to people who cannot speak (FT)
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Sony announces the PlayStation Portal handheld device. IBM announces an AI model to translate code from one type to another. OpenAI lets anyone fine tune. Is LinkedIn the big winner in social media right now? And what happens when you 3d printer comes alive like a zombie in the middle of the night.
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- Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches later this year for $199.99 (The Verge)
- PlayStation Portal: Hands On With Sony's New Remote Play Handheld (IGN)
- IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo (TechCrunch)
- Sorry, But LinkedIn Is Cool Now (Bloomberg)
- Salesforce Leads Financing of AI Startup at More Than $4 Billion Valuation (The Information)
- Tiger Global Nears Deal to Sell Slice of Cohere Stake at $3 Billion Valuation (The Information)
- 3D printers printing without consent is a cautionary tale on cloud reliance (ArsTechnica)
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Microsoft tries to appease His Majesty’s Regulators. The Arm IPO is a go. Why Nvidia continues to be huge even in China. A new AI translation model from Meta. I continue to wonder if Elon is tanking things on purpose. And a new social media platform built on top of X?
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- Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval (The Verge)
- Arm files for Nasdaq listing, as SoftBank aims to sell shares in chip designer it bought for $32 billion (CNBC)
- Why China remains hungry for AI chips despite US restrictions (FT)
- Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages (TechCrunch)
- X is planning to hide headlines from news links for ‘improved aesthetics’ (TechCrunch)
- Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market (CoinDesk)
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More X shenanigans over the weekend. Some solid evidence that some major LLMs have in fact been trained on copyrighted material. A ton of it, in fact. As Arm prepares to IPO, who might join them, depending on how things go? Bad news for Adyen is probably bad news for Stripe. And the rise of high tech sailing ships.
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- Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011-2014 (Forbes)
- REVEALED: THE AUTHORS WHOSE PIRATED BOOKS ARE POWERING GENERATIVE AI (The Atlantic)
- Silicon Valley start-ups revive listing plans as Arm reignites IPO market (Financial Times)
- Europe’s Stripe rival Adyen saw $20 billion wiped off its value in a single day. Here’s what’s going on (CNBC)
- UK to spend £100m in global race to produce AI chips (The Guardian)
- A cargo ship that harnesses wind power has set sail on its maiden journey (Quartz)
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More drips and drabs Threads feature releases. Meta is readying a “Code Llama.” Throwback Friday with Uber and Lyft threatening to leave a major municipality. Our first fall hardware event is on the calendar. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
- Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software (The Information)
- Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (CNN)
- Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (The Verge)
- Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- A Rare Look Into the Finances of Elon Musk’s Secretive SpaceX (WSJ)
- How the iMac saved Apple (The Verge)
- A Living History of The Humble Paper Airplane (Popular Mechanics)
- A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry (NYTimes)
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OpenAI makes its first acquisition. Has AI really done anything for Bing marketshare? A really cool looking new gaming handheld. The most recent tally of tech industry layoff numbers. And Eric Schmidt says he wants to pull a Sam Altman.
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- OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Struggles to Gain on Google Despite Its Head Start in AI Search (WSJ)
- Exclusive Images: This is the Lenovo Legion Go Gaming Handheld (WindowsReport)
- Cyber security researchers become target of criminal hackers (FT)
- Tech Firms Are Slowing Layoffs But Still Not Yet Resuming Hiring (Bloomberg)
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot (Semafor)
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By the time you hear these words, I guess I’ll be a blue subscriber cause I’m locked out of Tweetdeck otherwise. Coinbase gets regulatory approval from one agency, while another is suing them. Generative AI in Google search, while Google DeepMind is contemplating doing it for everything. And I guess we’ve entered the true first self-driving car test phase. Hold on to your hats.
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- TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (The Verge)
- Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes (The Washington Post)
- Coinbase obtains regulatory approval to offer crypto futures trading to eligible clients (The Block)
- Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements (TechCrunch)
- Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (NYTimes)
- Robotaxis are driving on thin ice (The Verge)
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Very interesting executive departure at Amazon. A popular Mac service is gonna launch an alternative iOS app store. Now nation states are trying to stockpile Nvidia chips, not just tech companies. And what is the maximum capacity of your iPhone’s battery, and should you check on it?
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- Amazon’s Leader on Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans to Leave (WSJ)
- Scoop: X shuts down $100M promoted accounts ad business (Axios)
- Setapp plans to launch EU-only alternative iOS App Store (Apple Insider)
- Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions (FT)
- Linear TV Falls Below 50 Percent of Viewing for First Time (The Hollywood Reporter)
- iPhone 14 Pro users complain of major drops in battery health and capacity after less than a year (9to5Mac)
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Apple is planning a huge revamp for the Apple Watch in honor of it’s 10th birthday. Amazon is using generative AI to summarize product reviews. It’s finally official. Paying for all the big streaming services is now more expensive than just paying for cable. And if that self driving car is rocking, maybe don’t go a-knocking.
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- Apple Plans Major ‘Watch X’ Overhaul for Device’s 10-Year Anniversary (Bloomberg)
- Amazon taps generative AI to enhance product reviews (TechCrunch)
- Google-backed Anthropic raises $100 mln from South Korea's SK Telecom (Reuters)
- Hollywood calls time on golden era of cheap streaming (FT)
- Could a True Streaming Bundle Be Upon Us? (Vulture)
- San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It (The San Francisco Standard)
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A major regulatory breakthrough is going to open the floodgates for self-driving taxis in California. Two different stories about dealing with the China restrictions, including one US company that is directly benefiting, and Meta’s AR ambitions, which are not. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Robotaxis score a huge victory in California with approval to operate 24/7 (The Verge)
- Skydio closing consumer drone business (TechCrunch)
- Behind Meta’s ‘Made in USA’ AR Glasses: a Military-Grade Material (The Information)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Where have all the fitness bands gone? (The Verge)
- 4 Actual Use Cases for Blockchain and AI That Are More Than Just Hype (CoinDesk)
- The Looming Catalog Crisis (Vulture)
- Paul F. Tompkins Is Getting Back Into It (Vulture)
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Oh why not? Disney+ is raising prices too. A new executive order targeting Chinese tech. New features in Threads, but not the ones they need. Are the robot card shufflers in Vegas easily hackable? And we did the Flip. Now the Galaxy Z Fold 5 review.
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- Prices of Disney+, Hulu Premium Plans to Get Jacked Up but New Duo Bundle Will Offer Deep Discount (Variety)
- Biden Restricts U.S. Investment in China (WSJ)
- You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (The Verge)
- Apple Can Keep App Store Rules for Now as Top Court Spurns Epic (Bloomberg)
- Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating (Wired)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: a little better is just good enough (The Verge)
- Messina joins Ride Home Fund’s new $15M AI vehicle, backed by Andreessen, Dixon, Crowley (TechCrunch)
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Slack announces its biggest ever redesign. Sony signals that the smartphone recession is real and is not getting better anytime soon. Is WeWork circling the drain? Why a Gizmodo editor is suing Apple over Tetris. And guess what? The bots are better at solving CAPTCHAs than you are. Something something, Turing Test.
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- Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (The Verge)
- Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV (TechCrunch)
- Sony Expects Smartphone Rebound Only in 2024 After China Fizzles (Bloomberg)
- WeWork Tumbles After Raising ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Future (Bloomberg)
- Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (Reuters)
- New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips (Wired)
- Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (The Independent)
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Hackers accessed the UK Electoral Commission, so how worried should we be? Apple, Samsung and others can’t wait to buy Arm stock. OpenAI explains how its bot is crawling the web. More details on the new M3 chips Apple is testing. And Apple Music finally edges closer to the one thing Spotify still does so much better.
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- Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack, says Electoral Commission (The Guardian)
- Apple, Samsung to invest in Arm as it eyes September IPO (NikkeiAsia)
- OpenAI Launches GPTBot With Details On How To Restrict Access (SearchEngineJournal)
- Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms (CNBC)
- Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office (NYTimes)
- Apple Tests M3 Max Chip, Setting Stage for Most Powerful MacBook Pro Yet (Bloomberg)
- Apple Music debuts new algorithmic Discovery Station radio (AppleInsider)
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In earnings last week, Apple was forced to admit softness in iPhone sales. But the big question is, will the iPhone 15 be enough to turn things around? A stablecoin from PayPal. What the world being flooded with cheap AI-produced content already means in the real world. And a review of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5.
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- Apple Admits There Is a Smartphone Slowdown Ahead of iPhone 15 Debut (Bloomberg)
- PayPal Launches a Stablecoin in Latest Crypto Payments Push (Bloomberg)
- New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (BleepingComputer)
- A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks (NyTimes)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: the flip phone we’ve been waiting for (The Verge)
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Apple and Amazon earnings make me wonder if the law of large numbers is dead. Coinbase is willing to argue over what the definition of is is. Threads continues its precipitous decline. The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. And be sure to listen to the end of the show for some big, big show news. Biggest news in a while. Among other things, why haven’t there been bonus episodes for a while? Where has Chris been? Listen to the end! All will be revealed.
Links:
- Apple reports third quarter results (BusinessWire)
- Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
- Coinbase argues it doesn’t trade securities, so the SEC’s lawsuit should be dismissed (The Verge)
- Bitcoin launderer pleads guilty, admits to massive Bitfinex hack (CNBC)
- Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges (CNN)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War (NYTimes)
- When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen (Futurism)
- How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income (Vox)
- How Modelo became America’s new favorite beer (Vox)
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Two stories today of startups who flew high during the pandemic, but have crashed down to earth in meaningful ways. NFT trading volumes might be sinking, but developers continue to flood into the space. And does Goldman Sachs want out of the whole Apple Card partnership?
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- Johnny Boufarhat steps down as CEO of Hopin (Sifted)
- ‘A Nice Bike, When It Works’: Riders Fret After E-Bike Maker Goes Bust (NYTimes)
- IRS expects faster refunds in 2024 for people who stop using paper (Washington Post)
- NFT Trading Volume Is Sinking, But It’s Not Stopping Developers From Entering Web3 (Coindesk)
- Kenya suspends Worldcoin's crypto project over safety concerns (Reuters)
- Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (Rest of World)
- How the Partnership Between Apple and Goldman Sachs Soured (The Information)
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Seems like I’ll have to be paying up for an X Blue subscription any day now. Meta releases a new AI music generator. We might actually be getting a big tech IPO in a matter of weeks. Amazon is readying an aggressive new push into groceries. And what happens when an online creator replaces themselves with an AI bot?
Links:
- X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their checkmarks (TechCrunch)
- TweetDeck is now called ‘XPro’ (9to5Google)
- Meta’s AI music generator could be the new synthesizer — or just muzak (The Verge)
- SoftBank’s Arm Targets $60 Billion Value in September IPO (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Teams adds spatial audio for more immersive conference calls (The Verge)
- Amazon Unveils Biggest Grocery Overhaul Since Buying Whole Foods (Bloomberg)
- One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI (Wired)
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Uber reports meaningful, not gimmicky profitability for the first time ever. Meta’s gonna give you AI chatbots with personality. Google is overhauling Assistant with AI stuff. Even Pierson is getting ahead of the whole, let AI tutor you on stuff, stuff. Nintendo is probably giving us a new console next year. And the prisoner’s dilemma that is fueling quantum computing development, but heck, let’s be honest, fueling AI development as well.
Links:
- Uber Delivers First-Ever Operating Profit in Drive to Curb Losses (WSJ)
- Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users (FT)
- Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (Axios)
- Amazon wants Alexa to bring AI into the home (Axios)
- Pearson Offers New AI Study Tools in Time for Back-to-School (Bloomberg)
- Sources: Nintendo targets 2024 with next-gen console (VCG)
- Quantum Tech Will Transform National Security. It’s Testing U.S. Alliances Now. (NYTimes)
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Brian Armstrong strongly hints that US regulators believe only Bitcoin is legal. A deep dive into what we can expect from this year’s iPhones. Is the US crackdown on tech to China having a real impact? And the artist that tried to take his art out of Stable Diffusion, only to have the community pull him back in.
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- SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says (FT)
- The iPhone 15 Pro Will Have Thinner Bezels in Step Toward Apple’s Dream (Bloomberg)
- U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations (NYTimes)
- China’s Tech Distress Grows as U.S. Chip Sanctions Bite (WSJ)
- An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology (NYTimes)
- Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back (Decrypt)
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The whole Threads saga has been a whirlwind. At the beginning of the month I asked if Threads had already won. At the end of the month, I’m wondering if the clock is ticking in terms of their chances of survival. Generative AI but for robots. Again. Real robots. Are VCs pulling back from the crypto space? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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- Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as more than half of users leave app (Reuters)
- Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart (NYTimes)
- App Store to require developers to describe why their apps use certain APIs (9to5Mac)
- Sequoia Capital Slashes Crypto Fund as It Downsizes Amid Startup Crunch (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon (UnderstandingAI.org)
- The making of ‘Acquired,’ the No. 1 tech podcast sensation (Fast Company)
- Internet cafes introduced Uganda to the internet (Rest of World)
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Meta’s earnings say, hey, let’s just forget the last two years even happened. Is the next iPhone about to get an “action” button? What does it mean if Waymo is basically hitting pause on self driving trucks? Checking in on SBF. And a super fast new version of 5G.
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- Meta’s Improved Ad Sales Buy Time for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Faces European Antitrust Investigation Over Bundling of Teams Software (WSJ)
- iPhone 15 Pro Action Button Options Potentially Revealed in iOS 17 Code: Flashlight, Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and More (MacRumors)
- Alphabet’s Waymo Self-Driving Unit Slows Autonomous Trucking (Bloomberg)
- Sony has sold 40 million PS5s (The Verge)
- Prosecutors want Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail after witness-tampering allegations. Judge issues gag order (CNN)
- T-Mobile says its ultrafast 5G capable of up to 3.3Gbps is rolling out now (The Verge)
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All the headlines from the big Galaxy Unpacked event today. This was the foldable event, but there were interesting watch announces too. Quick earnings roundup. Threads gets a follower tab. And the group that wants to battle Apple and Google in maps dominance has released their first product.
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- The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 gets a big little screen upgrade (The Verge)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 hands-on: Is Samsung squandering its head start? (Engadget)
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series is all about the bezels (The Verge)
- Meta’s Threads app is rolling out a Following feed (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (Decrypt)
- Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly (CNBC)
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Big potential vulnerability in AMD chips. Fallout from the whole X re-branding continues. Now TikTok is cloning Twitter. The Arc Browser is now available for anyone to try out. And if you think Elon likes to have his hand in a lot of pies, a look at the increasing, and increasingly ambitious portfolio of Sam Altman-related companies.
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- AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4 (Updated) (TomsHardware)
- Musk Explains Why He’s Axing Twitter Name, Iconic Bird Logo (Bloomberg)
- TikTok is adding support for text posts (TechCrunch)
- The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (The Verge)
- Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers (The Verge)
- Sam Altman’s vision for AI puts him on collision course with regulators (Financial Times)
- Sam Altman explains why he’s helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC (CNBC)
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Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as… X. Moar price hikes in streaming! Worldcoin has officially rolled out its token, so long as you’ve scanned your eyeball. Let me introduce you to the Flipper Zero. And should it be titled: Hollywood Strike: Rise Of The TikTok Stars?
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- Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge)
- Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (TechCrunch)
- It’s Spotify’s turn to increase prices (The Verge)
- Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchanges Lose Ground in Shrunken Market (Bloomberg)
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin crypto project begins international rollout (FT)
- The Flipper Zero is a Swiss Army knife of antennas (The Verge)
- The Flipper Zero has an app store now (The Verge)
- The creator economy was already exploding. Then Hollywood went on strike. (Washington Post)
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Reddit is choosing violence with their biggest holdouts. More data on the ebbing of Threads usage. AI seems to be bringing Sergey Brin back into the office. Why you should be getting your paycheck quicker. And an Oppenheimer-themed Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (The Verge)
- Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features (WSJ)
- Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly (The Verge)
- The Federal Reserve’s 24/7 payment system could deposit your paycheck instantly (The Verge)
- Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- A $25,000 Prize Still Sits in the Maine Woods. Meteorite Hunters Aren’t Giving Up. (WSJ)
- Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star (VentureBeat)
- The Airstocracy: Six things to know about flying with the superrich. (NYMag)
- THE REAL LESSON FROM THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (The Atlantic)
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Rumors that Apple already has an LLM framework and their own generative chatbot. Google is shopping an AI bot that can write news stories to various journalism outlets. Has GPT-4 actually gotten dumber of late? More streaming price raises. And it’s the last chance saloon for Microsoft’s AR headset for the US Military.
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- Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (Bloomberg)
- Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles (NYTimes)
- Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (ArsTechnica)
- Meta open-sources Llama 2, but with strings attached (MoneyControl)
- Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals (BBC News)
- Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5Google)
- Microsoft Poised to Deliver Improved Combat Goggles, US Army Says (Bloomberg)
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Microsoft announced aggressive pricing for their AI products and got rewarded with an all-time high stock market valuation. More price aggression in the streaming wars. Meta released Llama 2. Google is asking for employees to voluntarily work on air gapped machines. And let me introduce you to the concept of “synthetic data” for LLMs.
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- Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend merger agreement to October (The Verge)
- Microsoft will charge businesses $30 per user for its 365 AI Copilot (Engadget)
- Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (CNBC)
- Netflix Shakes Up Pricing: ‘Basic’ Tier Axed in UK, US (Cord Busters)
- Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications (Ars Technica)
- Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk (CNBC)
- Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models (FT)
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It’s been… two weeks. Let’s check in on how Threads is doing. Streaming players continue to raise prices. Microsoft still plans on fighting for its prize. Are the incumbents winning the AI race? And the interesting startup that wants to use light instead of electricity in computer chips.
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- The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (TechCrunch)
- Five reasons Threads could still go the distance (Platformer)
- Peacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17 (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft-Activision Deal Poised to Close Later Than Planned (Bloomberg)
- Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (TechCrunch)
- UK chip designer raises millions from Agnelli fund (FT)
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Sony and Microsoft have made nice. Bitcoin ETFs continue to look like a possibility. How the Vision Pro is shaking up Apple’s org structure in a meaningful way for the first time since the Steve Jobs Era. And why Netflix’s recent turnaround have rekindled those perpetual rumors that Apple is gonna end up buying Disney some day.
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- Sony agrees to 10-year Call of Duty deal with Microsoft (The Verge)
- SEC accepts BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF application, signaling regulatory review (CoinTelegraph)
- The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (StackDiary)
- Hacker News Thread On The Brave Thing
- Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator (Financial Times)
- Apple’s New Vision Group Reflects Shift Away From Steve Jobs Approach (Bloomberg)
- Bob Iger Shifts From Building an Empire to a Disney Yard Sale (Bloomberg)
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Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta unveils a new AI image generator that they say is significantly smaller and better. Why AI is at the center of the Hollywood strike part eleven. And one choice Weekend Longreads Suggestion.
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- Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch)
- Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages (Reuters)
- Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch)
- Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
- Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios)
- Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (The Verge)
- Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Apple, Lionel Messi and the $2.5bn question: What’s next? (The Athletic)
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Elon has launched his own AI company with some pretty big names involved. The FTC will appeal! Roblox is coming to Zuckerberg’s metaverse. Meta does plan to commercialize LLaMA. And a cool new “do a napkin sketch and have AI turn it into an actual work of art” tool.
Links:
- Musk Unveils xAI in New Bid to Rival Startup OpenAI (Bloomberg)
- FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case (The Verge)
- Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky Charged in Latest DOJ Crypto Case (Bloomberg)
- Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets (The Verge)
- macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager to Third-Party Browsers (MacRumors)
- Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals (FT)
- Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (TechCrunch)
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A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might have been boosted by AI, might the need for on premises AI lead to a unique opening for the likes of Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise?
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- Microsoft-Activision deal moves closer as judge denies FTC injunction request (CNBC)
- Microsoft and UK regulators agree to pause their Activision battle to negotiate (The Verge)
- FTC would face tough appeal of Microsoft-Activision order, experts say (Reuters)
- F.T.C.’s Court Loss Raises Fresh Questions About Its Chair’s Strategy (NYTimes)
- AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude (Bloomberg)
- Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TechCrunch)
- Bigger, Brighter, More Expensive: Nothing Reveals the Phone (2) (Gizmodo)
- The AI Boom Is Here. The Cloud May Not Be Ready. (WSJ)
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Could Massachusetts pass the first meaningful anti-tracking law in the country? With social media in transition, what’s the lane for someone like Tumblr? Instagram is going after Twitter, but is someone coming for Instagram at the exact same time? And the sad state of affairs for video game history.
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- Selling Your Cellphone Location Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for First Time (WSJ)
- Tumblr says it’s going to ‘fix’ its ‘core experience’ to appeal to new users (The Verge)
- HCA Healthcare patient data stolen and for sale by hackers (CNBC)
- A New VC-Beloved Startup Rips a Page From Meta’s Playbook (The Information)
- THE GAME AVAILABILITY STUDY, EXPLAINED (Video Game History Foundation)
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Time to get worried about your Evernote files. Looks like Meta won’t have to leave the EU. OpenAI has a new product that people are raving about. More analysis of if AI can be useful to doctors. And I’ll tell you the one simple reason Threads has hit 100 million users so fast. The answer is right in front of us.
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- Bay Area tech company Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe (SFGate)
- EU Seals New Transatlantic Data-Transfer Pact With US in Third Attempt (Bloomberg)
- Code Interpreter comes to all ChatGPT Plus users — ‘anyone can be a data analyst now’ (VentureBeat)
- Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (The Verge)
- In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry (WSJ)
- Snap’s Push to Tempt Creators Seems to Be Working (WSJ)
- Instagram’s Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days (TechCrunch)
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It’s been my job for over a decade now to analyze the competitive landscape of the tech industry, and I’ve simply never seen anything like what Threads has achieved in less than 48 hours. Though, Elon is threatening to sue. Uber, DoorDash and GrubHub are suing NYC. Volkswagen is rolling out its self-driving cars. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire (NYTimes)
- Zuck's Threads halo (Axios)
- Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (Semafor)
- OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (TechCrunch)
- Food-Delivery Companies Sue New York City Over Minimum Pay Law (NYTimes)
- Volkswagen's Self-Driving Cars Begin Testing In Texas (Jalopnik)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (The Atlantic)
- The Man Who Broke Bowling (GQ)
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There’s only one story today. Threads. Threads. Threads. Has Threads already won?
Links:
- Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter (CNBC)
- Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says (TechCrunch)
- Instagram Threads works, but it’s sterile, dull and worst of all – it’s still run by Mark Zuckerberg (iNews)
- Meta unspools Threads (Platformer)
- So where are we all supposed to go now? (The Verge)
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Chaos at Twitter emphatically did NOT take the 4th of July weekend off. Instagram’s Twitter clone looks like it’s going to take advantage of this chaos to launch now. The Reddit app apocalypse has happened. Oh, and the mods for Reddit AMA’s have downed tools. And how drone technology is disrupting the traditional Fireworks industry.
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- Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web (The Verge)
- The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark (The Verge)
- The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (The Verge)
- Fireworks Have a New Competitor: Drones (NYTimes)
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Originally published April 2015
It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy evolve? How and why did Amazon become the quintessential “dot com” and dot-com-era stock? The answers are within.
Bibliography:
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- The Playboy Interview: Moguls
- Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
- http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/11/i-interviewed-jeff-bezos-when-amazon-was-an-insignificant-speck-in-the-book-selling-universe/#more-49306
- http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html
- http://www.fastcompany.com/50541/inside-mind-jeff-bezos
- http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB832204437381952500
- http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303339904576405922077032468
- http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-corporateTimeline_pf&c=176060
- http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,992927-2,00.html
- http://www.vox.com/2015/1/4/7490013/ecommerce-shopping-mall
- http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/amazon-sales-chart/
- http://www.statista.com/statistics/185283/total-and-e-commerce-us-retail-trade-sales-since-2000/
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-07/amazon-surges-to-record-high-on-global-e-commerce-growth
- http://www.thewire.com/business/2014/05/amazon-has-basically-no-competition-among-online-booksellers/371917/
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Originally published February 2015.
Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 pound gorilla in the space to this day. Amazon. Dot com. We examine Jeff Bezos, the man. We consider Amazon, the idea. We look at e-commerce, the concept. It’s interesting. It’s groundbreaking. It’s available with free 2-day shipping for Prime members. Just kidding.
Bibliography:
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- The Playboy Interview: Moguls
- Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
- http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html
- http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/01/11/253770/index.htm
- http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/14amazon.html
- http://www.retireat21.com/blog/10-companies-started-garages
- http://davidsheff.com/article/jeff-bezos/
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Second time the charm for Apple to close above $3 trillion? Google says it will remove news links in Canada. Meta will allow you to download apps directly from Ads. Self driving cars are giving cops more surveillance tape. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
- Apple’s market cap tops $3 trillion (CNBC)
- Canada’s ‘link tax’ law could break how the web works, says Google (Android Police)
- Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook (The Verge)
- Fidelity Joins Spot-Bitcoin ETF Race With Fresh SEC Filing (Bloomberg)
- Police Are Requesting Self-Driving Car Footage For Video Evidence (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- When Will AI Generate a Hollywood Blockbuster? “Give It About Three Years.” (Inverse)
- These Tech Companies Think They Can ‘Solve’ the Wildfire Crisis (Motherboard)
- Who killed Google Reader? (The Verge)
- Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved? (NYTimes)
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Satya Nadella had his day in court. Looks like the FTC is finalizing its big case against Amazon. YouTube has advertisers asking for refunds. Big new interesting raises in the AI space. And ahead of the Fourth of July travel weekend, we may not have the autonomous driving we want, but maybe we can get the autonomous rental car delivery we deserve.
Links:
- Microsoft and Activision Chiefs Testify Merger Will Benefit Consumers (NYTimes)
- Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed With an FTC Antitrust Suit (Bloomberg)
- Advertising industry seeks refunds over YouTube skippable ads (FT)
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data (Washington Post)
- Inflection AI Raises $1 Billion (Forbes)
- Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas (TechCrunch)
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Even in bankruptcy, even FTX is like, maybe we’ll hold on to these AI investments. Could Windows itself become a fully cloud product? Has Google canceled its AR project? How AI is making even Billy Bean look like old school baseball. And who needs a Mac Pro when you’ve got a perfectly good Mac Studio or even Mac Book?
Links:
- FTX Halts Sale of Its $500 Million Stake in AI Startup Anthropic (Bloomberg)
- AI Frenzy Draws Hordes to Private Markets in Industry Gold Rush (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (The Verge)
- Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software (Insider)
- DoorDash launches hourly rates and location sharing for couriers (The Verge)
- Baseball Scouts Call In Artificial Intelligence Help From the Bullpen (WSJ)
- The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook (The Verge)
- Eat Your Heart Out, Tesla. Mercedes-Benz May Have the Fastest EV Yet. (Barron's)
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Checking in with the FTC vs. Microsoft case. Checking in with the effort to recover funds from FTX. What if OpenAI did its own Copilot? Would Microsoft be pissed? And reviews of the Pixel Fold include one reviewer’s unit dying after a mere few days.
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- Microsoft exec was ready to ‘go spend Sony out of business’ to strengthen Xbox (The Verge)
- FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B (CoinDesk)
- Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI Plans ChatGPT ‘Personal Assistant for Work,’ Setting Up Microsoft Rivalry (The Information)
- RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (ArsTechnica)
- Google Pixel Fold review: closing the gap (The Verge)
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Well, this AI moment is only about 6 months old, but it looks like the mergers and acquisitions are beginning in earnest. Wait, we’re still worried about 5G interfering with airplanes? Amazon wants your local florist to deliver your packages. An Amazon/FTC kerfuffle we missed. And what are the OTHER Apple products we can expect in the next year or so?
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- Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML (WSJ)
- Pete Buttigieg Warns of Flight Delays as 5G Deadline Looms (WSJ)
- Exclusive: Amazon launches local business delivery network (Axios)
- FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process (CNBC)
- Amazon, Friction, and the FTC (Stratechery)
- Apple Has Finally Unveiled the Vision Pro. Here’s What It’s Launching Next (Bloomberg)
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Are Canadians about to lose their access to news on Instagram and maybe Google too? More details about what that Apple headset will actually be like to use. The newest claimant to the supercomputer crown is about to come online. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Meta says it's blocking news on Facebook, Instagram after government passes online news bill (National Post)
- Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights (9to5Mac)
- The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed (AnandTech)
- Randomly received a smartwatch? Don’t turn it on, investigators warn. (ArmyTimes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) (NYTimes)
- The hottest new perk in tech is freedom (Vox)
- This Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted (SFGate)
- Meet the Vocal Coach Who’s Helping Timothée Chalamet Sound Like Bob Dylan (GQ)
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Well, I guess Elon and Zuck are gonna fight? Literally? New Stability AI. Xbox prices are going up. The visionOS SDK is out. A Motorola Razr Plus review. And why celebrities are racing to duplicate themselves using AI.
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- Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match (The Verge)
- Startup Stability Debuts a New AI Model For Stable Diffusion (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
- Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps, dev kit applications opening soon (9to5Mac)
- Motorola Razr Plus review: the right moves (The Verge)
- Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)
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Dropbox joins the AI bandwagon. Lots of news from Twitch. Netflix changes how it calculates its top 10. Mark your calendars for Prime Day. And what all the things Apple DIDN’T demo for their new headset might reveal about the directions in which the product could evolve.
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- Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (The Verge)
- Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games (TechCrunch)
- Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count (THR)
- Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites (GeekWire)
- What Apple Didn’t Reveal About the Vision Pro (The Information)
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Spotify is thinking of bucking the “max” and “ultra” naming convention and might introduce “supremium.” What if FTX, the exchange, makes a comeback? One of the hottest sectors in VC right now is defense. And the story of how Meta is playing catchup when it comes to AI.
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- Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected to Include HiFi Audio (Bloomberg)
- FTX paid over $120 million in advisor fees between February 1 and April 30 (The Block)
- Masayoshi Son Ends Seven-Month Silence to Make Case for SoftBank’s Future (Bloomberg)
- Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups (FT)
- Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up. (WSJ)
- When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You (WSJ)
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No joke, this is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we get some details on that company for the first time, and he also worked at Flipboard and Oculus, so we get some important context especially on the future of VR and the like. But the most fascinating stories you'll hear will be about Amazon, where Eugene was the first analyst in the strategic planning department. As you'll hear, Eugene had a unique perspective on Amazon's early strategy and business structure, almost a historically unique perspective... he could see month to month, how Amazon was built, what Amazon was trying to do, and why. This is such an amazing perspective on such an important company.
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Google does it again. For like the 10th time just since I’ve been doing this podcast. What is “it?” You’ll hear in a second. The whole Reddit thing is simultaneously seeming to calm down, AND heat up, largely thanks to Reddit’s CEO. Will we finally get a bitcoin ETF this time? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace (Bloomberg)
- Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?) (The Verge)
- Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’ (NCBNews)
- AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content (Financial Times)
- BlackRock files for bitcoin ETF in push into crypto (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- How Nvidia Became ChatGPT’s Brain and Joined the $1 Trillion Club (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube (NYTimes Magazine)
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The every platform can be an ad platform too march continues. This time, it’s Uber. Intel drops the “I.” Google lens can check your skin condition. Another breakthrough in quantum computing. And why Apple bringing back the answering machine is a feature lots of folks, including me, are actually happy about.
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Links:
- Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps (The Wall Street Journal)
- Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier (AnandTech)
- Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions (9to5Google)
- Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (TechCrunch)
- Fake zero-day PoC exploits on GitHub push Windows, Linux malware (BleepingComputer)
- Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says (NYTimes)
- iOS 17 Live Voicemail will return the glory of the answering machine to your iPhone (TechRadar)
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The European Commission might have just taken the first steps toward separating Google from its cash cow. Reddit’s CEO keeps saying not so soothing things. New Open AI and Meta releases for… AI stuff. Cybersecurity premiums are skyrocketing. Spotify has fully shifted its podcast strategy. And a look at the tech job market as AI takes over.
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- EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling (The Verge)
- Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass' (The Verge)
- Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (The Verge)
- OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing (TechCrunch)
- Cyber Insurance Premiums Surge by 50% as Ransomware Attacks Increase (Bloomberg)
- Spotify Takes a Sharp Turn With Its $1 Billion Podcast Division (Bloomberg)
- Meta AI researchers unveil I-JEPA, a computer vision model that learns more like humans do (SiliconAngle)
- Layoffs and AI Are Changing Tech’s Once-Invincible Job Market (Bloomberg)
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The FTC has filed an injunction to block the Microsoft/Activision tie-up. Netflix is dipping its toe into live sports. Why Larry Ellison is thankful AI showed up on the scene. The whole Reddit situation came to a head partially cause of AI. And one guess why we’re about to get a new Beatles song.
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- FTC files to block Microsoft-Activision as deadline approaches (CNBC)
- Netflix to Enter Live-Streamed Sports With Celebrity Golf Event (WSJ)
- Reddit goes dark (Platformer)
- Larry Ellison Rides AI Boom to Highest Wealth Ranking Ever (Bloomberg)\
- Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song (BBC)
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Why your favorite subreddit might be going dark. Why a16z opened an office in the UK. Why AI seems to be recycling the same few dozen jokes when you ask it to be funny. A new AI music generation tool. And the first reviews of the 15-inch Macbook Air.
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- Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks (The Verge)
- Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto's future may be in the U.K. (Axios)
- Meta's open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs (The Decoder)
- Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (ArsTechnica)
- How AI art killed an indie book cover contest (The Verge)
- Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for (The Verge)
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Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industry at AdMob; is credited by some people by saving LinkedIn from technical rot; and now, today, oversees Microsoft's efforts in AI, VR/AR all the future things. Fantastic conversation.
Kevin's podcast is:Behind the Tech
Originally Aired: May 2019
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Lots of juicy nuggets from a recent all hands over at Meta. Binance.US looks like it’s on the road to shutting down. The first trials of AI tutors for kids are happening. The self-driving revolution I’ve been waiting for seems to be happening. And the Weekend Longreads are happening. As always.
Links:
- Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro (The Verge)
- This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like (The Verge)
- Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms (Axios)
- Binance.US Set to Be Cut Off From Banking System After SEC Lawsuit (Bloomberg)
- Spotify says it’s testing an ‘offline mix’ for when your connection’s patchy (The Verge)
- New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning (NYTimes)
- Netflix Subscriptions Jump as U.S. Password-Sharing Crackdown Begins (WSJ)
- Mercedes first to sell vehicles in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Binge Purge TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show. (Vulture)
- The Simpsons Is Good Again After 34 seasons, 750 episodes, and a decades-long funk, the show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance. (Vulture)
- First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS (Daring Fireball)
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So, the Binance case is already getting testy with some wild accusations flying in both directions. Twitch walks back some ad guidelines after only two days. WhatsApp is adding channels. Prime Video is probably about to add ads. Adobe will protect you from lawsuits if you use their AI tools. And how AI might have just extended Moore’s Law a bit.
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- Binance lawyers allege SEC Chair Gensler offered to serve as advisor to crypto company in 2019 (CNBC)
- SEC says Binance and US affiliate redirected billions in customer assets to Zhao's funds (The Block)
- Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy (The Verge)
- WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app (The Verge)
- Amazon Plans Ad Tier for Prime Video Streaming Service (WSJ)
- Adobe is so confident its Firefly generative AI won’t breach copyright that it’ll cover your legal bills (Fast Company)
- Google claims that Bard is improving at math and programming (TechCrunch)
- Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster (MIT Technology Review)
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Maybe I was wrong. Maybe Apple does want to get serious about gaming on the Mac after all. Maybe I was right. Sequoia splitting in three IS about China after all. Samsung is holding an event at home for the first time in forever. And Matt Levine answers my questions about what now for Coinbase? Back to just trading bitcoin and ether?
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- macOS Sonoma lets developers port Windows games to the Mac; here’s how it works (9to5Mac)
- Apple makes iOS 17 developer beta free for registered developers (9to5Mac)
- Sequoia’s Split Sends Warning to US Companies Doing Business in China (Bloomberg)
- Samsung officially confirms first Unpacked event in Korea for new foldables (9to5Google)
- The SEC Comes for Crypto (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
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Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL "carpet-bombing" campaign that put millions of AOL trial discs and CDs in everything from magazines to popcorn boxes to banks. AOL was able to leap to the front of the online pack, over competitors like CompuServe and Prodigy largely on the success of this campaign. Jan tells us how this strategy developed, the thinking that went into it and goes into great detail about what worked and what didn't. But she was also a very early AOL executive, so she is able to give us some fantastic background about AOL the company: its culture, its people and its visionaries–people like Steve Case. She takes us from AOL's beginnings, through its considerable growing pains (remember "America On Hold?") its rise to dominance in the dot-com era, and even gives us her perspective on the legacy of the AOL/Time Warner merger.
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A check-in with Elon and Twitter sees things pretty much as they’ve been for about a year now. Is Amazon about to release a low-cost cell phone plan for Prime members? Airbnb is suing New York City over a new law it sees as an existential threat. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned (Reuters)
- Elon 'The Dogefather' Musk Accused of Insider Trading (Gizmodo)
- Russia accuses US of hacking thousands of Apple devices to spy on diplomats (The Record)
- Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members (Bloomberg)
- Airbnb sues NYC over new rules requiring hosts to register their homes as short-term rentals (Gothamist)
- Planned Layoffs Have Quadrupled So Far This Year in the US (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How a $13 Billion Fintech That Angered Jamie Dimon Won Over Banks (Bloomberg)
- A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom (NYTimes Magazine)
- China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into the Earth (Bloomberg)
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Mark Gurman has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed-reality headset, targeting a launch next year. Elon has had to block his friend Ye from Twitter. Future is shutting down. Airplane mode might be a thing of the past soon. Is Nikola Tesla’s dream of wireless electrical transmission about to be a reality? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple Renames Mixed-Reality Software ‘xrOS’ in Sign Headset Is Approaching (Bloomberg)
- Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch)
- Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (Insider)
- Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto)
- AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch)
- No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights (BBC News)
- Silicon Valley startup beaming electricity wirelessly raises $30 million (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Generative AI: autocomplete for everything (Noahpinion)
- Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic)
- The Grown-Up Art of Andor (The New Republic)
- A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s (New Yorker)
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A summary of last night’s Sam Bankman Fried show. Elon visits Tim Cook and maybe they buried the hatchet? Now OpenAI has released a chat bot. Neuralink says it’s going to start implanting into humans very soon. And Arizona is gonna get the good stuff when it comes to chips.
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Links:
- FTX Missing Billions Remain Mystery After Bankman-Fried Grilling (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk Meets With Apple CEO Tim Cook Amid Claims of Twitter App Store Dispute [Updated] (MacRumors)
- Musk at Twitter has 'huge work' ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc (TechCrunch)
- While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor (MIT Technology Review)
- Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months (Bloomberg)
- Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older) (Gizmodo)
- TSMC Plans to Make More Advanced Chips in US at Urging of Apple (Bloomberg)
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The Covid lockdown at that Foxconn factory has lifted. The surprising strength of the smartwatch sector. The surprising failure of the Kindle Scribe. Gorilla Glass Victus 2. And Sony has an actual new idea for the Metaverse.
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Links:
- China’s Zhengzhou, home to world’s largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same (CNN Business)
- India Becomes Biggest Smartwatch Market in Q3 2022 (Counterpoint)
- Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data (TechCrunch)
- Amazon Kindle Scribe review: absolutely adequate (The Verge)
- Apple Music reveals top music in 2022 and listener charts (AP News)
- Gorilla Glass Victus 2 could save your big phone from disastrous falls on concrete (TechRadar)
- Sony is getting into the metaverse with a new motion-tracking system (The Verge)
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Elon says he’s willing to go to war with Apple. Why now? Is Apple really threatening Twitter’s status in the App Store, as he claims? Where, exactly, is the money for Binance’s crypto recovery fund coming from? Amazon wants kids to get in on the generative AI game. And with all the explosion of AI tools, why aren’t we seeing more adoption of AI for the very tangible and very important use case of medical imaging?
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- Elon Musk Claims Apple Has 'Mostly Stopped' Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands (MacRumors)
- Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk (Platformer)
- Twitter’s $5bn-a-year business hit as Elon Musk clashes with advertisers (Financial Times)
- Binance clarifies initial $1 billion recovery fund deposit came from own assets (The Block)
- Amazon’s Create With Alexa generates unique animated children’s stories on Echo Show (Engadget)
- Google partners with med tech company to develop AI breast cancer screening tools (The Verge)
- Special Series Part 3: AI Could Transform Medical Imaging — So Why Don’t We See It More? (Crunchbase News)
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All of the protests erupting in China have, not only a definite tech angle, but might have been triggered by those lockdowns at that Foxconn factory. BlockFi officially files for bankruptcy. Binance attempts to prove its reserves. How to message yourself on WhatsApp. And how Minecraft might have led to a major new breakthrough in AI.
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Links:
- Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests (Washington Post)
- US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecom Equipment on Data-Security Risk (Bloomberg)
- Crypto Lender BlockFi Filing for Bankruptcy and Conducting Major Layoffs as FTX Contagion Claims Another: Source (Decrypt)
- Binance releases proof-of-reserves system, starting with bitcoin (The Block)
- WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself (WhatsApp)
- A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing (MIT Technology Review)
- Special Series Launch: The Promises And Perils Of A Decade Of AI Funding (Crunchbase News)
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Actual rioting happening at the major Foxconn factory that produces iPhones. Microsoft fully embraces Linux. Advertisers continue to flee from Twitter. What if your wifi router and mesh network was actually a fashionable home décor choice? And surprise! The weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China (Bloomberg)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store (BleepingComputer)
- Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more. (Washington Post)
- Nest Wifi Pro review: better, faster, shinier (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare (The Atlantic)
- Robert Iger Returns to Disney Facing Radically Different Streaming Landscape (WSJ)
- America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone (Washington Post)
- The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day (WSJ)
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The contagion in crypto continues to teeter on a knife’s edge. Why were Sam Bankman Fried’s parents allegedly buying property in the Bahamas? Elon says Twitter is hiring again. Turns out the Alexa deathwatch is very real. And is Apple really the privacy company, or just like everybody else when it comes to ads?
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Links:
- Crypto Brokerage Genesis Is Said to Warn of Bankruptcy Without Funding (Bloomberg)
- Hedge funds left with billions stranded on FTX (FT)
- Exclusive: Bankman-Fried's FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million (Reuters)
- Elon Musk says Twitter is done with layoffs and ready to hire again (The Verge)
- Amazon is gutting its voice assistant, Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on 'a wasted opportunity.' (Insider)
- Apple Says Your iPhone's Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That's Not True (Gizmodo)
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Ruh roh. Storm clouds gathering in crypto land again. This time it’s DCG and Genesis. The shocking CEO revolving door over at Disney. The surprising return of SwiftKey. What you missed this weekend in Twitter. And you’ve heard of Stable Diffusion; let me introduce you to Unstable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion but for porn.
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Links:
- Grayscale won’t share proof of reserves, citing ‘security concerns’ (The Block)
- Grayscale refuses to share proof of reserves due to ‘security concerns’ as shares trade at a 45% discount to bitcoin (CNBC)
- Disney Shocker: Bob Iger Returning as CEO, Bob Chapek Exits (The Hollywood Reporter)
- SwiftKey is unexpectedly back on iOS (The Verge)
- Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies (Forbes)
- Kite is saying farewell (Kite.com)
- Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators (TechCrunch)
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The great Anil Dash joined us to talk about... well, what do you think we talked about? But also, a broader discussion about the crazy year that the tech industry has had.
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I’m here with you all as we wait for the end of Twitter together. Unless it doesn’t die. In which case, I dunno. Masa Son is actually personally in hock to the Vision Fund now that all its investments have gone pear shaped. A weird end of an era for Facebook. It’s not about status updates anymore. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (The Verge)
- Tweet thread on why @peterclowes left Twitter
- Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout (FT)
- End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile (Gizmodo)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Tweet thread from @MosquitoCapital on the many ways Twitter could break
- Nvidia RTX 4080 review: performance, for a price (The Verge)
- 1Password wants to ditch passwords without locking you in to one platform (Fast Company)
- Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air (CNET)
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The guy who handled the Enron bankruptcy says FTX is the worst he’s ever seen. Xbox gets full Discord integration. Apple’s plans for Major League Soccer are revealed. Evernote finds a forever home. A new Deepfake detector from Intel and supercomputing in the cloud from Microsoft and Nvidia.
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Links:
- New FTX Boss Condemns Management of the Crypto Exchange During Sam Bankman-Fried's Tenure (CoinDesk)
- Built-in Discord voice chat is now rolling out to all Xbox users (Engadget)
- Apple Kicks Off Major League Soccer Plans With Pricing & Launch Details (Deadline)
- Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era (TechCrunch)
- Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping (TechCrunch)
- Intel unveils real-time deepfake detector, claims 96% accuracy rate (VentureBeat)
- Cloud computing: Microsoft and Nvidia are building a 'massive' AI supercomputer. Here's why (ZDNet)
- Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build massive cloud AI supercomputer (SiliconRepublic)
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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chip. DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking blocker but for Android, the latest headlines from the two stories you know we have to hit, and what if I told you there’s a new startup that wants to do for home appliances, what Tesla did for automobiles?
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Links:
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 gives us a glimpse of 2023’s Android flagships (The Verge)
- DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection beta is now available to all Android users (The Verge)
- Netflix's new feature lets subscribers kick devices off their accounts (TechCrunch)
- Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance (Washington Post)
- Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse (TechCrunch)
- Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff (CNN Business)
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If you tell Elon he doesn’t know what he’s doing, you could get fired. Matt Levine looks into the abyss of the FTX balance sheet and finds the abyss staring back at him. Is the Alexa platform in danger? Nike still believes in NFTs. And what it’s actually like to use Apple’s Emergency SOS feature.
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Links:
- Musk Publicly Punishes Twitter Engineers Who Call Him Out Online (Bloomberg)
- Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop? (TechCrunch)
- FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees (NYTimes)
- Nike to Open Its Own Virtual Sneaker Store and Trading Platform (Bloomberg)
- Nike Launches Web3 Platform Offering Virtual Apparel and Other NFT-Based Products (CryptoNews)
- Here’s what it’s like to use Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite (The Verge)
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Twitter still lives, at least at the time of this writing. But thousands more contractors have been laid off. CZ wants to start a fund to save crypto projects. Paging Jonah Hill to play SBF in the movie that Michael Lewis is shopping around Hollywood. Meta is exiting the Portal business. And a big review of the Meta Quest Pro is just downright befuddling.
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Links:
- Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning (The Verge)
- SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink (CNBC)
- Binance Starts Recovery Fund for Crypto Projects Facing Liquidity Crisis (CoinDesk)
- Exclusive: Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity (CNN Business)
- Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say (Reuters)
- Meta Quest Pro review: get me out of here (The Verge)
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Just two big stories, as it’s been all week, but instead of ONLY giving you the latest, I want to try to sum up where I think we’re at as this week ends. What, I think, in the end, actually happened with FTX. And are we SURE Elon isn’t trying to tank Twitter on purpose? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Sam Bankman-Fried steps down as FTX CEO as his crypto exchange files for bankruptcy (CNBC)
- FTX US Warns of Trading Halt Hours After Bankman-Fried Says It's '100% Liquid' (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Lender BlockFi Pauses Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse (CoinDesk)
- Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? (TechDirt)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad (Vox)
- Can Crypto’s Richest Man Stand the Cold? (Bloomberg)
- Matter is here, but it’s still a long road to the simple smart home (The Verge)
- Twitter alternative: how Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral” (UXCollective)
- Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age (The Guardian)
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More twists and turns in the FTX, SBF, CZ saga as the entire crypto sector continues to get rocked. I’d love to tell you what is going on with Twitter’s whole checkmark saga, but I don’t know, Elon doesn’t know, and frankly, by the time you hear this, it’s likely to have changed anyway. GitHub is getting into the voice assistant game. And Amazon becomes the first company to LOSE a Trillion dollars in valuation.
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Links:
- Binance Walks Away From Deal to Rescue FTX (WSJ)
- SBF Tweet Storm This Morning
- FTX’s Collapse Spurs $10 Billion Drop in Decentralized Finance (Bloomberg)
- Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
- Apple will spend $450 million with Globalstar and others to enable emergency satellite texting (CNBC)
- ‘Hey, GitHub!’ will let programmers code with just their voice (The Verge)
- Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (Bloomberg)
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The Meta layoffs are here and they’re brutal. But rumors are, TikTok is cutting back also. What even is the new Twitter subscription product at this point? Does anybody know? And if you look at today’s show title, and it’s just a bunch of gibberish, hopefully I can explain the big crypto blowup from yesterday.
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- Kinsta.com
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Links:
- Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce (TechCrunch)
- TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn (Financial Times)
- Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark (The Verge)
- Disney+ reaches 164.2M subscribers as it prepares for ad-supported tier launch (TechCrunch)
- The Story of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Backroom Deal With Binance’s CZ (CoinDesk)
- Lucas Nuzzi (Twitter Thread)
- FTX Venture Investors Fear Total Wipeout in Binance Rescue Deal (The Information)
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Why has FTX appeared to have halted withdrawals? Innocent explanation, or could we have another big crypto blowup brewing? What if Elon just says, screw it, and puts all of Twitter behind a paywall? What happens if NFT marketplaces stop honoring royalties? And why is Apple having a hard time with its design team?
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Links:
- Binance to Sell Rest of FTX Token Holdings as Alameda CEO Defends Firm's Financial Condition (CoinDesk)
- Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall (Platformer)
- Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role (Washington Post)
- OpenSea Breaks Silence on NFT Royalties, But Creators Don't Like What They Hear (Decrypt)
- Apple’s Brain Drain Hinders Efforts to Pick Its Next Jony Ive (Bloomberg)
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Looks like those rumors of massive Meta layoffs might be coming true this week. Covid has led to brand new iPhone shortage worries. Is Apple about to make it easier to invoke Siri? Airbnb has made it easier to understand the true cost of a rental. And this weekend in the Twitter Clown Car.
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Links:
- Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week (WSJ)
- Apple Issues iPhone 14 Pro Shipment Warning Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season (MacRumors)
- Apple’s Next Change for Siri: Dropping ‘Hey’ From ‘Hey Siri’ Trigger (Bloomberg)
- Airbnb to Make Cleaning Fees Clearer on Searches After Customer Complaints (WSJ)
- Elon Musk Appears To Threaten Advertisers Wary Of His Twitter Takeover (HuffingtonPost)
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The layoffs have begun at Twitter. And while Twitter might shutter its Substack competitor, Substack has moved into Twitter’s turf by launching a sort of discussion platform. DALL-E API’s are now available for you to use. What it’s like to use Netflix’s new ad-supported tier. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs are starting (The Verge)
- Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat (TechCrunch)
- Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce (CNBC)
- DALL-E API released by OpenAI in public beta, potential boon for app builders (VentureBeat)
- With Netflix’s ads tier, you never know what you’re going to get (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Bored Ape Yacht Club tell all: The untold story of the $4 billion crypto startup (FastCompany)
- The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech (Wired)
- The Race to Be Figma for Devs: CodeSandbox vs. StackBlitz (TheNewStack)
- The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet (Wired)
- Inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting (FastCompany)
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Is TikTok still in danger of running afoul of government bans? WhatsApp gets Groups. Gmail gets package tracking. Instagram gets NFT minting. Patreon gets video hosting. Layoffs come for Stripe. Yes, there was some Twitter news too. And is the Adobe/Figma deal in trouble?
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Links:
- TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data (The Guardian)
- WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities (TechCrunch)
- Gmail to add a new package tracking feature ahead of holiday shopping season (TechCrunch)
- Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools (Decrypt)
- Patreon’s long-awaited video hosting feature is finally rolling out to creators (The Verge)
- Elon Musk Aims to Start Charging for Twitter Verification Next Week (Bloomberg)
- Stripe Cuts Headcount by 14%, Prepares for ‘Leaner Times’ (Bloomberg)
- DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion deal (Politico)
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We know when the PlayStation VR2 is coming, when you can pre-order it, and how much it’s gonna cost. What do you know? A bunch of news in the whole Twitter saga. The reality of the ransomware industrial complex. And an interesting new Mac app to help you remember everything you’ve ever done on your computer.
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Links:
- PlayStation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99 (The Verge)
- Elon Musk to charge verified Twitter users to give ‘power to the people’ (SiliconRepublic)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘high’ risk (Washington Post)
- Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex (The Verge)
- Twitch opens Guest Star up so anyone can run their own talk show not (TechCrunch)
- U.S. banks processed roughly $1.2 billion in ransomware payments in 2021, according to federal report (CNBC)
- Rewind wants to revamp how you remember, with millions from a16z (TechCrunch)
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Will charging for blue checks actually help Twitter monetarily or… frankly, any way, at all? Amazon has expanded ad-free Music. YouTube is bundling streaming services. Why Uber Eats is interesting inside of Uber earnings. And is it time to start worrying about Sony’s strategy with the Playstation?
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Links:
- Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year (Axios)
- Jack Dorsey just saved Elon Musk about $1 billion by rolling over his shares of Twitter into a stake in the new private company (Insider)
- YouTube’s Primetime Channels bring streaming movies and TV into the YouTube app (The Verge)
- Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts (TechCrunch)
- Uber Shares Jump as Strong Ridership Eases Inflation Worries (Bloomberg)
- PlayStation Plus has lost nearly 2 million subscribers since its revamp (VGC)
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Just, massive wholesale changes at Twitter, including possibly making folks pay up for features. Pitty the poor tech billionaires who have collectively lost half a trillion in wealth this year. When the M2 MacBook Pros should be showing up. And what colors might you be blocked from using on Adobe products?
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Links:
- Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter (The Verge)
- Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification (The Verge)
- The 20 Richest Tech Billionaires Have Lost Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars This Year (WSJ)
- Apple Gears Up to Launch Its Next Crop of Macs Early Next Year (Bloomberg)
- India's Central Bank to Start Wholesale CBDC Pilot Nov. 1 (CoinDesk)
- You’re Going To Have To Pay To Use Some Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now (Kotaku)
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Area man completes acquisition of social media platform. And now the fun begins? Amazon had bad earnings, but Apple mostly didn’t. YouTube is trying to be like TikTok too, but they’re giving their users options. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- How Twitter Will Change as a Private Company (NYTimes)
- Amazon stock sinks 13% on weak fourth-quarter guidance (CNBC)
- Apple reports strong quarter but expects sales slump (Silicon Republic)
- YouTube redesign gives long-form videos, Shorts and Live videos their own tabs on channel pages (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers (Bloomberg)
- The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now (The Atlantic)
- The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame (NYTimes Magazine)
- The Crypto Story (Matt Levine/Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Which AI Creates the Best (and Most Terrifying) Art? (PC Mag)
- The Fantasy of Instant Delivery Is Imploding (Bloomberg)
- The beginning of the monster Game of Thrones Twitter Thread (Ben Schwartz)
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(BOMB SOUND). That’s the sound of Meta’s disastrous earnings announcement yesterday. That’s the sort of insightful analysis you come to this podcast for. But also, Argo AI is shutting down. Google Cloud has a new blockchain tool for developers. And the Elon Twitter thing is happening. It’s really happening, people. Behave accordingly.
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Links:
- Meta Tumbles as Sales Forecast Shows Depth of Ad-Market Weakness (Bloomberg)
- Meta Plummets 25% as Zuckerberg’s Plea for ‘Patience’ Falls Flat (Bloomberg)
- It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster (Intelligencer)
- Mark Zuckerberg Is Going To Kill His Company (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
- Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down (TechCrunch)
- Samsung's Third-Quarter Profit Plunges Amid Chip Market Woes (CNET)
- Google's new service helps Web3 developers build for blockchain-based platforms (ZDNet)
- Elon Musk Is In Twitter’s Office and Will Address Staff Friday (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk, on Eve of Twitter Deal Close, Promises Advertisers It Won’t Become a ‘Free-for-All Hellscape’ (Variety)
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Meta and Spotify both call Apple out on their recent App Store aggressiveness. Soft earnings from Microsoft and worrying earnings from Alphabet. Twitter seems to already be hemorrhaging its power users. LinkedIn fights its own bot war. And are unicorns back to becoming a rare thing?
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Links:
- Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta (The Verge)
- Spotify says Apple is ‘choking competition’ and ruining its audiobook store (The Verge)
- Spotify Boosts Subscribers and Revenue, Says 2023 Price Increases Likely (WSJ)
- Microsoft Plunges on Forecast for Lackluster Azure Growth (Bloomberg)
- Twitter Asks: Where Have All the Tweeters Gone? (Gizmodo)
- Alphabet misses on earnings as YouTube shrinks; company will cut headcount growth by half in Q4 (CNBC)
- Intel unit Mobileye prices IPO above range to raise $861 mln (Reuters)
- Developers Complain About Gambling Ads Appearing in Their App Store Listings (MacRumors)
- First on CNN: LinkedIn knows there are fake accounts on its site. Now it wants to help users spot them (CNN Business)
- The billion-dollar tech unicorn is becoming rare again (The Washington Post)
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Apple tries to wedge the App Store vig into another market. Prices are going up for your favorite Apple services. Shutterstock is partnering with OpenAI cause if you can’t something them, join them! And what is the deal with Stage Manager on the iPad?
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Links:
- App Store guidelines updated with new rules for apps with NFT and ad managers (9to5Mac)
- Apple is raising the price of Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple One from today (9to5Mac)
- Project Volterra launches today as the 'Windows Dev Kit 2023' with 32GB RAM and costs less than a Mac mini (Windows Central)
- Meta shareholder writes critical open letter saying company needs to slash headcount and stop spending so much money on ‘metaverse’ (CNBC)
- Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI (The Verge)
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch) review: a few steps forward and one big step back (The Verge)
- Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (SQ3) review: Windows on Arm is not ready (The Verge)
- iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager is not the future of multitasking you were hoping for (The Verge)
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Did investing in Chinese tech become a fool’s errand over the weekend? A deep dive on how TSMC is caught in the middle of all the things. Is Elon’s Twitter deal presenting systemic risk to corporate finance? Are M2 Mac Pro and Macbook Pro’s still coming soon? And Bono tries to justify putting that U2 album on your iphone.
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Links:
- China Stocks Crater in US as Alibaba Leads $130 Billion Wipeout (Bloomberg)
- TSMC: the Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war (Financial Times)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Debt to Be Held by Banks Amid Turbulent Markets (WSJ)
- These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious (CNN Business)
- The iPad Lineup Is Perplexing — Here’s How Apple Could Fix It (Bloomberg)
- Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’ (The Guardian)
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Talking this week's big week for AI, with Parker Thompson (@pt) plus@miguelisolano&@mignano
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I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
- Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)
- Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg)
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes)
- OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)
- Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)
- How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg)
- The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)
- I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic)
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The big Solana challenger had a terrible first day of trading. Previews of the new Thunderbolt standard. Reviews of the new Raptor Lake chips. Uber takes a page out of the New York City taxi playbook. And the first hands-on, quasi-review of Meta’s high end VR headset.
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Links:
- Aptos Token Plummets 40% After APT Airdrop for 'Early Network Participants' (Decrypt)
- Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more (9to5Google)
- The next generation of Thunderbolt seems nice but less necessary than ever (The Verge)
- Intel Core i9-13900K review: an AMD Zen 4 beater (The Verge)
- Uber rolls out ad business to reach more riders (FT)
- I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse (NYTimes)
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Netflix actually beat on earnings and customer additions. Why their pivot to ads might actually be in line with their long-term strategy. Yesterday’s iPad releases were even more complicated, and stranger, frankly, than I told you. Bluesky is still plugging away on decentralized social media. And another monster interesting raise in the AI space.
Links:
- Netflix adds more than 2.4 million subscribers, reveals details about password-sharing crackdown (CNBC)
- The New Netflix Age Has Arrived (Puck/Julia Alexander)
- The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
- Jack Dorsey-Founded Bluesky Unveils Roadmap for Decentralized Social Networks (Decrypt)
- AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
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New iPad Pros and new Apple TV 4ks. Meta walks away from the Giphy acquisition. Layoffs at Microsoft. High attrition at Amazon. Mobileye is probably going to IPO at a significant discount than people hoped? And why I’ve been telling you that the energy in Silicon Valley is switching to AI startups.
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Links:
- Apple introduces next-generation iPad Pro, supercharged by the M2 chip (Apple Newsroom)
- Apple announces new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with M2 chip, Apple Pencil hover feature (9to5Mac)
- Apple Announces 10th-Generation iPad With Complete Redesign, 10.9-Inch Display, USB-C, and More (MacRumors)
- Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft becomes latest tech firm to cut staff (Axios)
- Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. (Engadget)
- Intel Eyes Significantly Lower Valuation in IPO of Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
- Stability AI Raises Seed Round at $1 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
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Looks like Ye, née Kanye West, is going to try to buy the social network Parler. A look at the Chinese export controls that could potentially force American executives to choose between their jobs and their American citizenship. Wait until you hear about the Mango Markets exploit. And what do you think is the global population of robots, right now? Today?
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Links:
- Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler (The Verge)
- Kanye West to buy social media app Parler (The Verge)
- Decentralized Solana-based trading platform Mango reportedly hit by $100 million exploit (Fortune)
- Biden declares economic war on the Chinese semiconductor industry (Noahpinion)
- With New Crackdown, Biden Wages Global Campaign on Chinese Technology (NYTimes)
- American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban (WSJ)
- Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers (WSJ)
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We now know how much Netflix with Ads will cost; we think we know how many ads they have to show us to make up for the lost revenue. What is unclear is if people will watch that many ads. It looks like Zuck lied to us about having legs in the Metaverse. Something something, eventually every company becomes a bank. I’m talking about the Apple savings account. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Netflix’s ad tier will cost $6.99 a month and launch in November (The Verge)
- Meta Avatar Legs Demo ‘Created By Motion Capture’, Not Live VR (UploadVR)
- Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie (Kotaku)
- Apple Card to Offer Savings Account for Daily Cash (MacRumors)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- WhatsApp is now a spammers’ paradise in India (Rest of World)
- The GIF Is on Its Deathbed (The Atlantic)
- Can Kickstarter’s new CEO help the company get its mojo back? (Fast Company)
- The computer errors from outer space (BBC Future)
- How the Glengarry Glen Ross “Coffee Is for Closers” Scene Got Made (Vanity Fair)
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Signal is phasing out SMS and MMS. Microsoft is sunsetting Microsoft Office branding. The SEC is poised to officially ban some Chinese hardware. Is AR not living up to its promise as a tool for soldiers on the battlefield? And would you ghostwrite tweets for prominent venture capitalists? There’s good money in it.
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Links:
- Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android (BleepingComputer)
- Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul (The Verge)
- FCC poised to ban all U.S. sales of new Huawei and ZTE equipment (Axios)
- Microsoft’s Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test (Bloomberg)
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Sets Sights on Spotify With Music-Streaming Expansion (WSJ)
- I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here's how I found my clients and built a booming side hustle from scratch. (Insider)
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Only two big stories really. We break down yesterday’s Meta VR event, including the new high end Quest Pro. But did Zuck show us anything that will get anyone excited about the Metaverse yet? And Microsoft’s Surface event had a lot of Surface refreshes, but was the big news actually their integration of DALL-E 2 with a new Designer app? The productivity space is hot…
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Links:
- The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,499 and ships October 25th (The Verge)
- What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution? (Ars Technica)
- It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing (TechCrunch)
- Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta (Bloomberg)
- Surface Pro 9 lets you pick between Intel or Arm 5G and new color options (The Verge)
- Microsoft's (barely) refreshed Surface Laptop 5 starts at $1,000 (Engadget)
- Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2 Plus ships with an RTX 3060 for $4,299 (The Verge)
- Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories finally have a release date (The Verge)
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A whole bunch of things, including a major US bank getting into crypto custody, paying for Google cloud with crypto, Chromebooks made for gaming, the lack of anyone in the current slate of virtual worlds, the return of the cable bundle example 100, and did you know your Apple AirTags only last a year?
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Links:
- America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now (WSJ)
- Google selects Coinbase to take cloud payments with cryptocurrencies and will use its custody tool (CNBC)
- Chips, canvases, and chats: Google Workspace’s plan to crush Office (The Verge)
- Google is trying to make Chromebooks built for cloud gaming (Engadget)
- It's Lonely in the Metaverse: DappRadar Data Suggests Decentraland Has 38 ‘Daily Active’ Users in $1.3B Ecosystem (CoinDesk)
- You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back. (WSJ)
- ‘The Owner of This iPhone Was in a Severe Car Crash’—or Just on a Roller Coaster (WSJ)
- How to change the AirTags battery (AppleInsider)
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There’s another huge crypto hack and I’ll give you two guesses as to what folks think the culprit is. The Twitter/Elon trial is officially paused. Meta can’t get its own developers to use their metaverse products. Maybe my dream of Death Star style anklebots is over. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Binance-linked blockchain hit by $570 million crypto hack (Reuters)
- The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th (The Verge)
- Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it, says exec in charge (The Verge)
- Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts (Bloomberg)
- Samsung Details GDDR7 and 1,000-Layer V-NAND Plans (Tom's Hardware)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere (Bloomberg)
- The Illustrated Stable Diffusion (Jay Alammar)
- Swiss Dropout Worth $14 Billion Moves Startup Away From Porn (Bloomberg)
- The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car (WSJ)
- How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022 (Planet of the Paul)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Wikipedia)
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All the headlines from the Made By Google event. Elon sure wants to avoid being deposed. Why a guilty verdict for Uber’s former Chief Security Officer could have broader ramifications in the tech world. And the new text to video AI systems, this time, from Google.
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Links:
- Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, 5x telephoto, starts at $899 (9to5Google)
- Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch (TechCrunch)
- Elon Musk’s deposition delayed as he wrangles with Twitter over deal (Financial Times)
- Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Hiding Hack From Authorities (NYTimes)
- Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data breach (Washington Post)
- Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (TechCrunch)
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Yes, we’ll get into the whole Twitter/Elon thing. Seems he wants the original deal again… or does he? Tesla is removing more sensors from their cars. The hugely problematic launch of Overwatch 2. And the tech angle to that whole Chess cheating scandal.
Links:
- Musk Revives $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Aiming to Avoid Trial (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk says Twitter will eventually be part of ‘X, the everything app’ (MarketWatch)
- Musk offers to proceed with Twitter deal (Axios)
- Lawyers Lose Out on Millions in Twitter-Musk Legal Fees (Bloomberg)
- Tesla is now building Model 3 and Model Y vehicles without ultrasonic sensors (TechCrunch)
- DDoS attack on 'Overwatch 2' servers prevents fans from playing the game on launch day (Engadget)
- Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times (WSJ)
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The EU has made USB-C the charging port law of the land. Xiaomi’s new flagship smartphone with a 200MP camera. New Google Nest things. Is YouTube trying new ways to get you to pay up for Premium. And the big new robotics push in the world of… checks notes… retail pharmacy.
Links:
- EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 (MacRumors)
- Xiaomi’s 12T Pro launches with high-resolution 200-megapixel camera (The Verge)
- Google debuts new Nest Doorbell Wired, Nest Wifi Pro and launches fully new Google Home app preview (ZDNet)
- YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K (TechCrunch)
- Meta launches AI software tools to ease switching between Nvidia, AMD chips (Reuters)
- Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists (WSJ)
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Kim Kardashian has settled with the SEC over crypto promotion on social media. I continue to Wonder if, aside from TikTok, the biggest threat to Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans is actually Sony. The Supreme Court is gonna hear cases that could pierce the veil of Section 230. And the other social media law from Texas that Silicon Valley is fighting tooth and nail.
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- Celsius Network founder withdrew $10mn ahead of bankruptcy (FT)
- Sony Betting Big on Next VR Headset With Increased Production Plan (Bloomberg)
- Social Media Company Liability Draws Supreme Court Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
- Texas Social-Media Law on Web Censorship Upheld by Federal Appeals Court (Bloomberg)
- Tech companies are gaming out responses to the Texas social media law (Washington Post)
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NFT Struggles, Google Stadia And New Kindles with@aidanfitzryanand@ArtSabintsev
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Google is abandoning a major project, maybe it’s biggest cancellation ever. More cutbacks at Meta. Though one tech company is gonna test the IPO waters soon. Be a fly on the wall as Elon talks to everyone in Silicon Valley about maybe buying Twitter. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge)
- Meta to Cut Headcount for First Time, Slash Budgets Across Teams (Bloomberg)
- TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
- Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk on Twitter’s board but directors were too ‘risk averse,’ texts reveal (CNBC)
- Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off The Rails (Big Technology)
- How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine (The Verge)
- Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer (Bloomberg)
- Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (SlashFilm)
- Someone is pretending to be me. (Connor Tumbleson)
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Meta takes down an app that tried to strip out the cruft from Instagram (but also the ads). Bunch of new Maps features from Google. All the headlines from yesterday’s Amazon event, including a Kindle you can write on. And text to image generators are cool. But you know what’s really cool, text to video generators.
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- The OG App promised an ad-free Instagram feed then got pulled from App Store (TechCrunch)
- The 11 biggest announcements at Amazon’s hardware launch event (The Verge)
- Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing (The Verge)
- Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps (TechCrunch)
- SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play (CoinDesk)
- Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video (The Verge)
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On second thought, Apple is pulling back on iPhone production which suggests demand is not what they anticipated. Intel’s new 13th-Gen chips and new low-end GPU. Checking on the Elon/Twitter trial and the NFT market. And what to expect from this week’s Tesla AI event.
Links:
- Apple Ditches iPhone Production Increase After Demand Falters (Bloomberg)
- The latest iPadOS 16 beta brings Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models (Engadget)
- Intel’s 13th Gen processors arrive October 20th with $589 flagship Core i9-13900K (The Verge)
- Intel Arc A770 graphics card to launch October 12 for $329 (PCGamer)
- NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak (Bloomberg)
- Twitter says Elon Musk’s own data scientists did not back up bots claims (Financial Times)
- Turnstile is Cloudflare’s latest attempt to rid the web of CAPTCHAs (The Verge)
- How To Watch Tesla’s AI Day (Forbes)
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Sam Bankman-Fried finally scoops up Voyager’s assets. Meta says Russia has launched the biggest disinformation campaign of the war. Nreal has finally brough the first real contender for the AR wars to American shores for the first time. And would you consider a Metaverse white paper from the sci-fi writer than inspired the very notion of a Metaverse?
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- Crypto Exchange FTX Wins Bankrupt Firm Voyager’s Assets (Bloomberg)
- ‘Smash and grab’: Meta uncovers Russia's ‘largest and most complex’ info op since the war began (Protocol)
- Meta makes it easier to switch between Facebook and Instagram accounts (CNBC)
- Nreal’s $379 AR glasses launch in the US today (The Verge)
- If you still miss Google Reader, Substack has a new web-based RSS client (The Verge)
- Walmart enters the metaverse with Roblox experiences aimed at younger shoppers (CNBC)
- Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse (GamesBeat)
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UK police make an arrest many believe is related to those recent Uber and Rockstar hacks. Will the iPhone get a design overhaul next year? Cloudflare’s interesting new Zero Trust SIM. Maybe the first copyright for that new AI Art stuff? And why AI is allowing Darth Vader’s voice to live on forever.
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- UK Police arrests teen believed to be behind Uber, Rockstar hacks (BleepingComputer)
- One Week with the iPhone 14 Pro Max: Apple’s Not-So-Dynamic Island (Bloomberg)
- Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices (TechCrunch)
- TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain (NYTimes)
- Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art (ArsTechnica)
- James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I. (Variety)
- Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (Variety)
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Argyle is a BIM to Augmented Reality app for Heavy Construction. More atArgyle.Build
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If DAO’s are a modern, blockchain take on the corporation, I’ve got a big, worrying thing to tell you about them. Apple looks to cozy up to the NFL as Amazon seems to have found immediate success with Thursday Night Football. Fitbit takes a page out of the Oculus playbook, post-acquisition. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
- CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO (CoinDesk)
- Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show (NYTimes)
- Amazon Scores Big With First ‘Thursday Night Football’ Game (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fitbit will require a Google Account to use new devices and features from 2023 onward (9to5Google)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire (Bloomberg)
- How a Quebec Lithium Mine May Help Make Electric Cars Affordable (NYTimes)
- Unauthorized Shein boutiques are popping up across Mexico (Rest of World)
- College Dropout Turns Thiel Fellowship Into a $2 Billion Figma Fortune (Bloomberg)
- Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On? (WSJ)
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More gaming hacks. Instagram wants to stop unsolicited sending of nudes. Layoffs come for Meta in all but name. The end-run Google wants to do around Dolby. Getty Images bans AI art. Larry Page’s flying car startup is shutting down. And a review of the new Apple Watch Ultra.
Links:
- 2K Games says hacked help desk targeted players with malware (BleepingComputer)
- Instagram’s finally working on protecting users from unsolicited nude photos (The Verge)
- Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push (WSJ)
- Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats (Protocol)
- Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (The Verge)
- TikTok’s BeReal clone app is gaining traction outside the US (The Verge)
- Google co-founder’s flying car startup is winding down (CNBC)
- Apple Watch Ultra review: an aspirational debut (The Verge)
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Twitch is the main character of the show today, for good and bad reasons. YouTube takes a serious swing at TikTok. Microsoft releases Windows 11's first major update. Nividia outlines its next gen GPUs. Can Helium make it as an MVNO? And Google does Google things!
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- Twitch to ban Stake.com streams and other unlicensed gambling content (The Verge)
- Child Predators Use Twitch to Systematically Track Kids Livestreaming (Bloomberg)
- YouTube will share ad revenue with Shorts creators (Engadget)
- Windows 11’s 2022 Update has something new for everyone (The Verge)
- Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 GPUs (The Verge)
- Helium Founders, T-Mobile Launch Crypto-Powered 5G Mobile Service (Decrypt)
- Google is finally making its to-do list and reminder tools work together (The Verge)
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Now the hackers have come for the crypto market makers. Spotify gets into the Audiobooks game. Slack gets in on the whole productivity apps renaissance. Actual inflation is coming to the app store and 1 Euro apps will soon be no more. And the chat room that only opens its doors when your phone’s battery is about to die.
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- Crypto market maker Wintermute hacked for $160 million (The Block)
- Uber links breach to Lapsus$ group, blames contractor for hack (BleepingComputer)
- Rockstar comments on GTA 6 leak and claims project won’t be delayed (VideoGameChronicle)
- Nasdaq is preparing to launch an institutional crypto custody service (The Block)
- Spotify Launches Audiobooks Business With A La Carte Pricing, No Discounts for Subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window (The Verge)
- Apple to raise App Store prices in multiple countries next month (9to5Mac)
- Apple says software update coming next week to fix iPhone 14 Pro camera shake issue (9to5Mac)
- This Chatroom Only Opens When Your Phone’s About to Die (Motherboard)
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Did the same kid who allegedly hacked Uber allegedly leak GTA VI gameplay over the weekend? Interpol drops a red ball on Do Kwan. iPhone 14 Pro users report their cameras literally shake when they try to take pictures. Instacart wants to break the tech IPO hex. And the bull and bear case for the Figma acquisition.
Links:
- GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos (The Verge)
- South Korean prosecutors ask Interpol to issue red notice for Do Kwon (Financial Times)
- iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking and rattling in TikTok, Snapchat, and other apps (9to5Mac)
- 'No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge (PCMag)
- Instacart Plans to Focus IPO on Selling Employee Shares (WSJ)
- The Adobe-Figma deal is historic for tech startups — if it goes through (Protocol)
- Why Figma is Worth $20B And Other Observations From The Adobe Acquisition (Hunter Walk)
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Uber is investigating a breach of its systems that has caused it to take some of its most important systems offline. The White House has finally delivered that big “comprehensive framework” for crypto regulation. How did Amazon do with its NFL broadcast last night? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
- Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems (NYTimes)
- Uber suffers computer system breach, alerts authorities (Washington Post)
- White House Releases ‘Comprehensive Framework’ for Crypto Regulation and Development (Decrypt)
- The Amazon Experience Comes to the NFL (The Ringer)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The AI Unbundling (Stratechery)
- Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers (WSJ)
- The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion (The New Yorker)
- The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books (The New Yorker)
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Adobe plans to acquire Figma for the biggest ever private software company acquisition. Is this a sign of things to come in the productivity space? Happy The Merge Day for Ethereum. TikTok just copies and pastes a BeReal clone. And California launches the first lawsuit against Amazon that might have real consequences.
Links:
- Adobe Tumbles After Agreeing to Buy Figma for About $20 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite (TechCrunch)
- Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
- Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake (The Block)
- TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now (TechCrunch)
- California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon (NYTimes)
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Arrest warrants for those behind LUNA and UST. Anti-cheating technology comes to video games. Apple is going all in on 3nm chips and soon. Mudge’s testimony before Congress yesterday. A first hands-on with the new Playstation VR thingy. And the reviews for the iPhone 14 are out.
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- Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Faces Arrest Warrant in South Korea (Bloomberg)
- U.S. Treasury Department releases Tornado Cash guidance (Axios)
- Google Suffers Setback in Court Fight to Topple Record EU Fine (Bloomberg)
- EA will debut new anti-cheat tech with 'FIFA 23' on PC (Engadget)
- Apple to use TSMC's next 3-nm chip tech in iPhones, Macs next year (NikkeiAsia)
- We finally got our hands and eyes on the PlayStation VR2 (The Verge)
- What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress (TechCrunch)
- Apple iPhone 14 review: meet the iPhone 13S (The Verge)
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: early adopter island (The Verge)
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Google does what it does best. Kills a product line. As the Twitter whistleblower testifies before congress, did extreme heat in California almost bring Twitter down recently? Amazon has updated the entry-level Kindle. And a review of the recently released iOS 16.
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- Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it (The Verge)
- Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers (Engadget)
- Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline (CNN)
- Splatoon 3 has smashed Switch launch records in Japan (VideoGamesChronicle)
- The Cheapest Kindle Is Now Less Cheap, but It’s Got a Better Screen (Gizmodo)
- Intel just leaked its 13th Gen processor specs (The Verge)
- iOS 16 review: unlocking the lock screen (The Verge)
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One of those new Meta Quest headsets just happens to have been found in the wild. New Roku gear. Starbucks announces an NFT project. A spinoff Google Moonshot that might be the next generation networking gear. And is TikTok in the crosshairs again, and this time, not just for the US government?
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- ‘Quest Pro’ video shows Meta’s next VR headset a month before its launch event (The Verge)
- New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities (ArsTechnica)
- Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (TechCrunch)
- Roku to Launch ‘The Buzz’ Short-Form Content Hub on Home Screen, Refreshes $30 Streaming Device (Variety)
- Google’s Loon Project Gets Resurrected. Without Google. Or Balloons (Bloomberg)
- TikTok’s Secret To Explosive Growth? ‘Billions And Billions Of Dollars’ Says Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Forbes)
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Is the US government about to legally curtail proof of work crypto projects? Intel’s big new GPU specs. Uber Eats signs a deal to get into the ankle bots business. What I believe is the oldest startup ever to be acquired by a tech giant. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- White House report proposes possible restrictions on proof-of-work crypto mining (The Block)
- Intel Reveals Specifications For Arc Alchemist Desktop GPUs (Tom's Hardware)
- Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas (The Verge)
- Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp up its robotics operations (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again (ArsTechnica)
- They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down (Rest of World)
- Inside the World's First No-Coiner Conference (Decrypt)
- Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits (The Atlantic)
- The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse (The Guardian)
- Apple's features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone (Apple Insider)
- The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia (HayKranen.nl)
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Disney’s former CEO throws another lifeline to Elon Musk in his Twitter suit. Crypto folks are suing the US Treasury over an important crypto precedent. Why the current YC batch is still crypto heavy. A very interesting crypto raise. And a deeper look at the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island.
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Links:
- Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter (Vox)
- Coinbase employees and Ethereum backers sue U.S. Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions (Fortune)
- Legendary China Bets Unwind as Buffett, SoftBank Sell (Bloomberg)
- Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility (TechCrunch)
- Mysten Labs, creator of the Sui blockchain, closes $300 million raise led by FTX Ventures (The Block)
- How the iPhone 14 Pro Transforms Blank Screen Space Into Something Actually Useful (CNET)
- Apple might have fixed the notch by putting it on an island (The Verge)
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All the headlines from Apple’s Far Out iPhone event. Not to be outdone, details on the next Google Pixel event and Meta Quest Pro events. Ring brings end to end encryption to all its hardware. And for the first time in history, an alleged cyberattack has led to a severing of diplomatic ties.
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- The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are official with satellite-based Emergency SOS (The Verge)
- iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max announced with animated notches and always-on displays (The Verge)
- The Apple Watch Ultra is finally here (The Verge)
- Apple’s new AirPods Pro can cancel twice as much noise (The Verge)
- Google confirms Pixel 7 series will run on new ‘Tensor G2’ chip (9to5Google)
- Meta Connect Is A One-Day Virtual Event On October 11th (UploadVR)
- Ring finally brings end-to-end encryption to its flagship video doorbells (The Verge)
- Albania cuts diplomatic ties with Iran over July cyberattack (APNews)
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Pretty high priority zero-day to tell you about. Is Binance about to upend the stablecoin market with its muscle? When your electrical utility takes over your smart thermostat. And how that rumored always on iPhone display might work in practice.
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- Google Chrome emergency update fixes new zero-day used in attacks (BleepingComputer)
- Binance, Issuer of Third-Biggest Stablecoin, to Stop Supporting Larger Rival USDC (CoinDesk)
- CVS Makes $8 Billion Bet on the Return of the House Call (NYTimes)
- Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during 'energy emergency' (Denver7)
- Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple (9to5Mac)
- iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On Display Behavior in iOS 16 Allegedly Revealed Days Ahead of Unveiling (MacRumors)
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Talking the state of Snap, Substack, and the creator economy generally, with@kyurieff,@simonowensand others!
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The iPhone install base has surpassed the Android install base in the US for the first time basically since Android began. Apple settled with a developer for the first time any of us can remember. Meta signs a VR chip deal with Qualcomm. The really good and really annoying bits of the new USB standard. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (Financial Times)
- Apple settles lawsuit with developer over App Store rejections and scams (TechCrunch)
- Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips (Reuters)
- Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own (The Verge)
- More USB-C speed won't fix users' problems with cables (Apple Insider)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes. (NYTimes)
- Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum (Noahpinion)
- Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator (Waxy.org)
- The Rise of Tech Blogs in the Mid-2000s (Nirit Weiss-Blatt)
- Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit (BuzzFeed)
- AMAZON’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER IS SMALL-SCREEN HIGH FANTASY DONE RIGHT (The Verge)
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At long last, an edit button has come to Twitter. Nvidia and AMD say the US has imposed restrictions on exporting chips for AI-related applications to Russia and China. How Apple is gonna handle its new holepunch configuration. Disney wants its own Prime. And an AI art-creation bot you can try, right now, for free.
Links:
- Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it (The Verge)
- Nvidia, AMD warned of new US export restrictions on AI chips (Protocol)
- Source: iPhone 14 Pro display cutout to show camera plus microphone privacy indicators; redesigned Camera app also coming (9to5Mac)
- Disney Explores Membership Program Like Amazon Prime to Offer Discounts and Perks (WSJ)
- Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold Gen 2 is bigger, better, and way more powerful (XDA Developers)
- An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed (Motherboard)
- Stable Diffusion is a really big deal (Simon Willison's Weblog)
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Huge, huge layoffs at Snap. Say hello to Apple Xcode Cloud Subscriptions. Say hello to “can’t be evil” NFT licenses. Forget foldable phones, I have a very interesting foldable laptop to tell you about. And if your crypto exchange fat fingered you $10 million dollars as a mistake, what would you buy?
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- Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees (The Verge)
- Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available for Developers (MacRumors)
- A16z Wants to Standardize NFTs by Giving You a License for Your Token (CoinDesk)
- Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets (TechCrunch)
- Comcast and Charter face a grim new reality: actual competition (Fast Company)
- ASUS ZENBOOK 17 FOLD OLED REVIEW: THE BEST FOLDABLE YET (The Verge)
- Crypto.com Sues Woman After Sending Her $10 Million by Mistake: Report (Decrypt)
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Elon looks like he’s grabbing onto the Twitter whistleblower as a new argumentative lifeline. The big new CPU lineup from AMD. Gopuff is borrowing money to buy some time. Why did Twitter shelve plans for an OnlyFans clone? And is AI about to unlock our ability to understand what animals are saying?
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- Elon Musk Attacks Twitter Deal Over Whistle-Blower as Feud Escalates (Bloomberg)
- Musk Tries a New Way Out of Twitter (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Twitter is launching its ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally (TechCrunch)
- HOW TWITTER’S CHILD PORN PROBLEM RUINED ITS PLANS FOR AN ONLYFANS COMPETITOR (The Verge)
- AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch (AnandTech)
- Gopuff Tries to Raise Money Again (WSJ)
- The Animal Translators (NYTimes)
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Really, Apple? THAT is what you’re going to call your AR/VR glasses? I tell you what “that” is. A look at the passkeys Apple is bringing us soon. More deets on the Netflix ad-supported tier. WhatsApp’s super-app ambitions seem to be bearing fruit in India. And is it too late for Eminem and Snoop Dogg to save the NFT market?
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- Trademark Filings Suggest Apple May Be Securing ‘Reality’ Names for AR/VR Headset (Bloomberg)
- Apple says 95% of iCloud users already have 2FA enabled ahead of Passkeys launch (9to5Mac)
- Snapchat brings 'Dual Camera' recording to in-app camera (Engadget)
- Netflix Eyes $7-to-$9 Price for Its New Ad-Supported Plan (Bloomberg)
- Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India (TechCrunch)
- WhatsApp’s super app ambitions are starting to come true in India (The Verge)
- MTV VMAs: Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform as Bored Apes in the Metaverse (CNET)
- Looks bare: OpenSea turns into NFT ghost-town after volume plunges 99% in 90 days (CoinTelegraph)
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First up, we have@KevinTDuganto give us deeper insight into the whole Twitter whistleblower situation. And then,@KylanGibbsof@inworld_aiconvinces me we are maybe closer to the Metaverse than I ever thought possible. TLDR: AI might really be at a tipping point.
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Forget 5G, T-Mobile and SpaceX are teaming up to offer Zero-G Services. LastPass has gotten hacked, but we think your passwords are safe. When we can expect the new VR headset from Meta to be revealed. Twitter puts podcasts in your feed. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- T-Mobile and SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year (The Verge)
- LastPass developer systems hacked to steal source code (BleepingComputer)
- Twilio hackers breached over 130 organizations during months-long hacking spree (TechCrunch)
- Meta to debut new VR headset in October, Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan (CNBC)
- Twitter is becoming a podcast app (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Crypto World Can’t Wait for ‘the Merge’ (NYTimes)
- Ethereum Overhaul Risks Creating a New Class of Kingpins (Bloomberg)
- TikTok, Hospitals And Tutoring Apps: The Many Tentacles Of Chinese Tech Giant ByteDance (Forbes)
- After the Zodiac Killer's '340' Cipher Stumped the FBI, Three Amateurs Made a Breakthrough (Popular Mechanics)
- ‘BlackBerry’: Story of Doomed Smartphone Company Casts Jay Baruchel & Glenn Howerton, XYZ Films Boards Sales for TIFF (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
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The Twitter Whistleblower is a big concern for Twitter, no matter what happens with the Elon stuff. Amazon zags slightly in its healthcare march. iPhone even official announcement. Ethereum merge dates officially solidified. Some new PCs from HP and what to expect from Nvidia’s next generation GPUs.
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- Twitter whistleblower to testify in Congress about security failures (Washington Post)
- Twitter executives face questions from employees after whistleblower claims (CNN Business)
- Internal memo: Amazon Care to shut down, ‘not a complete enough offering’ for corporate customers (GeekWire)
- What Apple's September Event Invite May Tell Us About the iPhone 14 (CNET)
- Ethereum Foundation confirms September dates for the Merge (The Block)
- Crypto’s massive marketing efforts have drawn few new investors (Washington Post)
- HP's new PCs include its first Dragonfly Folio and a 34-inch all-in-one (Engadget)
- Nvidia to announce next-gen GPU architecture in September amid RTX 4090 rumors (The Verge)
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A deep dive into that Twitter whistleblower, because the allegations are getting pretty interesting, and it turns out he’s a bigger deal than I knew. Apple is breaking it’s iPadOS release cadence. Fitbit has unveiled three new wearables. And why just deciding to bring the silicon industry back onshore is not as easy as just passing billions in subsidies.
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- India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says (Reuters)
- Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (Washington Post)
- Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws (Washington Post)
- Apple delivers iPadOS 16.1 beta ahead of iOS 16 fall release (TechCrunch)
- Plex tells users to reset their passwords after potential data breach (Engadget)
- Fitbit Drops 3 New Fitness Trackers—and None Have Wear OS 3 (Wired)
- Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants (AP)
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The former head of security at Twitter has blown the whistle on the company saying it was… crap at security. Instagram wants to clone Be Real. More details on the new Sony VR headset. Some eth here, some eth there, eventually brands are making real money on NFTs. And get ready for the biggest leap in smartphone camera tech we’ve seen in a while.
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- Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (Washington Post)
- Instagram's next feature might be a copy of BeReal (Engadget)
- Apple’s New iPhone 14 to Show India Closing Tech Gap With China (Bloomberg)
- Sony says the PlayStation VR2 is coming in early 2023 (The Verge)
- Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook on iOS and Android (The Verge)
- NFTs Turn Out to Be a Great Channel of Revenue for Businesses, Ask Nike (NFT Gators)
- The high-resolution smartphone sensors are coming (The Verge)
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Amazon continues to be serious about becoming your healthcare provider. Elon Musk is raising prices, I guess cause he can. Confirmation that Sam Bankman-Fried does indeed have a mountain of money. I continue to worry about stablecoins and contagion. And the kids are using FindMy as a new sort of social network.
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- Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health (WSJ)
- Elon Musk says Tesla will hike the price of FSD driver assistance software by 25% in September (CNBC)
- FTX grew revenue 1,000% during the crypto craze, leaked financials show (CNBC)
- Stablecoin issuers hold $80bn of short-dated US government debt (Financial Times)
- How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture (NYTimes)
- A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. (NYTimes)
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Looks like Evan Spiegel is retrenching in his dreams of making Snap primarily a camera company. Are we about to see the biggest Google Search algorithm change in years? Does TikTok effectively have a keystroke logger, and will this lead to more calls to crack down on them? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone (WSJ)
- Google search updates will prioritize real reviews over clickbait (The Verge)
- New Google Helpful Content Update To Change SEO Much Like Panda Did (Search Engine Roundtable)
- TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari (WSJ)
- The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (Intelligencer)
- Streaming Is Starting to Look A Lot Like Cable TV (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Woman Pictured In The Viral 'Girl Explaining' Meme Explains The Origins And Her Reaction To Sudden Internet Fame (Know Your Meme News)
- How Nokia Ringtones Became The First Viral Earworms (The Verge)
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Why the date of Apple’s iPhone event is interesting. Why Netflix will take away downloads for its ad-tier. Is the VPN built into iOS a lie? Streaming has finally slain linear television. Cameo will let you actually call celebrities. And does Mark Zuckerberg have no aesthetic taste?
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- Apple Targets Sept. 7 for iPhone 14 Launch in Flurry of New Devices (Bloomberg)
- Netflix’s Ad-Supported Plan Will Block Downloads of Shows, Films (Bloomberg)
- VPNs on iOS are a scam (Michael Horowitz)
- U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says (Variety)
- Windows 11’s widgets can now trigger notifications on your taskbar (The Verge)
- Cameo Now Lets You Have 10-Minute Calls With Celebs (Gizmodo)
- Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks? (Forbes)
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Cracking down on house parties as a service. Apple makes moves to diversify the supply chain. Another worrying datapoint from the semiconductor industry. Have the banks been using WhatsApp to avoid scrutiny from regulators? And can large language models make our dreams of robot butlers a reality?
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- Exclusive: Airbnb rolls out new anti-party tech to prevent unapproved gatherings (Fast Company)
- MacBook design changes enable Vietnamese production for the first time; Apple Watch too (9to5Mac)
- Chipmakers Are Flashing More Warnings on the Global Economy (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street's Record Fines Over WhatsApp Use Were Years in the Making (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation (CNBC)
- Mid-year Crypto Crime Update: Illicit Activity Falls With Rest of Market, With Some Notable Exceptions (Chainalysis)
- Google invested a whopping $1.5B into blockchain companies since September (CoinTelegraph)
- Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web (Wired)
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Was the Twilio breach really about hacking into Signal users? Apple’s serious about returning to the office. Tired: a global chip shortage. Wired: a global chip glut? Amazon says the FTC is harassing its executives. And how far can Uber go to raise prices?
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- Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach (TechCrunch)
- Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (Bloomberg)
- Chipmakers’ Pandemic Boom Turns to Bust as Recession Looms (Bloomberg)
- Twitter Has to Give Musk Only One Bot Checker's Data: Its Ex-Product Head (Bloomberg)
- Amazon accuses FTC of harassing executives including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy (FT)
- Walmart+ members will soon get Paramount+ streaming as part of their subscription (Engadget)
- Uber Raises Prices by About 5% in London to Attract More Drivers (Bloomberg)
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Galaxy Digital shows Elon Musk real reasons to terminate an acquisition deal. a16z is making its biggest ever single investment. You’ll never guess with whom. Snap has more than a million paying subscribers. Cable Internet is losing subscribers for the first time ever. And that time Apple tried to talk Facebook into creating a subscription version of its services.
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- Galaxy Digital terminates its acquisition of BitGo (The Block)
- Unity rejects AppLovin's takeover bid, to go ahead with ironSource buyout (Reuters)
- Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer (NYTimes/DealBook)
- Court Documents Confirm Xbox One Sold Less Than Half PS4 Numbers (GameLuster)
- Snapchat+ Tops 1 Million Paying Customers, Adds Four New Features (Variety)
- Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever (NextTV)
- The Secret Talks That Could Have Prevented the Apple vs. Facebook War (WSJ)
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We speak today with Bloomberg Economics columnist Noah Smith. Are we in a recession? Are we in store for an actual shooting war with China? Is bitcoin due for one more big pump? Come for all of that, and stick around for Chris and I to hit some stories that fell through the cracks this week, like Google’s ad campaign against iMessage.
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Dutch authorities have arrested a developer related to Tornado Cash. But is there a grey area here that is a bit messy? LinkedIn seems ready to go all in on the creator and influencer economy. Apple seems to have confidence that there’s not going to be a slowdown in iPhone sales. And of course, the weekend Longreads suggestions.
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- Suspected Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam (The Block)
- LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content (TechCrunch)
- Apple Expects to Sustain iPhone Sales in 2022 as Market Slows (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It (Billboard)
- Tornado Cash Crackdown Shows Limits of Regulating Cryptocurrency Services (WSJ)
- Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (ArsTechnica)
- New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network (AWS Blog)
- The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (Wired)
- The End of Manual Transmission (The Atlantic)
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Disney embraces inflation because it kind of has to. How Facebook and Instagram are sneakily still tracking you, even after Apple’s ATT changes. The FCC has rejected SpaceX for a big rural broadband deal. And where the teens are hanging out online, these days. You kind of know the answer, but the data is still interesting.
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- Disney+ Ad Plan Price and Launch Date Set — Along With Fee Hikes for Disney+ Premium, Hulu (Variety)
- Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen (BleepingComputer)
- CISA warns of Windows and UnRAR flaws exploited in the wild (BleepingComputer)
- iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser (Felix Krause)
- FCC denies Starlink’s application for $885M subsidy (TechCrunch)
- Ethereum's final proof-of-stake 'test merge' is live on Goerli (The Block)
- Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 (PEW Research Center)
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All the headlines from this morning’s Galaxy Unpacked event. Walmart wants to ad video to keep up with Prime. Spotify quietly begins selling tickets. And if someone sends you some dirty ETH, and you can’t block receipt of it, are you in trouble?
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- The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 is a little better and still too expensive (The Verge)
- Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it's closed (Engadget)
- Samsung goes big on battery with the Galaxy Watch 5 series (The Verge)
- Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast (NYTimes)
- Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly (TechCrunch)
- Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH From Tornado Cash (CoinDesk)
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WhatsApp rolls out privacy features. The battery icon returns to the iPhone. China is growing restless over its silicon industry. HBOMax will stop getting Warner Movies automatically. The really rugged smartwatch from Garmin. And the real reason Amazon is buying One Medical and iRobot.
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- WhatsApp’s new update makes it easier to avoid your friends (The Verge)
- WhatsApp now lets users delete messages up to two days after they were sent (9to5Mac)
- iOS 16 beta 5 finally adds the battery percentage to the status bar (9to5Mac)
- China Graft Probes Stem From Anger Over Failed Chip Plans (Bloomberg)
- Warner Bros. Movies Are No Longer Guaranteed To Arrive On HBO Max After A 45-Day Theatrical Window: Source (Decider)
- Garmin adds another bright spot to its line of multisport watches (Android Authority)
- What Amazon's Roomba and One Medical Deals Have in Common (Bloomberg)
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Masa Son takes another one on the chin, another record loss. The US Treasury is sanctioning a major crypto mixing service. Netflix Gaming is off to a good start or a terrible one, I can’t tell. One of the streaming services is biting the dust. And since we’re aware of the car industry data tracking issue, how much data is Tesla already tracking about your driving?
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- SoftBank plans Vision Fund job cuts after record net loss (Reuters)
- US Treasury sanctions cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash (The Block)
- Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia warns on second-quarter revenue, shares dip (CNBC)
- Netflix is expanding its push into video games, but few subscribers are playing along (CNBC)
- HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting in Summer 2023 (Variety)
- The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard (IEEE Spectrum)
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Our friend Alex Kantrowitz returns to my kitchen table for a crossover episode with Big Technology Podcast (subscribe here) to discuss whether or not Meta is going to see its promise land Metaverse? And are we in a recession or just a tech recession? Oh. And tips to survive plane travel.
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Amazon wants to acquire the company that makes the Roomba robot, or as it’s known in my family, Vrrrrooom. We finally know the legal arguments both sides are making in the Elon/Twitter case. Does crashing semiconductor demand prove we’re in a recession or not? And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
- Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B (TechCrunch)
- Twitter slams Elon Musk's response to its lawsuit (Axios)
- Cooling Semiconductor Sales Heighten Fears of a Global Recession (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The endless search for a crypto use case (Networked substack)
- It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art (TechCrunch)
- CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications (CNN)
- THE UNSUNG INVENTOR WHO CHASED THE LED RAINBOW (ieee Spectrum)
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Apple is delaying releasing iPadOS 16 just because it’s trying to make Stage Manager not suck. I wasn’t imagining it… the majority of the crypto hacks this year have been because of bridges. Would you pay $50k to be a guest on this show? The new OnePlus smartphone. And I’m gonna let you guess what Google did. Again.
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Links:
- Apple Plans to Delay Launch of iPadOS 16 Update by About a Month (Bloomberg)
- Solana Hack Blamed on Slope Mobile Wallet Exploit (Decrypt)
- Vulnerabilities in Cross-chain Bridge Protocols Emerge as Top Security Risk (Chainalysis)
- Twitter to revamp Spaces, tests themed stations and a daily digest (TechCrunch)
- Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows (Bloomberg)
- OnePlus 10T review: Speed above all (Engadget)
- Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn’t going into Meet (The Verge)
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Now the hackers are stealing crypto from individual wallets at scale. Robinhood makes a massive layoff announcement. Y Combinator is shrinking its summer cohort. I’ve found an actual use case for NFT’s and it is college textbooks. And, you know, an actual flying car you could buy right now.
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Links:
- Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack (Decrypt)
- Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff as Retail Investors Fade From Platform (WSJ)
- Michael Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO, shift to executive chairman role (The Block)
- Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment (TechCrunch)
- UK regulator makes U-turn on Avast-Norton cyber security deal (Financial Times)
- Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs (The Guardian)
- Samson Switchblade flying car is finally ready for takeoff (New Atlas)
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Seriously, what is it with crypto bridges? Why are they seemingly so easy to hack? New York cracks down on Robinhood. A bunch of Silicon Valley boldfaced names are going to be swept up into the Twitter/Elon trial. And if Chromebooks and gaming are suffering post-Covid hangovers, is Uber a post-covid Phoenix?
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- Nomad token bridge drained of $190M in funds in security exploit (CoinTelegraph)
- Robinhood’s Crypto Unit Fined $30 Million by New York’s Top Financial Regulator (WSJ)
- Twitter is probing Elon Musk’s social circle in broad legal requests (Washington Post)
- As worldwide tablet shipments grow, Chromebooks face a different reality (ZDNet)
- Activision Blizzard Sales Fall on Weak Call of Duty Release (Bloomberg)
- The Morning After: Did Microsoft just neg Activision Blizzard? (Engadget)
- Uber reports another big loss but beats on revenue, shares pop 14% (CNBC)
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Apple opens up Apple Pay a tiny bit. But again, from pressure from the Europeans. Meta is accused of abetting sectarian violence in another developing nation. A deep dive into the seeming demise of the entire e-scooter industry. How much good will the CHIPS Act actually do? And a review of the new Dell XPS 13 Plus.
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Links:
- Apple Pay may finally work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16 (The Verge)
- Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya (Washington Post)
- Bolt Mobility has vanished, leaving e-bikes, unanswered calls behind in several US cities (TechCrunch)
- Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production (NikkeiAsia)
- Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support (Financial Times)
- DELL XPS 13 PLUS REVIEW: XPS PLUS, BATTERY MINUS (The Verge)
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Matthew Ball comes on to talk about his new book:The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything. Then, Jason Del Rey@DelReytalks to us about how Amazon has been faring in the post-Jeff Bezos era.
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Even a weak earnings report from Apple can still break records. Instagram’s been in a stare down with the Kardashians, and Adam Mosseri just blinked. Congress just passed a ton of money to jump start domestic chip production. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple iPhone Sales Remain Resilient as Company Reports 11% Decline in Profit (WSJ)
- Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer)
- CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Buy Now, Pay Later Juggernaut Is About to Be Tested (Bloomberg)
- F.T.C. Chair Upends Antitrust Standards With Meta Lawsuit (NYTimes)
- Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? (The Markup)
- TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker)
- RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me to be a ruthless capitalist (Polygon)
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Meta has reported its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline. The FTC has moved to block a Meta acquisition, the first big regulatory move of the Lina Khan era. Google delays it’s cookie cleanup. Again. You’re not seeing things. There’s been a Gmail redesign. And DeepMind has solved one of the oldest problems in biology.
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- Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ)
- F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech (NYTimes)
- Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group (WSJ)
- Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google)
- Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
- DeepMind's protein-folding AI cracks biology's biggest problem (NewScientist)
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I’ll wrap up the earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, Spotify and Shopify. Proof that the cost of a data breach for companies is skyrocketing. What ever happened to the legislative crackdown on Big Tech? Inflation comes to the Metaverse as Meta is jacking up the prices on Quest headsets. And a big update to Google Maps.
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- Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today)
- IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before (SiliconAngle)
- Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us (ArsTechnica)
- Senate’s Antitrust Crackdown Sputters as Schumer Signals Doubts (Bloomberg)
- Quest 2 Price Jumps To $399 As Meta Costs Rise (UploadVR)
- Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch)
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Is the SEC about to crack down on Coinbase? Why is Kylie Jenner mad at Instagram? Why are all the big tech companies mad at the leap second, of all things? And a deep dive look at what Amazon probably wants to do with its big healthcare acquisition.
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Links:
- Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)
- Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to 'stop trying to be TikTok,' which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)
- Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)
- Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ)
- Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)
- The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket)
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NFL+ arrives, and at the end of the show, we’ll take a deep dive into sports rights as the great free radical in the streaming wars and the evolution in sports in general. In between that, people accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of lowballing them. More details on the so-called Apple Watch Pro. And if I told you there’s a global shortage of fiber optic cable, would you be surprised?
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Links:
- NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
- Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
- Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register)
- Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT)
- Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes)
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Saoud KalifahofFakeSpot.comjoins us to discuss what I guess we could call, the fake review economy. Chris made a compelling case for the newBrowser Companybrowser Arc. I try to find my way to a Brian’s Unified Theory of what makes new social networks succeed.
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Well, things weren’t so rosy with Twitter earnings, and downright abysmal over at Snap. The Feds bring the first ever case for insider trading in the crypto space. Your next smart lock might draw its power from your phone as you use it. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid (CNBC)
- Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC)
- Ex-Coinbase Manager Arrested in US Crypto Insider-Trading Case (Bloomberg)
- Your next smart lock could ditch the battery by harvesting energy from your phone (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Chiplets helped save AMD. They might also help save Moore’s law and head off an energy crisis. (Protocol)
- Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’ (Protocol)
- Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way (NYTimes)
- The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge)
- The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent (Skift)
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Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available.
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- Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch)
- Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge)
- Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon)
- Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg)
- Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information)
- Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt)
- @CryptoKaleo Tweet
- TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch)
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Netflix reported earnings that weren’t as bad as even they had been telegraphing. So that’s something. The court case is already going against how Elon Musk hoped it would go. What’s up with everyone leaving Neuralink? And a deep-dive look at BeReal. Is it the next big thing or just the latest fad?
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- Netflix loses fewer subscribers than expected and says cheaper ad tier is coming in early 2023 (CNBC)
- Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay (CNBC)
- A Neuralink cofounder left Elon Musk's brain-chip company, leaving it with just 2 of its 8 founding members (Insider)
- Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses (CNET)
- Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now (FastCompany)
- Why BeReal is breaking out (Platformer)
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Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews. Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing. Slack is raising prices. ESPN+ is raising prices. But one streaming service is actually LOWERING prices? And mark your calendars, cause the Fall product launch season is upon us.
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- Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews (TechCrunch)
- Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing (Bloomberg)
- Apple Sued Over Apple Pay, Accused of Antitrust Violations (Bloomberg)
- Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch)
- ESPN+ Monthly Subscription to Rise $3 as Disney Strives for Streaming Profits (Variety)
- Crunchyroll is lowering monthly subscription fees in almost 100 regions (Engadget)
- Samsung confirms August 10th Unpacked event date with ‘cryptic’ puzzle (The Verge)
- WD begins shipping 22TB Red Pro, Purple Pro and Gold HDDs (Club386)
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Everything we cover is in a full vibe shift of… pulling back. Coinbase sent some eyebrows up over the weekend, but insolvency is off the table. Right? Right? Adam Newmann’s crypto startup is hitting the pause button. All the rapid delivery startups that flooded New York City last year seem to be done. Poof. And is Silicon Valley itself definitively shrinking?
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- Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app's core features to desktop (TechCrunch)
- Leaked emails: Crypto exchange Coinbase is 'temporarily shutting down' its US affiliate-marketing program (Insider)
- Coinbase stirs rumors of liquidity woes as it halts affiliate-marketing program (Insider Bitcoins)
- Crypto Crash Stalls WeWork Founder Adam Neumann’s Climate Venture (WSJ)
- The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups (Wired)
- Tiger Global-backed Missfresh faces fight for survival (FT)
- 71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. (WSJ)
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Now the haircuts have come for Stripe, but they took theirs voluntarily. Who’s responsible for the big hole on Celsius’ balance sheet? Twitter wants to let devs make their own timelines. Will Amazon voluntarily exit the white label business. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ)
- Celsius Discloses $1.19 Billion Deficit in Bankruptcy Filing (Bloomberg)
- Twitter is testing custom timelines, and first one is about The Bachelorette (TechCrunch)
- Amazon Has Been Slashing Private-Label Selection Amid Weak Sales (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion (Bloomberg)
- The Standards Innovation Paradox (Michael Mignano Medium)
- Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (NYTimes)
- Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production (NYTimes)
- How the Webb sends its hundred-megapixel images a million miles back to Earth (TechCrunch)
- The Webb Space Telescope’s Profound Data Challenges (iee Spectrum)
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Celsius files for bankruptcy. Tesla loses a key Autopilot exec. Netflix chooses Microsoft for it’s ads partnership. Could TikTok be a long-term problem for Google Search? And the reviews are in for the new Macbook Airs with M2 chips.
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- Embattled crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy protection (CNBC)
- Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt (Financial Times)
- Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he’s leaving the company (CNBC)
- Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its new ad-supported tier (The Verge)
- Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs (TechCrunch)
- Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps (TechCrunch)
- APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK AIR M2 IS THE START OF A WHOLE NEW AIR-A (The Verge)
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Twitter officially sues Elon Musk and by the sound of things, has decided to go to the mattresses. Has Apple officially cut ties with Jony Ive? Here come the tech mergers and acquisitions. How streaming has officially killed traditional tv by at least one measure. And an interesting new gadget. Nothing. I’ll explain.
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- Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal (NYTimes)
- 15 Revelations in Twitter’s Suit Against Elon Musk (Intelligencer)
- Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader (NYTimes)
- Unity is merging with Ironsource in an all-stock deal valuing Ironsource at $4.4B in a big consolidation play for gaming (TechCrunch)
- Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown (The Verge)
- Nothing officially announces flashy Phone 1, starting at £399 (The Verge)
- HBO & HBO Max Smash Past Netflix In Total Emmy Nominations As Hulu & Apple Score Strong Showings (Deadline)
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Liquidators say they can't find the Three Arrows Capital founders. The FTC will crack down on data-anonymization claims. Another smart home company decides to brick some of the hardware that people paid good money for. Hopin is the latest highflyer to fall to earth with layoffs. And what it’s like to work at Twitter right now.
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- Three Arrows Founders’ Whereabouts Unknown, Liquidators Say (Bloomberg)
- FTC to Crack Down on Sites That Claim Your Data Is 'Anonymized' When It's Not (PCMag)
- Hive’s abandoned smart home devices will cease operation starting in 2023 (The Verge)
- Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.8 billion, is laying off 29% of staff in its second wave of job cuts in 2022 (Insider)
- Twitter Lawyers Call Musk’s Deal Termination ‘Wrongful’ (Bloomberg)
- As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in Charge (Wired)
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The famous stock market player Bernard Baruch once said, paraphrasing: Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four. The main purpose of the market is to make fools of as many people as possible. Today, stories of this lesson being learned by both major VC firms and Elon Musk. Oh, and how North Korean hackers infiltrate companies.
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- Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (The Guradian)
- Here’s how North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms (CNN)
- Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Go Bargain Hunting for Beaten-Down Tech Stocks (The Information)
- Elon’s Out (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Tweet Storm #1
- Tweet Storm #2
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Part 2 of the eBay story from the Internet History podcast.
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Apple has a new lockdown mode to triage a whole range of cyberattacks. Also, Mark Gurman has some details on that new, expected, “rugged” Apple Watch. Twitter is testing co-tweets. More details on the new version of Meta’s VR headset. And the weekend longreads suggestions. I’ll explain.
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- Apple Announces New Lockdown Mode on iOS 16 With 'Extreme' Level of Security (MacRumors)
- Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch With Larger Screen, Metal Case (Bloomberg)
- Heads of FBI, MI5 Issue Joint Warning on Chinese Spying (WSJ)
- Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace (TechCrunch)
- Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet (The Verge)
- Meta Plans to Call New Virtual Reality Headset the ‘Quest Pro’ (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Keeping Phones Running in Wartime Pushes Kyivstar to the Limit (Bloomberg)
- The Metaverse in 2040 (Pew Research Center)
- Not Just a Tennis Podcast, but Rather ‘The’ Tennis Podcast (NYTimes)
- Inside a Superfan's Secret Friendship With Eddie Van Halen (Rolling Stone)
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Will regulators wreck the great gaming consolidation? Can the US bully it’s way to blocking China’s chip development? Are Dilithium crystals the key to saving crypto from quantum computing? And why the crypto crash has been a footnote for Wall Street. At least, so far.
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- Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover faces competition probe in the UK (CNBC)
- US Wants Dutch Supplier to Stop Selling Chipmaking Gear to China (Bloomberg)
- NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new ‘quantum-proof’ cryptography standards (SC Media)
- Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with big Grubhub investment and partnership (TechCrunch)
- Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Mining Giant Dumped Most of Its Bitcoin Holdings in June (Bloomberg)
- How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown (NYTimes)
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The Crypto Crash goes ever onward. Klarna is going on a realty tv show called, Now That’s what I Call A Haircut! The hackers have come for the Chinese surveillance state. The World Cup is going to have the robots call offsides. And Steve Jobs is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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- Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawls, trading and deposits amid financial challenges. (TechCrunch)
- Number Three (Entrepreneurs Handbook)
- Meta to Shut Down Novi Service in September in Crypto Winter (Bloomberg)
- Klarna in Talks to Raise Fresh Cash at Slashed $6.5 Billion Valuation (WSJ)
- Hackers Claim Theft of Police Info in China’s Largest Data Leak (Bloomberg)
- AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (The Guardian)
- Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)
- President Biden to award Steve Jobs with posthumous Medal of Freedom (9to5Mac)
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From my original Internet History Podcast, the first of my two episodes outlining the story of eBay, in-depth, as I make the strong case that it was maybe the most important and overlooked startup of the Web 1.0 era. Part 2 of this story coming on Friday.
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Time for some deep analysis of the podcast industry. Is Spotify gonna take over all of audio? Is the blockchain useful for podcasting? What is the great Michael Mignano doing next, after leaving Spotify and Anchor?
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While I'm away briefly for vacation, here's a talk I gave at Google in December 2018 around the time my book came out. Just a condensed dose of my entire thesis of the technology industry's history from 1994-2006. Nothing much new if you've read my book, but if you want the cliff's notes version, here it is.
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One good thing about the crypto crash is you can get affordable graphics cards again. Layoffs come to the Metaverse. Samsung is producing the first 3nm chips. Apple wants you to pay for your gas without getting out of your car. Though, you’d still have to get out to pump, I suppose. And, bit of a surprise, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources (CoinDesk)
- Nvidia Game Card Prices Fall Along With Crypto Mining Demand (Bloomberg)
- Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers [Update] (Kotaku)
- Samsung Electronics starts 3-nanometer chip production ahead of TSMC (TechCrunch)
- Fuel Purchases Directly Within Apple CarPlay to Be Available This Fall (MacRumors)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Did Razzlekhan and Dutch Pull Off History’s Biggest Crypto Heist? (Bloomberg)
- Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock (Bloomberg)
- The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube (NYTimes Magazine)
- HOW ONE OF GAMING’S MOST INTIMIDATING GENRES SPAWNED A LEGION OF HITS (The Verge)
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I joke its Groundhog Day, but if you’re a crypto billionaire, you probably want the repetition to end as much as anyone. Wait, is TikTok suddenly in trouble with the US government again? A new line of chips from Arm. Sony wants to play to PC gamers. And why Netflix doling out Stranger Things in portions is one of the biggest experiments being run in Hollywood right now.
Links:
- Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’ (NYTimes)
- Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests (Reuters)
- U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores (CNBC)
- Ray tracing and 64-bit only: What you should know about Arm's 2023 CPUs and GPUs (Android Authority)
- Sony targets PC gamers with new hardware brand, Inzone (Washington Post)
- Here’s why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things (Recode)
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Why there’s a HUGE tech angle to the whole Roe V. Wade controversy. Google’s shutting down one of their chat apps, but even I can’t be bothered to figure out which one or why. Airbnb is permanently putting the kibosh on parties. And will StarlinkRV allow all of us to take off into the wild and still do our work?
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- Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare (Axios)
- Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight (TechCrunch)
- Google Hangouts is shutting down in November (The Verge)
- Elon Musk Has Twitter’s Data, but Getting Answers on Spam Accounts May Be Tougher (WSJ)
- Amazon plans two Prime shopping events this year, with second one in Q4 (CNBC)
- Airbnb’s party ban is now permanent (The Verge)
- STARLINK RV REVIEW: THE DAWN OF SPACE INTERNET TO GO (The Verge)
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Are we in for the biggest deluge in new Apple products, maybe ever? Why, though, are the new MacBook Pros with M2 chips sporting slower SSD drives? Is your phone plan about to get more expensive? Is VC activity actually going down? How much should we worry about Tether? And something something, are DAO’s really that decentralized?
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- Apple Readies iPhone 14 and HomePod Upgrade in Flood of New Products (Bloomberg)
- Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds (MacRumors)
- AT&T, Verizon Raise Prices and Test Consumer Budgets (WSJ)
- Venture Funding Set to Hit Lowest Level Since 2020 (Bloomberg)
- More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down (WSJ)
- Dissecting the DAO: Web3 Ownership is Surprisingly Concentrated (Chainalysis)
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No guest this week (though the great @EvanKirstel does show up at one point) but we covered a wide range of topic, mostly ones that have been under-discussed lately on the show...
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The fire sale on tech companies has begun. More big important hacks to be aware of. Another crypto bridge has been compromised. Amazon wants you to know about their AI coding tool. TikTok turns on the money spigot. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Zendesk to be acquired by investor group for $10.2 billion (CNBC)
- Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware (TechCrunch)
- CISA, US Coast Guard warn of Log4Shell attacks after 130GB data breach in May (The Record)
- Breaking: Harmony’s Horizon Bridge hacked for $100M (CoinTelegraph)
- Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool (TechCrunch)
- TikTok Turns On the Money Machine (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Web3 Use Cases: Today (Not Boring)
- Where are all the crypto use cases? (Evan Conrad)
- How Russia’s vaunted cyber capabilities were frustrated in Ukraine (Washington Post)
- Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready? (WSJ)
- How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making (Game Developer)
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Would you want my voice to be the voice of your Alexa? An interesting raise that can change people’s vocal accents in real time. Instagram rolls out a comprehensive system to check ages on their platform. And is that new Brave search engine becoming a contender?
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- Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma (TechCrunch)
- That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France (TechCrunch)
- Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device (Tom's Hardware)
- Instagram Tests Child Age Verification, but Falls Short of Full ID Checks (WSJ)
- Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year (Bleeping Computer)
- NBCUniversal, Google Compete to Help Netflix Develop Ad-Backed Tier (WSJ)
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News is new again, after Google does a size-able redesign. Copilot AI is available on GitHub, but is it worth paying for? Amazon unveiled some new warehouse robots, but is this partially because they fear running out of workers? The new Twitter Notes feature and why it’s increasingly likely that you’ll buy your next car online, even if you don’t buy it from Telsa.
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- Google News gets desktop redesign with focus on customization (9to5Google)
- GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month (The Verge)
- Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (TechCrunch)
- Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot (The Verge)
- Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire (Recode/Vox)
- Why You Might Buy Your Next Car Online (NYTimes)
- Announcing StackHawk’s $20.7 Million in Series B Funding to Drive Developer-First Security (StackHawk)
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Did something happen while I was away? Sort of like everything crashing in crypto? Apple wants to kill the CAPTCHA for you. The first Apple Store has unionized. Is it fair that G Suite is no longer free? And is the Microsoft Surface Duo 2 actually… good now?
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- Crypto lender Babel Finance announces steps to improve its liquidity situation (The Block)
- New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account (The Block)
- iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites (MacRumors)
- Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. (NYTimes)
- Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up (NYTimes)
- MICROSOFT’S WEIRD SURFACE DUO 2 HAS SURPRISINGLY BECOME MY FAVORITE DEVICE OF THE YEAR (The Verge)
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Juna (heyjuna.com) replaces awkward lab visits with at-home STI testing and treatment. Another proud investment of theRideHomeFund. As ever, get in touch with Brian if you'd like to work with Juna directly.
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Some thoughts on what startup workers can do with their stock options (in this economy!?). DALL·E blows our collective minds. Considering the legacy of Internet Explorer. Thanks to @adam_keesling and @jnack.
- What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn?
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- New podcast: DALL•E & You & Me
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Elon Musk speaks to his soon to be employees for the first time at Twitter. Snap is testing a new subscription Snapchat. Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals. Klarna is thinking about raising a massively down round. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg)
- SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes)
- Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge)
- Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet)
- Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every)
- ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian)
- A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg)
- Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (Wired)
- What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum)
- The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners (FiveBooks.com)
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Google says YouTube Shorts is keeping pace with TikTok. Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok in order to keep pace themselves. That new Sonos Voice Control assistant sounds pretty good to me. Why a bunch of folks are going to string internet cables under the shrinking polar ice. And why the Japanese are freaked out about Internet Explorer going away.
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- YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ)
- FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge)
- Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge)
- SONOS VOICE CONTROL REVIEW: A SPEEDY, PRIVATE, MUSIC-FOCUSED ASSISTANT (The Verge)
- A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ)
- Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches 'for months' (NikkeiAsia)
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Is a major crypto hedge fund about to blow up? How the Celsius network got in such hot water. YouTube lets you make corrections. Why Apple’s deal for Major League Soccer is such a big deal. And pour one out, definitively, for Internet Explorer.
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Links:
- After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital's future is uncertain (The Block)
- Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ)
- Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT)
- YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge)
- Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early (The Verge)
- Exclusive: New entry-level iPad to pack A14 chip, 5G, and USB-C connectivity (9to5Mac)
- Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games (WSJ)
- Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian)
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Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium. Massive and controversial layoffs at Coinbase. Firefox is blocking stuff by default now. Meta announces more tools to make the Metaverse safe from trolls and worse. And why those pro features in iPadOS are only for iPads with M1 chips and above.
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Links:
- Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge)
- Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge)
- Firefox enables its anti-tracking feature by default (Engadget)
- Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch)
- Apple Lets You Move WhatsApp Chats From Android to iPhone (CNET)
- Apple resized the iPad's workflow with Stage Manager (TechCrunch)
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All the crypt is down bad. Is DeFi lending platform Celsius to blame? More importantly, are margin calls coming for big Bitcoin bag holders, including Tesla? Jack Dorsey’s plan to leapfrog to Web5. Leaked images of the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Is your smart TV committing ad fraud? And why I’m pretty sure that Google AI bot did NOT become sentient.
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Links:
- Celsius Tanks 70% in 1 Hour After Company Pauses Withdrawals to 'Stabilize Liquidity' (Decrypt)
- Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD unveils proposal for decentralized Web platform (The Block)
- Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5 (CoinDesk)
- Galaxy Z Flip 4 leaks in real-life shots with much smaller display crease (9to5Google)
- Apple Goes Deeper Into Finance With Buy Now, Pay Later Offering (WSJ)
- Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds (WSJ)
- The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Washington Post)
- Nonsense on Stilts (Gary Marcus)
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WWDC wrap up, @chrismaddern on @floornfts, and Brian talks about his Mac Studio experience.
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Time to refresh those Yao Ming and Verne Troyer Powerbook ads from the early ‘aughts. Could Meta not release its big metaverse hardware play for years? The NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot seems to be getting serious. Speaking of Austin Powers actors, Seth Green ransomed his Ape. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- 14-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in Early 2023 (MacRumors)
- Apple Plans 15-Inch MacBook Air for 2023 and New 12-Inch Laptop (Bloomberg)
- Meta Scales Back AR Glasses Plan Amid Reality Labs Shakeup (The Information)
- AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture (AnandTech)
- The federal government’s Tesla Autopilot investigation is moving into a new phase (The Verge)
- Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home (BuzzFeed News)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- These Drones Could Bring You 5G Networking After a Hurricane (CNET)
- Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes)
- The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge (New Yorker)
- Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story (Kotaku)
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Who needs a gaming console? Not Xbox, not anymore. Twitter is gonna give Elon the firehose treatment. Dell unveils some new XPS goodness. Apple does its own banking. More signs of the NFT market cooling off. And a popular developer tool is riding off into the sunset.
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Links:
- Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge)
- The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge)
- Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
- In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
- Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget)
- Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg)
- Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
- ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
- The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
- GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)
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The crypto world’s greatest supervillain looks like he’s joining the crypto bandwagon. Salesforce… (Salesforce?!) has jumped on the NFT bandwagon. Could Netflix buy Roku? How many layoffs has Silicon Valley seen thusfar? And a look at Apple’s big push into the passwordless future.
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Links:
- Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources (CoinDesk)
- Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud (TechCrunch)
- US: Chinese govt hackers breached telcos to snoop on network traffic (BleepingComputer)
- Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (CrunchBase News)
- Inside Roku, talk is heating up about an acquisition by Netflix (Insider)
- Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time (Wired)
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TikTok now has avatars, to keep up with Bitmoji and Memoji. The SEC seems to be seriously probing Binance. The death of the lighting port really might be nigh. Bits and pieces that fell through the cracks from WWDC. And potentially a huge breakthrough in keeping your data encrypted and secure, but still usable and searchable.
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Links:
- TikTok’s new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch)
- US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest (Bloomberg)
- USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’ (The Verge)
- Security Fixes Won't Require Full iOS Update in iOS 16, Will Be Installed Automatically (MacRumors)
- Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022 (AnandTech)
- A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired)
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All the headlines from WWDC. All the new OS’s and a new MacBook Air with a new M2 chip, but I’ll save you the speculation. Nothing on the AR/VR front. More Bored Apes stolen. More posturing from Elon Musk that he might walk away from the Twitter deal. And is Netflix about to get into live sports?
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WWDC Links:
- Apple debuts iOS 16 with customizable lock screen, Messages updates, much more (9to5Mac)
- Apple brings ‘undo send’ to iMessage (TechCrunch)
- Live Activities is a new iOS 16 feature meant to improve notifications (The Verge)
- Apple announces in-camera translations and improves dictation (TechCrunch)
- Apple Pay Later lets you split up purchases into four payments at no interest (TechCrunch)
- Apple Maps to get multistop routing and more in iOS 16 (TechCrunch)
- watchOS 9 introduces new running metrics and medication reminders (The Verge)
- Apple Announces Multi-Display CarPlay With Integrated Speedometer, Climate Controls, and More (MacRumors)
- Apple announces new flagship M2 processor (The Verge)
- Apple unveils new MacBook Air: M2 chip, case redesign, new midnight blue color, display notch (MacBook Air)
- Apple slaps new M2 processor into 13-inch MacBook Pro (TechCrunch)
- Apple announces macOS 13 Ventura, the next major software update for the Mac (ArsTechnica)
- Apple unveils iPadOS 16 with beefed up multitasking features (TechCrunch)
- Apple Previews New 'Freeform' App to Work Collaboratively (MacRumors)
Non-WWDC Links:
- Yuga Labs Confirms Discord Server Hack; 200 ETH Worth of NFTs Stolen (CoinDesk)
- Musk accuses Twitter of ‘resisting and thwarting’ his right to information on fake accounts (CNBC)
- Netflix, ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Amazon are racing to win US Formula 1 rights as the global auto sport booms in popularity (Insider)
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It’s increasingly looking like we might be approaching a tipping point in terms of driverless ride hailing becoming a reality. Twitter will let you set alerts for your name, among other things. Did Elon Musk order everyone back to the office to encourage some people to quit? What to expect from Monday’s WWDC kickoff. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
- Cruise can finally charge for driverless robotaxi rides in San Francisco (TechCrunch)
- Twitter is building a tool for keyword alerts, in case you need more Twitter notifications (The Verge)
- Elon Musk asks Tesla execs to ‘pause all hiring,’ cut 10% of staff, amid ‘super bad feeling about economy’ (Electrek)
- Apple Plans to Make the iPad More Like a Laptop and Less Like a Phone (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok. (The Honest Broker)
- Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub (TechCrunch)
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes (Every.to)
- Looking Glass might have just invented the GIF’s 3D successor (The Verge)
- Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? (NYTimes)
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Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta after 14 years. Who is Javier Olivan, who is replacing her as Meta’s COO? I’ll let you know. Why the feds cracking down on NFT fraud could have big implications. And Google’s doing that thing Google loves to do with its messaging apps. Again.
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Links:
- Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down (CNBC)
- Sandberg’s Advertising Empire Leaves a Complicated Legacy (Bloomberg)
- Javier Olivan, who’s replacing Sheryl Sandberg at Meta, built his career on international expansion (CNBC)
- US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading (CoinDesk)
- Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (The Verge)
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The Surface Laptop Go gets a refresh. The Supreme Court has blocked that Texas social media law. For now. Twitter is really gonna take TweetDeck away from us? Really? And the really interesting new Android phone that attempts to strip every Googly thing it can, out of the Android experience.
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Links:
- Microsoft’s compact Surface Laptop Go updated with 11th Gen Intel processor (The Verge)
- High Court Halts Texas Law Targeting Social Media Platforms (2) (Bloomberg Law)
- Twitter shutting down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1, here are alternatives to the web (9to5Mac)
- TikTok is testing a ‘clear mode’ for a distraction-free scrolling experience (TechCrunch)
- Fidelity Slashes Reddit, Stripe Valuations After Tech Rout (Bloomberg)
- The Murena One shows exactly how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone (The Verge)
- Apple’s Safari browser now has more than 1 billion users (AtlasVPN)
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The new fastest computer in the world sees the crown return to the US. Will we not see Sony’s next-gen VR rig until next year? Ride hailing fares are reaching record highs as the players attempt to pivot to profitability. A new ride hailing entrant that lets you haggle on price. And a look at how Paramount is trying to go it alone in the streaming wars.
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Links:
- AMD-Powered Frontier Supercomputer Breaks the Exascale Barrier, Now Fastest in the World (Tom's Hardware)
- Kuo: PlayStation VR2 Mass Production To Start H2 2022 (UploadVR)
- China Is Leading the Global Decline in Venture Capital Deals (Bloomberg)
- Uber and Lyft’s New Road: Fewer Drivers, Thrifty Riders and Jittery Investors (WSJ)
- Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine (Rest Of World)
- Can Paramount Go It Alone? (NYTimes)
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A checkin with Rownd about what it's like to close a round right now, and what actually being on stage at YC Demo Day is like.
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Microsoft is creating an HDMI dongle to turn any tv or monitor into an Xbox gaming console. Now the lawsuits are popping off in the whole Elon/Twitter thing. If even high profile startups like Substack are having trouble raising rounds, what does that mean for run of the mill startups? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone' (Windows Central)
- Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal (CNBC)
- Twitter director Egon Durban won’t leave the board after shareholders voted to boot him (CNBC)
- Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- The big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere (MIT Technology Review)
- In India’s Mobile-Payments Boom, Even Beggars Get QR Codes (WSJ)
- The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top (Forbes)
- THE UNSTOPPABLE MACHINES BEHIND THE GAME CONSOLE SHORTAGE (The Verge)
- Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives (The Guardian)
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Apple is attempting to fend off a unionization movement by… paying people more. That Broadcom/VMware deal is real. You can now pay close to $1000 for a Gucci Oura Ring. After a decade of declines, EV battery prices are going up. And the last payphone in New York City is gone.
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Links:
- Apple Boosting Pay Budget for Workers Amid Tight Labor Market (WSJ)
- Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech (Motherboard)
- Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion (The Verge)
- Oura collaborated with Gucci to make an 18 carat gold smart ring (Engadget)
- Apple to Keep iPhone Production Flat as Market Grows Tougher (Bloomberg)
- Snowflake stock falls as executives forecast a narrower margin than expected (CNBC)
- Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding (CNBC)
- After a Decade of Declines, EV Battery Costs Are To Rise 14% This Year (The Electric/The Information)
- The Trouble With Lithium (Bloomberg)
- NYC's 'last' payphone will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York (TimeOut New York)
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Seth Green has lost a film role… for his Ape. Cause he lost his Ape to a fishing scam. a16z launches their biggest ever crypto fund. Headlines from Microsoft’s Build conference. The e-bike that helps Ukraine take out Russian tanks. And a desktop grade Windows PC you could put in your pocket.
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Links:
- Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show (Buzzfeed News)
- Andreessen Horowitz bets on crypto ‘golden era’ with new $4.5bn fund (FT)
- Microsoft’s Power Platform can now build websites and turn images into apps (XDA Developers)
- Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Dev Box is a cloud-powered developer workstation (The Verge)
- DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement (Bleeping Computer)
- Do Kwon's plan to rebirth the Terra blockchain gets approved (The Block)
- Terra Collapse Triggers $83 Billion Decentralized Finance Slump (Bloomberg)
- Ukraine Is Using Quiet Electric Bikes to Haul Anti-Tank Weapons (Motherboard/Vice)
- Zotac's minuscule Windows 11 Pro desktop PC is only slightly bigger than your phone (TechSpot)
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Google Research says to Open AI: “Hold my beer.” They’ve announced a new AI-based text-to-image generator to rival DALL-E 2. Is the shocking earnings warning from Snap a result of Apple’s ATT changes or is this indicative of the broader tech slowdown? Google’s street view turns 15 with some new bells and whistles. And does Apple REALLY want you to repair your own iPhone, or no?
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Links:
- OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu (TechCrunch)
- Zoom pops 16% on first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance (CNBC)
- Snap plunges 30% after CEO warns company will miss revenue and earnings estimates, slow hiring (CNBC)
- Google is testing a smaller, modular Street View camera system (Engadget)
- APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY (The Verge)
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Is a big mergers and acquisition wave about to hit the tech industry. I make the case from several different angles. AMD releases its next generation Ryzen chips. And a super interesting new startup in the Web 3 space. Is it game? Is it a fitness app? Can you earn money for moving? Yes.
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Links:
- Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware (Bloomberg)
- Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge (Kotaku)
- Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them. (NYTimes)
- AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced (AnandTech)
- 'Move-to-earn' Solana app StepN is latest crypto gaming craze (TechCrunch)
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Friend of the show, Chris Dixon (@cdixon) of a16z's crypto and web3 investing initiatives comes on to talk about the recent report:2022 State of Crypto. We got into all the things, using our favorite lens of tech history.
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A new high end Snapdragon chip. The Apple AR/VR headset has been demoed, but only 9 people got to see it in action. A YC backed startup is facing lawsuits related to the whole UST blowup. The feds will no longer go after good faith, white hat hackers. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, for when flagship isn’t flagship enough (The Verge)
- Apple Shows AR/VR Headset to Board in Sign of Progress on Key Project (Bloomberg)
- Stablegains Faces Lawsuit After Losing $44M on UST (CryptoBriefing)
- Coinbase Slashes Costs, Freezes Hiring Amid Crypto Crash (The Information)
- A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. (Insider)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Is Proceeding, Not ‘On Hold,’ Executives Tell Staff (Bloomberg)
- DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Cyber Insurers Raise Rates Amid a Surge in Costly Hacks (WSJ)
- The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over (Slate)
- The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans (NYTimes Magazine)
- Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? (Quanta)
- Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised (Vanity Fair)
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A code red alert about vulnerabilities in VMware products. TikTok has a clever new program to crowdsource ad content from TikTok users. Oh, and they’re getting into games. FTX gets into regular old stock trading. The dreaded down rounds have arrived. And are there more Airbnb’s available in NYC right now, than there are apartments for rent?
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Links:
- 2 vulnerabilities with 9.8 severity ratings are under exploit. A 3rd looms (ArsTechnica)
- TikTok’s new ad product gives creators a chance to partner with marketers on branded content (TechCrunch)
- EXCLUSIVE TikTok plans big push into gaming, conducting tests in Vietnam -sources (Reuters)
- FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading (The Block)
- Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain (Financial Times)
- SoftBank-Backed Fintech Giant Klarna Looks for New Funds at Lower Valuation (WSJ)
- New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent (Curbed)
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Apple is delaying its recent return to work policy indefinitely. If crypto mining is banned in China, how come it still the second biggest contributor to the global hashrate? Twitter’s board says it’s going to hold Elon’s feet to the fire. And the interesting raise for a startup looking to save encryption from quantum computing?
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Links:
- Apple Delays Plan to Have Staff in Office Three Days a Week (Bloomberg)
- Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit (Bloomberg)
- China Makes a Comeback in Bitcoin Mining Despite Government Ban (Bloomberg)
- Netflix Hit By Layoffs; About 150 Mostly U.S.-Based Employees Affected (Deadline)
- Acer Just Revealed External Monitors With Stereoscopic 3D, and I'm Dying to Try Them (Gizmodo)
- As Musk Tweets, Advisers Labor to Keep Twitter Deal on Track (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Cornami raises $68M to support quantum encryption (VentureBeat)
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Now Elon says he can’t move forward with the deal until he gets solid answers from Twitter about the bot issue, even though, we have the paperwork of his original offer and there were no contingencies about bot numbers, and he totally could have written that into the deal. Will Apple use E Ink on their foldable device? Coinbase is slowing hiring, while Microsoft is boosting pay. And a big test of driver assist systems says they’re still not as reliable as we all hope they are.
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Links:
- Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44 Billion Deal to Proceed (Bloomberg)
- Apple ‘testing’ foldable with secondary E Ink display, says analyst (The Verge)
- Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases (MacRumors)
- Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk)
- Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block)
- Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire)
- Report spotlights vast scale of adtech's 'biggest data breach' (TechCrunch)
- Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests (The Register)
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Is Netflix about to experiment with actual live broadcasts? Where did all the bitcoin go in the whole Luna/UST backstop debacle? Spotify is testing NFTs. Uber Eats gets into the ankle robot delivery game. And the Texas law that has all of big social media platforms worried.
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Links:
- Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials (Deadline)
- LFG Reserves Dwindle to Just 313 Bitcoins From 80K After UST Crash (CoinDesk)
- Exclusive: Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles (MusicAlly)
- OpenSea is adding NFT copy detection and verification features (The Verge)
- Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional (TechCrunch)
- Tech groups ask Supreme Court to block Texas social media law (Washington Post)
- Just How Incredibly Fucked Up Is Texas’ Social Media Content Moderation Law? (TechDirt)
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Techpocalypse Now! W/ @EricNewcomer@loganbartlett & @alexrkonrad
How bad is it? How bad can it get? How do we get out of this?
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Ok. Are you sitting down? Would you believe me if I told you Elon Musk is giving signals that the Twitter deal might be off? Could we fix the whole stablecoin mess if we just turn it off and turn it back on again? The refugees from Meta’s failed crypto project have a new startup to call home. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions™.
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Sponsors:
- Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam / fake account report (The Verge)
- Terraform Again Halts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna (Bloomberg)
- Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launches Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z and Paradigm (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions™:
- Terra: To the Moon and Back (Not Boring)
- Why financial engineering has gone full circle with Terra (The Blind Spot)
- Tech workers in Latin America want to make Spanish the primary language of programming (Rest of World)
- The Thing That Makes It Work Means It Doesn’t (Garbage Day)
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Other algorithmic stablecoins are teetering. Meta is cutting back, even when it comes to the Metaverse. Could an Instacart IPO lead us out of this darkness? Disney’s streaming business is holding up. For now. And the AR demo that was the most exciting thing from the I/O keynote yesterday.
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Links:
- Terra Crunch Shakes Foundations of Crypto Stablecoin Complex (Bloomberg)
- Exclusive: Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks (Reuters)
- SoftBank Reports Its Biggest-Ever Full-Year Loss (WSJ)
- Instacart Files Confidentially for an IPO That Could Happen This Year (Bloomberg)
- Senate confirms Bedoya to FTC, establishing Democratic majority (The Verge)
- Disney+ Hits 137.7M Subscribers, Beating Wall Street Expectations in Streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Google releases Android 13 beta 2 with finer privacy controls and improved Material You (Neowin)
- Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O (TechCrunch)
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All the headlines from Google’s I/O keynote this afternoon. The stablecoin fiasco has gotten rapidly worse. More carnage in tech stocks. Is Apple shifting to USB C for the iPhone at long last? And pour one out for the iPod, the product and brand that very much kicked off our modern era of gadgetry.
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- Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps (9to5Google)
- Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future (TechCrunch)
- Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen (The Verge)
- Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449 (9to5Google)
- Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7 (Android Police)
- Google unveils the Pixel Buds Pro (9to5Google)
- Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7 (9to5Google)
- Google will release a Pixel Tablet… in 2023 (TechCrunch)
- As Luna holders watch the token slide, many won’t be able to cash out for weeks (The Block)
- Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides (CryptoWorld)
- Kuo: iPhone 15 to Switch From Lightning to USB-C in 2023 (MacRumors)
- The iPod is dead (TechCrunch)
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A major algorithmic stablecoin has lost its peg to the dollar. More concerns of a slowdown as Tiger Global has racked up massive paper losses. Match Group sues Google. Has GDPR crushed the European app economy? Amazon engages mom and pop stores to deliver packages. And an interesting raise that is building the GitHub of machine learning.
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- UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg for Second Time in 48 Hours, LUNA Market Cap Falls Below UST's (CoinDesk)
- Crypto’s Audacious Algorithmic Stablecoin Experiment Crumbles (Bloomberg)
- Tiger Global hit by $17bn losses in tech rout (FT)
- Europe's GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps (The Register)
- Match Sues Google Over App Store Billing Rules (Bloomberg)
- Amazon’s surprising new delivery partners: Rural mom-and-pop shops (Recode)
- Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (TechCrunch)
Watch iconic Broadway theatre rise 30 feet above the ground (Borat voice: MY WIFE!)
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Everything is down, not just tech stocks, but now crypto too. More signs of belt tightening and possible hiring freezes, this time from Uber. Twitter has avoided the overall market route thanks to Elon’s bid, but could the downturn effect that as well? Instagram launches an NFT pilot. And what to expect from Google’s I/O later this week.
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- Bitcoin’s Unraveling Hits 50% From Peak With Drop Below $33,000 (Bloomberg)
- Uber CEO tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’ (CNBC)
- Why Musk’s Twitter Bid Has Shaken Tesla Investors (NYTimes)
- Meta to start testing digital collectibles on Instagram (The Block)
- Costa Rica declares national emergency after Conti ransomware attacks (BleepingComputer)
- What to expect from Google I/O 2022 (The Verge)
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With Apple, Google and Microsoft all signed up to offer FIDO Alliance technology, are we about to hear about some big passwordless tech at all the developers conferences this summer? China wants the whole country to turn in their foreign made laptops. Fortnite is available everywhere, including iOS, thanks to Microsoft. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple, Google, Microsoft Back 'FIDO' Tech to Dump Passwords on Websites and Apps (CNET)
- China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs (Bloomberg)
- Epic's Fortnite Now Free to Play on Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console (CNET)
- Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™
- Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise (Wired)
- Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
- Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled (CNN)
- A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
- The Endgame (Newcomer)
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Elon gets some friends to join his Twitter deal. And does he expect to be Twitter CEO soon? A Google acquisition shows their metaverse aspirations. Sonos to launch a voice assistant. A hiring slowdown at Meta. How can there be need for layoffs at Cameo? And is anyone other than me and the US Government concerned about quantum computing breaking encryption?
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Links:
- Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter (FT)
- Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
- Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)
- Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (Protocol)
- Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically (TechCrunch)
- White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers (The Record)
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Uber is seeing rider usage return to pre-Covid levels. New, better flash storage. Twitter tests the ability to only tweet to certain circles. An interesting laptop and an interesting raise. And Spotify wants you to hang out, in Roblox.
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Links:
- Uber reports surging revenue as drivers return, but posts massive loss on investments (CNBC)
- NFT Sales Are Flatlining (WSJ)
- Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage is a major upgrade, especially for 5G phones (Android Authority)
- Twitter Testing New 'Twitter Circle' Feature for Sharing Tweets With a Smaller Number of People (MacRumors)
- Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free (MIT Technology Review)
- Razer’s Blade 15 is the first laptop with a 240Hz OLED display, but you’ll have to wait a while (The Verge)
- Larry Ellison leads $21.5 million Series A in cancer treatment startup Imagene AI (CTech)
- Spotify becomes first music streamer to launch on Roblox (TechCrunch)
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What do you know? Facebook got bored of something and left the market in a bit of a mess. The SEC seems to be staffing up to get serious about crypto. Apple accuses a rival of stealing trade secrets. And it seems like Meta wants to start getting those Metaverse enabling headsets in our hands sooner rather than later.
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- Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year (Bloomberg)
- SEC to Hire More Crypto Cops to Fight Digital Frauds (WSJ)
- PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments (Bloomberg)
- UK ministers ditch plans to empower tech regulator (FT)
- Apple accuses engineers of stealing chip secrets with AirDrop and Time Machine (9to5Mac)
- Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 (The Information)
- Rocket Lab captures booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time (Engadget)
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The expected EU hammer is coming down on Apple. Yuga Labs’ latest project didn’t bring down Ethereum, but made it hella expensive. Bots DID bring down Solana. Again. A new book looks at why Jony Ive left Apple. And what the heck is going on with Google and it’s AI researchers?
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- Apple charged by Brussels with abusing its market power in mobile payments (Financial Times)
- Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum (Bloomberg)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain (The Verge)
- Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool (CoinDesk)
- Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years (WSJ)
- How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (NYTimes)
- Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (NYTimes)
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How was the web won and lost? If you had to do Web2.0 over again, what would you do differently? What is the future of Twitter under Elon Musk. All this and more from a huge crew of web 2.0 OGs. Check them out from 15 years agoon YouTube.
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Snap’s Pixy, is a new sort of done/camera hybrid. We wrap up tech earnings week with Apple and Amazon. I continue to wonder if the one click checkout space is all it’s cracked up to be. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy (TechCrunch)
- Snap Pixy Review: Don’t Call It a Drone or a Selfie Stick—Even Though It’s Both (WSJ)
- Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
- The Twitter Thread With The Charts On Amazon (@juokaz)
- Bolt, a Checkout Startup Worth $11 Billion, Lost Customers as Revenue Stalled (The Information)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™
- Elon's Giant Package (Margins Substack)
- Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom (Bloomberg)
- As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming (Fast Company)
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Twitter reports earnings, for maybe the last time, publicly. Meta’s earnings weren’t THAT bad but that’s mostly because the set the table for it. Apple faces antitrust charges in the EU as soon as next week. Another country adopts bitcoin as currency. And would you like a dedicated metaverse room in your next house?
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Links:
- Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk’s takeover bid (CNBC)
- Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (The Verge)
- Meta's Bleak Q1; Spotify's Netflix Moment (The Information)
- Apple to face fresh antitrust charges in Brussels (FT)
- Google may now remove search results that dox you (The Verge)
- Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (BBCNews)
- NSA Re-awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (NextGov)
- How the pandemic is changing home design (Axios)
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Quick summation of Alphabet and Microsoft earnings. DJI is trying to prevent its drones from being used in the Ukraine war. Google has released tools to make it easier to spin up your own YouTube. Apple wants you to repair your iPhone yourself. And a deep dive into why autocorrect can’t ducking get it right sometimes. Ducking. I said ducking, which is the iPhone autocorrect version of that word.
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Links:
- Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (Alphabet)
- Earnings Release FY22 Q3 (Microsoft)
- Robinhood lays off nine percent of its full-time employees (Engadget)
- DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business (Bloomberg)
- Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery (TechCrunch)
- Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE (CNET)
- Apple’s Studio Display’s poor webcam quality is not a software bug after all (9to5Mac)
- Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (WSJ)
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You did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it. You know what that’s referring to, of course. Fidelity lets you allocate some of your 401(k) to bitcoin. More Bored Apes got swiped. And with the F-150 Lightning actually shipping today, another glimpse at the precarious reality of the electric car revolution.
Links:
- Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal (CNBC)
- Elon Musk buys Twitter (Platformer/Casey Newton)
- From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (Financial Times)
- Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts (WSJ)
- Bored Ape Instagram account hacked: NFTs worth $2.8 million stolen (The Block)
- SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash (Bloomberg)
- THE F-150 LIGHTNING IS FINALLY SHIPPING — IS FORD READY? (The Verge)
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By the time you hear these words, Elon Musk might already own Twitter. A big Java vulnerability. All of Mark Gurman’s expectations for the iPhone 14. Where and by how much, tech worker salaries are rising. And why the struggles at Netflix might lead to worse television across the board.
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Links:
- Twitter Eyes Deal With Musk as Soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
- Analysis: Musk tears up buyout playbook with $46.5 billion Twitter financing (Reuters)
- Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries (ArsTechnica)
- The iPhone 14 Is Less Than Six Months Away. Here’s What to Expect (Bloomberg)
- Tech Wage Inflation Puts Pressure on Companies (WSJ)
- Netflix and Facebook have given up most of the last few years’ gains since tech’s November peak (CNBC)
- The Netflix Nightmare: What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game (Vanity Fair)
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Founder Alex Damianou tells us aboutOpenAxis, which tells stories with data. If a picture tells a thousand words, how many does a chart tell? Easily and beautifully visualize data with an accessible point-and-click, no-code, no-pivot-table tool.
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The great Julia Alexander (@loudmouthjulia) joins us to talk about Netflix's big earnings bomb, CNN+ biting the big one, and the state of the streaming wars.
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CNN+ only made it, what, 1/8th of a Quibi? There’s blood on the streaming wars dance floor. a16z’s new crypto research lab makes me feel like I have to start covering them like a startup or a conglomerate. More bad news for Meta: they’re way behind in the payments race in India. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- CNN+ Streaming Service Will Shut Down Weeks After Its Start (NYTimes)
- a16z Crypto is launching an academic research lab focused on web3 (The Block)
- How Meta Platforms Fell Behind in Indian Mobile Payments (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- ApeCoin & the death of staking (Cobie Substack)
- Cutting-Edge Crypto Coins Tout Stability. Critics Call Them Dangerous. (WSJ)
- Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage (WSJ)
- Video Game Junkie Quietly Builds $3 Billion Payments Powerhouse (Bloomberg)
- The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever (Debugger)
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Ok. Funding actually secured, Elon? For real this time? A look at Tesla’s good earnings and monster margins. Unions are coming for big tech, it seems. A reckoning is coming for the lightning cable, it seems. And advertising in your console games is inevitable, it seems.
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Links:
- Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ)
- Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge)
- Tesla record profit blows away estimates (CNN Business)
- Tesla reports $18.76 billion in revenue and record margins in Q1 (CNBC)
- Apple Store workers in Atlanta are the first to formally seek a union. (NYTimes)
- Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS (CNBC)
- PlayStation Wants Ads In Its Games, Too (IGN)
- MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules (TechCrunch)
- Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge)
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Netflix shares crater after earnings, and the company might be turning to ad-supported streaming to eke out some growth. Coinbase’s NFT marketplace is live. Why crypto stocks are uncoupled from the underlying crypto market. Why the surge in zero days might actually be good news. And the tech bubble that would never burst. So far.
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Links:
- Netflix Q1 net subscribers unexpectedly decline, revenue misses expectations (Yahoo!Finance)
- Netflix Plans to Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Just Eat Weighs Grubhub Sale in Tough Food Delivery Market (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase NFT marketplace goes live in beta for select customers (The Block)
- Crypto Stocks Perform Worse Than Cryptocurrencies (WSJ)
- Google: 2021 was a Banner Year for Exploited 0-Day Bugs (ThreatPost)
- Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’ (The Verge)
- The Tech Bubble That Never Burst (NYTimes)
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Courts have reaffirmed the right to scrape the public facing web. We have some hints about how the Twitter edit button might work. Updates on the whole Twitter/Elon situation. Microsoft wants to bring in-game ads to Xbox. And a new startup accelerator you’re gonna want to put on your radar.
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Links:
- Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (TechCrunch)
- Twitter's in-development Edit button offers hints as to how the feature could work (TechCrunch)
- Apollo Global Considers Participating in a Bid for Twitter (WSJ)
- Insteon is down and may not be coming back (Stacey On IOT)
- Microsoft reportedly wants to bring ads to free-to-play Xbox games (The Verge)
- Andreessen Horowitz unveils piloted program for early-stage entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)
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Gergely Orosz ofThe Pragmatic Engineerhelps us figure out the strategy and expectations of joining a high profile startup, vs. the expectations and reality of joining a FAANG company. Also: the perils and promise and best practices of joining a startup, vs. the perils and promise and best practices of joining a big tech company. Hopefully, if you are a tech worker, an engineer, a designer, what have you, there will be some valuable learnings for you. Oh, and Chris and I try our hand at Elon punditry.
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Twitter’s board is contemplating a poison pill to ward off Elon Musk. The US said North Korean hackers were behind that big Axie Infinity theft. Mark Gurman lists the Macs that are in line to get the M2 chips. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Twitter Is Weighing a Poison Pill Defense to Thwart Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid (Bloomberg)
- Twitter Board Expected To Fight Musk Offer (The Information)
- US Officials Tie North Korea’s ‘Lazarus’ Hackers to $625M Crypto Theft (CoinDesk)
- Apple Readies Several New Macs With Next-Generation M2 Chips (Bloomberg)
- In latest gaming crackdown, China bans livestreaming of unauthorised titles (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Talent Vortex: Mafias and Magnets (Investing 101)
- Musk Needs ‘Massive Loan’ or Big Tesla Sale to Buy Twitter (Bloomberg)
- Blind Ambition (Cybernaut/Every.to)
- Stablecoins Are in a War for Dominance and It’s Getting Ugly (Motherboard/Vice)
- How Chris Dixon’s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World’s Top Venture Capitalist (Forbes)
- AMONG EUROPE’S EX-ROYALS (The Atlantic)
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Well, he went and did it. Elon Musk told Twitter’s board he wants to buy the whole company. The bids for a Jack Dorsey NFT are anemic. A warning from the US government about industrial cyber-attacks. Meta’s entire metaverse product roadmap. And say hello to the new hottest social network among the kids.
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Links:
- Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid to Take Twitter Private (Bloomberg)
- US agencies warn of custom-made hacking tools targeting energy sector systems (The Record)
- ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280 (CoinDesk)
- MARK ZUCKERBERG’S AUGMENTED REALITY (The Verge)
- Gen Z’s new favorite app (Axios)
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ESET and Microsoft helped Ukraine stop an attack on a power plant. Might CNN+ become a high profile casualty of the streaming wars? Elon Musk is facing a Twitter shareholder lawsuit. People aren’t happy that Meta’s metaverse vig is higher than even Apple dares charge. And, the new privacy-focused browser from Duck Duck Go.
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Links:
- Researchers find new malware variant after stopping attack on Ukrainian energy provider (The Record)
- Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip (CoinDesk)
- CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users (CNBC)
- Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start (Axios)
- Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter Stake (Bloomberg)
- Meta's New 47.5% Fee on Metaverse Items Has NFT Twitter Pissed (CNET)
- Meta: 124 Quest Apps Have Earned More Than $1M, 8 Have Earned More Than $20M (RoadToVR)
- DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop (Wired)
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Meta rolls out a test to sell virtual items in Horizon Worlds. Ethereum takes a major step toward its proof-of-stake upgrade. Would you watch a Bored Ape movie? Apple has delayed a major feature for the Watch. Etsy sellers are on strike. And Netflix’s new two-thumbs-up button.
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Links:
- Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items (The Verge)
- Ethereum Undergoes Another Stress Test Ahead of Software Change (Bloomberg)
- Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy (CoinDesk)
- Apple Targets Watch Blood-Pressure Tool for 2024 After Snags (Bloomberg)
- Over 14,000 Etsy sellers are going on strike to protest increased transaction fees (TechCrunch)
- Digital Ad Revenue Jumped 35% in the U.S. Last Year, Biggest Gain Since 2006 (WSJ)
- TikTok Ad Revenue Set To Triple in 2022 (The Information)
- How Netflix tests Netflix: The story behind the service’s new two-thumbs-up feature (Protocol)
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By declining a seat on Twitter’s board, does that mean Elon has chosen violence? Plenty of signs of a mixed reality headset in the code of the next version of iOS. Meta tried and failed to design its own chip. China has decided to let some new games launch. And even if drone delivery is moving forward, is Amazon being left behind?
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Links:
- Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. (Parag Agrawal)
- China Ends Game Freeze by Approving First Titles Since July (Bloomberg)
- Apple Sets the Date for Another Virtual WWDC—Here’s What to Expect (Bloomberg)
- Meta Platforms is Struggling to Develop Its Own Device Chips (The Information)
- Amazon Drone Crashes Hit Jeff Bezos' Delivery Dreams (Bloomberg)
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MRGN.aiis all about intelligent budgeting for small businesses. Founder Yoni Rubin joins me to discuss the realities of founding a SaaS company in 2022, and much more. Another great company joining theRide Home Fundportfolio!
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Some folks at Twitter are nervous about Elon Musk’s arrival, so he’s going to do an AMA to rally the troops. Twitter is testing unmentioning. Robinhood is fully rolling out that promise wallet feature. The increasing lexicon of euphemisms people have to use to speak freely on sites like TikTok. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry (Washington Post)
- Twitter test lets you 'unmention' yourself in tweets (Engadget)
- Robinhood widens user access for crypto wallet transfers, unveils plan to support Lightning payments for bitcoin (The Block)
- Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4% (Silicon Angle)
- Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’ (Washington Post)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- Millennial Billionaire Ryan Breslow Created Buzz, And Enemies, Attacking Stripe And Shopify. He’s Just Getting Started. (Forbes)
- SCOOP: Crypto Fund Paradigm's Assets Under Management Climb 343% to $13.2 Billion (Newcomer)
- The Metaverse Has Bosses Too. Meet the ‘Managers’ of Axie Infinity (Motherboard/Vice)
- This Startup Promised People Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs. Now People Feel They've Been Scammed. (BuzzFeed)
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The crypto dream might have died, but Meta still thinks the metaverse will need some for of currency. Maybe Zuck Bucks? OpenSea adds Solana NFTs. Shein is the world’s latest mega unicorn. Is Bolt pivoting from one-click checkouts to crypto payments instead? Legos in the metaverse. And DALL-E 2.
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- Facebook owner Meta targets finance with ‘Zuck Bucks’ and creator coins (FT)
- Google Play will hide and block downloads for outdated apps starting later this year (TechCrunch)
- Solana NFTs Can Now Be Traded on OpenSea (Decrypt)
- Facebook won’t hold its F8 developer conference this year after pivoting to Meta (The Verge)
- Shein Valued at $100 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
- Crypto Startup Wyre Being Acquired by Payments Company Bolt for $1.5 Billion (WSJ)
- Lego and Epic Games partnership aims for a kid-friendly metaverse (Washington Post)
- OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too (The Verge)
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I told you Elon had no intention of being a passive investor. Twitter says an edit button is probably coming soon. So, you know, that Elon, he gets things done. One-click checkout startup Fast is shutting down completely. A deep dive into how the new Unreal Engine 5 fits into Hollywood, fits into gaming, fits into the metaverse. And beware: “Will Smith” might come into your Elden Ring game and slap you.
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Links:
- Musk Refiles Twitter Disclosure to Show He’s an Active Investor (Bloomberg)
- Twitter is adding an edit button (The Verge)
- Sky Mavis raises $150 million to reimburse Ronin hack victims (The Block)
- Fast, the Troubled Fintech Startup, Is Shutting Down (The Information)
- MicroStrategy Funds Latest Purchase With Bitcoin-Backed Loan (Bloomberg)
- Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse (Time)
- How Epic Games is changing gaming—and maybe the metaverse (Fast Company)
- Elden Ring players called Will Smith keep invading and slapping people (TechRadar)
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So much for that “passive” stake. Twitter has appointed Elon Musk to its board of directors. Amazon is gunning for SpaceX in the race to deliver internet from space. Some datapoints around the whole question of wash trading in the NFT market. And what if I told you there was ANOTHER wildly popular thing from the creator of Wordle?
Links:
- Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors, teases ‘significant improvements’ (CNBC)
- Elon Musk Bought Some Twitter (Bloomberg/Matt Levine)
- Amazon’s Project Kuiper books up to 83 rockets to launch its internet-beaming satellites (The Verge)
- Microsoft brings Arm support to Azure virtual machines (ZDNet)
- Axie Infinity Was Losing Gamers Even Before Record Crypto Hack (Bloomberg)
- The Hottest NFT Marketplace is Mostly Users Selling to Themselves (Bloomberg)
- Hackers breach MailChimp's internal tools to target crypto customers (BleepingComputer)
- Internet communities are battling over pixels (The Washington Post)
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So, Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter. I’d point out that the last time Twitter had an activist investor, it led to Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO. Is drone delivery suddenly, and rapidly, becoming a reality? The nation of the United Kingdom is going to issue an NFT. And Mark Gurman’s math on how an Apple subscription would work.
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- Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up (Bloomberg)
- Alphabet's Wing will begin drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth on April 7th (Engadget)
- AMD Returns to Deal Making with $1.9 Billion Purchase of Chip Specialist Pensando (WSJ)
- NFTs to be launched by the Treasury later this year in crypto push (City AM)
- It’s a big day at the State Department for U.S. cyberdiplomacy (Washington Post)
- Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone (Bloomberg)
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Justin Santamaria was once an Apple lead engineer on iPhone, where he created iMessage, FaceTime, the blue/green text bubbles and even unlocked emojis so people outside Japan could use them. Now, as cofounder ofFuture, he’s using text communication to pair people with a world-class trainer for unlimited coaching through their phone.
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E3 is officially cancelled this year, which is making people wonder if it’s officially dead and we just don’t know it yet. More signs of serious trouble in the food delivery space. Facebook has fixed a bug that let harmful content into the news feed for six months. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- E3 2022 - Digital and Physical - Has Officially Been Canceled (IGN)
- Food Delivery Stocks Lose $24 Billion in Just Three Months (Bloomberg)
- A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS (The Verge)
- Apple emergency update fixes zero-days used to hack iPhones, Macs (BleepingComputer)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Online shopping in the middle of the ocean (RestOfWorld)
- Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further. (NYTimes)
- Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech (TechDirt)
- A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games (Wired)
- In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid (Waxy.org)
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Another day of all the hacking news. Now the hackers are forging Emergency Data Requests. Apparently there have been vulnerabilities in Wyze security cameras that no one bothered to fix. TSMC warns of a tech slowdown. Masa Son orders his lieutenants to slow down investing just a bit. And yes, burrito delivery by drone, but probably more impressive is FedEx getting into the drone game.
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- Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests (Bloomberg)
- Wyze Cam flaw lets hackers remotely access your saved videos (BleepingComputer)
- Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story (The Verge)
- TSMC says demand for smartphones, PCs starting to slow (Nikkei Asia)
- SoftBank to slow investments following crash in tech holdings (FT)
- Look up: Your burrito is arriving by drone (Axios)
- FedEx will test autonomous cargo flights next year (Engadget)
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I explain the (latest) biggest crypto hack of all time, this time affecting Axie Infinity. Meta is paying to dish dirt on TikTok. Changes to Google Calendar could kneecap a bunch of startups, while the DOJ is investigating Google Maps. And signs of difficulty in two red-hot startup sectors, the instant delivery sector, and the fast checkout sector.
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- Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Suffers $625M Exploit (CoinDesk)
- Axie Infinity Owner ‘Fully Committed’ to Reimbursing Players After Hack (Bloomberg)
- Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post)
- Messenger gets new shortcuts that let you send silent replies (The Verge)
- New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling (Ars Technica)
- EXCLUSIVE-U.S. probe of Google Maps picks up speed -sources (Reuters)
- Gopuff Plans Hundreds of Layoffs to Cut $40 Million in Costs (The Information)
- Why Stripe’s ‘Fast’ Horse Is Losing the One-Click Checkout Race (The Information)
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Sony’s answer to Xbox Game Pass is here. Spotify wants to TikTok-up your podcast listening. Have you ever gotten a spam text from your own phone number? Okta still has some ‘splaining to do. And forget AppleTV+, Disney+, I dunno… BobRoss+, how about NFL+? Isn’t it inevitable?
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- Sony merges PS Now and PS Plus to create three-tier subscription service (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Sony announces new PlayStation Plus subscriptions, its answer to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
- Spotify puts its Podz acquisition to use with test of new podcast discovery feature (TechCrunch)
- My own phone number is now spam texting me (The Verge)
- Leaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta’s Slow Response Look More Bizarre (Wired)
- NFL considers creating a streaming service of its own (The Athletic)
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Apple wins a best picture Oscar. Bigger camaras mean bigger bumps in upcoming iPhones. Urgent Chrome update you need to be aware of. You probably guessed that that person bugging you on LinkedIn might be faked. And Fashion Week, but in the Metaverse.
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- Apple Is First Streamer to Win Best Picture Oscar for ‘CODA’ (Variety)
- Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro's Larger Camera Bump Due to New 48MP Camera System (MacRumors)
- Apple to cut iPhone, AirPods output amid Ukraine war uncertainty (NikkeiAsia)
- HP buys Poly for $3.3 billion to ride hybrid work boom (TechStartups)
- Emergency Google Chrome update fixes zero-day used in attacks (BleepingComputer)
- That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake (WNYC/NPR)
- NFT Collection Failures Begin to Mount in Flashback to ICO Bust (Bloomberg)
- Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups (WSJ)
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman comes on to dissuade us of our Apple delusions.
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Listeners from Ukraine got in touch to tell us what it has been like for one particular tech startup in Ukraine these last few weeks. From the founder of the company: Lemon.io, Alekskandr Volodarsky, @volodarik these are the charities he recommends:
- https://bank.gov.ua/en/about/support-the-armed-forces
- https://www.1kproject.org/
- https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ (including crypto donations)
- https://koloua.com/
- https://novaukraine.org/donate/
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Will the new EU Digital Markets Act mean that all messaging could soon become as interoperable as email? Some serious smoke around the whole grand unifying Apple subscription fire. Why Instacart is voluntarily lowing its valuation. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants (Politico)
- Apple Is Working on a Hardware Subscription Service for iPhones (Bloomberg)
- Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal (BBC News)
- Instacart Slashes Its Valuation by Almost 40% to $24 Billion (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- LAPSUS$: How a Sloppy Extortion Gang Became One of the Most Prolific Hacking Groups (Motherboard/Vice)
- The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto's Future (Time)
- There's something off about ApeCoin (Platformer)
- Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation (Wired)
- Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All (GQ)
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Have we uncovered the hackers behind Lapsus$, that crazy new hacker group? Another crack in the App Store wall as Google unilaterally decides to test alternative payment systems? Uber is actually teaming up with the Taxi drivers here in New York City. And would you buy a 15 inch MacBook Air?
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Links:
- Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind (Bloomberg)
- A Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group (KrebsonSecurity)
- Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify (TechCrunch)
- Twitter’s DM search will finally actually help you find conversations (The Verge)
- Uber Reaches Deal to List All New York City Taxis on Its App (WSJ)
- Report: Apple developing new 15-inch MacBook Air that could come in 2023 (9to5Mac)
- YouTube is taking on over-the-air TV with nearly 4,000 free episodes of TV (The Verge)
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Customers are getting frustrated with Okta over that potential Lapsus$ hack. Apple’s acquisition of an open banking startup is interesting. Yuga Labs is the (forgive me) 800lb gorilla of the NFT space. And why Zuckerberg’s personal remote work regimen might explain why he’s so obsessed with having meetings in VR.
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- The Third-Party Okta Hack Leaves Customers Scrambling (Wired)
- Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos (The Block)
- Apple Buys UK Fintech Start-Up Credit Kudos (CNBC)
- El Salvador postpones bitcoin bond issue, expects better conditions (Reuters)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse (The Verge)
- Crypto investor Katie Haun raises $1.5 billion, the largest debut fund ever by a female VC (CNBC)
- Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s Leadership Take Remote Work to the Extreme (WSJ)
- Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog (The Verge)
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When it rains, it pours cybersecurity news. The White House warns that Russian hacks may be incoming. Lapsus$ has now allegedly hit Okta and Microsoft. A big alleged hack to HubSpot might hurt a bunch of crypto companies. And why does that Apple Studio display have 64GB of storage it’s (mostly) not using?
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Links:
- Statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity (WhiteHouse.gov)
- Is Russia exploring cyberattacks against U.S. in response to hacktivists? (VentureBeat)
- Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert (The Verge)
- Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code (BleepingComputer)
- Hacker Steals Customer Data From Circle, BlockFi, Other Big Crypto Firms (Decrypt)
- Alphabet’s quantum tech group Sandbox spins off into an independent company (CNBC)
- Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, But Only 2GB Used (MacRumors)
- Roku OS 11 will let you set your own photos as a screensaver (The Verge)
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An alternative title to today’s show could be Schrödinger’s Brazilian Telegram Ban. I’ll explain. Ukrainians say Elon Musk’s Starlink donation is proving quite useful. Toronto has become the third-largest tech hub in North America. Should Apple make routers again? And where will the advertising dollars go in 2022?
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- Telegram forgot to check its email and now it’s banned in Brazil (The Verge)
- Brazil Lifts Its Ban on Telegram After Two Days (NYTimes)
- Elon Musk’s Starlink is keeping Ukrainians online when traditional Internet fails (Washington Post)
- Chipmakers face two-year shortage of critical equipment (FT)
- Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town (NYTimes)
- Apple Should Make Home Wi-Fi Routers Again as Part of Mac Reboot (Bloomberg)
- TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising (Ben-Evans.com)
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We talked to Nathan Baschez and Dan Shipper, the founders of the media startupEvery.to. We talked to them about the realities of being two years in as a modern, from the ground up media company, the shifting landscape in the “creator economy” (remember that?) And a lot about Substack and its business model and philosophy. Around the hour mark, Chris and I have a lengthy conversation about the Mac Studio, my purchasing of one, my cancelling of my order for a Studio Display. And also, Chris has a very interesting 8 dimensional chess theory about where Apple is headed as a company.
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Australia sues Meta for alleged cryptocurrency scam ads. Bored Apes Yacht Club had, what we might call a busted IPO, if that was term we were using. Amazon is now officially the proud owner of James Bond. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Australian watchdog sues Facebook-owner Meta over scam advertisements (Reuters)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club Ethereum NFT Sales Surge as ApeCoin Price Pops, Then Drops (Decrypt)
- U.S. antitrust enforcers won't challenge Amazon's MGM deal, dashing hopes of monopoly critics (Politico)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Substack’s Ideology (Divinations)
- A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (Wired)
- Razzlekhan: The Untold Story Of How A YouTube Rapper Became A Suspect In A $4 Billion Bitcoin Fraud (Forbes)
- Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling (Rest Of World)
- The neon shortage is a bad sign (Recode)
- Beating Japan at Its Own (Video) Game: A Smash Hit From China (NYTimes)
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Google kind of returns to an in person I/O but just a little bit. The harsh new British law that could put tech executives behind bars. Netflix says the free ride of password sharing is over. Though, the gravy train of subsidized 15 minute delivery seems to be back on. Oh, and the rave reviews of the new Mac Studio.
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Links:
- Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully available online (The Verge)
- Tech Executives Threatened With Jail Time Under Proposed U.K. Law (The Information)
- Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers to Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Test to Address Unauthorized Password Sharing (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
- Bored Apes NFT project gets official 'ApeCoin' token (TechCrunch)
- APPLE MAC STUDIO REVIEW: FINALLY (The Verge)
- Two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in one week (CBS58)
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Meta has a new Family Center to keep kids monitored. Zuck says NFTs are coming to Instagram “soon.” Google’s Stadia strategy is coming into focus, and it’s interesting. Is Vimeo threatening longtime users to pay up? And a review of the latest iPad Air iteration.
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- Instagram rolls out new safety tools for parents (TechCrunch)
- Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram (Engadget)
- Google casually announces Steam for Chrome OS is coming in alpha for select Chromebooks (9to5Google)
- Google Stadia is subtly reinventing itself to attract new games and gamers (The Verge)
- Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’ (The Verge)
- Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform (The Verge)
- APPLE IPAD AIR (2022) REVIEW: IT’S THE NICE ONE (The Verge)
- FC Barcelona agree to sponsorship deal with Spotify, will rebrand stadium as 'Spotify Camp Nou' (CBS Sports)
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Layoffs at Arm signal the IPO is nigh. Microsoft has brought that fast loading games technology from Xbox to Windows. Twitter heard you were made and has backed down. Crypto dodges another bullet in the EU. And some solid, tangible numbers to prove that streaming has taken over Hollywood.
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Links:
- UK chipmaker Arm to cut up to 1,000 jobs after $40bn sale collapses (The Guardian)
- Get Ready for Faster Game Load Times With DirectStorage for Windows (PC Mag)
- Twitter rolls back its decision to force you into the out-of-order timeline (The Verge)
- iOS 15.4 now live as Universal Control comes to iPads and Macs (The Verge)
- Apple releases macOS 12.3 with Universal Control, new emoji, head tracking for Spatial Audio, more (9to5Mac)
- Proposal Limiting Proof-of-Work Is Rejected in EU Parliament Committee Vote (CoinDesk)
- HBO Max, Discovery+ to Combine for “Blowout” Product, CFO Says (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Streaming boom propels film industry's pandemic recovery (Axios)
- Global Entertainment Industry Revenue Rebounds From Pandemic, Thanks to Streaming Boom (Variety)
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Well, what can I tell you? Foxconn is shutting factories in China again cause of the new Omicron outbreak there. Will Apple only give new chips it its pro phones going forward? Why people are mad at Twitter now. How people actually watch Netflix. And… checks notes... A robot goat.
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Links:
- Foxconn Halts iPhone Shenzhen Site Due to Covid Lockdown (Bloomberg)
- Kuo: Only iPhone 14 Pro Models to Get 'A16' Chip, Standard Models to Retain A15 (MacRumors)
- Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
- Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine (WSJ)
- These are Netflix's Most Popular Shows (According to Netflix) (Bloomberg)
- APPLE’S NEW IPHONE SE IS A MODERN PHONE STUCK IN YESTERDAY’S DESIGN (The Verge)
- Kawasaki's Rideable Robotic Goat Is the Electric Car for Wandering Cowpokes (Gizmodo)
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As I said on Friday's show, I figured that since Chris Messina has been co-hosting with me for about a year, maybe it's time to republish the Internet History Podcast episode I did with him. After all, many of you might know him as the inventor of the hashtag, but did you know about all of the early Web 2.0 stuff he did? It might help you better understand the perspective Chris brings to our interview episodes.
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Russia moves to ban Instagram and designate Meta as an “extremist organization.” The EU and UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta about ads collusion. Stripe now supports crypto. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Russia Asks Court to Label Facebook, Instagram as ‘Extremist’ (Bloomberg)
- DuckDuckGo reverses course, will demote Russian propaganda in search results (Engadget)
- EU and UK open antitrust probe into Google and Meta over online ads (FT)
- Stripe launches payments support for crypto businesses, partners with FTX (The Block)
- The great NFT sell-off: has the digital collectibles craze hit its peak? (FT)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn't Quite Happen (Wired)
- Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall (Nautilus)
- Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? (Quanta Magazine)
- The rise of Canva, the $40 billion design juggernaut (Fast Company)
- AngelList: A Venture Constellation (The Generalist)
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Apple hasn’t forgotten about the Mac Mini. Amazon’s first stock split since the dotcom era. Tinder leans into background checks as a service. Hands on with the new Magic Leap 2 AR glasses. And forget about delivery by drone, now imagine getting packages delivered to you from space. The wildest startup I’ve heard about in a while.
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Links:
- Exclusive: Updated Mac mini to have versions with M2 and M2 Pro chip (9to5Mac)
- 27-Inch 'Studio Display Pro' With Mini-LED and ProMotion Could Launch in June (MacRumors)
- Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split, $10 billion buyback (CNBC)
- Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo (TechCrunch)
- Magic Leap 2 Hands-On: AR Glasses That Can Dim The Real World (CNET)
- Dreaming of Suitcases in Space (NYTimes)
The a16z Episode With Myself And Chris Dixon
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That telegraphed Executive Order for Crypto is being signed, probably as we speak. Is Congress pressing criminal charges against Amazon? LimeWire is back, but for the NFT era. And a deep dive look at that mind boggling new M1 Ultra chip that Apple announced yesterday.
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Links:
- Biden Orders Study of Cryptocurrency Risk, Creation of U.S. Digital Currency (WSJ)
- Amazon Flagged to Justice Department for Possible Criminal Obstruction of Congress (WSJ)
- Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia (Motherboard)
- Lumen, a second major American Internet carrier, pulling out of Russia (Washington Post)
- EU Says Russia, Belarus Sanctions Extend to Crypto (CoinDesk)
- LimeWire Is Making a Comeback, But Not As You Know It (Bloomberg)
- Apple Announces M1 Ultra (AnandTech)
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All the news from the Spring Apple event this afternoon. Google is buying a cybersecurity company. A bunch of cybersecurity companies band together to protect critical infrastructure. Amazon launches an app to allow anyone to be a DJ. And the arrival of Android 12L.
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Links:
- Apple’s Mac Studio is a new desktop for creative professionals (The Verge)
- Apple unveils the M1 Ultra, its most powerful chip yet (Engadget)
- Apple unveils iPhone SE 3 with A15 chip, same home button design (9to5Mac)
- Google is buying the cybersecurity company that uncovered the SolarWinds hack (The Verge)
- Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity to provide free cybersecurity to vulnerable industries (Silicon Angle)
- Amazon launches a ‘live radio’ app, Amp, which lets you play DJ with music and call-ins (TechCrunch)
- Android 12L will come to Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft devices (The Verge)
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The evolving hack story involving Nvidia has now hit Samsung as the same hackers apparently have some of their source code. Are the iMac updates I’m really hungry for getting pushed all the way back to next year? The real reason why brands are leaving Russia. And consumer beware: scams seem to be rampant on Zelle, and your bank might not be willing to help you.
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- Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever (ArsTechnica)
- Malware now using NVIDIA's stolen code signing certificates (Bleeping Computer)
- Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code (Bleeping Computer)
- Kuo: 27-inch Apple external display coming this year, new iMac Pro and Mac Pro in 2023 (9to5Mac)
- TikTok Suspends Livestreaming in Russia on ‘Fake News’ Law (Bloomberg)
- How are the Big Sanctions hurting Russia so far? (NoahPinion Substack)
- Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem. (NYTimes)
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Chris was in town again! So we asked the great Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures to come over to my kitchen to talk about the tech news of the week. But Charlie also gives us his analysis and history of the New York Tech scene, and the state of venture and tech generally, coming out of these Covid years.
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Twitter’s return to the office is a real covid era milestone. Ok, how about Disney+ but with ads? Is crypto usage in Russia actually falling? Something something, wasn’t this the original use case for crypto? Are NFT prices falling? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
- Twitter to reopen offices March 15, though remote work remains an option (CNBC)
- Disney+ to launch cheaper ad-supported tier later this year (CNBC)
- Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries (Motherboard)
- SpaceX sent Starlink internet terminals to Ukraine. They could paint a ‘giant target’ on users’ backs, experts say (CNN Business)
- NFT Mania Show Signs of Cooling as Average Price and Sales Decline (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How shunning Russia could offer the U.S. tech giants an easy win (Politico)
- Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever (WSJ)
- The Role Of Turkish Drones In Ukraine's War (NDTV)
- These women are staking their claim to Web3 and the metaverse (Fast Company)
- The ‘Incredible Treasure Chest’ of Homestar Runner (Vulture)
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The story of the young Ukrainian Minister who has bent the conscience of western tech companies, and coordinated the reachout to crypto. Is regulation coming for NFTs? Epic Games acquired Bandcamp. Amazon pulls back from its IRL retail experiments. And a big update on the return to the office watch.
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- Ukraine cancels crypto airdrop, plans to sell NFTs instead (The Block)
- The Ukrainian leader who is pushing Silicon Valley to stand up to Russia (Washington Post)
- Crypto Powerhouse ConsenSys Faces Action by Former Employees (Bloomberg)
- SEC Scrutinizes NFT Market Over Illegal Crypto Token Offerings (Bloomberg)
- Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp as ‘Fortnite’ Maker Expands Into Music (Variety)
- Amazon is shutting 68 retail stores, ending Amazon Books, 4-star and Pop Up shops (CNBC)
- Apple Event Announced for March 8: 'Peek Performance' (MacRumors)
- Google tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in April (CNBC)
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As of right now, you can no longer buy an iPhone in Russia. Big recall from Fitbit because their smartwatches might burn you. Meta tries to be transparent in a very Meta way, by redacting a key detail from a transparency report. And could poker be the killer app the Metaverse has been waiting for?
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Links:
- Apple Halts All Sales From Online Store in Russia [Updated] (MacRumors)
- How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia (Slate)
- Prominent tech companies that originated from Ukraine (Analytics India)
- Fitbit recall confirms its Ionic smartwatch could overheat and burn you (Engadget)
- New UCIe Chiplet Standard Supported by Intel, AMD, and Arm (Tom's Hardware)
- Meta Releases New 'Widely Viewed Content' Report for Facebook, Which Continues to be a Baffling Overview (SocialMediaToday)
- Netflix to buy mobile game developer Next Games to strengthen its games business (Money Control)
- The Metaverse Finally Has a Killer App: Poker (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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Crypto exchanges stick to their crypto ethos over the Ukraine War situation. A new, super crazy alleged Chinese backdoor hack. Uber adds new ways to buy concert tickets and book restaurants in its app. Amazon launches its Luna game streaming service in the US. An a review of the Galaxy S22 and S22+
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- Netflix Won’t Add Russian Broadcasters to Service, Defying New Regulation (WSJ)
- Crypto Exchanges Refuse to Freeze All Russian Accounts (Motherboard)
- Chinese cyberspies target govts with their ‘most advanced’ backdoor (BleepingComputer)
- Uber adds new ways to buy concert tickets and book restaurants in its app (The Verge)
- Amazon Luna launches for anyone in the US, adds free games for Prime members and Twitch integration (The Verge)
- BitConnect’s Indicted Founder Kumbhani Vanished, SEC Says (Bloomberg)
- SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 AND S22 PLUS ARE THE DEFAULT ANDROID PHONES TO BUY (The Verge)
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I’ll try to run down everything I can about the tech world and the Ukraine situation. There is a ton to talk about. Qualcomm’s new 5G modem. TikTok’s new 10 minute videos. Lenovo’s new laptops. And should Apple release a $200 iPhone?
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- Customers of banks targeted by Russia sanctions are unable to use Apple Pay or Google Pay (Insider)
- Google blocks RT, other Russian channels from earning ad dollars (Reuters)
- Meta to bar Russian state media from running ads, monetizing on platform (Reuters)
- Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians (NBCNews)
- Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine (Reuters)
- Crypto Donations to Ukraine Jump to $20M (CoinDesk)
- Computer chip industry begins halting deliveries to Russia in response to U.S. sanctions (Washington Post)
- Airbnb to Provide Housing for 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees (Bloomberg)
- Google Maps temporarily disables live traffic data in Ukraine (Axios)
- Facebook, Apple and Other Tech Giants Face Rising Pressure Over Ukraine (WSJ)
- TikTok is taking aim at YouTube with longer 10-minute video uploads (AndroidCentral)
- Qualcomm's X70 5G modem has an AI processor to improve signal strength (Engadget)
- Lenovo announces new IdeaPads and tablets with 12th-gen Intel CPUs (XDA Developers)
- Dutch App Store change complies with law, says Apple, as antitrust regulator rejects proposal (9to5Mac)
- Apple Has a Chance to Launch an iPhone Costing Just $199 (Bloomberg)
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We check in with Rob Maurer who hosts the Tesla Daily podcast. All things Tesla and Elon on this episode!
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Ukraine is seeking to raise its own hacker army. New export controls affect tech products. Why mobile subscriptions being a growth industry is more bad news for the App Store status quo. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Social media platforms on the defensive as Russian-based disinformation about Ukraine spreads (Politico)
- Google Faces Sanctions Dilemma With Pro-Russia YouTube Channels (Bloomberg)
- Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips (Reuters)
- Biden hits Russia with tough export curbs, slashing access to global tech (Reuters)
- Top subscription app revenue grew 41% in 2021 to reach $18.3 billion (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- A moment of clarity (Noapinion Substack)
- Web3 Developers Have Found a Functioning Metaverse. It’s ‘Minecraft’. (Vice)
- CAN THE LAW KEEP UP WITH CRYPTO? (The Verge)
- Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps (NYTimes)
- Amazon’s sprawling grocery business has become an ‘expensive hobby’ with a cloudy future (CNBC)
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There actually IS a tech angle to what is going on in Ukraine, though for all of our sakes, let’s just hope there’s not TOO much of one. Stablecoins are where it’s at in crypto at the moment. Not one, but two new flagship phones to tell you about. And the interesting AI details behind Zuck’s latest Metaverse presentation.
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Links:
- Ukrainian gov't sites disrupted by DDoS, wiper malware discovered (ZDNet)
- Stablecoins Soar in Value as Everything Else in Crypto Shrinks (Bloomberg)
- Oppo’s Find X5 Pro flagship is finally official (The Verge)
- The Motorola Edge Plus aims for full flagship status — with a price to match (The Verge)
- A Meta prototype lets you build virtual worlds by describing them (The Verge)
- Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away (Recode)
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Former President Trump’s new social network is number one on the app store, but has had a bunch of issues too. The politics leading to a surge in searches for DuckDuckGo. What ever happened to Amazon’s home robot? And Waymo successfully sues to keeps its failures secret.
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- Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability (Washington Post)
- Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo (NYTimes)
- OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity (Bloomberg)
- Amazon sues two companies that allegedly help fill the site with fake reviews (CNBC)
- Amazon’s Astro Home Robot Remains Elusive Six Months After Debut (Bloomberg)
- Waymo to keep robotaxi safety details secret, court rules (TechCrunch)
- Gaming Company Backbone Reveals Series A Funding Backed by Ashton Kutcher, The Weeknd, Kevin Hart, Post Malone and More (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Has the mystery of the original The DAO controversy been solved? We finally have Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 design. Crypto exchange FTX makes a big move into gaming. Datapoints suggesting remote work is here to stay. And a review of the Galaxy S22 Ultra.
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- Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether (Forbes)
- Sony finally reveals the PlayStation VR2’s design (The Verge)
- FTX Enters Gaming as Backlash Grows Against Crypto’s Incursion (Bloomberg)
- Over 40% of West Coast Tech Job Listings Are Outside West Coast (Bloomberg)
- Spotify's Car Thing Is About to Face the Music (CNET)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY S22 ULTRA REVIEW: NOTABLY UNIQUE (The Verge)
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OpenSea says 32 users had NFTs stolen when they were scammed into signing malicious smart contracts. Mark Gurman tells us every Mac he expects to be released this year. Is a new crackdown coming for Chinese tech? And Ford is revving up its attempts to unseat Tesla at the top of the EV mountain.
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- OpenSea Investigating ‘Exploit Rumors’ as Users Complain of Missing NFTs (CoinDesk)
- $1.7 million in NFTs stolen in apparent phishing attack on OpenSea users (The Verge)
- Apple Readies New MacBooks and iMacs for Part Three of Overhaul (Bloomberg)
- The Apple M2 could launch alongside up to seven new Mac models this year (TechRadar)
- Gurman: Apple to Launch New Macs Next Month, With More to Come Around May or June (MacRumors)
- Tencent Leads China Tech Selloff Amid Fears of Further Crackdown (Bloomberg)
- PrimaryBid raises $190M to double down on making it easier for ordinary people to invest in IPOs and follow-on fundraises (TechCrunch)
- Ford Mustang Mach-E usurps Tesla Model 3 as Consumer Reports top EV pick of the year (The Verge)
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Windows 11 now requires a Microsoft account just to load. Intel’s roadmap comes into view. Is Meta’s metaverse play already getting traction? Next week might be the biggest regulatory week for Crypto ever. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- You’ll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro (ArsTechnica)
- Intel Discloses Multi-Generation Xeon Scalable Roadmap (AnandTech)
- Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users (The Verge)
- Biden seen issuing crypto oversight exec order next week (Yahoo!Finance)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The World Needs What Intel Makes. Can It Make a Comeback? (NYTimes)
- Free your mind: Meditation could be VR's next killer app (Protocol)
- No one cares about your redesign (Garbage Day)
- If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close (Wired)
- Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 Million Bet (GQ)
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Why a dumb agent string bug may break some big named websites soon. Is Circle about to become the biggest pure play crypto company to hit public markets? Spotify buys basically the only remaining pieces of the podcast puzzle missing from their toolbelt. And the interesting raise from a company buying up YouTube back catalogs.
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- Mozilla warns Chrome, Firefox ‘100’ user agents may break sites (BleepingComputer)
- Meta’s Clegg Promoted as Zuckerberg Steps Back From Policy (Bloomberg)
- Circle valued at $9 billion under revamped SPAC deal terms (The Block)
- Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms (The Verge)
- Sequoia Capital launches crypto token fund (Axios)
- Sequoia Capital is launching a $500-600 million crypto fund to invest in tokens (The Block)
- Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs (TechCrunch)
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Forget how’s my driving, Uber lets you know how you’re riding. Meta workers are now formally known as Metamates. Is Paramount quietly doing better in the streaming wars than we thought? So much so, as to warrant a name change too? And what happens when your bionic eye implants are no longer supported by the manufacturer?
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- Uber will now let you see how many one-star ratings you got from drivers (The Verge)
- Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans (Washington Post)
- Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years (The Verge)
- ViacomCBS rebrands to Paramount in focus on streaming (The Verge)
- Coalition of US crypto firms unveils travel rule compliance platform, TRUST (The Block)
- Google Plans Privacy Changes, but Promises to Not Be Disruptive (NYTimes)
- THEIR BIONIC EYES ARE NOW OBSOLETE AND UNSUPPORTED (IEEE Spectrum)
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Is the great Returning To The Office beginning with the Tech Industry? Really cool new way to use your Android apps on your Windows or Chromebook devices. Instagram lets you send private likes. The tech cold war between India and China claims another victim. And what did the NYTimes do to Wordle this morning?
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- Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic (GeekWire)
- Exclusive: Pixel will be able to stream Android apps to your Chromebook/PC, here’s how it works [Video] (9to5Google)
- Intel to Buy Israel’s Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Instagram now lets you send private Story likes (Engadget)
- Sea’s $16 Billion Crash Signals Trouble Beyond India Shutout (Bloomberg)
- Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices (WSJ)
- Google Messages, with RCS in tow, is now Samsung’s default messaging app in the US (9to5Google)
- The New York Times has changed Wordle’s solutions (The Verge)
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Turns out Super Bowl ads really do move the needle. Another day, another crypto bug, this one could have let you create unlimited ether from thin air. See what I did there? Could we see a digital Euro by the end of next year? A couple of super interesting raises. And the curious case of the missing Nvidia graphics card.
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- Crypto apps soar in popularity after Super Bowl splurge (The Block)
- iOS jailbreak dev wins $2M bounty for finding critical Optimism bug (CoinTelegraph)
- HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case (BBCNews)
- Digital euro bill due early 2023 (Politico)
- Viam closes $30 Million Series A funding round (The Robot Report)
- Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti is still missing, and the company refuses to say what’s going on (The Verge)
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What is a DAO? How do they function? What is the history of this idea? Why have DAO's become so popular all of the sudden, and what are some examples of successful DAOs? The great Brady Dale from @DefiantNews joins Chris and Brian to explain.
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Allegations of a new, widespread bulk surveillance program being run on American citizens by the CIA. Apple is planning AirTag updates to curb their use for stalking people. The first Android 13 developer preview is out. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Secret CIA Bulk Surveillance Program Includes Some Americans’ Records, Senators Say (WSJ)
- Apple Announces AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (MacRumors)
- The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- Flexport Is Silicon Valley’s Solution To The Supply Chain Mess—Why Do Insiders Hope It Sinks? (Forbes)
- How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (Wired)
- Sony's AI Drives a Race Car Like a Champ (Wired)
- Russia’s drone army contains heaps of Western electronics. Can the U.S. cut them off? (Washington Post)
- The Little Streaming Comedy Platform That Couldn’t (Vulture)
- Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power (Vanity Fair)
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Not just rumors of an Apple AR headset, but actual code mentions of a “realityOS” are showing up now. Microsoft hopes to head off the regulators with some app store rules. Now Flash storage chips might be in for a supply crunch. And why static video memes are all over Instagram all of the sudden.
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- Is ‘realityOS’ Apple’s newest operating system? (The Verge)
- In a bid to appease regulators, Microsoft announces new app store principles (The Washington Post)
- Western Digital, Kioxia Lose 'At Least' 6.5 Exabytes of 3D NAND Due to Contamination (Updated) (Tom's Hardware)
- Why Static Video Memes Are All Over Instagram (The Information)
- Gopuff stocks its warehouses with items purchased from Instacart, spending tens of thousands per month on the service (Insider)
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All the headlines from the Samsung event, including the new S22 lineup and some massive new tablets. Can Meta’s stock crash so much that it would become immune to antitrust liability? And, look, the alleged Bonnie and Clyde for our times, the whole saga of that husband and wife arrested here in NYC yesterday, allegedly related to the big Bitfinex hack.
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- SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 AND S22 PLUS PUT IMPROVED CAMERAS AND PERFORMANCE IN A SAMEY DESIGN (The Verge)
- SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 ULTRA IS A NOTE BY ANOTHER NAME (The Verge)
- Samsung’s new tablets go bigger than ever (The Verge)
- Facebook market cap falls below $600 billion — which could actually help it dodge new antitrust scrutiny (CNBC)
- Justice Department Says It Seized $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Stolen in 2016 Hack (WSJ)
- Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper (Motherboard)
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It’s a day of retrenchment. Nvidia and Arm are off. Peter Thiel is leaving the Meta board. Peloton loses its CEO ahead of what is likely to be disastrous earnings. The IRS backs down from the whole facial recognition thing. And Tinder stops charging you more if you’re old.
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- SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses (THE (?) Financial Times)
- Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates (NYTimes)
- Peloton CEO John Foley to Step Down, Firm to Cut 2,800 Jobs (WSJ)
- I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification (NYTimes)
- Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music With Artificial Intelligence (Bloomberg)
- Apple announces new Tap to Pay feature that turns iPhones into contactless payment terminals (9to5Mac)
- Signal now allows you to keep messages and groups after changing phone numbers (ZDNet)
- Tinder will stop charging older users more for premium features (Engadget)
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Rogangate rolls on. Why a controversy in the Ethereum Name Service community might be even more interesting, because of what it might teach us about the viability of DAOs. Twitter is, oddly, testing ways to make it easier for folks to DM you. And rumors of a new entry level MacBook Pro.
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- Spotify CEO Addresses Joe Rogan’s N-Word Use, Doubles Down on Keeping Podcaster on Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Spotify CEO defends Joe Rogan deal in tense company town hall (The Verge)
- Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Team Member Brantly Millegan Over 2016 Tweet (CoinDesk)
- Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea (The Verge)
- Gurman: New entry-level MacBook Pro with M2 chip coming this year, but no ProMotion (9to5Mac)
- Gurman: Apple Event on March 8, At Least Four M2 Macs to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
- Mapping the celebrity NFT complex (Read Max)
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That crack you felt in your spine was just the whiplash from the craziest 24 hours in tech earnings I’ve ever seen. Amazon has created a bigger advertising business than the entire newspaper industry. Apple once again shows it can adjust the App Store vig when it has to. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Snap shares rocket as much as 62% on first-ever quarterly net profit (CNBC)
- Amazon Flexes Its Pricing Muscles (WSJ)
- Amazon Profit Shows Resilience Even as Labor, Supply Crunch Weigh on Results (WSJ)
- Apple will charge 27% commission for app purchases made using alternative payment systems in the Netherlands (9to5Mac)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- HOW ONE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE NFT TRADE (The Verge)
- The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You (Wired)
- North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (Wired)
- Startup Investors Cut Valuations Amid Tech Stock Rout, Dismal IPOs (WSJ)
- How IBM’s Watson Went From the Future of Health Care to Sold Off for Parts (Slate)
- Don’t forget Microsoft (Luttig's Learnings)
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Meta really steps in it with earnings that send the stock down fully 25%. The plague of hacks hitting crypto startups. The ransomware attack causing a snacks crisis in Britain. Bored Apes Yacht Club is an interesting raise. And why we might not see a HoloLens 3.
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- Meta estimates Apple's iOS changes will cost it $10B in 2022 (ZDNet)
- Facebook and Google’s Ad Addiction Can’t Last Forever (Bloomberg Opinion)
- Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole hacked for an estimated $322 million (The Record)
- KP Snacks giant hit by Conti ransomware, deliveries disrupted (BleepingComputer)
- Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
- Inside Microsoft's mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company's metaverse strategy (Insider)
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Alphabet gives a new meaning to the term blowout quarter. Cruise is getting ready to launch its robotaxi business in San Francisco. A GDPR issue that might have huge implications. Starlink has a new premium tier. And what happens if someone buys your house, your IRL house, but in the metaverse? I’m not kidding.
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- Google parent Alphabet announces 20-for-1 stock split (CNBC)
- Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from SoftBank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public (TechCrunch)
- SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (The Verge)
- European Ad Group Hit With Sanctions Over Privacy Lapses (Bloomberg)
- Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you. (Protocol)
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The year of gaming consolidation is upon us, with Sony snapping up Bungie. Not EXACTLY related, but the NYTimes has acquired Wordle. Did the CEO of Bolt’s tweets lose him the top job at the company he founded? You can no longer roll through stop signs in your Tesla. And the best use of augmented reality I’ve heard in a while.
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- Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (GamesIndustry.biz)
- SONY’S BUNGIE ACQUISITION IS ALL ABOUT FORTNITE (The Verge)
- Microsoft Deal for Activision to Be Reviewed by FTC in U.S. (Bloomberg)
- Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)
- Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play (The Verge)
- Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (TechCrunch)
- Tesla recall: ‘Full Self-Driving’ software runs stop signs (AP)
- Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)
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Summing up the whole Joe Rogan brouhaha from over the weekend. Meta joins a crypto legal alliance and takes a page out of Alphabets book by planning to break out reporting of its metaverse business. And the dotcom bubble called and wants its headlines back: wash trading might be rampant on NFT marketplaces, and a look at the six startups trying to succeed, where Kozmo.com failed.
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- Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19 (The Verge)
- Joe Rogan defends podcast and apologizes to Spotify for backlash (The Verge)
- Spotify’s big Rogan mistake (Protocol)
- Facebook parent Meta joins crypto group promoting open patents (The Block)
- Facebook's metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate. (Insider)
- LooksRare Has Reportedly Generated $8B in Ethereum NFT Wash Trading (Decrypt)
- Losses Mount for Startups Racing to Deliver Groceries Fast and Cheap (WSJ)
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The great Katie Roof, Natasha Mascarenhas and Christine Hall come on to talk more about the craziness in the stock market and what it might mean for tech startups. Then Chris and I debate The Great Debate surrounding Web3. Shoutout to @randras_ for giving us context, even in the podcast space!
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Ho hum. Apple reports its most revenue and profit in history. You’ll soon be able to unlock your iPhone while masked, even without the Apple Watch. The White House is readying a huge executive order on Crypto. The new version of GPT-3 is less error-prone, and less prone to say bad stuff. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple CEO: ‘We Don’t Make Purely Financial Decisions’ About Apple TV Plus Content (Variety)
- iOS 15.4 Beta Lets You Use Face ID With a Mask On (MacRumors)
- White House reportedly preparing executive order on crypto (CoinTelegraph)
- The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic) (Technology Review)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs (Folding Ideas on YouTube)
- Three things web3 should fix in 2022 (Platformer)
- The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’ (RollingStone)
- Nothing Sacred: These Apps Reserve The Right To Sell Your Prayers (Buzzfeed News)
- Your Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot. Srsly. (WSJ)
- Why Netflix Just Had Its Worst Day in A Decade (Bloomberg)
- Netflix stock market woe is warning to Hollywood (Financial Times)
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Apple is coming for Block’s Square dongle with a new ability to accept payments just using your iPhone. The dilemma that is the Spotify/Neil Young situation. OpenAI is an interesting raise. Fireblocks is an interesting raise. And why has the r/antiwork subreddit suddenly gone private?
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Links:
- Apple to Rival Square by Turning iPhones Into Payment Terminals (Bloomberg)
- Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum (WSJ)
- Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets (WSJ)
- OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules start-up fundraising process (CNBC)
- Fireblocks raises $550 million in Series E funding, now valued at $8 billion (The Block)
- Anti-Work Subreddit Suddenly Goes Private to Clean Up After ‘Brigading’ (Bloomberg)
- Anti-work subreddit implodes after rough Fox News interview (Mashable)
- Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th (The Verge)
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Is Mark Zuckerberg abandoning his crypto dreams and looking to sell off Diem? The IMF is subtly suggesting El Salvador abandon bitcoin. Microsoft is gonna play nice with Activision exclusives. For now. Mark your calendars for the next Samsung event. And has YouTube figured out how to beat TikTok at its own game?
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Links:
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel With Diem Sale Talks (Bloomberg)
- Ditch Bitcoin: IMF Urges El Salvador to Rethink Crypto (Bloomberg)
- Activision’s Next Three Call of Duty Games Will Be on PlayStation and Xbox (Bloomberg)
- Samsung's first Unpacked of 2022 will take place February 9th (Engadget)
- Log4Shell: No Mass Abuse, But No Respite, What Happened? (Sophos News)
- YouTube Shorts Tops 5 Trillion Views to Date, Platform to Test Shopping and Branded Content for TikTok-Style Videos (Variety)
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That already fraught tie-up between Nvidia and Arm increasingly looks like it’s running out of time. Google kills its cookie-killer. Twitter is developing a close friends feature. Meta’s new Machine Learning supercomputer. And why the situation in Ukraine might be a black swan event that is nigh.
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Links:
- Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid (Bloomberg)
- Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics (TechCrunch)
- Twitter's new Flock feature takes aim at Instagram Close Friends (Input)
- Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022 (The Verge)
- Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup (ArsTechnica)
- DHS warns of Russian cyberattack on US if it responds to Ukraine invasion (ABCNews)
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States sue Google for data shenanigans. Europe passes a landmark ad targeting and data law. Apple’s 2022 lineup according to Mark Gurman. A look at the state of the crypto crash, and to what degree it is affecting NFTs. And all this talk of metaverses led to record VC investment in AR and VR startups, but what some folks are starting to ask is, even if we build it, do we have the infrastructure that will even allow the people to come?
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Links:
- Google deceived consumers about how it profits from their location data, attorneys general allege in lawsuits (Washington Post)
- MEPs adopt Digital Services Act with significant last-minute changes (Euractiv)
- European Parliament approves initial proposal to ban some targeted ads (The Verge)
- Apple Nears First Product Launch of 2022, With 5G iPhone SE and New iPad on Tap (Bloomberg)
- Solana Slides 17% to Lead Losses Amid Crypto Market Plunge (CoinDesk)
- Despite the Drop in Crypto Prices, Weekly NFT Sales Reach $4.7 Billion, Increasing 81% (Bitcoin.com)
- VR/AR Investments Increase Just As Metaverse Talk Heats Up—But That May Not Be The Only Reason (Crunchbase News)
- The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue (Financial Times)
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Weirdly, this turned into a sort of education on VC and startup investing episode? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The trend of re-onshoring silicon production domestically and Intel’s turnaround plans collide in a way that is very good for Ohio. Twitter will let you NFT-up your profile picture. Google’s doing the AR headset thing too. That Apple education discount has gotten harder to spoof. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside (Time)
- Twitter Embraces NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature (WSJ)
- GOOGLE IS BUILDING AN AR HEADSET (The Verge)
- Netflix Falls Short of Q4 Subscriber Target, Stock Tumbles on Weak Forecast (Variety)
- We regret to inform you that Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Did ID.me Get Between You and Your Identity? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- The SPAC Ship Is Sinking. Investors Want Their Money Back. (WSJ)
- THE INSIDE STORY OF IBEER, THE UNDERDOG BEER APP THAT MADE MILLIONS (MelMagazine)
- The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)
- How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (The New Yorker)
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Meta is working on NFTs for Instagram and Facebook while Google is starting a blockchain team. Instagram Subscriptions launches. Google Play Games launches on Windows. Amazon launches its first physical fashion store. And why, by this summer, you will only be able to pay the IRS your taxes online by doxing yourself?
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Links:
- Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze (FT)
- Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive (Bloomberg)
- Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US (TechCrunch)
- Google Play Games for PC starts limited beta for Android games on Windows, sharing system requirements (Android Police)
- Amazon to try another tech-infused retail concept with ‘Amazon Style,’ its first physical fashion store (GeekWire)
- Crypto.com Says Regulators Haven’t Reached Out After Hack (Bloomberg)
- Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs (TechCrunch)
- IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Online (Gizmodo)
- IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access (KrebsonSecurity)
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Today is the big day for the showdown between 5G and the airlines. Nobody’s blinked yet, but both sides have sort of blinked. An interesting raise in the NFT space. And I’ve heard of autonomous road cars, but autonomous rail cars? More fallout from the Activision/Microsoft tie-up, and how literally fallout from that undersea volcano may have knocked Tonga off the internet.
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Links:
- Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch (WSJ)
- Major airlines cancel, change flights to US over 5G dispute (AP)
- Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard (Decrypt)
- OpenSea confirms acquisition of Dharma, sets sights on fiat onramps (The Block)
- Michael Jordan, Multicoin Back Solana NFT Firm Metaplex in $46M Round (Decrypt)
- Former SpaceX engineers bring autonomous, electric rail vehicle startup out of stealth (TechCrunch)
- Activision Blizzard’s Workplace Problems Spurred $75 Billion Microsoft Deal (WSJ)
- Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it (Recode)
- Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will take to get it reconnected. (MIT Technology Review)
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Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard in the biggest gaming acquisition of all time. Partially this is a metaverse play, but meanwhile, Meta is quietly locking down all the metaverse patents. Crypto.com halts withdrawals on its platform but insists it hasn’t been hacked. And why are countries encouraging their athletes to use burner phones when they attend the upcoming Olympics?
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Links:
- Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal (CNBC)
- Activision Blizzard Games Will Come To Xbox Game Pass As Part Of Acquisition (PureXbox)
- Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse (Financial Times)
- Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum (Decrypt)
- Samsung begins mass production of Exynos 2200 smartphone processor (ZDNet)
- Cross-country Exposure - Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app (Citizenlab.ca)
- Olympic burner phones? Athletes warned about bringing personal devices to China for 2022 Beijing Games (USAToday)
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... and I'm not just talking about the hosts! Myself, Chris, and about a dozen listeners kick around the latest apps, tools, platforms and other things we use to GTD.
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Some of the books I mention at the end:
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything
- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
- Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
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Russia has cracked down on REvil? Question-mark? Investing in crypto is so hot, FTX has launched its own monster venture fund. Why has the Android 12 rollout been such a disaster so far? How long is the Cybertruck going to be delayed? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Russia takes down REvil hacking group at U.S. request - FSB (Reuters)
- Crypto Exchange FTX Sets Up $2 Billion Venture Fund (WSJ)
- "You Don't Own Web3": A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail (Startups And Econ)
- GOOGLE’S ANDROID 12 UPDATE HAS BEEN THE ROCKIEST IN YEARS (The Verge)
- Tesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says reportTesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says report (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Remembering VRML: The Metaverse of 1995 (How To Geek)
- After the Beanie Baby bubble burst (Vox)
- Crypto Firms Gear Up for Battles Over New Rules in Washington (Bloomberg)
- Xbox players are fed up with forced crossplay against PC gamers (The Verge)
- Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court. (The Washington Post)
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Apple indeed is removing Wordle clones, but PUBG sues them for NOT removing what they allege are clones of their game. Does Google Analytics run afoul of GDPR? China is going to do NFTs, NOT on the blockchain. And will the new Nuro bot bring me my burrito?
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Links:
- Apple Removes Wordle Apps Fueled by Confused Users (Bloomberg)
- Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit (Reuters)
- In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR (TechCrunch)
- Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units (TechCrunch)
- Instagram, still benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, again became the top app by downloads in Q4 (TechCrunch)
- China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure, main developer says (South China Morning Post)
- Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses (TechCrunch)
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The FTC gets a second shot at Meta, after a judge okays their lawsuit edit. Samsung ghost on its own event. The state of the mobile app economy. Is cloning Wordle to release an app ok or not? And the new app at the top of the App Store that definitely comes from the, why didn’t I think of that file.
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Links:
- ‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules. (Washington Post)
- Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch [Update: Samsung speaks] (Ars Technica)
- Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22 (BusinessKorea)
- App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B (TechCrunch)
- The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store (The Verge)
- Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store (TechCrunch)
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Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as CEO of Signal, and Brian Acton is stepping up. For now. Y Combinator is getting more generous with the investment it makes in its cohort companies. Carriers aren’t pleased with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay service. And another day, another headline like: the Associated Press is getting into NFTs.
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Links:
- Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal (The Verge)
- Y Combinator’s New Deal Sparks Fear in Seed Investors (The Information)
- T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US [U] (9to5Mac)
- Apple Highlights Services in 2021, Recaps Upcoming Features Like IDs on iPhone (MacRumors)
- The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism (The Verge)
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Take-Two takes out Zynga for $12.7 billion dollars. The SEC wants private unicorn companies to report more financial details. The open source developer who borked a bunch of projects to protest working for the man, I guess. And the weekend Web3 debate between Moxie Marlinspike and Vitalic Buterin.
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Links:
- Take-Two to acquire mobile gaming giant Zynga for $12.7B (TechCrunch)
- SEC Pushes for More Transparency From Private Companies (WSJ)
- Matter was a major star at CES 2022, but can it maintain its shine? (The Verge)
- Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps (BleepingComputer)
- My first impressions of web3 (Moxie.org)
- Response From Vitalic Buterin on Reddit
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Our first ever Portfolio Profile, of the first investment the Ride Home Fund ever made! Sensel! As you’ll hear, touch technology as a key layer in computing interface and interaction is about to undergo a major generational leap forward, and Sensel is at the bleeding edge of this transformation. Not only is there a good chance that the next laptop you buy will have Sensel technology inside, but you’ll hear how Sensel’s tech could come to smartphones soon, to medical devices, to automobiles. In essence, Senel’s tech has the potential to radically transform how we interact with computers all across the real world, and even provide a key foundational layer as we build out the metaverse.
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Sonos beats Google in trade court. E3 is going remote again this year. Mozilla is the latest company to suffer crypto backlash. Are foldable laptops the future? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions, this week with a profile of the programmer behind Wordle.
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Links:
- Google Infringed on Sonos Speaker Technology, Trade Court Rules (NYTimes)
- E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns (GamesBeat)
- Mozilla pauses accepting crypto donations following backlash (The Verge)
- Asus will release a 17-inch foldable OLED laptop this year (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- CES 2022 was the best auto show in years (CNET)
- Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K? (Gizmodo)
- The Pixel Art Revolution Will Be Televised (Wired)
- Banks Tiptoe Toward Their Cloud-Based Future (NYTimes)
- The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI (Wired)
- Wordle Is a Love Story (NYTimes)
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Google’s big announce at CES is better syncing and interoperability with everything. Instagram is launching their feed experiment. IBM might be looking to dump Watson. Ethereum has the most developers in crypto. And you know startups have been awash in money lately, here’s exactly how much.
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Links:
- Google is working to improve Windows and Android integration (Engadget)
- Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations (The Verge)
- Instagram testing three new feed sorting choices, including chronological options (9to5Mac)
- HTC is launching a VR wrist tracker for its Vive Focus 3 headset (The Verge)
- Scoop: IBM tries to sell Watson Health again (Axios)
- Electric Capital Developer Report (2021) (Electric Capital)
- Crypto Crime Trends for 2022: Illicit Transaction Activity Reaches All-Time High in Value, All-Time Low in Share of All Cryptocurrency Activity (Chainalysis)
- US start-ups raise record $330bn as venture investors vie for stakes (FT)
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Let’s stand in front of the firehose of CES news. Sony details its new VR headset for PlayStations. Chip news from Intel, from Nvidia, from AMD, from Microsoft and Qualcomm. Two really big interesting raises, and a new autonomous tractor allows us to talk about John Deere, for the first time ever, I believe.
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Links:
- Sony confirms PlayStation VR2’s specs, first official game (ArsTechnica)
- Intel Says New Core i9 Processor for Laptops is Faster Than Apple's M1 Max Chip (MacRumors)
- Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3050, 3070 Ti, 3080 Ti, and 3090 Ti graphics cards (GamesBeat)
- Nvidia still has no idea how to pronounce the name of its best gaming GPU (The Verge)
- AMD unveils Ryzen 6000 Series processors for laptops (GamesBeat)
- Qualcomm and Microsoft are partnering on chips for future AR glasses (CNET)
- John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming (Wired)
- OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding. (NYTimes)
- Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding (TechCrunch)
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Apple becomes the world’s first $3 Trillion dollar company. Samsung unveils its latest budget flagship smartphone. AT&T and Verizon delay their controversial 5G rollout while Verizon and T-Mobile end their controversial Apple rebate program. And a trip down the aisles at CES, including a smart collar for your dog and a gadget to bring home hair coloring into the 21st century.
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Links:
- Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap (CNBC)
- The Galaxy S21 FE officially joins Samsung’s crowded midrange lineup (The Verge)
- Verizon, AT&T agree to FAA's request for a two-week delay on 5G expansion plans (CNET)
- Verizon and T-Mobile Discontinue iPad Rebate Program Following Widespread Customer Complaints [Updated] (MacRumors)
- Version two of TCL’s wearable display glasses are lighter and less dorky-looking (The Verge)
- Are we ready for the smart front door? Masonite thinks so (The Verge)
- This smart collar wants to be an Apple Watch for your dog (The Verge)
- L’Oreal's precision hair coloring device is the end of home dye job disasters (Input)
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CES kicks off with some major Samsung TV announcements, as per usual. Are we about to get the biggest MacBook Air redesign in history? Did Oculus (and VR generally) have a big holiday season? And does OpenSea helping folks get back their stolen NFTs point to the reality of decentralization in the NFT market?
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Links:
- Samsung’s new 2022 TVs bring Nvidia GeForce Now and Google Stadia gaming (The Verge)
- Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support (The Verge)
- Samsung shows off new monitors - including world's first 4K 240Hz gaming monitor (TechRadar)
- Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 to Feature Lossless Support and Sound-Emitting Charging Case (MacRumors)
- Apple Set to Step Up Product Launches in 2022 After Modest 2021 (Bloomberg)
- Metaverse Needs More Than VR Christmas Bump (WSJ)
- China gaming crackdown: freeze on new video game licences extends into 2022 as 14,000 gaming-related firms shut down (SCMP)
- Airlines Warn of Flight Delays as AT&T, Verizon Balk at 5G Delay (Bloomberg)
- OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes (CoinTelegraph)
- How NFTs became a $40bn market in 2021 (FT)
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Might want to doublecheck if your LastPass master password is safe. Apple has issued stock to try to retain a bunch of their key talent. Google is dangling investments in front of startups to try to win their cloud business. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (BleepingComputer)
- Apple Aims to Prevent Defections to Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent (Bloomberg)
- Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Discord, Born From an Obscure Game, Became a Social Hub for Young People (NYTimes)
- Here’s why streaming services are always duking it out over channels (The Verge)
- How Shopify Outfoxed Amazon to Become the Everywhere Store (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- We Are at the Dawn of the Age of Physics-Supplied Energy (Wired)
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China is pissed at Elon Musk cause of his Starlink satellites. Xiaomi’s new smartphones. The delivery robots taking over college campuses. The three fund companies that made fully 12% of all venture investments this year. And why cybersecurity companies are the hot startup sector as we head into the new year.
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Links:
- China berates US after ‘close encounters’ with Elon Musk satellites (The Guardian)
- Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro debut with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets, Xiaomi 12X comes with SD870 (GSMArena)
- Sidewalk Robots Find Foothold on College Campuses (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- How Tiger Global, SoftBank Vision Fund And Insight Partners Changed The Venture Landscape In 2021 (Crunchbase News)
- Truly Terrible Performers Multiply Among Startups Taking SPAC Route To Market (Crunchbase News)
- Record Number Of VC-Backed Cyber Companies Acquired in 2021, Even As Venture Funding Hits New Highs (Crunchbase News)
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Gibraltar wants to add crypto to its stock exchange. The complicated truth about how successful Alexa has been as a product for Amazon. It was a big year for decentralized exchanges, but an even bigger one for centralized ones. And the story behind that SOS token drop that happened on Christmas Day.
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Links:
- ‘Blockchain Rock’: Gibraltar moves to become world’s first cryptocurrency hub (The Guardian)
- Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (Bloomberg)
- Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
- Centralized crypto exchanges saw over $14 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
- Everything You Need to Know About OpenDAO’s SOS Token Airdrop for OpenSea Users (Decrypt)
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First we talk to theSpatialfolks about pivoting in Web3. Then, the top tech stories of the year, as picked by you.
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Some big names pull out of CES at the last minute. TikTok is now the most popular destination in all the Internet. Justin Kan’s new NFT platform got hacked before even launching. Why my beloved Arsenal is in trouble for offering tokens. And Elon Musk comes out swinging against Web3 and the Metaverse.
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- Amazon, Meta Scrap CES Plans in Las Vegas After Covid Surge (Bloomberg)
- In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond (CloudFlare Blog)
- Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds (Washington Post)
- Justin Kan’s NFT platform suffers rocky debut as scammer makes off with $150K in user funds (TechCrunch)
- Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog (BBCNews)
- Elon Musk: metaverse isn’t ‘compelling’ and Web3 ‘more marketing than reality’ (The Verge)
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I do my best to give you all the angles on the cold tech civil war concerning Web3 that has been bubbling under the surface for a while now but burst out in the open overnight. Interesting raises in the crypto space and interesting data on investment in the space. An interesting CEO departure and a CEO who maybe never really stepped down. And a look at satellite internet speeds.
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- Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything (Bloomberg)
- The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups (NYTimes)
- OnlyFans Names Marketing Chief Ami Gan as CEO; Founder Steps Down (Bloomberg)
- Zhang Yiming Still Oversees ByteDance, Despite Stepping Back (The Information)
- Starlink Expands but Q3 2021 Performance Flattens in Some Areas (SpeedTest.net)
The article featuring Chris and I talking about the Twitter Spaces:
- How the Copycats Came for Clubhouse (NYTimes)
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Could a new 5G system lead the FCC to ground flights around some major metropolitan areas? Chipmakers are busting a gut to try to build out capacity. To what degree is Siri holding back Apple? A longtime Metaverse startup you should maybe have your eyes on. And is Microsoft best positioned to realize the Metaverse?
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- Airlines Brace for Flight Restrictions in 5G Standoff (WSJ)
- Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 (AnandTech)
- Apple Should Make a Giant iPad as Its Smart Home Portal (Bloomberg)
- Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform (TechCrunch)
- Why Xbox's Phil Spencer thinks Minecraft is a blueprint for the metaverse (Protocol)
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Apple really is going to try to make all its gadget components itself, isn’t it? The deeper reason why the Biden administration doesn’t want you investing in Chinese tech. More on the brewing war between the gamers and the NFTers. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring More Wireless Chips In-House (Bloomberg)
- Biden administration concerned about U.S. investments in Chinese tech companies with military or surveillance ties (Washington Post)
- FTC Slows Meta Platforms’ Metaverse Strategy By Extending Antitrust Probe of VR Deal (The Information)
- Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more (ArsTechnica)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer have NFTs after fan outcry (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- THE METAVERSE IS ALREADY HERE — AND IT’S FULL OF POKEMON, SAYS NIANTIC CEO JOHN HANKE (The Verge)
- The ‘To the Moon’ Crash Is Coming (Motherboard)
- Strange, horny game ads are flooding social media. I accidentally became obsessed (The Guardian)
- MATTER’S PLAN TO SAVE THE SMART HOME (The Verge)
- Computers Revolutionized Chess. Magnus Carlsen Wins by Being Human (WSJ)
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Reddit finally files to go public. Is Apple once again the canary in the coal mine, this time for Omicron? HR Block sues Square cause Square is now Block. Get it? The biggest investing star of Web3 is starting her own fund. And a look at the battery technology breakthrough the could transform all our lives.
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Links:
- Reddit Files Confidentially for IPO (WSJ)
- Apple Scraps Office-Return Deadline Without Setting New Date (Bloomberg)
- H&R Block Sues Block, Formerly Square, for Trademark Infringement (WSJ)
- Adidas Originals launches NFTs and buys a plot in the Sandbox metaverse (VentureBeat)
- Scoop: Crypto investor Katie Haun leaving Andreessen Horowitz (Axios)
- Solid-State Batteries Are Here and They're Going to Change How We Live (Popular Mechanics)
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Is Google the first Silicon Valley company to adopt a vaccine mandate? A new foldable phone from Oppo. Why the US might ban you from investing in DJI. Twitter gets auto captions. And a look at the up and coming Chinese ecommerce giant that you might have already heard of, but definitely need to be aware of going forward.
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Links:
- Google tells employees they’ll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules (CNBC)
- Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone (The Verge)
- Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)
- Apple and Google's mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action (TechCrunch)
- US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI (Financial Times)
- How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion (Rest of World)
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More fallout from what is now being called potentially the worst bug of all time. Apple helps Android users discover if they’re being tracked by AirTags. A new entrant into the AR and VR product category that I guess we’re going to be covering going forward. Amazon is coming for DoorDash and Instacart. And how much did Meta have to pay to become Meta?
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Links:
- CISA warns 'most serious' Log4j vulnerability likely to affect hundreds of millions of devices (CyberScoop)
- The numbers behind a cyber pandemic – detailed dive (Check Point)
- Apple launches AirTags and Find My detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy (CNET)
- Oppo announces Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ device (The Verge)
- Amazon Ramps Up Plans for Instacart-Like Service in U.S., Europe (The Information)
- Nike acquires NFT collectibles studio RTFKT (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Owner Is Involved in $60M Deal Over Meta Trademark Assets (Coinspeaker)
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A huge bug in Apache servers is causing chaos around the Internet. What to expect, and what we’re still waiting on from iOS 15.2. Why did Instagram steal the @metaverse handle from a woman in Australia, and the story of the fat finger fire sale of a Board Ape Yacht Club NFT.
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Links:
- Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet (ArsTechnica)
- The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day (ArsTechnica)
- PROFESSIONAL MAINTAINERS: A WAKE-UP CALL (Filippo.io)
- Apple Set to Release Nudity Detection in Texting, But Other Features Remain on Hold (Bloomberg)
- Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. (NYTimes)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 (CNET)
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The great Andrew Chen of a16z joins us to discuss his new book:The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects. This an indispensable guide to get that "rocket-ship" action going for whatever product or company you're working with.
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Google Play games are coming to Windows, while Microsoft was apparently willing to bend over backwards if Apple had let xCloud games into the iOS app store. Meta’s first tangible foray into the Metaverse. The English Football punters buying into NFTs. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge)
- MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge)
- Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge)
- Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia (The New Yorker)
- Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker)
- Amazon is making its own containers and bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes (CNBC)
- HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge)
- Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans' 2022 Slide Deck)
- On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (The New Yorker)
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Instagram is going to bring back a version of its chronological feed, sort of. The congressional hearings about Instagram, but also crypto. I was wrong: we are seeing Novi in the wild as WhatsApp starts testing it in the US. Deep Mind unveils its language model, and say goodbye to… checks notes… Alexa?
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- Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)
- Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)
- What we learned at Congress' much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)
- Epic v. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay (The Verge)
- Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance (Politico.eu)
- WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)
- Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)
- DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)
- Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)
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That AWS outage yesterday disrupted Amazon’s own delivery efforts. When we might see the AirPods Pro 2. More specific details on the Apple AR thingy. Ubisoft is the first major player to bring NFTs to games. And a look at the records being set in the African startup investment scene.
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- An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge)
- AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard)
- Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 With New Design and Improved Chip to Launch in Late 2022 (Macrumors)
- Kuo: Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024 With Lighter Design, Redesigned Battery System, and More (Macrumors)
- Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs (Decrypt)
- Roku, Google settle messy battle over YouTube distribution (Axios)
- Facebook's new website lets fans buy 'Stars' without paying the app stores' commissions (TechCrunch)
- African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Year (Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg)
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The Information has a story about a secret deal Apple struck that really solidifies Tim Cook as the China whisperer. Intel proves itself to be an astute investor as it weighs a public spinoff of Mobileye. European tech startups raise all-time record amounts. Quantifying this year’s emerging NFT market. And the first ever marketable quantum computing product?
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- Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them (The Information)
- Samsung's mobile and consumer electronic divisions merge into one in exec reshuffle (ZDNet)
- Intel to List Shares in Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
- The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (The Markup)
- Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)
- European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)
- [Report Preview] The 2021 NFT Market Explained (Chainalysis)
- Honeywell Unit Offers First-Ever Quantum-Created Encryption Key (Bloomberg)
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DoorDash tests a wildly new business model: employees! Apple launches a Winter War in Russia. Two stories of US telecom companies doing what US telecom companies do: act shady. And Buzzfeed finally hits the public markets.
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- DoorDash breaks gig worker model to hire couriers as employees in New York trial (Financial Times)
- Apple Attempts to Stop Developers Promoting Alternative Payment Options for In-App Purchases in Russia (MacRumors)
- Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto (The Block)
- The Verizon app might be collecting your browsing history and more (The Verge)
- Apple iPhone 13 Rebates Fail to Deliver for Some Buyers (Bloomberg)
- BuzzFeed Tumbles in Turbulent Debut for Digital Media (Bloomberg)
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Mulling over the whole legacy of Jack Dorsey and name changes for tech companies in general. The weird way gaming is changing right now (see: Halo Infinite). And are foldable phones ready for the big time? With Bloomberg's@vladsavov
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Another tech deal goes on a deathwatch, but this time it’s Nvidia and Arm, and this time I think it’s for real. Google is probably working on its own smartwatch. Didi is the first Chinese stock to delist in the west. Instagram is ENCOURAGING you to create a Finsta. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- FTC Challenges Nvidia’s Deal for Arm Holdings (WSJ)
- EXCLUSIVE: Google readies 'Pixel Watch' for 2022 launch as it renews ambitions in wearable tech (Insider)
- Didi bows to China regulatory pressure, will delist from NYSE (Reuters)
- Why Instagram Asks Users to Create Second Accounts (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain? (Wired)
- Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms (WSJ)
- World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say (CNN)
- Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential (ArsTechnica)
- ‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer Game That Inspired — and Diverted — Generations of Students (the74million.org)
- Why the Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ May Stand as the Best Rock Doc Ever (Column) (Variety)
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Square changes its name to Block. Apple is hinting at unexpectedly weak iPhone demand. TikTok adds monetization tools. How many people have never used the Internet? And the story behind that whole Spotify Unwrapped thing.
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- Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (CNBC)
- Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near (Bloomberg)
- Instacart Plans 15-Minute Delivery Trial as Rival Startups Grow (The Information)
- Microsoft Teams Essentials is a new standalone version for small businesses (The Verge)
- TikTok adds creator monetization features, including tips and video gifts (TechCrunch)
- 37 Percent of the World's Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds (Gizmodo)
- The art and science of Spotify Wrapped (Protocol)
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Twitter bans “private” sharing, but there’s some confusion about what that actually means. A big executive departure throws more doubt on Meta’s crypto ambitions. There’s a new Snapdragon flagship chip and I’ve got the specs. And we get some raw data to answer the question: are foldable phones actually a thing or not?
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- Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent (Engadget)
- Meta’s David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, to Leave Company (Bloomberg)
- Quest v35 Update To Add iPhone Mixed Reality Capture, Messenger Calling (UploadVR)
- China to Close Loophole Used by Tech Firms for Foreign IPOs (Bloomberg)
- Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022 (The Verge)
- Q3’21 Was a Record Quarter for Foldable Smartphones, Samsung Enjoys a 93% Share per DSCC Report (DSCC)
- Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness (NYTimes)
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Tue. 11/30 – Meta Might Do The Giphy Deal Anyway
The UK quashes the Giphy acquisition, but is it actually dead? Maybe not. Was Cyber Monday a bit of a disappointment this year? Why your Pixel phone might reject your cheap charging cable. AWS’s new tools to help you build robots. And a profile of Twitter’s new CEO.
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Links:
- Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK regulator (The Verge)
- Finland Battles ‘Exceptional’ Malware Attack Spread by Phones (Bloomberg)
- Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend (WSJ)
- The Google Pixel 6 will refuse to charge if you use a low-quality USB-C cable or charger (AndroidPolice)
- Amazon launches AWS RoboRunner to support robotics apps (Venture Beat)
- Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (NYTimes)
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Jack Dorsey is reportedly about to be a one company CEO if he steps down from Twitter. The acquisition of Giphy is on life support. Folks remember Microsoft could be an antitrust target too. Will Apple’s AR headset not need to be tethered to an iPhone? And a look at just how much Amazon has increased its delivery capacity.
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Links:
- Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO (CNBC)
- Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO (The Verge)
- UK regulator expected to block Meta’s Giphy deal (Financial Times)
- Social media companies could be forced to give out names and contact details, under new anti-troll laws (ABC News)
- EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration (ZDNet)
- Report: Apple still working on multi-device charger, a future where all devices ‘can charge each other’ (9to5Mac)
- Kuo: Apple AR Headset Coming in Late 2022 With Mac-Level Computing Power (MacRumors)
- Amazon Builds Out Network to Speed Delivery, Handle Holiday Crunch (WSJ)
- Amazon poised to pass UPS and FedEx to become largest U.S. delivery service by early 2022, exec says (CNBC)
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The legendary tech analyst and general deep-thinker @benedictevans comes on to discuss this essay about the state of the Metaverse right now. Then, several members of the ConstitutionDAO team come on to tell us the behind the scenes of all that historic event at Sotheby's all went down last week. Featuring: @sadlyoddisfying, @youfoundanisha, @julianweisser, @RobbieHeeger, @ciaomack, @kyle_billings
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Italy has fined Amazon and Apple for alleged collusion. Tile taps out by getting acquired. Niantic is an interesting metaverse raise. Walmart is testing Twitter live shopping. And the story of the guy who automated his job so completely, he didn’t work for five years, but still got paid.
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Links:
- Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines (Reuters)
- Samsung to Choose Taylor, Texas, for $17 Billion Chip-Making Factory (WSJ)
- AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360 (MacRumors)
- Niantic raises $300M at at $9B valuation to build the 'real-world metaverse' (TechCrunch)
- Walmart will be the first retailer to test Twitter’s new livestream shopping platform (TechCrunch)
- “You’ve Won The Game”: Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years (BoredPanda)
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When Adele says jump, Spotify apparently says how high? Is Apple Watch slipping in market share? All the crypto miners who fled China have landed in Russia, Kazakhstan and… Texas? And an explanation for why buying bots will either ruin, or save your holiday gift buying.
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Links:
- Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (BBC News)
- Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023 (The Guardian)
- Wear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s Highest Quarterly Smartwatch Shipments in Q3 2021 (CounterpointResearch)
- India’s Paytm Tumbles Another 13% After First-Day IPO Flop (Boomberg)
- China’s exiled crypto machines fuel global mining boom (Financial Times)
- Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All (Bloomberg)
- Desperate Parents Turn to Shopping Bots to Hunt for Hottest Christmas Gifts (WSJ)
- Sweden's Ericsson snaps up cloud firm Vonage in $6.2 bln deal (Reuters)
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ConstitutionDAO lost the auction for the Constitution. But it was really about the friends we made along the way, right? More Apple Car rumors. Xbox and PlayStation have harsh words for Activision Blizzard. Everyone wants in on crypto exchanges. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Crypto Investors Lose Out In $43.2 Million Sale Of Rare Copy Of U.S. Constitution (Forbes)
- Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle (Bloomberg)
- Xbox Chief Says He’s Evaluating Relationship With Activision (Bloomberg)
- Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden (Forbes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The most influential man on the internet (ReadMax)
- Visions of a U.S. Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling (NYTimes)
- The Video Game History Book I Mentioned
- GAMECUBE AT 20: NINTENDO INSIDERS ON THE FAILED CONSOLE THAT CHANGED THE INDUSTRY (Video Games Chronicle)
- How Xbox outgrew the console: inside Phil Spencer’s multi-billion dollar gamble (GQ)
- Who Knows Anthony Bourdain? (Eater)
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Paytm has a rough IPO. Nvidia has another in a long line of crushed earnings reports. Grammarly is an interesting raise. Twitter wants to take the pulse of the stock market. And if ConstitutionDAO wins its auction today, there are some practical questions to answer like, who actually goes and picks it up?
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Links:
- Paytm falls 27% on first trading day after India’s largest IPO (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia easily beats earnings expectations on strong gaming and data center sales (Yahoo!Finance)
- Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI (TechCrunch)
- AllTrails raises $150M after COVID accelerates people’s interest in exploring the outdoors (TechCrunch)
- Nreal’s $599 mixed reality glasses are launching in the US on Verizon (The Verge)
- Twitter partners with S&P 500 on stock index that crowdsources public opinion (CNET)
- Crypto Group’s Bid for Constitution Faces Real-World Snags—Who Picks It Up? (WSJ)
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Hell freezes slightly over. Apple is gonna let you repair your own devices, at home, yourself. The Staples Center goes crypto. Meta wants to bring touch to VR. Netflix now WANTS you to know which shows have been watched the most. And Miramax is suing Quentin Tarantino over NFT’s.
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Links:
- Beginning next year, Apple will send you parts and tools to fix your iPhone and Mac at home (TechCrunch)
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant (WSJ)
- Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (LATimes)
- Meta’s sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets (The Verge)
- Microsoft states that x64 emulation is only available on Windows 11 on ARM PCs (Windows Central)
- Netflix’s Expanded Viewing Data Move Is Mainly a Flex (Variety)
- Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Auction (Variety)
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Twitter has followed through on its promise to decentralize and play nice with 3rd party developers. Will the Nvidia/ARM acquisition actually happen? Substack reaches a million subscribers. Apple defends buying Google Ads. And I get my answer about the whole civil war between Crypto and NFT folks and… furries?
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Links:
- TWITTER MAKES BIG CHANGES FOR DEVS AS IT EYES DECENTRALIZED FUTURE (The Verge)
- Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of chip designer Arm faces a UK national security probe (CNBC)
- Newsletter start-up Substack hits 1m subscribers (Financial Times)
- Apple Defends Its Ads for Third-Party Apps, Says It Regularly Communicates With Developers and Has Been Running Them for Five Years (MacRumors)
- Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners (Garbage Day)
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Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions. The audacious hacker that managed to send fake emails from the FBI’s own servers. The story behind the big Taproot update to Bitcoin. And the DAO of crypto enthusiasts looking to buy a copy of the US Constitution.
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- Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue (Fortune)
- Samsung releases Android 12-powered One UI 4 for Galaxy S21 phones (The Verge)
- Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions (Bloomberg)
- FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks (Bleeping Computer)
- Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website (KrebsOnSecurity)
- A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know (CNBC Make It)
- A crypto group has raised nearly $3 million in Ether to bid on a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution (Fortune)
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Coming at the Metaverse from a different angle. If you're a dev or even just an enthusiast, how, from a technological perspective, will the Metaverse be built?
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Beware a watering hole, zero day attack that affected macOS. Spotify is getting into the audiobook game. MoviePass looks like it might be coming back from the dead, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users (Vice/Motherboard)
- Amazon will let you easily share clips from its Prime Video content (The Verge)
- Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (TechCrunch)
- MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch (Insider)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution (Wired)
- The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noahpinion)
- Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players (NYTimes)
- The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol With Grant Wahl)
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Discord floats the idea of incorporating crypto, but backs down after a vicious backlash. Apple wants to manage IT for small and medium businesses. YouTube is starting to hide the dislike option. Disney+ growth is suddenly anemic. And say hello to an NFT band. Like, literally, a Bored Ape Band.
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- Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash (TechCrunch)
- Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price (9to5Mac)
- US sues Uber over 'wait time' fees for disabled passengers (Protocol)
- YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts (The Verge)
- Disney+ Subscriber Growth Slows, Company Misses Wall Street Expectations (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group (Bloomberg)
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Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No word on if Andy Serkis is part of the package. And Twitter Blue is finally live. A reminder of what that actually is.
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- Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay (The Verge)
- Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion EU Shopping-Ads Fine (WSJ)
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces try to make it easier to get apps ready for augmented reality (The Verge)
- Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (TechCrunch)
- Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes)
- Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge)
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Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes a page out of the TikTok playbook. And whole bunch of announces about new DRAM chips, new AMD chips, new custom voicebot toolkits from Nvidia, and Niantic doesn’t want to get left behind in the Metaverse race it arguably helped set off.
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Links:
- Robinhood says millions of customer names and email addresses taken in data breach (TechCrunch)
- US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack (CNN)
- Netflix to Roll Out TikTok-Like Short Clip Feature Aimed at Kids (Bloomberg)
- Samsung’s new LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3x faster and consumes 20% less power than LPDDR5 DRAM (XDA Developers)
- AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11% (Reuters)
- Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI (VentureBeat)
- Niantic launches platform to build ‘real-world metaverse’ apps (The Verge)
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McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously complicate your tax bill. The latest installment of Today In Elon Musk, and since we’re hitting old features today, let’s check in with how Masa Son is doing.
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- McAfee to Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt (Bloomberg)
- House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President (CoinDesk)
- NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale (WSJ)
- A Drone Tried to Disrupt the Power Grid. It Won't Be the Last (Wired)
- SoftBank Vision Fund Posts a Record Loss on Coupang’s Plunge (Bloomberg)
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Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy.
Simon Owen's Media Newsletter
Zealous.app
The Charlie Warzel leavingsubstack essay we discuss.
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Is Meta going to open actual physical retail stores to try to sell folks on the promise of the Metaverse? More tangible signs Apple’s silicon is leaving everyone, but especially Intel in the dust. The new Mavic 3 drone from DJI. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores (NYTimes)
- Apple’s Road Map for Mac Chips Shows Likely Advantage Over Intel (The Information)
- DJI Launches New Mavic 3 Drone With Longer Flight Time, Improved Cameras and New Safety Features (MacRumors)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade (TechnologyReview.com)
- The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes (Motherboard)
- Farewell Offshoring, Outsourcing. Pandemic Rewrites CEO Playbook. (WSJ)
- Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine (Fast Company)
- The Metaverse Takes Manhattan (NYTimes)
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Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South Korean law is actively cracking open the App Stores in that country. Google might be back in the defense contract business. And why it MIGHT be worth paying $30 for a keyboard with only 3 keys.
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- Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch)
- Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge)
- Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t. (Recode)
- Google Allows Alternate In-App Payment Options in South Korea, Though Familiar Fees Remain (WSJ)
- Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes)
- STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge)
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Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray into games officially launches widely. And Microsoft says hey Zuckerberg, if you think the Metaverse is going to be about work meetings with cartoonish avatars and virtual whiteboards? Hold our beer!
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- Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (NYTimes)
- Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters (GeekWire)
- CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, orders agencies to patch (The Record)
- Netflix games are coming to all members on Android, starting this week (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge)
- Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat)
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Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stablecoins. Zoom is going to start showing you ads unless you pay up. Zillow misjudged the housing market. And a security flaw has been found, inside, of all things: Unicode.
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- Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia)
- Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia)
- Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk)
- Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge)
- ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity)
- Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg)
- Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ)
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How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But new iOS devices might have crash detection built in. Why was Roblox down for so long? And why Hollywood thinks there’s money in their old banana stands after all.
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Links:
- Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (Financial Times)
- The Chip Shortage Slams Into Apple at the Worst Possible Time (Bloomberg)
- Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ)
- Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 (WSJ)
- Roblox Servers Are Turning Back On (Slowly) After 60+ Hour Outage (Kotaku)
- 5D data storage technology offers 10,000 times the density of Blu-ray (New Atlas)
- Snapchat Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Use Audio From ‘SNL,’ ‘The Office’ and More (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Amazon. Very important detail from the reviews of the new MacBook Pros involving battery life. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Leaked Photo Shows Meta’s Planned Competitor to Apple Watch (Bloomberg)
- Meta (Stratechery)
- The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes)
- APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14 AND 16 REVIEW: RETURN TO FORM (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- MARK ZUCKERBERG ON WHY FACEBOOK IS REBRANDING TO META (The Verge)
- What the metaverse will (and won’t) be, according to 28 experts (Fast Company)
- Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google (WSJ)
- Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions (Intelligencer/NYMag)
- Life in the FAST Lane: Free Streaming, Big Money (Vulture/NYMag)
- A Very Big Little Country (Afar)
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Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device. And how to handle the notch on the MacBook Pro if its driving you crazy.
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Links:
- Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
- Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
- Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
- Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
- Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
- Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
- Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes)
- Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios)
- The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired)
- Apple Reveals 'Scale to Fit' Setting to Prevent a Mac App's Menu Bar Items From Being Hidden Under Notch (MacRumors)
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Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, you can be wounded by them too. Will the Facebook Files force some sort of FTC action? AWS goes after Google’s tensor processing units. And do you think I could produce this show on MS-DOS? Probably not, but Dune was written on it.
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Links:
- Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC)
- Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC)
- FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control (ArsTechnica)
- Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures (WSJ)
- Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip (VentureBeat)
- Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC (The Verge)
- The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Motherboard/Vice)
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Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, joining the Quantum Computing race, and lending Project Kuiper to Verizon. And the big review of Apple’s new chips calls their performance "downright absurd."
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Links:
- Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet)
- Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge)
- Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge)
- Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge)
- Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center (The Washington Post)
- Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge)
- Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge)
- Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoC's Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights (AnandTech)
- Pixel 6 Pro Review: The flagship Google needs right now is the one buyers deserve (9to5Google)
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Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla rolls back Full Self Driving, Microsoft keeps its eye on the ransomware gangs and a listener gives us an explainer on why Worldcoin wants to scan your eyeball.
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Links:
- Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol)
- The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post)
- PayPal Says It’s Currently Not Pursuing Pinterest Deal (Bloomberg)
- Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs (The Verge)
- Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2 billion (The Verge)
- Microsoft: Russian SVR hacked at least 14 IT supply chain firms since May (BleepingComputer)
- Privacy by Design (WorldCoin)
- How the Launch Works (Worldcoin)
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F it! We did it live! Chris and me and**@Kantrowitz*around my kitchen table! Are we in for the biggest week of Facebook's life? Check outBig Technology!
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Snap’s earnings suggest Apple’s ATT bite is having an impact, and what might that mean for others like Facebook? Google lowers Play Store fees and piles pressure on Apple. Did law enforcement give REvil a taste of its own medicine? What the heck is Worldcoin, I still can’t figure it out. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC)
- Google lowers Play Store fees for subscriptions and music streaming apps (The Verge)
- Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses (CNBC)
- Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (Reuters)
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- The Metaverse Is Bad (The Atlantic)
- DeFi Is Like Nothing Regulators Have Seen Before. How Should They Tackle It? (CoinDesk)
- Inside Wheel of Time, Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next Game of Thrones (GQ)
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PayPal wants to buy Pinterest and everybody is trying to figure out why. Devs, you can now begin testing Android apps on Windows 11. Gamers, you can now do some powerful gaming for the low, low price of $100 a month. Some, just, spectacularly monster raises in the crypto space. And I get talked out of the Microsoft Surface Duo again.
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Links:
- PayPal Is Exploring a Purchase of Pinterest (Bloomberg)
- Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal (WSJ)
- Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 (The Verge)
- A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (The Verge)
- Nvidia Supercharges GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Service With RTX 3080 GPUs (Gizmodo)
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Exchange Adds $7 Billion of Value in Three Months (Bloomberg)
- Fanatics’ NFT company is worth $1.5 billion, and NFL legend Peyton Manning now owns a stake (CNBC)
- Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album (NYTimes)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 REVIEW: DUO-OVER OR STRIKE TWO? (The Verge)
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Dropping the “the” from The Facebook isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Dropping Facebook as a name entirely. All the news from today’s Samsung event. Spotify and Shopify finally team up in the greatest crossover event of tech naming confusion. And a first look at that Comcast branded smart TV.
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Links:
- Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (The Verge)
- Galaxy Watch 4 gets its first major update w/ Fall Detection, new watchfaces, more (9to5Google)
- First Bitcoin Futures ETF Rises in Trading Debut (WSJ)
- Facebook Fined $69 Million by U.K. Authority for Breaching Order During Giphy Merger Investigation (Variety)
- Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine (Thurrott.com)
- Spotify Adds Virtual Merch Tables for Music Artists in Pact With Shopify (Variety)
- Comcast Launches XClass TV, Its First TV Sets in the U.S., Taking Streaming Platform Direct-to-Consumer (Variety)
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All the headlines from Google’s latest Pixel event with the new Pixel 6. Some odds and sods from yesterday’s Apple event. Maybe Facebook’s crypto project is about to debut. How much money can the delivery space attract or even support? And more signs that YouTube is becoming a monster business that is increasingly supporting all of Alphabet.
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Links:
- Android 12 is now rolling out to Pixel phones (Engadget)
- GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND 6 PRO HAVE BIG SCREENS, BIG AMBITIONS, AND SMALL PRICES (The Verge)
- The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC (Ars Technica)
- Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
- Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
- Delivery Hero Leads $1 Billion Funding Round for Gorillas (Bloomberg)
- Apple Selling New $49 Braided MagSafe Cable and $99 140W Power Adapter for 16-Inch MacBook Pro (MacRumors)
- Tweet I mentioned comparing the M1Max to the PS5 (@ZONEofTech)
- YouTube Has Surpassed $3 Billion in Consumer Spend on iOS — Giving The World Access to Tailored Quality Content (App Annie)
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All the headlines from Apple’s event today. The Bitcoin future’s ETF is real, as of tomorrow. Apple’s privacy changes have indeed upended the mobile advertising space… in Apple’s favor. Steam doesn’t want to play the NFT game. And putting a value on Squid Game’s impact for Netflix.
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Links:
- Apple unveils next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for new Macs (9to5Mac)
- Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: new design, display notch, 120Hz, M1 Pro chip, HDMI, MagSafe, more (9to5Mac)
- Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
- Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (Financial Times)
- Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
- Netflix Estimates ‘Squid Game’ Will Be Worth Almost $900 Million (Bloomberg)
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What is the Metaverse? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is Mark Zuckerberg talking SO MUCH about it lately? And come to think of it, what is Facebook's play for the future?
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The SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs trade a soon as next week. Google finally does away with pagination on the mobile web. Why are Waymo autonomous taxis all piling up on one dead end street in San Francisco? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg)
- Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
- Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS)
- Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head (Platformer)
- Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic)
- Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion)
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Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO.
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Links:
- Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ)
- Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ)
- Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge)
- Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star)
- TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge)
- Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge)
- Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC)
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Apple is forced to cut iPhone 13 production due to lack of parts. Are health features coming to the AirPods? NFT’s are coming to Coinbase. Stripe is hiring for a big push into crypto. Would you like a laptop with a 3D screen? And G4 TV is back, everybody, to remind you how you fell in love with tech in the first place.
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Links:
- Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg)
- Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ)
- Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia)
- G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge)
- Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
- Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
- Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge)
- APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge)
- Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge)
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Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing?
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Links:
- Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
- Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
- A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
- Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
- Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
- 1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget)
- Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record)
- Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat)
- US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times)
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Is Google aiming to take back the smartphone camera crown with next week’s Pixel event? That Twitch leak reinforces the idea that on platform ecosystems, there very much is a 1%. The Chinese Tesla competitors that are hitting milestones faster than Tesla ever did. When and should Disney give ESPN streaming religion? And would you buy Squid Game merch?
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Links:
- Google says Pixel 6 camera captures ‘150% more light,’ shows ‘Magic Eraser’ on leaked marketing site (9to5Google)
- Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows (WSJ)
- EV Sales At BYD, XPeng Soar In Sept., Underscoring Strong China Demand (Forbes)
- China’s booming electric car industry is much bigger than just Nio and Xpeng (CNBC)
- Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ)
- Disney’s shift to streaming puts ESPN in awkward position of clinging to the past (CNBC)
- Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ T-Shirts Are Coming to a Walmart Near You (Bloomberg)
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Tech real estate report. Tesla leaves for Texas, while Apple rocks up in Hollywood. YouTube is gonna stop doing those year-end Rewind videos. A developer says Facebook banned him for life cause they didn’t like his app. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions where we ask the question: is Google’s famous hiring gauntlet broken?
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Links:
- Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ)
- Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
- YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter)
- Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
- Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- WeBack (Ramp Recap)
- Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
- HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
- Planet Squid Game (Vulture)
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Forget the iCar, Apple wants to take over your existing car. The first candidate to test the App Store cracks has stepped forward. AMD warns that if you install Windows 11, your computer could run slower. GM gets me closer to the self-driving future I want sooner rather than later. And a weird new NFT hybrid lets you play fantasy sports with startups.
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Links:
- Apple’s Plan for Cars: Using iPhone to Control A/C, Seats, Radio and More (Bloomberg)
- Paddle Plans to Launch Alternative In-App Purchase System on iOS That Circumvents Apple's Fees (MacRumors)
- AMD: Windows 11 Slows Our CPUs Up To 15%, Patch Coming (Tom's Hardware)
- Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ)
- GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios (The Verge)
- ‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch)
- ‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch)
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The entirety of Twitch has allegedly been leaked. Like, everything from the source code to a creator payout spreadsheet. Snap gears up in the creator economy platform wars. Some AirPods gain Find My Support. The SEC says it has no plans to ban crypto. But worrying stories of alleged fraud have started trickling out of the NFT space.
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Links:
- The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle)
- Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
- Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
- Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac)
- EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters)
- SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk)
- Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)
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About that Facebook outage yesterday… A Google moonshot project has a surprise profit. But only because its propping up other Alphabet bets. And then, it’s review day. What you can expect if you download Android 12. What you can expect if you download Windows 11. And what you’ll get if you buy one of those Microsoft Surface Laptop Studios.
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Links:
- PSA: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp went down for 6+ hours; here’s why [U] (9to5Mac)
- Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
- Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (Financial Times)
- ANDROID 12 REVIEW: IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT THE LOOKS (The Verge)
- WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED (The Verge)
- Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio Does It All (Gizmodo)
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The Facebook whistleblower reveals her identity on 60 Minutes. You can preorder the Apple Watch Series 7 this week. New MacBook Pros could still be coming “this month.” Apple is actually the biggest force in the gaming industry, by far. And signs of a product shipping renaissance at YouTube.
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Links:
- The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (WSJ)
- Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew (NYTimes)
- Apple Watch Series 7 Pre-Orders to Start This Friday, Available on October 15 (MacRumors)
- Gurman: M1X MacBook Pro still on track for this year, likely ‘in the next month’ (9to5Mac)
- Apple Doesn’t Make Videogames. But It’s the Hottest Player in Gaming. (WSJ)
- Amazon Prime members can now send gifts with just a phone number or email address (The Verge)
- YouTube․com adds ‘Continue watching’ to resume unfinished videos on your phone (9to5Google)
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Who wins? Jobs? Gates? Musk? Bezos? Collison, even? The grand finale of our #WorldCupOfEntreprenurs.
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TikTok has joined the NFT craze, so the singularity must be nigh. USB-C tries to clear up its customer confusion problem. Zoom abandons a huge acquisition. And a crypto developer is begging users to give $90 million dollars in tokens back, after an all-time screw up.
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Links:
- TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
- USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion (Apple Insider)
- Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
- DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How EA got into mobile — and figured out the future of gaming (Protocol)
- Toast built a $30 billion business by defying Silicon Valley and surviving a ‘suicide mission’ (CNBC)
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- APPLE’S FORTRESS OF SECRECY IS CRUMBLING FROM THE INSIDE (The Verge)
- Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity (TechDirt)
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Facebook finally releases the controversial slides to let them speak for themselves, but doesn’t actually let them speak for themselves. A 4K Nintendo Switch was apparently coming, but now is it never coming? Nreal has some AR glasses for binge watching. And Fairphone has released a smartphone that they want you to think of as your “forever phone.” At least, as far as these things go.
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Links:
- Facebook Downplays Internal Research Released on Eve of Hearing (NYTimes)
- Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn’t Exist (Bloomberg)
- GM’s new software platform will enable over-the-air updates, in-car subscriptions, and maybe facial recognition (The Verge)
- Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack (BBC News)
- Nreal’s new AR sunglasses are made for binge watching TV (The Verge)
- Fairphone’s latest sustainable smartphone comes with a five-year warranty (The Verge)
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Amazon’s Astro Robot apparently has a tendency to throw itself down stairs. Netflix acquires its first game studio. The interesting company that acquired Genius and now Imgur. Explaining Facebook’s interest in the Tween audience. And Angellist wants to offer founders startup foundation as a service.
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Links:
- Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do (Motherboard)
- Netflix acquires its first game studio in deal with Oxenfree creator Night School Studio (VentureBeat/GamesBeat)
- Imgur has been bought by the owner of Kik, Genius, and WorldStarHipHop (The Verge)
- Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores (The Verge)
- Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (WSJ)
- AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist (TechCrunch)
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As many headlines from the Amazon hardware event as I can manage to squeeze in. Facebook defines the Metaverse as it sees it. Cloudflare wants to be the 4th big player in the cloud. And Satya Nadella himself dishes on that time Microsoft almost bought Tik Tok. His words, the “strangest thing I’ve ever sort of worked on.”
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Links:
- Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families (TechCrunch)
- SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS (The Verge)
- Astro Intro YouTube Video
- Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud’ (Protocol)
- Facebook will publish some of its research on teens and Instagram (Engadget)
- Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
- 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (Engadget)
- Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’ says Satya Nadella (The Verge)
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Adam Mosseri pumps the breaks on Instagram Kids but still says it’s a good idea. Tesla is letting people into the “full self-driving” beta, and some folks think that’s a bad idea. Apple knows about that Apple Watch bug. What if the factories are the next worries in China. And Cloudflare wants to tackle email now.
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Links:
- Pausing “Instagram Kids” and Building Parental Supervision Tools (Instagram Blog)
- Facebook is ‘pausing’ work on Instagram kids app after widespread criticism (The Verge)
- Facebook Rebuts Report Calling Instagram ‘Toxic’ for Teen Girls (Bloomberg)
- Tesla owners can now request ‘Full Self-Driving’, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates (Washington Post)
- Apple to Fix Issue Preventing iPhone 13 Users From Unlocking With Apple Watch in Upcoming Software Update (MacRumors)
- Some Apple, Tesla suppliers suspend production in China amid power pinch (Reuters)
- Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (CNBC)
- Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security (Wired)
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While I was off observing my wedding anniversary, your host@chrismessinaspoke with@justinhendrixand@AuthorPMBarrettabout Facebook's recent controversies as well as their own research into social media and political polarization.
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China really, really, really wants you to know it’s serious about its Crypto crackdown. Google brought some Pixel-only features to everybody. Leaks ahead of next week’s Amazon event. New York passes a law on gig worker pay. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- China’s central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows harsh crackdown (CNBC)
- Google Brings More Pixel-Exclusive Features to All Android Phones (Gizmodo)
- Amazon Working on Large Wall Echo, Sound Bar and New Auto Device (Bloomberg)
- New York City Council Passes Sweeping Food Delivery Protections (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Would-Be NFT Millionaires Throw Darts And Hit Duds (Bloomberg)
- FILE NOT FOUND (The Verge)
- How Apple built the iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode (TechCrunch)
- How to move Google Authenticator to your new iPhone (Apple Insider)
- Nirvana in Bloom (The Ringer)
- Nirvana’s “Nevermind” (New Yorker)
- My Time with Kurt Cobain (New Yorker)
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We all sort of want the gadget world to move to USB-C, right? But do we want that to be government mandated? Very interesting executive departure from Facebook. Apple is telling leakers they don’t belong in Cupertino. Apple is still telling Fortnite to talk to the hand. And an interesting AR raise.
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Links:
- One to charge them all: EU demands single plug for phones (AP)
- Facebook Chief Technology Officer Schroepfer to Step Down (Bloomberg)
- Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo (The Verge)
- Apple won’t let Fortnite back on iOS until the Epic v. Apple verdict is final (The Verge)
- iPhone 13 and Apple Silicon (CreativeStrategies.com)
- YouTube gets official video downloads on the web, saving you from using some very sketchy sites (Android Police)
- Softorino YouTube Converter
- Chinese augmented reality glasses maker Nreal valued at $700 million after fresh funding (CNBC)
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All the headlines and releases from today’s Microsoft Surface Event. Robinhood wants to get in the crypto wallet game. Microsoft finds Phishing as a Service on the darker corners of the web. And a rundown of some new Facebook controversies.
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Links:
- Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display and Thunderbolt (The Verge)
- The Surface Go 3 gets new Intel processors (The Verge)
- Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around (The Verge)
- Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop (The Verge)
- Robinhood to launch cryptocurrency wallets as bitcoin becomes a bigger part of business (CNBC)
- Microsoft uncovers giant Phishing-as-a-Service operation (The Record)
- No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (NYTimes)
- The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs (Engadget)
- Facebook paid billions extra to the FTC to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege (Politico)
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HP refreshes its entire lineup. Those new Kindles are here. PayPal wants to super-app. Sorare is a very interesting raise. Coinbase backs down. Apple wants to detect cognitive decline. And the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro reviews are here.
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Links:
- HP revamps consumer PC lineup with 16-inch Spectre x360, 34-inch Envy all-in-one PC (ZDNet)
- PayPal launches its ‘super app’ combining payments, savings, bill pay, crypto, shopping and more (TechCrunch)
- Fantasy soccer NFT platform Sorare scores $680 million raise led by SoftBank (The Block)
- Coinbase Drops Crypto Lending Program Plans After SEC Balks (Bloomberg Wealth)
- Amazon unveils three new Kindles with bigger screens, longer battery life (CNBC)
- Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion (WSJ)
- Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (WSJ)
- IPHONE 13 REVIEW: YEP, BIGGER BATTERIES ARE BETTER (The Verge)
- IPHONE 13 PRO REVIEW: A BETTER DISPLAY, THE BEST CAMERA, AND INCREDIBLE BATTERY LIFE (The Verge)
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Gadget news galore. New Roku Sticks officially announced. New Kindles officially leaked. New Surface Pro’s unofficially leaked ahead of this week’s event. Rumors of foldable Pixels. The NTSB wants Elon Musk to pump the breaks on Full Self-Driving. And why the Emmy’s last night was a milestone for streaming platforms generally.
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Links:
- Roku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features (TechCrunch)
- Amazon is going to release Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition Soon (GoodEReader)
- Surface Pro 8 leaks with 120Hz display and Thunderbolt support (The Verge)
- Galaxy Fold-style Pixel foldable, ‘Jumbojack,’ spotted in Android 12.1 (9to5Google)
- Elon Musk’s Push to Expand Tesla’s Driver Assistance to Cities Rankles a Top Safety Authority (WSJ)
- The App Store is the Games Store. Apple should recognize this. (Mobile Dev Memo)
- Netflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with 'The Crown' and 'Ted Lasso' (Engadget)
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Who is THE entrepreneur of the Internet Era? In this episode, we cover the round of 16 matchups as voted on by YOU.
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A deep dive summary of the rolling Facebook controversies this week from the ongoing Wall Street Journal reporting. Apple and Google remove an app from Russian opposition after their employees were threatened in that country? And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, this time with extra NFT goodness.
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Links:
- Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. (WSJ)
- How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated (WSJ)
- The Algorithm Tweaks Won't Save Us (Galaxy Brain/Charlie Warzel)
- Google and Apple Remove App Aimed at Spurring Protest Voting in Russia (NYTimes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- A Very, Very Crypto Insider-Trading Scandal (Intelligencer)
- What is Bored Ape Yacht Club? The Celebrity NFT of Choice (Decrypt)
- Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend (Bloomberg)
- THE PENTAGON’S ARMY OF NERDS (The Atlantic)
- Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy-Colored Dream Bike (Wired)
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Alright, let’s settle this iPhone 13 chip specs debate. Walmart+ might quietly be competitive with Amazon Prime. The first electric car with a 500 mile range. China has succeeded in downsizing its biggest companies. And if you’ve got a spare $1.7 million dollars, I’ve got a 325 inch tv to sell you.
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Links:
- The iPhone 13 is a pitch-perfect iPhone 12S (The Verge)
- Walmart+ is gaining momentum, hits 32 million members, Deutsche Bank estimates (CNBC)
- The Lucid Air is the first electric car with a 520-mile EPA-rated range (The Verge)
- No Chinese Stock Left Among Global Top 10 as Tencent Slides (Bloomberg)
- Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (Bloomberg)
- Former Startup Darling Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80 Million (Bloomberg)
- LG now makes a 2,000 pound TV that costs $1.7 million (The Verge)
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Xiaomi’s new flagship phone can apparently charge in just 17 minutes. Why Apple was so coy about the performance of its latest chips yesterday. The SEC has charged App Annie with securities fraud. And Canva is becoming a mega unicorn to watch, even as its founders are pledging to give a third of the company away.
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Links:
- Xiaomi announces 11T Pro with 120W fast charging (The Verge)
- Apple releasing iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 on September 20 (9to5Mac)
- iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro feature dual eSIM support for the first time (9to5Mac)
- Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt And The Future Looks Dim As The Impact From The CPU Engineer Exodus To Nuvia And Rivos Starts To Bleed In (SemiAnalysis.substack.com)
- Solana Has Been Down for Hours Due to ‘Resource Exhaustion’ (Decrypt)
- SEC charges App Annie with securities fraud in $10 million settlement (Protocol)
- Canva Raises At $40 Billion Valuation — Its Founders Are Pledging Away Most Of Their Wealth (Forbes)
- Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (The Verge)
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Happy iPhone day, you fanfolk, you. All the news from today’s Apple event. Facebook’s own research says Instagram is bad for girls. Facebook’s own documents show it gives VIP users the VIP treatment when it comes to enforcement policies. And you might want to quickly download that iOS update.
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Links:
- Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (WSJ)
- Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. (WSJ)
- Apple patches an NSO zero-day flaw affecting all devices (TechCrunch)
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Is China dismantling its super apps and selling the parts for scrap? Toast has officially become my favorite Covid-times survival story. What to expect from tomorrow’s iPhone event, including 1 TB iPhone storage tiers. And a full breakdown of the ruling in the Epic vs. Apple case. Has the app store officially been cracked open? It’s complicated.
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Links:
- Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app (Financial Times)
- Tencent and Alibaba pledge to open up apps to competitors (Financial Times)
- Commercetools raises $140M at a $1.9B valuation as 'headless' commerce continues to boom (TechCrunch)
- iPhone 13 Pro will get 1TB option & new 'AirPods 3' will not replace AirPods (AppleInsider)
- Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (The Verge)
- Apple Risks Losing Billions of Dollars Annually From Epic Games Ruling (Bloomberg)
- The future of the App Store depends on the difference between a ‘button’ and an ‘external link’ (The Verge)
- Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War (500ish.com)
Today's podcast voting! Gates v. Jobs!
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Chris and I thought we had not guests lined up this week so we were going to just potpourri some topics. But then Keyvon Beykpour, who is heading the Twitter project revolution came on and talked to us longer than we had any right to ask for. It was a great conversation.
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Even under pressure over the App Store, Apple is still willing to give Epic Games the finger. Also, Apple is putting the pedal to the metal in terms of new TV shows and original movies, while also attempting to solve the streaming industry’s problem with DJ Mixes. Food delivery platforms are suing NYC. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple won’t let Epic bring Fortnite back to South Korea’s App Store (The Verge)
- Apple Music is using Shazam to solve the streaming industry's problem with DJ mixes (TechCrunch)
- Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats Sue New York City Over Fee Caps (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Screen in Your Car Is Beckoning (Slate)
- Russia Influences Hackers but Stops Short of Directing Them, Report Says (NYTimes)
- How Amazon’s cloud business generates billions in profit (CNBC)
- When the Techies Took Over Tahoe (Outside)
- Adult Swim: How an Animation Experiment Conquered Late-Night TV (NYTimes)
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Facebook launches some smart glasses. Amazon launches its own, branded smart tv. Soccer players are turning into NFTs. Twitter is turning into Reddit. And I still have questions about the whole Buy Now, Pay Later space.
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Links:
- FACEBOOK ON YOUR FACE (The Verge)
- Amazon Unveils First of Its Own Smart TVs, Will Bring TikTok to Fire TV in U.S. and Canada (Variety)
- Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K Max adds Wi-Fi 6 and faster performance (The Verge)
- Spain’s Football League Seals Digital Player Card Deal With Sorare (Bloomberg)
- Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers (TechCrunch)
- BNPL platform Scalapay raises $155 million in Tiger Global led round (Tech.eu)
(Today's twitter poll)
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Coinbase says the SEC threatened to sue it over a crypto lending product. The fallout from yesterday’s Bitcoin launch in El Salvador. Ford hires away one of the key executives on the Apple Car project. Microsoft and PayPal make some interesting acquisitions. And hey. Some new laptops!
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- Brian Armstrong responds to SEC threats to shut down Coinbase yield product (The Block)
- El Salvador Buys Its First 200 BTC a Day Before Its Bitcoin Law Becomes Effective (Coindesk)
- Ford poaches top tech executive Doug Field who helped lead Apple’s top-secret car project (CNBC)
- Apple Event Announced: 'California Streaming' on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected (Macrumors)
- Microsoft acquires video-editing software start-up Clipchamp (CNBC)
- PayPal Closes $2.7B Acquisition Deal For Japan’s Paidy (Pymnts.com)
- Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores (CNBC)
- Lenovo's new Windows 11 laptops could reinvent the IdeaPad brand — and take on the MacBook (Laptopmag.com)
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What does it mean if ProtonMail regularly discloses user data to certain authorities? How private is WhatsApp if Facebook has more than 1,000 contractors moderating your messages? Heck, how secure is Bluetooth? There’s a new vulnerability. Would you want the authorities monitoring your poop thanks to new smart toilets? And a quick word on Solana.
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- ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities (TechCrunch)
- How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users (ProPublica)
- Billions of devices impacted by new BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerabilities (The Record)
- TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
- SMARTWATCHES TRACK OUR HEALTH. SMART TOILETS AREN’T TOO FAR BEHIND. (WSJ)
- Ethereum Rival Solana Climbs to Seventh in Crypto Top 10 (Bloomberg)
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Serial entrepreneurShirish Nadkarnicame to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.
Striking out on his own in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom, he founded TeamOn Systems, an early pioneer of mobile email that was later acquired by BlackBerry before becoming BlackBerry Internet Email servicing over 50 million users at its peak.
His great new book is:From Startup to Exit: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Scaling Your Tech Business
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Chris and I get deep in this week's NFT craziness with two folks who are actually working right now in the space, @jacksondame And @SHL0MS.
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It’s Rumor Friday! Are we getting an Alexa TV next month? Will Apple’s AR/VR headset need an Apple device to work? Is Reddit lining up an IPO? Also, Apple delays its controversial CSAM feature, the week in NFT madness, and, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is close to launching its own TV in the US (Insider)
- Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Need Connection to Other Device Such as iPhone (The Information)
- Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (Reuters)
- Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features (9to5Mac)
- Record Doge NFT Sale Highlights Growing Demand for Fractionalization (CoinDesk)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Latest NFT Fad Is a Text-Based Fantasy Game Building Block (Coindesk)
- Gimme the Loot! (Collisions)
- NFTs, DeFi Boost for Ethereum Dims Clamor of Bitcoin Maximalists (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street Is Looking to Reddit for Investment Advice (WSJ)
- Here are all the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day, Part 1 (TechCrunch)
- Here are all the companies from Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day (TechCrunch)
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Apple will let “reader” apps link to websites to manage accounts. WhatsApp faces a record GDPR fine. Twitter continues to at least test all the products. And has YouTube Music quietly become a major threat to Spotify and Apple Music?
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- Apple will allow some media apps to link outside the App Store for payments (Engadget)
- Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up (The Verge)
- Facebook’s WhatsApp Fined Around $270 Million for EU Privacy Violations (WSJ)
- U.S. DOJ Readying Google Antitrust Lawsuit Over Ad-Tech Business (Bloomberg)
- US asks Tesla how Autopilot responds to emergency vehicles (AP)
- Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS (The Verge)
- Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’ (TechCrunch)
- Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting (Bloomberg)
- YouTube music services hit 50m subscribers in race to catch Spotify (Financial Times)
Today's #WorldCupOfEntrepreneurs Matchup: Zuck v. Jack!
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Is the Apple Watch redesign causing supply issues? A larger roadmap for the health features Apple is looking to add to the Watch. Putting your driver’s license in your Apple Wallet is becoming a reality. LinkedIn abandons Stories. Facebook gets into Fantasy Sports and Wirecutter goes behind a paywall.
Today's #WorldCupOfEntrepreneurs Matchup: Jack Ma v. Jeff Bezos! Vote!
Links:
- New Apple Watch With Larger Screen Suffers Production Snags (Bloomberg)
- Apple Plans Blood-Pressure Measure, Wrist Thermometer in Watch (WSJ)
- Apple secures first states to support digital driver's licenses, but privacy questions linger (TechCrunch)
- Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie (The Verge)
- LinkedIn gives up on Stories (The Verge)
- Facebook enters the fantasy gaming market (TechCrunch)
- New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (WSJ)
- Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops (Nikkei Asia)
- Microsoft announces Surface event for September 22nd (The Verge)
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Microsoft has missed the window for Windows 11 to support Android apps, at least at launch. Apple is getting into classical music and Amazon is going deeper into the red-hot audio space. Facebook turns the temperature down on politics. And a new initiative to get, especially younger technologists, to lend their expertise to the Federal Government.
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Links:
- Windows 11 won’t include Android app support at launch (The Verge)
- Apple buys classical music streaming service Primephonic (The Verge)
- Scoop: Amazon quietly building live audio business (Axios)
- Scoop: Facebook's new moves to lower News Feed's political volume (Axios)
- Google, Apple Hit by First Law Threatening Dominance Over App-Store Payments (WSJ)
- Apple Plans to Add Satellite Features to iPhones for Emergencies (Bloomberg)
- White House launches US Digital Corps (FedScoop)
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It’s a day of wild rumors. Is Apple getting into the satellite networking game? Is the Apple Watch about to get its first meaningful design change? The rumors about a Chinese gaming crackdown just got real. Is South Korea about to meaningfully crack open the App Store? Why Apple and Google are fighting to keep the App Stores as they are. And the wild weekend in NFT-land.
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- Kuo: iPhone 13 to Feature LEO Satellite Communications to Make Calls and Texts Without Cellular Coverage (MacRumors)
- Tim Cook’s Run as Apple CEO Could End as Early as 2025. Who Will Replace Him? (Bloomberg)
- China Slashes Kids’ Gaming Time to Just Three Hours a Week (Bloomberg)
- Apple, Google Mobile Dominance Faces Tough Test in South Korea (Bloomberg)
- Google allegedly offered Netflix a break on the usual Play Store commission (The Verge)
- TikTok owner ByteDance takes first step into virtual reality with latest acquisition (CNBC)
- CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges (TechCrunch)
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Talkin' OnlyFans. The founding and engineering team from Otter.ai share some exciting product news. And Chris interviews me about doing 1000 TRH episodes and how I produce this show every day.
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Another brick is taken out of the App Store wall as Apple blinks on letting devs inform users of outside purchase options. Ticket spaces start rolling out on Twitter, Waymo is having second thoughts about business models, NFTs are cool, but what if you could earn royalties? And of course, the Weekend Longread Suggestions.
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- Apple will let developers email users about payments outside iOS (Protocol)
- Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers (The Verge)
- Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge)
- Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies (TechCrunch)
- Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU's NFT music platform Royal (The Block)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Netflix and Video Games (MatthewBall.vc)
- Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game Is...Everything (IGN)
- Cryptocurrency Companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’ (WSJ)
- El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment (WSJ)
- A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps (ArsTechnica)
- The Real C.E.O. of “Succession” (The New Yorker)
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Big tech offered some big cybersecurity commitments after that White House meetup. TSMC raising chip prices might mean gadget price increases across the board. Looks like everyone remembered they like PCs. Drone delivery hits a milestone in Australia. And another secretive startup that wants to create a battery revolution.
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Links:
- Biden tells top CEOs at White House summit to step up on cybersecurity (Washington Post)
- World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics (WSJ)
- Silicon Valley Exchange Lists First Two Companies in ESG Push (Bloomberg)
- Canalys: US PC sales up 17% YoY for quarter, even as tablet sales stagnate (TechCrunch)
- Wing approaches 100,000 drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch (TechCrunch)
- Stealthy battery company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos has a lot to prove (CNBC)
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OnlyFans says it loves porn. Doesn’t want to ban porn from its platform after all. Says it wants to be an inclusive platform for all creators. Even the naked ones. The new Fitbit Charge 5. New Messenger features on the occasion of its 10th birthday. Is T-Mobile winning the 5G war? And I guess bigger really is better for neural networks.
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- OnlyFans no longer plans to ban porn, saying in abrupt U-turn that it wants to be a 'home for all creators' (Insider)
- FITBIT’S NEW CHARGE 5 HAS A ROUNDED DESIGN AND A COLOR SCREEN (The Verge)
- Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft to launch cloud gaming service on Xbox consoles (CNBC)
- Fastest Mobile Networks 2021 (PCMag)
- A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired)
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President Biden is gathering the tech five families to discuss cybersecurity. Instagram is retiring swipe up. Facebook is testing a rebundle of Messenger. Airbnb will house Afghan refugees. SpaceX hits some milestones and a Samsung review roundup.
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- Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House (Bloomberg)
- Instagram is retiring the swipe up (The Verge)
- Facebook Retools Messaging Again by Adding Calling to Main App (Bloomberg)
- Airbnb says it will host 20,000 Afghan refugees (CNN Business)
- SpaceX ships 100,000 Starlink terminals to customers, eyes future launches using Starship (TechCrunch)
- Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist (Engadget)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY Z FOLD 3 REVIEW: NEARLY NORMAL (The Verge)
- SAMSUNG’S GALAXY Z FLIP 3 IS THE FIRST FOLDING PHONE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE (The Verge)
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Mark Gurman says when a new high end M1X Mac mini might be coming. The USDC stablecoin looks to get right with the accounting Gods. Visa buys a CryptoPunk. Did Giphy pay dividend to lower its value for Facebook to acquire it? And do we now know the real reason why OnlyFans is attempting to abandon porn?
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Links:
- High-End 'M1X' Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the 'Next Several Months' (MacRumors)
- The world’s second-largest stablecoin is undergoing a massive change (CNBC)
- Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes first steps into 'NFT commerce' (The Block)
- Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse (BleepingComputer)
- Facebook’s Stealth M&A Puts Focus on Deals Under Antitrust Radar (Bloomberg)
- Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March (The Washington Post)
- Post-Culture Review Twitter Thread
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OnlyFans wants to get out of the porn business, which makes sense to nobody on the Internet. Elon Musk says Tesla is building a humanoid robot, and I love you Elon, but you’ve really opened the door to your critics with this one. Microsoft is raising prices, and of course, the weekend longread suggestions.
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- OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors (Axios)
- OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
- Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots (The Verge)
- Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet (Gizmodo)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The FBI’s warning to Silicon Valley: China and Russia are trying to turn your employees into spies (Protocol)
- Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (Nature)
- Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (WSJ)
- Amazon Killed the Name Alexa (The Atlantic)
- Afghanistan - Part 1 (The Rest Is History Podcast)
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Headlines out of time: Amazon wants to do department stores. Google partners with GE Appliances. But Intel continues to look to the future with its new hybrid architecture chips. Facebook wants your next conference call to take place in VR. And has Robinhood put all its eggs in the Doge basket?
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- Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores (WSJ)
- GE Appliances announces partnership with major cloud company to focus on data capabilities (Courier Journal)
- Intel previews its Alder Lake chip, promises hybrid CPUs for desktops and laptops (The Verge)
- FTC files renewed antitrust complaint against Facebook (CNBC)
- INSIDE FACEBOOK’S METAVERSE FOR WORK (The Verge)
- Facebook is sharing data to prove it’s not a political hellhole (Protocol)
- Robinhood says dogecoin accounted for 62% of crypto revenue in Q2 (CNBC)
- Venture Investment In Cryptosecurity Jumps 10x Over Last Year As Sector Hits Sweet Spot With Venture Capitalists (Crunchbase News)
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A look at how all the platforms are dealing with the Taliban being a modern social media enterprise. Amazon is bigger than Walmart for the first time. Samsung stops cluttering its phones with ads. Attempting to hire the hacker who hacked you. And I get my answer to why all the platforms want to protect kids all the sudden.
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- WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul (Financial Times)
- Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal (The Verge)
- People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart (NYTimes)
- Samsung confirms it’s removing ads from its stock apps later this year (The Verge)
- Victim of Major DeFi Cyberattack Offers Its Hacker a Job (Bloomberg)
- TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies (The Guardian)
- Eve Online’s yearlong war ends with an epic retreat (Polygon)
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Yik Yak is back, but can it make it in a Tik Tok world? Concerns about how the Taliban are using WhatsApp. OnlyFans wants you to try out a new safe for work app. TikTok is distributing music via the blockchain. And will BlueSky ever see the light of day?
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Links:
- Remember Yik Yak? Well, it's back and still anonymous. (Mashable)
- T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (Motherboard)
- WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (Motherboard)
- Facebook ‘Proactively’ Removing Taliban Content, Executive Says (Bloomberg)
- OnlyFans Creates Its First App With a Twist: No Nudity, No Cost (Bloomberg)
- And the First Streaming Service to Partner With TikTok Is… (Rolling Stone)
- Tinder will make its ID Verification option available to all users (The Verge)
- Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition (Venture Beat)
- Twitter taps crypto developer to lead decentralized social media initiative Bluesky (The Block)
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Now it’s T-Mobile investigating a data breach that may or may not affect more than 100 million people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot. Everybody’s building undersea cables all at once. And new to me at least is the technology that can pull drinking water right from the hot, humid summer air.
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Links:
- T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach (Motherboard)
- US probing Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles (Associated Press)
- Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project (WSJ)
- Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable (Reuters)
- This Solar Hydropanel Can Pull 10 Liters of Drinking Water Per Day Out of the Air (Brighter)
- Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say (TechCrunch)
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Wrapping up the Samsung event with @samrutherford of Gizmodo, taking stock of the state of foldable phones, and the 1Password engineering and founding team joins for the entire second half!
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Disney reported some surprisingly strong streaming numbers. A recent Nvidia keynote included a virtual replica of its CEO. What if USDC becomes a stablecoin defacto backed by the US Fed. And in the weekend longreads suggestions, why stablecoins generally have become the lynchpin of the crypto universe.
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Links:
- Disney+ beats expectations to reach 116 million subscribers in Q3 (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech (Motherboard)
- How Circle could create a U.S.-backed digital currency (Axios)
- Crypto platform Poly Network rewards hacker with $500,000 'bug bounty' (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Why the Stablecoin Issuers Will Inherit the Earth (Bloomberg)
- I Joined a Penguin NFT Club Because Apparently That’s What We Do Now (NYTimes)
- Status Monkeys (Not Boring)
- How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion (Forbes)
- Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion (NYTimes)
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There is officially a bill to crack open the App Store. DoorDash wanted to buy Instacart, but fear of regulators scuppered the deal. WhatsApp will let you migrate your chat history. Lionel Messi’s new club is paying him partially in crypto. And there’s still money in digital piracy.
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Links:
- App Store Competition Targeted by Bipartisan Senate Bill (WSJ)
- DoorDash Recently Held Talks to Buy Instacart (The Information)
- TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications (TechCrunch)
- WhatsApp will let you transfer your chat history between Android and iOS (Engadget)
- Researchers Create 'Master Faces' to Bypass Facial Recognition (Motherboard)
- Messi joins crypto craze as gets part of PSG fee in fan tokens (Reuters)
- Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads (Bloomberg)
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All the flipping and folding phone news from today’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event. A big crypto crime in the DeFi space. Did AWS beat out Microsoft for a secret NSA contract? And why are all the major tech platforms so concerned about protecting kids all of the sudden? Not that that’s a bad thing!
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Links:
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 delivers S Pen, better screen durability, IPX8 for $1,799 (9to5Google)
- Samsung breaks the triple-digit barrier w/ Galaxy Z Flip 3 priced at $999 (9to5Google)
- THE GALAXY WATCH 4 INJECTS SAMSUNG’S CAPABLE HARDWARE WITH GOOGLE SOFTWARE (The Verge)
- At least $611 million stolen in massive cross-chain hack (The Block)
- Poly Network attacker returns $256 million of the stolen cryptocurrency (The Block)
- NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (Nextgov)
- OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code (The Machine)
- Google restricts ad targeting of minors and will delist photos of kids at their request (The Verge)
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Time for iPhone rumor season to hit fever pitch. Will the next iPhone take a page out of the Apple Watch’s book when it comes to screens? Has Apple run afoul of US labor law? The Crypto fix fails in the Senate, so now folks have to hope for reconciliation with the House. An interesting raise that is up 5X in 5 months. And a possible explanation for the Buy Now Pay Later craze.
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Links:
- Apple Readies New iPhones With Pro-Focused Camera, Video Updates (Bloomberg)
- APPLE KEEPS SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE-RUN SURVEYS ON PAY EQUITY — AND LABOR LAWYERS SAY IT’S ILLEGAL (The Verge)
- Bitcoin Lobby Loses: Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill (Decrypt)
- Google’s new Titan security key lineup won’t make you choose between USB-C and NFC (The Verge)
- Crypto Platform FalconX Quintuples Valuation to $3.75 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Square's $29 billion deal for buy-now, pay-later player Afterpay is the starting gun for the race to build a money super app (Insider)
- Exclusive: Salesforce enters the streaming wars (Axios)
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Crypto flexes its lobby muscle in an attempt to craft that infrastructure bill. Apple tries to beat back the controversy around its photo scanning plans. The Cybertruck is delayed. And what if the whole democratization of investing thing moves beyond options and even NFTs into angel and venture investing.
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Links:
- Senators Near Deal On Crypto Oversight, But May Be Too Late (Bloomberg)
- Apple CSAM FAQ addresses misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning (9to5Mac)
- Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope (Daring Fireball)
- An Unsurprising But Sad Update for Tesla Cybertruck Fans: Production Has Been Pushed to 2022 (Gizmodo)
- Google is planning a new Silicon Valley campus with hardware hub, plans show (CNBC)
- Uber, Lyft Prices at Records Even as Drivers Return (WSJ)
- Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups (NYTimes)
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All things metaverse! Why is it on everybody's lips at the moment? When will it arrive? Is it already (kinda) here? With@janineyoriofrom Republic.co.
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I try to explain this whole controversy about Apple scanning your photos. Yelp will list business’ vaccination policies. I guess I’m bullish on autonomous tractors. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple confirms it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images (TechCrunch)
- Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies (The Verge)
- John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The End of Venture Capital as We Know It (The Information)
- Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall (Forbes)
- The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (Vice)
- How Olympic Surfing Is Trying to Ride the Machine Learning Wave (WSJ)
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Google has refreshed the entire Nest lineup and I guess TPU’s will be a thing going forward. Ethereum’s latest hard fork is live and bringing big changes. There’s a new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and the government all combatting cyberattacks. And if some companies are seeing a Covid Times hangover, nobody bothered to tell Hopin.
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- Google’s new Nest cameras and doorbell have lower prices and more smarts (The Verge)
- Ethereum just activated a major change called the ‘London hard fork’ — here’s why it’s a big deal (CNBC)
- Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill's crypto 'broker' definition (The Block)
- U.S. Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats (WSJ)
- Nintendo profits decline year-on-year as Switch hits 89 million sold (The Verge)
- Two-year-old events start-up Hopin boomed in the pandemic. Now it’s a $7.75 billion business (CNBC)
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Robinhood’s shares are up so much after that busted IPO that trading had to be halted today. What gives? Also, what’s up with the rush into Buy Now Pay Later all of the sudden? Vudo will become Roku’s official video store. Superhuman raises another round. And do you need a smart soap dispenser in your life? Probably not.
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- Robinhood surges as much as 81% in second day of wild trading (CNBC)
- Apple, Affirm to Join on Buy Now, Pay Later for Canadian Purchases (Bloomberg)
- WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once’ disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)
- New ‘Google Identity Services’ consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap’ (9to5Google)
- FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free (TechCrunch)
- Blizzard’s head of HR is out (The Verge)
- Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)
- This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt (The Verge)
- Smart homes and vegetable peelers (Benedict Evans)
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Google unveils the new Pixel 6 lineup, but the really interesting detail is the chip inside them. Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product. Microsoft makes Windows as a service live. Now China says games are the opium of the spirit. And what if drone delivery is running into the same wall as self-driving cars?
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- THIS IS THE PIXEL 6, GOOGLE’S TAKE ON AN ‘ULTRA HIGH END’ PHONE (The Verge)
- Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service will range from $20 to $162 per user per month (ZDNet)
- Apple Makes Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Available for Separate Purchase (MacRumors)
- Tencent Sinks After China Denounces Online Gaming (WSJ)
- Xiaomi Tops European Smartphone Market in Q2 2021 (Strategy Analytics)
- The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired UK)
- Spotify is testing a less restrictive ad-supported tier costing $0.99 a month (The Verge)
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YouTube is demoing a diet version of YouTube. Square is paying a pretty penny to join the buy now, pay later sweepstakes. Did an Intel exec accidentally leak the specs for Thunderbolt 5? And did Google’s quantum computer create a perpetual motion machine?
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- YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less (The Verge)
- Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay (Reuters)
- Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo then Deletes It: 80Gbps and Pam-3 (AnandTech)
- Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ)
- Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine)
- Robinhood Sold IPO Shares to More Than 300,000 of Its Customers (WSJ)
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Are ads a bigger cash cow for Amazon than even AWS? Follow up on Robinhood’s trading debut. How the SEC is dealing with the Chinese tech stock problem. Gopuff indicates that grocery delivery is still white hot to investors. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Amazon Gets Record $888 Million EU Fine Over Data Violations (Bloomberg)
- Robinhood falls in its public market debut, closes more than 8% lower at $34.82 per share (CNBC)
- U.S. SEC says Chinese IPO hopefuls must provide additional risk disclosures (Reuters)
- Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe (NYTimes)
- THE SUMMER INTEL FELL BEHIND (The Verge)
- Why the US can’t just beam internet into authoritarian states like Cuba (Quartz)
- Social-Media Manager, the Most Millennial Job, Comes of Age (WSJ)
- Hollywood Calls the Russo Brothers When It’s Time to Build a New Universe (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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Tech companies dip their toes into vaccine mandate waters. Facebook in so many words says Apple’s privacy changes are about to impact earnings. Will Didi take itself private again to please the Chinese government? Is Peacock doing better than I at least thought? And a crypto startup is sliding into the biggest growth market I’ve seen in this space yet.
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- Most Apple Stores to Require Masks Again for Shoppers, Staff (Bloomberg)
- Facebook beats earnings expectations, but warns of significant growth slowdown (CNBC)
- Didi Global Considers Going Private to Placate China and Compensate Investors (WSJ)
- Robinhood CEO on the meme stock craze: ‘I think it’s a real thing’ (CNBC)
- Peacock Reaches 54M Sign-Ups Thanks to Olympics, 20M Monthly Active Users (The Streamable)
- OpenAI proposes open-source Triton language as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA (ZDNet)
- Bitcoin Seized by DOJ Headed to Crypto Custodian Anchorage in $6.6 Million Deal (Decrypt)
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Apple reports earnings but warns of component shortages. Microsoft set profit records but noted shortage materially affected some divisions. Alphabet had good earnings too, but the real story there is YouTube. About the staff walkout at Activision Blizzard. Is Apple asking leakers to snitch on their sources? And an interesting raise to do next generation search on iOS.
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- Apple’s iPhone hot streak is going to run into the global chip shortage (CNBC)
- Xbox hardware sales spike 172% as Microsoft reports $3.7B in quarterly gaming revenue (GeekWire)
- YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces Estimates (Variety)
- Taiwan Greenlights TSMC's 2nm Fab: Coming Online in 2024 ~ 2025 (Tom's Hardware)
- Activision CEO Apologizes After Employees Threaten to Walk Out (Bloomberg)
- Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police (Motherboard)
- Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and 'super app' (TechCrunch)
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Tesla is profitable beyond all caveats and hedges. Intel continues to telegraph its turnaround plans. Tangible numbers of the Chinese tech carnage. Instagram changes the rules for teens on the platform. And what are Facebook’s ultimate designs on building a Metaverse?
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- Tesla finally made a profit without the help of emission credits (The Verge)
- Tesla records $23 million in bitcoin-related impairments after cryptocurrency’s second-quarter plunge (CNBC)
- Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025 (Reuters)
- Apple releases fix for iOS and macOS zero-day, 13th this year (The Record)
- China Crackdown Makes Hong Kong Index World’s Biggest Tech Loser (Bloomberg)
- Instagram's new protections for teens come as experts say tween venture poses big risks (NBC News)
- Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah (Protocol)
- Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise (VentureBeat)
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Is the DOJ probing Tether for bank fraud? When might FaceID come to the Mac? What do leaked photos tell us about the next Surface Duo? And I will spend the entire second half of the show trying my best to explain the seeming tech apocalypse happening in China right now.
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- Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
- Leaders in Cryptocurrency Industry Move to Curb the Highest-Risk Trades (NYTimes)
- Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a 'Couple of Years' (MacRumors)
- Leaked Surface Duo 2 photos reveal new triple camera system (The Verge)
- China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul (Bloomberg)
- China’s education sector crackdown hits foreign investors (Financial Times)
- Why is China smashing its tech industry? (Noahpinion.substack.com)
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Plus, the Hyper fund from Product Hunt, Automattic's acquisition game, and Twitter tests downvotes?
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Alphabet has a new moonshot company. Existing Big Bet DeepMind might have had a big breakthrough. Why Snap and Twitter are sharing an earnings narrative right now. Hint: it’s cause they’re growing again. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Google parent Alphabet launches Intrinsic: a new company to build software for industrial robots (The Verge)
- DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence (The Verge)
- Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound (CNBC)
- Snap pops more than 16% on earnings beat and user growth (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (NYTimes)
- Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries (WSJ)
- The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible (WSJ)
- Robotaxis: have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology? (Financial Times)
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Twitter is testing downvotes. Tumblr gets into the subscription game. Google unveils a unified backup service for Android. Is HBO Max leading the pack of followers in the musical chairs streaming wars contest? The FTC is getting serious about right to repair. And let me introduce you to the Airbnb for back yard swimming pools.
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Links:
- Twitter for iOS begins testing dislike button for some users (9to5Mac)
- Clubhouse is no longer invite-only (The Verge)
- Tumblr Introduces Paid Subscription Tool to Woo Younger Bloggers (WSJ)
- ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system (9to5Google)
- China Weighs Unprecedented Penalty for Didi After U.S. IPO (Bloomberg)
- HBO Max and HBO Gain 2.8 Million Subscribers in Q2, AT&T Raises Year-End Target for Streaming Service (Variety)
- FTC pledges to fight unlawful right to repair restrictions (The Verge)
- An ‘Airbnb for Pools’ Is Making a Splash This Summer (WSJ)
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Netflix’s growth has hit a wall, and so here come the games. What to do about a problem like those NSO hacks? Samsung’s next Unpacked event is announced. One of the biggest crypto raises of all time. And will Apple ever join the Android ecosystem and kill off SMS once and for all?
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Links:
- Netflix’s gaming expansion starts with mobile (The Verge)
- On the list: Ten prime ministers, three presidents and a king (Washington Post)
- A case against security nihilism (Matthew Green)
- Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11 (TechCrunch)
- Biden Names Tech Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief (Bloomberg)
- Zoom announces general availability of Zoom Apps and its new virtual events platform (ZDNet)
- Crypto Exchange FTX Valued at $18 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
- YouTube’s newest monetization tool lets viewers tip creators for their uploads (TechCrunch)
- Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCS (The Verge)
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Apple puts a pause on its return to the office plans. Rumors of a new iPad mini redesign. Product Hunt launches an investment fund. If you want a tool to see if you’ve been pwned by NSO’s Pegasus software, I’ve got you. And Bezos in space…
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- Apple Delays Office Return by At Least a Month as Covid Spikes (Bloomberg)
- Exclusive: Apple planning redesigned iPad mini with A15 processor, USB-C port, more (9to5Mac)
- Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders (TechCrunch)
- DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers (The Verge)
- Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (The Guardian)
- 'Best day ever': Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin rocket touch down after historic spaceflight (USAToday)
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The NSO Group is back in the headlines, and it’s maybe, the worst allegations of hacking for hire yet. The US and NATO blame China for the Exchange Server hacks. Does iOS now split the market with Android, at least in the US? And is Tesla charging customers for hardware they already paid for?
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Links:
- Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones journalists, activists worldwide (Washington Post)
- U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (Axios)
- Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (CNBC)
- CIRP: iPhone catches up to Android, now accounts for 50% of new smartphone activations in the US (9to5Mac)
- Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for (Electrek)
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Bloomberg's@Lucas_Shawcomes on to explain the math of that Black Widow stream release story from Monday. Then@alexeheathfrom the Verge explains the death of Fleets, the creator thirst at Facebook and then we all get into the questioning the real value/process of Twitter verification.
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Intel is considering a major acquisition to leapfrog back into semi-conductor contention. Valve releases its long rumored hardware device. Why they were able to make a deep face of Anthony Bourdain’s voice. And of course, the weekend longread suggestions.
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Links:
- Intel Is in Talks to Buy GlobalFoundries for About $30 Billion (WSJ)
- Valve’s gaming handheld is called the Steam Deck and it’s shipping in December (The Verge)
- New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- THE GAME MAKERS AND ARTISTS PUSHING ROBLOX TO ITS LIMITS (The Verge)
- Obscure Cyber Agency Becomes Nemesis of China's Tech Giants (Bloomberg)
- Tiger Global vs. SoftBank: Inside the investing playbooks that upended Silicon Valley (Protocol)
- Moderna’s Next Act Is Using mRNA vs. Flu, Zika, HIV, and Cancer (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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Netflix hires a big name gaming executive. Twitter retires Fleets. Facebook wants to make it rain for creators. TSMC says the chip shortage is starting to ease. Amazon launches serialized storytelling. And one of the biggest unicorns in the world, just 6x’d in less than a year.
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- Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV (Bloomberg)
- Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature (The Verge)
- Facebook plans to pay creators $1 billion to use its products. (NYTimes)
- TSMC Expects Auto-Chip Shortage to Abate This Quarter (WSJ)
- Amazon launches its mobile-first Kindle Vella serialized story platform (Engadget)
- Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation (TechCrunch)
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Bunch of Apple news. A new “buy now, pay later” service. A MagSafe battery pack. Is content moderation a hot new area for startups? Facebook groups can now get actual designated experts. REvil has suddenly gone dark. And why does iOS seemingly find 69 degrees Fahrenheit to be NOT nice!
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Links:
- Apple, Goldman Plan ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Service to Rival Affirm (Bloomberg)
- Apple Seeks Up to 20% Increase in New iPhone Production for 2021 (Bloomberg)
- Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone 12, available now for $99 (9to5Mac)
- Discord buys Sentropy, which makes AI software that fights online harassment (TechCrunch)
- Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Internet Group (The Information)
- Facebook's groups to highlight experts (CNET)
- REvil ransomware gang's web sites mysteriously shut down (BleepingComputer)
- Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
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If Twitter verification is now run by humans, how did so many obvious bot accounts get verified? Why you might start seeing brand logos in your emails, and why that’s actually a good thing. Biden's non-compete clause executive order is a big deal for Big Tech. And a look at the absurdity of the right to repair situation when it comes to gadgets you own.
Links:
- Twitter verified a number of bot accounts—raising questions about security (updated) (DailyDot)
- Gmail deploys support BIMI security standard (The Record)
- Android 12 adds ‘Game dashboard’ and ‘Play as You Download’ in Google Play Store (9to5Google)
- Ring’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out globally (The Verge)
- Disney Plans to Raise ESPN Plus’ Monthly and Annual Subscription Costs (Variety)
- Biden's non-compete clause executive order is a big deal for Big Tech (Input Magazine)
- Biden Executive Order on Non-Competes Could Roil Tech (Bloomberg)
- Apple AirPod batteries are almost impossible to replace, showing the need for right-to-repair reform (CNBC)
- Tesla’s $16,000 Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters (The Drive)
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Is InfoSec the new Fintech when it comes to investor hotness? Did ByteDance make the right move by putting its IPO on ice? Why Amazon looks like it’s going heavy into the sleep gadget game. Why the EU is postponing its digital tax initiative. And why Black Widow’s release this weekend is giving Hollywood streaming hope.
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- Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ (Bloomberg)
- ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security (WSJ)
- Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (Bloomberg)
- Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked device lineup may have been entirely spoiled in huge new leak (The Verge)
- EU Delays Push for Digital Levy to Focus on Global Tax Deal (Bloomberg)
- Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ Debuts With Dazzling $80 Million in Theaters, $60 Million on Disney Plus (Variety)
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State Attorneys General file an antitrust suit against Google. But why them, first? Visa wants you to spend crypto via their platform. Fintech leads a record first half of the year for VC raises. And if payment for order flow were nixed by the SEC, what would that do to Robinhood?
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- 36 states, D.C. sue Google for alleged antitrust violations in its Android app store (Politico)
- Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
- OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life (XDA Developers)
- Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
- London fintech funding soars in first half of the year (Reuters)
- Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules (Bloomberg)
- Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (Wall Street Journal)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (New York Times)
- The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here. (Washington Post)
- GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (Julia Reda)
- Ireland’s Days as a Tax Haven May Be Ending, but Not Without a Fight (New York Times)
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The Pentagon wants a do-over for that JEDI contract. YC wants to do Tinder but for founder matchmaking. Amazon open sources its gaming engine. How about NFT’s but for the stock market? And if you think China is cracking down on tech companies, wait till you hear how they want to regulate when and how kids can play videogames.
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Links:
- Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)
- Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC (Bloomberg)
- Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
- Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (Venture Beat)
- Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
- China's Tencent Says It'll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night (Gizmodo)
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Nintendo finally announces the new Switch, but how new is it really? What the heck is happening with Didi and China? REvil strikes again, and what that might mean for the hacking situation going forward. And on a day of big geopolitical news, might big tech platforms be chased out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to jail?
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Links:
- Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
- Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal)
- Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
- China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
- Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times)
- REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
- Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch)
- American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times)
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lex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies.
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Robinhood files for its long-awaited IPO. The Chinese government took the shine off of Didi’s recent IPO. More new features from Twitter. Is Apple the first to take advantage of 3nm chips? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
- How Robinhood's explosive growth rate came to be (Tech Crunch)
- Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC)
- Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (Tech Crunch)
- Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC's latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Three Weeks with iOS and iPadOS 15: Foundational Updates (Mac Stories)
- Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built? (Wall Street Journal)
- ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg)
- ‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (Los Angeles Times)
- The Tin Man Gets His Heart: An Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (The Ringer)
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Instagram and TikTok are on a collision course. Instagram wants to be more like TikTok, while TikTok hopes to move the goalposts first. Amazon wants Lina Khan to recuse herself. Big tech is not only taking over advertising, it’s consolidating it. And anyone can get their hands on Starlink next month, but not everyone might want to.
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Links:
- Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC)
- TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge)
- Federal judge puts Florida 'deplatforming' law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News)
- Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg)
- Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input)
- The EU’s 'vaccine passport' and what it means for travel (BBC)
- Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)
- Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
- Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you'll want it (Input)
- SpaceX's Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input)
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Facebook launches its Substack clone. Emphasis on clone. Shopify joins the platform tax wars by going to zero. A truce between Microsoft and Google has just lapsed. A big raise in the drone space. And would you pay to get actual search results instead of ads?
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Links:
- Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
- Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch)
- Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
- T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
- Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch)
- Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch)
- Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)
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A judge has completely thrown out the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and sent them back to the drawing board. Microsoft and OpenAI and Github have a tool that will suggest code to you as you code. And Sam Altman, as I understand this, wants to do Universal Basic Income on the blockchain. But first, he wants to scan your eyeball.
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- Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook (CNBC)
- Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11 (The Verge)
- Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers (CNBC)
- YouTube TV Unveils Dolby Digital Support & Premium Add-on with 4K, Offline Downloads, and Unlimited Streams (The Streamable)
- Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)
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The UK orders a halt to regulated activities by Binance, joining everybody, all the sudden. Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 888 Plus. Lenovo unveils an Android tablet that works as a portable monitor. And meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance.
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- Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (Financial Times)
- The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 Plus will speed up gaming, AI in high-end 5G phones (Cnet)
- Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor (The Verge)
- Apple Explores Bigger iPads and Reshuffles Its Car Team (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply chain fiasco (Bleeping Computer)
- Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
- Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance (Financial Times)
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We have two special guests this week! The first isSonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief of a16z and showrunner of a16z podcasts. We’ll be getting her perspective on the launch ofFUTURE, which we discussed last week.
Second, as the major social platforms (save for YouTube!) have launched their social audio offerings, we’ll get the latest updates and analysis fromKaya Yurieffof The Information who recently published“The Week Social Audio Went Mainstream”
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Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)
Some Western Digital NAS devices are getting ill (matic). A breakdown of the 5 or 6 big tech antitrust bills that just passed House committees. Windows 11 is free, but what if your device can’t run it? Also, more on Microsoft’s anti-Apple posturing. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide (Bleeping Computer)
- Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup (The Verge)
- Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge)
- Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Is Blue Box? A Vast Conspiracy Grips the Video Game World (Bloomberg)
- A very brief history of every Google messaging app (The Verge)
- The Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on Ethereum (Decrypt)
- How Roku used the Netflix playbook to beat bigger players and rule streaming video (CNBC)
- Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? (Bloomberg)
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The new Windows is Windows 11. Google delays the Adpodcalypse. BuzzFeed finally to go public. Comcast is having issues with Peacock. Google and Jio’s cheap smartphone is announced. Is the biggest ever crypto crime story evolving right now in South Africa? And RIP John McAfee.
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Links:
- Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
- Google delays Chrome's cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years (Cnet)
- BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
- Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant (Wall Street Journal)
- Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next (Tech Crunch)
- South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
- John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (New York Times)
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Ticketed Space and Super Follows begin to roll out, and depending on how you slice it, folks stand to make a ton of money… or a ton of money for the app stores. Speaking of, Apple launches a PR campaign defending the App Store on security grounds. Microsoft becomes the second company to reach the $2 trillion dollar club. And you know about phishing scams, but let me introduce you to “brushing” scams.
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Links:
- Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
- Apple’s Fight for Control Over Apps Moves to Congress and EU (Wall Street Journal)
- Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
- Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (Tech Crunch)
- Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta (Tech Crunch)
- What is the 'brushing' scam and how can you protect yourself? (Yahoo Life)
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Another antitrust investigation formally opened against Google in Europe. Facebook’s Oculus ad partner thinks better of the experiment. Stephen Spielberg decides that Netflix’s money is as green as anybody’s. Ransomware gangs are abandoning bitcoin. And Amazon, at least, still believes in autonomous vehicles.
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Links:
- EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s advertising business (Financial Times)
- Resolution Games Pulls Blaston Out Of Facebook Ad Test (Upload)
- Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge)
- Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget)
- Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers (The Verge)
- Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, Netflix Forge Film Deal in Sign of Changing Hollywood (Variety)
- Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (Financial Times)
- Amazon Snaps Up Option to Buy Stake in AI Truck-Driving Startup (Bloomberg)
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Facebook’s Clubhouse clone rolls out. Here’s how it works. China really does seem to be cracking down on Bitcoin mining. Here’s why that could be important. Some power companies in Texas are remotely adjusting the smart thermostats of users. Here’s why that’s likely the future of things. And had you heard of cyclic propulsion aircraft before? I hadn’t. Let me tell you about it.
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Links:
- Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US (Tech Crunch)
- China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (Global Times)
- Digital euro will protect consumer privacy, ECB executive pledges (Financial Times)
- 'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (KHOU)
- Apple Watch accessory maker Wristcam raises $25M (Tech Crunch)
- Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar (New Atlas)
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Were some of the base encryption algorithms on cell networks deliberately nerfed? The first ever mass arrest of a ransomware gang? Proof that Google is working on a FindMy network rival? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened (Vice)
- Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cyber criminal crackdown (Financial Times)
- Google may be working on an Android version of Apple’s “Find My” network (XDA Developers)
- Gopuff to Buy Siemens-Backed RideOS in $100 Million-Plus Deal (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Ransomware claims are roiling an entire segment of the insurance industry (Washington Post)
- THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN TECH GIANT (The Atlantic)
- Anatomy of a Seed Round During COVID-19 (Fresh Paint)
- Meet Wu Dao 2.0, the Chinese AI model making the West sweat (Politico)
- Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips (Vice)
- How governments and spies text each other (Wired)
- Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away (Bloomberg)
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Facebook is bringing ads to Virtual Reality cause, why not, right? Stories are coming to the Xbox. Why is Google downsizing it’s healthcare team? Why are music artists flooding to Twitch? And is Facebook cornering the VR market like it cornered social media?
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Links:
- Facebook to begin testing ads inside Oculus virtual reality headsets (CNBC)
- Xbox’s June update adds speech-to-text chat feature (Engadget)
- Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week (The Verge)
- Amazon Appstore will reduce developer revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in Free AWS Credit (AFTV News)
- EXCLUSIVE: Google is downsizing its health team and moving employees to Fitbit as part of a major reorganization (Insider)
- Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. (New York Times)
- Is Facebook cornering the VR market? (Platformer)
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Lina Khan has not only been confirmed as FTC commissioner, she’s also been named FTC chair. Waymo raises a big new round, which is soops interesting. Spotify joins the audio rooms sweepstakes. A Windows 11 build leaks. And forget Apple Stores, would you visit an actual Apple Health Clinic?
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Links:
- Biden Names Lina Khan, a Big-Tech Critic, as F.T.C. Chair (New York Times)
- Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round (CNBC)
- GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits (CNBC)
- Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (Tech Crunch)
- Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
- Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (Wall Street Journal)
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Automattic acquires the popular iOS and iPad OS journaling app, Day One. Everybody wants a piece of Stripe. Stripe wants to be the “Stripe for Identity” all by itself. With HBO vanquished, now Netflix wants to become Disney faster than Disney can become Netflix. And could I interest you in an NFT of the entire World Wide Web?
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Links:
- WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (Tech Crunch)
- U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data (Reuters)
- Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (Wall Street Journal)
- Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more (Tech Crunch)
- Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location (Geek Wire)
- Netflix Has a Plan to Sell You Toys, T-Shirts and Concert Tickets (Bloomberg)
- Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (Financial Times)
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Could we get an extreme sports Apple Watch soon? Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all. Bitcoin’s first major overhaul in four years is a go. TikTok has quickly become an advertising Monster. And I try to explain to you why everyone is suddenly so hype on Miami as a tech hub.
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Links:
- Apple Plans Faster Watch, Future Temperature and Glucose Sensors (Bloomberg)
- Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge)
- Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22 (The Verge)
- Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC)
- TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg)
- Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg)
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Moar… hacking news. McDonalds. Electronic Arts. Le sigh. Apple wants to do away with passwords too. Elon Musk unveils the Model S Plaid. An interesting Apple Car hire. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (Wall Street Journal)
- Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice)
- Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet)
- Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC)
- Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. (Double Pulsar)
- When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC)
- APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge)
- THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic)
- Marcus Graham: Looking back on 10 years of Twitch’s experiment with livestreaming (Venture Beat)
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Another payoff to Ransomware hackers. Facebook to launch a smartwatch? Microsoft to launch a dedicated game streaming device? Samsung unveils a tiny, tiny camera sensor. Stripe wants to handle your sales tax headache. And can the creator economy take off in a world of App Stores with 30% rakes?
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Links:
- JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack (Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor (The Verge)
- Microsoft is building its own streaming devices as part of a major Xbox Game Pass expansion (Protocol)
- Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor (The Verge)
- Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries (Tech Crunch)
- The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge)
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El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Biden reverses the TikTok and WeChat bans. Did one single customer cause that Fastly internet outage? Interesting raise for a faster Ethereum. Interesting new browser option. And maybe my favorite honey pot operation of all time.
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Links:
- El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC)
- Biden revokes and replaces Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat (The Verge)
- Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge)
- Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block)
- Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (Tech Crunch)
- FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs (The Record)
- Encrypted messaging app used by criminals was actually an FBI honeypot (Input)
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Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized. The US seized most of the bitcoins those hackers got from the Colonial Pipeline hack, highlighting how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable. Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on WWDC day, and I give you a wrap-up of the bits a pieces we missed from WWDC yesterday.
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Links:
- Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch)
- U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge)
- EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters)
- Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge)
- iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac)
- Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet)
- Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac)
- Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge)
Book Recommendation: Network Effect by Martha Wells
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All the headlines from WWDC 2021. Bezos in space! France brings the first hammer down on this round of anti-competitive action, this time against Google. And Jane Manchun Wong has the details on the upcoming Twitter Super Followers thingy.
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Links:
- Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner (TechCrunch)
- Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices (WSJ)
- Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge)
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A sampler of four different spaces from our new feed SpaceCasts! Search your podcast app for SpaceCasts and subscribe!
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Is MagSafe charging coming to iPads? Is the Biden administration actually cracking down harder on China than the Trump administration did? Is the recent slate of ransomware attacks the new normal or the sign of something bigger brewing? And, in the weekend longreads suggestions, we meet a guy who’s job is to negotiate with ransomware hackers.
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Links:
- Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg)
- Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge)
- Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (New York Times)
- Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers (The New Yorker)
- Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Motherboard)
- The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku)
- Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics (Wall Street Journal)
- Developer relations (Marco Arment)
- Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect (The Verge)
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Twitter takes the wrapping off its subscription product, Twitter Blue. Multi-device support hints at a future WhatsApp app for iPads. Stack Overflow is the latest part of the developer ecosystem to sell for big bucks. And taking the temperature of Google’s Ethical AI team.
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Links:
- Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC)
- Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge)
- WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors)
- Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN)
- Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
- Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode)
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All the headlines from Facebook’s F8 Refresh. Etsy buys a used clothes marketplace. Another ransomware attack shutting down a major player in a vital industry, this time, literally in the meat-space. And you can start trading Dogecoin on Coinbase tomorrow.
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Links:
- Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (Tech Crunch)
- Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge)
- Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC)
- Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (New York Times)
- U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC)
- Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (Wall Street Journal)
- Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk)
- Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters)
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Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why.
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Links:
- Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
- AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
- AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
- Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
- Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
- Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica)
- Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times)
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The SolarWinds hackers are back, and I’m starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here. Mark Gurman thinks we’ll see redesigned AirPods this year. Have I Been Pwned goes open source. And come for the longreads suggestions as always, but stay for my rant about that insane Citizen app story.
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Links:
- Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times)
- Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg)
- Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- 'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice)
- Own the Internet (Not Boring)
- A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (New York Times)
- The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times)
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An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead.
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Links:
- Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg)
- You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge)
- James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times)
- Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg)
- PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
- App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors)
- Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
- Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge)
- Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)
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Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding?
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Links:
- Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC)
- Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica)
- Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge)
- USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET)
- Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
- Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)
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Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app, and it debuted number one on the app store. And Noom has raised a hell of a lot of money, but that’s because, its making a ton of money helping people lose weight.
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Links:
- Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google)
- ARM's first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget)
- Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times)
- Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors)
- Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch)
- Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol)
- Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)
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After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is considering rent-a-cops as a service. The AI community wants to open source large language models to address recent controversies. And a computer chip that changes its structure to thwart hackers.
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- Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch)
- Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol)
- HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac)
- Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
- The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
- Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas)
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Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service works.
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Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge)
- Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge)
- Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge)
- Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information)
- U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
- Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC)
- $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg)
- Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget)
- How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer)
- Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign)
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The newly announced electric F-150 is maybe the biggest EV effort since the launch of Tesla. Google is launching its first ever retail store. Internet Explorer is finally going to that great recycle bin in the sky. But could Google be breathing new life into RSS feeds in web browsers?
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- Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (New York Times)
- Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (Tech Crunch)
- 'I'm not very social': ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
- Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
- Apple cites 'significant' malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet)
- Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
- Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)
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Google I/O continues and continues to produce new headlines for us to cover. Nvidia is nerfing the ability to mine crypto. Ethereum says it’s going to go super energy efficient real soon. Microsoft10X is officially, no longer a thing. And reviews of the new iPad Pro reveal it to be… an iPad.
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- Helping all your devices work better together (Google)
- Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 (Engadget)
- Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram (Wired)
- Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge)
- Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing)
- Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn't happening (ZDNet)
- IPAD PRO (2021) REVIEW: DREAM SCREEN (The Verge)
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All the headlines from Google I/O. Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM and James Bond. When we might expect those new MacBook Pros, the first reviews of the M1 iMacs and what’s the deal with the new lossless streaming not working with most of Apple’s hardware?
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- ANDROID 12 PREVIEW: FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE’S RADICAL NEW DESIGN (The Verge)
- Amazon Pondering Deal to Buy MGM (The Information)
- Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps (Bloomberg)
- APPLE’S NEW IMAC BRINGS M1 GOODNESS TO THE DESKTOP (The Verge)
- Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China (NYTimes)
- Exclusive: These are Apple’s new truly wireless in-ear Beats Studio earbuds (9to5Mac)
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Apple Music and Amazon Music HD bring better audio quality to everyone. AT&T throws in the towel on Warner Media by doing a shotgun marriage with Discovery. GitHub now lets you add video. Jane Manchun Wong says the subscription service is going to be called Twitter Blue. And what we might be able to expect from Google’s I/O tomorrow.
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- Apple announces lossless Apple Music is coming in June at no added cost (The Verge)
- Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market (Billboard)
- AT&T to spin off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery in deal that would create streaming giant (CNN Business)
- Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge)
- GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat)
- ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99 (9to5 Mac)
- Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (Wall Street Journal)
- Google's Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena)
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From Friday, May 14, 2021. A long discussion about tipping as the base unit (???) of the creator economy? Featuring @gregarious as well as @NigelKofi (check out Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/) and @reeshahoward.
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A ransomware attack has brought down large sections of the Irish health service. Why Disney+ numbers are suddenly looking so weak to investors. A deep dive review on whether or not, or even to what degree, Elon’s internet service from space can free us from ISP hell. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Cyber attack 'most significant on Irish state' (BBC)
- Disney Plus Hits 103.6 Million Subscribers as Rapid Growth Slows, ESPN Plus Perks Up (Variety)
- STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- To Understand Amazon, We Must Understand Jeff Bezos (New York Times)
- The PlayStation 5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised (Wired)
- Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy (Every)
- Robinhood’s Big Gamble (The New Yorker)
- What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter? (Matthew Ball)
- How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body (Vice)
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The whims of Elon Musk go both ways when it comes to crypto markets. SpaceX signs a deal with Google Cloud to do battle with AWS and the Kuiper Project. Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the ransom and is getting back online. Will Facebook’s crypto project ever see the light of day, part 12. And the Ethereum creator donates Crypto to help India.
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- Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm (The Verge)
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud (The Verge)
- Biden signs executive order designed to strengthen federal digital defenses (Washington Post)
- Roku will launch original programming fueled by Quibi’s content on May 20 (Tech Crunch)
- Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash (Axios)
- Facebook-backed crypto project Diem abandons Swiss license application, will move to the U.S. (CNBC)
- Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19 (Tech Crunch)
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The US lets Xiaomi out of the blacklist. GitHub ads security key support and wants to move on from the password era. eBay wants in on the NFT action. WhatsApp is gonna turn the screws until you agree to their terms. And speaking of, Brian Krebs outlines how that group suspected to be behind the pipeline hack has sophisticated ways of getting you to pay up.
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- US agrees to drop Xiaomi from blacklist after lawsuit (Bloomberg)
- Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras (The Verge)
- GitHub shifts away from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations (ZDNet)
- EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block)
- WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don't agree to its new privacy policy (Insider)
- E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios)
- SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters)
- A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security)
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It’s new chip day. Intel unveils it’s 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm chips, while Nvidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs. So expect a bunch of laptop lines to be refreshed. And, oh, look at that. The Dell XPS lineup already has been. Details on the next gen PlayStation VR hardware. And an argument that Apple’s recent privacy movies are a naked and ugly power play that harms the open web.
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- Intel Launches 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H: Eight Core 10nm Mobile Processors (AnandTech)
- NVIDIA's RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti bring ray tracing to affordable laptops (Engadget)
- Dell’s new XPS 15 and XPS 17 get upgraded with Intel’s long-awaited 11th Gen H-series chips (The Verge)
- Next-Gen PlayStation VR Is 4K With Foveated Rendering And Vibration Feature (Upload)
- Foxconn’s iPhone output in India down amid COVID surge-sources (Reuters)
- Apple robbed the mob’s bank (Mobile Dev Demo)
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Sony warns that it might be literal years before I can finally win one of those PlayStation 5 sales windows on Walmart.com. The big ransomware attack that threatened fuel supply on the US East Coast, and the hackers allegedly behind it. Clubhouse hits Android. A researcher claims to have already hacked AirTags. And Elon Musk’s SNL appearance, and Dogecoin, and everything.
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- Sony warns tight Playstation 5 supply to extend into next year (Bloomberg)
- Colonial hackers stole data Thursday ahead of pipeline shutdown (Bloomberg)
- Here’s the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown (CNBC)
- Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity (The Verge)
- AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher [Video] (9to5 Mac)
- Apple's 2023 iPhone could ditch Qualcomm and launch with its own 5G chip (Laptop Mag)
- Apple Awards iPhone Glass Supplier Corning Additional $45M From Advanced Manufacturing Fund (Mac Rumors)
- Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ (The Verge)
- SNL was a good night for Elon Musk — and a bad one for Dogecoin (Protocol)
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We talk about the Tip Jar and all the other big changes Twitter has been making. We get into the Basecamp brouhaha and also why I didn’t end up covering it this week. We talk about Dogecoin with someone who was there at the beginning of the project. And we even have an actual newsmaker on the show. At the very end, we talk to Tony Haile, founder of Scroll, which, if you’ll remember, just got acquired by Twitter this past week.
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Twitter introduces a tip jar, literally called Tip Jar. Why crypto trading juicing Square’s earnings is worth thinking about. What is the mysterious social space Netflix is surveying users about building? Yes, Substack is letting writers build magazines and newsrooms, so stop pointing out the obvious. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts (The Verge)
- Square gets a bitcoin boost with revenue up 266% (CNBC)
- Playlists and podcasts? Netflix is exploring developing ‘N-Plus’ (Protocol)
- You can now build a “mini media empire” on Substack (Financial Times)
- Everyone yells at the Oversight Board (Platformer)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? (Harvard Business Review)
- Crypto pros are getting tired of the 79 billion dollar dogecoin joke (Bloomberg)
- I'm seeing a lot of people FOMO quit their jobs to join "crypto" (Jon Syu)
- THE LAST DAYS OF SATOSHI: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BITCOIN’S CREATOR DISAPPEARED (Bitcoin Magazine)
- John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (The New Yorker)
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IBM says it has created the world’s first 2nm chip. Google really wants everyone to use two factor authentication. Twitter is enacting more speed bumps to get you to stop trolling people in your tweets. Apple’s delicate dance with Netflix over in app payments. And SpaceX finally gets its Mars rocket to… not blow up on landing.
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- IBM Creates First 2nm Chip (AnandTech)
- Google is going to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification (ZDNet)
- Google relaxes work from home rules to let more staff be remote (Bloomberg)
- Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets (Tech Crunch)
- Emails reveal Apple’s attempts to stop Netflix from dropping App Store In-App Purchase support (9to5 Mac)
- EXCLUSIVE China's Tencent in talks with U.S. to keep gaming investments -sources (Reuters)
- SpaceX successfully lands its massive Starship for the first time (New Atlas)
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Facebook’s Oversight Board upholds the Trump account suspension. Signal trolls Facebook using its own ad system. An appeals court has ruled that Section 230 does not apply to app design. Kind of. It’s complicated. And the not complicated reason why some exchanges can’t tell you the price of Berkshire Hathaway stock right now. Think: partying like it’s 1999.
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- Facebook’s Trump ban can stay in place, says Oversight Board (The Verge)
- Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned (Gizmodo)
- Facebook Workplace reaches 7 million paid subscribers (CNBC)
- Facebook takes on Nextdoor with Neighborhoods tool (Cnet)
- Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (The Record)
- Snapchat Can Be Sued Over Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules (NPR)
- Epic CEO says he would have taken a special App Store deal if Apple had offered (9to5 Mac)
- Epic CEO argues Fortnite trial is an existential fight for the future (Protocol)
- Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers (WSJ)
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Twitter opens up Space more broadly, and buys the startup Scroll. So, what is the larger endgame here with their subscription play? Apple benefits from the turmoil in Google’s AI team. A breakdown of day one of the Apple/Epic Games trial. And how many people still pay a monthly subscription to AOL?
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- Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more (Tech Crunch)
- Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites (The Verge)
- Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that. (Recode)
- Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings (Reuters)
- Ford backed Argo sees new sensor as key for self driving cars (Bloomberg)
- Apple and Epic go head-to-head in fiery opening remarks of highly-anticipated trial (9to5 Mac)
- About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet (CNBC)
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Kuo says we’re gonna see a foldable iPhone soon. After the iOS privacy changes, Facebook is giving users popups begging them to turn tracking on. The interesting new “green” cryptocurrency that is launching today. And a backgrounder and breakdown of the Apple/Epic games trial that is kicking off today.
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- Kuo: Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 (Mac Rumors)
- Verizon sells media businesses including Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for $5 billion (CNBC)
- Facebook and Instagram notices in iOS apps tell users tracking helps keep them ‘free of charge’ (The Verge)
- A new green cryptocurrency called Chia uses a less energy-intensive method of minting new coins. Here are 6 things to know about the digital asset before it starts trading on Monday. (Markets Insider)
- Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming (The Verge)
- Apple’s App Store Had 78% Margin in 2019, Epic Expert Says (Bloomberg)
- Epic v. Apple: Everything you need to know about the biggest trial in tech (Protocol)
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Last week, the great Ed Zitron (@edzitron) , head of the media relations firm EZPR, put out a post that got a lot of chatter where he laid out a bear case for Clubhouse. So I tweeted out, did anyone want to do a bull case for clubhouse so we could do a bull/bear debate episode? And the great Joseph Flaherty (@josephflaherty) of Founders Collective raised his hand and said he’d be game to do it, so this is what we have today. An episode of two halves. First, Joe makes the bull case, then after the break, Ed gives the bear take. And that’s it? Great conversation. Great points made by both guys. Enjoy.
Here is Ed's piece that we refer to throughout: Clubhouse and Audio's Feature Not A Product Problem (And How It Might Possibly Be Meerkat 2)
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The EU does indeed charge Apple with antitrust violations. Roku has indeed followed through on its threats to YouTube TV. Will the Magic Keyboard actually work with the new iPad Pros or not? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case (Wall Street Jounal)
- YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute (Axios)
- Apple says the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will work with the old Magic Keyboard, but ‘may not precisely fit when closed’ (9to5 Mac)
- 'A Perfect Positive Storm’: Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech (New York Times)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The new wave of crypto users: migrant workers (Rest of World)
- Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory (Bloomberg)
- As Nintendo’s entertainment kingdom expands, it’s still about the games (Fast Company)
- Spotify’s Surprise (Stratechery)
- Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion (The Atlantic)
- mRNA vaccine technology (Peter Attia MD)
- How mRNA Technology Could Change the World (The Atlantic)
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Another earnings round up leads me to ask, what if the Covid era really is a historical inflection point for tech? AT&T has decided what to charge for HBO with ads, while Verizon is try to get someone to take AOL and Yahoo of their hands. What if we did streaming gaming, but just for browsing the web? Say hello to Mighty. And odds are, you’ve probably never gotten millimeter wave 5G on you fancy new phone.
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- Facebook Revenue Grows 48% as Ad Prices Increase (The Information)
- Apple warns of supply shortages likely to impact iPad and Mac in Q3 (9to5 Mac)
- WarnerMedia plans to charge $9.99 per month for ad-supported HBO Max (CNBC)
- Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL (Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon to spend $1B to boost pay for 500k operations workers by as much as $3 an hour (Geek Wire)
- Mighty wants to ‘make Chrome faster’ by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS (9to5 Google)
- Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8% (Ars Technica)
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The Consumer Technology Association says they’re doing it live! As in, an in-person CES once again. Samsung announces two superlight laptops that are nonetheless, still “pro.” Netflix launches a new interface to take away what to watch fatigue. A roundup of tech earnings. And help Microsoft pick a new default font for Office.
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- CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022 (The Verge)
- Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are lightweight laptops with OLED screens (The Verge)
- AirPods demand reportedly falling as Apple cuts production by 25-30% (9 to 5 Mac)
- Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling: How the company is working to solve one of its biggest threats: decision fatigue. (Vulture)
- Huawei reports 16.5% drop in revenues in first quarter, warns of ‘another challenging year’ ahead (CNBC)
- Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one (The Verge)
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Is the EU about to bring the hammer down on Apple? Are Apple M2 chips right around the corner? Spotify launches its Podcast Subscription offering, and it is an interesting contrast to Apple’s. A whole slew of new Fire Tablets from Amazon. Lyft exits the self-driving game. And we’re in a dark new world when it comes to ransomware attacks.
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- EU to charge Apple with anti-competitive behaviour this week (Financial Times)
- Spotify launches podcast subscriptions, but you can’t subscribe in-app (The Verge)
- Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac (Nikkei Asia)
- Amazon’s new Fire HD 10 tablet has slimmer bezels and better specs (The Verge)
- Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M (Tech Crunch)
- Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid (The Record)
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Facebook rolls out that Spotify integration. Roku accuses Google of making anticompetitive demands for YouTube TV. iOS 14.5 rolls out, and with it that App Tracking Transparency tool. Apple plans a big new campus in North Carolina. And DoNotPay’s latest service helps protect your selfies from the global panopticon.
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- Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app(Tech Crunch)
- Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat)
- Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands (Axios)
- OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (Financial Times)
- German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes (Financial Times)
- To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice. (New York Times)
- Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC)
- DoNotPay's new tool makes your photos undetectable to facial recognition software (Input)
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Figuring out the AirTags play. New iMac lust. And a deep discussion of the Apple Podcasts Subscription thing.
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Spotify looks like it’s going to quickly counter Apple with a Podcasts Subscription competitor that might be extremely creator friendly. The mystery of the driverless Tesla car crash. Worth noting how quickly things have been turned around for the better over at Snapchat. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting (Wall Street Journal)
- Did a Human or a Computer Crash This Tesla? (Intelligencer)
- Snap reports accelerating revenue growth, strong user numbers for first quarter (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Netflix, Disney and Amazon’s Streaming Wars Heat Up Overseas (Wall Street Journal)
- The pandemic nearly crushed pet-care startup Rover (Business Insider)
- Meet Virtual Reality, Your New Physical Therapist (New York Times)
- TMSC's expansion challenge told in 10 timely charts (Bloomberg)
- Why the Chip Shortage Is So Hard to Overcome (Wall Street Journal)
- Designed by Apple in California, Not Assembled in China (Above Avalon)
- 15 Years of Spotify: How the Streaming Giant Has Changed and Reinvented the Music Industry (Variety)
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Dish partners with AWS to build the first public cloud-based 5G network. iPadOS 15 might let you go full widget on the home screen. Some of those stolen schematics suggest we will be getting the MacBook Pros we deserve. I’ve got an interesting raise for a product every Product Manager should know about. And the first reviews of the Apple Air Tags are in.
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- US satellite company Dish taps Amazon for 5G launch (Financial Times)
- Apple Plans Notifications, iPad Home Screen Upgrades for iOS 15 (Bloomberg)
- Stolen MacBook Pro Schematics Confirm Apple's Plans to Add More Ports and Remove Touch Bar (Mac Rumors)
- Software product planning platform Productboard raises $72M (Venture Beat)
- AIRTAG LOCATION TRACKERS ARE SMART, CAPABLE, AND VERY APPLE (The Verge)
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The EU proposes a big new regulatory framework for AI. A ransomware gang threatens to release Apple product schematics unless they get paid off. Fallout from yesterday’s Apple event including what you can and cannot put on your AirTags. Netflix has disappointed Wall Street, and Amazon is expanding its “pay with your palm” program to more Whole Foods locations.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal (Wall Street Journal)
- Instagram launches tools to filter out abusive DMs based on keywords and emojis, and to block people, even on new accounts (Tech Crunch)
- Apple announces AirTag accessories that cost more than the device (9 to 5 Mac)
- Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event (The Record)
- Netflix falls after pandemic boom reverses to rare weakness (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole Foods stores (CNBC)
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All of the headlines from Apple’s “Spring Loaded” event. All of the announcements Mark Zuckerberg made in that Discord room yesterday. Binance hires a former regulator to be its new CEO. And Fitbit wants to sell you a fashion forward Fitness Tracker.
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- Apple introduces Podcasts Subscriptions to pay creators for content in redesigned app (9to5Mac)
- Facebook unveils suite of new audio products (Axios)
- Clubhouse’s Monthly Downloads Plunged 72% Last Month (The Wrap)
- Cryptocurrency Giant Binance.US Hires Former Top Bank Regulator (WSJ)
- Fitbit’s Luxe is a fashion-focused fitness band that costs $149.95 (The Verge)
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Mon. 04/19 – Facebook To Announce Going Big On Audio, Via Audio?
Facebook has probably just outlined its plans to go big on audio, via a digital audio room. Clubhouse has officially announced that big new raise, probably in reaction to that, to some degree, A16Z did indeed triple down, and I try to outline all the threads for you. Britain might block ARM’s sale to Nvidia. And what to expect from tomorrow’s Apple event.
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- Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products (Vox)
- Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle (Tech Crunch)
- UK invokes national security to investigate Nvidia's ARM deal (Reuters)
- Tencent's Ma dangles billions in aid as antitrust scrutiny grows (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft’s xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week (The Verge)
- What to Expect From Apple's April 20 Event: New iPads, AirTags and More (Mac Rumors)
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Chris Fralic of First Round Capital was involved in funding such companies as Ring, Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, Rec Room, and as you’ll hear today, Roblox. But in addition to being a legend, as you’ll hear, Chris is just an all around good dude...
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The biggest semiconductor companies in the world warn than the global chip shortage might roll on for years. Could that recent batch of Facebook accounts showing up on the dark web lead to the dreaded maximal GDPR action? Apple says it pays artists more than Spotify does, but is that really true? Depends on how you run the numbers. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023 (Ars Technica)
- Facebook faces ‘mass action’ lawsuit in Europe over 2019 breach (Tech Crunch)
- Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song (Wall Street Journal)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Dogecoin: The meme that somehow became a real cryptocurrency (Cnet)
- They were ancient internet memes. Now NFTs are making them rich (Wired)
- Why did Microsoft spend $19.7 billion to purchase Nuance? The answer may lie beyond health care. (Protocol)
- A Little-Known Upstart Might Just Beat Google to Autonomous Driving (Bloomberg Business Week)
- Hip-Hop Loves Cash App, and That Might Be Why Jack Dorsey Bought Tidal (GQ)
- Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world (Doxa)
- Strong Bad ... thank you: The Flash icon endures as the internet rapidly changes (Polygon)
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Jeff Bezos pens his farewell to the troops, and also, the shareholders. A big Google Earth update. Some thoughts on yesterday’s Coinbase debut. DJI updates its mid-level workhorse drone. And Ford is taking baby steps to that sort of super cruise control that I really want while we’re wait for full autonomy.
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- Jeff Bezos says Amazon needs to do a better job for employees in his final shareholder letter as CEO (CNBC)
- Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change (The Verge)
- Apple announces $200 million investment fund for forest restoration projects (9 to 5 Mac)
- Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel (9 to 5 Mac)
- I funded Coinbase in 2012. Making 6000x on my best startup investment yet (Gary Tan)
- DJI’s new Mavic Air 2S comes with one big upgrade (The Verge)
- Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise driving feature coming soon to the F-150 and Mustang Mach-E (The Verge)
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Wed. 04/14 – Now It’s the FBI Doing The (Legal?) Hacking
The FBI hacked into some Exchange servers to prevent further hacking of Exchange servers. Ming-Chi Kuo thinks the iPhone mini and the notch are both going away after this year. Sony wants you to think of their phones as cameras first. Oculus gets a key new wireless update. And yes, those Boston Dynamics robot dogs have been spotted on the streets of NYC.
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- FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks (Vice)
- Kuo: 2022 iPhones to Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, 8K Video, and 6.1 and 6.7" Sizes With No 5.4" Mini Option (Mac Rumors)
- Kuo: Apple to Adopt Under Display Face ID Starting With 2023 iPhones (Mac Rumors)
- Kuo: 2023 iPhones to Feature 'Periscopic' Telephoto Lens (Mac Rumors)
- Samsung's third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28 (Cnet)
- Sony announces the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III with variable telephoto lenses (The Verge)
- Oculus Quest 2 owners can start testing wireless PC VR gaming with Air Link (Engadget)
- NYPD Deploys "Creepy" New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex (Gothamist)
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Everyone announced something today. A new Surface Laptop 4. New Nvidia things. New Roku things. Something new from Spotify literally called Car Thing. Oculus is going to hold a product event. Siri leaked the next Apple event. And Grab is going public via a SPAC.
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- Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 (Mac Rumors)
- Facebook Announces Oculus Gaming Showcase For April 21 (Upload)
- Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers (Venture Beat)
- Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40 (Ars Technica)
- Spotify’s Car Thing debuts as a limited release for selected US users (The Verge)
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Microsoft acquires the biggest name in speech tech. Apple is maybe developing some home gadgets I feel like they should have done years ago. Might we see new iPads by the end of the month? Google wants to stop you from walking and texting. And a review of the new Mercedes-Benz entrant into the EV wars.
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- Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal (CNBC)
- Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts (Bloomberg)
- Apple Facing Supply Shortage of Upcoming High-End iPad Displays (Bloomberg)
- Ant to Be Financial Holding Firm in Overhaul Forced by China (Bloomberg)
- Alibaba’s rivals on alert after China’s regulators hand out record fine (FT)
- Google starts rolling out “Heads Up” in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking (XDA Developers)
- THE 2022 MERCEDES-BENZ EQS IS A DECLARATION OF MAXIMUM ELECTRIC LUXURY (The Verge)
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Here was our Twitter Space from this week. We ended up talking all about Coinbase, helped by some great analysis from Romeen Sheth, who I think you’ll recall I quoted from when we talked about this on Wednesday. You can follow Romeen on twitter @RomeenSheth, link in the show notes. And also, he has a great podcast called Square One, where he interviews founders and investors, folks like Anthony Pompliano, Li Jin, David Sacks, even Andrew Yang. Give it a listen, search Square One on your podcast app of choice.
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The counting is finally happening, and not to be all Nate Silver, but it’s looking fairly certain that Amazon won its big union battle. Apple and Epic Games are making their first arguments in that big lawsuit. A big new scraping hack, this time for half a billion LinkedIn users. Neurolink shows a monkey playing Pong with its brain. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Partial tally in Amazon union drive favors ‘No’ votes. (NYTimes)
- Epic v. Apple discovery details ‘Project Liberty’ scheme to skirt App Store with Fortnite (9to5Mac)
- Apple Admits Purposely Keeping iMessage Off Android Helps Lock Users In (DroidLife)
- Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform's userbase — and have posted it for sale online (Insider)
- Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong (Engadget)
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- Silicon Valley Is Flooding Into a Reluctant Austin (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Don’t pick up! The rise and fall of a massive industry based on missed calls (Rest of World)
- DoorDash Drivers Game Algorithm to Increase Pay (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Revenge Of The Winklevii (Forbes)
- Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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If the chip shortage is now biting even Apple, things are getting real, y’all. Twitter apparently took a run at buying Clubhouse. Facebook has a new Clubhouse like product called Hotline. Lenovo’s new phone convinces me gaming phones are truly a thing. And are there signs we’re finally gonna see those Apple AirTags… or do the tea leaves reveal the exact opposite?
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- MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple (NikkeiAsia)
- Apple MacBook and iPad production may be delayed over global chip shortage (AppleInsider)
- Twitter Held Discussions for $4 Billion Takeover of Clubhouse (Bloomberg)
- Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live (TechCrunch)
- Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 has not one but two cooling fans (The Verge)
- YouTube is social media’s big winner during the pandemic (CNBC)
- Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage (FT)
- Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20 (9to5Google)
- Apple Announces Find My Network With Support for Third-Party Devices (MacRumors)
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Coinbase has revealed the number behind their business, and they are brain exploding emoji. A big Patreon raise shows the moneybags are serious about this creator economy thing. Nobody is crying at Plaid over that failed Visa merger. There’s a new king of the gaming laptop hill. And I try my best to unravel the twisted tale of the latest Facebook data scandal.
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- Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
- Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)
- Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
- Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
- Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
- Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)
- What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)
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Clubhouse isn’t messing around when it comes to flipping the monetization switch. TikTok translation might make that platform even more global. Yahoo Answers circles the drain. Are NFT prices already dropping? And with the new digital Yuan, would the Chinese government be able to literally turn off the money in your wallet?
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- Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
- TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
- Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)
- The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
- China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
- E3 2021 Will Take Place as a Free Virtual Conference, In-Person L.A. Event Targeted for Next Year (Variety)
- Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (Bloomberg)
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The Supreme Court has ruled on APIs in a way that should make most developers happy. Though, the punted on the President blocking people on Twitter. LG is exiting the smartphone business. And we already knew half a billion people’s Facebook data was out in the wild, but now that we’ve SEEN it in the wild, I’ll tell you why you should take notice.
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- Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software (CNBC)
- Supreme Court vacates lower court decision on Trump blocking Twitter followers (Axios)
- LG Electronics to end loss-making smartphone business (NikkeiAsia)
- Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (NYTimes)
- 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (Insider)
- Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat? (Kara Swisher's Sway Podcast)
- Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook (MacRumors)
- Tim Cook says Apple is committed to AR, TV+ and privacy but not to Apple Car (Cult of Mac)
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We didn’t go as long as last time because after about 45 minutes, somehow no one could hear me, even though I was the space commissar, or whatever they term it. Anyway, as you’ll hear, we ended up talking about that big AR story with Microsoft and the HoloLens and the Pentagon. Robert Scoble, who has been on this beat for years showed up serendipitously, to give us some schooling in the space. Enjoy…
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Coinbase is going public and sharing its numbers ahead of time, which is rare and probably a sign of confidence. The App Store has started rejecting apps ahead of that big new privacy change. Has Tencent’s gaming studio become the biggest in the world? Another Clubhouse clone, this time from Discord. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt)
- Apple Rejecting Apps With Fingerprinting Enabled As iOS 14 Privacy Enforcement Starts (Forbes)
- Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes (The Verge)
- Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Tencent's Timi gaming studio generated $10 billion in 2020, sources say (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard)
- 5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next? (Wired)
- How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars (Bloomberg)
- Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker)
- Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech (WSJ)
- Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes)
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Microsoft’s big HoloLens deal with the Pentagon is maybe the big bang for the augmented reality industry. Amazon says their folks can come back to work soon, and in fact, they’d prefer if you did. Bearish signs for the work remotely movement? Why these are boom times for chip makers. And why Siri’s new voices think of gender as a spectrum.
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- Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years (CNBC)
- Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC)
- TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity (Bloomberg)
- Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch)
- Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal’s Movies From HBO Max, Netflix (Bloomberg)
- Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps (TechCrunch)
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Facebook has announced News Feed changes to bring chronology back. LinkedIn is working on a Clubhouse rival and I think that makes total sense. Apple actually leads an interesting investment round. Deliveroo has a disastrous first day on the public markets. And how about Roblox, but inside the Unreal Engine?
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- Facebook Adds New 'Most Recent' Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
- LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
- Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch)
- Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (ArsTechnica)
- Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch)
- Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
- ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
- Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat)
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It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for WWDC. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry. A bunch of new phones from Xiaomi. Substack is raising another big round. And that’s not all. There’s so much that happened today in the world of tech, that I can’t even promo it all, so let’s just get to it.
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- Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge)
- Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios)
- Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information)
- Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
- Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac)
- Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider)
- There's Something Fishy About Amazon's Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated] (Gizmodo)
- Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ)
- Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge)
- Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge)
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New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The official PHP Git repository was hacked. Boston Dynamics has a new robot that isn’t as scary… unless you’re a warehouse worker. And what is Amazon’s aggressive PR recently all about?
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- New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports.' Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday)
- Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
- PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer)
- Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge)
- OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day (The Verge)
- Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
- Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg)
- Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)
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This is the clubhouse room from Monday, March 22nd. Topics discussed here include the situation with the Dispo app. Zoom’s new SDK. The fate of the HomePod and that secret new gizmo inside the HomePod Mini, and a deep dive into two of the longreads from LAST week:Moore's Law for Everythingpost and Tim O’Reilly’s pieceThe End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?
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So, as I said, this is one of the clubhouse rooms we did this week. In fact, it’s the one from last night. Chris convinced me to split the two rooms into two episodes, so I’m releasing this one, from Friday first, and tomorrow I’ll post the one we did Monday night. Topics for this episode: Slack getting into social audio, Microsoft buying Discord, what the heck is BitClout! The great Brady Dale @BradyDale from Coindesk helped us out with that. And more explication of my rant concerning the whole Medium situation.
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The House tech hearings were a nothing burger, but I’ll try to explain what that means for us. Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch. Slack is doing a Clubhouse clone and… stories. WeWork is back, with a SPAC. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge)
- Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg)
- Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol)
- WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 (Stratechery)
- The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab)
- Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg)
- The fuss about BitClout (Axios)
- Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch)
- Analysis: Money no object as governments race to build chip arsenals (Reuters)
- Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (ArsTechnica)
- VC Firms Have Long Backed AI. Now, They Are Using It. (WSJ)
- The Hard Truth About Bitcoin's Energy Consumption (Decrypt)
- Mac OS X Turns 20: A Look Back at the Operating System That Helped Save Apple (PCMag)
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Remember that Onion headline, F- Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades? Well, Samsung says welcome to the DDR5 era. There’s more tech testimony on Capitol Hill today. That Arizona bill that would have regulated the App Store mysteriously disappears. Deliveroo is facing a full on revolt. And my wife covers the Chrissy Teigen twitter news.
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- Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice As Fast As DDR4 (HotHardware)
- Zuckerberg suggests how to tweak tech's liability shield (Axios)
- Genshin Impact Races Past $1 Billion on Mobile in Less Than Six Months (SensorTower)
- Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores (The Verge)
- Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC)
- Deliveroo Hit by Investor, Rider Revolt Ahead of London IPO (Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge)
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You can now use Bitcoin to buy a Tesla. You can now DM anyone on Slack. Intel is now doing what Ben Thompson has been telling them to do for years. What Medium is doing to journalists is dumb. What Verizon is doing with Yahoo+ is dumb. And is the Chief Impact Officer title a real role, or is it… dumb?
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Links:
- Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC)
- WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol)
- Trading App Robinhood Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO (Bloomberg)
- Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff (Android Police)
- Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard)
- Verizon to center media arm around new subscription platform Yahoo+ (Axios)
- Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC)
- Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ)
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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy Discord but Discord might just take itself public instead. A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebranding, a new Niantic partnership with Nintendo, and new rumors of that upgraded Nintendo switch. A new consortium wants to take the pain out of browser compatibility and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over the butterfly keyboards.
Links:
- Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge)
- Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge)
- Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
- Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
- Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge)
- Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)
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Red hot app Dispo is losing some big name investors and the founder is leaving the startup’s board. As anticipated, Zoom goes platform. Microsoft is beginning a soft HQ reopening. The secret sensor found in the HomePod mini. And the smart startup that has cloned Amazon’s biggest competitive moats, to make them available to everybody.
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- David Dobrik, Losing Sponsors and Fans, Steps Down From App He Co-founded (NYTimes)
- Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with David Dobrik’s Dispo app weeks after leading deal (TechCrunch)
- Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft to start reopening headquarters on March 29th, with hybrid workplace focus (The Verge)
- Apple’s HomePod Mini Has a Secret Sensor Waiting to Be Switched On (BLoomberg)
- Inside the Democrats' strategy to bombard Big Tech (Axios)
- On-demand logistics and fulfillment startup Flowspace raises $31M (VentureBeat)
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Last weekend a listener to this show, Ti Zhang, (@zero_chill_tea) tagged me on twitter around a conversation they were having about NFTs and the degree to which, lots of folks in the art world are not so thrilled with the advent of NFTs. They said, sure, we see all the headlines around famous artists and celebrities and all the money being made. But was I aware that artists were seeing their work stolen and sold as NFTs? That artists were taking their work down from the internet to make sure it wasn’t scraped and used on a blockchain somewhere? I was not. They started sending articles and links, some of which I posted in the show notes and I was like, hey, instead of just educating me about the NFT thing from the artist perspective, come on the show real quick and educate us all. So, the first half of the show is that. Thank you Ti, for being such a great resource.
Then, after a break, the second half of the show will be just some of the Interesting Raises from the Interesting Raises episode that RideHome+ subscribers got this weekend. Less than half the content. If hearing these gives you a bit of FOMO, of course you can always sign up for the RideHome+ feed anytime, at tech.supercast.tech. As always, link to sign up for that feed is in the bottom of the show notes.
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It’s app platform product news day! Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids. Twitter wants you to watch YouTube in-stream. Telegram is basically adding all the Clubhouse features I’ve been dreaming of. Was an anti-Apple rebel alliance born last night in a Clubhouse room? Why China is banning Tesla in some cases. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News)
- Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch)
- Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers)
- Zuckerberg: Facebook may actually be in a ‘stronger position’ after Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes (CNBC)
- China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? (O'Reilly)
- Moore's Law for Everything (SamAltman.com)
- Empathetic Robots Are Killing Off the World’s Call-Center Industry (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India (Rest of World)
- How a social app you’ve never heard of became a haven for Gen Z (Protocol)
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It’s an Apple rumor Thursday from both the boys, Gurman and Kuo. Sony is taking what it’s learned from the DualSense controllers and bringing that to VR. YouTube rolls out its TikTok rival. Spotify wants you to know it gets artists paid. And I do my best to explain the whole creator economy controversy that has sprung up over at Substack.
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Links:
- Apple Nears Launch of New iPads After Stay-At-Home Sales Boost (Bloomberg)
- PS5's VR 2.0: First Look At New Controllers (GameSpot)
- YouTube Shorts arrives in the US to take on TikTok, but the beta is still half-baked (The Verge)
- Spotify says over 13,000 artists’ catalogs earned at least $50K in royalties last year (The Verge)
- Here's why Substack's scam worked so well (The Hypothesis)
- Substack is for independent writers (Substack Blog)
- Crypto marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million to be the ‘Amazon of NFTs’ (Fortune)
- Intel puts Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ guy into new ads praising PCs (The Verge)
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Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the year brings new midrange phones. But are they really discontinuing the Galaxy Note, and are chip shortages the real reason why? Are reductions in app store fees really what they’re cracked up to be? Has Uber had a change of heart or just an acknowledgement of the inevitable? And the bear case for Clubhouse that everyone is talking about.
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Links:
- Samsung’s midrange phones now feature fast refresh rate screens, stabilized cameras (The Verge)
- Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone (Bloomberg)
- Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales (CNBC)
- Google and Apple are giving up less than 5% of their revenue from apps with payout changes, analytics firm estimates (CNBC)
- Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle (CNBC)
- Pinduoduo Founder Colin Huang Steps Down From Company (WSJ)
- Clubhouse Tweet Thread (ShaanVP)
- Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison (Tampa Bay Times)
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Google’s 2nd gen Nest Hub gets sleep tracking thanks to the Soli chip. Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips launch. Xi brings the hammer down on Chinese tech. And the craziest cellphone hack I’ve ever heard isn’t a hack at all, since it’s in a nutso-buttso unregulated grey area.
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Links:
- Google announces 2nd-gen Nest Hub with Soli-powered ‘Sleep Sensing’ for $99 (9to5Google)
- Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores (The Verge)
- Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords (The Verge)
- Xi Warns Against Tech Excess in Sign Crackdown Will Widen (Bloomberg)
- Alibaba browser pulled from Chinese app stores (FT)
- Exclusive: Investors value China's Ant Group at over $200 billion after IPO halt - sources (Reuters)
- A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 (Motherboard)
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Stripe, by some measures, has become the most successful Silicon Valley startup of all time, with their recent raise. Airtable too has an impressively interesting raise. Facebook wants to find you a vaccine appointment. The US is looking to overhaul its cybersecurity missile shield. And checking in on the whole Jack Ma situation.
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Links:
- Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising (Financial Times)
- Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (Forbes)
- Facebook aims to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 (CNET)
- Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism (Washington Post)
- White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks (NYTimes)
- China Lays Plans to Tame Tech Giant Alibaba (WSJ)
- Clubhouse announces accelerator program for creators on its platform (The Verge)
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Netflix is cracking down on password sharing. Apple sues a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Masa Son is back, baby! I guess we have to watch ads on our $1500 smart tvs now, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household (The Streamable)
- Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information to the media (9to5Mac)
- SoftBank-Backed Coupang Prices U.S. IPO Above Target (Bloomberg)
- I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now (The Verge)
Weekend Longread Suggestions:
- Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe (Noahpinion.substack.com)
- TWITTER IS REINVENTING ITSELF (The Verge)
- Excel Never Dies (Not Boring)
- How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (MIT Technology Review)
- Bilibili: How a Chinese site dedicated to anime subculture grew up with its Gen Z users to become a mainstream success (South China Morning Post)
- Sometimes It’s OK to Give Up (Wired)
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Roblox’s public market debut and why people are so excited about it. Twitter to open up spaces to everyone next month. An Apple silicon friendly version of Photoshop sports so eyebrow raising performance gains. Are iPhones about to get heavier? And the NFT sales record has been shattered thanks to Beeple.
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Links:
- Roblox jumps to $38 billion market cap as public investors get their first crack at the popular kids game app (CNBC)
- Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April (The Verge)
- Verkada Workers Had Extensive Access to Private Customer Cameras (Bloomberg)
- Google paves way to monetize Pay users’ data in India (TechCrunch)
- Photoshop now runs natively on Apple’s M1 Macs (The Verge)
- iPhone 13 to Finally Feature Bigger Batteries (MacRumors)
- Oppo Find X3 Pro goes official w/ Snapdragon 888, 120Hz display, ‘microlens’ camera (9to5Google)
- Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million (The Verge)
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Hackers breached the security cameras used by everybody from prisons and hospitals to Tesla factories. Why you will no longer “subscribe” to this podcast, but will “follow” it. Why T-Mobile is signing everyone up to have their usage data tracked by advertisers. And Facebook’s 10 year roadmap for AR and VR.
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Links:
- Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (Bloomberg)
- Apple slashes planned iPhone 12 mini production for 1H (NikkeiAsia)
- Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature (The Verge)
- TikTok adds new comment controls to discourage bullying (Engadget)
- 'Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe' (Podnews)
- T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers (WSJ)
- Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive 'Vesta' home robot — but insiders are worried that it's a niche, gimmicky product that could fail (Insider)
- Inside Facebook Reality Labs: The Next Era of Human-Computer Interaction (Tech@Facebook)
- Facebook's ready to talk about how its AR glasses will work with neural wristbands (CNET)
- Samsung sets March 17 for its second Unpacked event of 2021 (CNET)
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Is Joe Biden about to name the architect of the current antitrust movement to a seat on the FTC? Are other bad actors swooping in to take advantage of the SolarWinds hack? Is Microsoft gonna play both sides of the fence with new Surface devices? And why popular YouTubers are suddenly building their own platforms.
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Links:
- POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster (Politico/Playbook)
- Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea (NYTimes)
- Attacks on SolarWinds Servers Also Linked To Chinese Threat Actor (The Record)
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will reportedly include both AMD and Intel configurations (The Verge)
- Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit vulnerability (Engadget)
- Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites (BBC News)
- LOGITECH’S CIRCLE VIEW DOORBELL IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN APPLE-MADE DOORBELL (The Verge)
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Ming-Chi Kuo’s grand unified Apple rumor includes AR enabled contact lenses. Is the US about to retaliate in kind for the SolarWinds hack? Mobile World Congress is gonna go ahead and do it live! And in person. Why is Google making Google Pay worse? And do we need a new podcast wager about meaningful quantum computing by 2023?
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Links:
- Kuo: Apple to Launch Mixed Reality Headset in Mid 2022 and Augmented Reality Glasses by 2025 (MacRumors)
- Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China (NYTimes)
- Smartphone Lobby Wants Conference for 50,000 People in June (Bloomberg)
- The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (Ars Technica)
- Quantum-Computing Startup IonQ Plans Public Debut in $2 Billion SPAC Merger (WSJ)
- Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians" (Axios)
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I don’t think this one requires any in depth intro. The great Brady Dale of Coindesk, walks us though the whole NFT phenomenon. What are NFTs? How do they work? Why are people so crazed about them at the moment?
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Tim Wu joined the Biden administration and that sound you hear is a big collective gulp from Silicon Valley. A tweet undo button has been unearthed. Turntable.fm has resurfaced. New data suggests the death of silicon valley has been exaggerated. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House (NYTimes)
- Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like (The Verge)
- Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two (The Verge)
- Survey finds that the reported exodus of tech companies from San Francisco's Bay Area is 'greatly exaggerated' (Insider)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix. (Recode)
- Who Really Writes Twitter’s ‘Trending’ Summaries (OneZero)
- Blockchain, QR codes and your phone: the race to build vaccine passports (Protocol)
- How a tiny startup is reinventing the DVR for the cord-cutter era (Fast Company)
- China’s Tencent Becomes an Investment Powerhouse, Using Deals to Expand Its Empire (WSJ)
- I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it (Input)
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Square is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, and either this makes little sense, or it’s a watershed moment in this NFT/creator economy phenomenon that’s suddenly washing over all of us. Apple walks the walk in terms of data portability. But they’re facing serious new anti-trust scrutiny in the UK and Arizona. And our year of Covid, at least measured in internet traffic numbers.
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Links:
- Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. (NYTimes)
- Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
- Apple Probed by U.K. as App Store Payments Scrutiny Mounts (Bloomberg)
- Arizona App Store Bill (The Verge)
- Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
- Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)
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Google says it’s getting out of the ad tracking game. Kinda. I’ll explain what’s really going on here. Headline wrapup from Microsoft’s Ignite conference includes AR excitement. Brave is launching a privacy search engine. And why Amazon’s app icon redesign reminded people of Hitler’s mustache.
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Links:
- Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies (The Verge)
- Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing (WSJ)
- Microsoft says China-backed hackers are exploiting Exchange zero-days (TechCrunch)
- Recovering from the SolarWinds hack could take 18 months (MIT Technology Review)
- Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings (The Verge)
- Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech (TechCrunch)
- Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows (The Verge)
My podcast NFT!
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Is the iPhone about to lose the notch and join the hole-punch universe? Whole bunch of new features for Microsoft Teams, and also a new Microsoft smart-speaker. Instacart has a monster raise. Grimes has a monster NFT sale. Discovery+ is an interesting dark-horse in the streaming wars. Oh. And “fly” drones.
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Links:
- Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more (9to5Mac)
- All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)
- Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)
- Microsoft’s new Intelligent Speakers deliver its promised meeting room of the future (The Verge)
- Instacart’s valuation doubles to $39 billion (CNBC)
- Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
- How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
- Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. (NYTimes)
- Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones (MIT News)
Tonight's Clubhouse Experiment
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Instagram launches Live Rooms for group broadcasts, which, depending on how you use it is either basically FaceTime for Instagram, or another shot across the Clubhouse bow. Is the micromobility space revving up to roar back to health? Are US-based drone makers about to step into the void left by DJI? And Chris Dixon tries to contextualize NFTs for us.
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Links:
- Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators (TechCrunch)
- Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery (The Verge)
- Lime says it will spend $50 million on a huge e-bike expansion (The Verge)
- Skydio valuation raises American hopes in drone war with China (Financial Times)
- Klarna Valued at $31 Billion After U.S. Growth Stoked Investors (Bloomberg)
- As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings (TechCrunch Extra)
- NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (Chris Dixon/Andreessen Horowitz)
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Chris Messina and I go deeper on some of the news of the week.
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Twitter just wants to give us everything all of the sudden, including charging for tweets, sort of groups based on interests, and even blocking and muting accounts. Google gives devs a Sleep API. Why has LastPass decided to piss everyone off all of the sudden? Why Xiaomi is the up-and-comer to keep your eye on. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets (The Verge)
- Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts (The Verge)
- Google launches Android Sleep API to detect snoozing, waking up; available to apps now (9to5Google)
- 1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? (The Register)
- European Smartphone Market Down 14% YoY in 2020; Xiaomi gains while Huawei and Samsung Lose (Counterpoint Research)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Xiaomi is undercutting the whole tech industry. And it’s working (Wired)
- American Idle (Eugene Wei)
- Why Plus Is a Minus When Naming Your Streaming Site (NYTimes)
- Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok (Daily Beast)
- We're Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy (The Atlantic)
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The Biden administration signs an executive order addressing the chip shortage. I’ll tell you why this is evolving into a big deal. Coinbase files its S-1 so we get to look under the hood of their business for the first time. Paramount+ reveals pricing and content details for the first time. And timely interesting raises in the Ethereum space which means: NFTs.
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Links:
- Biden Orders Broad Supply-Chain Review Amid Chip Shortages (WSJ)
- Coinbase Reveals $322M in Profit For 2020 Ahead of Landmark Public Debut (Decrypt)
- ViacomCBS bets you will subscribe to 5 or more streaming services, leaving plenty of room for Paramount+ (CNBC)
- Verizon Leads 5G Airwave Bidding With Record $45 Billion Splurge (Bloomberg)
- NFT marketplace Sorare raises $50 million in Series A led by Benchmark (The Block)
- Ethereum scaling startup Optimism raises $25 million Series A led by a16z (The Block)
- Otter.ai raises $50 million for AI transcription (VentureBeat)
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Facebook defends its stance in Australia. MicroStrategy doubles down on its stance vis-à-vis bitcoin. Is “Sign In With Apple” the new stick the antitrust folks might use to beat Apple with? But conversely, have you noticed that social networking has gotten hella competitive lately? What does that mean for anti-trust arguements vis-à-vis Facebook. Oh, and a skateboard for AR glasses.
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Links:
- The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t (Nieman Lab)
- MicroStrategy Buys $1 Billion More Bitcoin, Totalling $4.5 Billion (Decrypt)
- HP is buying gaming accessory brand HyperX for $425 million (The Verge)
- Apple’s App Sign-in Button Becomes Hot-Button Issue in U.S. Antitrust Probe (The Information)
- How social networks got competitive again (Casey Newton's Platformer)
- VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
- Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to your walls (The Verge)
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Australia caves in to Facebook. PlayStation is planning a big new push in VR. The Mate X2 keeps the foldable dream alive. The weird new malware infecting Apple Silicon Macs. And let’s use NBA Top Shot as a lens to explain NFTs.
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Links:
- Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code (ABC.net.au)
- PlayStation CEO says PS5 will get its own VR headset, explains console supply chain shortfall (Washington Post)
- Huawei’s Mate X2 foldable adopts Samsung’s dual-screen design (The Verge)
- Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models With HDMI Port and SD Card Reader to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
- New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped (ArsTechnica)
- Inside 'NBA Top Shot,' the Digital Highlights Marketplace Worth Millions (Bleacher Report)
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Spotify’s new HiFi subscription tier. Clubhouse has security concerns. Apple is king of the smartphone hill once again. Maybe the biggest survival story of the Covid-19 era is about the IPO. And is the Facebook news ban pushing Australians into the arms of the news publishers themselves?
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Links:
- Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year (The Verge)
- Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security (Bloomberg)
- Apple Surpassed Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter (MacRumors)
- Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO (WSJ)
- Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
- Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)
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As mentioned, for my birthday this year I got my first VR rig, an Occulus Quest 2 because if an Apple AR/VR thingy is coming, if Facebook continues to invest in VR, then I figured it was time to, you know, not be functionally inexperienced with the space. I have a little bit of crypto to understand the space. Looking to get my hands on some NFTs to understand the space. I’ve got an onlyfans account to understand the dynamics of what works in the creator economy. And that’s the only reason, I swear. Anyway, in this episode we’re going to talk about some of the things I’ve learned and to do so, we’re going to talk to two folks. First, some of you might know Kyle Hilliard, he was for a long time the host of our Gaming Ride Home podcast, before the pandemic put paid to that show. He’s a veteran games journalist, and actually, you can still hear Kyle talk gaming on the MinnMax podcast. Link in the show notes. Kyle helps me understand the state of the industry from a developer and corporate and startup perspective. And also, we’re going to talk to Seth Rininger (@Sethmr1989) who is a kind-hearted listener to this show who, when I put out the word for someone to help me get onboarded with Oculus platform, kindly answered the call and helped guide me through getting my VR legs under me. My discussion with Seth is designed to give you an idea of where VR is at right now, in case you’re looking to give it a go yourself.
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Uber has lost one of its most significant independent contractor battles, in this case, in the UK. The Android 12 Developer Preview is here. Office 2021 is coming. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Apple Is Working on Magnetic Battery Pack Attachment for IPhones (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year (The Verge)
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- The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook's Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia (TechDirt)
- Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (Noam Bardin)
- Why the three biggest vaccine makers failed on Covid-19 (Financial Times)
- Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design (Ars Technica)
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us has turned 20 (The Verge)
- What Peter Jackson’s original two-movie Lord of the Rings almost looked like (Polygon)
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I’ll do my best to explain this Australia situation with Facebook and Google. SpaceX is our interesting raise today. Nvidia unveils a line of chips just for crypto. Does Apple want to set the standards for 6G? And if remote work is the future, why is Big Tech still building so much office space?
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- Facebook calls Australia's bluff (Platformer)
- SpaceX Funding Round at $74 Billion Valuation Was Led by Sequoia (Bloomberg)
- NVIDIA Annoucnes CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX GPUs For Mining, Cripples Hash Rate Of RTX 3060 (WCCFTech)
- Apple Hiring Engineers to Develop 6G Wireless (Bloomberg)
- If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired)
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Epic Games takes its war with Apple to Europe. But Apple wins a skirmish in North Dakota of all places. New York sues Amazon over worker issues. Google maps will now let you pay for parking. Some tangible numbers about the recent NFT explosion. And why the new headphone emoji look suspiciously like AirPods Max.
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- Epic Games files EU antitrust complaint against Apple (FT)
- Apple wins victory as North Dakota votes down bill that would regulate app stores (CNBC)
- New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19 (NYTimes)
- Amazon won’t build this Alexa cuckoo clock unless it hits a preorder goal (The Verge)
- Google Maps will now let you pay for public transportation and parking through its app (The Verge)
- Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share (GeekWire)
- Ethereum NFT Market Primed for Explosive Growth in 2021 (Decrypt)
- First Look: 217 New Emojis in iOS 14.5 (Emojipedia)
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Bitcoin hits its latest, biggest milestone. A OnePlus cofounder’s latest startup is: Nothing. But it bought something: Essential. I’ll explain why this “who’s on first” routine might be interesting. Why government antitrust action has a tendency to open the litigation floodgates. And if you’ve been hearing about that new app Dispo, I’ve got an explainer for you. Cause that’s what I’m here for.
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- Bitcoin Jumps to $50,000 as Record-Breaking Rally Accelerates (Bloomberg)
- Essential is now officially owned by Carl Pei’s Nothing Technologies (9to5Google)
- Microsoft’s new Office app now available on iPad (The Verge)
- New Samsung laptops rumored to include OLED screens and S Pen support (The Verge)
- Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (NYTimes)
- Retro photo app is winning buzz (Axios)
- The bull case for Dispo (Justin Potts)
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We’ve got our first look at how Microsoft plans to bring xCloud to every device, even iOS. Is Facebook building a smartwatch? Maybe because they’re so pissed at Apple? Is everyone trying to scupper the Nvidia/ARM deal? And why I failed to mention that Paramount+ is the new entrant in the streaming wars.
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- Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web (The Verge)
- Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health (The Information)
- Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (WSJ)
- Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm Ltd. (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All (Wired)
- ViacomCBS Goes ‘All-In’ on Streaming, But Without Many of Its Top Shows (Bloomberg)
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If you want the single best person in economics twitter to follow, it’s Noah Smith, Bloomberg’s Economics Opinion Columnist. If you want to him, its @noahpinion, by the way. If you want a great substack to sign up to, try noahpinion.substack.com… the free article this week is called Triumph of the HODler’s… I hope I remember to link to it in the show notes. It’s the best summation I’ve read of what’s going on with Bitcoin at the moment. But also, as you’ll hear, he has a great new podcast with another economist I respect, Brad Delong. Noah is just a smart, smart guy. If you want a smart economics angle to anything happening in the world right now, he’s just the best. Noah and I have been friendly on Twitter over the years, occasionally exchanging DMs about obscure details about the Holy Roman Empire, but this is the first time I “met” him if you will. It’s been a while since I was sort of starstruck to interview someone, but here you go. The great Noah Smith…
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Google adds some photo editing features to Google Photos that maybe points to a larger subscription play. Is Apple’s new AR app for TV+ a sign of things to come? Disney+ numbers are amazing. Apple Watch estimated numbers are impressive. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Google Photos gets new paywalled editing features for Google One subscribers (The Verge)
- First Apple TV+ AR app launches with ‘For All Mankind’ backstory through mixed reality (9to5Mac)
- Disney says it now has 94.9 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
- Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists (Above Avalon)
- Bumble stock closes up 63% after soaring in market debut (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Beginner's Guide (Decrypt)
- 20 years of orange cones: The history of VLC (Protocol)
- N.Y.’s Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50. (NYTimes)
- Cadillac Super Cruise Review: Better Than Tesla’s Autopilot (MotorTrend)
- Chip Shortage Spirals Beyond Cars to Phones and Consoles (Bloomberg | Quint)
- HOW SONY DESIGNED THE PS5’S ULTIMATE EASTER EGG (The Verge)
- Who Really Created the Marvel Universe? (The New Yorker)
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Facebook wants to copy Clubhouse too, and meanwhile I got to try out Twitter Spaces last night. Did Microsoft make a run at acquiring Pinterest, and would the government let that happen? Is Peacock the sick man of the streaming wars? And an interesting raise around the creator economy.
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- Microsoft approached Pinterest about a takeover (Financial Times)
- iOS 14.5 Beta Directs 'Safe Browsing' Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data (MacRumors)
- Bumble makes Wall Street debut in a milestone moment for female founders (CNN Business)
- NBCUniversal’s Streaming Strategy Raises Prospect of WarnerMedia Merger (The Information)
- Andreessen Horowitz Wins Deal for Creator Economy Startup Stir at $100 Million Valuation (The Information)
- Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen (Motherboard)
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Maybe… the whole TikTok kabuki theater is at its endpoint. Salesforce thinks the whole concept of the “9-to-5 workday” is at its endpoint. More smoke around the Apple Goggles fire. Why you need to get hip to the concept of non-fungible tokens. And why cops have gotten hip to playing Sublime songs to prevent you from filming them.
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- TikTok Sale to Oracle, Walmart Is Shelved as Biden Reviews Security (WSJ)
- Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on (The Verge)
- Apple reportedly developing next-gen ultra-thin displays for AR devices with TSMC (The Verge)
- How Did A LeBron James Video Highlight Sell For $71,455? A Look At A Burgeoning Product Called NBA Top Shot. (Forbes)
- Biggest Ever NFT Sale Made as 'Axie Land’ Goes for $1.5 Million (Decrypt)
- Microsoft launches Bulletins and Milestones apps for Teams (Windows Central)
- Apple Maps Adds Waze-Like Features in iOS 14.5 for Crowdsourcing Accidents, Speed Traps and Hazards (MacRumors)
- Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? (Vice)
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Amazon is ginning up a new Echo device that’s like a dashboard for your household. Big changes to Android leaked to the internet. Reddit raises a big round. Mark Cuban is gunning for Clubhouse. And I’ve been warning y’all of industrial hacking. We almost had a big disaster down in Tampa Bay.
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- This may be our first look at Android 12, Google’s next Android OS (XDA)
- Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round (WSJ)
- Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations (The Verge)
- Qualcomm's new X65 5G modem downloads data at lightning-fast 10Gbps speeds (CNet)
- The Rust programming language just took a huge step forwards (ZDNet)
- Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say (Motherboard)
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The singularity is near, cause all our meme stories are colliding. Tesla has bought a ton of Bitcoin while Elon is tweet-pumping Dogecoin. Clubhouse is blocked in China. Cold water on the Apple Car story from Hyundai itself. TikTok is skipping directly to an ecommerce buildout. And Xiaomi’s big new global flagship phone.
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- Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (CNBC)
- Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (TechCrunch)
- Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia (Bloomberg)
- Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content (Bloomberg)
- TikTok takes on Facebook with US ecommerce push (FT)
- Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective (Platformonomics)
- Xiaomi’s global Mi 11 has a Snapdragon 888 for €749 (The Verge)
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Are Apple’s coming IDFA changes going to have a bigger ripple effect across the entire tech industry than we’re even anticipating? Chinese users are flocking to Clubhouse which… probably means the end of Clubhouse in China. Why a shortage of silicon is causing automakers to cut vehicle production. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Facebook’s not the only one worried about Apple’s privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it (CNBC)
- An Interview with Eric Seufert about Apple, Facebook, and Mobile Advertising (Stratechery)
- Google taps your phone cameras to measure your heart rate (Engadget)
- Chinese flock to freewheeling US chat app Clubhouse (Nikkei Asia)
- Ford says ‘millions’ of its vehicles will run on Google’s Android starting in 2023 (The Verge)
- Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage (FT)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Andy Jassy Twitter Thread (@ankithharathi)
- This Hedge Fund Made $700 Million on GameStop (WSJ)
- PFOF is the Ad Model for Brokerage (Justin Paterno)
- Superstar Cities Are in Trouble (The Atlantic)
- They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games (NYTimes)
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Whole bunch of Apple rumors today. The most details yet on the Apple headset. Will the Apple car be an AV first, and does that just mean it will be for delivering things? Is the iPhone 13 getting better cameras? And also, Amazon is deploying cameras on its trucks. And Senator Klobuchar wants to put the burden of proof on the acquirers, when it comes to tech mergers.
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- New Apple Mixed-Reality Headset Details: Swappable Headbands, Eye-Tracking (The Information)
- Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car (CNBC)
- Kuo: iPhone 13 Now More Likely to Get Upgraded Ultra Wide Camera With Improved Low-Light Performance (MacRumors)
- Amazon is using AI-equipped cameras in delivery vans and some drivers are concerned about privacy (CNBC)
- Klobuchar to Introduce Antitrust Bill Raising Bar for Technology Deals (WSJ)
- The Technology 202: Klobuchar's new antitrust bill may hit Big Tech where it hurts (Washington Post)
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Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO, to be replaced by Andy Jassy. Google is losing a ton of money on its Cloud, but YouTube is finally hitting its stride. Apple might formally do an Apple Car-related tie-up with Kia in a matter of weeks. And why I finally got off the fence and decided to investigate the AR/VR space.
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- Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (Amazon)
- Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant (CNBC)
- Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (Amazon Investor Relations)
- Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)
- Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Facebook starts rolling out Messenger on Oculus headsets (Engadget)
- 60+ Oculus Quest Apps Made More Than $1 Million (UploadVR)
- Google Meet’s new ‘green room’ lets you do an audio / video pre-check (The Verge)
- Zoom adds virtual receptionists for when people start going back to the office (CNBC)
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Google is getting out of the game development business, but is it getting out of the Stadia business or just pivoting to infrastructure? Apple acknowledges that Covid has basically hobbled Face ID. Uber gets into the liquor delivery business. And Amazon’s plans for its HQ2 architecture shows at least somebody in Silicon Valley is not buying the remote work hype.
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- Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus (Kotaku)
- Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results (TechCrunch)
- iOS 14.5 will let Apple Watch owners unlock iPhones while wearing a mask (Engadget)
- Uber buying booze delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion (Axios)
- Kuo: 'Apple Car' to use Hyundai's E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible (Apple Insider)
- Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders (WSJ)
- Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices (WSJ)
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It’s a day ending in -a-y, so that must mean Google discontinued another flagship product. Microsoft reports that its next growth industry is cybersecurity. Ring has basically doubled the amount of police and fire departments that can request access your doorbell videos. And what happened when Elon Musk showed up in Clubhouse last night.
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- [Update: Final] Pixel Slate discontinued and removed from Google Store (9to5Google)
- Apple’s iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome on Windows is now available (9to5Google)
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: There is ‘a big crisis right now’ for cybersecurity (Yahoo Finance)
- Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups,’ Now Plans Overhaul (WSJ)
- US police and fire departments partnering with Amazon’s Ring passes 2,000 (Financial Times)
- New Linux SUDO flaw lets local users gain root privileges (Bleeping Computer)
- Augmented Reality Gets Pandemic Boost (WSJ)
- Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit (TechCrunch)
- Recording of Musk on Clubhouse (Final Stand/YouTube)
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- This Nifty Strap Lets You Control the Apple Watch With Gestures (Gizmodo)
- Sony reveals full details on its upcoming 360 Reality Audio speakers (Engadget)
- Sony's new premium speaker looks like a giant electric razor (Android Police)
- LG TO REINFORCE INDUSTRY DOMINANCE WITH ULTIMATE TV TECHNOLOGY (LG Newsroom)
- LG’s 2021 TV lineup includes its brightest OLED ever (The Verge)
- This new module keeps Philips Hue bulbs connected even when the wall switch gets flipped (TechCrunch)
- Asus’ new Chromebook CX9 offers military-grade durability (The Verge)
- Asus ZenBeam Latte projector is as portable as a cup of coffee (SlashGear)
- Razer Unveils RGB Face Mask and Immersive Gaming Chair Concepts (IGN)
- Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 i bakes a bigger, better e-ink touchscreen into the lid (SlashGear)
- TCL 20 5G and TCL 20 SE are new affordable smartphones for entertainment (GSMArena)
- Vuzix’s new microLED smart glasses look like tech you’d actually want to wear on your face (The Verge)
- Vuzix’s new microLED-powered smart glasses will arrive this summer (TechCrunch)
- This is Sony’s Airpeak drone (The Verge)
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- Linksys unveils a next-gen router that senses motion in your home (CNET)
- Western Digital SSDs (AnAndTech)
- YSL’s lipstick pod gadget will create whatever shade you want (The Verge)
- Samsung's new robot vacuum uses lidar and empties its own bin like a fancy Roomba (CNET)
- How Samsung’s JetBot 90 AI+ Reimagines Cleaning (Samsung Newsroom)
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What once was a story about Game Stop and Reddit, has suddenly become a story about Robinhood. I’ll catch you up. Everybody wants in on the newsletter game all the sudden. Hyundai is having second thoughts about building an Apple Car, and a special stonks themed edition of the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors (NYTimes)
- Facebook is said to be planning newsletter tools to court independent writers. (NYTimes)
- Hyundai wrestles with the risks of embracing Apple (Reuters)
- SEC scrutiny delays Roblox stock market listing (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestion:
- Inside the Reddit army that's crushing Wall Street (CNN Business)
- The Big Short SQUEEZE from $5 to $50? Could GameStop stock (GME) explode higher?? Value investing! (Roaring Kitty)
- How a Penny Stock Explodes From Obscurity to 451% Gains Via Chat Forums (Bloomberg)
- Think Americans Wouldn’t Wager on Russian Table Tennis? Care to Bet? (NyTimes)
- CashApp Is King (Aika's Newsletter)
- Can Growth Go Out of Style? (Irrelevant Investor)
- YouTube’s Spammy Sex Bots Make a Ton of Money (OneZero)
- Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (NYTimes Magazine)
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We finally get to the whole GameStop story cause Robinhood has frozen trading for some folks looking for fresh “tendies.” Apple and Facebook release absolutely killer earnings. As expected. But are they about to go to world war in court? Tesla’s earnings disappoint. And Facebook’s Oversight Board issues its first rulings.
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- Robinhood restricts trading in GameStop, other names involved in frenzy (CNBC)
- How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon (Bloomberg)
- WallStreetBets Founder Reckons With Legacy Amid Stock-Market Frenzy (WSJ)
- 'Smack It Like E. Honda': Buying NFTs for Pleasure and Profit (CoinTalk)
- Mark Zuckerberg says Apple is now one of Facebook’s biggest competitors (CNBC)
- Facebook Preps Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (The Information)
- Apple's App Tracking Transparency Feature will be enabled by default and arrive in 'early spring' on iOS (TechCrunch)
- Tesla disappoints Wall Street despite strong profits (CNN Business)
- Facebook's 'Oversight Board' overturns 4 cases in first rulings (NBC News)
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Microsoft earnings are insane, as expected. Wonder Woman might have made HBOMax a contender. YouTube is still the king of getting creators paid. What if I told you Atari doesn’t want to be left out of the game streaming wars. And listen to the end of this episode for the big podcast announcement I’ve been promising.
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- Microsoft profits jump 33 percent as pandemic continues shift to cloud computing. (NYTimes)
- AT&T Q4: HBO Max Activations Double to 17.2 Million, Warner Bros. Revenue Declines 21% (Variety)
- Apple fixes another three iOS zero-days exploited in the wild (ZDNet)
- Apple just had its best quarter in India (TechCrunch)
- YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years (The Verge)
- Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games (The Verge)
- Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development (TechCrunch)
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Twitter acquires a Substack competitor. It’s also iterating product in terms of… check’s notes: content moderation? The black hats are targeting the white hats in infosec. Interesting executive shuffle at Apple. A $2500 smartphone from Sony that really might be a “pro” device. And would you let me put a 5G gear box in your front lawn? You might not have a choice.
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- Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (Axios)
- Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation (NBC News)
- Google warns of ‘novel social engineering method’ used to hack security researchers (The Verge)
- Dan Riccio Transitioning to New Project, John Ternus to Lead Apple's Hardware Engineering Team (MacRumors)
- Sony’s creator-focused Xperia Pro arrives in the US priced at $2,499 (The Verge)
- Americans spend average of $47 a month on streaming services (The Desk)
- 5G boxes are coming to people’s homes, whether they want them or not (The Verge)
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Clubhouse has become a unicorn in, what… nine months? Google is making its facilities available as vaccine centers, while its workers are union organizing globally. Apple wants you to get up and walk. And why the SPAC frenzy could potentially transform the startup ecosystem over the coming months.
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- Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (TechCrunch)
- Big Revolution - Inside the Clubhouse (Big Revolution)
- Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites (Engadget)
- Google Maps and Search to show COVID-19 vaccination locations (LaptopMag)
- Exclusive: Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable (The Verge)
- Apple officially launches new ‘Time to Walk’ feature for Apple Watch and Fitness+ (9to5Mac)
- Apple warns iPhone 12 and MagSafe accessories can interfere with medical devices (Silicon Angle)
- SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (CNBC)
- When SPACs Attack! A New Force Is Invading Wall Street. (WSJ)
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In 2017, scientists sighted the first interstellar object, the first thing we definitively know came from outside our solar system… something that was not bound to the gravity pull of our sun. But that was just the beginning of the oddness exhibited by the object known as Oumuamua. It didn’t behave like a comet. It didn’t seem to be made of materials we expect. It was shaped in a way that nothing in nature should be shaped like. And as it curved around our sun, it actually accelerated in a way that we couldn’t account for by the laws of physics. In his new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, which comes out Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top Astronomer, argues that Oumuamua was most likely an alien craft, or artifact of some kind. It likely had some sort of solar sail mechanism, and actually, suggests it might be functioning as some sort of interstellar buoy. We’re going to get into that in this episode, but stay to the end, because forget small satellites, do you know we could shoot a super small probe, about the size of a small satellite, attached to a solar sail and pushed by a laser right now, today? Humanity could reach another star for the first time in just 20 years… in all of our lifetimes, and we could get the data and pictures back within 24 years. Avi is working on this with the backing of Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg among others. So, come for Oumuamua, and stay for the crazy space project that, in my opinion, should be the one we all band together to pursue.
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What does it mean for Alphabet if it’s starting to cut bait on its “moonshots?” Is Google going to cut bait entirely, on the entire country of Australia? More signs that Apple is atoning for their laptop design sins. Looks like we were right, Plaid is very much, no Visa, no cry. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Alphabet Pops Loon’s Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure (Wired)
- Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead (The Guardian)
- Apple Plans Thinner MacBook Air With Magnetic Charger in Mac Lineup Reboot (Bloomberg)
- Plaid Shareholders Field Offers at $15 Billion After Merger Collapse (The Information)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Biden picks Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FCC chief (NBC News)
- The Inside Story of How the Lowly PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech (Marker)
- The Moderation War Is Coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse (OneZero)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 ULTRA REVIEW: THE REAL DEAL (The Verge)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 review: The best Android phone for the money (Engadget)
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Apple’s first foray into VR is coming next year, says Mark Gurman, but the real game is in AR and that’s a ways down the road. Amazon wants to help roll out the vaccines. Are laptops getting taller? One chat app to unify them all? And everybody wants a dark mode, even the White House.
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- Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses (Bloomberg)
- LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021 (The Verge)
- Amazon sends letter to President Biden, says it is ‘ready to assist’ with U.S. vaccination efforts (GeekWire)
- Facebook refers Trump ban to independent Oversight Board for review (Axios)
- Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio (The Verge)
- Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app (The Verge)
- WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode (The Verge)
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Is Andreessen Horowitz about to spin up its own media platform? Anthony Levandowski gets a pardon and Jack Ma resurfaces. Netflix is about to start printing money, and they’re about to give you a “shuffle play” button. And why Ben Thompson thinks Intel is in even more trouble than everybody thinks.
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Links:
- Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication as Its Media Ambition Grows (The Information)
- The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (Newcomer)
- Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski (Engadget)
- Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown (Bloomberg)
- Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol (ZDNet)
- Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth, considers share buybacks (CNBC)
- Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year (TechCrunch)
- Intel Problems (Stratechery)
- Twitter Thread on the Intel stuff
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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 870. Cruise, Microsoft and GM all get together in a beautiful marriage that is just as much about cloud computing as it is self-driving. Has the policy controversy endangered WhatsApp in India? And why the whole Smart Home and Internet of Things industry might be taking a breather.
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- Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 870 reheats the Snapdragon 865 for 2021 phones (The Verge)
- Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round (TechCrunch)
- India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’ (TechCrunch)
- 5G Rivals Face an $81 Billion Tab After Spectrum Buying Spree (WSJ)
- DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time (ZDNet)
- Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced (The Guardian)
- CES 2021: A deep breath for the smart home to determine its future (Stacey On IOT)
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The first ever interesting raise omnibus episode!
Links:
- Hipcamp, ‘Airbnb of the Outdoors,’ Raises $57 Million (The Information)
- Local news app News Break raises $115M (TechCrunch)
- Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs (TechCrunch)
- Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports (TechCrunch)
- Graphcore raises $222M for its ultrafast AI chips (SiliconAngle)
- AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $22M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights (TechCrunch)
- Fintech startup Oxygen raises $17M in Series A round (SiliconAngle)
- AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables (VentureBeat)
- WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)
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Is Apple finally throwing in the towel and giving us the sort of laptops we actually want? With these IPO first-day pops, forget banks screwing startups, are VC’s also undervaluing companies right now in a way that is unfair? Amazon wants to do in cars what it’s done successfully in homes. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Kuo details 2021 MacBook Pro: new design with squared-off sides, MagSafe connector and IO return, Touch Bar removed (9to5Mac)
- Apple Plans Upgraded MacBook Pros With Return of Magnetic Charging (Bloomberg)
- Online clothing reseller Poshmark closes up more than 140% on first day of trading (CNBC)
- Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants (The Verge)
- Galaxy Book Flex2: Samsung’s first 5G laptop has an 11th-gen Intel Processor (Digital Trends)
- Shares in China’s Xiaomi tumble after US investment ban (Financial Times)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? (NYTimes)
- Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work (AlexDanco.com)
- An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia (OneZero)
- CRISPR and the Splice to Survive (The New Yorker)
- Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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All the news from the Galaxy Unpacked event. The tech stock IPO first day pop bubble continues. Asus persists with that dual screen laptop thing. BMW has a new way to unlock your car with your phone. And Google absolutely swears it won’t use your fitbit data against you. Swears.
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- SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, S21 PLUS, AND S21 ULTRA FIRST LOOK: POLISHED DESIGN (AND PRICES) (The Verge)
- The Galaxy S21 Ultra packs two telephoto lenses and supports the S Pen (Engadget)
- Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag is a $29.99 Tile competitor (The Verge)
- Max Levchin’s Affirm pops nearly 100% in market debut (CNBC)
- Asus’ 2021 laptop line includes two new dual-screen ZenBooks (The Verge)
- BMW’s Digital Key Plus will let iPhones unlock the iX from a pocket or bag (The Verge)
- Google's Fitbit acquisition is official (TechCrunch)
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The Visa/Plaid merger is called off, and I’ll tell you why I think this is a sign of the current situation for tech. More tectonic shifts in the chip industry including Qualcomm acquiring a startup and Intel losing its CEO. More smoke around the fire story of an Apple Car. And Facebook has noticed you downloaded Signal.
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- Visa Abandons Planned Acquisition of Plaid After DOJ Challenge (WSJ)
- Qualcomm eyes challenge to Apple, Intel with $1.4 billion deal for chip startup (Reuters)
- Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him (CNBC)
- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinix and EPYC (AnandTech)
- Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived (Gizmodo)
- Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (Gizmodo)
- Exclusive: Apple held talks with EV startup Canoo in 2020 (The Verge)
- WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users (The Verge)
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Intel’s new flagship chips are here. Lenovo’s new laptop lineup is here. Walmart wants in on the fintech startup game. GM is spinning off a new electric delivery truck startup. And I know foldable phones haven’t exactly taken over the world, but could I interest you in a rollable phone?
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- Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1 (AnandTech)
- Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick (The Verge)
- Walmart to create fintech start-up with investment firm behind Robinhood (CNBC)
- Aptiv unveils new self-driving platform with wireless upgrades (Reuters)
- GM unveils electric delivery van with 250 miles of range as part of new spinoff business (The Verge)
- Parler sues Amazon, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations (The Verge)
- Following Trump Ban, Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Company-Branded Apparel (The Information)
- LG’s Rollable phone is real and launching in 2021 (The Verge)
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Once again, did some things happen since we last spoke? A run-down of, especially, the Parler situation. And it’s the first day of CES. Here’s what we’re missing in terms of gadget announcements, cool gadgets we’d love to get hands-on time with and the weird gadgets that make CES so fun.
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- Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service (Buzzfeed)
- Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business (Deadline)
- San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters (TechCrunch)
- HP launches new Envy 14 laptop, Elite Folio 2-in1 tablet, and new… earbuds? (Android Authority)
- Lenovo's ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses can show up to five virtual displays (Engadget)
- HyperX made its first 60-percent mechanical gaming keyboard (The Verge)
- WHY CHAMBERLAIN BUILT A $3,000 AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR FOR YOUR DOG (The Verge)
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Interesting new Apple Car rumors, including how they’ve basically raided Tesla for talent, apparently. Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs have formed the security Avengers. People do seem to be jumping ship from WhatsApp. Why Roku is maybe the dark horse of the Streaming Wars. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Hyundai Motor says it’s in early talks with Apple to develop a car, sends shares soaring 19% (CNBC)
- SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs (Financial Times)
- Encrypted Messaging App Signal Sees Surge in Popularity Following WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update (MacRumors)
- Roku TV Was the Top Selling Smart TV OS in 2020 (The Streamable)
- A New Service Seeks to Streamline Your Streaming (WSJ)
- ‘TV Remote’ is an app that turns your iPhone into a universal control for your TV (9to5Mac)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Xbox: The Oral History of an American Video Game Empire (Bloomberg)
- FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille. (NYTimes)
- Archaeology is going digital to harness the power of Big Data (Ars Technica)
- Here are the 6 most exciting space missions of 2021 (TNW)
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Some stuff happened yesterday at the US Capital, and there’s a tech angle to it. Is SolarWinds just the beginning of the supply chain compromises? There’s new wi-fi coming that is faster and broader. Did the Georgia runoff mean the floodgates are now open for tech antitrust? And what the final segment pre-supposes is: putting a 55 inch display inside a car is a good idea.
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Links:
- Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill (NYTimes)
- Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (NYTimes)
- SuperData: Games grew 12% to $139.9 billion in 2020 amid pandemic (VentureBeat)
- Wi-Fi industry launches next-gen 6E certification, and new devices are up next (CNET)
- Democrats have won the Senate. Here’s what it means for tech. (Protocol)
- Mercedes-Benz unveils its absolutely massive 56-inch ‘Hyperscreen’ display (The Verge)
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There are two new GPT-3 models and now the robots have come for the graphic artists. Trump continues his tech cold war against China, but the question is, will Biden? WhatsApp is further absorbed into the Facebook mothership. Eve Online players broke the game by playing it so hard. And Cameo wants you to know there’s money in the banana stand—I mean... paying Tom Arnold to record a video for you.
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Links:
- This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review)
- DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog)
- Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay (Reuters)
- WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook (XDA-Developers)
- CIRP: iPhone 12 sales strong at launch, but iPhone 12 mini ‘likely disappointed Apple’ (9to5Mac)
- Players in Eve Online broke a world record — and then the game itself (Polygon)
- Cameo launches hiring spree following banner year (Axios)
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The OCC clears US banks to run crypto nodes and issue stablecoins. Microsoft wants to make One Outlook to rule all your email and calendar apps. Looks like Haven couldn’t solve healthcare. Why haven’t we seen Jack Ma in public for going on two months now? And Singapore says SYKE on that whole, not using Covid tracking data to keep track of citizens.
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Links:
- US regulator: Federally chartered banks can facilitate stablecoin payments, issue their own (The Block)
- Twitter acquires social podcasting app Breaker, team to help build Twitter Spaces (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ app leaks online (The Verge)
- Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years (CNBC)
- Kuo: Apple to Unveil AirTags, Augmented Reality Device, and More in 2021 (MacRumors)
- Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Has Been Missing For 2 Months (ZeroHedge)
- Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations (ZDNet)
- Dell built a range of monitors for video conferencing (Engadget)
- Dell's new Latitude 9000 laptops feature an automatic webcam shutter (Engadget)
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Google/Alphabet workers launch an official union drive. We’ve got a date for the Galaxy Unpacked event. Microsoft wants to give Windows a good scrubbing this year. Everyone wants a piece of ShareChat. Gazelle is getting out of the trade-in business. And LG doesn’t want to give up on tv screens you can hide away when not in use.
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Links:
- Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union (TechCrunch)
- Samsung officially confirms Galaxy S21 event for January 14th (The Verge)
- Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’ (The Verge)
- Google and Snap in talks to invest in India's ShareChat (TechCrunch)
- Trade-in site Gazelle is ending trade-ins (The Verge)
- Apple will let Amphetamine app stay in the App Store after wrongly telling developer it violated App Store rules (The Verge)
- This LG display transforms from flat to curved for immersive gaming (The Verge)
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Apple loses an interesting copyright law case. Get ready to see TikToks in your Google searches. Amazon’s “other” business unit is becoming a monster. The tech consumers did, and did not AS MUCH partake in over the holidays. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. For the final time in 2020, here’s what you missed in the world of tech.
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Links:
- Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium (Washington Post)
- Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram (TechCrunch)
- Amazon’s advertising business booms in pandemic (Financial Times)
- Apple iPhone Devices Sweep 9 of Top 10 Devices on Christmas 2020 (Flurry)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI (Fast Company)
- Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic (WSJ)
- Ambani Sold a Tech Dream for $27 Billion. Now He Has to Deliver (Bloomberg)
- Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us (The Atlantic)
- With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence (NYTimes)
- The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (NYTimes)
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Coinbase is suspending trading of XRP. Ant Group tries to appease the CCP. Will we soon see immunity passports on our phones? We now know the identity of the first tech IPO of the new year. And why, if you’re doing to do some dirt, you might want to know that your car is probably going to bust your alibi.
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- Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple (CoinDesk)
- Ant Considers Holding Company With Regulation Similar to Bank, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
- Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet (Bloomberg)
- Qualtrics Files for U.S. IPO Two Years After Sale to SAP (Bloomberg)
- Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis (NBC News)
- TV Ratings: First Streaming-Only NFL Game Scores Solid Numbers for Amazon (Variety)
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The Chinese Communist Party is throwing serious cold water on its entire tech sector by continuing to target Jack Ma. Did Elon Musk once try to sell Tesla to Apple? Drones are getting digital license plates, of a sort. And a look at the generation of search engine startups hoping to, you know, maybe strike at Google while the antitrust iron is hot.
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Links:
- Beijing launches antitrust investigation into Alibaba (Financial Times)
- China Tells Ant to Return to Its Payment Roots, Places Curbs (Bloomberg)
- Alibaba Probe Stirs Global Worry on What’s Next for Chinese Tech (Bloomberg)
- Kuo: Apple Car Still in Early Stages, Unlikely to Launch Until 2025-2027 at Earliest (MacRumors)
- Drone-Crowded Skies Get One Step Closer With U.S. Security Rules (Bloomberg)
- Search engine start-ups try to take on Google (Financial Times)
- Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. (WSJ)
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The SEC does indeed sue Ripple, and that could be a bigger deal than I thought. Twitter won’t hand over the @Potus Twitter followers to Biden. What Zoom wants to do for its next act beyond video. Controlling your AirPods with your teeth. And, special for this week, a Long Holiday Weekend edition of the Longreads Suggestions.
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- SEC Sues Ripple Over 7-Year, $1.3B ‘Ongoing’ XRP Sale (CoinDesk)
- Biden @POTUS Account Reset to Zero With Trump Followers Out (Bloomberg)
- Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app (TechCrunch)
- Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (The Information)
- Apple Patent reveals new Through-Body' input for AirPods allowing users to control functionality by touching their face, clicking their teeth & more (Patently Apple)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Data Centers (NYTimes)
- The North Carolina Kid Who Cracked YouTube’s Secret Code (Bloomberg)
- What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (The Washington Post)
- Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help (Bloomberg)
- Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian (Logic Magazine)
- Star Wars toys keep changing, and leaving kids behind (Polygon)
- Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World (The New Yorker)
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See… I had a feeling. Reuters says Apple really is revealing an Apple Car in the coming years. More details on that suit charging Facebook and Google allegedly agreed to divvy up the ad market. The third biggest cryptocurrency says the SEC is coming after it. And the crazy story behind those sexy butt-flap pajama ads you’ve seen all over the internet.
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- Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology - sources (Reuters)
- Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft Lawsuit Says (WSJ)
- U.S. vs. Facebook: Inside the tech giant’s behind-the-scenes campaign to battle back antitrust lawsuits (Washington Post)
- Ripple says it will be sued by the SEC, in what the company calls a parting shot at the crypto industry (Fortune)
- Dailyhunt is India's latest unicorn after backing from Microsoft, Google, others
- Ouster, maker of self-driving tech, agrees $1.9 billion deal to go public (Reuters)
- SoftBank launches blank-check company to join SPAC craze (CNBC)
- IAC shares jump after Vimeo spinoff announcement (CNBC)
- The bizarre case of the sexy butt-flap onesie that has taken over the internet (Business Insider)
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Huge day for Real Estate tech with Opendoor going public to a soaring valuation and RealPage getting bought for a ton of money. Microsoft might design its own custom silicon, cause, why not (to quote Vincent Hanna)? Is the first under the display selfie camera basically a fail? And could we actually see the Apple Car debut as soon as next year?
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- Opendoor Rides SPAC Deal to Lofty $18 Billion Valuation at Market Debut (The Information)
- Real estate software and data analytics company RealPage to be acquired for $10.2 billion (VentureBeat)
- Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning (Wired)
- Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs (Bloomberg)
- U.S. States Weighs New Google Suit Over App Store Fees (Bloomberg)
- THE WORLD’S FIRST UNDER-DISPLAY SELFIE CAMERA ISN’T VERY GOOD (The Verge)
- Sketchy Report Says Apple Car is Years Ahead of Schedule, Will Debut Next Year (MacRumors)
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Drone maker DJI is blacklisted by the commerce department. Group video comes to Echo devices. Twitter launches Spaces. Sony offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077. Coinbase files to go public. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- US government adds DJI to Commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government (The Verge)
- Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices (The Verge)
- Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing (TechCrunch)
- Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and offering full refunds (The Verge)
- Source Code newsletter
- A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response (Microsoft Blog)
- Coinbase announces IPO in a milestone for the crypto industry (Fortune)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Where Tech Workers Are Moving: New LinkedIn Data vs. the Narrative (Big Technology Newsletter)
- Why I Decided to Leave Substack (A Media Operator Newsletter)
- New WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar is moving to shake up Hollywood. Insiders are questioning if he has what it takes to turn around the entertainment giant without destroying it. (Business Insider)
- Can’t get a PlayStation 5? Meet the Grinch bots snapping up the holidays’ hottest gift. (Washington Post)
- How AltaVista, our first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (Tedium)
- My $200,000 Sushi Dinner (NYTimes)
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Mommy and Daddy are fighting. This time it’s Apple and Facebook and it’s getting pretty heated. The EU okays Google’s acquisition of Fitbit. Substack has resurrected Google Reader, in spirit at least. And why the new antitrust lawsuit against Google is maybe the most serious yet, because we’re talking about actual felonies here. Potentially. Allegedly.
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- Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem (CNBC)
- Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads (Bloomberg)
- Apple Responds to Facebook's Anti-Tracking Criticism, Says Users Deserve Control and Transparency (MacRumors)
- Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple (WSJ)
- Facebook criticizes Apple as it welcomes Europe’s new tech rules (CNBC)
- EU approves Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, subject to conditions (CNBC)
- HBO Max Is Launching on Roku, After Device Maker and WarnerMedia Finally Bury the Hatchet (Variety)
- Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy (Wired)
- Substack launches an RSS reader to organize all your newsletter subscriptions (The Verge)
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Day three of the SolarWinds hack fallout sees major investors unloading stock at a suspicious time. M1 chip support comes to some major apps. Periscope joins the Deadpool. Bitcoin crosses $20k. An AirPods Max review. And what if you could make a digital platform for board games?
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- Stadia comes to the iPhone and iPad with new iOS beta (The Verge)
- Investors in breached software firm SolarWinds traded $280 million in stock days before hack was revealed (The Washington Post)
- Microsoft starts rolling out native Microsoft 365 for Mac apps for Macs with M1 (ZDNet)
- Firefox Updated With Native Support for M1 Macs, Mozilla Touts 'Dramatic Performance Improvements' (MacRumors)
- Exclusive: States close to filing new Google antitrust suit (Politico)
- Bitcoin Hits Record Above $20K as Analysts Remain Confident of Future (Coindesk)
- APPLE AIRPODS MAX REVIEW: LUXURIOUS SOUND FOR A LUXURY PRICE (The Verge)
- I’m so excited about this board games console I just peed a little (TNW)
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Europe’s big new regulatory regime for big tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get their data. A ‘faraday fabric’ that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves. An interesting raise to make exoskeletons. And a review of the new all electric Ford Mustang.
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- Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines (WSJ)
- FTC orders Amazon, Facebook and others to explain how they collect and use personal data (CNBC)
- U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack (Reuters)
- Experimental "Faraday fabric" blocks almost all electromagnetic waves (New Atlas)
- German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor (TechCrunch)
- Ford’s New Mustang Mach-E Owes a Lot to Tesla (Debugger)
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Hackers attack the US Treasury in an attack so severe one person called it a 10 out of 10. Pornhub has removed millions of videos. Amazon’s Zoox has a robo electric taxi. Are the recent IPO pops sign of a bubble? And could Jony Ive’s next job be as the head of luxury automaker Ferrari?
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- Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails - sources (Reuters)
- U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Linked to Russia (WSJ)
- Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform (Vice)
- Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service (Bloomberg)
- Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ (NYTimes)
- Sizzling Tech IPO Market Leaves Investors Befuddled (WSJ)
- Jony Ive is reportedly in the running to take the driver’s seat at Ferrari (Cult of Mac)
- Ferrari's Camilleri will be a hard act to follow (Reuters)
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Connie Chan, from Andreessen Horowitz, talking about: Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video
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Disney+ is about to get a bit more expensive, but you’re also gonna get a lot more stuff to watch. Are we in a tech IPO bubble? X64 emulation comes to Windows. Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 (The Verge)
- ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming (NYTimes)
- Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion (CNBC)
- x64 emulation has come to Windows on ARM (The Verge)
- Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Social Strikes Back (A16Z)
- “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica)
- 7 Rejections (Brian Chesky)
- Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (NYTimes)
- Inside the Human Science of Spotify’s New Music Friday Playlist (Variety)
- How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside)
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I try to give you the outlines of the Facebook antitrust thing, and what it might mean for tech. Airbnb makes its market debut. Crunchyroll finds a safe home away from AT&T. I bet folks at HBO are jealous. Boston Dynamics finds a new guardian as well, that hopefully can find something useful for it to do. And it really is, finally, the end of the road for Flash.
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- The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp (The Verge)
- Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History (Facebook Newsroom)
- Airbnb shares set to double in IPO — likely to be worth nearly $93 billion (CNBC)
- Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion (Polygon)
- Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion (Gizmodo)
- Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)
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FireEye says it got hacked by a nation state. Microsoft’s cloud gaming is coming to iOS in the spring. Samsung’s unpacked event is coming in about a month, and we already got plenty of leaks about the phones we expect to see. Is Apple’s self-driving project still on track? And if you feel like you’ve been getting more spam calls this year, while rents in San Francisco have been plummeting, I’m here to tell you, neither of those trends seem to be imaginary.
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- U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers (WSJ)
- Microsoft confirms Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in spring 2021 (9to5Mac)
- Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public (9to5Google)
- Here are the official Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra teasers (Android Police)
- DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share (CNBC)
- Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit to AI Chief (Bloomberg)
- The state of European tech 2020: 20 things you should know (Sifted)
- Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely (TechCrunch)
- Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic (TechCrunch)
- San Francisco's 35% Plunge in Rents Shows Effects of Tech Fleeing City (Bloomberg)
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Say hello to AirPods Max. Cloudflare and Apple have developed a new internet privacy protocol. Google’s Stadia is finally flipping the switch on one of its biggest selling points. Uber is exiting the self-driving sweepstakes, but what does that mean for its future? And more fallout from that Warner Media streaming decision.
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- Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design (Apple Newsroom)
- Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol (TechCrunch)
- Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow (The Verge)
- Samsung’s SmartThings can finally control your Google Nest devices (The Verge)
- SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband (GeekWire)
- Uber sells its self-driving unit to Aurora (CNBC)
- Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as "Worst Streaming Service," Denounces Warner Bros.' Plan (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Dune’ Producer Legendary Entertainment May Sue Warner Bros. Over HBO Max Deal (Variety)
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Apple isn’t wasting any time when it comes to ARM-ing up its entire Mac lineup, according to Mark Gurman. Wish is about to go public too. Airbnb and DoorDash are lifting their ranges. Is email signatures a bigger market than I ever imagined? And how drone deliveries might change how we design or homes and neighborhoods.
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- Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs (Bloomberg)
- Wish plans to price between $22 and $24 per share at up to $14 billion valuation (CNBC)
- Airbnb Boosts IPO Price Range to Between $56 and $60 a Share (WSJ)
- Sequoia Capital Warned of a ‘Black Swan.’ Instead, 2020 Is One of Its Best Years Ever (Bloomberg)
- Exclaimer raises $133 million to help companies manage email signatures (VentureBeat)
- DRONES ARE POISED TO RESHAPE HOME DESIGN (WSJ)
- Disney faces digital dilemma despite streaming success (Financial Times)
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As promised, here’s Recode’s Peter Kafka, the dean of the media reporters, someone we should have had on the podcast a long time before this. Do checkout his podcast, Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
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Another monumental crack across the land as Warner Brothers has maybe signaled the death of the business model Hollywood has relied on for 100 years. Is Stripe signaling it wants to completely rewire the global monetary system? Have Chinese scientists achieved Quantum Supremacy? Would you be interested in deep sea tourism? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max (The Verge)
- WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business (Recode)
- Stripe to Offer Banking Services in Deal With Goldman Sachs, Citigroup (WSJ)
- Stripe: Platform of Platforms (Stratechery)
- China Stakes Its Claim to Quantum Supremacy (Wired)
- Triton's latest submarine puts six people in a bubble, 3,300 feet under (New Atlas)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming. (NYTimes)
- Why Most Newsletters Fail (What Went Wrong)
- These Tech Startups Want to Sell You Their Life Insurance (WSJ)
- A.A. to Zoom, Substance Abuse Treatment Goes Online (NYTimes)
- An oral history of the hamburger icon (by the people who were there) (invision)
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A new bill could regulate crypto in a way that crypto folks say would defeat the point of decentralization. Facebook antitrust could be coming next week. Loon is the first to turn the skies over to artificial intelligence. Hackers are targeting the vaccine rollout. And now, you too can contribute to Street View on Google Maps.
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Links:
- US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters (Coindesk)
- PhonePe raises $700 million, becomes a separate entity (TechCrunch)
- FedEx to Buy ShopRunner in Quest for Closer E-Commerce Ties (Bloomberg)
- U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources (Reuters)
- Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI (The Verge)
- Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’ (Wired)
- Hulu’s Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers (The Verge)
- Google Maps now lets you create Street View photos with just a phone (The Verge)
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A full analysis of the huge Salesforce/Slack deal. What HPE leaving Silicon Valley means, even if only symbolically. Qualcomm’s new flagship Snapdragon chip. All the announcements from AWS re:Invent. A smartwatch with a 9 day battery life and putting holograms right on your mantle might finally be getting practical.
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- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal (TechCrunch)
- Why Salesforce bought Slack (Divinations)
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston (CNBC)
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 is a glimpse into how much better your next Android phone will be (CNET)
- Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines (Financial Times)
- Techmeme Snapshot of re:Invent headlines
- Wyze announces $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life (The Verge)
- Looking Glass’s next product is a holographic digital photo frame (TechCrunch)
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Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances. Don’t call it Libra. At least, not the Libra Association. Is Samsung thinking about discontinuing the Galaxy Note line? Why DeepMind solving the protein folding problem is such a big deal. Are VR and AR about to blend? And the interesting case surrounding our main computer hacking law that was argued before the US Supreme Court yesterday.
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Links:
- AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud (TechCrunch)
- Libra Rebrands to ‘Diem’ in Anticipation of 2021 Launch (CoinDesk)
- Airbnb seeks valuation of up to $35 billion in its IPO (CNBC)
- Samsung may discontinue high-end Galaxy Note smartphones - sources (Reuters)
- Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms (WSJ)
- London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery (NYTimes)
- AI Protein Breakthrough Tweetstorm (@adamRutherford)
- Varjo's lidar-enabled XR-3 VR headset shows where VR and AR are bound to blend (CNET)
- Justices express qualms about sweeping computer crime law (Politico)
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DoorDash lines up for its IPO and seems to be cresting the wave perfectly. Airbnb is right behind it, swelling a bit as well. Salesforce looks like it will be buying Slack as soon as tomorrow. The UK finally, officially bans Huawei. The monster computer display I want very badly. And remembrances Tony Hsieh, gone, tragically, way too soon.
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- DoorDash seeks valuation of up to $32 billion in IPO, double what it was in June (CNBC)
- Airbnb, DoorDash Aim for Higher-Than-Expected Valuations Ahead of Debuts (WSJ)
- Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close (CNBC)
- U.K. Bans Installation of Huawei 5G Gear From September (Bloomberg)
- Bitcoin Hits New Record, This Time With Less Talk of a Bubble (NYTimes)
- SAMSUNG’S ODYSSEY G9 DOES THE WORK OF THREE MONITORS (The Verge)
- Apple Suppliers’ Exodus From China Won’t Slow Down Under Biden (Bloomberg)
- Tony Hsieh, RIP (Om.co)
- Tony. (Paul Bradley Carr)
- Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Legacy, From Tech Leaders Who Knew Him Well (Forbes)
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Twitter is revving the little blue checkmark engine back up, but it will work slightly differently than before. Stripe is either already impossibly big, or not nearly as big as it should be, depending on your point of view. Are you ready to speculate about the next generation of Apple Silicon chips? And, uniquely for this week, the week… end longreads suggestions.
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- Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy (TechCrunch)
- Payments Startup Stripe in Talks for Funding at $70 Billion Valuation or More (Bloomberg)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch M1X chip just leaked — and it's game over for Intel (Tom's Guide)
- Kuo: iPhone 12 demand strong, new form factor Apple Watch and MacBooks in late 2021 (9to5Mac)
- Ethereum 2.0’s Genesis Day Is Officially Set for Dec. 1 (Coindesk)
Week-end Longread Suggestions:
- Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (NYTimes Magazine)
- Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment (NYTimes)
- How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism (The New Yorker)
- Substack got lucky, and so did Margins (Margins)
- Why a Paid Newsletter Won't Be Enough Money for Most Writers (And That's Fine): The Multi-SKU Creator (Hunter Walk)
- If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (Anil Dash)
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Apple’s head of global security is indicted on bribery charges. But… it’s a little nuanced. Facebook turned back the dial on divisive news stories after the election. Forget Substack; why OnlyFans might be the biggest story in terms of creator platforms right now. How Elon Musk became the second richest man in the world, and why Werner Herzog is mad at him.
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- Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes (PaloAltoOnline)
- Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth (NYTimes)
- OnlyFans Chief Talks Sports Ambitions and Role of Adult Content in Site (The Information)
- Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person behind Jeff Bezos (The Verge)
- SPACEX MARS CITY: WERNER HERZOG ISSUES A STARK WARNING TO ELON MUSK (Inverse)
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Cloning Snapchat isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Cloning TikTok. Even Snapchat has joined the bandwagon with Spotlight. Are people fleeing ads in feeds because the market is saturated? I break down all of last week’s big moves in Digital Media. And why the Covid Tracking Project deserves a friggin Nobel Prize.
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- Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Ads Could Be Reaching Saturation Point (WSJ)
- BuzzFeed to Acquire HuffPost in Stock Deal With Verizon Media (WSJ)
- Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism (NYTimes)
- Bots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork—and They’re Often Wrong (WSJ)
- Data Heroes of Covid Tracking Project Are Still Filling U.S. Government Void (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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A deep-dive conversation with hashtag inventor Chris Messina about what makes good product design, how to Product Hunt effectively, and his unique advice about finding success in the Tech Industry.
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Facebook and Apple are calling each other names again. “Privacy Thief!” “Monopolist!” And why we might see more of this in the coming years. Roblox files maybe the most exciting S-1 of this IPO batch. Stadia is going to work around the App Store too. Another big milestone crossed for self-driving cars. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple doubles down on upcoming iOS 14 privacy features, slams Facebook for collecting ‘as much data as possible’ (9to5Mac)
- Roblox files for its IPO (Axios)
- Stadia will be playable on iOS via Safari in the coming ‘weeks’ (9to5Google)
- Robotaxi companies get the green light to charge for rides in California (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- ‘An overnight success 10 years in the making’: Atlanta is the future for Black leaders in tech (Protocol)
- Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise (Wired)
- The Substackerati (CJR)
- Jack Ma vs. the Party: Inside the collapse of the world's biggest IPO (Nikkei Asia)
- Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys (Matthew Green's Blog)
- ‘Like Being Grilled Alive’: The Fear of Living With a Hackable Heart (OneZero)
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A major strategy shift for Google Pay might be a big deal. But a minor shift in YouTube monetization is the same old, same old. Apple pays to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling. Affirm files for its IPO. Apple Silicon continues to absolutely wow people, and by the way, the iPhone 12 Pro Max camera is wowing professional photographers.
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Links:
- Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance (TechCrunch)
- YouTube will run ads on some creator videos, but it won’t give them any of the revenue (The Verge)
- Affirm drops S-1, revealing sharply rising revenue on a narrower net loss (FinLedger.com)
- Apple to pay $113 million to settle state investigation into iPhone ‘batterygate’ (The Washington Post)
- Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service launches on iOS as a web app (The Verge)
- Pixelmator Pro gets update for M1 Macs (The Verge)
- Apple releases forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS Big Sur (VentureBeat)
- The iPhone 12 Pro Max: Real Pro Photography (Halide Blog)
- Apple embraces iOS 14 home screen customization by fixing how app shortcuts work (TechCrunch)
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The App Store has cracked open a bit. Apple will cut its vigorish in half, for most developers, but not the ones that make them the most money. Robinhood is probably gonna join the cavalcade of IPOs. Marissa Mayer is back. And the biggest social network you’ve probably never heard of is coming from France.
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Links:
- Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st (The Verge)
- 'Fortnite' now offers Houseparty video calls on PC, PS4 and PS5 (Engadget)
- Robinhood Seeks Advisers for Potential IPO Next Year (Bloomberg)
- Marissa Mayer wants to clean up your contacts, and that’s just for starters (Fast Company)
- Beats debuts new glow-in-the-dark Powerbeats, available from Apple starting tomorrow (9to5Mac)
- Beats launches a glow-in-the-dark pair of Powerbeats for $200 (The Verge)
- Yubo could be the next big social app as it raises $47.5 million (TechCrunch)
- Not Dead Yet: News Site Mistakenly Runs Dozens of V.I.P. Obituaries (NYTimes)
Tonight's bonus episode taping. 9pm eastern. 6pm pacific.
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Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy. Twitter launches Fleets, but the real news is they’re testing a Clubhouse clone with audio rooms. Airbnb finally files to go public. And running through the flood of reviews for the new Macs with Apple Silicon, I’m starting to become a believer. Apple might be able to revolutionize—and run away with—mobile computing with these chips.
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Links:
- Amazon jumps into the pharmacy business with online prescription fulfillment, free delivery for Prime members (CNBC)
- Twitter rolls out Stories, aka ‘Fleets,’ to all users; will also test a Clubhouse rival (TechCrunch)
- Airbnb files to go public, turned a profit last quarter (CNBC)
- Adobe releases Arm beta version of Photoshop for Windows and macOS (The Verge)
- APPLE MAC MINI WITH M1 REVIEW: OVER-PERFORMER (The Verge)
- APPLE MACBOOK PRO WITH M1 REVIEW: FLEXING ARM (The Verge)
- MacBook Air M1 review: Faster than most PCs, no fan required (Engadget)
- Yeah, Apple's M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it's the battery life that will blow you away (TechCrunch)
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Continued problems with Big Sur have some people wondering if this is Apple’s version of Windows Vista. But actual benchmarks continue to show Apple Silicon is probably a big win. All the details of the Galaxy S21 lineup have leaked. A monster new GPU for supercomputers. And a PC monitor that can actually double as a modern smart tv.
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Links:
- macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models (MacRumors)
- Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac in Single Core Benchmark (MacRumors)
- Exclusive: Specs and features of Samsung's Galaxy S21 smartphones (Android Police)
- Nvidia launches A100 80GB GPU for supercomputers (VentureBeat)
- Samsung’s new Smart Monitor is like a TV for your PC (The Verge)
- HBO Max Is Finally Coming to Amazon Fire TV (Variety)
- 'Godspeed': 4 astronauts make history as SpaceX's 'Resilience' launches for International Space Station (USAToday)
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DoorDash files its S-1, and has a surprisingly good business, it looks like. The US backs down on TikTok. Is the whole Ant IPO thing, not business but personal? Why you should probably wait to download macOS Big Sur. How much Disney+ continues to kill it. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- DoorDash files to go public (TechCrunch)
- U.S. Backs Down on TikTok (WSJ)
- China’s President Xi Jinping Personally Scuttled Jack Ma’s Ant IPO (WSJ)
- macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs (Ars Technica)
- Disney Plus Hits 73.7 Million Subscribers As They Reach Their One-Year Anniversary (The Streamable)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Twitter Thread on ARM history (@kenfhirriff)
- China Has Caught Up To U.S. In AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee (Forbes)
- Welcome Back to the Office. Please Wear This Tracking Device. (OneZero)
- Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software (Motherboard)
- Masayoshi Son Again Pulled SoftBank From the Brink. This Time He Had Help. (WSJ)
- The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This (NYTimes)
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Why Google sunsetting the free version of its Photos service has so many people riled up. Apple’s TestFlight update should make beta testing apps easier. Amazon’s Alexa Care Hub should make caring for elderly relatives easier. A “bank on rails” is an interesting raise. And is the HomePod mini worth buying?
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Links:
- Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 (The Verge)
- Google warns Google Drive users: Use it, or lose your files (Mashable)
- Google Photos Just Made the Case for Breaking Up Big Tech (OneZero)
- Apple updates TestFlight beta testing app with support for automatic updates (9to5Mac)
- Amazon Alexa Care Hub update will make it easier to help aging family members (CNBC)
- Railsbank, the Banking-as-a-Service, raises $37M in growth funding (TechCrunch)
- APPLE HOMEPOD MINI REVIEW: PLAYING SMALL BALL (The Verge)
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So wait, is TikTok facing shutdown again, as soon as tomorrow or… what? Some analysis on how well those M1 chips might actually perform. Ring doorbells are catching fire. The Hyperloop takes its first passengers for a ride. And does China now ALSO think that big tech has gotten too big?
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Links:
- TikTok hasn’t heard from the Trump administration in weeks, prompting latest CFIUS petition (CNBC)
- Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 - What to Expect, Based on A14 (AnAndTech)
- Samsung tops U.S. smartphone market in Q3: report (Yonhap News Agency)
- Roku Adds Apple AirPlay to 4K Devices, Which Gives Users New Workaround to Stream HBO Max and Other Mobile Apps (Variety)
- Ring recalls 350,000 smart doorbells after some of them caught fire (CNN Business)
- VIRGIN HYPERLOOP HITS AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE: THE FIRST HUMAN PASSENGER TEST (The Verge)
- China drafts new antitrust guideline to rein in tech giants, wiping US$102 billion from Alibaba, Tencent and Meituan stocks (South China Morning Post)
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Apple’s One More Thing Mac Event. The EU sues Amazon for antitrust. The Slingbox is no more. And, apparently, the MagSafe Duo charger is no good.
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- EU accuses Amazon of breaching antitrust rules (FT)
- Slingbox discontinued, services sunsetting (SlashGear)
- Walmart and Cruise launch pilot to deliver orders via self-driving cars (Venture Beat)
- Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming (TechCrunch)
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Apple is not happy with a key parts supplier. If you’re running an old version of android, you might be shut out of some important websites soon. Is SoftBank’s Vision Fund, back, baby? Is the Raspberry Pi 400 any good to use? And what can Silicon Valley expect from a Biden administration.
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- Apple Freezes New Business for Pegatron on China Labor Abuse (Bloomberg)
- Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks are getting crushed on the positive vaccine news (CNBC)
- Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021 (Android Police)
- SoftBank Recovery Gains Ground With Vision Fund’s Record Profit (Bloomberg)
- Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
- 'Awakened a sleeping giant': Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook (Washington Examiner)
- Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what? (Protocol)
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You know the drill...
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Is it too soon to start talking about the iPhone 13? It’s review day. Reviews of the iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and the PlayStation 5. Why I think the DOJ suing to block the Plaid acquisition is such a big deal. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Kuo: iPhone 13 to Come in Same Four Model Sizes As iPhone 12, Pro Models to Feature Major Upgrade to Ultra Wide Camera (MacRumors)
- Sizing up the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max (The Verge)
- DOJ files antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid (TechCrunch)
- PLAYSTATION 5 REVIEW: A BIG, CONFIDENT STEP INTO NEXT GEN (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Ben Thompson’s Stratechery, Part 2 (Tim Wu)
- The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now (Wired)
- 'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon (The Guardian)
- How a not-yet-mature web covered the Florida recount in 2000 (Fast Company)
- An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons' (Motherboard)
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WhatsApp gets disappearing messages ten years after Snapchat! A new entry-level, ultra-lightweight drone from DJI. Productivity laptops are getting interesting designs, ala gaming laptops. Ethereum 2.0 is coming. How and why Jack Ma pissed off the Chinese government. The Xbox Series X reviews are in. And Justice Department just sued to block Visa from buying Plaid. But that just broke, so I’m telling you it happened now. We’ll analyze it tomorrow.
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- WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days (TechCrunch)
- DJI Mini 2 drone arrives with 4K camera and ultra-portable design (SlashGear)
- Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service (BBCNews)
- Ethereum 2.0 Set to Launch on December 1 (Decrypt)
- ‘The party is pushing back’: why Beijing reined in Jack Ma and Ant (Financial Times)
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Seeks to Raise Cash at $180 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
- Razer's first mainstream laptop still has an RGB keyboard (Engadget)
- XBOX SERIES X REVIEW: A NEXT-GEN PC (The Verge)
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Californians pass Proposition 22, and voters in Massachusetts strike a blow for the right to repair. You no longer need a phone to listen to Spotify on your watch. And why Walmart might partner with Comcast to make TVs, countries might force Netflix to produce content inside their own borders, and Hollywood is losing visual effects talent to Silicon Valley.
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- Uber, Lyft Win California Bid to Keep Drivers as Contractors (Bloomberg)
- Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data (Engadget)
- Wish Spotify streamed on Apple Watch? The time has arrived for many (9to5Mac)
- China Tells Ant It Can’t Go Public Until Capital Shortfall Fixed (Bloomberg)
- Comcast, Walmart in Talks to Develop and Distribute Smart TVs (WSJ)
- Canada to Force Netflix, Amazon Prime to Pay for Local Content (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality (WSJ)
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So, that November 10th Apple event might see a full slate of Mac laptops with Apple Silicon inside. Why has Ant Group’s IPOs been called off? Why has Walmart called off plans to allow robots to roam its store aisles? And someone explain to me why Spotify’s proposed new algorithm changes aren’t a modern form of Payola?
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- Apple to Launch MacBooks With Own Chips Next Week (Bloomberg)
- China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster I.P.O. (NYTimes)
- China Halts Ant’s Record IPO, Throwing Ma’s Empire Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)
- AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances (TechCrunch)
- Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves (WSJ)
- NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” (ArsTechnica)
- Spotify will now allow artists and labels to promote tracks in your recommendations (TechCrunch)
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Raspberry Pi launches the Raspberry Pi 400. All the big platforms’ plans for election day and beyond. Huawei is gonna make its own chips because it has to. Gaming continues to lead the way into the future in so many ways. And the Kafkaesque nightmare of Google locking you out of all your accounts.
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- The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer (The Verge)
- What to Expect From Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Election Day (NYTimes)
- Huawei develops plan for chip plant to help beat US sanctions (Financial Times)
- Tencent claims record 100M daily users on mobile game Honor of Kings (TechCrunch)
- What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely (Business Insider)
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Netflix raises prices. Because they can—and maybe because they should. Google wants to give you a free VPN. Samsung helps you find your galaxy of Galaxy things. A rundown of yesterday’s big day of tech earnings. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 (The Verge)
- Google One’s 2TB+ plans adding Android VPN, coming to iOS & Mac/Windows soon (9to5Google)
- SmartThings Find app can track down lost Samsung Galaxy devices (Engadget)
- Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The 100X Club: Software Startup Valuations Skyrocket Despite Small Revenue (The Information)
- How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet (Protocol)
- The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About (Wired)
- Streaming was part of the future — now it’s the only future (The Verge)
- The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution (Space.com)
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Major warnings about a rash of ransomware attacks on US hospitals. The new AMD chips. MOAAR consolidation in the chip industry. Can I introduce you to Quantum Computing as a Service? And a reminder that as Hollywood moves to streaming first, you don’t own anything. Seriously. You’re just renting.
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Links:
- Building wave of ransomware attacks strike U.S. hospitals (Reuters)
- AMD’s new Radeon RX 6800 XT promises to go head to head with Nvidia’s RTX 3080 (The Verge)
- It’s Official- Marvell Acquiring Inphi For $10B That Boosts Its Cloud And 5G Opportunities (Forbes)
- Honeywell announces its H1 quantum computer with 10 qubits (TechCrunch)
- Honeywell introduces quantum computing as a service with subscription offering (ZDNet)
- Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed 'Sun Valley' (Windows Central)
- Samsung posts highest-ever quarterly revenue as demand roars back (CNET)
- Kuo: iPhone 12 Pro Demand Higher Than Expected (MacRumors)
- Genshin Impact made $245m in its first month on mobile alone (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Does the iPhone 12 have secret reverse wireless charging just waiting to be turned on? More signs Apple might be building its own search engine. The headlines from today’s Section 230 Senate hearing. Is the DOJ gonna prevent Visa from acquiring Plaid? And how much would you pay Elon Musk to beam you internet from Space?
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- Apple’s iPhone 12 seems to have a secret reverse wireless charging feature (The Verge)
- Apple develops alternative to Google search (Financial Times)
- Microsoft Q1 Earnings Release
- Republicans Accuse Zuckerberg and Dorsey of Censorship: Live Updates (NYTimes)
- Visa’s Planned Purchase of Plaid Faces Antitrust Scrutiny at the Justice Department (WSJ)
- SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail (CNBC)
- Whoop Valued at $1.2 Billion With IVP, SoftBank, Eli Manning Backing (Bloomberg)
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AMD does indeed buy Xilinx for $35 billion dollars. The UK bans locked phones. Tinder rolls out video dating. Zoom finally rolls out encryption. A major breakthrough in OLED technology has major implications for VR and for porn. And why the no-code movement might actually usher in the true computing revolution we were promised all along.
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Links:
- AMD Acquiring Xilinx In Bold, $35B Semiconductor Mega-Deal (Forbes)
- UK announces ban on sale of network-locked phones (Android Authority)
- Face to Face, Tinder's opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally (TechCrunch)
- Zoom’s end-to-end encryption has arrived (The Verge)
- Porn is about to get uncomfortably high-res thanks to new OLED tech (Input)
- The No-Code Generation is arriving (TechCrunch)
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New AirPods and AirPods pro coming as soon as the spring? Facebook launches streaming gaming everywhere but guess where? Ant is the biggest IPO in history. SAP seems to be having Covid issues. And are you still working from home? Well, maybe keep an eye on your ISP’s data caps.
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Links:
- Apple Developing Smaller AirPods Pro, Revamped Entry-Level Model (Bloomberg)
- Facebook launches cloud games but says Apple won’t allow it on iOS (CNBC)
- Ant Group to raise $34.5 billion, valuing it at over $313 billion, in biggest IPO of all time (CNBC)
- Ant Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O. (NYTimes)
- SAP Shares Collapse After Lockdowns Force Cuts to Revenue (Bloomberg)
- Fix, or Toss? The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Gains Ground (NYTimes)
- Deleting Facebook Also Deletes Oculus Purchases And Account Information (UploadVR)
- Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest (WSJ)
- Americans Working From Home Face Internet Usage Limits (WSJ)
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Joshua Schachter is mostly known these days as a prominent angel investor, but his claim to fame is as the founder of del.icio.us, one of THE sites and startups that convinced me and a lot of other people that the internet space wasn’t dead, in the wake of the dotcom bubble. So, consider this in the spirt of the longreads. A profile of a key startup and entrepreneur, that got the web and the world to where we are today.
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Is PayPal making moves to become a major player in Crypto? A look at the two big ballot initiatives in California that Silicon Valley cares about and which the rest of the country might be affected by. Why YouTube is this election’s go-to place for campaigns to run ads, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- PayPal in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo (Bloomberg)
- Uber, Lyft likely violated California labor law, appeals court finds (NBCNews)
- Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it. (Recode)
- YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can’t Place Them All (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads:
- The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark (Motherboard)
- Cloud gaming’s history of false starts and promising reboots (Polygon)
- 'Virtual' studios could offer a real alternative to green screen special effects (Engadget)
- The Google Case (Tim Wu)
- Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It (Mathew Ball)
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Quibi’s dead baby. Quibi’s dead. Jony Ive is going to design stuff for… Airbnb? The Mate 40 Pro is the best flagship smartphone you’ll probably never want to buy. What if Snapchat conquers India? The Bahamas launches the first official cryptocurrency for an entire country. And look out cause Tesla is turning on the self-driving beta starting now…
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Links:
- Quibi's Open Letter
- Quibi Is Shutting Down Barely Six Months After Going Live (WSJ)
- In defense of Quibi (Recode)
- Airbnb announces multi-year partnership with Jony Ive, a year after leaving Apple (9to5Mac)
- Huawei’s Mate 40 Pro is another powerful flagship that you won't buy (Engadget)
- Snapchat doubles down on India with new original series, games (The Economic Times)
- Central Bank of Bahamas Launches Landmark ‘Sand Dollar’ Digital Currency (Coindesk)
- Tesla is putting ‘self-driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready (Washington Post)
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Big news for crypto as PayPal adopts it, both for users to buy, but also, crucially, for them to spend. Facebook is testing a Nextdoor killer. Update on the Quibi deathwatch. Tech earnings snuck up on me and Evan Spiegel had a good night. And let’s end today with another review roundup. This time of the new iPad Air.
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Links:
- PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (Reuters)
- Dropbox's family plan offers a shared 2TB for $17 per month (Engadget)
- Facebook Building Neighborhood Feature as Nextdoor Eyes IPO (Bloomberg)
- Katzenberg May Shut Down Quibi as Options Run Short (The Information)
- Netflix misses on subscriber additions and EPS (CNBC)
- Snap stock rockets up after surprise earnings beat (CNBC)
- APPLE IPAD AIR (2020) REVIEW: TAKE IT FROM THE PRO (The Verge)
- Apple iPad Air (2020) review: Who needs the iPad Pro? (Engadget)
- Review: iPad Air, smooth criminal (TechCrunch)
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The Feds have finally thrown the book at Google. But the DOJ has also targeted the infamous Sandworm hackers. Intel sells its NAND memory unit as consolidation in chips continues. Microsoft partners with Elon Musk to take its battle with AWS to space. What product is Google abandoning today? And the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro reviews are here. Which one should you get?
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Links:
- The DOJ sues Google for monopoly practices – and says there’s more to come (Protocol)
- Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (WSJ)
- U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly (NYTimes)
- US charges Russian hackers behind NotPetya, KillDisk, OlympicDestroyer attacks (ZDNet)
- Intel Agrees to Sell Storage Unit to SK Hynix for $9 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Google confirms the Nest Secure has been discontinued (Android Police)
- Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system (The Verge)
- Microsoft launches Azure Space initiative; partners with SpaceX (ZDNet)
- APPLE IPHONE 12 PRO REVIEW: AHEAD OF ITS TIME (The Verge)
- APPLE IPHONE 12 REVIEW: RAISING THE BAR (The Verge)
- Review: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, two gems, one jewel (TechCrunch)
- iPhone 12 and 12 Pro review: Apple enters the 5G era (Engadget)
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Apple wants to you to want your A-MTV. iMTV? I dunno. Apple has launched a music videos channel. The new Samsung Galaxies might be coming sooner than ever. The company bringing AR to car windshields. And why Japan saying it’s getting on the regulate tech bandwagon might be the tipping point for the entire sector.
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Links:
- Apple Launches ‘Apple Music TV,’ a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream (Variety)
- iPhone 12 mini has 2,227 mAh battery, new models will likely be assembled in Brazil and India [U] (9to5Mac)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra leaked in full, confirms January 2021 launch (AndroidCentral)
- The British Company That’s Bringing Augmented Reality to Your Windshield (Bloomberg)
- Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms might soon be a bit less mysterious (Fast Company)
- Japan to join forces with U.S., Europe in regulating Big Tech firms: antitrust watchdog head (Reuters)
- Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak (WSJ)
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I don’t think I’ve made any bones about the fact that I blow hot and cold on crypto. Sometimes I grow frustrated that it always seems to be a lot of sound and fury, ultimately signifying nothing. Or at least, not amounting to much that touches normal people’s lives. I dunno if that’s a fair way to look at crypto or not. But at the same time, there is no single corner of tech that has more activity, that has more passion and energy and, just pure, crazy creativity. Lots of people in crypto have adopted my book about the first half of the Internet Era because they hope it’s a guide for how, just when everyone has written off a movement, that’s when it finally breaks through. And I’ll admit, that’s why I keep my eye on a space. That’s why the activity around DeFi has caught my eye. By some measurements, this is crypto actually being USED, in a tangible real world way, and in volumes of activity we’ve never seen before. Is DeFi actually fulfilling the original economic promise of crypto? What, the heck, is DeFi? What is it doing? It’s hard for a knucklehead like me to get my mind around. So, I sent out the bat signal to Brady Dale of CoinDesk to tell me, what the heck is going on with DeFi?
Brady's rough history of the DeFi movement
Brady's explanation of Yield Farming
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Google now lets you whistle or hum to search, which sounds crazy I know, or crazy cool. Are we due for one more Apple event this year? The FCC wants to kill section 230 but actually can’t. Could you do machine learning with practically no data to learn off of? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head (The Verge)
- Apple might hold another event on November 17 to introduce first Apple Silicon Mac (9to5Mac)
- Trump Foes Fume Over FCC’s Efforts to Rein In Twitter (Bloomberg)
- A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data (MIT Technology Review)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Lidar used to cost $75,000—here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone (Ars Technica)
- Car design is about to change forever. This video encapsulates how (Fast Company)
- Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. (OneZero)
- THE CONTEST TO PROTECT ALMOST EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET (WSJ)
- Cory Doctorow’s Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them (Wired)
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It’s hardware review Thursday! Reviews of the Xbox Series X, Google Pixel 5 AND 4a 5G. SOME of the new iPhones are getting extra RAM. Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time and what that could mean. Landscape is an interesting raise. And Adam Neumann is back… and so is WeWork.
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Links:
- XBOX SERIES X PREVIEW: THE NEXT GEN FEELS LIKE A PC (The Verge)
- GOOGLE PIXEL 4A 5G REVIEW: MORE THAN JUST A BIGGER BUDGET PHONE (The Verge)
- Google Pixel 5 review: An off year for Pixel fans (Engadget)
- iPhone 12 Pro Models Have 6GB of RAM, iPhone 12 and 12 Mini Remain at 4GB (MacRumors)
- Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time (MIT Technology Review)
- WeWork’s Adam Neumann Returns to Real Estate With Startup Investment (Bloomberg)
- Landscape site launches with the aim of becoming the 'Glassdoor for VC' (TechCrunch)
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Picking up some odds and ends from yesterday’s iPhone event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability. Zoom is indeed trying to be a platform by bringing apps to your calls. You know DeFi is hot when everyone is suddenly rebranding themselves as DeFi. And is Dropbox leading the way to a virtual work future?
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Links:
- The iPhone 12’s mysterious groove is a 5G mmWave antenna window — and it’s exclusive to the US (The Verge)
- iPhone 12 actually costs $829, advertised $799 price includes ‘carrier special offers’ (9to5Mac)
- Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR (TechCrunch)
- Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch)
- ‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg)
- Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC)
- Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog)
- WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch)
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All the details from the iPhone 12 event. PC shipments go into the category of “doing well in covid times.” Disney announces a reorg to emphasize its streaming strategy. And following up on that whole Foxconn factory in Wisconsin promise. Hint: it looks like vaporware.
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- Techmeme Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12 mini
- PC shipments climb in Q3, Gartner and IDC report(ZDNet)
- The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage (NYTimes)
- Disney says its ‘primary focus’ for entertainment is streaming — announces a major reorg (CNBC)
- Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail (The Verge)
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Google’s Nest thermostat is ditching the iconic dial design. Will regulators first ask Google to divest itself of Chrome? A big takedown of a botnet that could have influenced the election. Update on Quibi’s shopping itself around. And why Covid has made Caterpillar hit the gas on robo-construction machines.
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- Google’s Nest announces new smart thermostat with simpler design, lower price (The Verge)
- Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup (Politico)
- Microsoft and others orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet (ZDNet)
- Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election (CNN Business)
- Katzenberg Strikes Out on Quibi Sale Efforts, So Far (The Information)
- Twilio confirms it is buying Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal (TechCrunch)
- On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016 (NYTimes)
- Caterpillar bets on self-driving machines impervious to pandemics (Reuters)
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Again, could Gaming, and Microsoft specifically, be the thing that cracks the App Store open? More hints of consolidation in the semiconductor industry that is massively in flux. A major milestone in self-driving cars has been passed. Could hybrid cable-fiber networks compete with 5G. And in the weekend longreads suggestions, what operating systems do NASA’s spacecraft actually run on?
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- Microsoft told employees it plans to release a browser-based app for the Xbox Game Pass streaming service next year that will get around Apple App Store rules: 'We absolutely will end up on iOS' (BusinessInsider)
- Microsoft app store playbook swipes at Apple, Google (Axios)
- AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx (WSJ)
- Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers (Bloomberg)
- Google Assistant finally works with some third-party apps (Engadget)
- Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable (ArsTechnica)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Inside the US campaign to cut China out of the tech supply chain (NikkeiAsia)
- Why media formats (like Snapchat Stories and TikTok music videos) become hits? (Medium/Eric Feng)
- THE MASK BARONS OF ETSY (The Verge)
- A Major Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Subterranean Religious ‘Cult’ Whose Leader Has Been Accused of Violence and Abuse (OneZero)
- Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (ArsTechnica)
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Bunch of new chip announcements from AMD. Facebook is pausing all political ads… after the election. Square puts its money where its mouth is when it comes to bitcoin. Triller is an interesting TikTok competitor. And what is it with photo startups always wanting to go all nostalgic and analog?
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- AMD reveals its new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 processors, including the ‘world’s best gaming CPU’ (The Verge)
- Facebook to temporarily halt political ads in U.S. after polls close Nov. 3, broadening earlier restrictions (The Washington Post)
- Google is adding cross-app account security alerts on iOS (The Verge)
- Jack Dorsey’s Square purchases $50 million worth of bitcoin (The Block)
- Airbnb Burned Through $1.2 Billion as IPO Loomed (The Information)
- Fancy Cars, Fine Dining, Creator Mansions, Cash: Triller Is Shelling Out for Talent (NYTimes)
- Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s New Venture Fund Invests in Disposable Camera App (WSJ)
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The House has released its big antitrust report on big tech. Facebook has banned Qanon everywhere it can. DDR5 chips are finally here. Shogun is an interesting raise. And could a VR infinity treadmill be the next home workout hit, AND the first step to Star Trek’s holodeck?
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- House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes (CNBC)
- House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups (NYTimes)
- Facebook completely bans QAnon and labels it a ‘militarized social movement’ (The Verge)
- SK Hynix Launches World's First DDR5 DRAM Modules Rated At 4.8 Gbps And Beyond (HotHardware)
- Shogun raises $35M to help brands take on Amazon with faster and better sites of their own (TechCrunch)
- This extremely slippery VR treadmill could be your next home gym (The Verge)
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G Suite is no more! But don’t worry. It’s just a name change. Apple is removing non-Apple headphones from its stores. And AT&T is killing DSL. Why that’s a problem for a lot of people. Putting interactive advertising on convenience store coolers is sort of obvious. But why it SHOULD be obvious that an internet connected chastity belt is a bad idea.
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- G Suite is now Google Workspace (TechCrunch)
- Apple Stops Selling Rival Earphones, Speakers Ahead of Launches (Bloomberg)
- Facebook's Portal adds support for Netflix, Zoom and other features (TechCrunch)
- AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet (Ars Technica)
- Cooler Screens raises $80M to bring interactive screens into cooler aisles (TechCrunch)
- Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in (TechCrunch)
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Nvidia’s new platform to fix video calls. Surprisingly, Facebook says breaking up Facebook is impossible. Google slow rolls enforcement of the 30% take on the Play Store in India. A couple of direct Covid-related tech stories. And I catch you up on the whole DeFi phenomenon in crypto that has made transaction volume on the Ethereum blockchain skyrocket 1200% in just three months.
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- Nvidia unveils Maxine, a managed cloud AI videoconferencing service (VentureBeat)
- Nvidia says its AI can fix some of the biggest problems in video calls (The Verge)
- Facebook Says Government Breakup of Instagram, WhatsApp Would Be ‘Complete Nonstarter’ (WSJ)
- Google defers 30% in-app commission in India to April 2022 after protests (The Economic Times India)
- Google delays mandating Play Store payments rule in India to April 2022 (TechCrunch)
- Ethereum Dapp Volumes Hit $120 Billion in Third Quarter (Decrypt)
- What Is DeFi? (CoinDesk)
- States are finally starting to use the Covid-tracking tech Apple and Google built — here’s why (CNBC)
- Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm (NYTimes)
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For years, I quoted Josh Constine on this show because he was one of the breaking news-iest folks over at TechCrunch for years. Well, now he’s gone the well worn TC to VC route, and is a principal at SignalFire. I noticed Josh had his name on a SignalFire report looking at the creator ecosystem, not as some sort of weird outlier, but as an actual, mature economy. It’s the best breakdown I’ve seen of the creator economy overall… as we say extensively, currently the fastest growing category of startup business. So, I called up Josh to discuss the report. It’s linked in the show notes if you want to read it for yourself, but listen to this episode. If you’re not taking creators seriously as entrepreneurs and a category of startups, you’re missing the boat on something big. Enjoy.
SignalFire’s Creator Economy Market Map
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Tesla continues to smash records. Facebook has announced big changes for Groups, and folks are concerned it will smash the platform further. A new startup claims to have smashed quantum computing records. And of course, we’ll smash the weekend longreads suggestions. Here’s what you missed today in the world of tech. Smash.
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- Tesla delivered 139,300 vehicles in the third quarter, smashing its previous record (The Verge)
- HP’s new Spectre x360 14 laptop has a 3:2 aspect ratio plus a Thunderbolt 4 port hiding in the corner (The Verge)
- Facebook will start surfacing some public group discussions in people’s News Feeds and search results (The Verge)
- Startup IonQ drastically ups the quantum computing ante (Fortune)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- What Opening Day for Asana and Palantir Says About Private Tech Stock Values (The Information)
- Techie Software Soldier Spy (Intelligencer)
- Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010 (Ars Technica)
- HOTorNOT shaped the social web as we know it (Mashable)
- Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps (Fast Company)
- HYPE MANOF THE CENTURY (The Verge)
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New Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X from Microsoft. Google is going to pay $1 billion dollars to support journalism. Google has a Photos update, but why is Stadia already looking shaky? And a textbook example of a developer’s dream of overnight success that was actually years in the making.
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- Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete with Chromebooks (The Verge)
- Microsoft updates the Surface Pro X with a new processor option (Engadget)
- Google will spend $1 billion to pay publishers for news showcase (Axios)
- Improved Google Photos editor is rolling out now on Android (The Verge)
- The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch (The Verge)
- Palantir closes below first trade after NYSE debut (CNBC)
- Six Figures in 6 days (tr.af)
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All the news from the Google Launch Night. Say hello to Google TV. Say hello to a new Chromecast and the new Nest Audio smartspeaker. Say hello to the Pixel 4a 5G and the new Pixel 5. But is this a new pivot to midmarket for the Pixel line, or is it the end of the road? The grand unification of Facebook apps continues. And Rally is an interesting raise that lets you invest in… baseball cards?
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- Here’s what the new Chromecast’s Google TV software looks like (The Verge)
- Google launches Nest Audio speaker, successor to Google Home, available Oct. 5 for $99 (9to5Google)
- Google's Pixel 5 includes 5G and an ultrawide camera for $699 (Engadget)
- Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft’s Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones (Bloomberg)
- Rally raises $17M to expand a platform that lets you invest in (but not buy) collectibles (TechCrunch)
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With Amazon One, Amazon wants you to pay with your palm. Google is trying the carrot and the stick approach with its App Store controversies. What if Zoom was redesigned specifically for remote learning? The world’s first foldable PC is here. And why another Netflix price hike is likely coming soon.
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- Amazon will now let you pay with your palm in its stores (Recode)
- Google Demands 30% Cut From App Developers in Its Play Store (NYTimes)
- Judge suggests Apple vs Epic should go to jury, trial expected in July 2021 (Apple Insider)
- Google Meet brings noise cancellation to Android and iOS, adds attendance reports for schools (9to5Google)
- Zoom's earliest investors are betting millions on a better Zoom for schools (TechCrunch)
- The world’s first foldable PC is now available to order from Lenovo (The Verge)
- Disney+ now lets you binge watch with friends, even when you're not together (CNN Business)
- Netflix Price Hike Is “Probable” Soon, But It Won’t Slow Company’s Roll, Analyst Says (Deadline)
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Roku launches a Streambar and an Ultra with Dolby Vision. Dell updates the XPS 13 lineup. TikTok is still ticking, as of this moment. Will we see the return of the mini moniker, with an iPhone 12 Mini that might not actually be that small? Amazon Prime day lives again, but the days are numbered for the original Farmville.
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- Roku’s Streambar is a compact soundbar with built-in streaming smarts (The Verge)
- Roku Unveils Redesigned $100 Ultra Streaming Box, Will Add Ability to Stream HBO Max via Apple AirPlay (Variety)
- Dell updated its 13-inch XPS laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs (Engadget)
- TikTok Wins Reprieve From U.S. Ban (NYTimes)
- Prepare for the ‘iPhone 12 mini,’ suggest recent leaks (The Verge)
- LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign (TechCrunch)
- SpaceX’s Starlink satellites could make US Army navigation hard to jam (MIT Technology Review)
- Amazon Prime Day set for Oct 13 and 14 after coronavirus delayed original summer date (CNBC)
- The original FarmVille on Facebook is shutting down at the end of the year (The Verge)
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Eugene Wei and Sonal Chokshi explain plainly how and why TikTok is an evolutionary (and algorithmic) step beyond the social graph.
- Eugene's original essay, TikTok and the Sorting Hat
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All the headlines from Amazon’s hardware event. New Echo devices. Amazon is getting into cloud gaming with Luna. And ring has a literal drone that will fly around the inside of your house for the purposes of sentry duty. Interesting acquisition from Apple continues to point to them doing something big in podcasts. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- A closer look at Luna, Amazon's cloud gaming service (Engadget)
- Amazon announces all-new Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Dot with Clock (CNBC)
- AMAZON’S NEW ECHO SHOW 10 MOVES TO LOOK AT YOU (The Verge)
- Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house (The Verge)
- Amazon’s Bizarre Home Drone Flies Around Inside Your House (Wired)
- Apple Buys Startup That Creates Radio-Like Stations for Podcasts (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm (WSJ)
- How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company (WSJ)
- This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem? (NYTimes)
- The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite (The Atlantic)
- Why iPhone users are suddenly going wild creating custom looks for their home screens (CNBC)
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The Rebel Alliance has a name: The Coalition for App Fairness. Microsoft will make office available without a subscription. Software as a purchase, if you will, instead of a subscription. Radical. Say hello to the Galaxy S20 FE. And does the gaming industry make pre-orders and console launches so messy on purpose?
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- Epic, Spotify and others ally against Apple and Google app policies (Engadget)
- New Microsoft Office on the way for people who don't want a subscription (Windows Central)
- The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE brings some flagship specs at a $699 price (The Verge)
- Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer (TechCrunch)
- Sneaker Platform Goat Group Raises $100 Million to Fund Expansion Plans (WSJ)
- How a marked-up term sheet and messy rollout threw TikTok deal into disarray (Reuters)
- THE GAMING INDUSTRY KEEPS FAILING MISERABLY AT SELLING ITS MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTS (The Verge)
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All the announcements and headlines from Microsoft’s Ignite 2020. Microsoft is exclusively licensing Open AI’s GPT-3. Google has debuted an Airtable rival called Tables. Ming-Chi Kuo thinks we’ll see an iPad with mini-LED by the end of the year. What happened during Tesla’s “battery day.” Pinterest has launched Story Pins and how Spotify is enabling SEO spam in audio form.
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- Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communications Services (TechCrunch)
- Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon (GeekWire)
- Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation (VentureBeat)
- Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (TechCrunch)
- Swift language tools now available for Windows 10 (iMore)
- Kuo: Mini-LED Displays to Debut in Apple's Next iPad Pro (MacRumors)
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk says company can build a $25,000 self-driving car within three years (CNBC)
- Elon Musk promises $25,000 Tesla and says Model S 'Plaid' is coming soon (CNN)
- Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta (TechCrunch)
- Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’ (OneZero)
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Quibi is exploring its options, as they say. The Google Antitrust suit could come next week. Why do you have to return the entire Apple Watch if your wristband doesn’t fit? The CIA has a new plan to compete with Silicon Valley for talent. The SEC and OCC sign off on stablecoins. And the strategy behind Microsoft’s big play for Bethesda.
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- Quibi Explores Strategic Options Including Possible Sale (WSJ)
- Justice Department expected to brief state attorneys general this week on imminent Google antitrust lawsuit (Washington Post)
- PSA: New Apple Watch Owners Have to Return Entire Device for Ill-Fitting Solo Loop or Braided Solo Loop (MacRumors)
- A $50 Phone is Ambani's Weapon to Dominate India Telecom Market (Bloomberg)
- SEC, OCC Issue First Regulatory Clarifications for Stablecoins (CoinDesk)
- CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits (MIT Technology Review)
- You can now stream your Xbox One games to your Android phone for free (The Verge)
- Microsoft to Buy Bethesda for $7.5 Billion to Boost Xbox (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft to acquire Elder Scrolls, Fallout, other hit games in $7.5B deal for Bethesda Softworks parent (GeekWire)
- Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding phone, on sale today for roughly $1,500 (The Verge)
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It looked like we had a TikTok deal the president liked. Then ByteDance went and pointed out they still had control. Now, I dunno where we’re at. Microsoft buys Bethesda. The founder of Nikola steps down in murky circumstances. And Amazon wants to use your Echo and Tile devices for a true Internet of Things network.
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- Trump Blesses Oracle’s TikTok Deal, Delays App Store Ban (Bloomberg)
- TikTok deal hit by confusion over who will own and control the app (FT)
- Judge halts Trump administration order banning WeChat from Apple and Google app stores (CNBC)
- Microsoft purchases Bethesda Softworks in industry-changing acquisition [Updated] (ArsTechnica)
- With $100M in funding, Playco is already a mobile gaming unicorn (TechCrunch)
- Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Resigns as Executive Chairman Amid Fraud Allegations (WSJ)
- Nikola’s chairman steps down, stock crashes following allegations of fraud (TechCrunch)
- Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon (TechCrunch)
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The Commerce Department officially has brought the hammer down. WeChat is banned on Sunday. TikTok banned on Sunday too, but it’s complicated. PayTM is banned from the Google Play Store in India. Facebook decides that Facebook is too toxic for its own workers to use. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday (CNBC)
- Google pulls India's Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations (TechCrunch)
- iOS 14 default app settings automatically reset to Mail and Safari after reboot (9to5Mac)
- Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone (The Verge)
- Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Forbes)
- ‘Interactive entertainment is the standard bearer of the entertainment business’ (Protocol)
- Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy (Marker)
- Your Teenage Email Account Is a Lost Time Capsule (One Zero)
- Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (Vintage Computing And Gaming)
- This unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of an amazing trove of tech history (Fast Company)
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We have the launch date and price for the Playstation 5. An update on the TikTok and WeChat situations. Why the Snowflake IPO was such a big deal, and such a big success. Red Ventures is affiliate marketing on steroids. And what if I told you the coolest new bit of gear that people got turned on to during the last Apple event was an office chair. But it is Jony Ive’s favorite office chair.
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- PlayStation 5 preorders: Sony reveals release date and price (VentureBeat)
- The PS5 will launch on November 12th for $499.99 (The Verge)
- Sony confirms PS5’s first-party launch lineup and free game upgrade plans for PS4 titles (The Verge)
- Oracle’s TikTok Bid Leaves Open Some U.S. Security Concerns (Bloomberg)
- Pro Rata Newsletter (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Snowflake IPO Spurs Flood of Wealth for Silicon Valley Elite (Bloomberg)
- ‘Helping people discover information’: How Red Ventures grew into a giant (Digiday)
- Sit Like an Apple Engineer in This 70s-Era British Office Chair (Gear Patrol)
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Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2, as a part of its Facebook Connect (formerly Oculus Connect) event. Amazon Music gets podcasts. Spotify puts the Apple One bundle on blast. Developers have found yet another reason to get pissed at Apple. And AT&T is not only bringing advertising to HBO, they want to add ads to you phone as well.
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- Oculus Quest 2 delivers standalone VR with sharper 90Hz screens for $299 (Engadget)
- OCULUS QUEST 2 REVIEW: BETTER, CHEAPER VR (The Verge)
- Snowflake is largest software IPO ever (Axios)
- Amazon Music Joins Podcasting Fray (WSJ)
- Driver Charged in Uber’s Fatal 2018 Autonomous Car Crash (NYTimes)
- Spotify says Apple One bundle is a 'threat to collective freedom' (Apple Insider)
- Apple accuses Epic of ‘starting a fire and pouring gasoline on it’ in new Fortnite filing (The Verge)
- Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (Mashable)
- Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads (Reuters)
- AT&T Plans Lower-Priced Version of HBO Max With Advertising (Bloomberg)
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A full rundown of the Time Flies event from Apple. New Apple Watches, including an Apple Watch SE. Refreshed iPad, but redesigned iPad Air that is giving the iPad Pro a run for its money. An Apple Fitness+ subscription program. An Apple One subscription bundle. And meanwhile, Sony cuts PlayStation 5 production, we have a date for Google’s Pixel 5 launch and why it might actually be a good idea to put your data center at the bottom of the ocean.
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- Techmeme Headline Rundown of the Apple Event
- Sony Cuts PlayStation 5 Forecast by 4 Million Due to Chip Woes (Bloomberg)
- Sen. Hawley calls for US to reject Oracle’s TikTok deal (The Verge)
- We’re Heading Toward the Worst Possible Outcome on TikTok (Intelligencer)
- Google to launch Pixel 5, new Chromecast, and smart speaker on September 30th (The Verge)
- Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud (GeekWire)
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Has Oracle saved TikTok, in the US at least? Let me explain why it’s not actually buying anything, probably isn’t solving the security problem Microsoft says it would have, and China is keeping its hands on the algorithm. On a normal day, news of Nvidia buying ARM would have been the headline. Airtable is an interesting raise. And who has more pie on their face: OnePlus or US Customs agents?
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- Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S., Beating Microsoft (WSJ)
- It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40 Billion To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut (Forbes)
- Verizon to Buy TracFone in Deal Valued at Up to $7 Billion (WSJ)
- Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features (TechCrunch)
- Feds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds (The Verge)
- The LG Wing’s twisting screen offers a new spin on the dual-screen smartphone (The Verge)
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The TikTok saga. It’s gonna end. Or it’s gonna happen. Or it’s gonna… something in the next few days. Will it be sold? Will it not be? Will it be banned in the US. There are so many angles here. So many interesting ways to tease out something that is unprecedented in the world of Tech. Alex Kantrowitz pinged me to talk about it and he’s a good dude to do so because he wrote a book about the big tech platforms, and, as we get into… this is so rare. A big up and coming platform that is just, for weird a-historical reasons, being offered up on a platter for the other powers that be to… maybe take over? I quoted Alex when he was at Buzzfeed for years. But as we discuss at the end, Alex has gone solo! Check out his newsletter Big Technology. Check out his podcast, Big Technology.
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Microsoft warns that hackers working for Russia, China and Iran are escalating their attacks surrounding the upcoming US Presidential election. I lied…. Apple has blinked in the Epic Games/App Store battle, at least a little bit. A profile of everyone’s favorite note taking startup, Roam. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Russia, China and Iran launched cyberattacks on presidential campaigns, Microsoft says (NBC News)
- Epic says that Sign in with Apple for Fortnite will still work after all (iMore)
- ‘Apple One’ subscription bundle confirmed by Apple Music for Android ahead of Sept. 15 event (9to5Google)
- A $200 Million Seed Valuation for Roam Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps (The Information)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Apple's Rising Class of Leaders Will Shape a Post-Tim Cook Era (Bloomberg)
- Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse (The Atlantic)
- Esports Pros Have ‘Dream’ Jobs—but Game Publishers Have All the Power (Wired)
- How Netflix's Reed Hastings Rewrote the Hollywood Script (Forbes)
- I was skeptical about attending Burning Man in VR, but it’s great (Fast Company)
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Facebook goes back to its roots by going back to school with Campus. The Long-Term Stock Exchange is ready for its closeup. The former head of the NSA is joining Amazon’s board. The second-gen Motorola Razr is here. And an in-depth review and assessment of whether or not Microsoft’s Surface Duo knows what it wants to be.
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- Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students (The Verge)
- Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors (The Verge)
- Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors (The Verge)
- Motorola’s second-gen foldable Razr adds 5G, better cameras, and a chance at redemption (The Verge)
- Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds and $179 Sport Earbuds (The Verge)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO REVIEW: DOUBLE TROUBLES (The Verge)
- TikTok, U.S. Discuss Ways to Avoid Sale (WSJ)
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Clarifying the news on the new Xbox consoles, as well as next week’s Apple event. Apple sues Epic Games for breach of contract. Android 11 is here if you can get it. A new Yubikey now has USB-C goodness. And more indications that 5G is going to continue to be super, annoyingly disappointing.
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- Xbox Series X launches on November 10th for $499 (The Verge)
- Microsoft is adding EA Play to Xbox Game Pass (Engadget)
- Nintendo Boosts Switch Production by Another 20% (Bloomberg)
- Apple to Hold Sept. 15 Online Launch Event to Reveal New Watch (Bloomberg)
- Apple doubles down in fight with Fortnite creator Epic Games, seeks damages for breach of contract (CNBC)
- Fortnite is launching a concert series it hopes will become a ‘tour stop’ for artists (The Verge)
- Google’s new ‘Verified Calls’ feature will tell you why a business is calling you (TechCrunch)
- Taboola and Outbrain end talks to merge after nearly a year (CNBC)
- Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all (The Verge)
- Fastest Mobile Networks 2020 (PCMag)
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The details around the new Xbox’s have been revealed. China wants to draw definitive global lines in the tech cold war. Google makes a big bet on the “no code” movement. Content pirates have suffered a historic setback. Was Masa Son pumping up the entire stock market. And we know when the iPhone event will be.
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- Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S release date and price finally revealed (WindowsCentral)
- Leaked Xbox Series S commercial reveals 1440p, ray tracing, and 512GB SSD (The Verge)
- China Launches Initiative to Set Global Data-Security Rules (WSJ)
- Google binds no-code tools, API management and serverless computing into new development platform (Silicon Angle)
- Scene Bust Triggered Historic Drop in ‘Pirate’ Releases (Torrent Freak)
- SoftBank’s Bet on Tech Giants Fueled Powerful Market Rally (WSJ)
- SoftBank, Robinhood and a Margins Singularity (Margins Newsletter)
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As I said on Friday, my goal this week was I wanted to learn more about the EV space. Yes, there’s Tesla, but we only talk about Tesla. And remember, I got turned on to the whole SPAC phenomenon because a lot of EV startups were going the SPAC route to get themselves publicly traded stocks that they hope will go hockey stick like Tesla stock. So, I reached out to Martyn Lee of the EV News Daily podcast. If you’re into the whole EV space, check out the EV News Daily podcast. As mentioned, it’s a daily just like this podcast is, but if you’re into the EV space, Martyn has you covered absolutely comprehensively. My thanks to Martyn for this great chat.
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The Attorney General seems to want an antitrust case against Google within weeks. Apple has delayed the Ad-pocalypse. Why the games industry is where Epic has all the leverage against Apple. Will a new display tech bridge the gap between e-ink and traditional displays? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks (NYTimes)
- Apple to Delay iOS Change Roiling Mobile Ad Market (The Information)
- Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming (Bloomberg)
- Oculus halts headset sales in Germany (GamesIndustry.biz)
- TCL's new paper-like display can also play videos (Engadget)
Weekend Longreads:
- Cash App’s Surge During Covid-19 Pandemic Fuels Square Stock (WSJ)
- The Digital Future of Tabletop Games (A16Z)
- Robot Boats Leave Autonomous Cars in Their Wake (WSJ)
- Tech Startup, Trying to Be Amazon for Farms, Runs Into Ag Giants (WSJ)
- Inside Fitbit’s Plan to Detect Covid Symptoms With a New Wearable (OneZero)
- How I hacked my Lego NES into a real console (Input)
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Will only one iPhone get the fastest version of 5G? Facebook moves into an election posture. Do Geofencing warrants violate the 4th Amendment? New Intel chips. New Snapdragon chips. Have you noticed we’ve been talking about the chip industry a lot lately? Today I’ll explain why. Also, a fully-functional Game Boy without a battery. Powered only by the sun and the energy of your button presses.
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Links:
- Source: Only one of Apple’s new iPhones supports the fastest 5G (Fast Company)
- Facebook will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election (The Verge)
- Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November (NYTimes)
- Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay (Politico)
- Feds can’t ask Google for every phone in a 100-meter radius, court says (ArsTechnica)
- Intel announces its new 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, available on laptops this fall (The Verge)
- Qualcomm promises better AI for its next Snapdragon PC chip (Engadget)
- China to Plan Sweeping Support for Chip Sector to Counter Trump (Bloomberg)
- Qualcomm hopes to topple AirPods Pro with ‘adaptive’ noise cancellation for true wireless earbuds (The Verge)
- The first battery-free Game Boy wants to power a gaming revolution (CNET)
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Nividia’s new GPU powerhouse, the RTX 3090. Apple makes the case that the App Store is a jobs powerhouse. Patreon is an interesting and monster new raise. Why Amazon delivery drivers are hanging their phones from trees. And the story behind the new gaming phenomenon known as Fall Guys.
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- Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 GPU, priced at $699 and launching September 17th (The Verge)
- Nvidia’s new RTX 3090 is a $1,499 monster GPU designed for 8K gaming (The Verge)
- iOS app economy creates 300,000 new US jobs as developers adapt during pandemic (Apple Newsroom)
- TikTok Deal Talks Are Snarled Over Fate of App’s Algorithms (WSJ)
- Patreon Tops $1 Billion Valuation as Pandemic Brings a Surge in Creators to Platform (WSJ)
- Twitch's Prime Video watch parties are now available to everyone (Engadget)
- Amazon Is Openly Hiring Union-Busters (Gizmodo)
- Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work (Bloomberg)
- How the British studio behind 'Fall Guys' went from near-disaster to launching one of the biggest gaming hits of all time (Business Insider)
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It’s Phone Day! The Galaxy Z Fold 2 is unveiled. The world’s first smartphone with an under-display camera is unveiled (it’s the ZTE Axon 20 5G if you’re following along). Mark Gurman tells us everything we can expect from Apple through the end of the year. Walmart takes aim at Prime with Walmart+. Oh, and Zoom had quite the earnings report.
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- Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold2 packs a bigger 120Hz folding glass screen, Snapdragon 865+, and more (Android Police)
- ZTE unveils the Axon 20 5G, the first phone with an under-display camera (Engadget)
- Apple Preparing 75 Million 5G iPhones Alongside New Watches and iPad (Bloomberg)
- Kuo: mmWave 5G iPhone Shipments Likely to Be Weaker Than Expected in 2020-21 (MacRumors)
- Facebook Could Block Sharing of News Stories in Australia (NYTimes)
- Walmart+ launches Sept 15, offering same-day delivery, gas discounts and cashierless checkout for $98/yr (TechCrunch)
- Zoom shares soar after revenue more than quadruples from last year (CNBC)
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Has TikTok found its buyer? Lenovo launches its flagship laptop. Netflix is offering free access to some of its originals. Amazon can officially start drone delivery. But drug cartels are already using drones for assassinations. And the billion dollar black market for stolen video game accounts for games like Fortnite and Roblox.
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- TikTok deal to sell U.S. business could be announced as soon as Tuesday (CNBC)
- The Yoga 9i is Lenovo’s new flagship convertible laptop (The Verge)
- Samsung says its latest mobile memory is a production breakthrough (Engadget)
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 732G, a follow-up to the Pixel 4a’s chipset (9to5Google)
- Netflix Is Offering Free Access to Select Original Movies and Series, Even Without an Account (Gadgets360)
- Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet (CNBC)
- Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones (The Drive/The Warzone)
- Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market (Bloomberg)
- Jack Ma’s Ant Fuels Tech IPO Frenzy Not Seen Since Dotcom Bubble (Bloomberg)
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Ok, if things couldn’t get any weirder, what if I told you Walmart really wants to buy TikTok. Has anyone noticed that Facebook is actively working to keep the App Store controversies in the news? I say thumbs down to a sidekick inspired smartphone, but thumbs up to completely under the screen selfie cameras. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Walmart wanted to be majority owner of TikTok, and was teamed up with Alphabet and SoftBank before Microsoft (CNBC)
- Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft on TikTok bid (CNBC)
- Exclusive: Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees (Reuters)
- Exclusive: First look at the LG Wing with its twisty dual display (Update) (Android Authority)
- Xiaomi will launch a phone with an invisible under-display camera in 2021 (Android Central)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- The Anti-Facebook: 12 Years In, Facebook's Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz's Slow-Burn Second Act Asana Finally Has Its Moment (Forbes)
- Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics (The Diff)
- Belarus Turned Off the Internet. Its Citizens Hot-Wired It. (Gizmodo)
- The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment (Skift)
- Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk (Wired)
- The Conscience of Silicon Valley (GQ)
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Amazon announces Halo, a weird and ambitious new fitness wearable. Facebook warns of an ad-apocalypse. TikTok’s CEO abruptly resigns, for: reasons. The reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet. Intel is causing the US to fall behind in supercomputing. And the first big podcaster to sign exclusively with Spotify is leaving the platform and burning his bridges.
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- AMAZON ANNOUNCES HALO, A FITNESS BAND AND APP THAT SCANS YOUR BODY AND VOICE (The Verge)
- Facebook Says Apple’s Changes to iOS Will Dramatically Hurt Ads (Bloomberg)
- Kevin Mayer calls it quits (Source Code Newsletter)
- Intel Slips, and a High-Profile Supercomputer Is Delayed (NYTimes)
- Opensignal: U.S. 5G speeds slump as other countries leap ahead (VentureBeat)
- The reMarkable 2 is the latest attempt to turn your paper notepad digital (The Verge)
- Joe Budden is taking his podcast off Spotify because the company ‘is pillaging’ his audience (The Verge)
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Palantir’s S-1 filing gives us our first look under the hood of their business. Apple is bringing AR content to Apple TV+. A big name in 3D printing is going public… and guess how? A new digital networking speed record. And Elon Musk is going to demo his brain/computer interface technology on Friday.
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- Palantir files to go public, lost about $580 million last year (CNBC)
- Apple Plans Augmented Reality Content to Boost TV+ Video Service (Bloomberg)
- Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization (TechCrunch)
- White House announces creation of AI and quantum research institutes (VentureBeat)
- Desktop Metal going public in SPAC-led deal that could value 3D printer company at $2.5B (TechCrunch)
- Researchers at University College London Set a New World Record for Fastest Internet (Gizmodo)
- Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday (The Verge)
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A whole bunch of new hardware gadgetry today. New Fitbits. New smart locks. New Roomba capabilities. Also, rumors of a new Nintendo Switch console with serious spec upgrades. A judge hands a lifeline to the Unreal Engine. 3nm Silicon is coming fast. And Bill Gurley gives us a timely background on SPACs.
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- Fitbit unveils Sense and Versa 3 smartwatches with Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
- Level’s latest smart lock can be unlocked with a touch (The Verge)
- Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Console and Major Games for 2021 (Bloomberg)
- Nintendo reportedly releasing upgraded Switch next year (The Verge)
- Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite (The Verge)
- iRobot is giving its vacuum cleaners a new AI-powered brain (The Verge)
- TSMC Details 3nm Process Technology: Full Node Scaling for 2H22 Volume Production (AnandTech)
- Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC (Above The Crowd/Bill Gurley)
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Is Apple evil now? Another App Store kerfluffle, this time involving WordPress of all things. Also, more fallout from the Apple/Epic Games/Fortnite battle. Lawsuits flying in the WeChat/TikTok controversies. And let me introduce you to SPAC’s, otherwise known as blank-check companies.
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Links:
- WordPress founder claims Apple cut off updates to his completely free app because it wants 30 percent (The Verge)
- Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all (The Verge)
- Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020 | AAPL (Macrotrends)
- Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in new motion (The Verge)
- Lawsuit Claims U.S. WeChat Ban Is Unconstitutional (WSJ)
- Zoom is working again, even if you’re not (The Verge)
- Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Luminar to Go Public in $3.4 Billion Merger (Bloomberg)
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Uber’s former CSO charged with obstruction of justice, becoming the first tech executive ever charged for a security incident. A legend of the Amazon C suite is leaving next year. Epic Games continues to gleefully poke Apple in the eye. How Apple is cutting 5G costs in the iPhone 12. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Former Uber Security Chief Charged With Concealing Hack (NYTimes)
- Uber and Lyft Get Reprieve After Threatening to Shut Down (NYTimes)
- Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s consumer boss and a top lieutenant to Bezos, will step down in 2021 (CNBC)
- Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes (The Verge)
- Apple secretly acquired Israeli photography startup Camerai (CalcalisTech)
- Kuo: Apple Looking to Save on Costs in iPhone 12 With Simpler Battery Board Design (MacRumors)
Weekend Longreads
- MONUMENTAL FAILURE - How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes (The Verge)
- The Case of the Top Secret iPod (TidBits)
- The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them (Forbes)
- Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn (Fast Company)
- Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition (Ars Technica)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator review: clear skies with some light chop (Polygon)
- Why Microsoft's new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous (Protocol)
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Facebook has removed tons of stuff from what it calls US-based militia organizations. Airbnb has filed for its IPO. Cobalt is an interesting raise. But also, some new tech might remove cobalt for better batteries. DoorDash launches grocery delivery. And is Palantir the first high profile company to flee Silicon Valley?
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- Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory (NYTimes)
- Facebook restricts more than 10,000 QAnon and US militia groups (The Guardian)
- Airbnb files confidential IPO paperwork (CNBC)
- Airbnb Files Confidentially for IPO With SEC (WSJ)
- Online Thrift Shop ThredUp Plans IPO Early Next Year (Bloomberg)
- Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform (TechCrunch)
- This Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet—and It Actually Works (Wired)
- DoorDash launches grocery delivery to compete with Amazon and Instacart (The Verge)
- Data-analysis giant Palantir moves headquarters to Denver (Denver Business Journal)
- Alibaba posts 124 per cent gain in quarterly profit, sees China retail back to pre-pandemic levels (SCMP)
- Lyft will suspend its ride-hailing service in California (The Verge)
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Soon you can only use an Oculus if you have a Facebook account. But bizarrely, the Facebook Portal (along with the Echo Show and Google Nest Hub Max) is opening up to Zoom. Netflix is testing a “shuffle play” feature. Blackberry phones are coming back. And Apple hits a $2 trillion market cap.
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- You’ll need a Facebook account to use future Oculus headsets (The Verge)
- Zoom is coming to Google Nest, Amazon Echo, and Facebook Portal smart displays (The Verge)
- Trump Expresses Support for Oracle to Buy TikTok (WSJ)
- Netflix test puts a ‘Shuffle Play’ button right on your home screen (TechCrunch)
- New BlackBerry-branded devices w/ QWERTY keyboards set to come in 2021 (9to5Google)
- A TikTok Ban Is Overdue (NYTimes)
- The ecommerce surge (Benedict Evans)
- Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (NYTimes)
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Apple has chosen the tactical nuclear option in its fight with Epic Games. But Epic might rally a rebel alliance. Would Oracle buying TikTok make any sense to anyone? Uber and Lyft consider reverting to the business model they claimed the operated all along. And algorithms CAN be good for humanity.
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- Epic says Apple threatens ‘catastrophic’ response in two weeks if Fortnite doesn’t comply with rules (The Verge)
- Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations (Financial Times)
- Apple Gives Users More Time to Buy AppleCare After Sales Slow (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Bets on Office-Based Work With Expansion in Major Cities (WSJ)
- Uber and Lyft Consider Franchise-Like Model in California (NYTimes)
- Facebook and NYU use artificial intelligence to make MRI scans four times faster (The Verge)
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Why I think regulatory impact for Big Tech is maybe inevitable. Amazon seems to be sniffing around Rackspace. The first “mass produced” smartphone with a camera underneath the display? An ex-Googler says Google Cloud’s deprecation policy is maddening. And why you can’t watch the movie Cocoon, even if you want to.
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- Google says Australian news rule threatens free search services (Financial Times)
- Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace, say sources (Reuters)
- ZTE's Axon 20 5G smartphone will have the first under-display camera (Engadget)
- Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You (Steve Yegge)
- Results day is a diversity disaster. Here’s all the proof you need (Wired)
- Our Long, Arduous Attempt To Watch ‘Cocoon,’ And Why Some Classic Movies Seemingly Just Vanish (UpRoxx)
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The whole story of Reliance and Reliance Jio with Bryne Hobart, author of the excellent newsletter The Diff. Subscribe at: diff.substack.com
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What do you think we’re going to talk about? Apple and Google ban Fortnite. Epic Games turns around and sues Apple and Google for antitrust. Also: Adobe commits to fighting Deepfakes, Streaming is now a quarter of all tv viewing, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Fortnite for Android has also been kicked off the Google Play Store (The Verge)
- Epic is suing Google over Fortnite’s removal from the Google Play Store (The Verge)
- Epic rallies Fortnite players against Apple with a warning that they’ll miss the next season (The Verge)
- Epic's 1984 Parody Video
- Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped (Wired)
- Disney+ Gains Foothold in Streaming Battlefield, Nielsen Says (The Hollywood Reporter)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- The Secret SIMs Used By Criminals to Spoof Any Number (Motherboard)
- How We Got the Favicon (The History of the Web)
- The Black Internet Gold Rush That Wiped Away $75 Million in 18 Months (Level)
- A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it. (Technology Review)
- The Return of Anonymous (The Atlantic)
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Apple subscription bundles coming as soon as October according to Gurman. Epic is straight out thumbing its nose at the App Stores. What could render iPhones as “electronic trash” in China. And why are people sniffing around Dubsmash for a possible acquisition?
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- Apple Readies Subscription Bundles to Boost Digital Services (Bloomberg)
- Epic offers new direct payment in Fortnite on iOS and Android to get around app store fees (The Verge)
- Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers (The Verge)
- Intel offers a first look at its next-gen Tiger Lake processors and Xe graphics (The Verge)
- Corporate America Worries WeChat Ban Could Be Bad for Business (WSJ)
- Facebook, Snap Held Talks to Buy TikTok Rival Dubsmash (The Information)
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Microsoft’s dual screen Surface Duo is here! Microsoft’s commits to November as a launch month for the Xbox Series X. Foxconn wants to pull back from China itself. Mozilla is in trouble. Silicon Valley and Kamala Harris are quite close, by the way. And why I think a see-through tv is actually a pretty good idea, thank you very much.
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- MICROSOFT’S SURFACE DUO ARRIVES ON SEPTEMBER 10TH FOR $1,399 (The Verge)
- Microsoft Surface Duo's dual-screen hinge design is already winning me over (CNET)
- Microsoft to launch Xbox Series X in November (The Verge)
- Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California if it’s forced to classify drivers as employees (CNBC)
- Apple supplier Foxconn's profit beats view, sees smartphone demand off lows (Reuters)
- Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley (Recode)
- Mozilla Corporation to Lay Off 250 Staff (Motherboard)
- Xiaomi reveals its transparent 55-inch TV (CNET)
- Xiaomi’s see-through OLED TV is a transparent attempt at attention, and it’s working (The Verge)
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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network. Major legal setback for Uber and Lyft in California. Businesses using Bitcoin as their capital reserve. Parallels Desktop supports Big Sur. Nreal still believes in consumer AR glasses. And we try my deepfake audio experiment.
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- ANDROID IS BECOMING A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE DETECTION NETWORK (The Verge)
- California Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Uber, Lyft (Bloomberg)
- MicroStrategy becomes first listed company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy (The Block)
- Parallels Desktop 16 adds Big Sur support, 3D Metal support, and more (Ars Technica)
- Nreal’s augmented reality glasses are shipping this month in Korea (The Verge)
- Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August (WSJ)
- SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month (CNBC)
- Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? (Electrek)
- Onyx Launches a 6-Inch Color E-Reader (PCMag)
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Amazon wants to literally take over Malls. How exposed to China is Apple at the moment? Apple is literally doing legal battle with a pear. An app to help guide you on your psychedelic trips. And why I would personally be in the market for a foldable e-ink notebook.
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- Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers (WSJ)
- TikTok To Sue Trump Administration Over Ban, As Soon As Tuesday (NPR)
- Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination (WSJ)
- Google gives Android TV developers instant apps, speech-to-text, and predictive typing (VentureBeat)
- Apple Takes Legal Action Against This Small Company’s Pear Logo [Update] (iPhone In Canada)
- On Your Next Psychedelic Journey, Let an App Be Your Guide (Wired)
- E Ink demos a folding e-reader that can also take notes (The Verge)
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The President officially signs an order to block ByteDance AND Tencent. Apple confirms the reasons why xCloud and Stadia aren’t coming to iOS any time soon. Uber is now, officially, more burrito delivery company than taxi company. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Trump will prohibit transactions with ByteDance beginning September 20th in apparent TikTok ban (The Verge)
- Mark Zuckerberg Says A Ban On TikTok Would Set “A Really Bad Long-Term Precedent” (BuzzFeed.news)
- Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines (The Verge)
- I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (TroyHunt.com)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Pinduoduo: Vertically Integrated Social Commerce (Turner Novak's Substack)
- The New Network (The Bulwark)
- The Vigilante Hunting Down Cheaters in Video Games (Motherboard)
- The Next 'Mafia'? Mapping The Alumni Of Square (Protocol)
- Dan Rose Kindle Tweet Thread
- How TikTok’s Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide (NYTimes)
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Will the US Government’s “Clean Network” plan lead to the definitive fracturing of the Internet we’ve all feared? Nintendo is killing it thanks to Covid and Animal Crossing. Are Samsung’s new earbuds actually Cool Beans? You no longer have to pay Apple $700 to put wheels on your Mac Pro. And why wireless charging could be a global environmental disaster waiting to happen.
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Links:
- Trump administration wants to see ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat removed from U.S. app stores, Pompeo says (CNBC)
- The US is building a new Great Firewall (Quartz)
- TikTok to Spend $500 Million on First EU Data Center in Ireland (Bloomberg)
- TikTok announces first data center in Europe (TechCrunch)
- Animal Crossing outsells Breath of the Wild in mere months (Polygon)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY BUDS LIVE REVIEW: COOL BEANS (The Verge)
- OWC undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with $199 conversion kit (Apple Insider)
- Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen (OneZero)
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All of the headlines from the Samsung Unpacked event: new Galaxy Note 20s, New Galaxy Buds, New Galaxy Watch and more. Disney has already hit its goal for Disney+. ByteDance remains defiant even as Facebook launches Instagram Reels. And Anthony Levandowski remains defiant, even as he is sentenced.
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- Samsung Galaxy Note 20, Note 20 Ultra go official from $999 w/ Snapdragon 865+ (9to5Google)
- Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Fold 2 with bigger screens and better cameras (The Verge)
- Disney+ grows to more than 60.5M subscribers (TechCrunch)
- Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US (TechCrunch)
- ByteDance CEO Says Trump’s Real Goal Is to Kill Off TikTok (Bloomberg)
- Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed (TechCrunch)
- Files by Google adds PIN protection for your most sensitive files on Android (The Verge)
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Last hurrah? Intel iMacs get a major update. The TikTok, Microsoft, Trump situation can only be described as nuts-o-butts-o. Looks like Garmin paid the ransom. Why xCloud is launching soon on Android but not on iOS. And get ready for games to get more expensive with the next generation consoles.
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- Apple updates the iMac with new Intel processors and a better webcam (The Verge)
- Trump calls TikTok a hot brand, demands a chunk of its sale price (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Should Refuse Trump’s TikTok Payoff (WSJ)
- Microsoft’s Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Operations Raise Ire in China (WSJ)
- China Brands Trump’s Demands on TikTok Sale a ‘Smash and Grab’ (Bloomberg)
- Garmin reportedly paid multimillion-dollar ransom after suffering cyberattack (The Verge)
- Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google (EU Commission)
- Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming will launch on September 15th on Android (The Verge)
- Take-Two Interactive coasts to $831.3 million in Q1 2021 revenue as fans flock to online games (Venture Beat)
- Take-Two: Next-gen software price hikes "reflect the quality of the experience" (GamesIndustry.biz)
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TikTok has not been banned by Trump, but it came close this weekend. Microsoft almost walked away from buying TikTok this weekend, but it looks like it’s back on board and might buy non-Chinese TikTok operations soon. Google invests in ADT. The new Pixel 4As are here. And a profile of the alleged teenaged Twitter hack mastermind who has now been arrested.
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- Inside the Microsoft Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Business (WSJ)
- Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the United States (Official Microsoft Blog)
- Exclusive: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal (Reuters)
- Google to invest $450M in smart home security solutions provider ADT (TechCrunch)
- GOOGLE ANNOUNCES PIXEL 5, PIXEL 4A 5G, AND PIXEL 4A ALL AT ONCE (The Verge)
- GOOGLE PIXEL 4A REVIEW: BACK TO BASICS FOR $349 (The Verge)
- System for thwarting deepfakes unveiled (Axios)
- From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path (NYTimes)
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Sources say Nvidia is in talks to buy Arm. Music Videos are coming to Facebook in a bigger way. The iPhone is delayed a tiny bit. A run-down of the earnings reports: TLDR: Apple made a ton of money when people thought they wouldn’t but Alphabet shrunk for the first time ever. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Nvidia in talks to buy Arm from SoftBank for more than $32bn (Financial Times)
- Facebook Is Set to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos (Bloomberg)
- Apple confirms short release delay for this year's iPhones (Axios)
- Comment: Analysts half-right about AAPL’s Q3 … but so wrong! (9to5Mac)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3) (Daily Nous)
- Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams (Kislay Verma)
- Tech Sector Feeling COVID-19’s Economic Pain (Indeed Hiring Lab)
- The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. (OneZero)
- Car Companies Want to Monitor Your Every Move With Emotion-Detecting AI (Motherboard)
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A comprehensive rundown of the big tech testimony in Congress yesterday. Don’t worry. I tried to keep it brief. Are seller fees quietly twice as big a business for Amazon as AWS is? There’s a new king of the smartphone hill as Huawei surpasses Samsung. And I think we can officially say that the Peacock launch has been a success.
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- ‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS (The Verge)
- Report: Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth (ILSR.org)
- Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple With EU (MacRumors)
- Google's $2.1 billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust probe: sources (Reuters)
- Canalys: Huawei trumps Samsung for first time in worldwide smartphone market in Q2 2020 (Canalys)
- TikTok says it will pay creators a total of $2 billion in the next 3 years (Digital Trends)
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A rundown of what the big tech CEO’s told Congress this afternoon. Are Samsung and Google about to get a lot more integrated? The biggest news in the ongoing streaming media transformation of Hollywood. Buying out TikTok is going to be pretty expensive. And Shopify’s earnings blow the roof off the place.
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- Watch Cook, Bezos, Pichai and Zuckerberg testify in Big Tech antitrust hearing — live updates and analysis (CNBC)
- Google in Talks to Take Over More Search Tasks on Samsung Phones (Bloomberg)
- AMC and Universal agree to let movies go from theaters to digital rentals much sooner (The Verge)
- Exclusive: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50 billion in takeover bid - sources (Reuters)
- Shopify shares jump 7% after hot e-commerce company says second-quarter revenue increased 97% (CNBC)
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What to expect from tomorrow’s Big Tech Congressional testimony. Instagram is trying to woo TikTok stars. Qualcomm has some amazing new quick charge tech. Roblox continues to look like the next big thing. And Deadspin—the true Deadspin—lives to fight another day.
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- Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. (NYTimes)
- Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (The Markup)
- Congress has battled airlines, banks, tobacco and baseball. Now it’s preparing to clash with Big Tech. (Washington Post)
- Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators (WSJ)
- Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 refuels phones 50% in 5 minutes, 100% in 15 (VentureBeat)
- Roblox jumps to over 150M monthly users, will pay out $250M to developers in 2020 (TechCrunch)
- After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site (NYTimes)
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Google’s offices might remain closed due to Covid for another full year. Australia has sued Google on competition and consumer grounds. Looks like Garmin is being ransomed. A handheld device to replace guide dogs for the blind. And you know Software as a Service, but get ready for Hardware as a Service.
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- Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
- ACCC takes second swing at Google for allegedly misleading customers (ITNews)
- Samsung Galaxy Unpacked trailer teases five new devices to be unveiled on August 5th (The Verge)
- Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack (Bleeping Computer)
- VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices (TechCrunch)
- Mobility device for the blind works like a handheld robotic guide dog (New Atlas)
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Might Twitter have too many cooks in the kitchen to have decent op-sec? Intel has to delay its next gen chip process. Again. The US unveiled official plans for a quantum internet. AT&T announced its nationwide 5G network is operational. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (Reuters)
- Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 (Tom's Hardware)
- Big Tech CEO hearing is 'likely' to be postponed (Protocol)
- U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum Internet that might be unhackable (Washington Post)
- AT&T's low-band 5G network is now available nationwide (CNET)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results (NYTimes)
- Robinhood and How to Lose Money (The Margins)
- Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. (Rest Of World)
- The Inside Story of How a Sleep Tracker Became the Hottest Device of the Pandemic (Marker)
- How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire (The New Yorker)
- The case for and against banning TikTok (Vox)
- The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number Generator (The Atlantic)
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Corning has introduced what it is calling it’s best Gorilla Glass ever, with a tough new name: Victus! HBO Max already has more than 4 million customers. It was Nvidia that was inquiring about buying ARM. And more on the whole ad supported free streaming tv angle.
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- Corning’s new Gorilla Glass Victus could let your phone survive a six-foot drop, plus scratch resistance (The Verge)
- Plex launches a live TV service with over 80 free channels, most available worldwide (TechCrunch)
- HBO Max has more than 4 million subscribers, AT&T says (The Verge)
- Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm (Bloomberg)
- Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online (BuzzFeed.News)
- Tesla reports fourth straight quarter of profits (CNBC)
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Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip 5G! TikTok’s US-based investors are considering buying it out as a last resort. Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft. Fiat Chrysler signs a deal with Waymo that points to that pivot we were just talking about. And an interesting raise involving ugly fruit.
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- Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $1,449.99 (The Verge)
- Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown (NBC News)
- ByteDance Investors Discuss TikTok Purchase (The Information)
- Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition (NYTimes)
- Waymo and Fiat Chrysler's next big project is to develop self-driving Ram vans (TechCrunch)
- Misfits Market raises $85 million Series B to send you 'ugly' fruits and veggies (TechCrunch)
- Apple Lining up Periscope Telephoto Lens Suppliers for 2022 iPhone (MacRumors)
- Jeff Bezos hated ads — now Amazon is America's top advertiser (Axios)
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Apple says it will be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. Microsoft has been talking to Congress ahead of next week’s hearings. LinkedIn is cutting jobs cause of Covid. Smartphone sales took a hit last quarter for the same reason. Coinbase kept its customers from sending BTC to those Twitter hackers. And might the entire autonomous driving industry be pivoting to less autonomy?
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- Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030 (Apple Newsroom)
- Microsoft President Met With House Antitrust Committee (The Information)
- LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hiring (Reuters)
- iPhone SE attracting Android switchers, unlikely to cannibalize iPhone 12 sales (9to5Mac)
- Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers (The Block)
- AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen 4000 desktop chips bring the fight to Intel (The Verge)
- Self-driving industry takes to the highway after robotaxi failure (Financial Times)
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eBay seems to be selling every last thing it can before all it's left with is its marketplace and its pride. Disney has quietly cut its Facebook advertising too. When might we actually seen Windows 10x? And what is GPT-3 and why was everyone freaking out about it over the weekend?
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- EBay Nears Deal to Sell Classified-Ad Unit to Adevinta (WSJ)
- Reliance Jio: World’s First ‘Super Operator’? (Counterpoint)
- Disney Slashed Ad Spending on Facebook Amid Growing Boycott (WSJ)
- The easiest way to start meditating is now in... Snapchat? (Mashable)
- Microsoft plans for single-screen Windows 10X rollout in spring 2021; dual-screen in spring 2022 (ZDNet)
- Quick thoughts on GPT3 (Operators & Delian's Ramblings)
- Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test (Kevin Lacker's Blog)
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The Twitter hack! Can Apple REALLY buy Arm? The Ad-tier being key to Peacock's strategy. Will open standards ever make a comeback? And much more!
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Brian Krebs has a theory of who specifically he thinks was behind the Twitter hijack, but other people have theories too. Netflix kicks off tech earnings season, but also makes a pretty interesting executive move. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? (Krebs on Security)
- 130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack (The Guardian)
- Netflix shares fall after earnings miss, weak subscriber guidance for third quarter (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- Some of Reddit's Wildest Relationship Stories Are Lies. I'd Know – I Wrote Them (Motherboard)
- Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices (Fast Company)
- Inside Peacock’s Ambitious Plan to Crash a Crowded Streaming Field (Variety)
- Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data (Recode)
- Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 Premine (Coindesk)
- Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel (MondayNote)
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I run down the whole mess of the great twitter hijacking from last night. Facebook is rolling out more labels for politicians. Facebook might also be positioning itself for a TikTok diaspora. Amazon now lets influencers run home shopping-network-style shows on the website. And Apple officially has a podcast.
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- Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam (TechCrunch)
- A hacker used Twitter’s own ‘admin’ tool to spread cryptocurrency scam (TechCrunch)
- Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (Motherboard)
- The Interface (Casey Newton)
- Facebook to label posts about voting from presidential candidates (Axios)
- Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor (NBC News)
- Amazon Influence Program opens to live streamers for broadcasting Amazon Life (TechCrunch)
- How to subscribe to Apple’s free daily news podcast (9to5Mac)
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Apple wins its big tax fight with the EU. Sony is doubling PlayStation 5 production because: Covid. Zoom has its own hardware device. An early review of the new Peacock streaming service. And forget 5G. Is it too early to talk about what to expect from 6G?
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- Apple Wins Fight Over $14.9 Billion Tax Bill in Blow to EU (Bloomberg)
- Sony Boosting Output of PlayStation 5 to Meet Surge in Demand (Bloomberg)
- Google invest $4.5 billion in India's Reliance Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
- Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599 (TechCrunch)
- Samsung: Expect 6G in 2028, enabling mobile holograms and digital twins (VentureBeat)
- Peacock’s interface aims to recreate the feeling of live TV, but it comes up short (The Verge)
- Peacock is live: Prices, free trials, devices, shows and movies (CNET)
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Softbank looks like it might want to unload Arm, so let me blow your mind for a second: what if Apple bought Arm? The UK has completely flip flopped on Huawei, now going the full ban route. Is Google the next to line up an investment in Reliance Jio? And Amazon has unveiled a cashier negating shopping cart.
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- SoftBank Explores Sale or IPO for Chip Designer Arm Holdings (WSJ)
- SoftBank hires Goldman Sachs to explore sale options for chip designer Arm after getting inbound interest, sources say (CNBC)
- U.K. to Ban Huawei From Its 5G Networks Amid China-U.S. Tensions (WSJ)
- Huawei posts revenue growth in H1 despite sanctions and pandemic (TechCrunch)
- Google Is in Advanced Talks to Invest $4 Billion in Jio Platforms (Bloomberg)
- Walmart leads $1.2 billion investment in India's Flipkart (TechCrunch)
- Amazon’s new smart shopping cart lets you check out without a cashier (The Verge)
- Google Cloud steps up privacy, security with Confidential VMs and Assured Workloads (ZDNet)
- Google Cloud's new BigQuery Omni will let developers query data in GCP, AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)
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SiriusXM looks like it is stepping up to be the big competitor to Spotify in the podcasting space by lining up Podcasting’s biggest ever acquisition. More worrying signs if you’re a regular user of TikTok. Again, everyone wants a piece of Reliance Jio and a piece of the Indian market. And why Apple is warning people about covering the camera on your laptop.
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- SiriusXM Is Buying Stitcher in Deal Worth Up to $325 Million (Variety)
- Amazon says it will not ban TikTok from employee phones (The Verge)
- For TikTok, an Amazon Ban That Wasn’t, a Wells Fargo Ban That Was (The Information)
- DNC and RNC warn campaigns about using TikTok (CNN Politics)
- Google to invest $10 billion in India (TechCrunch)
- Autonomous drone startup Skydio rises $100 million and launches the X2 commercial drone (TechCrunch)
- The real reason Apple is warning users about MacBook camera covers (ZDNet)
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We could get our first Apple Silicon Macs as soon as this year. Apple Glasses are still a ways away, but Foxconn is already making the lenses. Feverish last minute negotiations ahead of Peacock’s arrival next week. The PC market is definitively not shrinking, thanks to Covid. And as always on Fridays, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to Include 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air This Year, 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro Models Next Year (MacRumors)
- Apple Reaches New Stage in Development of AR Devices (The Information)
- NBCUniversal’s Peacock is unlikely to reach deals with Amazon and Roku by July 15 launch (CNBC)
- PC shipments grew 3-11% in Q2 2020 despite coronavirus (VentureBeat)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands (The New Yorker)
- Our Ghost-Kitchen Future (The New Yorker)
- Is Anyone Watching Quibi? (Vulture)
- How Wirecard Went From Tech Star to Bankrupt (WSJ)
- DE-ESCALATING SOCIAL MEDIA (NickPunt.com)
- Algorithms are now commodities (The Shape of Code)
- Hacker News thread about the above (Hacker News)
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Coinbase might be the most important IPO of the next several years. More bad numbers from Quibi. Apple wants you to know it is not abandoning Thunderbolt. Elon Musk says he’s gonna win my self-driving by 2020 wager. And I explain my whole Clubhouse versus Twitter analogy from yesterday.
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- Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say (Reuters)
- Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired (The Verge)
- Apple promises to support Thunderbolt on its new ARM Macs (The Verge)
- Nvidia eclipses Intel as most valuable U.S. chipmaker (Reuters)
- Google launches Android 11 Beta 2 with final APIs and behaviors (VentureBeat)
- Musk Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ to Developing Fully Autonomous Vehicles (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft's plan to make video calls less miserable (Axios)
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Facebook fails its own civil rights audit. Details of the new Thunderbolt 4 standard. Details on the new Snapdragon chip. Unpacking what might be in store for the newly announced Samsung Unpacked event. And not an interesting raise, so much as a hella interesting product launch.
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- Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott (NYTimes)
- Facebook Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds (NYTimes)
- Exclusive: Apple is working on QR Code payments for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals (9to5Mac)
- Thunderbolt 4: A supercharged port upgrade with 8K monitor support (Digital Trends)
- Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus is its most powerful mobile chip, designed for gaming (The Verge)
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 event confirmed for August 5th (The Verge)
- Twitter is working on a new subscription platform, hints job listing (The Verge)
- Android 11's official launch appears set for September 8th (Android Police)
- Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show (The Verge)
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TikTok pulls it’s app completely for the Hong Kong market. But could the US ban TikTok in the US market? And India shows us what happens when TikTok gets banned. Palantir is about to IPO. A new video compression standard is actually a big deal. And Alphabet’s Loon “moonshot” hits a major milestone.
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- TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong (Axios)
- U.S. is ‘looking at’ banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says (CNBC)
- India’s TikTok shutdown has left careers and fortunes in tatters (Wired)
- Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO (TechCrunch)
- Palantir Technologies Files to Go Public (NYTimes)
- Fraunhofer’s VVC promises to reduce video file sizes by 50% to improve mobile network efficiency (VentureBeat)
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- "Father" of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg (Internet History Podcast)
- U.S. tech chiefs to testify before House antitrust panel on July 27: committee (Reuters)
- A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet (NYTimes)
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Uber buys Postmates for $2.65 billion dollars. There’s an Xbox Series X event coming later this month. An algorithm that could PREDICT Covid-19 outbreaks. Florida becomes the first to enact a DNA privacy law. And Sony’s new, wearable air conditioner, the Reon Pocket.
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- Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter Suspend Review of Hong Kong Requests for User Data (WSJ)
- Microsoft announces Xbox Series X games event for July 23rd (The Verge)
- iOS 14: iCloud Keychain now alerts users about leaked passwords, more (9to5Mac)
- Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves? (NYTimes)
- Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers from genetic data (Washington Examiner)
- SONY’S WEARABLE, POCKET-SIZED AIR CONDITIONER IS FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR SALE! (Yanko Design)
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Zuckerberg has told Facebook staff he’s not overly worried about the boycotts. The Fab 4 CEOs of the biggest tech companies (minus Microsoft) all have a date to testify before Congress later this month. Police hacked an encrypted phone network popular with mafia types and the results won’t surprise you. And also, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff He Expects Advertisers to Return ‘Soon Enough’ (The Information)
- Apple CEO Tim Cook agrees to testify in House antitrust investigation (Apple Insider)
- Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone (TechCrunch)
- How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Mirror Wanted to Be the Next iPhone. Instead, It’s Selling to Lululemon. (Marker)
- There are more streaming choices than ever — why are prices going up? (The Verge)
- Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View (Learn By Shipping)
- Strategy Behind Blockbuster Grubhub Deal: Don’t Deliver (WSJ)
- Networks of self-driving trucks are becoming a reality in the US (recode)
- Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Disney's Developed Movie-Quality Face-Swapping Technology That Promises to Change Filmmaking (Gizmodo)
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The reckoning for social media ad spend might be hitting critical mass. Spotify gets more affordable for couples. YouTube TV gets more expensive for everyone. Apple IS struggling with iPhone 5G delays, but it SHOULDN’T delay things into 2021. And when will Silicon Valley offices reopen? Not anytime soon, it sounds like.
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- Facebook frustrates advertisers as boycott over hate speech kicks off (Reuters)
- Third of top brands likely to suspend social media spending, survey finds (Financial Times)
- Spotify brings its Premium Duo plan to the US, UK and dozens more countries (updated) (Engadget)
- YouTube TV hikes price to $64.99 per month following new channel additions (TechCrunch)
- Apple races to push ahead with 5G iPhone mass production (Nikkei Asian Review)
- Apple Cancels Some Arcade Games in Strategy Shift To Keep Subscribers (Bloomberg)
- Google Pushes Back U.S. Office Reopening Plan After Virus Surge (Bloomberg)
- Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched (TechCrunch)
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Lululemon wants to buy Mirror. We think Uber is thinking about buying Postmates. Amazon Prime Video launches Watch Party. Android’s AirDrop competitor is rolling out. And why cloud gaming is the impetus for a new data center race.
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- Uber in Talks to Buy Postmates for About $2.6 Billion (WSJ)
- Amazon Prime Video introduces 'Watch Party,' a social co-viewing experience included with Prime (TechCrunch)
- Nearby Sharing — Android's AirDrop competitor — is rolling out now in beta (Android Police)
- CodeGuru, AWS's AI code reviewer and performance profiles, is now generally available (TechCrunch)
- Exclusive: Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting (Axios)
- An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming (Wired)
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Reddit bans r/The_Donald and I try to break down the almost hour by hour, day by day timeline of the whole Facebook/social media ad boycott situation. Apple might not include a charger (!) in the iPhone 12 box, much less earbuds. Amazon cuts back on waste in India. India cuts off Tik Tok completely. And some news you can use if you need to recover lost files in Windows.
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- Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say (Reuters)
- The hard truth about the Facebook ad boycott: Nothing matters but Zuckerberg (CNN Business)
- Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box (9to5Mac)
- Amazon eliminates single-use plastic in packaging in India (TechCrunch)
- Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh (India Today)
- Microsoft’s new Windows File Recovery tool lets you retrieve deleted documents (The Verge)
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This is a really simple one. WWDC happened this week. Rene Ritchie has been attending it, virtually, of course. So he’s here to break down the keynote, which we all saw, but also to let us know what’s been going on in the developer sessions which have been going on all week. Rene is of course a long time prominent Apple watcher and journalist, who actually just struck out on his own with his own YouTube channel. So search YouTube for Rene Ritchie and subscribe to his channel.
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Amazon is officially in the self-driving car game. Microsoft is officially keeping its retail stores closed… forever. Verizon had joined the Facebook ad boycott. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Amazon to buy self-driving technology company Zoox (CNBC)
- Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores (CNBC)
- Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram (CNBC)
- TikTok says it will stop accessing clipboard content on iOS devices (The Verge)
Weekend Longread Suggestions:
- How India’s Jio Won Facebook’s Heart (The Information)
- How a “crazy Dutch guy” won the online food delivery war (Silicon Canals)
- How Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company Into Literal Garbage (Vice)
- The Credit-Card Fees Merchants Hate, Banks Love and Consumers Pay (WSJ)
- Top composers used to head to Hollywood. Now they’re into games (Wired)
- Reddit turns 15: The dramatic moments that shaped the internet's front page (Mashable)
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Wirecard is wiped out. Amazon has its own Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Apple quietly made a change that will make things pretty tough on advertisers. Google won’t keep your data forever anymore and Hey basically wins.
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- 'The money's gone': Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion (Reuters)
- Google will start paying publishers to license content (Axios)
- Google will now auto-delete location and search history by default for new users (The Verge)
- Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products (GeekWire)
- Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval (Forbes)
- SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma Part Ways (Bloomberg)
- Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps (CNBC)
- Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good (The Verge)
- Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 (NYTimes)
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Brazil puts the breaks on payments via WhatsApp. Advertisers apply pressure on Facebook via a boycott. Oculus is putting an end to the Oculus Go. Olympus is existing the camera business after 80 years. And what might be the first case of a person wrongfully arrested thanks to facial recognition.
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- Brazilian Authorities Suspend WhatsApp Payments (Bloomberg)
- Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (NYTimes)
- Facebook To Stop Selling Oculus Go, Vows No More 3DOF Headsets (UploadVR)
- Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years (WSJ)
- watchOS 7 drops Force Touch support, likely ahead of Apple Watch Series 6 hardware changes (9to5Mac)
- Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (NYTimes)
- Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime (Motherboard)
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Wirecard’s former CEO has been arrested. Microsoft pulls out of the other streaming wars by shutting down Mixer. Some analysis and additional details about yesterday’s WWDC news. There’s a new king of the supercomputers. And there’s also a new king of tech companies winning in the post Covid-19 era.
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- Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Is Arrested (WSJ)
- Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming (The Verge)
- Japanese Supercomputer Is Crowned World’s Speediest (The Verge)
- Zoom is no longer the best-performing work-from-home stock (CNBC)
- China launches its final satellite to complete its rival to the US-owned GPS system (CNBC)
- Apple update to allow iPhone users to choose default apps (The Guardian)
- Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One (Six Colors)
- The iPadification of the Mac is coming, no touchscreen required (The Verge)
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All of the headlines I can manage to cram in from today’s World Wide Developer Conference from Apple. Hey gets approved, by the way. Google’s ad revenue will decline for the first time probably in, well, ever. And why Animal Crossing might have shied Nintendo away from mobile gaming. Again.
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- Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over (The Verge)
- TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally (NYTimes)
- Google's U.S. Ad Revenue Is Expected to Decline in 2020, eMarketer Says (WSJ)
- Nintendo Chills Mobile Ambitions After Animal Crossing Success (Bloomberg)
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Apple officially says no to HEY and people are pissed, kind of just about the WAY they said it. A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over those rumored Apple Glasses. Twitch is growing as a platform for live music. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Interview: Apple's Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch)
- Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters)
- Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji' (NPR)
- Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (Financial Times)
- Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters)
- Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review)
- Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (Craigmod.com)
- The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess (Wired)
- healthOS (Divinations newsletter)
- The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (OneZero)
- We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company)
- What to expect from Apple's WWDC 2020 (TechCrunch)
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Apple has rejected a Facebook app five times, so back to that debate again. Twitter lets you add audio to tweets. Door Dash raises a round. Surprise! Reliance Jio raises another monster round. And stick around for the last segment because I’ve got the single weirdest tech story that I think we’ve ever done on this show.
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- Apple Rejects Facebook’s Gaming App, for at Least the Fifth Time (NYTimes)
- Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS (The Verge)
- UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model (BBC News)
- Zoom to Offer All Users Full Encryption, Bending to Pressure (Bloomberg)
- Exclusive: DoorDash valued at $16 billion after new funding round (Axios)
- India's Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $1.5 billion stake to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (TechCrunch)
- Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing (Financial Times)
- 6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple (WBZ Boston)
- Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics (Wired)
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We dive deep into the whole HEY brouhaha and wonder if this is the best time for Apple to draw attention to App Store policies. Uber is getting into the software business. TikTok’s business is a pretty good one, it seems like. And the most reliable web business remains the first web business.
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- A new email startup says Apple’s shaking it down for a cut of its subscriptions (Protocol)
- BASECAMP’S NEW APP, HEY, FLAGGED IN APP STORE LIMBO FOR NOT USING IN-APP PURCHASE (Daring Fireball)
- Hey.com exec says Apple is acting like ‘gangsters,’ rejecting App Store updates and demanding cut of sales (The Verge)
- Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse (The Verge)
- Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices (USA Today)
- Uber to Sell Software, Starting With Four-Van Transit Service (Bloomberg)
- TikTok owner ByteDance first-quarter revenue soared to around $5.6 billion (Reuters)
- Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation (TechCrunch)
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The EU is investigating Apple for antitrust. Is Instagram surpassing Twitter as a news source? A look at that new Hey email service. A look at a whole slew of new services from Dropbox. And if you wanted to get your hands on one of those Boston Dynamics four-legged robots, today is your lucky day.
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- EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices (The Verge)
- Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce in 2019 (TechCrunch)
- Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source' (BBC News)
- Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion (Protocol)
- Hey YouTube WalkThrough
- Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files (The Verge)
- Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 (The Verge)
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The zero interest Mac financing is here. Shopify and Walmart team up, as they probably should. Is Mr. Bezos about to go to Washington? Interesting checkins with Quibi and Softbank. And why researchers think people are more honest when responding on their smartphones than on their PCs.
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- Apple launches new 0% Apple Card financing for iPad, Mac, AirPods, and more (9to5Mac)
- Shopify Advances After Deal With Walmart Expands Its Reach (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Says Jeff Bezos Is Willing to Testify Before Congress (NYTimes)
- Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones (WSJ)
- Coronavirus contact tracing apps were tech's chance to step up. They haven't. (NBC News)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman Struggle With Their Startup—and Each Other (WSJ)
- SoftBank invests in Credit Suisse funds that finance its technology bets (Financial Times)
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Twitter takes down a bunch of accounts it says are government propaganda. UK regulators are gonna take a hard look at Facebook’s Giphy acquisition. I explain, in depth, why Chris Cox returning to Facebook is such a big deal. The big PlayStation 5 reveal, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Twitter deletes China-linked accounts that spread false information about Hong Kong and Covid-19 (CNN Business)
- UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook's $400M acquisition of Giphy (TechCrunch)
- Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer (The Verge)
- Zuckerberg Lieutenant Returns to Facebook, a Year After Departure (WSJ)
- This is the PlayStation 5 (The Verge)
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- With Real-Life Games Halted, Betting World Puts Action on E-Sports (NYTimes)
- Advertisers eye in-game ads as audiences swell in lockdown (Digiday)
- This Is How Much More Money Artists Earn From Bandcamp Compared to Streaming Services (Pitchfork)
- The most interesting man at Microsoft (Protocol)
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It’s regulation news day. The EU might be about to file antitrust charges against Amazon and California officially labeled Uber and Lyft workers as employees. Amazon also hit pause on its facial recognition tech as it waits for Congress to set some ground rules. Photoshop Camera is an interesting app, and Postman is an interesting raise.
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- Amazon to Face Antitrust Charges From EU Over Treatment of Third-Party Sellers (WSJ)
- Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year (CNBC)
- Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, California regulatory agency finds (NBC News)
- Just Eat Takeaway to Buy Grubhub for $7.3 Billion to Enter U.S. (Bloomberg)
- 'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts (CNET)
- Adobe launches Photoshop Camera, a free app with tons of elaborate face filters (The Verge)
- API development platform Postman nabs $150 million at a $2 billion valuation (VentureBeat)
- Scoop: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups (Axios)
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Another day, another flaw in Intel chips discovered. More analysis of Apple’s presumed move away from Intel chips for Macs. Is Just Eat Takeaway about to swallow up Grubhub? What happened to Zynn on the Play Store? And an interesting new interactive story startup.
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- Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again (Ars Technica)
- TSMC on schedule for 3nm Apple 'A16' iPhone and iPad chip in 2022 (Apple Insider)
- On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month (Daring Fireball)
- Robocallers face $225M fine from FCC and lawsuits from multiple states (TechCrunch)
- Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement (The Verge)
- Just Eat Takeaway.com Nears All-Stock Deal for Grubhub (WSJ)
- Zynn, the Hot New Video App, Is Full of Stolen Content (Wired)
- Interactive Storytelling App Whatifi Launches With $10 Million in Funding (The Hollywood Reporter)
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The shift to Arm-based chips for Macs might be announced in a matter of days. IBM says it is straight out exiting the facial recognition business. Google Maps will help you avoid Covid-crowding. A deep dive into Nextdoor’s “Karen” problem. And the issue of non-competes in tech rears its head once again.
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- Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC (Bloomberg)
- IBM is exiting the face recognition business (Axios)
- New York-Based Wahed Raises $25M For Islamic Investment Platform (Crunchbase News)
- Didi Chuxing CEO says ride sharing orders recover to pre-pandemic levels (Reuters)
- Get around safely with these new Google Maps features (The Keyword)
- INSIDE NEXTDOOR’S ‘KAREN PROBLEM’ (The Verge)
- Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job (GeekWire)
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Might we see a V-shaped recovery after all? Airbnb says there IS a lot of pent-up demand out there. Brave got caught doing basically the shadiest thing a web browser can do. Proof that YouTube owns the kids. And soon you might be able to buy anything you want from Apple, interest-free, on the Apple Card.
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- Airbnb Joins Vacation-Rental Sites Seeing Surge in Demand (Bloomberg)
- Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust (Decrypt)
- Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain (TechCrunch)
- Apple Preparing Monthly iPad, Mac Payment Plans for Apple Card (Bloomberg)
- Scientists funded by Zuckerberg sent him a letter calling Facebook’s practices ‘antithetical’ to his philanthropic mission (Washington Post)
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Amazon and Slack form an interesting alliance. Google outlines evidence hackers are already attacking the Presidential campaigns. What if self-driving cars won’t prevent as many accidents as we hoped? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (CNBC)
- Google says Iranian, Chinese hackers targeted Trump, Biden campaigns (TechCrunch)
- Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news of protests and COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
- Study: Autonomous vehicles won’t make roads completely safe (Associated Press)
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- Worst. Deal. Ever. (Forbes)
- The Font That Solves The Big Problem With Dark Mode (Forbes)
- Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games (Engadget)
- Charli D’Amelio is TikTok’s biggest star. She has no idea why. (Washington Post)
- From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush (OneZero)
- Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (Nautilus)
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The whole land-grab in the Indian telecom market continues to blow my hair back. A class-action lawsuit around Incognito Mode. More hints at an Apple Prime subscription. CES refuses to give up the ghost, while Kitty Hawk seems to have given up on its Flyer.
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- Speaking up on racism (Tim Cook/Apple.com)
- Early Facebook Employees Disavow Zuckerberg’s Stance on Trump Posts (NYTimes)
- Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after concluding his tweets incited violence (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Amazon in talks to buy $2 billion stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel - sources (Reuters)
- Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (Reuters)
- Suit Claims Google’s Tracking Violates Federal Wiretap Law (NYTimes)
- iOS 13.5.5 code provides evidence of future Apple services bundle in development (9to5Mac)
- CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year (The Verge)
- ZoomInfo aiming to price IPO $1 above revised price range (CNBC)
- Gaming Startup Unity Is Said to Prepare for IPO This Year (Bloomberg)
- Kitty Hawk ends Flyer program, shifts focus to once-secret autonomous aircraft (TechCrunch)
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Zoom is the new tech earnings report worth covering. Is on-device translation coming to iOS? Google is blocking a Remove China Apps app. The Brave browser is growing. Zuckerberg tries to calm his restless troops. And is FC Barcelona again leading the way for modern sports teams?
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- Zoom revenue grew 169% during the quarter, and the company doubled its revenue guidance for the year (CNBC)
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- Google takes down ‘Remove China Apps’ from the Play Store (9to5Google)
- Brave passes 15 million monthly active users and 5 million daily active users, showing 2.25x MAU growth in the past year (Brave Browser)
- Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts (NYTimes)
- FC Barcelona Soccer Team Launches Digital Subscription Service (Variety)
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Facebook finally lets you clean out your old crap from your basement (I mean, past). AT&T won’t count HBO Max against your mobile data cap. Every tech event is postponed again. A whole bunch of OS update news, and a time capsule from another era.
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- Facebook finally makes it way easier to trash your old posts (TechCrunch)
- HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will (The Verge)
- White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter (NBC News)
- Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence (The Verge)
- Cisco, Sony postpone events amid continued protests (Axios)
- Third Pixel feature drop improves AI-powered Adaptive Battery, integrates Recorder and Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
- Android update delivers new 'Bedtime' features focused on improving sleep (TechCrunch)
- Apple releases iOS 13.5.1 and watchOS 6.2.6 with ‘important security updates’ (9to5Mac)
- YouTube’s Chase for Streaming-TV Ad Dollars Faces Hurdles (WSJ)
- Samsung’s rotating mobile-friendly TV goes on sale for $1,999 (The Verge)
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What I believe is the first ever walkout in Facebook history, the biggest acquisition in Zynga history, Samsung Access is an interesting ARR play to get ahead of an Apple Prime subscription, and an Android event this week was cancelled, but a PlayStation one was announced.
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- Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts (NYTimes)
- Facebook, Snapchat join chorus of companies condemning George Floyd death, racism (Reuters)
- Twilio, Box, Spotify, and Other Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Racism and Police Brutality; Others Stay Silent (The Plug)
- Facebook staff angry with Zuckerberg for leaving up Trump’s ‘looting ... shooting’ post (CNBC)
- Zynga to Buy Peak for $1.8 Billion in Its Largest Deal Ever (Bloomberg)
- Samsung Access launches in the US w/ extended warranties, Microsoft 365, more (9to5Google)
- Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real (Science)
- Google delays next week’s Android 11 Beta release and virtual launch event (9to5Google)
- Sony confirms PS5 will have exclusive games playable only on next-gen hardware (The Verge)
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I do my best to breakdown the who Twitter/executive order situation, at least at the time of this recording. Hall of Fame fundraiser drops mic and rides off into the sunset. TikTok has an interesting new rival. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media platforms (Axios)
- ‘Rammed it through’: Trump's Twitter order riles staffers and tech reformers (Protocol)
- Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump (NYTimes)
- The Two Things To Understand About Trump's Executive Order On Social Media: (1) It's A Distraction (2) It's Legally Meaningless (TechDirt)
- Trump Executive Order Misreads Key Law Promoting Free Expression Online and Violates the First Amendment (The EFF)
- Scheduled tweets and tweet drafts are now available on Twitter's website (Neowin)
- Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down (VentureBeat)
- The Rise of New Short-Form Video App Zynn Could Spell Trouble for TikTok (Social Media Today)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
- Amazon’s Big Breakdown (NYTimes)
- Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming (NYTimes)
- Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves? (NYTimes)
- The rise of React (Increment)
- 'We had no idea how to do it': YouTube's founders, investors, and first employees tell the chaotic inside story of how it rose from failed dating site to $1.65 billion video behemoth (Business Insider)
- Poolside.fm is the chillest place you should be hanging out right now (The Verge)
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Is the Trump administration finally willing to go to war with big tech? Another Apple startup acquisition, but also why Fraggle Rock might indicate a strategy shift for Apple TV+. Remember 4k TV’s? And the microcredit app that will threaten to shame you if you fall behind on your payments.
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Links:
- Trump expected to sign executive order that could threaten punishment against Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations of political bias (Washington Post)
- Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn't be 'the arbiter of truth' (Fox News)
- Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri (Bloomberg)
- Apple TV Plus acquires past Fraggle Rock seasons ahead of reboot (The Verge)
- What developers want, what they don't, and what you can do to attract top talent (TechRepublic)
- LG's $1,500 48-inch 4K OLED TV goes on sale next month (Engadget)
- This lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment (Rest of World)
- Nuro’s driverless delivery robots will transport medicine to CVS customers in Texas (The Verge)
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Amazon joins the self-driving race, and actually, why haven’t they before? Google’s plans to get back to the office. HBO Max debuts, but with one major handicap. Facebook faces a novel whistleblower complaint and looking back on 2 years of GDPR.
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- Amazon in Advanced Talks to Buy Self-Driving-Car Tech Company Zoox (WSJ)
- Google to begin reopening offices July 6, will let workers expense $1,000 for equipment while telecommuting (CNET)
- Advertisers Seek to Revise Deal Terms With Streamer Quibi (WSJ)
- HBO Max debuts without the two most popular streaming platforms, Roku or Amazon (USAToday)
- ByteDance Hit $3 Billion in Net Profit Last Year (Bloomberg)
- Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity, in new SEC complaint (Washington Post)
- Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time (Washington Post)
- Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive (WSJ)
- EU privacy enforcer hits make-or-break moment (Politico)
- Tech Giants’ Top EU Privacy Watchdog Attacked Over Slow Pace (Bloomberg)
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The ARM chips for the next several years are here. End-to-end encryption might be coming to RCS. Jailbreaking might be returning to iPhones. JioMart’s big play arrives and more on the remote work conversation.
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Links:
- ARM’s Cortex-A78 CPU and Mali-G78 GPU will power 2021’s best Android phones (The Verge)
- Google Messages preparing end-to-end encryption for RCS messages (9to5Google)
- There's a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS (Wired)
- JioMart, the e-commerce venture from India's richest man, launches in 200 cities and towns (TechCrunch)
- Run The World raises $10.8 million to bring live events online (VentureBeat)
- Why Facebook’s Plan to Tie Remote Pay to Location Will Probably Fail (Intelligencer)
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The founder and CEO of a company we talk about all the time: Bryan Salesky of Argo AI. Bryan tells us more about the unique Silicon Valley/Detroit hybrid that Argo represents, we discuss the unique business model strategy they’re exploring, and we find out, where the self-driving space is now that Covid-19 has basically put everything on pause.
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Yeah, mea culpa on my whole work-from-home/remote work skepticism. Also, I was wrong about Magic Leap being a goner. But that subscription aggregator we’ve all been anticipating is showing up right on time, and in the weekend longreads, let me introduce you to the two men who are about to become nerd superstars.
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Links:
- MARK ZUCKERBERG ON TAKING HIS MASSIVE WORKFORCE REMOTE (The Verge)
- Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts (CNBC)
- IBM Is Latest Tech Giant to Cut Jobs in Midst of Pandemic (Bloomberg)
- Magic Leap Raises $350 Million, Withdraws Layoff Notices (The Information)
- Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules (Ars Technica)
- ScreenHits TV to Launch Streaming Aggregator to Combat "Subscription Fatigue" (The Hollywood Reporter)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans (NYTimes)
- Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning. (Washington Post)
- This DIY laptop costs as much as a MacBook Air — How is it selling so well? (Laptop)
- The State of the Self-Driving Car Race 2020 (Bloomberg)
- MEET THE FIRST NASA ASTRONAUTS SPACEX WILL LAUNCH TO ORBIT (The Verge)
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Twitter is testing another new feature to limit trolls and give users greater control of their threads, the Google and Apple contact tracing API is here, what is the Tactical Edition of a Galaxy phone and why might you need one, and some interesting raises this Thursday.
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Links:
- Twitter is testing a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets (TechCrunch)
- Three US states have signed on to Apple and Google’s exposure notification system (The Verge)
- Apple releases final iOS 13.5 with coronavirus exposure alert support (VentureBeat)
- Coinbase to Make Working From Home Permanent (The Information)
- Samsung launches Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition for Department of Defense (ZDNet)
- How a 20-year-old convinced Facebook’s former security chief to invest in his data privacy start-up (CNBC)
- Autonomous aviation startup Xwing raises $10M to scale its software for pilotless flights (TechCrunch)
- How a 20-year-old convinced Facebook’s former security chief to invest in his data privacy start-up (CNBC)
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Facebook takes another major run at cracking ecommerce. And why this might be a highly opportune moment to do so. In short: the corona moment might be the moment ecommerce finally wins. Also, will Apple ship iPhones without any EarPods? And why the big Joe Rogan to Spotify news is podcasting’s Howard Stern moment.
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Links:
- Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, making it easier for businesses to list products for sale (CNBC)
- Ecommerce penetration graph (Dennis Hong)
- Is the e-commerce shift going to last? (TechCrunch)
- A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go (NYTimes)
- 'iPhone 12' predicted to ship without EarPods, will boost AirPods sales (Apple Insider)
- Spotify signs 'The Joe Rogan Experience" to an exclusive multi-year deal (TechCrunch)
- Bill Simmons Just Wants to Win (Vulture)
- With its Joe Rogan exclusive, Spotify’s new podcast strategy is to kill podcasts (Digital Trends)
- New Spec Gives SD Cards a Massive Boost in Speed (Gizmodo)
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Microsoft’s virtual version of its Build conference unleashes an array of news, including Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, a new component system for live document editing, a collaboration with Sony on embedded AI in camera sensors, a super-fast OpenAI supercomputer built on Azure, and better Linux support in Windows 10? Also, new leaks about Apple’s AR glasses, the Department of Justice slams Apple on phone encryption, Apple in negotiations to buoy Apple+ with a back catalog of programming, Walmart puts Jet.com to bed among a huge sales increase, and finally, a massive database of medical equipment service manuals comes online.
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Links:
- Microsoft’s new PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10 is now available to download (The Verge)
- Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (The Verge)
- Microsoft to adapt its cloud software for healthcare industry (Reuters)
- Deliver better experiences, insights, and care with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (Microsoft)
- Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids (The Verge)
- Microsoft and Sony to create smart camera solutions for AI-enabled image sensor (ZDNet)
- Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs (Engadget)
- Apple’s AR Glasses! (Front Page Tech on YouTube)
- Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge (Bloomberg News)
- Attorney General William P. Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray Announce Significant Developments in the Investigation of the Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting (DOJ)
- Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge (Bloomberg News)
- Walmart is shutting down Jet.com 4 years after buying the company for $3.3 billion (Business Insider)
- Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn’t Actually Chuck E. Cheese (Food & Wine)
- Introducing the World’s Largest Medical Repair Database, Free for Everyone (iFixIt)
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The tech trade war is really heating up again, in case you missed it. What if Coronavirus is what helps Google win at messaging? Clubhouse is an interesting raise raising eyebrows. And why Pizza arbitrage shows that the food delivery space is not only broken, but basically spits in the face of efficient market theory.
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Links:
- TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions (Nikkei Asian Review)
- China Injects $2.2 Billion Into Local Chip Firm (Bloomberg)
- General Atlantic to invest $870M in India's Reliance Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
- Google Meet surpasses 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store (9to5Google)
- Andreessen Horowitz Wins VC Sweepstakes To Back Clubhouse, Voice App Still In Beta, At $100 Million Valuation (Forbes)
- London-based Fly Now Pay Later raises £35 million Series A to provide flexible financing to travellers (Tech.eu)
- Austin-Based Real Estate Startup Homeward Secures $105M In Debt & Equity (TechCrunch)
- Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage (Margins, by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk)
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The US strikes at Huawei again. Apple acquires a VR startup and there’s conflicting rumors on those AR glasses. Is Silicon Valley really about to become a ghost town? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers as China eyes retaliation (Reuters)
- Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million (Axios)
- Apple Acquires Startup NextVR that Broadcasts VR Content (Bloomberg)
- Apple’s computerized glasses won’t be ready until 2022 ‘at the earliest,’ top analyst says (Bloomberg)
- Latest leak has "sleek" Apple Glasses coming out in 2021 instead of 2022 (Apple Insider)
- Uber’s CEO, a Seasoned Dealmaker, Pursues His Biggest One Yet (Bloomberg)
- Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August (VentureBeat)
- Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Weekend Longreads:
- OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic (Elle.com)
- How Sporcle followed trivia fans from bars to Zoom and built a $2.5M business (Protocol)
- Founder Of Borders Bookstores, Webvan Returns With Dreams Of Beating Amazon At Food Delivery (Forbes)
- Inside HBO Max, the $4 Billion Bet to Stand Out in the Streaming Wars (Variety)
- The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (Wired)
- Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models (MIT Technology Review)
- Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar (The Conversation)
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There is "monstrous" chip news from Nvidia, the world’s first camera sensor with AI built-in, a crypto experiment on Reddit that I feel like might actually have a shot at working, how long will Google stick with hardware, and new members of the $100MM ARR club.
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Links:
- Nvidia unveils monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and 5 petaflops of performance (VentureBeat)
- Nvidia’s first Ampere GPU is designed for data centers and AI, not your PC (The Verge)
- Sony Says It Created World’s First Image Sensor With Built-in AI (Bloomberg)
- Reddit to launch Ethereum-based tokens for cryptocurrency and Fortnite subreddits (The Block)
- Chrome will soon group tabs together to save pack rats from themselves (Engadget)
- The mastermind behind the Pixel's camera has left Google (AndroidCentral)
- Adding three more companies to the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)
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New XPS laptops, new Fire HD tablets, Facebook is compensating content moderators, how the pandemic has affected clothes shopping, and how the aftermath of the pandemic might affect offices in the sense of: will we actually ever go back to them?
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Links:
- Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays (The Verge)
- Amazon updates the Fire HD 8 with a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C (The Verge)
- Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job (The Verge)
- Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+ (Digiday)
- US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery (TechCrunch)
- Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever (Buzzfeed News)
- Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)
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Is Uber about to gobble Grubhub? Twitter does something Facebook and YouTube did a long time ago. Details on Apple’s forthcoming over the ears headphones. New releases for developers and music producers. And look, let’s have a conversation about Quibi.
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- Twitter launches labels, warnings on misleading COVID-19 information (Reuters)
- Exclusive: AirPods Studio to feature head and neck detection, custom equalizer settings, more (9to5Mac)
- Apple releases 'major' update to Logic Pro X (AppleInsider)
- Microsoft's VS Code 1.45 is out: GitHub integration plus JavaScript debugger update (ZDNet)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (NYTimes)
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A flaw in Thunderbolt basically means no computers are secure. Qualcomm’s new flagship chip. Eric Schmidt has finally left the Googleplex. Detecting malware via grayscale images. Apple is reopening stores, and we might have a new tech IPO as soon as next month.
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- Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking (Wired)
- Qualcomm's latest mobile gaming chip packs faster graphics and global 5G (Engadget)
- Eric Schmidt, who led Google's transformation into a tech giant, has left the company (CNET)
- Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it (ZDNET)
- Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 (ZDNET)
- Apple plans gradual reopening of US retail stores beginning next week (9to5Mac)
- Apple to reopen stores in US starting next week (CNBC)
- Online Car Seller Vroom Files Confidentially for IPO (WSJ)
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Uber continues the things-could-be-worse tech earnings parade, Google is consolidating all of its messaging efforts under one team, this whole Reliance Jio Platforms story really has me intrigued, a semi-decent $18 Apple watch ripoff, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Uber shares shoot up after CEO says ride volume is increasing again after April bottom (CNBC)
- UK may ditch NHS contact-tracing app for Apple and Google model (The Guardian)
- Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team (The Verge)
- Vista Equity Partners to invest $1.5B in India's Reliance Jio Partners (TechCrunch)
- Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 (ZDNET)
- This Apple Watch copycat is surprisingly good for just $18 (CNET)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The System That Actually Worked (The Atlantic)
- THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PC GAMES ARE FIGHTING A NEW SURGE OF CHEATERS AND HACKERS (The Verge)
- How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad (TechCrunch)
- Instacart’s Frantic Dash From Grocery App to Essential Service (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- It’s the 50th Anniversary of Humanity’s Favorite Activity: Staring at an LCD (WSJ)
- Steven Sinofsky lived Microsoft history. Now he’s writing it (Fast Company)
- One-Man Hedge Fund Gains 56% With Virus-Resistant Tech Bets (Bloomberg)
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Zoom makes its first acquisition, Google Authenticator now makes it easier to switch phones, Lyft earnings gives hopes to the ride hailing industry, new Sonos gear and a deep dive into Facebook’s new Oversight Board.
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- Zoom buys Keybase — its first acquisition — as part of 90-day plan to fix security flaws (CNBC)
- Google releases unscheduled Android 11 DP4 as first beta pushed back to next month (9to5Google)
- Google Authenticator app update finally lets you transfer two-factor codes between devices (AndroidCentral)
- Lyft shares jump 15% as company reports more riders than last year despite coronavirus (CNBC)
- How Lyft intends to navigate and survive Covid-19 (TechCrunch)
- Sonos debuts new Arc soundbar, next-generation Sonos Sub, and Sonos Five speaker (TechCrunch)
- How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet (Protocol)
- Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg (Wired)
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New Surface Gos, New Surface Books, New Surface Headphones and the Surface Buds finally arrive. The rumored layoffs come to Uber and Airbnb. Disney+ is saving Disney’s bacon at the moment. And why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive Corona moment.
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- Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor (The Verge)
- Microsoft's Surface Book 3 has 10th-gen Intel CPUs and new NVIDIA GPUs (Engadget)
- Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce (CNBC)
- The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode)
- Magic Leap is turning to a major health care company to save its future, potentially raising as much as $100 million (Business Insider)
- Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
- People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes)
- Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg)
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The virtual WWDC begins June 22! The UK hasn’t played by Google and Apple’s rules and it seems like their contact tracing app is failing because of that. And yet, are Google and Apple making decisions above their station? Uber might be bailing out Lime. Microsoft is reconsidering its Windows X strategy. And Sensor Tower is the interesting raise of the day.
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- Apple kicking off week of virtual WWDC on June 22, jackets and pins for Swift Challenge winners (9to5Mac)
- UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal (The Register)
- The U.K.’s Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Is a Complete Mess (Vice)
- Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps (Reuters)
- Uber in Talks to Lead $170 Million Lime Investment at Lower Valuation (The Information)
- Confirmed: Intel is buying urban mobility platform Moovit in a $900M deal (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft confirms Windows 10X is coming to laptops amid big jump in Windows usage (The Verge)
- Facebook’s Oculus Is Developing a New Quest VR Headset (Bloomberg)
- Google Meet starts rolling out in Gmail, continuing Google’s quest to unseat Zoom (The Verge)
- Sensor Tower raises $45M as demand for app data grows (TechCrunch)
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Usable keyboards return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro. What is going on at Amazon? Jio Platforms gets another huge investment. Another potential blockbuster acquisition in the Israeli transport-tech space. And can the Apple watch help with Covid-19? Sort of. Let me explain.
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Links:
- Apple announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard (The Verge)
- Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers (Vice)
- Bye, Amazon (Tim Bray)
- Silver Lake to invest $747M in India's Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
- Exclusive: Uber will soon require drivers and riders to wear face coverings in the US (CNN Business)
- Intel set to buy Israeli co Moovit for $1b (Globes)
- European Heart Journal: Apple Watch ECG detects signs of coronary ischemia missed by hospital ECG (9to5Mac)
- Apple Watch blood oxygen detection feature found in iOS 14 code snippet (9to5Mac)
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ICANN finally does the right thing on the whole .org mess. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Could Amazon face actual perjury charges? Reddit walks back those chat rooms. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- A Private Equity Firm Is Blocked From Buying .Org (NYTimes)
- Amazon says it’ll spend $4 billion or more dealing with COVID-19 (The Verge)
- House lawmakers demand Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify in antitrust probe, threatening potential subpoena (Washington Post)
- Reddit removes chat room feature after one day due to site-wide bug (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers (Quanta)
- The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic (VentureBeat)
- This Should Be V.R.’s Moment. Why Is It Still So Niche? (NYTimes)
- Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them (Apple Insider)
- How Well Can Algorithms Recognize Your Masked Face? (Wired)
- Inside the MIT spinoff that’s making Inception-style dream manipulation possible (Digital Trends)
- You Have a TikTok Hit! Now, Quick — Change the Title (Rolling Stone)
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Four big earnings reports for four big tech companies, but we’ll leave that to the end. Intel launches a new flagship clip line, Andreessen Horowitz launches a new crypto fund, Zoom fesses up on MAUs, and Reddit goes old school with chat rooms.
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- Intel's 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz (AnAndTech)
- Andreessen Horowitz raises $515 million for second crypto fund (Axios)
- Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims (The Verge)
- Reddit adds chat rooms for subreddits (Engadget)
- Smartphone Production to Drop by 16.5% YoY in 2Q20, Setting Historical Record in YoY Decline, Says TrendForce (TrendForce)
- Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more (CNBC)
- Facebook soars after reporting ‘stability’ in ad revenue after fall in March (CNBC)
- Press Release & Webcast (Microsoft Investor Relations)
- Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swings to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M (TechCrunch)
- Tesla posts profit despite hit from coronavirus (CNN Business)
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The biggest tech earnings season in a while kicks off and so far, it’s so good for Alphabet. Spotify says its holding up as well. Though Uber might lay off 20% of its workforce, Ford is delaying its self-driving road map, and that has me asking again, why isn’t this the perfect moment for self-driving tech?
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- Alphabet earnings hit by ‘significant slowdown’ in ad sales, but revenue boosts stock (Marketwatch)
- Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody (The Verge)
- Spotify Q1 beats on sales of $2B with monthly active users up 31% to 286M (TechCrunch)
- Uber Discusses Plan to Lay Off About 20% of Employees (The Information)
- Ford postpones autonomous vehicle service until 2022 (TechCrunch)
- How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus (CNBC)
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Shopify unveils its own shopping app. DJI unveils the Mavic Air 2. The Pixel Buds 2 finally arrive. Tesla pushes out a new auto driving update. What really accounts for Magic Leap’s crash and burn? And why deepfakes are probably going to be in a bunch of commercials soon.
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- Shopify launches Shop, a new mobile app (TechCrunch)
- NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan (BBC News)
- DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time (The Verge)
- GOOGLE PIXEL BUDS REVIEW: SECOND TIME’S THE CHARM (The Verge)
- Tesla says cars can automatically stop for traffic lights (Associated Press)
- Magic Leap's $2.6 billion bait and switch (TechCrunch)
- Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (The Blog of Palmer Luckey)
- An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (NYTimes)
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iPhone production might be delayed, but the launch might not be, and actually, that might bounce in Apple’s favor. Autocomplete for coding. A little more background on John Stankey. Progress on my robot burrito delivery. And a crucial SpaceX rocket passes a key test by finally not blowing up.
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- Apple Delays Mass Production of 2020 Flagship iPhones (WSJ)
- Two Million Australians Download Coronavirus Contact-Tracing App (Bloomberg)
- Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing (Reuters)
- Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers' code (TechCrunch)
- Blunt New CEO Inherits Challenge of Turning AT&T Into Media Star (Bloomberg)
- John Stankey’s challenge: Making AT&T’s $100 billion bet on Time Warner pay off (CNBC)
- The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future (Ars Technica)
- SpaceX’s future deep-space rocket passes key test, paving the way for short flight (The Verge)
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This piece: John Luttig's When Tailwinds Vanish caused me to go on a random jag this afternoon. Since I had nothing better to do than post it to Medium, I read it into the microphone too...
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As you’re about to hear, I’ve wanted to do a deep dive episode discussion on Shopify and how they’re suddenly the big up and coming, potential tech behemoth… arguably the most successful tech IPO of the last five years; seemingly the only company that can challenge Amazon in ecommerce… so when James McLeod from the Financial Post got in touch wanting to talk about Shopify, it was like someone was reading my mind. You’ll see why I’ve found the Shopify story so interesting because… well, we get right into it…
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AT&T’s CEO rides off into the sunset is both a surprise and not a surprise at all. Whole bunch of interesting Google news all at once. More on that iOS zero-day, more data on tech industry hiring and layoffs, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, COO Stankey to take over (CNBC)
- Google to cut marketing budgets by as much as half, directors warned of hiring freezes (CNBC)
- Google ditched tipping feature for donating money to sites (TechCrunch)
- Google will make all advertisers prove their identities, so people can see who they are and which country they’re in (CNBC)
- Apple Finds No Evidence Hackers Exploited iPhone, iPad Mail Flaw (Bloomberg)
- Tech companies pull back on hiring, flashing another grim warning sign for the U.S. economy (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Silicon Valley balanced grueling schedules with workplace perks. Coronavirus is forcing change (CNET)
- Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication (NYTimes)
- Following the money in a massive “sextortion” spam scheme (Sophos)
- How Instagram managed to survive antitrust scrutiny when it was acquired by Facebook (Fast Company)
- IN THE CORONAVIRUS ERA, THE FORCE IS STILL WITH JACK DORSEY (Vanity Fair)
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Custom Mac chips by 2021? Robot nurses already in hospitals? Bill Gurley into the sunset? Why some people are accusing France of digital privacy hypocrisy, and an interesting raise in the remote work space. Specifically: remote whiteboarding.
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Links:
- Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021 (Bloomberg)
- Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is helping hospitals remotely treat coronavirus patients (The Verge)
- Magic Leap Cuts Half of Jobs In Major Restructuring (Bloomberg)
- Worldwide Digital Video Game Spending Hits All-Time High of $10B in March (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund (WSJ)
- France urges Apple and Google to ease privacy rules on contact tracing (The Guardian)
- French Hypocrisy: Fines Google For Being Soft On Privacy; Now Angry That Google Won't Let It Spy On Users (TechDirt)
- Mire lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges (TechCrunch)
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Huge Facebook investment in India. Tech earnings season is back, and this promises to be a super interesting one for all the reasons you can imagine. Two iPhone zero days found out in the wild. Patreon does do layoffs but says creator numbers are holding up. And a roundup of the iPhone SE reviews.
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- Facebook invests $5.7B in India's Reliance Jio Partners (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Invests $5.7 Billion in Indian Internet Giant Jio (NYTimes)
- Netflix blows away new subscriber expectations (CNBC)
- Snap has the pieces in place to fight off the coronavirus downturn in advertising better than rivals, and the stock is soaring (CNBC)
- Researchers Say They Caught an iPhone Zero-Day Hack in the Wild (Vice)
- Patreon lays off 13% of workforce (TechCrunch)
- APPLE IPHONE SE REVIEW: EVERYTHING YOU NEED (The Verge)
- iPhone SE Review: An iPhone for People Who Don’t Like New iPhones (WSJ)
- Review: Apple iPhone SE (2020) (Wired)
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Sonos launches its own streaming radio service, huge trove of Facebook accounts purchased on the dark web, Google goes with free to compete with Amazon in product search, Kickstarter is seeing a huge drop in project launches and we finally have a date for the HBO Max launch.
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- Sonos launches its own streaming radio service (The Verge)
- 267 million Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web (BleepingComputer)
- Apple launches App Store, Music, Arcade, Podcasts, and iCloud in new countries (9to5Mac)
- In major shift, Google Shopping opens up to free product listings (Search Engine Land)
- Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders (NBC News)
- Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns (Wired)
- WarnerMedia Sets Late May HBO Max Launch (The Hollywood Reporter)
- AT&T’s HBO Max Will Dive Into Crowded Streaming Market on May 27 (Bloomberg)
- Kickstarter plans layoffs after new projects on the site drop off by 35 percent (The Verge)
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Paging Farmville: Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming. Rupert Murdoch's longstanding wish is granted. Dropbox had longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom. More data on the health of tech investing, and the first reviews of the iPad as laptop are… mixed.
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Links:
- Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming (NYTimes)
- Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field' with traditional news media (ABC News Australia)
- Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox (NYTimes)
- With Shut-In Kids Flocking to Streaming, Disney Channel Retools (Bloomberg)
- The Q1 2020 Global VC Report: Funding Slowly Impacted By Coronavirus (Crunchbase News)
- Private Equity Sees $20 Billion of Tech Deals Shelved by Virus (Bloomberg)
- MAGIC KEYBOARD FOR THE IPAD PRO REVIEW: THE BEST WAY TO TURN AN IPAD INTO A LAPTOP (Bloomberg)
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I wasn’t supposed to do a weekend episode this weekend. I’ve got one scheduled for next week that I still need to record. But a few days ago, I saw Alex Wilhelm at TechCrunch tweet that he was doing a piece about why everyone in Silicon Valley and the VC world and the startup world still seem to be preparing for a nuclear winter, while the stock market has been roaring back to life, and I was like YES! I need to talk about that with somebody right now! I’m asking myself that question every day. It’s not that I’m rooting for a crash, it’s not that I want the economy to suffer, but everyone I know in the Tech world thinks we're in for a bad recession and yet… well, we get into all this. I needed to have this discussion with somebody right away, so forgive me if this is a little self indulgent, but join Alex and I as we ask the question: who’s right about the economy right now? Silicon Valley, or Wall Street?
PS: This is Alex's piece I was referring to: As stocks recover, private investors aren't buying the hype
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Microsoft has some AI tech that can catch bugs 99% of the time, Y Combinator is going to be more picky about who it invests in, macOS is getting a smarter battery management system for your laptop, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time (VentureBeat)
- Changing policy, Y Combinator cuts its pro rate stake and makes investments case-by-case (TechCrunch)
- Google's fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link (Reuters)
- Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health (Six Colors)
- Apple CEO Talks Covid-19 Crisis, Return to Work Plan at Company-Wide Meeting (Bloomberg)
- 'Needle in a haystack': Reborn tech offices may need distance and mass testing (Protocol)
- The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer (Ars Technica)
- Can Comic Books Survive the Coronavirus Era? (NYTimes)
- LIDAR: Peek Into The Future With iPad Pro (Halide)
- The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired)
- In Half-Life’s improv scene, anyone can speak for Gordon Freeman (Ars Technica)
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The video conferencing space is so hot, we’re getting steamy M&A action now. Apple wants to get stylish with over the ear headphones. Robinhood bucks a couple of trends with a new round. And is Facebook’s Libra just gonna drop like a stone?
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- Verizon Buys Zoom Conferencing Rival BlueJeans (The Verge)
- Apple Developing High-End Headphones With Interchangeable Parts (Bloomberg)
- Sony Plans Limited PlayStation 5 Output in First Year (Bloomberg)
- Robinhood Is Raising New Funds at About $8 Billion Value, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
- Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020, CEO Tells Staff (Bloomberg)
- Facebook-Backed Libra Cryptocurrency Project Is Scaled Back (NYTimes)
- Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
- Amazon to close French warehouses until next week after court order (Reuters)
- TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts (The Verge)
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Hellooooo new iPhone SE. Airbnb raises another debt round. Amazon kneecaps affiliate marketers. Now it’s Medium’s turn to face fake news (or, at least, fake experts) scrutiny. And why Houseparty is now, officially, another unlikely winner of the Coronavirus moment.
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- Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020 (The Verge)
- Airbnb raises another $1bn (Financial Times)
- Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives publishers a cut of sales (CNBC)
- Github is now free for all teams (TechCrunch)
- Washington AG sues Facebook for violating state political ad law (GeekWire)
- How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news (The Verge)
- Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice (Bloomberg)
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We have an actual smartphone launch event to report on! Google is apparently close to powering it’s devices with its own custom-design silicon. Microsoft Teams is getting closer to Zoom in a good, feature-wise way. An update on the venture funding environment and new gaming ratings to alert people to loot boxes.
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Links:
- OnePlus Announces OnePlus 8 & OnePlus 8 Pro: Step-Up 2020 Flagships (AnAndTech)
- ONEPLUS 8 PRO REVIEW: BIG LEAGUE (The Verge)
- Q&A: Apple and Google discuss their coronavirus tracing efforts (TechCrunch)
- iPhone China Shipments Rebound as Manufacturing Resumes (Bloomberg)
- Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks (Axios)
- Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from (The Verge)
- Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web (BleepingComputer)
- New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon (ZDNet)
- Amazon to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff (WSJ)
- VC Firms Raised $21 Billion Last Quarter Despite Pandemic Chaos (Bloomberg)
- ESRB introduces a new label to indicate that a game has loot boxes (The Verge)
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Deeper dives into that Google/Apple contact tracing project, solid rumors about the new iPhone design, the telecom industry might lose $25 billion dollars this year and international roaming charges are to blame, and an open source live streaming and video streaming app that can help you Twitch and YouTube better, without being beholden to their tools.
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- @moxie Tweet Thread
- How Apple and Google are tackling one of the toughest parts about tracking COVID-19 exposures (The Verge)
- NHS phone app holds key to lifting UK’s coronavirus lockdown (The Times (UK))
- Apple Plans iPad-Like Design for Next iPhone, Smaller HomePod (Bloomberg)
- SoftBank Group forecasts $7-bn full-year net loss (Yahoo Finance)
- Son’s $2 Billion Guarantee at Risk as Virus Hits SoftBank Star (Bloomberg)
- Fall of the roaming empire: telecom groups face revenue loss as travel collapses (Financial Times)
- As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting (OneZero)
- ‘It’s still niche’: Esports see audience surge, more tepid ad demand (Digiday)
- Anyone's a Celebrity Streamer With This Open Source App (Wired)
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I couldn’t tell you the amount of times, over the last two years, I’ve quoted pieces from Alex Kantrowitz on this show. Hundreds of times? Easy? Alex is the senior tech reporter at Buzzfeed News, and, while I don’t have favorite people to quote from on this show (I shouldn’t anyway) the sheer number of times I quote from someone should tell you something about the amount of news they break. The insights they have. Alex has an amazing new book out called Always Day One- How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay On Top Forever. And as I said yesterday, it’s an amazing breakdown of not only the cultural DNA of each of the tech giants, but also a useful playbook to their success… a way to understand how they do what they do and why they win more often than not. Amazing book. Anyone who listens to this show every day will find it useful in informing the competitive analysis we always engage in.
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Amazon is creating a system to test its own employees for Coronavirus, Google creates a system to help with unemployment claims, one more attempt to keep track of the Google messaging branding mess, more evidence Zuckerberg really is jealous of Instagram, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Apple, Google debut major effort to help people track if they’ve come in contact with coronavirus (Washington Post)
- Amazon developing coronavirus testing lab for workers (Washington Post)
- The pandemic is playing to almost every one of Amazon's strengths (CNN Business)
- Google creates online unemployment application with state of New York (CNBC)
- Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (The Verge)
- Everyone can now access their Instagram DMs on the web (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus? (Citylab)
- Atlassian’s tools helped build today’s tech. How’s it prepping for the future? (Protocol)
- Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Was Leisure Suit Larry Really an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks? (Vice)
- Has Apple finally bitten off way more than it can chew? (WiredUK)
- Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies (Stratechery)
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Disney+ continues to blow the doors off the place. Good old phone calls are back, along with the Desktop web. Don’t expect to see new emoji for a while. Stadia is free for anyone with a Gmail account, COBAL skills are in high demand and why the pandemic might be a long-term good for Internet infrastructure.
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- Disney+ Surpasses 50 Million Paid Subscribers After Launches in Europe & India (The Streamable)
- Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security (Bleeping Computer)
- MICROSOFT THINKS CORONAVIRUS WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK AND LEARN (The Verge)
- The Humble Phone Call Has Made a Comeback (NYTimes)
- Microsoft: Don't expect any Windows 10X devices this calendar year (ZDNet)
- No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic (The Verge)
- Google Stadia now free to anyone with a Gmail address (Polygon)
- Now It’s Falling Apart (OneZero)
- Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever (MIT Technology Review)
- Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers (The Verge)
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Jack Dorsey literally puts his money to work for Coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb lifeline raise. Details on an interesting telemedicine raise. Netflix has increased parental controls, Google is pushing a mandatory new setup for Android development and why the desktop web is back, for the time being anyway.
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- @jack's tweet storm
- Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing Announced Monday (WSJ)
- Airbnb In Talks To Raise More Debt (Bloomberg)
- Update on Zoom’s 90-Day Plan to Bolster Key Privacy and Security Initiatives (Zoom Blog)
- Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update (The Verge)
- Google is requiring Virtual A/B on new Android 11 devices, paving the way for mandatory Seamless Updates (XDA Developers)
- Microsoft is freezing hiring except in some unspecified 'strategic areas' (Business Insider)
- All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021 (The Verge)
- The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (NYTimes)
- Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff (TechCrunch)
- Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform (VentureBeat)
- Google's video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus (CNET)
- Don’t be surprised when ‘Hangouts Meet’ becomes ‘Google Meet’ (9to5Google)
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WhatsApp wants to make it harder for things to go viral. Airbnb buys some runway. Foursquare merges with another location data company. Checking in with Masa Son. And the latest startup to say it wants to blow up email and unseat Gmail.
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Links:
- WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news (The Guardian)
- Airbnb is raising $1 billion amid fallout from coronanvirus (CNBC)
- Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider (WSJ)
- Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and Softbank Under Siege (Forbes)
- Pixel April updates land, bringing eyes-open face unlock setting to the Pixel 4 (Android Police)
- Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t (KrebsonSecurity)
- This tiny startup thinks it can do email better than Google (Protocol)
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Happy Quibi day everybody. Check out your Quick Bites for free while you can! Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is a hella powerful laptop, but that’s apparently why the battery life sucks. And the Covid-related conspiracy theory inspiring people to set cellphone towers on fire in Britain.
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- Quibi app review: shifting landscape (The Verge)
- How to stream Quibi (The Verge)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY CHROMEBOOK REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL TO A FAULT (The Verge)
- Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: Great, until the battery runs out (Engadget)
- Tim Cook: Apple shipping custom face shields to medical workers as mask donations cross 20M (9to5Mac)
- Call for social media platforms to act on 5G mast conspiracy theory (The Guardian)
- Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others (ZDNet)
- Microsoft Edge is now 2nd most popular desktop browser, beats Firefox (BleepingComputer)
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Tech companies are, in fact, stepping up to track Covid-19. We have a name for the new low-end iPhone. Tesla soars but the Space X Starship doesn’t. Watch some free HBO this weekend, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Google uses location data to show which places are complying with stay-at-home orders — and which aren’t (The Verge)
- In coronavirus fight, oft-criticized Facebook data aids U.S. cities, states (Reuters)
- PRIVACY EXPERTS SAY RESPONSIBLE CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE IS POSSIBLE (The Intercept)
- Exclusive: iPhone 9 launch imminent, 2020 ‘iPhone SE’ in red, white, and black with up to 256GB (9to5Mac)
- Tesla soars on delivery numbers -- company delivered 88,400 vehicles in Q1 (CNBC)
- A third prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket bursts on the test stand (The Verge)
- Airbnb lowers internal valuation by 16% to $26bn (FT)
- HBO Will Stream 500 Hours of Free Programming, Including Full Seasons of ‘Veep,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ (Variety)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Google Data Centers’ Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water (Bloomberg Green)
- Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
- The Xbox Series X master plan (Polygon)
- From courts to consoles: With live sports canceled, pro athletes join the streaming surge (The Washington Post)
- Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (WSJ)
- The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago (NYTimes)
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Zoom apologizes, but also reveals some INSANE growth numbers. Facebook Messenger comes to desktop. YouTube wants to clone TikTok. Apple let’s some people avoid the App Store tax. More gross firings by teleconference and a timely interesting raise.
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- A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
- Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
- 'Content network effect' makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
- YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)
- Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut (Bloomberg)
- 'It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode' The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
- Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)
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We’ve reached the end of the John Legere era. Samsung thinks we’ve reached the end of the LCD era. Comcast is inadvertently proving ISP datacaps are BS. Is Zoom a victim of its own success? And it’s maybe not overstating things to say it’s past time Amazon should start thinking more humanely about… people.
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- Legere is out as T-Mobile CEO as Sprint merger officially closes (CNBC)
- Samsung Display to end all LCD production by end 2020 (Reuters)
- Marriott discloses new data breach impacting 5.2 million hotel guests (ZDNet)
- Comcast waiving data caps hasn’t hurt its network—why not make it permanent? (Ars Technica)
- Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials via UNC Links (Bleeping Computer)
- @c1truz_ thread about Zoom
- Amazon's Covid Hiring Boom Has Applicants Packed Into Job Fairs With No Special Precautions (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Struggles to Find Its Coronavirus Footing. ‘It’s a Time of Great Stress.’ (WSJ)
- Amazon's past catches up with it (The Interface)
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Snapchat launches its Stories syndication program. Fitbit has a powerful new fitness tracker. Microsoft and Spotify release some family friendly features and apps. It’s time for Zoom to come under the spotlight for privacy concerns. And a court has ruled that simply breaking a site's terms of service does not constitute criminal hacking.
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Links:
- Apple purchases hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky, ending API and killing Android apps (9to5Mac)
- Snapchat preempts clones, syndicates Stories to other apps (TechCrunch)
- Surprise! Fitbit's First New Product Since Google Deal Is A Fitness Tracker (Gizmodo)
- Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, Skype daily active users up 70% to 40 million (VentureBeat)
- Microsoft 365 bundles Office 365 with AI and cloud-powered features (VentureBeat)
- Spotify Brings Standalone Kids’ App to U.S., Featuring a ‘Wash Your Hands’ Playlist (Variety)
- New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices (NYTimes)
- ZOOM MEETINGS AREN’T END-TO-END ENCRYPTED, DESPITE MISLEADING MARKETING (The Intercept)
- Comcast says voice and video calls have skyrocketed 212 percent during widespread self-isolation (The Verge)
- Apple Tests Its Secrecy Somewhere New: Employee Homes (Bloomberg)
- Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking (Ars Technica)
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HQ Trivia resurrects itself thanks to an anonymous investor. Facebook tries to squeeze Apple out of the AR screen market. Some crowdsourced data reveals who where layoffs are happening in tech but also which companies are still hiring. And a major hack takes down a big chunk of the dark web.
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- HQ Trivia Returns Thanks to Anonymous Investor (WSJ)
- Facebook Strikes Deal for AR Displays, Squeezing Out Apple (The Information)
- Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
- Coronavirus has led to a 775 percent increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services (BetaNews)
- Apple's factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand (Reuters)
- Candor: 267 companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, 111 are hiring (VentureBeat)
- OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Space News)
- Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount (The Information)
- Lyft Tells Drivers to Work for Amazon After Ridership Plummets (Bloomberg)
- Bird lays off about 30% of workforce amid COVID-19 pandemic (TechCrunch)
- Hack Attack Takes Down Dark Web Host: 7,595 Websites Confirmed Deleted (Forbes)
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Apple has released an official Covid-19 App. Kuo says Arm-based Macbooks are coming next year. Sony is spinning off a lot of the parts of itself that make it a tech company. Instacart workers are planning a nationwide strike on Monday. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple releases new COVID-19 app and website based on CDC guidance (Apple Newsroom)
- Kuo: Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022 (MacRumors)
- Sony Spins Off Camera Business Into Separate Company (PetaPixel)
- Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Everything Is So Fucked, You Might As Well Get A Facebook Portal (Buzzfeed News)
- We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (IdleWords.com)
- Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers (Bloomberg)
- Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? (Wired)
- DJI Won the Drone Wars, and Now It’s Paying the Price (BusinessWeek)
- We visited a small Virginia town where drone deliveries have begun for real (Input Magazine)
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Apple is weighing its options, and delaying the release of the 5G iPhone until 2021 is being discussed. Airbnb is offering free housing for medical workers. An interesting raise Thursday that wants to be the flip side of Shopify in the ecommerce space. And a preview of Huawei’s upcoming Google-less flagship phone.
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- Apple weighs delaying 5G iPhone launch by months, sources say (Nikkei Asian Review)
- Apple Testing AR/VR Headset With HTC Vive-Like Controller, Crosswalk Bowling Game, and More (MacRumors)
- What Qualcomm's new chips mean for upcoming true wireless earbuds (CNET)
- Airbnb Hosts to Help Provide Housing to 100,000 COVID-19 Responders (Airbnb Newsroom)
- TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown (Crunchbase News)
- What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis (Protocol)
- Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising (The Information)
- StubHub furloughs employees, other ticket sites face challenges in wake of pandemic (ESPN)
- Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce (TechCrunch)
- LIVING A GOOGLE-FREE LIFE WITH A HUAWEI PHONE (The Verge)
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How Facebook is coping with Corona, Google Podcasts comes to iOS, ad blocking officially comes to Safari, when Apple thinks it can re-open stores, Singapore open-sources it’s Corona-contact-tracing app, and have your screen time notifications horrified you this week? You’re not alone.
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- Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes)
- The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse
- More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America (NYTimes)
- Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch)
- Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge)
- Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg)
- iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg)
- Coronavirus: S'pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times)
- Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
- Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post)
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A wicked Windows zero day is out in the wild without a patch. Google is open sourcing a cool new AI architecture. Instagram wants you to co-watch your feed with a friend. A popular “challenger bank” comes to the US. And the iPad Pro reviews are in.
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- Microsoft says hackers are attacking Windows users with a new unpatched bug (TechCrunch)
- Apple promises App Store expansion to 20 new countries starting next month (9to5Mac)
- Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80% (VentureBeat)
- Google opens Stadia Makers program for indie game developers (9to5Google)
- Google unveils Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and Cloud Firestore for game developers (VentureBeat)
- Instagram has a new way for people isolated by coronavirus to connect: sharing posts via video chat (CNBC)
- Exclusive: Disney+ Sees Huge Subscription Spike As Homebound Audiences Clamor For Content (Forbes)
- Revolut launches its neobank in the US (TechCrunch)
- Review: Apple iPad Pro (2020) (Wired)
- APPLE IPAD PRO REVIEW 2020: SMALL SPEC BUMP, BIG CAMERA BUMP (The Verge)
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The pros and cons of using big data, cellphones and the surveillance economy to combat the coronavirus. More iPhone rumors from Ming-Chi Kuo. Is the Oculus Quest bringing VR into the mainstream? And how to block your messy background when you’re on a Zoom conference call for work.
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Links:
- European mobile operators share data for coronavirus fight (Reuters)
- Taiwan's new 'electronic fence' for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring (Reuters)
- Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak (Wired)
- Google’s coronavirus website finally launches alongside enhanced search results (The Verge)
- Google cancels I/O 2020 entirely in light of coronavirus (9to5Google)
- Kuo: Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization Coming to 6.7-Inch iPhone in 2020, Periscope Lens to Follow in 2022 (MacRumors)
- Facebook: 90% Of Quest Users For Christmas Were ‘Brand New’ To Oculus (UploadVR)
- Apple Acknowledges Personal Hotspot Issues Affecting Some iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Users (MacRumors)
- This is how you do that Zoom background thing everyone is talking about (CNET)
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WSJ Technology columnist Chris Mims and I talk WFH best practices, and how the Tech Industry has responded to the Covid-19 crisis thusfar.
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Yelp is showing how the restaurant industry is in deep trouble. Instagram makes ready to clone the last Snapchat feature it hadn’t copped yet. The very interesting lessons behind a self-driving startup closing its doors. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Amazon AWS launches $20 million initiative to help fight the coronavirus (CNBC)
- Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate unifies graphics tech for PC gaming and Xbox Series X (The Verge)
- Ex-Uber executive Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to trade-secret theft (Washington Post)
- The End of Starsky Robotics (Medium)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Reddit's coronavirus community became a destination (NBC News)
- Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus? (NYTimes)
- Correlation and Market Meltdowns (Fred Wilson/AVC)
- Zoom conquered video chat — now it has even bigger plans (Protocol)
- The tech industry’s quest to help us sleep better is just beginning (Fast Company)
- How TikTok Is Taking the Tunes out of Pop (HighSnobiety)
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Square wants to become a bank. Microsoft Teams might be rocketing ahead of Slack in terms of user numbers. The EU wants streaming companies to cut back on HD streams. Covid might be depressing music streaming, and some analysis of the iPad becoming a regular old computer.
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Links:
- Square gains FDIC conditional approval for a banking license (Silicon Angle)
- Microsoft Teams passes 44 million daily active users, thanks in part to coronavirus (VentureBeat)
- What worries Mark Zuckerberg (The Interface)
- EU warns of broadband strain as millions work from home (Financial Times)
- Improved iPhone, AirPods availability suggests Chinese production nearing normality (Apple Insider)
- Music streaming may actually be falling because of coronavirus (QZ)
- Apple's iPad Pro becomes more like a Surface, and that's a problem for Microsoft (Windows Central)
- Steven Sinofsky tweet thread about the iPad
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It’s a day of new! New iPads pro, new Macbooks Air, new Macs Mini, and more bye bye butterfly keyboard! A new Transcribe for Android, a new design overhaul for Slack, all the specs for the new Playstation 5, and why Cameo is a new app to keep your eye on.
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- Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild keyboard cover (The Verge)
- The MacBook Air gets an updated keyboard and souped-up specs, starting at $999 (TechCrunch)
- Apple's $799 Mac mini debuts with double the storage (Apple Insider)
- Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages (VentureBeat)
- Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet (The Verge)
- PlayStation 5 hardware specifications revealed (Polygon)
- How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine (Marker)
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Big acquisition for GitHub... which really means: big acquisition for Microsoft as it continues to gobble up the entire developer stack. The iPhone 9 chips will not be underpowered at all. How Amazon is, in fact, trying to cope with the Corona-surge. And is this crisis the tipping point for streaming media?
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Links:
- Microsoft's GitHub acquires npm to help JavaScript developers (WindowsCentral)
- iOS 14 code confirms Apple planning ‘iPhone 9 Plus’ with A13 as larger version of rumored entry-level model (9to5Mac)
- Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon’s service in this stressful time (Amazon Day One Blog)
- Uber, Lyft suspend pooled rides in U.S., Canada to limit spread of coronavirus (Reuters)
- Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? (Wired)
- To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data (NYTimes)
- With Movie Theater Shutdown, Universal Pictures to Stream New Release Films on Prime Video, iTunes, & More (The Streamable)
- Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good. (NYTimes)
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Apple fined by France, the FCC nets a bundle at auction, new Beats earbuds, all the specs for the new Xbox Series X, and how Google got caught by surprise by President Trump’s announcement regarding Coronavirus work.
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- Apple fined a record $1.2 billion by French antitrust authorities (CNBC)
- FCC’s largest spectrum auction nets $4.47 billion for 5G mmWave bands (VentureBeat)
- Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life (The Verge)
- Inside Xbox Series X: the full specs (Eurogamer)
- Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 (The Verge)
- Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus (NYTimes)
- Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects (The Verge)
- Silicon Valley Was First to Send Workers Home. It’s Been Messy. (WSJ)
- Coronavirus Impact: Netflix Shuts Down Film, TV Work in U.S. and Canada as Production Nears Standstill (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Has the Coronavirus proven that datacaps from ISPs are a sham? Comcast accidentally published the numbers of customers who paid them not to do that. Airbnb continues to be in trouble. Cool no-code tools from Atlassian, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon (Bloomberg)
- AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis (Vice)
- Comcast accidentally published 200,000 “unlisted” phone numbers (ArsTechnica)
- Airbnb’s Loss Nearly Doubles in Fourth Quarter, Before Virus (Bloomberg)
- Atlassian brings new automation tools to Jira Cloud (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind (Wired)
- TIM COOK’S TRICK FOR MAKING IPHONES IS NOW AT RISK FROM THE PANDEMIC (The Verge)
- Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding (Marker)
- How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts (Protocol)
- A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm (NYTimes)
- The History of the URL (Cloudflare)
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Are the factories coming back online in China? Is G Suite quietly one of the biggest platforms out there? Why is Magic Leap “exploring options” and why does it want everyone to know that? An interesting raise. And I really didn’t mean to crash the crypto markets with my comments yesterday.
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- Apple Closes All 17 Stores in Italy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Bloomberg)
- Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
- Resumption of work at Foxconn factories in China beats expectations, says founder (Reuters)
- Scoop: Google's G Suite cracks 2 billion users (Axios)
- Kuo: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Models With Scissor Keyboards to Launch in Second Quarter (MacRumors)
- The next iPhone will get a ‘world facing’ 3D camera (Fast Company)
- Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap to Explore a Sale (Bloomberg)
- Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics (TechCrunch)
- Bitcoin Hits 10-Month Low Below $6K as Stocks Plunge in Massive Sell-Off (CoinDesk)
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E3 is cancelled. Uber might ban drivers AND riders who test positive for Coronavirus. A 2nd gen Chromecast Ultra might be coming. A Peloton-style workout app from Apple might be coming. A look at Amazon’s entry into the suddenly hot ARM-s race. And am I wrong or wasn’t crypto supposed to help during the apocalypse?
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Links:
- E3 2020 Canceled After ‘Overwhelming Concerns’ About Coronavirus (Variety)
- Uber may suspend accounts of riders, drivers who test positive for coronavirus (Reuters)
- Exclusive: Google plans new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV (w/ remote!) (9to5Google)
- Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos (MacRumors)
- UK presses ahead with digital tech tax in spite of pressure from Trump (CNET)
- Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks (ZDNet)
- Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute (AnAndTech)
- More good news: Medical equipment is still prone to hacker attacks (VentureBeat)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 REVIEW: JUST RIGHT (The Verge)
- Venture funding into crypto on pace to be down 40% from Q1 2019 (TheBlockGenesis)
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A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure, a company offering panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social-media scraping apps, Google adds quantum computing to its machine-learning open-source TensorFlow development kit, DoNotPay lets users share streaming and news logins, the latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world, and things fall apart: political strife broke the knitting community at Ravelry.
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- iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac)
- Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac)
- Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac)
- Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple)
- Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News)
- Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter)
- Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard)
- Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog)
- Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat)
- DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store)
- Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company)
- How to clean your Apple products (Apple)
- All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC)
- Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet)
- Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home
- Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN)
- Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News)
- How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review)
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Another day of markets in turmoil, another Robinhood outage. Jack Dorsey lives to fight another day. Apple is repairing some iPad Airs for free, and might bring 64 MP cameras to the iPhone 12. Gaming out the reality of a ARM-based Mac. And let me hip you to “sleep streaming” on TikTok.
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- Robinhood goes down again, causing clients to miss out on another historic trading day (CNBC)
- Twitter CEO Dorsey keeps his job after company strikes investment deal with Elliott Management, Silver Lake (CNBC)
- Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus (Reuters)
- Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers (Reuters)
- SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’ (CNBC)
- Apple opens repair program for 2019 iPad Air models suffering from blank screen issue (AppleInsider)
- iPhone 12 Pro leak reveals how Apple will beat the Samsung Galaxy S20 (Tom's Guide)
- New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture (AMD Responds) (Tom's Hardware)
- ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? (Jean-Louis Gassee)
- How to Make Money in Your Sleep (NYTimes)
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I’ve said before, Steven Levy is the dean of the tech writers. All the way back in 1984 his classic book Hackers defined a tech space that wasn’t even fully aware of itself yet. Steven has written book length histories and examinations of Apple and Google, and now, with his new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, he finally tells the full Facebook story for the first time. Not the movie version, but the real story of how Facebook became Facebook from the earliest days at Harvard through the rise to 2 and a half billion users. It is, as I tell him, the best tech book I’ve read in years. If you want to fully understand Facebook, or just how a modern startup works or how a modern tech behemoth functions and sees itself in the world, I cannot recommend this book more highly.
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Another flaw in Intel chips, this time unfixable. Y Combinator demo day is going online only. Sonos won’t brick your old hardware anymore. Jack Dorsey probably won’t be moving to Africa anymore. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable (Ars Technica)
- Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps that aren’t from health organizations, app makers say (CNBC)
- YC W20 Online Demo Day (YCombinator)
- Sonos kills its device-bricking 'recycle mode' (Engadget)
- Quibi is giving people a 90-day free trial in hopes they’ll actually sign up (The Verge)
- Jack Dorsey is reconsidering Africa move amid coronavirus and activist investor threats (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- So you wanna buy a used IP address block? (Web Informant)
- The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible (One Zero)
- Sportswriting’s future may depend on the Athletic, which is either reassuring or terrifying (Washington Post)
- Hideo Kojima’s Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds (NYTimes Magazine)
- Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web? (NYTimes)
- This Utility Heats New York State—And Mines Its Own Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
- Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music (One Zero)
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More Cornavirus worries, Apple is allowing ads in push notifications, Google is switching to mobile first indexing, hackers can hack your car keys, Samsung’s 4k and 8k tv lineup is here, and why I’m struggling to find a reason NOT to subscribe to DoNotPay at this point.
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Links:
- Microsoft tells Bay Area and Puget Sound employees to work from home if possible as coronavirus spreads (CNBC)
- Apple Warns Stores About a Shortage of Replacement iPhones (Bloomberg)
- Ex-Uber self-driving head declares bankruptcy after $179 million loss to Google (Reuters)
- Apple now lets apps send ads in push notifications (The Verge)
- Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services (Redmond Channel Partner)
- Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 (Search Engine Land)
- Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys (Wired)
- VSCO's new editing tool Montage lets you edit and layer both photos and videos (TechCrunch)
- Google starts rolling out 4K Stadia gaming on the web (9to5Google)
- Samsung launches its 2020 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs (The Verge)
- Exclusive: For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info (Fortune)
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You already know Tweets, but let me introduce you to Fleets. Robinhood explains its outages. Google assistant can now read you webpages out loud. Netlify is an interesting raise. And why getting a big-named VC in your seed round might actually be detrimental to your startup.
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- Twitter Is Finally Doing Stories (Buzzfeed)
- Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades (TechCrunch)
- Robinhood offers traders $15 for going down as markets gained $1.1T (TNW)
- Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns (9to5Google)
- Amazon employee in Seattle tests positive for coronavirus (GeekWire)
- Tesla downgraded Model 3 chip in China thanks to coronavirus (BBC News)
- Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content (VentureBeat)
- $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100 (TechCrunch)
- After attracting 800K web developers, Netlify wins $53M in funding (SiliconAngle)
- New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch)
- Streamer Quibi Raises Additional Funds Ahead of Launch (WSJ)
- Hulu’s live TV service is now on PS4 consoles after PlayStation Vue shutdown (The Verge)
- Roku is in talks for original programming, following the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon (Digiday)
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Waymo has an interesting raise. Interesting for what it says about self-driving and about Google Moon Shots. Robinhood has the worst possible outages at the worst possible time. A new player in the quantum computing race. And sports tech offers a new way to watch… golf?
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- Waymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations (VentureBeat)
- Robinhood Trading Site Seizes Up, Customers Miss Stock Rally (Bloomberg)
- Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64 (ZDNet)
- Ampere Altra is the first 80-core ARM-based server processor (VentureBeat)
- iPhone Maker Expects China Plants to Return to Normal in Coming Weeks (Bloomberg)
- Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. (WSJ)
- Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW)
- NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer (The Verge)
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Some investors want Jack out as Twitter CEO. Apple settles a class action lawsuit for half a billion dollars. If you listen regularly, I bet you can guess why some game developers don’t want to work with Stadia. Spotify wants artists to pay to promote their own songs. And AT&T TV is a new way to re-invent the cable bundle.
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- Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over (TechCrunch)
- Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey (Bloomberg)
- Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones (Reuters)
- Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering, and it's due largely to too few games on its Stadia platform — here's why developers have held back (Business Insider)
- AT&T TV now available nationwide with Android TV set-top box — and a two-year contract (The Verge)
- Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (Bloomberg)
- The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry (NYTimes)
- Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus (Bloomberg)
- Kuo: iPhone Production Will Not Significantly Improve Until Second Quarter of 2020 (MacRumors)
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Are S10 sales in Korea the first indication of the Covid-19 effect? Is the FCC gonna fine the wireless carriers enough for selling location data? Is Apple going to release an iPad Pro with a trackpad? A hybrid scooter/tiny car. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters)
- Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald)
- FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters)
- Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information)
- An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld)
- Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac)
- Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC)
- The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian)
- Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review)
- A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol)
- How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired)
- YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator)
- Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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What else? More Coronavirus stuff. F8 8'nt gonna happen. Roblox is the most interesting raise in a long time. DoorDash files for an IPO but don’t expect it soon. Nokia is exploring its options. Oh, and the first reviews for the Galaxy S20 Ultra suggest the cameras are having issues.
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- Facebook cancels F8 developers conference over coronavirus (CNET)
- Microsoft warns it will miss guidance for segment that includes Windows because of coronavirus (CNBC)
- Roblox raises $150M Series G, led by Andreessen Horowitz, now valued at $4B (TechCrunch)
- DoorDash preps for IPO, confidentially files documents with SEC (CNBC)
- Nokia to Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts (Bloomberg)
- It took Google three years to add Firefox, Edge and Opera support to Google Earth (Ghacks.net)
- Timex is releasing a GPS smartwatch with 25 days of battery life (The Verge)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA REVIEW: SHUTTER BUG (The Verge)
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Facebook bans ads around the Cornavirus, a deeper dive into how the Coronavirus crisis might be affecting iPhone development, Bob Iger is no longer Disney’s leader (kinda), why Waymo is hiring like crazy in hopes of a self-driving breakthrough, and if you see someone using an iPhone in a mystery movie, guess what? They’re probably not the bad guy.
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Links:
- Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure the coronavirus (BusinessInsider)
- Coronavirus clouds Apple's timeline for new iPhones (Reuters)
- Disney has a new CEO, but its old CEO isn’t going away quite yet (Recode)
- Inside Waymo’s Hiring Binge (The Information)
- Plume raises $85 million to bring smarter Wi-Fi networks to more homes (VentureBeat)
- Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Vice)
- Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free (TNW)
- Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director (The Verge)
- Jif settles the great debate with a GIF peanut butter jar (CNN Business)
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Netflix launches Top 10 lists, Firefox rolls out DNS over HTTPS, Amazon Go Grocery means no cashiers or checkout lines, consolidation or super app in the Southeast Asian on demand transport space, and why this might be Signal’s moment to go mainstream.
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- New Netflix feature reveals the top 10 most popular programs on its service (TechCrunch)
- Netflix added a top 10 list of its most-watched content — here’s how to find it (The Next Web)
- Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (Ars Technica)
- Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock (TechCrunch)
- Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines (GeekWire)
- Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek (TechCrunch)
- EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (Politico.eu)
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The phantom announcements from MWC start trickling in. Safari might be getting strict with HTTPS certificates. Apple might release an ARM-based Mac as soon as early 2021. TONS of specs revealed concerning the Xbox Series X. And Fintech continues to be on a roll.
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- Huawei unveils the Mate Xs and MatePad Pro 5G w/ no Play Store access (9to5Google)
- Intel debuts 5G server and base station chips, plus a PC network card (VentureBeat)
- Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months (The Register)
- Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X specs (Polygon)
- Apple to release first ARM Mac without Intel processor in next 18 months, predicts Kuo (9to5Mac)
- Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion (WSJ)
- Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019 (TechCrunch)
- Enveil raises $10 million for enterprise-scale homomorphic encryption (VentureBeat)
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I am honored to be speaking today to Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has a new book out called Discovering Precision Health, and if you are interested in health tech at all, ESPECIALLY if you are interested in trying your hand at a health tech startup? This is required reading. And for the rest of us, it’s also a great primer on how tech is about to transform health, and what we can (hopefully) look forward to as tech finally (again, hopefully) disrupts the health care space… in a positive sense!
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Well, we mentioned it a couple weeks ago, but Tesla has had quite the month. Maybe one of the banner months of its entire life as a company. No better time to check in on the world of Elon Musk with Rob Mauer of the always excellent Tesla Daily podcast. Why did Tesla’s stock shoot to the moon, come back down a bit, and then inch back up toward the moon this month? What are the fundamentals behind that excellent earnings report? Is this it? Have the Tesla bulls won? Such a fascinating company…
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Shopify joins the Libra Association, Facebook will pay you for your data in one specific instance, Google is cutting down on apps using background location, more Coronavirus cancellations and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Shopify joins Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra Association (TechCrunch)
- Google Resists Demands From States in Digital-Ad Probe (WSJ)
- Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings (The Verge)
- Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background (The Verge)
- PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns (GamesIndustry.biz)
Weekend Longreads:
- Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? (Slate)
- Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet (Wired)
- How the BBC’s Netflix-killing plan was snuffed by myopic regulation (WiredUK)
- Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC)
- Debt is Coming (AlexDanco.com)
- The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software) (A16Z)
- Aircraft, Big and Small, Are Changing Our Relationship With Flight (NYTimes)
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Apple might let users choose third-party default apps, Twitter further embraces tweet storms, Morgan Stanley buys ETrade, a rundown of all the stuff in the new Android developer preview, and if anything, it looks like cord cutting is just accelerating.*
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Links:
- Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft plans antivirus software for Android and iOS devices (CNBC)
- Twitter rolling out new ‘Continue thread’ option for connecting multiple tweets together (9to5Mac)
- Blue Chip Morgan Stanley to Buy Discount Broker E-Trade (NYTimes)
- Google launches Android 11 Developer Preview ahead of schedule for Pixel phones (9to5Google)
- Cord-Cutting Accelerated in 2019, Raising Pressure on Cable Providers (WSJ)
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The ways in which Twitter might be taking a page out of Facebook’s book, and Facebook might be trying some Twitter-like feed experiments. Spotify finally starts showing lyrics. Ring finally requires two factor authentication. And be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to hear about our new Gaming Ride Home podcast.
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Links:
- Twitter acquires Stories template maker Chroma Labs (TechCrunch)
- Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen (TechCrunch)
- Firefox releases Android app for its VPN service (Android Police)
- Spotify finally starts showing proper, complete song lyrics synced with music (Android Police)
- Google Docs autocorrect widely rolling out as Smart Compose exits G Suite beta (9to5Google)
- Adobe brings more desktop-quality Photoshop tools to the iPad (Engadget)
- Microsoft’s new Office app arrives on iOS and Android with mobile-friendly features (The Verge)
- Ring now requires two-factor sign-ins for its home security devices (Engadget)
- Record labels rush to IPO amid music streaming boom (Axios)
- Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy and paste, dies at 74 (Cult of Mac)
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The Coronavirus crisis forces Apple to miss their already cautious revenue guidance. Wait. Is the Galaxy Z Flip using real glass or not? Qualcomm claps back at Apple with its next gen 5G modem. And Jeff Bezos plans to donate $10 billion dollars to combat climate change.
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Links:
- Investor update on quarterly guidance (Apple Newsroom)
- APPLE WARNS THAT CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN CHINA WILL AFFECT REVENUE THIS QUARTER (Daring Fireball)
- Forget foldable: These leaked images show a phone concept with a slide-out screen (CNET)
- Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question (The Verge)
- Qualcomm's New 3rd Generation 5G Modem (AnAndTech)
- Microsoft's new all-in-one Office app is now available for all, but tablets aren't supported (Android Police)
- Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads (Krebs on Security)
- Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change (The Verge)
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The world’s most powerful climate supercomputer, HQ Trivia joins the Deadpool, Apple isn’t happy with Qualcomm’s chips again, foldable phones are having crease issues again, and a bit of an explainer about the Indian e-commerce gold rush.
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Links:
- UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world's fastest weather supercomputer (Engadget)
- Game over for HQ Trivia (CNN Business)
- Exclusive: Apple is designing its own antenna for this year’s 5G iPhone (Fast Company)
- Our Motorola Razr's display is already breaking and peeling at the fold (Input)
- US Army testing all terrain electric scooter for tactical use (Electrek)
- In India, mom-and-pop stores are proving to be the holy grail for tech startups (KrASIA)
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When a company does one of their big product events late in the day, it’s always a mad rush for me to get it out. Apple events are hard, but at least they start a bit earlier. The Samsung event this week just felt like me making a mad list of everything announced and hoping I wasn’t missing anything. So I really felt it was worth sitting back, taking a breath, and looking at everything that was announced in depth. We’re speaking to Gizmodo’s Sam Rutherford today who has actually be hands on with the S20s, so we’ll lay out in a more granular way, the differences between them all, and also, speculate on whether or not the Z Flip is actually the foldable phone we’ve all been waiting for. A foldable phone that might not suck.
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The DOJ charges a bitcoin mixing service. A judge has blocked Microsoft’s JEDI contract. What happens if the PlayStation 5 is $500? Google takes down some malicious browser extensions. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
- Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet)
- Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (CNBC)
- Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts (Bloomberg)
- Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store (ZDNet)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook (Wired)
- THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge)
- Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell (Vice)
- Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity? (EdSurge)
- SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
- How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone (Wired)
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The US charges Huawei with racketeering. Could the future of the Apple Watch be modular? Uber trials ordering an Uber via 800 number. Interesting raises in robotics and in space. And why quantum entanglement could lead to a truly secure internet.
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Links:
- The US is charging Huawei with racketeering (TechCrunch)
- Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down (NYTimes)
- Apple Watch of the future could have a modular back for upgrades & new sensors (Apple Insider)
- Broadcom launches Wi-Fi 6 extended combo processor, aims to hit 2 Gbps speeds (ZDNet)
- Uber's latest test books rides with a phone call, not the app (Engadget)
- Intuition Robotics raises $36 million to bring AI companions to everyone (VentureBeat)
- Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service (TechCrunch)
- Dieter Bohn's Processor newsletter (The Verge)
- Quantum entanglement over 30 miles of fiber has brought super secure internet closer (MIT Technology Review)
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Does Uncle Sam have a smoking gun when it comes to Huawei? Could Airbnb’s recent financials imperil its IPO plans? Is Apple Pay eating the payments market? Is the CISO job actually a miserable one? And might the Z Flip actually be the first good foldable phone?
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Links:
- U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks (WSJ)
- Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics (Financial Times)
- FTC Expands Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech (WSJ)
- Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO (WSJ)
- Apple Pay is on pace to account for 10% of all global card transactions (QZ)
- State of Software Engineers (Hired.com)
- Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout (ZDNet)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: This is more like it (TechCrunch)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: Razr who? (Engadget)
- Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip beats the Motorola Razr in nearly every way (The Verge)
- The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns (The Verge)
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All of the headlines from the big Samsung Unpacked event, the T-Mobile-Sprint merger is officially a go… mostly, Brandless is the first Softbank company to shut down entirely, a Sirius lifeline for Soundcloud, and has the CIA quietly been the real owner of the leading encryption company for decades now?
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Links:
- SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S20, PLUS, AND ULTRA FIRST LOOK: CAMERAS, 5G, AND 120HZ SCREENS (The Verge)
- Samsung’s new foldable Galaxy Z Flip will arrive on February 14th for $1,380 (The Verge)
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip debuts w/ less expensive ‘flip phone’ design (9to5Google)
- Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint (CNBC)
- Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund's first failure (Protocol)
- SiriusXM Acquires Minority Stake in SoundCloud for $75 Million (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix dominates viewing on TVs over all other streaming services (CNET)
- ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ (Washington Post)
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The DOJ says the Chinese were behind the Equifax hack, MWC is becoming a ghost conference, the Razr reviews are in, the Corp.com domain name is a weird story, and why ARM’s new edge chips could revolutionize the Internet of Things.
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- U.S. charges Chinese military hackers with massive Equifax breach (Politico)
- As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards (TechCrunch)
- Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show (BBC News)
- Motorola Razr review: It's the most personal phone I've used, but I have concerns (CNET)
- Motorola Razr review: A tragedy unfolds (Input Magazine)
- Netflix Spends Big for Oscars—Will Hollywood Give In? (WSJ)
- Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale (KrebsonSecurity)
- ARM’s new edge AI chips promise IoT devices that won’t need the cloud (The Verge)
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Uber says it will be profitable quicker than it had expected to, yet another entrant into the lists at the Streaming Wars, what’s it like to use a 64-core processor, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Uber stock is on pace for its best day ever (CNBC)
- ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels (CNBC)
- NYSE Owner Abandons Potential eBay Deal (WSJ)
- The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review (AnandTech)
- Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else (Recode)
- Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature (The Verge)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS FUTURE IS NOW TIED TO HARDWARE (The Verge)
- Steven Levy's Plaintext
- An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away (NYTimes)
- ‘ClassPass Is Squeezing Studios to the Point of Death’ (Vice)
- Elon Musk Can’t Lose (BuzzFeed News)
- A SMALL ROCKET MAKER IS RUNNING A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACE RACE (Bloomberg)
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Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon?
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Links:
- Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge)
- New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac)
- Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge)
- Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge)
- Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch)
- Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC)
- The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet)
- Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC)
- U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters)
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Spotify officially buys The Ringer, we have the official Disney+ subscriber numbers, Jeff Weiner is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO, a Rockstar Games co-founder is apparently leaving the company, and what languages do most developers say they want to learn next?
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Links:
- Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode)
- Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance)
- LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge)
- NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ)
- Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg)
- Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired)
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge)
- Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet)
- Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes)
- Steve Jobs' personality changed after Apple's success, Wozniak says (CNET)
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We finally know how big a business YouTube is, the tech angle on that Iowa Caucuses mess IS the only angle, Mastercard explains why it pulled out of Libra, and why has the US Government decided to break up Big Razor, before it gets around to Big Tech.
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Links:
- YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time (The Verge)
- This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses (HuffPost)
- Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November (9to5Google)
- Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook (Financial Times)
- Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg)
- Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst (Bloomberg)
- Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry (NYTimes)
- The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech (Recode)
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The end might truly be nigh for Blackberry this time. Will the Corona Virus mean we won’t have an Apple event next month after all? Leaked video of the Galaxy Z Flip. Did Jeff Bezos succumb to Elon Musk envy? And why one of the most popular music streaming services in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of.
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- BlackBerry’s Android smartphones will stop being sold in August 2020 (9to5Google)
- Ming-Chi Kuo Says Coronavirus Outbreak Impacting iPhone Supply, Lowers Shipment Forecast (MacRumors)
- Uber Suspends 240 Mexican Accounts to Prevent Coronavirus Spread (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (The Verge)
- Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung’s folding Galaxy Z Flip (The Verge)
- Disney Takes Tighter Control of Hulu After Disney+ Bundle Revs Up Growth (Bloomberg)
- Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg)
- Spotify, Apple Music Trail Little-Known Rival in Music-Obsessed India (WSJ)
- A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated) (Android Authority)
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This is the promised interview with Angela Strange from Andreessen Horowitz. I told you about it on the weekend longreads segment yesterday, so no more need to explain it: let’s talk about why soon, every company could be a Fintech company.
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Amazon earnings, the new Apple Maps is rolling out in the US, Uber and DoorDash held merger talks at Softbank’s behest, who’s number two to TikTok in short form videos, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Amazon Revenue Jumps on Holiday Sales as Profit Rises (WSJ)
- Apple's redesigned Maps app is available across the US (TechCrunch)
- Uber and DoorDash held merger talks after SoftBank push (Financial Times)
- SoftBank Is Funding Every Side of a Bruising Startup Battle (WSJ)
- EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard (Apple Insider)
- How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company (Angela Strange/A16Z)
- Don't Brush Off Mouth Tech As a Passing Fad (Wired)
- The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years (InPut)
- Super Bowl 2020: The madness and magic behind the game’s first 4K HDR broadcast (Digital Trends)
- Researchers Are Racing to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine. Will It Help? (NYTimes)
- How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses? (NYTimes)
- Facial Recognition- The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint (California Sunday Magazine)
- CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong? (Wired)
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Its Earnings Bonanza Day! Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung… Facebook pays a record fine to Illinois, the Switch has outsold the SNES, three interesting Apple stories, Avast changes its business model and the new Fantastical app.
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- Tesla’s record 2019 has bought it some breathing room (The Verge)
- We’re about to enter a world where Tesla is the cheaper electric car (Quartz)
- Facebook plunges, wiping out more than $50 billion in market value (CNBC)
- Xbox revenue falls 21% as Microsoft gears up for Xbox Series X debut (GeekWire)
- Samsung Posts Lower Profit, Anticipates End of Chip Slump (WSJ)
- Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit (NYTimes)
- Avast winds down Jumpshot, cites user data sale privacy concerns (ZDNet)
- Nintendo upgrades fiscal-year forecast as Switch hits 52.5 million consoles sold (VentureBeat)
- Apple Hires Key Netflix Engineer in Bid to Boost Subscription Services (WSJ)
- Apple Ends AI Startup’s Work on ‘Project Maven’ After Acquisition (The Information)
- Kuo: Apple to Launch AirTags, Small Charging Mat, New iPads and Macs, High-End Headphones, and More in First Half of 2020 (MacRumors)
- Say hello to the new Fantastical: one robust calendar for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (9to5Mac)
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Apple earnings, Google is testing another chat app, we know Uncle Sam is wary of Huawei but did you know he doesn’t trust DJI either, Lime is testing AI scooters and the new app that will let you skip the ads without screwing over publishers.
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- Apple shares rise after company reports better-than-expected revenue of $91.8B (TechCrunch)
- Apple could see some impact from coronavirus in China, Cook says (CNET)
- Google Developing New ‘Unified’ Communications App for Businesses (The Information)
- Interior Department Adopts Restrictions Aimed at Chinese Drones (WSJ)
- Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (Gizmodo)
- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers (EFF)
- Lime knows when you're riding on a sidewalk, and will warn you if you do (CNET)
- Here’s how to stop seeing ads on the internet without screwing over publishers (recode)
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The UK government will allow Huawei to build SOME 5G components, the coronavirus is testing the Great Firewall of China, Product Hunt has a social network, Gruber is critical of the iPad at 10, and would you stay at an Atari Hotel?
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- UK Huawei decision appears to avert row with US (The Guardian)
- As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media (NYTimes)
- iPhone 11's new multicam app lets you shoot video with two cameras at once (CNET)
- Product Hunt Has Released YourStack, A Social Network Where People Talk About Products (BuzzFeed News)
- The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (Daring Fireball)
- Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook (The Washington Post)
- Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (Venture Beat)
- Atari is opening eight video game hotels across the U.S. (Input Magazine)
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Vine has a spiritual successor in Byte, the new razr might have “bumps and lumps,” your anti-virus program might be selling all your clicks, Seamless might be inventing restaurants from whole cloth, and the AI algorithm that spotted the Wuhan virus early.
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- Vine reboot Byte officially launches (TechCrunch)
- Motorola on the Razr’s folding screen: ‘bumps and lumps are normal’ (The Verge)
- An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus (Wired)
- YouTube signs exclusive streaming deal for Activision e-sports like Call of Duty and Overwatch (The Verge)
- Online mattress retailer Casper IPO to raise $182.4 million (CNBC)
- Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data (Motherboard)
- Seamless, Grubhub deliver confusion with mistaken restaurant listings (The San Francisco Chronicle)
- Alex Danco Tweet Thread
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One of my favorite newsletters—I’ve really gotta give you all a list of all the newsletters I subscribe to if you’re interested at some point—one of my favorite newsletters is The New Consumer (subscribe here) by Dan Frommer. Dan published his own analysis of the Casper IPO, and I couldn’t help myself. I needed to delve into the Casper financials in greater detail. But also: scandal marketing! Can brands be “cancelled”? And analysis of this week’s Netflix earnings.
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Quick Share is coming to challenge AirDrop, how iOS 13 has blown up location marketing, Google takes the wrapping of Dataset Search, an interesting eSports raise and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Clayton Christensen, guru of disruptive innovation and Latter-day Saint leader, dies at 67 (DesertNews)
- Exclusive: Quick Share is Samsung’s alternative to AirDrop for Galaxy phones (XDADevelopers)
- Apple, Broadcom Strike $15 Billion Worth of Chip-Supply Deals (Bloomberg)
- Apple and Google’s tough new location privacy controls are working (Fast Company)
- Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia (ThreatPost)
- Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring (The Verge)
- Esports Training Site ProGuides Raises $5 Million In Seed Funding (Forbes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Inside the World's Highest-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest (Wired)
- We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (NYTimes)
- The Secret History of Facial Recognition (Wired)
- Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes (Wired)
- Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (WSJ)
- The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- The Internet of Beefs (Ribbonfarm.com)
- The Hacker News Thread on The Internet of Beefs
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More Samsung phone rumors, Match Group invests in safety features as a feature, the Bezos phone hack story gets a lot murkier, and everyone seems to have noticed that Google search has gotten crufty.
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- Samsung's new foldable phone already sounds way better than the Galaxy Fold (Mashable)
- New leak says the Galaxy S20's display will run at 60Hz by default (Android Central)
- Microsoft starts rolling out developer tools for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android phone (ZDNet)
- Match Group invests in Noonlight to power new safety features in Tinder and other dating apps (TechCrunch)
- Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone (Motherboard)
- Alex Stamos Tweet Storm
- Google’s ads just look like search results now (The Verge)
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The whole Jeff Bezos phone-got-hacked thing blows up into something crazy. That rumored “cheap” iPhone might be mere weeks away. Is Amazon Music almost as big as Apple Music? Cruise unveils the Origin self-driving car. And the first test of voting via smartphone in the US.
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- Jeff Bezos hack: Amazon boss's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' (The Guardian)
- Saudi’s MBS implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone (Financial Times)
- UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi crown prince involvement in Bezos phone hack (CNBC)
- New Low-Cost iPhone to Enter Mass Production in February (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Music subscriber numbers close in on Apple (Financial Times)
- Exclusive: Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections (NPR)
- EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT CRUISE’S FIRST DRIVERLESS CAR WITHOUT A STEERING WHEEL OR PEDALS (The Verge)
- Netflix says Disney and Baby Yoda may have cut into the streaming service’s growth (Recode)
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Apple could have encrypted iCloud backups… but didn’t… ostensibly to play nice with the government? Getting an Uber from the airport is about to get more expensive. Digital media is actually making money??!! Is IGTV on the way out? Some interesting raises and (potentially) the most consequential lawsuit in Silicon Valley history.
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- Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources (Reuters)
- Uber Tests Feature Allowing Some California Drivers to Set Fares (WSJ)
- A true digital media publishing breakthrough (Axios)
- Spotify in Early Talks to Buy Sports and Pop-Culture Outlet the Ringer (WSJ)
- Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app (TechCrunch)
- DARPA-backed Soft Robotics raises $23 million for autonomous grippers and sorters (VentureBeat)
- Berlin proptech Home raises €11 million to be tech-enabled middleman between owners and tenants (Tech.eu)
- Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code (VentureBeat)
- Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll (Reuters)
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As I said on Friday, we’re going to delve into Sports Tech in a meaningful way for the first time. This will cover the streaming wars from a new angle because, where is sports in all that? This will be esports, the streaming wars surrounding game streaming, the new betting economy, this will be wearables and actual sports tech products. My guest is Will Martin, who’s Sports Tech Newsletter is something you should subscribe to immediately if you like this space.
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No ads in WhatsApp… for now. We have all the details on the Peacock streaming service. The other streaming wars are taking their toll on Twitch. Jack Dorsey asked Elon Musk how to fix Twitter. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (WSJ)
- NBC’s Peacock streaming service will launch on July 15th with three different price tiers (The Verge)
- Twitch's loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says (TechCrunch)
- Huawei P40 Pro leak shows off five-camera bump and ceramic body (The Verge)
- Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk How to Fix Twitter (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking (Marker)
- All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen (Polygon)
- The Promise of Cloud-Native Games (A16Z/Jonathan Lai)
- The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite (MatthewBall.vc)
- Islamic fintechs are on the rise — but how viable is this tailored offering? (Sifted)
- The Big Question Now Facing Apple (Above Avalon)
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Apple has acquired a pretty interesting AI startup, the Chromium-based Edge browser is here, but there is trouble in Mozilla land, Fitbit is first to market with blood oxygen monitoring, the state of the app economy and ‘instant’ weather forecasts from Google.
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- Exclusive: Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range (GeekWire)
- XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (VentureBeat)
- Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (TechCrunch)
- Fitbit quietly enables blood oxygen tracking on its wearables (Engadget)
- Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley (Axios)
- App stores saw record 204 billion app downloads in 2013, consumer spend of $120 billion (TechCrunch)
- Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts (The Verge)
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More juicy details about the Galaxy S20 lineup, Google Smart Lock lets you do 2FA on your iPhone, proof that no-code development is the new hotness, why do the Feds even need Apple to unlock those iPhones, and Jack Dorsey says we are never, ever, ever going to get… a Edit Tweet button. Probably.
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- Exclusive: Leaked Samsung Galaxy S20+ Hands-on confirms 120Hz display, ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner, and no headphone jack (XDAdevelopers)
- You can now use iPhones as Google security keys for 2FA (9to5Google)
- Google acquires no-code app development platform AppSheet (VentureBeat)
- Four years after being acquired, Hipmunk is shutting down (TechCrunch)
- Apple Takes a (Cautious) Stand Against Opening a Killer’s iPhones (NYTimes)
- European Venture Report: VC Dollars Rise In 2019 (Crunchbase News)
- Disney+ was the most downloaded app in the US in Q4 2019 (TechCrunch)
- Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ (The Verge)
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Apple once again refuses to unlock an iPhone for the Feds, Visa buys Plaid, a macOS beta hints at future ‘Pro Mode’, super crucial Windows update you should download right away and why today is also the end of the Windows 7 Era.
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- Apple Said It Is Helping In The Pensacola Shooting Investigation, But It Won't Unlock The Shooter's iPhones (Buzzfeed News)
- Visa to acquire Plaid, the fintech powering Venmo and other banking apps, in $5.3 billion deal (CNBC)
- Epic says its PC game store now has more than 100 million users (The Verge)
- macOS beta hints at future ‘Pro Mode’ to boost performance on portable Macs (9to5Mac)
- PC shipments grew in 2019 ahead of bet on 5G and dual-screen devices (VentureBeat)
- Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday (KrebsOnSecurity)
- MICROSOFT BIDS FAREWELL TO WINDOWS 7 AND THE MILLIONS OF PCS THAT STILL RUN IT (The Verge)
- Free Windows 10 upgrade still works for many Windows 7 users. Here's how to get it (CNET)
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Are you ready to get hyped for the Galaxy S20 cause yes, that’s the name. We’re skipping some numbers. TikTok might be cloning Snapchat’s Discover feed. Is GDPR actually doing anything and/or is it enforceable? And could Casper be a make or break test for the Unicorn ecosystem?
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- Exclusive: This is the Samsung Galaxy S20+ (XDAdevelopers)
- TikTok explores curated content feed to lure advertisers (FT)
- Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests (TechCrunch)
- A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings (TechCrunch)
- Casper's IPO could be a bellwether for unprofitable startups in the post-We-Work era (TechCrunch)
- Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money selling mattresses (TechCrunch)
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Checkin on the health-tech space with the only reporter I follow religiously around this space: Christina Farr. Why are hospitals suddenly in the middle of a health data gold rush? Why are you more likely to have your health records hacked then every be able to get them in your own hands?
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More trouble for Softbank startups, more layoffs at scooter startups, VC deals plateaued last year but music streaming continues to skyrocket, how much money does Netflix lose to password sharers and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- SoftBank-Backed Oyo Firing Thousands Across China and India (Bloomberg)
- E-scooter startup Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 (Axios)
- The Q4/EOY 2019 Global VC Report: A Strong End To A Good, But Not Fantastic, Year (Crunchbase News)
- U.S. Music Streams Topped a Trillion in 2019 (WSJ)
- Streaming Services Reckon With Password-Sharing "Havoc" (The Hollywood Reporter)
- I’m a Millennial, and I Don’t Understand What Quibi Is Trying to Do (Fortune)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- QUIBI VERSUS THE WORLD (The Verge)
- The hidden world and overlooked problems of acting in video games (Washington Post)
- Why your favorite celebs are ditching Twitter for an app you’ve never heard of (Fast Company)
- AN ORAL HISTORY OF RICKROLLING (Mel)
- Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again (WSJ)
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Twitter will allow you to limit who can reply to your tweets, iPhone sales in China seem to have rebounded, the Chinese version of TikTok is why TikTok can distance itself from China, AI is going to pick which movies get made, and why sex tech finally has a home at CES.
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- Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen (The Verge)
- Firefox gets patch for critical 0-day that’s being actively exploited (Ars Technica)
- iPhone Hits Double-Digit Growth in China, Official Data Show (Bloomberg)
- Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users (TechCrunch)
- Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)
- At CES 2020, the AirPods Pro competitors arrived in droves (The Verge)
- Sex-Tech Companies Are Having More Fun Than the Rest of Us at CES (Wired)
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Another interesting Facebook memo from Boz, Intel previews its next generation of mobile GPUs, more troubles in Softbank startup land, Quibi had a bit of a launch event today, and I saw Charmin’s toilet paper delivery robot.
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- Don’t Tilt Scales Against Trump, Facebook Executive Warns (NYTimes)
- CES 2020: Intel previews Tiger Lake mobile processors and discrete GPU (CNET)
- Getaround to Lay Off About One-Fourth of Staff (The Information)
- ClassPass, finally a unicorn, raises $285M in new funding (TechCrunch)
- Quibi unveils "Turnstyle," its flagship mobile video format (Axios)
- Quibi's secret weapon: Videos that work in portrait and landscape mode (Engadget)
- Mind-blowing Delta board shows 100 passengers personalized flight details at the same time (Mashable)
- I tried Nreal’s mixed reality glasses at CES and now I want a pair (Android Authority)
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Sonos goes nuclear on Google, though it really has Amazon in mind also; Facebook bans deep fakes… in a way; a whole bunch of really interesting laptop stuff, Sony makes a car, and you make a fashion statement and protect yourself from air pollution at the same time… all the stuff from Day 2 at CES.
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- Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google (NYTimes)
- Enforcing Against Manipulated Media (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook bans deepfakes, but new policy may not cover controversial Pelosi video (Washington Post)
- Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S (The Verge)
- Mercedes-Benz unveils an Avatar-themed concept car with scales (The Verge)
- Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Laptop Has a Second Screen on the Lid (TomsHardware)
- Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen (The Verge)
- Lenovo's Yoga 5G laptop packs nine antennas and Snapdragon power (Engadget)
- Ring adds privacy dashboard to app in response to security concerns (The Verge)
- Atmos Faceware makes clean air an expensive accessory (The Verge)
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Samsung tries to scoop CES, Amazon’s Fire TV Edition wants to leapfrog Roku TV, Samsung wants the Galaxy Chromebook to change the way you think about Chromebooks, is Softbank ghosting startups even after delivering term sheets, and a roundup of day one of CES.
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- Fire TV Edition expands to more soundbars, plus cars, cables boxes and more (TechCrunch)
- Roku TV adds 15 more brand partners plus a new 'Roku TV Ready' program (TechCrunch)
- THE SAMSUNG GALAXY CHROMEBOOK IS BEAUTIFUL, FAST, AND EXPENSIVE (The Verge)
- Scoop: SoftBank shafts startups (Axios)
- News coverage gets geo-fragmented (NiemanLab)
- Samsung details its stunning bezel-less 8K TV (The Verge)
- The 10 Neatest Things We've Seen at CES So Far (Wired)
- Intel just confirmed it’s building this tiny modular desktop gaming PC (The Verge)
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Google’s AI has a medical breakthrough, Apple raids HBO for maybe it’s biggest name, Instagram seems to be plateauing by one metric—going gangbusters in another, what to expect from CES and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms (NYTimes)
- Apple Deal Returns Former HBO Boss Richard Plepler to Spotlight (NYTimes)
- HERE’S WHAT’S NEXT FOR GADGETS IN 2020 (The Verge)
- Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M (TechCrunch)
- Instagram User Growth in the US Will Drop to Single Digits For the First Time (eMarketer)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust (Benedict Evans)
- Windows: Facing the New Decade (2010–2020) (Steven Sinofsky)
- Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack (WSJ)
- 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age (Yahoo News)
- This time, for sure! Ars Technica’s 2020 Deathwatch (Ars Technica)
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Dell kicks off CES season with two new laptops, Imagination Technologies is back in Apple’s good graces, the IRS is finally sticking it to tax prep software firms, and a grand unified theory of the Google Civil War.
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- Dell’s latest XPS 13 has a new design with a bigger display and Ice Lake chips (The Verge)
- Dell debuts 5G-ready Latitude 9510 laptop, adds iOS mirroring to PCs (VentureBeat)
- Apple restores Imagination GPU chip agreement after public dispute and employee poaching (9to5Mac)
- IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax (ProPublica)
- I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. (Ross LaJeunesse/Medium)
- Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)
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A major internet of things data leak, China is about to turn on its GPS competitor, would you like to star in a bitmoji TV show, a look back at the year in unicorns and is the VC gravy train over for us consumers, at least?
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- IoT vendor Wyze confirms server leak (ZDNet)
- China decouples from US in space with 2020 'GPS' completion (Nikkei Asian Review)
- SPOTIFY TO SUSPEND POLITICAL ADS IN 2020 (AdAge)
- Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show (TechCrunch)
- The New Unicorns Of 2019 (Crunchbase News)
- Israel doubles number of unicorns in 2019 (Globes)
- Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts (WSJ)
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A late holiday gift for YouTube creators, an important new rule for drone operators, to what degree has the Chinese government enabled Huawei’s success, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- YouTube gives creators more control over copyright claim disputes with new update (The Verge)
- New rule would make it possible to track and identify nearly all drones flying in the U.S. (CNBC)
- State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise (WSJ)
- Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network (Pro Publica)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle (NYTimes)
- Netflix was the best-performing stock of the decade, delivering a more than 4,000% return (CNBC)
- 11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+ (MatthewBall.vc)
- Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch. (WSJ)
- How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars (Fast Company)
- THE 84 BIGGEST FLOPS, FAILS, AND DEAD DREAMS OF THE DECADE IN TECH (The Verge)
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Travis Kalanick has cut all ties with Uber, Sling does indeed have streaming pricing power, livestreams are the new telethons, YouTube considered doing the right thing but passed, and is Catalyst fundamentally flawed?
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Links:
- Travis Kalanick severs all ties with Uber, departing board and selling all his shares (CNBC)
- Sling TV gets more expensive, raises cheapest subscription price to $30 (The Verge)
- Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round (TechCrunch)
- Pentagon tells military personnel not to use at-home DNA kits (NBC News)
- Livestreams are the new telethons, and they’re raising millions for charities (Washington Post)
- Inside YouTube’s Year of Responsibility (Bloomberg)
- Catalyst and Cohesion (WormsandViruses.com)
- Catalyst, Two Months In (Daring Fireball)
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The Government says ToTok is a full on spying app, TikTok wants to distance itself from allegations that it might be a spying app, out of nowhere, could Rivian be Tesla’s biggest competitor, and what does it mean if Travis Kalanick sells all of his Uber stock?
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Links:
- It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. (NYTimes)
- U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (Reuters)
- DraftKings going public via reverse merger (Axios)
- Rivian adds $1.3 billion in funding for its electric utility and adventure vehicles (TechCrunch)
- Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Cuts Stake in Company by More Than 90% (WSJ)
- Boeing Starliner Lands in New Mexico After Clock Error Prompts Early Return (NYTimes)
- Starliner makes a safe landing—now NASA faces some big decisions (Ars Technica)
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Does Apple have a secret team to do an end run around telecom carriers, Google buys a game studio, IAC buys Care.com, Ripple is an interesting raise, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices (Bloomberg)
- Google buys triple-A game dev Typhoon Studio to beef up Stadia (VentureBeat)
- Care.com shares surge after Barry Diller’s IAC agrees to buy online caregiver marketplace (CNBC)
- Ripple Raises $200 Million as Part of Bid for XRP Adoption (Fortune)
- Robocall fines rise to $10,000 per call under newly passed law (The Verge)
- Labels & Publishers Win $1 Billion Piracy Lawsuit Against Cox Communications (Billboard)
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- SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy (Non-GAAP Thoughts)
- IKEA 2.0 (The Verge)
- State of the Stream 2019: Platform Wars, the New King of Streaming, Most Watched Game and More! (Stream Elements)
- Meet the Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers (Wired)
- I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552 (Ars Technica)
- The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s (Buzzfeed News)
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That big NYTimes piece about location data, is Facebook taking another run at creating its own OS, is Apple considering buying James Bond, is Spotify building a social graph, and do e-athletes need gaming socks?
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- TinyCapital.com
- Rhone.com/ridehome
Links:
- Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy (NYTimes)
- Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census (Washington Post)
- To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware (The Information)
- Apple Held Preliminary Talks With Pac-12 Conference, MGM (WSJ)
- Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to revive social music discovery (TechCrunch)
- A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California (Los Angeles Times)
- TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $3 Billion Deal (Variety)
- Puma’s first ‘active gaming footwear’ is a sock (Engadget)
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Everyone comes together to create a smart-home standard, did Google consider walking away from its cloud business, the last holdout comes to streaming, Gary Larson stops holding out on the web and the math behind that gift-wrapping video.
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- Tiny Capital
- Aircall.io/ride
Links:
- Apple, Google and Amazon are cooperating to make your home gadgets talk to each other (CNBC)
- We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful (Motherboard)
- Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (The Information)
- Cord cutters, you can finally stream your PBS stations online – on YouTube TV (USA Today)
- Virtual product placement is coming for TV and movies and Ryff has raised cash to put it there (TechCrunch)
- Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work (The Guardian)
- A Letter From Gary Larson (TheFarSide.com)
- The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Gift-Wrapping Trick. Here's the Secret. (Popular Mechanics)
- The Gift Wrapping Video
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More reported casualties in the Google Civil War, more strife between Amazon and FedEx, can Amazon turn Alexa into a healthy ecosystem, developers: get busy on Edge extensions, and the top apps of the decade have one big thing in common.
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Links:
- Google accused of firing another worker in union-busting drive (Engadget)
- Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments (WSJ)
- Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa (The Information)
- Amazon Brings in $1.4 Million in 2019 of Alexa Skill Revenue So Far — Well Short of the $5.5 Million Target According to The Information (Voicebot.ai)
- Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions (Winbuzzer)
- A Look Back At the Top Apps & Games of the Decade (App Annie)
- Controversial sale of .org domain manager faces review at ICANN (Ars Technica)
- Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings (The Guardian)
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Chrome 79 is wiping data from some apps, Amazon is about to deliver more than FedEx or UPS all by its lonesome, Argo plans to charge by the mile, smart TV’s make margin by watching you, does music lack pricing power and help me find a name for $100 million-dollar annual recurring revenue startups.
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- TinyCapital.com
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Links:
- Google pauses Chrome 79 rollout on Android after bug wipes data in some apps (Android Police)
- Watch out, UPS. Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is already delivering half of its packages (CNBC)
- Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver (Fast Company)
- Argo takes different road to skirt self-driving challenges (Reuters)
- The falling price of a TV set is the story of the American economy (The Outline)
- The newest members of the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)
- Zero-to-100 Million in 3 Years (Lemonade Blog)
- Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music? (Rolling Stone)
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For the final weekend bonus episode of the year, I wanted to check in with Crypto. What a year for the space! Seemingly dead at the beginning of the year. But then the Crypto Spring™ happened. And then Libra happened. And so… where are we? No one better than CoinDesk’s Brady Dale to catch us up…
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Details about the next-gen Xbox, Apple makes an interesting acquisition around photography, Lyft will rent you a car, why I find Roku so interesting, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 (The Verge)
- Apple Buys U.K. Startup to Improve iPhone Picture Taking (Bloomberg)
- Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit (The Verge)
- Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View (CNET)
- Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It’s Under Siege (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- THE AGE OF INSTAGRAM FACE (New Yorker)
- The Influencer and the Hit Man (OneZero)
- Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company)
- How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years (FYI)
- “Link In Bio” is a slow knife (Anil Dash)
- THE VERGE’S GADGETS OF THE DECADE (The Verge)
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Google releases all the things at once, everyone is mulling over Jack’s decentralized Twitter idea, one last tech IPO of the year, should seed investors just say yes to every deal, why you should know the Canva story, and why Cousin Greg playing Adam Neumann is my Christmas dream come true.
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Links:
- FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact (WSJ)
- Google is bringing spam detection and verified business messaging to Messages (The Verge)
- Interpreter, Google's real-time translator, comes to mobile (TechCrunch)
- Bill.com’s Stock Takes Off On IPO Day (Forbes)
- AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach (The Verge)
- Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals (AngelList Blog)
- Bluesky early thoughts (Sriramk.com)
- Hey @Jack Dorsey, decentralizing Twitter won’t solve hate speech problems (Digital Trends)
- Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air (Motherboard)
- Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom (Forbes)
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A bold new proposal to decentralize social media from Jack Dorsey, YouTube bans “malicious insults,” you can only clean your Pro Display XDR with a special cloth, Silicon Valley is no longer everyone’s favorite place to work and the big tech companies whistled past their troubles this year.
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Links:
- The Bluesky Thread (@jack)
- YouTube Will Ban Videos That “Maliciously Insult” People Based On Race, Gender, Or Sexual Orientation (Buzzfeed News)
- Apple's Pro Display XDR With Nano-Texture Can Only Be Cleaned With Special Apple-Provided Cloth (MacRumors)
- Intel's Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029 (AnandTech)
- Chrome 79 released with tab freezing, back-forward caching, and loads of security features (ZDNet)
- Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’ List (Bloomberg)
- Big Tech Is Under Attack, and Investors Couldn’t Care Less (NYTimes)
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Apple is suing its former chip architect, the Apple Card finally makes sense to me, wheels on the Mac Pro will run you $400, Softbank abandons Wag, Microsoft brings Office to Linux and I want the new tech bubble to be about exoskeletons.
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Links:
- Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia (The Register)
- Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market (The Information)
- Apple Cards' interest-free iPhone installment plan goes live, now with 6% back on Apple holiday purchases (TechCrunch)
- SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company (WSJ)
- Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux (VentureBeat)
- Mac Pro Build to Order Options (MacRumors)
- VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo (TechCrunch)
- Robotic exoskeletons: Coming to a factory, warehouse or army near you, soon (ZDNet)
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China orders its own crackdown on foreign tech, Google is bringing “feature drops” to Pixel Phones, the Mac Pro is here but Wunderlist is exiting stage left, Magic Leap seems to be having issues, and an interesting raise from, well… us.
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Links:
- Beijing orders state offices to replace foreign PCs and software (Asian Financial Review)
- Making Pixel more helpful with the first Pixel feature drop (The Keyword)
- New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR orders start on December 10, Apple announces (9to5Mac)
- Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft (CNBC)
- Microsoft to finally shut down to do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020 (TechCrunch)
- Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses (The Information)
- Amazon leases Hudson Yards office space less than year after HQ2 debacle (Curbed NY)
- This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into (Fast Company)
- Ride Home Media Raises $1M To Build “Summary-As-A-Service” Podcast Network (CrunchBase News)
- The Daily Podcast Revolution (Medium)
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I’ve been trying to read books about AI lately to get a firmer grasp on this important topic, and the best book I’ve read for both a basic grounding of the history and the state of play of AI, but also looking at potential frameworks for the technology, both ethically and socially is A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman.
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I had already reached out to Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen this week to talk about the Google Civil War, but then, of course, there was other big Google news this week. So, come for the assessment of Google’s culture at the moment but stay for an assessment of regime change and a lot more.
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The Uber safety report, more Galaxy S11 rumors, could Apple be about to kill the charging port on iPhones entirely and what would that mean, Samsung’s new chips to make AR mainstream and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year (NYTimes)
- Samsung to Take on iPhone’s Popularity With Big Camera Overhaul (Bloomberg)
- Kuo: Apple to Launch 'Completely Wireless' iPhone Without Lightning Connector and 'iPhone SE 2 Plus' With Touch ID Power Button in 2021 (MacRumors)
- 5G and face tracking: The weird future of VR headsets like Oculus Quest and HoloLens (CNET)
- Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8c and 7c processors will power cheaper ARM laptops (The Verge)
- Spotify Year In Review Thread (@baekdal)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company (Motherboard)
- Inside VSCO, a Gen Z-approved photo-sharing app, with CEO Joel Flory (TechCrunch)
- Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation (Silicon Angle)
- Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers For European Startups (Forbes)
- A decade of hacking: The most notable cyber-security events of the 2010s (ZDNet)
- HOW SONY BOUGHT, AND SQUANDERED, THE FUTURE OF GAMING (The Verge)
- The difference between Windows Notepad and WordPad, and when to use each (Windows Central)
- Why ‘The Mandalorian’ cites Fortnite dev Epic Games in its credits (VentureBeat)
- Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free (WSJ)
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The FTC might be broadening its look into Amazon, the new flagship Snapdragon Chips, a disc-free Xbox, checkins with Slack, Imgur and Robinhood, and craigslist enters the 21st century.
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Links:
- Amazon Faces Widening U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny in Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
- Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 and 765(G): 5G For All in 2020, All The Details (AnandTech)
- Sources: Microsoft Is Still Planning A Cheaper, Disc-Less Next-Gen Xbox (Kotaku)
- Slack Raises Outlook After Winning New Corporate Customers (WSJ)
- 300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app (TechCrunch)
- Red Flags for Robinhood (Fortune)
- Craigslist Finally Gets an Official App (Gizmodo)
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Larry and Sergey ride their Segway’s off into the sunset, a new entrant in the streaming wars, more news from the re:Invent conference, YouTube says it’s algorithm change is working and the year that was, in the world of Reddit.
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- Metalab
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Links:
- A letter from Larry and Sergey (The Keyword)
- GOOGLE’S THIRD ERA (The Verge)
- Plex launches a free, ad-supported streaming service in over 200 countries (TechCrunch)
- With Outposts, Local Zones, and Verizon, AWS looks beyond the cloud (Mostly Cloudy)
- YouTube says viewers are spending less time watching conspiracy videos. But many still do. (The Washington Post)
- Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads (Reuters)
- Reddit's monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 (TechCrunch)
- Subreddit That Hates on ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Popular TV Subreddit of 2019 (The Wrap)
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Headlines from re:Invent, how tech is caught up in a tariff war with France, Facebook created a chatbot to help employees explain themselves during the holidays, and let me tell you about the new foldable phone from Pablo Escobar’s brother.
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- Metalab
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Links:
- AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet)
- AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch)
- Trump Administration Proposes Tariffs Against $2.4 Billion of French Goods (WSJ)
- Former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing labor charges against the company (Vox)
- Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
- TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org)
- TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge)
- DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes)
- Pablo Escobar's Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an 'Unbreakable' Foldable Phone? (Gizmodo)
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Interesting Galaxy S11 leaks, T-Mobile flips the switch on its 5G network, might different models of next year’s iPhone have different versions of 5G, the rundown of Black Friday/Cyber Monday and why an e-sports team is IPO-ing.
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- Legacybox.com/ride
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Links:
- Samsung Suddenly Exposes Radical New Galaxy Smartphone [Updated] (Forbes)
- T-Mobile launches 600MHz 5G across the US, but no one can use it until December 6th (The Verge)
- 4 new iPhones could have 5G in 2020, but not the same kind of 5G (Mashable)
- Google and Facebook run into more trouble over data in Europe (CNN Business)
- Driving Innovation in Data Portability with a New Photo Transfer Tool (Facebook Newsroom)
- Black Friday sees record $7.4B in online sales, $2.9B spent using smartphones (TechCrunch)
- Now even the FBI is warning about your smart TV's security (TechCrunch)
- Amazon debuts automatic speech recognition service, Amazon Transcribe Medical (TechCrunch)
- Amazon’s kooky new keyboard lets humans and AI write music together (Fast Company)
- Counter-Strike World Champions Aim for First Esport Team IPO (Bloomberg)
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Since it’s a holiday week in the US, I’m going to do what I’ve done once before on Holiday weeks and give you an episode from the Internet History Podcast archives. This is a story about tech history that, if you’ve never heard it, will blow your mind. What if I told you there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of what would become America Online? He was the guy who hired Steve Case back before AOL was AOL. What if I told you that same entrepreneur invented true, networked, online gaming—not in the era of the Xbox 360, or Stadia, but back in the days of the Atari 2600? What if I then told you that same entrepreneur invented a Napster/Pandora/Spotify/Sirius-like music service, all the way back in 1981, before the compact disc was even widely available? That Man Is William von Meister And he is the subject of this episode. This is a crazy story, about a hard drinking, heavy-smoking, women-chasing entrepreneur, seemingly from the Mad Men cloth, who was “a pathological entrepreneur” with a “reality-distortion-field” that would give Steve Jobs a run for his money. It’s a story of about a dozen harebrained businesses, none of which were really successful (excepting of course that some or all of them lent their DNA to the company that would become AOL) but all of which were way ahead of their time, and in many ways, presaged technologies we take for granted today.
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Google fires four workers associated with labor organizing, Amazon's ruthless quotas lead to high rates of warehouse injuries, grass-roots opponents to Amazon's power form a coalition, a report cites the public cost of Amazon warehouses on Southern California, the California DMV is selling driver information, the Rev transcription service exposes contractors to horrific recordings, Facebook pays people to take surveys, Zuckerberg mostly listens to old white men, a TikTok teen spreads the news about Chinese mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs, and Texas Instruments keeps toting up new profits from an old calculator style.
Sponsors
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Mealime
Links:
- Google fires four workers, including one tied to protests (Bloomberg)
- Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees (the Atlantic)
- Amazon's Own Numbers Reveal Staggering Injury Rates at Staten Island Warehouse (Gizmodo)
- Grass-roots activists on Amazon's power coalesce (New York Times)
- Amazon costs Southern California big time in public assistance for its workers, environmental and transportation impact (Economic Roundtable)
- California DMV makes $50 million a year selling personal information (Vice)
- Rev Transcribers Hate the Low Pay, But the Disturbing Recordings Are Even Worse (The Verge)
- Facebook pays people to take surveys (Engadget)
- Zuck talks to old white men (Bloomberg)
- TikTok suspended a teen who posted a viral takedown of China disguised as a makeup tutorial (Business Insider)
- The Texas Instruments Chained-Calculation Massacre (Medium's GEN)
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Uber loses its license in London, the web’s founder launches a “contract” to save it, eBay sells StubHub, the Threadrippers seem to be the real deal, Deadpool is buying a mobile carrier and Elon Musk knows why those windows cracked.
Sponsors:
- Mealime
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Links:
- Uber loses London licence after TfL finds drivers faked identity (The Guardian)
- Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web (The Guardian)
- EBay to sell StubHub to Viagogo for about $4 billion in cash (CNBC)
- India's financial services firm Paytm raises $1B (TechCrunch)
- The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review: 24 and 32 Cores on 7nm (AnandTech)
- AMD confirms 64-core Threadripper 3990X for 2020 (The Verge)
- Ryan Reynolds now owns a stake in budget carrier Mint Mobile (Engadget)
- Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Cybertruck windows smashed during presentation (The Verge)
- Tesla's polarizing Cybertruck was preordered 200,000 times within 3 days (USA Today)
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We gotta talk about Cybertruck, Twitter continues its shipping products hot streak, AirPods are hotter than even Apple anticipated, some trouble in Russia for gadget makers and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- SVB.com/next
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Links:
- Behold, the Tesla Cybertruck is here (TechCrunch)
- Tesla accidentally busted two windows on the Cybertruck while demonstrating how tough they are (TechCrunch)
- Wall Street analysts say Tesla’s pickup is ‘really weird’ and Ford can ‘breathe a sigh of relief’ (CNBC)
- Tesla all-electric ATV makes a surprise debut at Cybertruck event (TechCrunch)
- Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software (BBC News)
- Twitter will finally let users disable SMS as default 2FA method (ZDNet)
- Twitter rolls out its 'Hide Replies' feature to all users worldwide (TechCrunch)
- Apple AirPods Shipments Expected to Double to 60 Million in 2019 (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft pushes Surface Earbuds release back to spring 2020 (Windows Central)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How our home delivery habit reshaped the world (The Guardian)
- The Architect of Modern Algorithms (Quanta Magazine)
- Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create "the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform" (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Inside the Most Watched YouTube Channel in the World (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations (CoinDesk)
- Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: A Big, Beautiful 50-Year Friendship (GQ)
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Google is changing its rules around political ads, PayPal is acquiring Honey for a ton of money, why have a Dash Button when you can have a Dash Shelf? Route puts all your orders in one place and I’m afraid Google’s original culture is definitively dead.
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- An update on our political ads policy (The Keyword/Google)
- Google to Limit Targeting of Political Ads (NYTimes)
- Facebook Weighs Steps to Curb Narrowly Targeted Political Ads (WSJ)
- PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B (TechCrunch)
- Amazon unveils new Dash Smart Shelf that automatically reorders items when supplies run low (GeekWire)
- Route's app auto-tracks all your packages, raises $12M (TechCrunch)
- Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut (Bloomberg)
- Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts (NYTimes)
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Hackers could take over your Android cameras, the police can do whatever they want with your Ring videos, if your Disney+ account is hacked, is it probably your fault? An amazing breakthrough in solar technology and why fishing by drone has become a thing.
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- Android Camera App Bug Lets Apps Record Video Without Permission (BleepingComputer)
- Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they’d like, Amazon tells senator (Washington Post)
- Amazon says it’s considered face scanning in Ring doorbells (Associated Press)
- Hacked Disney+ accounts are reportedly being sold for as little as $3 (CNBC)
- Apple expands in Austin (Apple Newsroom)
- Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough (CNN)
- A new solar heat technology could help solve one of the trickiest climate problems (Vox)
- Tackle Box for the Modern Fisherman: Rod, Reel, Drone (WSJ)
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Apple’s planning an awards ceremony? Amazon has a new fire TV accessory, Spotify launches Your Daily Podcast, Google announces Your News Update, Ransomware comes for the vets, and the hidden cost hurdle for electric cars.
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- Apple announces press event on Dec. 2 (CNBC)
- Amazon’s latest Fire TV accessory is an IR blaster that lets your Echo control your TV (The Verge)
- AMAZON EXPANDS FREE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE TO APPLE, ANDROID DEVICES (MusicBusinessWorldwide)
- Google is putting an algorithmic audio news feed on its Assistant (The Verge)
- Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals (Krebs on Security)
- Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected (MIT Technology Review)
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The Mustang Mach-E wants to out Tesla Tesla, John Legere is stepping down from T-Mobile, .org domain names might be getting a lot more expensive, and the reviews on Google Stadia are decidedly mixed, but at least it works.
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- FORD’S MUSTANG MACH-E IS AN ELECTRIC SUV WITH UP TO 300 MILES OF RANGE (The Verge)
- UP CLOSE WITH FORD’S ELECTRIC MUSTANG SUV, THE MACH-E (The Verge)
- Wayve raises $20 million to give autonomous cars better AI brains (VentureBeat)
- John Legere to step down as T-Mobile CEO next year (CNBC)
- The org that doles out .org websites just sold itself to a for-profit company (The Verge)
- ByteDance to take on rivals with music streaming launch (Financial Times)
- HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s bid to acquire the company (CNBC)
- GOOGLE STADIA REVIEW: THE BEST OF CLOUD GAMING IS STILL JUST A BETA (The Verge)
- Stadia the Technology? Awesome. Stadia the Service? Not So Much (Vice)
- Stadia tech review: the best game streaming yet, but far from ready (EuroGamer)
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So, that Razr event, out in LA... obviously I didn’t get to cover it live… and if there was ever a recent hardware event crying out for “hands-on” reporting, this was one. So, I reached out to someone who was there: QZ.com’s Mike Murphy, and actually, his take was pretty different than some of the others I read to you on Thursday. Come for that, and stay for the reality check about what will really make the 5G revolution happen.
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Apple takes down vaping apps from the App Store, why is Google going ahead with the Stadia launch this month? Amazon protests the JEDI decision, the TikTok juggernaut rolls on—especially in India—and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Exclusive: Apple to remove vaping apps from store (Axios)
- November 2019 Xbox One Update Brings Xbox Action for the Google Assistant, Gamertag Updates, Text Filters and More (XBox Wire)
- Microsoft to launch xCloud in 2020, with PS4 controllers and PC streaming on the way (The Verge)
- Google demos Stadia UI and lists several missing launch features (Engadget)
- Amazon cites ‘unmistakable bias’ in Microsoft’s military cloud contract win (CNBC)
- TikTok surpasses 1.5 billion downloads — with almost 500M in India (TNW)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- WeFail: How the doomed Masa Son-Adam Neumann relationship set WeWork on the road to disaster (Fast Company)
- How VCs Make Money (VCStarterKit)
- Superhero or Supervillain? Technology’s Role Changes Comic Books (NYTimes)
- AN ORAL HISTORY OF LIMEWIRE: THE LITTLE APP THAT CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOREVER (MelMagazine)
- As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots (LATimes)
- Managing Your Friendships, With Software (The Atlantic)
- From Instagram to Candy Crush: These are the most important apps of the decade (CNET)
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There’s a new Razr phone with a foldable screen that might actually work? That Apple Prime bundle might be coming sooner rather than later. That Apple Research app is here right now. Why did 1Password raise a bunch of money for the first time ever? And can Netflix use Nickelodeon to fend off Disney?
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- Motorola's foldable Razr: Inside the remaking of a flip phone icon (CNET)
- MOTOROLA RESURRECTS THE RAZR AS A FOLDABLE ANDROID SMARTPHONE (The Verge)
- Apple Plans Mega Bundle of Music, News, TV as Early as 2020 (Bloomberg)
- Apple launches Research app, US users can enroll in three health studies (9to5Mac)
- In Its First Funding In 14 Years, Toronto’s 1Password Raises $200M Series A Led By Accel (Crunchbase)
- Netflix and Nickelodeon partner on original programming, following Disney+ launch (TechCrunch)
- First ‘Tuned by THX’ home theater speakers need no A/V receivers — or wires (Digital Trends)
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The new 16-inch MacBook pro might actually have a keyboard that works! Google wants you to bank with them. The Brave browser comes out of beta. And there’s an AI that can predict if you’ll die in the next year… but doctors don’t know how it does it.
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- APPLE’S 16-INCH MACBOOK PRO IS HERE AND IT HAS A GOOD KEYBOARD (The Verge)
- 16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers (Daring Fireball)
- Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance: Banking (WSJ)
- Brave 1.0 launches, bringing the privacy-first browser out of beta (The Verge)
- DoorDash Picks Up Another $100 Million at Nearly $13 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
- Border officials can’t have ‘boundless’ access to search devices, court rules (The Verge)
- AI can predict if you'll die soon - but we've no idea how it works (New Scientist)
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Google has hoovered up the health records of millions of folks without telling anyone, Instagram debuts a TikTok competitor, Facebook debuts Facebook Pay, WordPress.com debuts recurring payments and Disney+ literally just debuts.
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- Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans (The Wall Street Journal)
- Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Pay is a new payment system for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook (The Verge)
- Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots (TechCrunch)
- Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M (TechCrunch)
- WordPress.com sites can now accept subscriptions with new 'Recurring Payments' feature (TechCrunch)
- Disney+ experiencing ‘unable to connect’ errors on launch day (The Verge)
- Here’s what time every episode of The Mandalorian and other Disney+ shows go live (The Verge)
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New York State is investigating the Apple Card for alleged gender bias, sources say Apple thinks AR glasses could someday replace the smartphone, Dara Khosrowshahi said some things he regrets, and Amazon is gonna launch a grocery store not called Whole Foods.
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- Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe (Bloomberg)
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- About the Apple Card (dhh.dk)
- Uber CEO backtracks after calling Saudi murder of Khashoggi "a mistake" (Axios)
- Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses (The Information)
- Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods (CNET)
- DoorDash Won Food Delivery by Seizing the Suburbs and $2 Billion (Bloomberg)
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Disney Plus will be on Amazon’s Fire TV when it launches next week, Andreessen Horowitz launches a completely free crypto school, Twitter seems to have woken up all of the sudden, T-Mobile really wants that merger with Sprint to happen, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Disney stock rises after beating on top and bottom lines (CNBC)
- Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school (TechCrunch)
- Twitter Is Trying To Fix The Dunk And Ratio (BuzzFeed)
- T-Mobile dangles $15 plan, 5G gains, big freebies to get Sprint deal done (CNET)
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- Pessimists Archive Podcast
- The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (The Correspondent)
- THE BIG BITCOIN HEIST (Vanity Fair)
- We are living in Hideo Kojima’s dystopian nightmare. Can he save us? (Washington Post)
- A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history (The Verge)
- The Making of the World’s Greatest Investor (WSJ)
- How Cheap Robots Are Transforming Ocean Exploration (Outside)
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Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia, those weird text messages a whole bunch of people received overnight, the most powerful desktop CPUs in the world, Ghost Locomotion wants to turn existing cars into autonomous vehicles, Wrench will repair your car on demand, and what smart speaker seems to be unhackable?
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- Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics (Washington Post)
- Alphabet’s board of directors is investigating executives over inappropriate relationships (CNBC)
- A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day (The Verge)
- AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs (ZDNet)
- Uber faces costly choices after expert finds it uses Waymo self-driving tech (Reuters)
- Ghost raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars self-driving capabilities (VentureBeat)
- Wrench's on-demand vehicle repair and maintenance service picks up $20 million (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Portal survives Pwn2Own hacking contest, Amazon Echo got hacked (ZDNet)
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Twitter announces Topics, Xerox might take a run at HP, Uber’s getting into the ads business, Ford’s electric Mustang makes Tech Crunch angry, and the best blockchain startup idea I’ve heard of in a long time.
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- Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline (The Verge)
- Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP (WSJ)
- California Says Facebook Failed to Comply With Subpoenas (NYTimes)
- California asks for court order forcing Facebook to hand over Cambridge Analytica documents (The Verge)
- Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Designed to See Jaywalkers (Bloomberg)
- Uber is entering the ads business (TechCrunch)
- Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI inferencing speed on off-the-shelf processors (VentureBeat)
- How Arweave's Permaweb cheaply hosts sites & apps forever (TechCrunch)
- Ford built an electric Mustand with a manual transmission. And we're mad. (TechCrunch)
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How are things in Masa Son’s world post-WeWork? How long until Uber will be profitable? How is the new Surface Pro X to use? Why is iOS aggressively quitting background apps? And why data scoring companies are maybe worse than credit score companies.
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- SoftBank imposes new standards to rein in start-up founders (Financial Times)
- WeWork Isn’t the Only Stumble for SoftBank’s Vision Fund (WSJ)
- Uber Books Another Quarterly Loss as Revenue Climbs (WSJ)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO X REVIEW: HEARTBREAKER (The Verge)
- Xiaomi unveils its 108-megapixel smartphone (Engadget)
- Actively exploited bug in fully updated Firefox is sending users into a tizzy (ArsTechnica)
- IOS 13.2 IS OVERZEALOUSLY KILLING APPS IN THE BACKGROUND (Daring Fireball)
- I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. (NYTimes)
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Your smart speakers aren’t secure in a wild new way, crazy product announcement day from Microsoft and Adobe, crazy new logo design day from everyone but especially Facebook, and Wikipedia makes a big change to citations.
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- Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home (Wired)
- Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge)
- Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget)
- Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge)
- Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet)
- Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge)
- Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom)
- Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store (WCCFTech)
- The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired)
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Steve Case is obviously an internet and technology legend, as the founder of America Online. But as I said when I did a segment about it this week, I’ve always been fascinated with his Rise of the Rest Tour and Fund because, look, the whole basic principle of the project is to try new things, try to find new ideas and new people in new places. So after doing the segment on the new Rise of the Rest Fund II, I reached out to Steve to learn more about what he’s been learning as he’s been barnstorming the country to try to find exciting new companies outside of the major tech hubs.
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Google acquires Fitbit, Apple TV+ officially launches, might the US Government be about to bring the hammer down on TikTok, and of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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- Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1 billion (CNBC)
- Maps Incognito is launching for Google Maps Android Users (Google Maps Help)
- Apple TV+ is now live in the TV app: Start watching Apple’s original TV shows and movies (9to5Mac)
- Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- 50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 (Fast Company)
- Talking with former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos (CJR)
- Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (AlexDanco.com)
- The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups (Craft)
- The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois (ProPublica)
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Twitter says it will ban ALL political advertising, Cognizant says it is getting out of the content moderation business, Facebook earnings are good, Apple earnings are good… and evolving, and can the Chinese monitor SMS messages at the provider level, at scale?
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- Jack Dorsey's Twitter Thread
- Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue (TechCrunch)
- Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg (NYTimes)
- Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B (TechCrunch)
- A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations (The Verge)
- Apple is laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription (CNBC)
- Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network (ArsTechnica)
- Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery (OneZero)
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WhatsApp sues the NSO Group about that crazy exploit, Uber is threating to sue Los Angeles about a crazy tracking program that I’m not sure about, we’ve got the full details surrounding HBO Max, an activist is taking Facebook’s political advertising policy to its logical conclusion, and how come none of you told me about Mario Kart Tour?
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- Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking (Washington Post)
- WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program (NYTimes)
- The New HBO Max is competing with Netflix by giving you Friends and Game of Thrones for $15 a month (Recode)
- Report: Apple to Use Qualcomm's X55 5G Modem in All Three 2020 iPhones (MacRumors)
- Uber in talks with Los Angeles as scooter location data lawsuit looms (CNET)
- Privacy groups actually side with Uber in scooter data fight (Mashable)
- This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads (CNN Business)
- Mario Kart Tour Has a Rocket Start With 123.9 Million Downloads in Its First Month (SensorTower)
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Earnings from Alphabet and Shopify, hacking the Olympics, the Rise of the Rest rides again, Amazon is making grocery delivery free and letting you pay your electric bill via Alexa, and don’t update your HomePod, or you might brick it.
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- Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
- Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft: Russian hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics (ZDNet)
- AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
- China to Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions (Bloomberg)
- Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use (TechCrunch)
- Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa (VentureBeat)
- New 13.2 Update Bricking Some HomePods [Update Pulled by Apple] (MacRumors)
- PlayStation Vue is Shutting Down Live TV Streaming Service in January (The Streamable)
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AirPods Pro are here, new Nvidia streaming gadgets are here, Alphabet might be about to acquire Fitbit, the fallout from the Pentagon JEDI contract and what happens when your entire city orders from Amazon every single day.
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- Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30 (Apple NewsRoom)
- Apple unveils new in-ear AirPods Pro coming October 30 for $249 (9to5Mac)
- Google parent Alphabet makes offer to buy Fitbit, sending stock soaring (CNBC)
- Nvidia’s new Shield TV wins the Android TV market with amazing 4K upscaling (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon (CNBC)
- Spotify grows users 30% in Q3 2019, premium subscribers reach 113 million (VentureBeat)
- Microsoft’s Xbox bundles are back and ready for the new Project Scarlett Xbox (The Verge)
- 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets (NYTimes)
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The news that Yahoo was shutting down Yahoo Groups, as I said, was another gut punch when you realize how much of the web’s history is so ephemeral. It also got me thinking that Yahoo as a company might be about to go down the memory hole, and that got me thinking about Yahoo’s legacy as perhaps the first great Internet company, and that got me talking to one of the deans of tech journalism, Harry McCracken. What IS Yahoo’s legacy? Why has it ended up the way it has? And also, why do we feel nostalgic for the sort of web Yahoo Groups represents? What has changed on the Internet from the Yahoo Groups glory days until now?
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Introducing Facebook News. Did the major US Carriers do an end-run around Google out of spite? Amazon is back to making as little profit as it possibly can, HBO Max makes its aggressive pricing move, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
- [Update: Google responds] Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile join forces to bring RCS to Android in 2020 (9to5Google)
- AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon)
- Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed)
- Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic)
- He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business)
- Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired)
- Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech (NYTimes)
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review)
- How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion)
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Is TikTok a national security risk? Inquiring Senators want to know. Earnings running the gamut from bad to surprisingly good from Twitter, Amazon and Tesla. And to paraphrase an old saw: if a voicemail system goes down how would anyone even notice?
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- TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review (The Washington Post)
- Music Video Upstart ‘Triller’ Says It’s Taking On TikTok Amid $28 Million Series B (TubeFilter)
- Twitter Q3 misses bi on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches (TechCrunch)
- Twitter’s Growth Sags, But That Wasn’t the Worst Part (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud; Azure Slows (Bloomberg)
- Tesla Shares Soar as Elon Musk Packs Profit Report With Positives (Bloomberg)
- AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update (The Verge)
- Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices (9to5Mac)
- 40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology (Vice)
- BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror (BBC News)
- Behold the massive social media explosion from Fortnite’s Season 10 finale (The Washington Post)
- Last week's Fortnite update helped Akamai set a new CDN traffic record (ZDNet)
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Mr. Zuckerberg went back to Washington, Google claims “Quantum Supremacy,” Apple overtakes Starbucks, HireVue is a controversial AI hiring tool and is the influencer bubble on the wane?
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- Zuckerberg, in Washington to Talk Cryptocurrency, Gets Grilled on Everything (NYTimes)
- Snapchat beats in Q3, adding 7M users & revenue up 50% (TechCrunch)
- Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Top Mobile Payment App in the US (eMarketer)
- Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing (NYTimes)
- On “Quantum Supremacy” (IBM Research Blog)
- A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job (The Washington Post)
- Online Influencers Tell You What to Buy, Advertisers Wonder Who’s Listening (WSJ)
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SoftBank is taking over WeWork in order to save it, Verizon will give you Disney+ for free, Surprise! Comcast’s “free” streaming box really isn’t, and how much does Dark Mode save in battery life? Quite a bit, it turns out…
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- Neumann to Get Up to $1.7 Billion to Exit WeWork as SoftBank Takes Control (WSJ)
- Verizon Will Give One Year of Disney Plus for Free to All Unlimited Wireless Customers (Variety)
- Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal (CNBC)
- Comcast’s ‘free’ streaming box actually requires an additional $13 / month fee (The Verge)
- Forty-six attorneys general have joined a New York-led antitrust investigation of Facebook (The Washington Post)
- The Pixel 4 supports fast wireless charging on any Qi charger [Updated] (AndroidCentral)
- Dark Mode in iOS 13 significantly helps iPhone battery life, robotic test shows [Video] (9to5Mac)
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It’s review-a-palooza day with Surface reviews and Pixel 4 reviews. Also, Facebook announces new disinformation initiatives, and Microsoft announces a Secured-core PC initiative and Twitch wants in on the Watch Party action.
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- Facebook disables Russian, Iranian networks, illustrating continued 2020 election threat (Washington Post)
- Helping to Protect the 2020 US Elections (Facebook Newsroom)
- Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs to counter firmware attacks (VentureBeat)
- Twitch’s new Watch Parties test taps Prime Video for movie night (SlashGear)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO 7 REVIEW: I WISH THIS LOOKED LIKE A SURFACE PRO X (The Verge)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP 3 15-INCH REVIEW: IT’S A BIGGER SURFACE LAPTOP (The Verge)
- Google Pixel 4 XL review: A night vision camera that's dead by sunset (Android Central)
- GOOGLE PIXEL 4 AND 4 XL REVIEW: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS SENSORS (The Verge)
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Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free speech, will iPhone users have unlimited photo uploads to Google Photos while Pixel 4 owners will not, dial back your expectations for the Photoshop iPad app, the Vatican has a wearable prayer gadget, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Samsung says fingerprint security fix is coming as early as next week (The Verge)
- Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech (NYTimes)
- On Facebook’s live stream, Zuckerberg’s free-speech lecture got a big thumbs up (Washington Post)
- Google Photos format loophole seems to give iPhone free unlimited storage for orig. quality photos, Pixel 4 left behind (9to5Mac)
- Photoshop for iPad Nearing Launch With Some Key Features Missing (Bloomberg)
- Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary (CNN)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Apple, iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max Review (AnAndTech)
- The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You (Kotaku)
- The Young Firms Rethinking Social Media (The Information)
- Inside Apple's Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms (OneZero)
- Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free (ProPublica)
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Fingerprint sensors on the Galaxy S10 can be tricked by a phone case, the Pixel 4 face recognition system unlocks your phone even when you’re asleep, Netflix kicks off tech earnings season, Airbnb’s losses double, and Travis Kalanick is getting the Billion’s treatment. Paging Bobby Axelrod...
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- Samsung to patch the Galaxy S10’s fingerprint sensor over screen protector concerns (The Verge)
- Netflix soars 8% after beating on earnings, despite miss on subscribers (CNBC)
- Netflix finally admitted two things we already knew about the streaming wars (CNBC)
- Airbnb’s quarterly loss reportedly doubled in Q1, a bad sign as investors grow wary of money-losers (CNBC)
- Airbnb’s Q1 Loss More Than Doubled, New Data Shows (The Information)
- The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger (The Verge)
- Privacy-focused Brave browser boasts 8M monthly active users (The Block)
- Google Pixel 4 Face Unlock works if eyes are shut (BBC News)
- Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed (Vice)
- Microsoft introduces new open-source specs for developing cloud and edge applications (ZDNet)
- ‘Billions’ Creators to Develop ‘Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber’ Series at Showtime (Variety)
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Twitter explains how world leaders can break its rules but they’ll kinda, sorta crack down on them. LinkedIn launches Events, Giphy launches Giphy arcade, DoNotPay fascinates me, and a debrief on yesterday’s Google event.
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- Twitter says it will restrict users from retweeting world leaders who break its rules (TechCrunch)
- Huawei Reports Stronger Sales Growth (NYTimes)
- LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events (TechCrunch)
- Giphy Arcade lets you play, create, and share mini-games on the web as if they were GIFs (The Verge)
- This brilliant app waits on hold for you (The Verge)
- Go inside Pixel 4's new camera features with Google's photo technology experts (CNET)
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All the headlines from the Google hardware event, Apple butts in with new Beats, Libra loses another one, your movie theater wants to rent you movies, and Fortnite is back from the “black hole.”
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- PIXELBOOK GO: GOOGLE FINALLY MADE A REASONABLY PRICED CHROMEBOOK (The Verge)
- Google announces Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL (The Verge)
- BEATS ANNOUNCES SOLO PRO ON-EAR HEADPHONES WITH NOISE CANCELLATION (The Verge)
- Facebook's Libra announces board as support shrinks further (Reuters)
- AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies (NYTimes)
- Fortnite’s black hole has closed, and Chapter 2 is finally here (The Verge)
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More China related controversy for Apple, for gaming, for all of tech really… but why Apple suddenly finds itself in a unique bind. More iPhone SE 2 rumors, the latest installment of “Will We Actually Ever See Libra?” and why nobody can play Fortnite right now.
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- How safe is Apple’s Safe Browsing? (Matthew Green)
- Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to users’ phones, report says (The Washington Post)
- Kuo: iPhone SE 2 Launching in Q1 2020 with A13 at $399 Price (MacRumors)
- Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship (CNBC)
- SoftBank is reportedly seeking to take control of WeWork through a financing package (CNBC)
- ‘Fortnite’ Goes Dark: A Masterful Marketing Stroke by Epic Games (Variety)
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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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Apple takes down the Hong Kong app that it reinstated after taking it down in the first place, Waymo will soon let real people into driverless cars, Grammarly is the newest unicorn, and why, if you live in the Bay Area, your house might be without power… but your work probably won’t be.
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- Apple Removes App That Helps Hong Kong Protesters Track the Police (NYTimes)
- APPLE REMOVES HKMAP.LIVE FROM APP STORE (Daring Fireball)
- Apple, Google Pull Hong Kong Protest Apps After China Uproar (WSJ)
- Tweetstorm (@Grummz)
- Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools (TechCrunch)
- Splinter Shutting Down (Daily Beast)
- Why the PG&E Blackouts Spared California's Big Tech HQs (Wired)
- What Happens When Your Tweet Becomes a Subway Ad (One Zero)
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Twitter used your 2-Factor credentials to sell ads against you, the China/Hong Kong/tech controversies roll on, Mark Zuckerberg is going back to Washington, and the Nobel Prize for chemistry gives long overdue recognition to the most important technology innovation of our time.
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- Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising (Axios)
- Twitter says phone numbers users provided for security were ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes (The Washington Post)
- 'Protecting rioters': China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police (The Guardian)
- 'Call of Duty: Mobile' smashes records with 100 million downloads in first week (Reuters)
- Kuo: New iPad Pro and iPhone SE 2 in early 2020, followed by Apple AR headset collaboration with ‘third-party brands’ (9to5Mac)
- Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
- Postmates’ new IPO delay says something bigger: Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley (Recode)
- Smart fitness device Mirror launches one-on-one personal training (CNET)
- Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries (The Guardian)
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The PlayStation 5 is coming in about a year and Wired has the details, Hulu finally lets you download video, a gamer is banned for voicing support for Hong Kong protesters, how the Galaxy Fold was “fixed,” and Robinhood takes another crack at Cash Management.
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- Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5 (Wired)
- Hulu finally launches support for downloads, initially to ad-free viewers (TechCrunch)
- Group Nine to Acquire PopSugar, Continuing Wave of Digital Media Tie-Ups (The WSJ)
- Blizzard Bans Gamer, Rescinds Money, on Hong Kong Protest Support (Bloomberg)
- Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments (Hacker News)
- Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown (iFixit)
- Robinhood revives checking with new debit card & 2% interest (TechCrunch)
- Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot (Smithsonian.com)
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A Kindle Kids Edition is here, Sonos speakers via subscription is here, macOS Catalina is here, but the following tab is gone from Instagram, PayPal is ghosting Libra, and why investors think the time to jump into Quantum Computing is now.
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Links:
- Amazon debuts its first ever Kindle Kids Edition (CNET)
- New Sonos service lets you rent its speakers (The Verge)
- Instagram’s Following Activity Tab Is Going Away (BuzzFeed News)
- Music labels wary as Apple tries to bundle subscriptions (Financial Times)
- Apple’s macOS Catalina update is coming today (The Verge)
- macOS Catalina Review (iMore)
- PayPal Bails on Facebook-Led Libra Cryptocurrency Dream (Bloomberg)
- PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
- Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups (Nature)
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Satish Jeyachandran is the Head of Hardware at Waymo. Before that he lead the self-driving team at Tesla, so he was in charge of the Autopilot team, and his job change lead to headlines at the time. Today Satish gives us a history lesson on Waymo, tells us what the future holds for self-driving tech generally, and most importantly for me, answers a question I’ve always wondered. Why go for full autonomy? If you can give me the ability to let the car drive itself on highways, why not give me that now? Why try to solve the full 99.99% of the problem? It turns out, that Waymo learned you can’t do half measures. You have to do full autonomy or you do nothing. Very interesting conversation.
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Really bad Android zero-day discovered, is the scooter space back? Apple makes an interesting acquisition, an exoskeleton allows a paralyzed man to walk again and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Attackers exploit 0-day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones (ArsTechnica)
- Bird raises $275 million Series D round at a $2.5 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
- Apple May Have Acquired Motion Capture Company IKinema [Update: Confirmed] (MacRumors)
- Apple’s AR plans may come to life after acquiring iKinema motion tech (VentureBeat)
- A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab (MIT Technology Review)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- The Off-the-Radar Baseball League That’s Trying to Reboot the Game (GEN)
- Inside Disney’s New York Stream Factory (Variety)
- My Time at Snap (@marko_tupper)
- Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to unleash growth. Then things got messy (CNN Business)
- Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die (The Atlantic)
- The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman (The New Yorker)
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Instagram launches Threads, the iPhone SE might ride again, the biggest content recommendation players have merged, Vice Media and Refinery 29 have merged, and why has Apple banned an app for users in Hong Kong?
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- Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (NYTimes)
- Kuo: Apple to release ‘iPhone SE 2’ in Q1 2020 with iPhone 8 design, A13 processor (9to5Mac)
- What the Taboola-Outbrain combination means for publishers (Digiday)
- Vice Media to Acquire Refinery29, as Both Digital-Media Players Seek Scale (Variety)
- Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources (NY Daily News)
- Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store (The Register)
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All the news from Microsoft’s Surface event… they’re making smartphones again! Anti-trust scrutiny gets results again as Apple says Siri will soon play nice with others, the Galaxy Fold reviews are in and might the other members of the Libra consortium be having second thoughts?
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- Microsoft Launches Surface Pro X With New Ultra-Thin Design, Slim Pen, Type Cover (Thurott.com)
- MICROSOFT SURFACE NEO FIRST LOOK: THE FUTURE OF WINDOWS 10X IS DUAL-SCREEN (The Verge)
- Microsoft surprises with new foldable Surface Duo phone running Android (The Verge)
- Galaxy Fold: This flip phone’s a flop, but the folding trend won’t stop (The Washington Post)
- Apple to Loosen Reins on Outside Messaging, Phone Apps Via Siri (Bloomberg)
- UPS Now Runs the First Official Drone Airline (Wired)
- Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network (WSJ)
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Listen in on Mark Zuckerberg rallying the troops, GoPro hopes newer cameras revive its fortunes, prepping for the Microsoft event tomorrow, the SEC slaps a crypto company on the wrist, and Tesla’s new Smart Summon feature has made for some viral videos.
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Links:
- All Hands on Deck (The Verge)
- READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS (The Verge)
- GoPro launches two new cameras as it tries to become profitable this year (CNBC)
- GOPRO HERO 8 BLACK REVIEW: SMOOTH OPERATOR (The Verge)
- Appeals court upholds FCC’s cancelling of net neutrality rules (The Washington Post)
- Microsoft makes Windows Virtual Desktop generally available globally (ZDNet)
- EOS Maker Block.One Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Securities Sale (Coindesk)
- People Using Tesla's New Smart Summon Feature Are Already Running Into Trouble And It's Hard To Be Shocked (Jalopnik)
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IS the new iOS release finally bug free? Add podcasts to your Spotify playlists, WeWork officially “delays” its IPO, which gives us a reason to examine why the Unicorn IPO Parade has mattered, and This Week In Elon Musk is all about achieving orbit.
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- Apple Releases iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 with Fixes for Camera, iCloud Backup, HomePod Shortcut, and Flashlight Bugs (MacRumors)
- Spotify users can add podcasts to playlists (Engadget)
- HP’s Spectre x360 13 seems like an improvement in almost every way (The Verge)
- New Checkm8 jailbreak released for all iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips (ZDNet)
- Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer (ArsTechnica)
- The 'Checkm8' exploit isn't a big deal to iPhone or iPad users, and here's why (Apple Insider)
- WeWork pulls IPO filing (CNBC)
- The Great Public Market Reckoning (AVC)
- Elon Musk aims to put SpaceX’s Starship in orbit in six months (The Verge)
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A DoorDash data breach that has a bad new angle, we might see the foldable Razr phone by the end of the year, how long can this alternative app store last before Apple shuts it down, the biggest Tesla software update yet, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- DoorDarsh confirms data breach affected 4.9 million customers, workers and merchants (TechCrunch)
- Spotify is finally getting Siri support with iOS 13 (The Verge)
- That Motorola Razr foldable will squeak out a debut before year's end (CNET)
- AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store with a built-in Nintendo emulator (The Verge)
- Tesla starts rolling out biggest software update ever with Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and more (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Slack Is a Hell of Our Own Making (NY Magazine/Intelligencer)
- Every Company is Becoming a Software Company (Confluent Blog)
- Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis (Wired)
- INSIDE UBER’S PLAN TO TAKE OVER CITY LIFE WITH CEO DARA KHOSROWSHAHI (The Verge)
- The Octopus: An Alien Among Us (Literary Hub)
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Uber wants to become “the OS for everyday life,” Peloton’s IPO is a good news/bad news situation, the FTC sues Match.com for allegedly catfishing people, stuff I missed from yesterday’s Amazon event, and an “interesting raise” startup that wants to turn renters into home owners.
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- Uber overhauls its app in ambitious bid to become ‘the operating system for your everyday life’ (The Verge)
- Peloton slides after opening below IPO price in market debut (CNBC)
- At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds (NYTimes)
- Attorney General Barr Seeks DOJ Facebook Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)
- Match.com connected daters to fake accounts to boost subscriptions, US regulators say (The Verge)
- Amazon’s new Echo Flex lets you put Alexa everywhere in your home (The Verge)
- Alexa's 'Certified for Humans' wants to eliminate smart-home headaches (CNET)
- Divvy Homes Raises $43M Series B To Help Renters Become Homeowners (Crunchbase News)
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Amazon’s hardware event gives us more Alexa in just about anything you can think of, Oculus has some news on the VR front, the 2020 iPhones might echo the iPhone 4 design, and those dog like robots from Boston Dynamics are finally leaving the lab, but to adopt one, you need to think through a use case.
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- Amazon announces high-end $199 Echo Studio speaker (The Verge)
- Alexa gains multilingual mode, celebrity voices, and frustration detection (Venture Beat)
- Amazon’s new Echo Show 8 combines the best of its big and small smart displays (The Verge)
- Amazon announces new $99 Eero mesh router with Alexa voice controls (The Verge)
- Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff (TechCrunch)
- Kuo: 2020 iPhones to Have Redesigned Metal Frame Similar to iPhone 4 (MacRumors)
- You can now sign up for Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming preview (The Verge)
- Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory (The Verge)
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Adam Neumann out as WeWork CEO, Facebook acquires CTRL-Labs to deliver computing controlled by your brain, Kik officially shuts down its app, and is Microsoft preparing to let users control and monetize their own data?
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Links:
- WeWork CEO Adam Neumann to step down amid controversy and retain chairman role (CNBC)
- Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind (Bloomberg)
- KIK CHAT APP SHUTS DOWN AS COMPANY GOES “ALL IN” ON KIN (Betakit.com)
- SEC sues Kik for running an unregistered Initial Coin Offering (Engadget)
- Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case (BBC News)
- AMAZON CREATES A HUGE ALLIANCE TO DEMAND VOICE ASSISTANT COMPATIBILITY (The Verge)
- Amazon plans Alexa wireless earbuds with fitness-tracking built in, bigger Echo with better sound, source says (CNBC)
- Microsoft's new 'Data Dignity' team could help users control their personal data (ZDNet)
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Google Play Pass might usher in a new era of mobile gaming, the WeWork saga is becoming a soap opera, Facebook’s foes and (erstwhile) friends are talking to the FTC, and has Google ushered in the era of quantum supremacy?
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- Google Play Pass bundles 350 Android games and apps for $4.99 per month (The Verge)
- Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO (WSJ)
- SoftBank’s Masa Son is in favor of ousting WeWork CEO Adam Neumann (CNBC)
- How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’ (WSJ)
- Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier (WSJ)
- Samsung Galaxy Fold will be available September 27th in the US (9to5Google)
- World Robotics Report: Global Sales of Robots Hit $16.5B in 2018 (Robotics Business Review)
- Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’ (The Verge)
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Airbnb says it will have an IPO in 2020, Twitter exposes more bad state actors, a French court says Steam digital games may be resold in the EU, hold the phone on upgrading your iPhone to iOS 13, Amazon plays free with Allbirds, Tinder brings a new meaning to the word Bandersnatch, and this week’s long-reads suggestions, including a deep dive into the problems with pilot training and Boeing’s 737-MAX.
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Links:
- Airbnb Says It Plans to Go Public in 2020 (New York Times)
- Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020 (Airbnb)
- Twitter suspends account of former top Saudi aide implicated in Khashoggi killing (Washington Post)
- Disclosing new data to our archive of information operations (Twitter)
- French court rules that Steam’s ban on reselling used games is contrary to European law (Polygon)
- New features available with iOS 13 (Apple)
- Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe (The Verge)
- Inside Tinder’s Secret Streaming Series (Variety)
- What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? (New York Times)
- How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen (Wired)
- The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution (Six Colors)
- Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis (Wired)
- iOS and iPadOS 13: The MacStories Review (MacStories)
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Huawei tries to launch a flagship smartphone without a Google net, could Apple and Disney have merged? Some really interesting raises, for Automattic and Stripe, but also an autonomous construction equipment startup, and why there now might be SSD’s that are basically failproof.
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Links:
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro goes official w/ no Google apps, ‘horizon’ display (9to5Google)
- GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle (TechCrunch)
- “WE COULD SAY ANYTHING TO EACH OTHER”: BOB IGER REMEMBERS STEVE JOBS, THE PIXAR DRAMA, AND THE APPLE MERGER THAT WASN’T (Vanity Fair)
- Datadog Rises 53% in Trading Debut After Rebuffing Cisco (Bloomberg)
- Amazon signs Climate Pledge to advance Paris Climate Accords goals by 10 years (VentureBeat)
- Built Robotics raises $33M for its self-driving construction equipment (TechCrunch)
- Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures (TechCrunch)
- Fintech Company Stripe Joins Silicon Valley Elite With $35 Billion Valuation (WSJ)
- Samsung unveils new PCIe 4.0 SSDs that "never die" (TechSpot)
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Facebook debuts Portal TV, and wants to make AR smart glasses to replace your smartphone, Google Fi has an “unlimited” plan that is every bit as unlimited as any other, the Apple Watch Series 5 reviews and autonomous vehicles come to the farm.
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- Facebook’s second-generation Portal devices are cheaper, smaller, and support WhatsApp (The Verge)
- Facebook working on smart glasses with Ray-Ban, code-named ‘Orion’ (CNBC)
- Smart TVs sending private data to Netflix and Facebook (Financial Times)
- Google Fi launches a more traditional unlimited plan (The Verge)
- HP Elite Dragonfly hands-on: A really light business notebook (Engadget)
- APPLE WATCH SERIES 5 REVIEW: THE BEST SMARTWATCH (The Verge)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (Daring Fireball)
- FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding (TechCrunch)
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WeWork’s IPO is off for now, Amazon Music HD is going after Tidal, the Streaming Wars mean big price tags for Seinfeld and Big Bang Theory, and a wrap up of all the iPhone 11, Pro and Pro Max reviews.
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- Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments (Motherboard)
- WeWork delays IPO after frosty investor response (Reuters)
- SoftBank Backers Rethink Role in Next Vision Fund on WeWork (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Music rolls out a lossless streaming tier that Spotify and Apple can’t match (The Verge)
- Snapchat is adding a 3D Camera Mode, the latest salvo in its feature race with Instagram (TechCrunch)
- Netflix Lands 'Seinfeld' Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing 'Friends' and 'The Office' (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to Show on New Streaming Service HBO Max (WSJ)
- NBCUniversal’s Streaming Service Is Called Peacock and It’s Launching Next April (Vulture)
- APPLE IPHONE 11 REVIEW: THE PHONE MOST PEOPLE SHOULD BUY (The Verge)
- Apple iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: Better, but not groundbreaking (Engadget)
- Review: The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 do Disneyland After Dark (TechCrunch)
- Review: Apple iPhone 11 Pro (Wired)
- IPhone 11 and 11 Pro Review: Thinking Differently in the Golden Age of Smartphones (NYTimes)
- Apple Arcade's best selling point: Games you'll actually want to play (Engadget)
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If Amazon wants to tip-toe past the regulators, headlines like those from today can’t help, October is going to be filthy with major tech launch events, is TikTok showing us the future of the Chinese web in worrying ways, and let’s pour one out for MoviePass!
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- Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products (WSJ)
- Facebook and JP Morgan meet with global central banks to discuss cryptocurrencies (CNBC)
- Google announces October 15th hardware event for Pixel 4 (The Verge)
- Iger Departs Board of Apple, Disney’s New Streaming Competitor (NY Times)
- Wi-Fi 6 officially launches today, ahead of iPhone 11 availability on Friday (9to5Mac)
- Wi-Fi 6 certification is here to make next-gen speeds a widespread reality (CNET)
- Multiple camera simultaneous recording coming to iPhone XS and iPhone XR, not just iPhone 11 (9to5Mac)
- TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience (The Washington Post)
- MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14 (CNBC)
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As I mentioned in the Weekend Longreads segment, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis had an op ed in the times that has changed the way I think about the state of AI. But they’re also the authors of a great new book, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust. There’s a reason people remain fearful about AI… it hasn’t earned our trust yet. In all sorts of ways that we get into on this episode. And also, the interesting ways AI development needs to change to take the state of the art to the next level.
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We had the big iPhone announcement this week, so to break it down, our good friend at MacStories, John Voorhees is here to dive into… why so much backlash to this event? Was it boring? What did we actually get from Santa Tim? And why we might look back at this as the pivot point where Apple events changed into something new...
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Cloudflare has a successful IPO, but will WeWork’s planned IPO be considered a success even if it actually has one? Is another investment bubble popping in the AR/VR space? Will the streaming wars kill the back-end deal in Hollywood? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
- WeWork’s valuation could fall to below $15 billion in IPO, down from $47 billion private valuation (CNBC)
- House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe (The Washington Post)
- Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down (TechCrunch)
- J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The end of the backend? Disney wants to limit profit participation on its new TV shows (Los Angeles Times)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
- As sex toys continue to get hacked, the definition of sexual assault is under question (Screen Shot)
- What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
- TONY HAWK ON HOW HIS GAMES CHANGED SKATEBOARDING (The Verge)
- From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
- Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)
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Uber says the California contractor law doesn’t apply to it because it is… checks notes… not technically in the ride hailing business, will France block Libra in the EU, dark mode comes to Slack, crowd-sourced answers come to Alexa, and, some news on the Fermi Paradox front.
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- Uber argues its drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t reclassify them as employees (The Verge)
- FACEBOOK’S LIBRA CRYPTOCURRENCY WILL BE BLOCKED IN EUROPE, FRANCE SAYS (The Independent)
- Slack's desktop apps get dark mode options (Engadget)
- The FBI is investigating a venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel for financial misconduct (ReCode)
- Exclusive: Amazon will let anyone answer your Alexa questions now (Fast Company)
- Healthy.io raises $60 million to help patients complete urine tests on their phone (Venture Beat)
- An Exoplanet Like No Other Yet Found (The Atlantic)
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Will a California law change the entire landscape of the gig economy? Can Dutchie build a Shopify-like ecommerce platform for cannabis? Will Switzerland be less welcoming to Libra that Facebook hoped? And a rundown of the fallout from yesterday’s iPhone event.
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- California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees (NYTimes)
- Uber lays off 435 people across engineering and product teams (TechCrunch)
- Amazon’s Quantum Ledger Database is now generally available (Silicon Angle)
- These brothers just raised $15 million for their startup, Dutchie, a kind of Shopify for cannabis dispensaries (TechCrunch)
- Switzerland warns Facebook's Libra it will face extra scrutiny (Reuters)
- IPHONE 11 PRO AND 11 PRO MAX: HANDS-ON WITH APPLE’S NEW FLAGSHIP PHONES (The Verge)
- iPhone 11's ultra-wideband chip helps you AirDrop with the right person (Engadget)
- Editorial: Apple just told you that they aren't going to make an 'iPhone SE 2' any time soon (Apple Insider)
- Apple’s Biggest Surprise: More Aggressive Device and Services Pricing (Bloomberg)
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All the news from the iPhone launch. Also, the Attorneys General officially go after Google… but why is California sitting this one out? And… is Masa Son pressuring WeWork to cancel its IPO or is it full speed ahead?
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- Apple reveals the powerful new iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max (Engadget)
- Apple reveals iPhone 11 with a dual-camera system, Night mode, and new colors (The Verge)
- Apple Watch Series 5 has an always-on display and comes in titanium or ceramic finishes (The Verge)
- Apple unveils entry-level 2019 iPad with a 10.2-inch screen (Venture Beat)
- Apple TV+ costs $4.99 per month and launches on November 1 (Venture Beat)
- Apple Arcade is launching on September 19th for $4.99 a month (The Verge)
- Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general (CNBC)
- 48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California? (LATimes)
- SoftBank urges WeWork to shelve IPO (Financial Times)
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The MIT Media Lab director steps down, Apple sort of hides its own apps in App Store searches, why big tech should worry about the states as much as Uncle Sam, reviews of the Google Nest Hub Max and why hands-free games actually make you a better driver.
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- Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein (NYTimes)
- How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (New Yorker)
- How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls (NYTimes)
- Facebook, Google face off against a formidable new foe: State attorneys general (Washington Post)
- GOOGLE NEST HUB MAX REVIEW: BIGGER SCREEN, BETTER SOUND, AND A CAMERA (The Verge)
- Drivetime raises $11 million for interactive audio games like Jeopardy in the car (Venture Beat)
- Daimler brings driverless truck tests to public roads in Virginia (Venture Beat)
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Apple might have just given us the final reason to delete iTunes, Sonos has its first portable speaker, the Attorney’s General are targeting Facebook as well, it’s duplicating Google services all the way down, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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- Apple Music launches a public beta on the web (TechCrunch)
- Sonos’ first portable speaker is the $399 Move (The Verge)
- Streaming makes up 80 percent of the music industry’s revenue (The Verge)
- New York attorney general is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations (CNBC)
- Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode turns Android devices into smart displays (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Uber Undone (The Baffler)
- Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill (The Atlantic)
- Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame (BuzzFeed News)
- Coming Soon to a Small Screen Near You: Short Cuts (WSJ)
- ‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.’ (Washington Post)
- ‘NCAA Football’ Is Still Alive, Because One Online Community Won’t Let the Game Die (The Ringer)
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China tracked Uyghur travelers by hacking Asian telcos, the company formerly known as WeWork drops its IPO target, Samsung has found a fold fix, Apple may bring back both Touch ID and a cheaper iPhone, MIT Media Lab’s founder says the group was right to have accepted money from Jeffrey Epstein, Facebook launches its Dating service in the U.S., SIM swapping is obscure but growing security problem, and the Jeremy Renner app has been shot down. Er, shut down.
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- China hacked Asian telcos to spy on Uighur travelers (Reuters)
- WeWork Targets $20 Billion to $30 Billion IPO Value (Bloomberg)
- How Samsung fixed the Galaxy Fold (The Verge)
- Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone (Bloomberg)
- MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified (MIT Technology Review)
- Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration (TechCrunch)
- Why ‘SIM Swapping’ Is a Growing Security Nightmare (New York Times)
- I Broke The Official Jeremy Renner App By Posting The Word “Porno” On It (Deadspin)
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Google gets a fine and is about to be investigated by all the states, Android 10 is here, a $14k gaming chair is here, a slew of new Fire TV devices are here, and the Light Phone 2 wants to save you from the Internet.
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- YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws (CNBC)
- Google emerges as target of a new state attorneys general antitrust probe (Washington Post)
- Google’s paid search ads are a ‘shakedown,’ Basecamp CEO says (CNBC)
- Android 10 launches today, and Pixel phones get the day one update (Ars Technica)
- An Update About Face Recognition on Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
- Acer announces a $14,000 gaming chair because why not (TechCrunch)
- Amazon unveils a new Fire TV Cube, soundbar, and over a dozen Fire TV Edition products (TechCrunch)
- Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID (New York Post)
- The Light Phone 2 Wants to Save You From the Internet (Gizmodo)
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Samsung is gonna take another crack at foldable phones with a different design, sleep tracking is coming to the Apple Watch, Firefox 69 locks down everything, and a deep dive into the whole Ring Doorbell and Neighborhood controversy.
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- Samsung Is Secretly Working on a Foldable Phone That Collapses Into a Square (Bloomberg)
- Apple Watch sleep tracking revealed: sleep quality, battery management, more (9to5Mac)
- Firefox 69 arrives with third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining blocked by default (VentureBeat)
- Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times (ZDNet)
- Ring Neighbors Is the Best and Worst Neighborhood Watch App (WireCutter)
- Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged (NYTimes)
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The biggest iPhone attack ever, Microsoft wants to make tablet mode on Windows 10 more desktop-y, airlines are banning Macbook Pros, Jack Ma and Elon Musk debate AI and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking (Wired)
- Project Zero (Google Project Zero)
- Microsoft unveils new tablet experience for Windows 10 (The Verge)
- The Long-Term Stock Exchange raises $50 million in new funding (Axios)
- More Airlines Ban MacBook Pros in Checked Luggage (Bloomberg)
- When Elon Met Jack: Musings on AI, Mars and the End of Civilization (Bloomberg)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure (Ars Technica)
- Wi-Fi 6 Will Be Here Soon. What Is It? (Wired)
- Mobile payments have barely caught on in the US, despite the rise of smartphones (CNBC)
- Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms (Bloomberg)
- Older people are embracing video games. For some, that means stardom. (NBC News)
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Apple makes nice with repair shops (and saves the date for the iPhone launch next month), an undersea cable mostly already built could be axed cause… China stuff, YouTube says it’s made progress on cleaning up its algorithm, and a machine learning betting company that says it can make sports betting a no-lose proposition.
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- Apple is allowing independent repair shops to officially service iPhones (9to5Mac)
- Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking (GeekWire)
- National Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook (WSJ)
- YouTube to adjust UK algorithm to cut false and extremist content (The Guardian)
- Former MLB Pitcher’s DC Startup Lands $23M for Sports Betting Platform (DCInno)
- Inkitt raises $16M led by Kleiner Perkins to publish crowdsourced novels in 'mini-episodes' (TechCrunch)
- Netflix ships milestone 5 billionth disc (CNET)
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Apple walks back the Siri grading program, Peloton’s S-1 reveals an interesting company, Fitbit’s interesting new smartwatch, don’t travel if you use social media at all, and another new service enters the Google Graveyard.
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- Apple is turning Siri audio clip review off by default and bringing it in house (TechCrunch)
- Peloton (Finally) Drops Its S-1, Revealing Sharply Rising Revenue And Net Losses (Crunchbase News)
- Fitbit Versa 2 hands-on: Alexa makes a good smartwatch better (Engadget)
- The Fitbit Versa 2 Chases Apple's Dominance (Gizmodo)
- Fitbit’s new premium subscription service hopes to sway you with personalized data, challenges, and more (The Verge)
- US border officials are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others' social media (TechCrunch)
- Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked (Harvard Crimson)
- Microsoft's lead EU data watchdog is looking into fresh Windows 10 privacy concerns (TechCrunch)
- Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 (TechCrunch)
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Anthony Levandowski is arrested, Facebook is taking another run at Snapchat with something called Threads, Yelp adds personalized results for the first time, the BBC wants in on the voice assistant craze, The Irishman IS coming to theaters after all, and why people are standing in line, INSIDE World of Warcraft.
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- Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets (NYTimes)
- Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads (The Verge)
- Yelp adds personalized search results to its iPhone app (Engadget)
- BBC to launch Alexa rival that will grasp regional accents (The Guardian)
- Sprint launches its 5G network in NYC, LA, Phoenix, and Washington, DC (The Verge)
- Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2nd in New York City (The Verge)
- Google Maps will now let users combine transit directions with biking and ride-sharing (The Verge)
- Netflix Unveils Release Plans for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ (Variety)
- Exclusive: U.S. officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election (Reuters)
- World of Warcraft Classic players are standing in long lines to finish quests (Polygon)
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Google and Dell team up for enterprise-grade Chromebooks, Baidu makes big leaps in smart-speaker market share, Binance lets you lend crypto for interest, publishers sue Audible and why, when it comes to autonomy, maybe we should swim before we try to drive.
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- Google and Dell team up on the first Chromebooks made for business (Engadget)
- Baidu replaces Google to become number two in smart speaker market in Q2 2019 (Canalys)
- Binance enters into crypto lending space, offers interest-earning opportunities for BNB, ETC and Tether (The Block)
- Top U.S. publishers sue Amazon's Audible for copyright infringement (Reuters)
- Amazon’s Audible Sued by Publishers Over New Text Feature (Bloomberg)
- Netflix tests human-driven curation with launch of 'Collections' (TechCrunch)
- Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (Freedom to Tinker)
- The Robot Ship Set to Cross the Atlantic and Change the World (Daily Beast)
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About a year ago, Elon Musk was doing so much crazy stuff, I was desperate for someone to tell me what was going on. So, I reached out to Rob Maurer from the Tesla Daily podcast to be a sort of Elon whisperer for me. Rob was great and gracious, and actually, that was the beginning of the weekend bonus episode idea in a way. Well, a year on… let’s take Elon’s temperature… and Tesla’s. Great conversation with Rob about where Tesla is at, and also, congrats to the Tesla Daily podcast on turning 2 years old! Subscribe now! Tesla Daily!
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YouTube shuts down channels over Hong Kong content, some of Facebook’s Libra partners are having second thoughts, the WSJ finds some shady items on Amazon, the reviews of the Galaxy Note10+ are in, and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests (CNBC)
- Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project (Financial Times)
- Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products (WSJ)
- SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10 PLUS REVIEW: SHOULD YOU SPEND FOR THE STYLUS? (The Verge)
- The Galaxy Note 10+ Is Damn Near Perfect (Gizmodo)
- REVIEW: SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE10+ (Wired)
Weekend Longreads:
- Top 10 Crypto Memes (BRD)
- All 84 startups from Y Combinator's S19 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)
- Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator's S19 Demo Days (TechCrunch)
- The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne (Forbes)
- The Sports News Site Haters Love to Dunk on Keeps Signing Up Subscribers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront (Washington Post)
- YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING SEX WITH ROBOTS (Wired)
- Sad cartoons and melancholic hip-hop inspired YouTube’s new vaporwave scene (Polygon)
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Will we see an iPhone Pro next month? Google has a new proposal for ad tracking, Android deserts dessert nomenclature, why hasn’t tech solved parking yet, and why The Irishman might be a major fork in the road for Netflix.
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- Apple Readies Camera-Focused Pro iPhones, New iPads, Larger MacBook Pro (Bloomberg)
- Google proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting controls for the web (TechCrunch)
- Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q (The Verge)
- The Google Play store’s visual refresh (Android Developers Blog)
- Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave From AI Lab (Bloomberg)
- SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online (VentureBeat)
- Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a perfect example of Netflix’s big screening dilemma (The Verge)
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Next gen chips from Intel, the real HQ2 for Amazon is in India, the controversy around Apple blocking ad tracking on kids apps is a real case for King Solomon, and Ben Thompson makes a compelling bull case for WeWork.
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- Intel Launches Comet Lake-U and Comet Lake-Y: Up To 6 Cores for Thin & Light Laptops (AnandTech)
- Dell unveils new XPS, Inspiron, and Vostro models with Intel Comet Lake processors (VentureBeat)
- Exclusive: Alibaba postpones up to $15 billion Hong Kong listing amid protests: sources (Reuters)
- Amazon opens its biggest global campus in India (Reuters)
- Gmail in G Suite now uses AI for inline spelling and grammar suggestions (VentureBeat)
- Shazam data is powering Apple Music's newest chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 25 (TechCrunch)
- Apple aims to protect kids’ privacy. App makers say it could devastate their businesses. (The Washington Post)
- The WeWork IPO (Stratechery)
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Twitter suspends a bunch of China-linked accounts, is Apple TV+ dead on arrival? 23 towns in Texas are hit with ransomware, and why isn’t Alexa in your car?
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- Information operations directed at Hong Kong (Twitter)
- Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China (Facebook)
- Updating our advertising policies on state media (Twitter)
- Apple Targets Apple TV+ Launch in November, Weighs $9.99 Price After Free Trial (Bloomberg)
- Apple splashes $6bn on new shows in streaming wars (Financial Times)
- States to Move Forward With Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms (WSJ)
- Sony to acquire Insomniac Games (Polygon)
- Over 20 Texas local governments hit in 'coordinated ransomware attack' (ZDNet)
- The first Lightning security key for iPhones is here, and it works with USB-C, too (The Verge)
- Amazon Wants to Put Alexa in Cars. Google and Apple Are There Already (Bloomberg)
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Libra gets competition, Spotify and Roku get family friendly, Amazon is sitting out the launch of Disney+ (for now), Ikea is serious about becoming a smart-home player, and can the world’s largest semiconductor chip kickstart an AI revolution?
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- Binance planning to launch ‘Venus,’ similar to Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra (The Block)
- Spotify's Premium Family plans get an explicit content filter (Engadget)
- The Roku Channel is adding a kids and family section with free TV shows and movies (The Verge)
- Disney+ will stream on these devices at launch (The Verge)
- Ikea goes all in on smart home tech (The Verge)
- Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years (Motherboard)
- A new unicorn is born: Toor Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
- Root raises $350 million to drive auto insurance change (Axios)
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On a recent weekend longreads segment, I recommended a piece by The Verge’s Julia Alexander asking whether Netflix’s recommendation algorithms were broken, or maybe borked. We’re going to talk a bit about that today, but since Julia is on the Streaming Wars beat at The Verge, you know how I love to talk about the streaming wars, and we are right about at the point where the battle is going to be joined in earnest.
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Coinbase says all your bitcoin base are belong to us, Apple sues a “virtualization” company, was Amazon offering vendors a pay to play scheme with Amazon Choice, and, as always, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Exclusive: Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55 Million, Eyes Lending Business (Fortune)
- Apple Files Lawsuit Against Virtualization Company Corellium for Illegally Replicating iOS and Apple Apps (MacRumors)
- Amazon offered vendors ‘Amazon’s Choice’ labels in return for ad spending and lower prices (Digiday)
- YouTube shuts down music companies' use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Weird gadgets that are actually really useful (ZDNet)
- Trump Tumult Has Gadget Giants Splitting Along U.S.-China Lines (Bloomberg)
- THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH (Wired)
- WEWORK ISN’T A TECH COMPANY; IT’S A SOAP OPERA (The Verge)
- WeWTF (ProfGalloway.com)
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change (Ars Technica)
- SpaceX’s First Astronauts Train Up for Space, but Crew Dragon Faces Delays (Inverse.com)
- HOW A 'NULL' LICENSE PLATE LANDED ONE HACKER IN TICKET HELL (Wired)
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Facebook tweaks groups, Google Assistant lets you remind family members, can we be training voice AI in a better way, say hello to the Sega Genesis Mini, and the free app that can save your life out in the wilderness.
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- Facebook is simplifying group privacy settings and adding admin tools for safety (The Verge)
- THE SEGA GENESIS MINI BUILDS ON WHAT MADE NINTENDO’S TINY CONSOLES GREAT (The Verge)
- UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks (The Verge)
- Stay organized and productive with new Assignable reminders (Google)
- Do Tech Companies Really Need to Snoop Into Private Conversations to Improve Their A.I.? (Slate)
- What3words: The app that can save your life (BBC News)
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WeWork files for its IPO, a huge data leak reveals fingerprints, facial recognition data and more, are you going to have trouble taking your MacBook Pro on your next flight, why Two and a Half Men is the next big piece in the streaming wars and why I’m bullish on an Airbnb for boats.
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- WeWork files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
- Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms (The Guardian)
- FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights (Bloomberg)
- AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (WSJ)
- HBO Max eyeing ‘Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ in $1.5 billion deal (The Daily Dot)
- Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats (Bloomberg)
- Peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace Boatsetter raises $10M as it looks to grow globally (TechCrunch)
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Tumblr finds its final home (hopefully), new Snap Spectacles, a new gaming startup tries to one-up Fortnite’s social model, why your DSLR camera is a prime ransomware target, and yes, Twinfluencers are apparently a thing.
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- Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner (WSJ)
- Snap Unveils a New Version of Video-Recording Spectacles (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Cancels Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft (Thurrott.com)
- Singularity 6 raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz to create a 'virtual society' (TechCrunch)
- Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack (The Verge)
- Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
- Design Memes: The Origin of those Helvetica List T-Shirts (HowDesign.com)
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Would you want (or need) a 108MP smartphone camera? The “Ninja” Blevins/Twitch breakup explained. The cat-and-mouse between Chrome and paywalls explained. Credit where due for Apple on wearables, and why touchscreens might not be a user interface panacea.
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- Samsung's 108-megapixel mobile sensor closes in on mirrorless cameras (Engadget)
- Ninja calls out Twitch after his dormant channel highlights porn (updated) (Engadget)
- The New York Times is still detecting Chrome Incognito Mode after Google’s fix (9to5Google)
- Apple Deserves More Credit for Wearables (Above Avalon)
- How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power (NYTimes)
- Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls (USNI News)
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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.
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- 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 world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet)
- With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target's mail room (TechCrunch)
- Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget)
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All the headlines from the Galaxy Note 10 event, to what degree does Zuckerberg really want to keep Instagram independent, Google is expanding podcast search capabilities, you can now tell Alexa to slow down, and Netflix bags Benioff and Weiss and what that means to the streaming wars.
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- The 7 biggest announcements from the Samsung Note 10 event (The Verge)
- Google Maps lets you pull up flight and hotel reservations on the go (CNET)
- Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results (The Verge)
- Now you can choose how fast Alexa talks on your Amazon Echo (The Verge)
- Instagram's lax privacy practices let a trusted partner track millions of users' physical locations, secretly save their stories, and flout its rules (Business Insider)
- 'Game of Thrones' Creators Close $200M Netflix Overall Deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
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We have a launch date for Disney+ and we also have confirmation of a wicked compelling bundle, FedEx officially breaks up with Amazon, Amazon trades accusations with CVS and Walgreens, iOS API changes make life difficult for Facebook, and why it might be make or break time for TikTok.
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- Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ Available At Launch (The Streamable)
- FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal With Amazon (Bloomberg)
- Amazon’s PillPack is battling with CVS and Walgreens over getting patient prescriptions (CNBC)
- Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls (Vice)
- Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature (The Information)
- Slack unveils new admin security controls (ITPro)
- The biggest risks to TikTok (The Interface)
- End of an era? Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine is ending its run after more than three decades (Onmsft.com)
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The Apple Card is here (for some of you), industrial cyberattacks have doubled, are Yelp and Grubhub partnering to hurt restaurants, Amazon’s scoot robots come to Southern California, 5G comes to New York City and what to expect from tomorrow’s Samsung event.
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- The Apple Card starts rolling out today (TheVerge)
- Cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled over the last 6 months (ZDNet)
- Microsoft: Russian state hackers are using IoT devices to breach enterprise networks (ZDNet)
- Microsoft launches Azure Security Lab, expands bug bounty rewards (ZDNet)
- Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Motherboard)
- Amazon Squeezes Sellers That Offer Better Prices on Walmart (Bloomberg)
- Amazon’s Scout robots roll out in Southern California (Venture Beat)
- AT&T rolls out (limited) 5g in (parts of) New York City (TechCrunch)
- Note 10 Plus? Here’s what to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked on August 7 (Digital Trends)
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Cloudflare stops doing business with 8chan, two big new smartwatch releases, why the Athletic believes people will pay for sports news, the 22 year old founder of the newest unicorn, and why used electric vehicles might signal EVs are entering the mainstream.
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- Terminating Service for 8Chan (Cloudflare Blog)
- 8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes (The Guardian)
- The Problem Isn't 8chan. It's Americans. (Buzzfeed News)
- Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 brings back the bezel control (The Verge)
- Fossil’s latest Wear OS watches have 1GB RAM, smart battery modes, Snapdragon Wear 3100 (9to5Google)
- Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media (Reuters)
- News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1b (TechCrunch)
- Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn Is Run by a 22-Year-Old (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- NOW ON USED CAR LOTS: GREAT ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR CHEAP (Wired)
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The Vox/Recode family has a new podcast, Land of the Giants. And so we’re going to talk to Jason Del Rey, the voice behind the first season of this podcast, which focuses on Amazon. But look, I’ve wanted to get someone on to talk turkey with me about Amazon for a while now, because they're at this weird place where… maybe they’re the most powerful tech company in the land? What does that mean, for them AND for us? Jason Del Rey was the perfect person to ask.
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Google and Apple suspend their programs where humans listen in on what you say to your voice assistant, Google will let Android users in Europe pick a search engine, Verizon tortures the very definition of words, Amazon dash buttons have an official end date, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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- Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns (TechCrunch)
- Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe (The Verge)
- Amazon is going to kill your Dash button (CNET)
- Verizon overhauls its ‘unlimited’ offerings with four new plans and $5 price cuts (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- WHEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMES WITH A FEW CATCHES (Wired)
- Your Next iPhone Might Be Made in Vietnam. Thank the Trade War. (NYTimes)
- Late Night Dispatch: Tuca & Bertie versus The Algorithm (Julia Alexander)
- Where Everyone’s an Influencer (The Atlantic)
- America’s DIY Phone Farmers (Motherboard)
- What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing? (The Atlantic)
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Intel’s faster new chips, Bird’s more durable new scooters, Samsung’s new lack of a headphone jack, Cisco settles with the government, IBM’s facing an age discrimination lawsuit, Cloudflare’s planning an IPO and the new season of Fortnite.
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- Intel unveils its first 10th-gen laptop CPUs (Engadget)
- Bird’s new electric scooter has a better battery and anti-vandalism sensors (The Verge)
- Dongle life: Galaxy Note 10’s 3.5mm to USB-C adapter pictured in leak (SamMobile)
- Cloudflare Said To Pursue September IPO, We Say Heck Yes (Crunchbase News)
- Cisco to Pay $8.6 Million to Settle Government Claims of Flawed Tech (NYTimes)
- IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows (Bloomberg)
- Jeff Bezos Sells $2 Billion of Amazon Stock After 4% Stake Transfer (Bloomberg)
- Solar-sailing satellite proves it can use light to propel through space (The Verge)
- And Now, a Bicycle Built for None (NYTimes)
- Fortnite season X adds mech suits, a meteor, and ‘volatile rift zones’ (The Verge)
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Apple isn’t selling as many iPhones, but they want you to know that that’s just fine. Samsung isn’t selling as many high end smartphones as they’d like, but seemingly no one is. There’s a new Galaxy Tab, Facebook hasn’t given up on their Portal ambitions and the rise of the livestreamed funeral business.
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- Samsung's Q2 profit halved from low memory demand (ZDNet)
- Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 is its latest volley against the iPad Pro (The Verge)
- Spotify Grows to 108M Paid Subscribers Compared to Apple Music's 60M (MacRumors)
- Facebook Approached Netflix, Disney to Support TV Chat Device (The Information)
- Amazon concedes market share in battle for online consumer goods sales (TalkBusiness.net)
- NOW EVEN FUNERALS ARE LIVESTREAMED—AND FAMILIES ARE GRATEFUL (Wired)
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Another day, another data breach… but this Capital One breach has some odd new wrinkles, the Android smartphone industry continues to be a tough gig for most manufacturers, I’m ready for smart contact lenses and apparently, the YouTube creator community is ready for a union.
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- Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications (Washington Post)
- Amazon's cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn't seem to be at fault (Business Insider)
- Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, surprising nobody (Android Police)
- Scientists create contact lenses that zoom on command (Engadget)
- Techstars raises $42 million from SVB and Foundry Group to accelerate its growth in Europe and beyond (Tech.eu)
- Israel's New Top Unicorn: Monday.com Hits $1.9 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Raise (Forbes)
- Real estate platform Compass raises another $370M on a $6.4B valuation en route to an IPO (TechCrunch)
- PBS & PBS Kids Coming to YouTube TV Later This Year (The Streamable)
- The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around (Motherboard)
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Google continues to leak Pixel 4 details itself, Github bans users from specific countries, will we eventually see a TikTok phone? Consolidation in the food delivery space, and all hail our first official Fortnite World Cup Champion.
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- (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4 (The KeyWord)
- GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea (TechCrunch)
- Amazon Wants to Rule the Grocery Aisles, and Not Just at Whole Foods (NYTimes)
- China's ByteDance, after Smartisan deal, says developing smartphone (Reuters)
- TikTok owner ByteDance confirms plans to produce a smartphone (The Verge)
- Europe's top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins (TechCrunch)
- Just Eat £9bn merger plan sends shares soaring (The Guardian)
- Sony is crowdfunding a wearable 'air conditioner' (updated) (Engadget)
- Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, 16, wins Fortnite World Cup singles and $3 million (ESPN)
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The T-Mobile/Sprint merger gets the go-ahead, a whole bunch of odds-n-ends Apple stories, SoftBank announces a new Vision Fund, the biggest earnings wrap-up of the calendar quarter, turns out that Chris Hughes was serious about breaking up Facebook, and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- T-Mobile and Sprint merger approved by Justice Department (The Verge)
- Apple and Goldman Sachs Credit Card Targeting August Launch Date (Bloomberg)
- Trump says Apple will not be given tariff waivers or relief for Mac Pro parts made in China (CNBC)
- Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business (The Verge)
- SoftBank CEO Takes More Control in New $108 Billion Vision Fund (Bloomberg)
- Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up. (NYTimes)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Google Photos joined the billion-user club (Fast Company)
- The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” (BuzzFeed News)
- What is Microsoft doing with Cortana? (The Verge)
- The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking (The New Yorker)
- The Onion’s Guide To TikTok (The Onion)
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Samsung says we will finally see the Galaxy Fold in September, Tesla has a bad earnings miss, Deep Mind and Waymo partner to hopefully speed up AV development, AT&T can’t stop dialing up new streaming services and a gadget, game and documentary review trifecta.
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- Samsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in September (The Verge)
- Apple Suppliers See Demand for New IPhones Stabilizing This Year (Bloomberg)
- Telsa reports larger-than-expected losses of $408 million in second quarter (TechCrunch)
- Facebook warns of costly privacy changes, discloses another U.S. probe (Reuters)
- DeepMind and Waymo collaborate to improve AI accuracy and speed up model training (Venture Beat)
- AT&T is launching another new streaming service this fall called AT&T TV (CNET)
- AT&T Chief: HBO Max Will ‘Ultimately’ Offer Live News, Sports (Variety)
- IKEA SYMFONISK review: Sonos speakers at IKEA prices (Gizmodo)
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review (IGN)
- NETFLIX'S THE GREAT HACK BRINGS OUR DATA NIGHTMARE TO LIFE (Wired)
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The FTC comes down on Facebook, but is the new DOJ probe really what Silicon Valley should worry about? Cruise won’t be self-driving taxis in San Francisco this year, Snap really seems to be on the rebound, and is media piracy poised for a major comeback?
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- U.S. government issues stunning rebuke, historic $5 billion fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations (The Washington Post)
- Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight alternative to Google Photos (The Verge)
- GM’s Cruise delays driverless taxi service, plans to build country’s largest EV fast charger station (Venture Beat)
- Snap shares surge as results smash estimates (CNBC)
- DoorDash CEO announces that now your tips will go to delivery workers (Engadget)
- PLEX MAKES PIRACY JUST ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE (The Verge)
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Apple may buy Intel’s floundering 5G chip division, new rumored iPhone models seem like modest bumps, the attorney general dreams of an impossible encryption backdoor, a Facebook design flaw potentially exposed children to strangers, the NSA consolidates cybersecurity, Uber tests an all-in-one subscription plan, a suit against AT&T over a cryptocurrency theft can proceed, and winking face money bag 100% you should use emoji at work. Sponsors
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Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business (WSJ) Apple to release three ‘iPhone 11’ models this fall, including A13 chip, new Taptic Engine, more (9to5mac) US attorney general says encryption creates security risk (AP) AG Barr and Trump Want to Open Government Backdoors into Americans’ Personal Devices Video Available Here (Ron Wyden statement) Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized users (The Verge) NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort (WSJ) Uber tests monthly subscription that combines Eats, rides, bikes and scooters (TechCrunch) Cryptocurrency investor’s $224 million suit against AT&T over stolen coins moves forward (CNBC) Yes, You Actually Should Be Using Emojis at Work (WSJ)
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Equifax agrees to a settlement over its massive 2017 data breach, Microsoft invests a billion dollars in an generalized AI startup, Huawei is linked to North Korea’s cellular network buildout, Google settles multiple lawsuits, including a decade-old one about Wi-Fi snooping, Apple’s sequel to Tim Cook becomes apparent, and senseless violins. Sponsors
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CFPB, FTC and States Announce Settlement with Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach (CFPB) Proving you deserve $20,000 from the Equifax settlement will be nearly impossible (CNBC) With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain (New York Times) Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI (OpenAI press release) Leaked documents reveal Huawei’s secret operations to build North Korea’s wireless network (Washington Post) Google Finds Cheap Way Out of Multibillion-Dollar ‘Wi-Spy’ Suit (Bloomberg) How Google Extracted Itself From Three More Lawsuits—Data Sheet (Fortune) Apple’s Heir Apparent Is Much More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs (Bloomberg) Etsy acquires musical instrument marketplace Reverb for $275 million (VentureBeat)
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Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter tries to look at this question from a historical perspective. Is it really different this time? But more importantly... to what degree has technological change impacted how we think of things, and vice-versa. My thanks to the authors, Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt. Sponsors:
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So, today, July 20th 2019 is the 50th anniversary of human beings walking on the moon for the first time. As Glenn mentioned on Friday’s weekend longreads segment, Fast Company has been doing a 50 days to the moon thing. 50 different stories around the moon landing. They’re all from Charles Fishman, who wrote a book that came out this summer called One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon. Please buy that book if you want a super great summer long read, literal longread. But also, listen to this conversation with Charles discussing amazing stories about the moon landing that I for sure never knew, and 100% blew my mind… Sponsors:
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Microsoft makes boring pay dividends, Trump says he’ll use JEDI mind tricks to examine a Pentagon bid, Orlando ends a controversial facial-recognition test with Amazon, and your weekend long read suggestions. Sponsors
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Microsoft beats on earnings, stock ticks up (CNBC) Trump says he’s looking into a Pentagon cloud contract for Amazon or Microsoft because ‘we’re getting tremendous complaints’ (CNBC) Republican lawmakers urge Trump not to delay the $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract Amazon and Microsoft want (CNBC) Orlando cancels Amazon Rekognition program, capping 15 months of glitches and controversy (Orlando Weekly)
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50 Days to the Moon (Fast Company) Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man? (Washington Post) TikTok Stars Are Preparing to Take Over the Internet (The Atlantic) Grindr Wanted To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It. (Buzzfeed) Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It’s Made Him A Victim And A Star (Buzzfeed)
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Netflix's growth disappoints, but Stranger Things have happened. The Democratic National Committee tells candidates to avoid the photo-aging simulator FaceApp. Don't expect driverless cars any time soon, despite the hype. Can 5G networks give you cancer? No, no they can't. Finally, go ahead! Start that podcast. Don't listen to the naysayers. Sponsors:
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Google says Project Dragonfly is dead, Apple might be producing its own original podcasts, the Switch regular gets a refresh, and two long-time interesting companies: Neuralink and Boston Dynamics are ready for the spotlight. Sponsors:
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Antitrust: Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon (The European Commission) A Google VP Told The US Senate The Company Has “Terminated” The Chinese Search App Dragonfly (BuzzFeed News) Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals (Bloomberg) New Nintendo Switch model will have much better battery life (Polygon) Microsoft wins multibillion-dollar cloud deal from AT&T (CNBC) Elon Musk’s Neuralink Takes Baby Steps to Wiring Brains to the Internet (NYTimes) BOSTON DYNAMICS’ ROBOTS ARE PREPARING TO LEAVE THE LAB — IS THE WORLD READY? (The Verge) Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks (BBC News)
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Facebook explains Libra to Congress, Amazon might be next in the EU’s woodshed, Google might be next in Trump’s woodshed, another Tesla lineup shakeup, a couple of interesting raises and Microsoft opens Windows up to all your digital assistants. Sponsors:
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The FTC is readying a record fine for Facebook, but is it just a parking ticket? Qualcomm refreshes the Snapdragon lineup, governments want to make money off of selling your data also, Microsoft Office quietly winning in mobile, and the Air Force warns: do NOT storm Area 51! Sponsors:
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Remember that longread from Friday? I knew lots of physical retail was under threat from ecommcerce, but do we have to worry about the grocery store too? As I said, this was something I’ve never considered. So read the piece because I got in touch with the author, Joe Fassler to see what the story is. And yes, there are larger societal and cultural and even cyclical shifts imperiling the traditional grocery market, but yes, it’s tech and ecommerce too. A deeper dive into all this, plus at look at the star of Joe’s piece, the grocery store architect who is trying to blow up the grocery in order to save it. The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store (The New Food Economy) Sponsors:
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Remember the whole Superhuman kerfuffle of the last week or so? Mike Davidson wrote a blog post calling out some shady stuff in the Superhuman email product, all of silicon valley debated it, Superhuman walked things back a bit, and actually, I didn’t mention this, but Mike had a second post about this, which was even more in depth an eloquent than the first one. So, I reached out to Mike to talk about this whole thing, not because I wanted to re-litigate it, but because I wanted to poke at… well, what I said last week… what does this whole debate say about the discourse in tech at the moment? Mike's 2nd post on this that I didn't mention on the podcast Sponsors:
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Amazon is developing a high-end Echo speaker, the PC market’s not dead yet, Postmates is having second thoughts about going public and might shop itself around instead, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Apple quietly brings the hammer down on Zoom’s hidden web server, Apple also turns off Walkie Talkie in order to fix it, Google Assistant is listening in on you also, Amazon Music is a streaming dark-horse and dang is Bird losing a lot of money. Sponsors:
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The Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller cheaper Switch that doesn’t “switch,” HBO Max is ready for the streaming thunderdome, is Slack falling behind Microsoft Teams, and an effort to close a funny tax loophole for crypto investors. Sponsors:
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Apple culls the MacBook herd, YouTube returns to FireTV, a weird zero day exploit in Zoom’s video conferencing app, Elon Musk shakes up his autopilot team, and Stranger Things 3 breaks records for Netflix. Sponsors:
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Apple stops selling 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air (9to5Mac) YouTube is back on the Fire TV, and Prime Video launches on Chromecast starting today (The Verge) Instagram will test a feature that allows users to shadow ban their bullies (The Verge) Inside Instagram's War on Bullying (Time) Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! (InfoSec Write-Ups) More than 1,000 Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions (CNET) Frustrated Musk Shakes Up Autopilot Team (The Information) If you'll pay more, new Uber Comfort offers Quiet Rides (TechCrunch) Spotify Lite is now officially out for 36 markets around the world (Engadget) ‘Stranger Things 3’ Breaks Netflix Four-Day Viewing Record, Streamer Says (Deadline) 'Stranger Things 3' has been seen by over 40 million Netflix accounts (Engadget)
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Your driver’s license is already being used for facial recognition surveillance, VC investment in Chinese startups is plummeting, I have an answer to my question around cities paying ransom to hackers, and if this podcast thing goes away, I know my next hustle: professional dungeon master. Sponsors:
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A Superhuman mea culpa, no mea culpa but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake, inside Walmart’s turf battles over ecommerce, HQ Trivia lays off staff, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Read Statuses (Superhuman) Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro (9to5Mac) HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions (TechCrunch) Inside the conflict at Walmart that’s threatening its high-stakes race with Amazon (Recode)
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The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting (Forbes) Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs (Ars Technica) Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q (Ars Technica) How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear (BuzzFeed News) Hayflick limit (QZ)
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Telsa sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected, more signs of tech manufacturing fleeing China, Uber’s new Dine-In service is kinda brilliant, and have you seen the whole tech world arguing over Superhuman? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Instacart.com Promocode RIDE at checkout. Links: Tesla sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected in latest quarter (Digital Trends) HP, Dell and Microsoft join electronics exodus from China (Nikkei Asian Review) House lawmakers officially ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold (The Verge) Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too (CNET) Uber Eats invades restaurants with Dine-In option. (TechCrunch) Superhuman is Spying on You (Mike Industries)
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We know when the Galaxy Note 10 is coming, we don’t know why Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, Nvidia refreshes the RTX line, meditation app Calm is finding success in an interesting way, and Loon is about to have its first big test. Sponsors:
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Was Jony Ive burned out at Apple or was he burned out BY Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet mega-player in the streaming wars, how TikTok is spending its way to ubiquity (on the backs of those it wants to supplant) and how tech is revolutionizing Archeology. Sponsors:
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Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago (WSJ) Roku Will Soon Have 70% More OTT Devices in Global Streaming Market Than Next Closest Competitor (Multichannel News) Streaming Overload? Nielsen Report Finds Average Viewer Takes 7 Minutes To Pick What To Watch; Just One-Third Bother To Check Menu (Deadline) TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious. (WSJ) RealWear AR Closes Series B, Total Funding Over $100M (Forbes) Exclusive: Intel launches blockbuster auction for its mobile portfolio (iam-media.com) New electric cars sold in Europe must be fitted with noise-making device (TechSpot) How Cutting-Edge Tech Is Empowering Ancient Archaeology (OneZero) Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (MIT Technology Review)
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I didn’t cover it, but you might have noticed that this week, bitcoin did indeed cross that magical $10,000 mark, in fact, got to $13,000 a coin only to flash crash back down again almost to $10,000. But look, seemingly the crypto spring is upon us and I was just curious as to why, so I asked Aaron Lammer, co-host of the only crypto podcast I listen to, CoinTalk to try to find out what is behind this rally. TLDR, it’s a little bit market cycles and a little bit Facebook Libra. Sponsors:
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Is it really different this time? Is the regulatory hammer about to come down on Silicon Valley? Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute; he’s writing a book on the history of Monopoly power; and he has direct experience with this stuff. He was a Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst to the Senate Budget Committee. He also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on financial services policy, including Dodd-Frank, the Federal Reserve, and the foreclosure crisis. How is monopoly power different (or not) in the era of Big Tech? Sponsors:
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Jony Ive is leaving Apple, health tech is having its first big IPO, Amazon looks like it is finally ready to kill UPS, I’ve got issues with Google’s new reCAPTCHA’s and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Apple's Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client (MacRumors) History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive (Motherboard) Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple (Daring Fireball) Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his own words (The Financial Times) Digital health start-up Livongo files to go public (CNBC) Amazon, the new king of shipping (Axios) Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side (Fast Company)
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Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home Empire (Fortune) Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry (The Ringer) New Emails, Old Tech (Tedium) How the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field (GeekWire) How One VC Firm Amassed a 24% Stake in Slack Worth $4.6 Billion (Bloomberg) How Art Arrived at Jackson Pollock (Kottke.org)
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Twitter still allows public figures to break its rules, but it will warn you when they do, Zuckerberg says you need him on that wall, the US Wireless Emergency Alert system can be easily spoofed, and the mystery that is Superhuman. Sponsors:
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Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures (The Verge) Mark Zuckerberg Is Rethinking Deepfakes (The Atlantic) Mark Zuckerberg: We can’t stop Russian election interference by ourselves, US government must help (CNBC) Amazon partners with retailers for new Counter package pickup service, starting with Rite-Aid (GeekWire) Second Florida city pays giant ransom to ransomware gang in a week (ZDNet) Researchers Demonstrate How U.S. Emergency Alert System Can Be Hijacked and Weaponized (Motherboard) Would You Pay $30 a Month to Check Your Email? (NYTimes)
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Apple buys Drive.ai, the days of the phone notch might be numbered, the first solar powered electric car, fighting over the streaming rights for The Office, and why streaming music hasn’t been kind to classical music. Sponsors:
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Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai (Axios) Oppo unveils the world’s first under-screen selfie camera (The Verge) Airbnb’s New Luxe Tier Includes a $1 Million Polynesian Island (Bloomberg) 3D printing platform Carbon raises $260 million at $2.4 billion valuation (VentureBeat) 300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators (TechCrunch) Lightyear One Debuts as the first long-rand solar-powered electric car (TechCrunch) NBC is removing ‘The Office’ from Netflix in 2021 and putting it on its new streaming service (CNBC) In Streaming Age, Classical Music Gets Lost in the Metadata (NYTimes)
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LinkedIn’s changes mean peak newsfeed is truly behind us, hackers have been stealing a massive amount of phone data without touching phones, early impressions of the recent Apple beta releases and Bill Gates fesses up to his greatest career failure. Sponsors:
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Exclusive: LinkedIn goes niche (Axios) Microsoft’s new OneDrive Personal Vault protects a folder with 2FA (The Verge) Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks (TechCrunch) Harry Potter: Wizards Unite On Track for $10 Million First Month Following $1 Million Launch Weekend (SensorTower) Bill Gates says his ‘greatest mistake ever’ was Microsoft losing to Android (The Verge) Hands on with Apple's first public beta of macOS 10.15 Catalina (Apple Insider) IOS 13 HANDS-ON: DARK MODE, APPLE MAPS, REMINDERS, AND MORE (The Verge) iPadOS makes Apple's tablets feel like a priority again (Engadget)
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The Raspberry Pi 4 might finally be a full PC replacement, the first real bipartisan bill around data collection has arrived, is the Echo Show 5 the best Echo ever or just the best smart alarm clock ever, and why tonight’s Falcon Heavy launch might be the biggest test for SpaceX yet. Sponsors:
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Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Here and Wants to Replace Your Desktop PC for $35 (Vice) Scoop: Bipartisan senators want Big Tech to put a price on your data (Axios) AMAZON’S ECHO SHOW 5 IS THE SMART ALARM CLOCK TO GET (The Verge) DoorDash has unseated Grubhub as the leader in US online food delivery (Quartz) Microsoft Flight Simulator will support 'community content' (PC Gamer) Why the third launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has the highest stakes yet (The Verge)
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E3 was last week, not even this past week, but I did want to get a debrief on what went on there, so I had to wait for everyone to get back from E3 and Brian Heater of TechCrunch is here to file a report. Where is gaming in this transition to streaming? What were the headline games announced at E3? What about Project Scarlett? Sponsors:
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Well, given the news of the week, I knew we needed to do a deep dive on Libra, so I called up our friend Brady Dale at CoinDesk and we get into it. What do crypto folk think of Libra? Is he surprised by the governmental backlash? And since by the time you hear this, bitcoin might already be back above $10k dollars? Are we out of the crypto winter and into crypto spring? Sponsors:
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Google is getting out of the tablet business, there’s a MacBook Pro recall but not because of keyboard issues, a startup is aiming to disrupt the billable hour in the legal space, the world’s “first” electric plane is here, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Google's officially done making its own tablets (Computerworld) GOOGLE WAS NEVER REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT TABLETS (The Verge) Apple launches recall program for select MacBook Pros due to battery safety concerns (9to5Mac) FASTEST MOBILE NETWORKS 2019 (PC Mag) The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work (TechCrunch) Why the age of electric flight is finally upon us (BBC News)
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Slack debuts as a publicly traded company, there will be Congressional hearings about Libra, a Florida city pays ransom money to hackers, getting your internet from your lightbulbs and are we on the cusp of a fast-charging-battery revolution Sponsors:
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Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests. (The Washington Post) Facebook called before Senate panel over digital currency project (Reuters) YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy (The Washington Post) Apple Explores Moving Some Production Out of China (WSJ) Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records (Associated Press) Philips Hue company announces lights that beam data at 250 Mbps (The Verge) Vivo's insane 120W Super FlashCharge tech fills a 4000mAh battery in 13 minutes (AndroidCentral)
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More revelations about the horrible job that is Facebook Moderation, Best Buy now doubles as a Genius Bar—sorta, YouTube has some new AR tricks and is mulling some changes for kids, and the reaction to Facebook’s crypto play has me fascinated. Sponsors:
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BODIES IN SEATS (The Verge) Apple expands authorized repairs to ~1,000 Best Buy Stores (TechCrunch) The new Kindle Oasis lets you adjust color temperature for night reading (The Verge) YouTube's new AR Beauty Try-On lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching video review (TechCrunch) Top Democrat calls for Facebook to halt cryptocurrency plans until Congress investigates (The Verge) Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: where are the banks? (The Block) THE AMBITIOUS PLAN BEHIND FACEBOOK’S CRYPTOCURRENCY, LIBRA (Wired)
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Facebook announces Libra, Twitch acquires Bebo, are unmanned convenience stores something people even want, Facebook wants more houses in Silicon Valley, and LA real estate is starting to look like Silicon Valley. Sponsors:
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The 5G iPhones might be both bigger and smaller, both Huawei and the chip industry prepare for tough times, Genius says it caught Google red-handed, is the US making a big 5G mistake and what exactly is farming-as-a-service? Sponsors:
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Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas (Bloomberg) Broadcom's $2 billion warning rattles global chip sector (Reuters) Kuo on 2020 iPhones: 5.4-Inch and 6.7-Inch Models With 5G, 6.1-Inch Model With LTE, All With OLED Displays (MacRumors) Lyrics Site Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content (WSJ) Infarm closes $100M Series B to scale its 'urban farming platform' (TechCrunch) CHOOSING THE WRONG LANE IN THE RACE TO 5G (Wired) Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per day (Ars Technica) On Snapchat, Original Series Are Finding Return Viewers (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Simon Owens is a journalist who, in his writing, podcasting and newsletters, covers the whole gamut of digital media, from the creator side to the publisher side… from the journalist side to the business side. So, we’ve got a great, wide-ranging conversation today about everything from newsletters, to YouTube, to paywalls to podcasts. And check out Simon’s great podcast, The Business of Content. Sponsors:
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That Wired longread that I suggested yesterday, about Amazon’s warehouse robots really stuck with me for personal reasons you’ll hear in a second. I talked to the author of the piece, Matt Simon, not only cause I wanted more flavor on what it was like to work with these things, but because he also raises interesting ideas about human/robot symbiosis. In short, the robot apocalypse might still be coming, but not today. And for the foreseeable future, that might be the growth industry for humans: robot baby sitters. Please enjoy. Matt's article: INSIDE THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHERE HUMANS AND MACHINES BECOME ONE Sponsors:
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Are foldable phones cursed—and will we ever see one? Facebook coin might be coming as early as next week, the hottest crypto is up 330% YTD but you’ve probably never heard of it, some IPOs to report on and, of course, the weekend longread suggestions. Sponsors:
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Huawei delays foldable phone launch until September to do extra tests after Samsung’s troubles (CNBC) Huawei delays launch of foldable Mate X following Galaxy Fold failure (The Verge) AT&T Cancels All Galaxy Fold Preorders, Issues $100 Promo Card (Tom's Guide) Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers (WSJ) Hottest Crypto Is Up 330% This Year and Its Name Isn’t Bitcoin (Bloomberg) Chewy, PetSmart’s online business, soars as much 86% after IPO pricing at $22 per share (CNBC) THE HIGHLY DANGEROUS 'TRITON' HACKERS HAVE PROBED THE US GRID (Wired)
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Telegram is getting DDoS’d, Google pulls a Radiohead on Pixel phone leakers, Bird buys Scoot, my dream TV is a wall, and the most interesting startup I’ve heard about in a while. Sponsors:
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The state of the Internet according to Mary Meeker, Houseparty joins the Fortnite party, Uber Elevate is planning some important firsts, the DOJ is telegraphing its possible punches to Silicon Valley, and someone find Have I Been Pwned a good home. Sponsors:
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Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (ReCode) Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty (TechCrunch) Apple Discusses Acquisition of Intel’s German Modem Unit (The Information) Google Is Moving More Hardware Production Out of China (Bloomberg) Uber Wants Your Next Big Mac to Be Delivered by Drone (Bloomberg) Snapchat’s Gender-Swap and Baby Filters Doubled Downloads of the App (OneZero) The DOJ’s antitrust chief just telegraphed exactly how it could go after Google, Apple and other big tech companies (CNBC) Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks for the Antitrust New Frontiers Conference Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)
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An abject example of the maxim, “any data that is collected, will be breached,” Foxconn isn’t worried about a trade war so maybe Apple doesn’t have to be, electric car charging is about to get easier, and why it’s weird that Spotify can advertise against your moods. Sponsors:
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Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap (Washington Post) The CBP Data Breach (TechCrunch) Apple’s U.S. iPhones Can All Be Made Outside of China If Needed (Bloomberg) Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S. (GeekWire) Amazon launches Personalize, a fully managed AI-powered recommendation service (VentureBeat) Charging an electric car will get easier (TechCrunch) This is how scammers are now abusing Google Calendar to pillage your data (ZDNet) Big Mood Machine (The Baffler) Radiohead Have The Last Laugh After Hackers Hold 18 Hours Of Their Unreleased Music Ransom (HuffingtonPost UK)
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The next generation Xbox sounds like a beast, Salesforce buys Tableau, Apple might buy a self-driving car startup, we finally get some details on Quibi and does Broadway want to jump on the streaming video bandwagon? Sponsors:
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Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020 (The Verge) Microsoft’s new Xbox streaming mode is arriving in October for consoles (TheVerge) I tried Project xCloud at Xbox's E3 2019 show. It is real. It is insane. (Windows Central) Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7 B in all-stock deal (TechCrunch) Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent (Bloomberg) The Google Assistant is now available in Waze (The Keyword) Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman Offer Details on Quibi Launch, Pricing (Variety) Would you pay to stream endless musicals? Some Broadway insiders are quietly betting on it. (The Washington Post)
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Does what is says on the tin. John Voorhees helps us sum up WWDC, get act dev reaction from the floor of the conference, and pick up some of the stray threads we missed from Apple's biggest week of the year. Sponsors:
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Now you can’t get Facebook on new Huawei phones, Barnes and Noble waives the white flag, WarnerMedia abandons that tiered streaming plan idea, Walmart wants to deliver directly to your refrigerator and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Google Stadia details are revealed, Amazon shows off its delivery drone and Uber debuts Uber Copter, Facebook is going to do an official white paper for its cryptocurrency, and our mobile gadgets have finally dethroned the television. Sponsors:
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GOOGLE’S STADIA GAME SERVICE IS OFFICIALLY COMING NOVEMBER: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW (The Verge) Google cloud boss Thomas Kurian makes his first big move — buys Looker for $2.6 billion (CNBC) Facebook plans June 18th cryptocurrency debut. Here's what we know (TechCrunch) A first look at Amazon's new delivery drone (TechCrunch) Uber Copter to Offer Flights From Lower Manhattan to J.F.K. (NYTimes) Average US Time Spent with Mobile in 2019 Has Increased (eMarketer) People spend more time on mobile devices than TV, firm says (Los Angeles Times)
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YouTube actually DOES make some changes, Peloton is going public, could Prime open Amazon up to anticompetitive scrutiny, more on that Sign in with Apple controversy, and why your local police department might want to buy you Ring doorbell. Sponsors:
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YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed (TheVerge) Peloton, the connected fitness company, has filed to go public (TheVerge) Amazon may soon face an antitrust probe. Here are 3 questions the FTC is asking about it. (Vox/Recode) The SEC Is Suing Kik for Its 2017 ICO (CoinDesk) Netflix Is Testing an Instagram-Like Feed of Photos and Videos (Variety) Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Zuckerberg as chairman (Business Insider) Apple asks developers to place its login button above Google, Facebook (Reuters) An antitrust case looms, and Apple tempts fate (Casey Newton/The Interface) Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells (CNET)
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It looks like Washington is serious about going after Big Tech in a big way, Firefox blocks cookies, why are developers trepidatious about that Sign In with Apple scheme, and why it’s time we really need to talk about the YouTube recommendation algorithm. Sponsors:
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Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers (Washington Post) ITUNES IS DEAD. LET'S PAY OUR RESPECTS (Wired) Apple’s top spec Mac Pro will likely cost at least $35,000 (The Verge) Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default (VentureBeat) On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles (NYTimes) How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult (The New Republic) YouTube star who gave toothpaste-filled Oreo to homeless man gets 15-month jail sentence (Fox News)
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All the news and headlines from WWDC, the anti-trust brigade might be coming for Google in the US, a big chip acquisition, big news on the payments front, and a dispatch from the frontlines of the streaming wars… but, c’mon, we know what you’re here to hear about. Tiny.website Tech.FidelityCareers.com Links: Mac Pro (The Verge) Pro Display XDR (The Verge) iPadOS and Files app (The Verge) Sign in with Apple (9To5Mac) Dark Mode (The Verge) The Justice Department is preparing a potential antitrust investigation of Google (Washington Post) Infineon Will Buy Cypress Semi in Latest Chip Mega-Deal (Bloomberg) PayPal opens up access to e-commerce platform that’s already used by Instagram and Facebook (CNBC) Stripe Launches Chargeback Protection Service (Pymnts.com) An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache (NYTimes)
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Y’all know Dan Frommer. Veteran tech journalist. We’re gonna do a WWDC preview here today, but before that, Dan has his own, excellent newsletter, the new consumer! Sign up for it in the show notes! Link to the free and paid editions. Because this is the beat Dan covers so well, before we get into the WWDC and Apple stuff, a lengthy discussion of the whole consumer unicorn startup space, that I don’t think we cover enough. https://newconsumer.com/ Sponsors:
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Might Amazon get into the cellular carrier game and thus make a Sprint/T-Mobile merger more palatable? Uber’s first quarterly report as a public company, what to expect from WWDC next week, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Microsoft brings the Xbox Game Pass to PCs, Google gives the finger to adblockers (and all of us), the DOJ will only approve the Sprint/T-Mobile merger if there’s no actual market consolidation, GoGo wants to bring 5G to airplanes and when will an e-sports stadium come to your town? Sponsors:
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Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass is coming to PC (Engadget) Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users (9to5Google) Apple, Google and WhatsApp condemn UK proposal to eavesdrop on encrypted messages (CNBC) U.S. Wants T-Mobile to Create New Rival Before Clearing Megadeal (Bloomberg) Hulu Says 70% of Its 82 Million Viewers Are on Ad-Supported Plan (Variety) Gogo plans in-flight 5G for U.S. and Canadian aircraft in 2021 (VentureBeat) Excel for iPhone now lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it (The Verge) As E-Sports Grow, So Do Their Homes (NYTimes)
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Amazon has a new Echo Show to go after the Google Nest Home Hub, the NYC subway is entering the mobile era, Uber says it will now ban RIDERS who get bad Uber ratings, and Microsoft outlines its vision for a modern operating system. Sponsors:
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The Amazon Echo Show 5 puts Alexa on a smaller screen, shipping in June for $89.99 (The Verge) NYC subway riders will be able to swipe in with Apple Pay starting Friday (TechCrunch) Uber is now kicking low-rated passengers out of its cars (CNET) Huawei Revs Up Its U.S. Lawsuit, With the Media in Mind (NYTimes) Inside the Apple Team That Decides Which Apps Get on iPhones (Bloomberg) The Decrypted Podcast Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates (The Verge) Enabling innovation and opportunity on the Intelligent Edge (Official Microsoft Blog)
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The iPod touch lives (and got an update), Dell’s whole laptop lineup got an update, the apocalypse is coming for small vendors on Amazon, MacKenzie Bezos signs the Giving Pledge, and why a laptop infested with malware sold for $1.3 million dollars. Sponsors:
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Apple refreshes the iPod touch with the iPhone 7’s processor (The Verge) Dell reveals new laptops aimed at gamers and business users (Android Authority) Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Long-Feared Purge of Small Suppliers (Bloomberg) MacKenzie Bezos pledged to give away more than half of her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy (TechCrunch) Browser vendors win war with W3C over HTML and DOM standards (ZDNet) Driverless Delivery Vans Are Here as Production Begins in China (Bloomberg) Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million (updated) (Engadget)
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Nerds and tech folk have always had a special fascination with typeface and font design, and especially with the venerable Helvetica. Today we're going to talk to Charles Nix, who's foundry Monotype had the challenge of updating Helvetica for the 21st century with Helvetica Now. A lot of these bonus episodes are you learning along with me as we take deeper dives into certain tech topics, well no more so than this episode because I knew absolutely nothing about this area of design and so was fascinated to learn about what goes into creating a typeface from an artistic, design, and even business perspective. Sponsors:
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The Facebook cryptocurrency could be here in about six months, SpaceX launches its first batch of internet satellites, iFixit tears down the MacBook keyboard tweaks, the robots are coming for MLB umpires, and a supersized weekend longreads segment. Sponsors:
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Special report - Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China's tech giant (Reuters) WeWork Wants to Become Its Own Landlord With Latest Spending Spree (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules (Politico) AFTER 15 YEARS, THE PIRATE BAY STILL CAN’T BE KILLED (Mel) One Inventor’s Race to Manage His Parkinson’s Disease With an App (OneZero) Business Bets on a Quantum Leap (Fortune) Can AI escape our control and destroy us? (Popular Science) The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (OneZero) A Revolution In Your Pocket (RBS.io)
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The Playdate is a Game Boy for the 21st Century, GitHub launches a Patreon for open source developers, Amazon is working on a health app that can monitor emotions, Door Dash is emerging at the leader in the food delivery wars, and Rotten Tomatoes brings the hammer down on review stuffing. Sponsors:
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Playdate is an adorable handheld with games from the creators of Qwop, Katamari, and more (The Verge) GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open-source contributors (TechCrunch) Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions (Bloomberg) DoorDash Is Now Worth $12.6 Billion After New $600 Million Investment (Forbes) Andreessen pours $22M into PlanetScales' database-as-a-service (TechCrunch) Walmart starts selling self-branded Android tablets starting at $64 w/ Play Store (9to5Google) A year after GDPR, mobile notifications are up, location sharing is down (MarketingLand) Rotten Tomatoes will start verifying ticket purchases for audience reviews (TechCrunch)
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The Huawei mess metastasizes, the EU goes after Google again, Qualcomm loses to the FTC, and Comcast—of all people—is getting into health tech. Sponsors:
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Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant (BBC News) Huawei Considers Rivals to Google's Android After U.S. Ban (Bloomberg) EU regulator launches probe into Google over data privacy (CNBC) Google says some G Suite user passwords were stored in plaintext since 2005 (TechCrunch) U.S. judge says Qualcomm violated antitrust law; appeal planned, shares plunge (Reuters) Microsoft kicks off the rollout of the Windows 10 May Update, version 1903 (ZDNet) Medium CEO Ev Williams Goes All-In on Building Subscription Business (Cheddar) Comcast is working on an in-home device to track people’s health (CNBC) Leak reveals Uber's $9.99 Unlimited delivery Eats Pass (TechCrunch)
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Has Apple fixed the MacBook keyboard problem? Huawei gets a 90 day reprieve, Instagram wants to copy Snapchat AND TikTok, the first self-driving mail trucks, and why would your smart car want to tell people if you’ve gained weight? Sponsors:
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Apple tweaks its troubled MacBook keyboard design yet again, expands repair program (The Verge) U.S. eases curbs on Huawei; founder says clampdown underestimates Chinese firm (Reuters) Google will work with Huawei for 90 days after US eases trade restrictions (CNBC) DOJ Leans Against Approving T-Mobile’s Takeover of Sprint (Bloomberg) Instagram's IGTV copies TikTok's AI, Snapchat's Design (TechCrunch) Google brings release channels and Windows Container support to its Kubernetes Engine (TechCrunch) Self-Driving Trucks Will Carry Mail in U.S. for the First Time (Bloomberg) Hand Gestures And Horses: Waymo’s Self-Driving Service Learns To Woo The Public (Forbes) Chevy rolls out new feature that locks teens out of driving until they buckle up (The Verge) Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight (NYTimes)
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Why Google ghosting Huawei might lead to a chain reaction for all of tech, the Sprint/T-Mobile merger gets a shot in the arm, GM sort of gets the point of software, I guess, and why 5G might be horrible for weather forecasting. Sponsors:
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Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source (Reuters) Huawei responds to Android ban with service and security guarantees, but its future is unclear (TechCrunch) Y Combinator promotes Geoff Ralston to president, while Sam Altman shifts to advisor role (TechCrunch) Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 drops to $999 and adds Qualcomm’s XR1 (VentureBeat) T-Mobile, Sprint Get Merger Backing From FCC Chairman (WSJ) 5G NETWORKS COULD THROW WEATHER FORECASTING INTO CHAOS (Wired) GM GIVES ALL ITS VEHICLES A NEW SOUL (Wired) Top ‘Live-Streamers’ Get $50,000 an Hour to Play New Videogames Online (WSJ)
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Eric Jackson is an investor at EMJ Capital Ltd. He’s deep in the media space, he’s deep in the streaming wars, as I think I say in this episode, he’s shaped a ton of my thinking about the streaming wars. So… where are we? Who’s up? Who’s down? Is it time to get bullish on Disney+ for a ton of reasons? Eric has a great podcast: The Eric Jackson Podcast. Sponsors:
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You know them, you love them, Jay Yarrow of CNBC, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times. It’s another Jay and Farhad Show Reunion! Today’s topics: Uber’s IPO, the Streaming Wars, and Game of Thrones! These are my favorite episodes. I just hit record, and we thumb wrestle each other to get in a hot take. :) Sponsors:
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Can Minecraft Earth be the killer app for AR? Are the best and brightest shunning working at Facebook? Has drone maker DJI beaten GoPro at its own game? And do I have some killer weekend longreads suggestions? You better believe I do. Sponsors:
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in $1.30 billion deal (Reuters) MINECRAFT EARTH GOES A STEP BEYOND POKÉMON GO TO COVER THE WORLD IN BLOCKS (TheVerge) Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to recruiters who worked there (CNBC) Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019 (VentureBeat) DJI is out-GoProing GoPro with its own action camera (TechCrunch)
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The hammer is coming down on Huawei, China blocks Wikipedia, Google clarifies the Works with Nest shutdown, a 1TB microSD, more 5G rollouts, what should we think of Quibi and you didn’t fall for that porn scam did you? Sponsors:
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Trump administration cracks down on giant Chinese tech firm, escalating clash with Beijing (Washington Post) Trump’s Huawei Threat Is the Nuclear Option to Halt China’s Rise (Bloomberg) Instagram is killing Direct, its standalone Snapchat clone app, in the next several weeks (TechCrunch) Report: Apple’s custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 after ‘long and painful divorce’ with Intel (The Information) China has blocked all language versions of Wikipedia (Mashable) Sprint will launch 5G on May 31 in 4 cities with LG V50 and HTC 5G Hub (VentureBeat) Streaming Service Quibi Seeks Up to $1 Billion in New Funding (The Information) Exclusive: Scammed Porn Watchers Have Paid Nearly $1 Million in Bitcoin Blackmail (Fortune)
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There’s a new major chip flaw called ZombieLoad, the major tech companies sign on to the so-called Christchurch Call to Action, San Francisco bans facial recognition tech, is Google effectively deprecating search, and did Beyonce make $300M on Uber? Sponsors:
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WhatsApp discovered one of the craziest flaws I’ve ever heard about in mobile, Disney now controls all of Hulu, now we’ve got folding laptops, the One Plus 7 Pro is another strike against $1,000 phones and is bitcoin back? Sponsors:
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A Supreme Court ruling might spell trouble for Apple and others, Amazon is automating the boxers out of a job, Discord is doing some serious MAU’s, what the death of Nest means for IOT, and a LITERAL Bitcoin treasure hunt. Sponsors:
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Not too long ago I did a longreads suggestion about Huawei and listener Dexter Thillien got in touch, because he’s a telecoms analyst, and he was actually quoted in the article. Over email, he educated me about some of my misconceptions about Huawei and I was like, “Don’t just school me! Come on the podcast and let’s catch everyone on up Huawei!” And so, today, we do that. Where did Huawei come from? How did it get to a place where it’s the pre-eminent 5G infrastructure firm? Is Huawei just a tool of the Chinese government. I do apologize for the somewhat poor Skype connection, but the content here is so good, you won’t even notice. My thanks to Dexter Thillien. Sponsor:
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I knew Uber was going public this week, and it occurred to me that since this podcast started, my default position has been: Uber: super cool company, but a lot of people have a lot of doubts about them. But I realized, I had never explained that, or gone into detail about WHY people feel that way… unlike how we’ve done with other things. So, I reached out to Shira Ovide at Bloomberg, not to talk trash about Uber, but to… let’s say… get the skeptic’s take about Uber’s business model— which is the ride hailing business model, in a way, which is also the sharing economy business model in a way—so, in that vein, we also talk about WeWork a bit too (which people are also skeptical of). Sponsors:
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Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg) The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg) The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon) How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune) Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)
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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up Facebook, more developer details from I/O, Uber has an arbitration problem, shoe tech is real, and get ready for 64 megapixel smartphone cameras. Sponsors:
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Google is talking big on privacy, but going after cookies helps their bottom line as well, why the Pixel 3a might usher in a new era of flagship “lite” phones, the huge Binance bitcoin hack and why does Bird want to sell you a scooter, not just rent you one? Sponsors:
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Google strengthens Chrome's privacy controls (TechCrunch) Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it (TechCrunch) US digital advertising exceeded $100 billion in 2019 (TechCrunch) Google shows Apple and Samsung how ‘lite’ flagships are done (Engadget) Apple should bring back the iPhone SE and model it after Google’s Pixel 3a (MacWorld) Bird has a new electric scooter: it’s durable, comes in three different colors, and you can buy it (The Verge) DIY Artists Will Earn More than $1 Billion This Year. No Wonder the Major Labels Want Their Business (Rolling Stone)
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All the news that I could possibly grab from Google’s I/O keynote, again, Alexa IS spying on you, Cruise Automation raises a big round... and will we ever actually see the Galaxy Fold? Sponsors:
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All the announcements from Microsoft’s Build 2019, Mozilla fixes the Firefox snafu, we think, a grab-bag of Apple rumors and why Netflix’s competitive resiliency might be here to stay. Sponsors:
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This Facebook cryptocurrency is real, people, Microsoft has a blockchain product as well, Verizon is looking to unload Tumblr, Softbank is considering an IPO for the vision fund and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System (WSJ) Project Libra: Facebook to launch stablecoin-based payments network (The Block) Report: Facebook looking to disrupt credit cards with cryptocurrency (ArsTechnica) Microsoft adds more AI, mixed-reality, IoT services to its Azure line-up (ZDNet) Microsoft launches a fully managed blockchain service (TechCrunch) Verizon Looks to Unload Tumblr Blogging Site (WSJ) SoftBank Considers IPO for $100 Billion Vision Fund (WSJ) Sonic’s live-action design upset the entire internet, so the studio is changing it (The Verge)
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The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program (ReCode) The search for the kryptonite that can stop CRISPR (MIT Technology Review) The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance (Bloomberg Businessweek) Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World (Florent Crivello) The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work (ReCode) Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play (Forbes)
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Facebook might get a federally appointed privacy official, Google lets you set a time-limit on what it tracks about you, what Apple had to pay Qualcomm, Russia might effectively leave the open web, a Wikipedia competitor, and is the low-hanging fruit gone for the big tech oligarchs? Sponsors:
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Exclusive: New privacy oversight on the table for Facebook, Zuckerberg (Politico) Google can now automatically delete your location, app, and search activity data (VentureBeat) Qualcomm to record $4B revenue from Apple settlement (Axios) Putin signs law to isolate Russian internet (Financial Times) Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited US test (TechCrunch) Tesla is raising up to $1.5 billion through convertible note and share sale (TechCrunch) Golden unveils a Wikipedia alternative focused on emerging tech and startups (TechCrunch) Airbnb Spawned an Ecosystem of Startups That Sweat the Details so Owners Don’t Have to (Bloomberg)
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Apple’s earnings were bad, but investors rejoiced, Andreessen Horowitz is continuing its transformation, Eric Schmidt is leaving Google’s board, don’t sleep on Hulu in the streaming wars and some thoughts on F8. Sponsors:
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Apple Trade-Ins and Discounts Spark iPhone Revival (Bloomberg) A16z ushers in new fund strategy with $2.75B (TechCrunch) Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years (The Verge) Scoop: e-Bike startup led by mobile veterans raises $20 million (Axios) SoftBank makes a huge bet on Latin America (TechCrunch) Hulu Grows to 28 Million Subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter) At F8, Facebook focuses on privacy — and little else (The Interface)
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All the news from the Facebook F8 conference, Cheddar gets acquired, Alphabet shows weakness, and why does Ring, the smart doorbell, need a news editor? Sponsors:
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Facebook details Messenger updates: New desktop app, social video, and Project LightSpeed (VentureBeat) Instagram will test hiding public like counts in Canada (The Verge) Altice USA Buys Streaming-Video Network Cheddar for $200 Million (WSJ) Google Shows First Cracks in Years (WSJ) Alphabet drops after reporting a slowdown in ad revenue (CNBC) WeWork Files for Initial Public Offering (WSJ) Amazon wants to deliver crime news and fear to Ring doorbell owners (TheNextWeb) A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well (Nieman Lab) How Chinese apps like TikTok are quietly racking up American users (CNBC)
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There’s no reason the hotel chains can’t do what Airbnb does, why superzoom lenses might be the real innovation in smartphones right now, we’re almost done with Tech Earnings Season and why was GOT so dark last night? Sponsors:
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Spotify is first to 100 million paid subscribers (The Verge) Beats’ Powerbeats Pro earbuds will ship on May 10th for $250 (The Verge) Marriott Is Officially Getting Into the Homesharing Business (Skift) "Superzoom" lenses will be the biggest thing to happen to smartphone cameras in years (Android Police) How China’s ‘Unicorns’ Shook a Bicycle Town (NYTimes) California governor signs internet sales tax law (AP) AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds (ArsTechnica) Samsung thinks millennials want vertical TVs (The Verge) A Theory About Why Last Night's Game of Thrones Was Too Dark to Watch (Gizmodo)
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I wanted to talk to Dave Bittner of CyberWire because the CyberWire podcasts are my go to source for keeping up with the security space in a broad way. And I’m glad I did, Dave is a super knowledgeable pro, and we do get into things like those huge credential dumps, password best practices and that Triton virus that has me so worried. But we started off by going on a weird tangent about Facebook where I found myself arguing for Facebook for some reason, and we ended by really going off the rails and talking about the Fermi Paradox and aliens. It ended up being a really fun chat. :) Sponsors:
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This one requires a bit of explaining. Remember that segment I did about Change A View, that subreddit that was becoming its own site to try to create a platform for healthy discourse and debate online? They got backing from—and technical support from—an Alphabet subsidiary called Jigsaw. So, I went down a rabbit hole with Jigsaw, because they weren’t on my radar, and I learned that their remit is to… seemingly… try to make the Internet not suck as much. So, long story short, I reached out to some people and got put in touch with Dan Keyserling of Jigsaw to see what they’re up to. Combatting radicalization, online censorship, trolls, bias in AI… there ARE still some folks who believe technology can make the world better… not just break it. Huge, if true! But seriously, this is a bit of a palate cleanse for me, and for you… but really… mostly for me. Sponsors:
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Amazon wants all Prime deliveries to be one-day shipping, Slack files for its IPO and Uber sets its price range, someone with a personal vendetta to fix Gmail and of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors:
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Amazon smashes earnings expectations (CNBC) Slack files to go public, revealing $400 million in revenue and $139 million in losses (CNBC) Uber sets IPO terms, could be valued at $84 billion (Axios) Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook (NYTimes) The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own (Fast Company)
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It is just an earnings bonanza: Facebook? Good! Tesla? Bad! Microsoft? Really good! In fact, king of the world again! Nintendo? Not so good. Oh, and the whole Luminary, podcasting wars, Game of Phones and Nick Quah called it, had a crazy new wrinkle today… Sponsors:
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iFixit thinks it knows why the Galaxy Fold is having issues, Wing becomes the first drone delivery operator cleared by the FAA, why Netflix has gone deep into debt and have the podcasting wars begun? Sponsors:
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Tesla has an event that some people say is all reality distortion field, Facebook makes some interesting hires, Twitter is quietly chirping a tune Wall Street likes and Amazon Key is here to deliver inside your house. Sponsors:
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Here are Elon Musk’s wildest predictions about Tesla’s self-driving cars (The Verge) Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act (The Verge) Twitter stock surges more than 15% on earnings beat (CNBC) Key by Amazon in-home delivery comes to Las Vegas, 12 other cities (CNET) How Otonomo, with nearly $55 million in funding, is illegally cloning our product (SmartCar) HackerNews thread about all this SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin (WSJ)
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The Samsung Galaxy Fold is delayed, Sri Lanka blocking social media is complicated, how you’re being tracked in the airport and at work, and why there’s no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to free apps. Sponsors:
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Smartphone Release Delayed (WSJ) Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blasts (The Washington Post) Zillow launches AI-powered 3D home tours in the U.S. and Canada (VentureBeat) The US wants to scan the faces of all air passengers leaving the country (QZ) Employee privacy in the US is at stake as corporate surveillance technology monitors workers’ every move (CNBC) That mental health app might share your data without telling you (The Verge) Turns Out, Meal Kits Might Not Suck for the Planet (Earther)
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Lyft has gone public. Uber will do so soon. So will Airbnb. Quartz’s Alison Griswold covers this stuff every day, and she has a great newsletter, covering this stuff every week. It’s called Oversharing, you can get it for free at oversharing.substack.com… Because she covers the sharing everything… we talk to her today about the ride sharing companies… but also about the deliver me something companies and especially, the e-scooter companies… the economics of all things sharing! Alison's newsletter: oversharing.substack.com Sponsors:
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Facebook finds a new way to handle the privacy scandal of the day, free, ad supported music from Amazon and Google, Dieter ended up reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Fold as best he could, and of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors:
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Samsung responds to the Galaxy Fold review unit issues, Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat, Pinterest and Zoom have their IPOs and could the Chinese web end up being more popular than the open web?
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There’s no other way to describe it: Qualcomm got Apple to surrender, are things back on for an Apple Car, Microsoft has a new Hub and a new Xbox One S, and why Hulu has an advantage the other streamers don’t. Sponsors:
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Qualcomm surges after announcing a settlement with Apple over patent royalties (CNBC) Apple Settles With Qualcomm, Intel Exits Modems, Apple’s Miscalculation (Stratechery) Qualcomm just beat Apple into submission (SemiAccurate) Exclusive: Apple in talks with potential suppliers of sensors for self-driving cars - sources (Reuters) T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Runs Into Resistance From DOJ Antitrust Staff (WSJ) Microsoft's more portable Surface Hub 2S ships in June for $9000 (TechCrunch) Xbox One S All-Digital Edition: Price, availability, games and more (CNET) Netflix drops on earnings report showing weak guidance, CMO retires (CNBC) As Netflix Contends With More Rivals, Hulu Stands Out (NYTimes) My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day (The Verge)
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YouTube’s algorithms are abhorrent in a new way, details on the next Playstation console, Google makes nice with developers, and three interesting sides to the TikTok story. Sponsors:
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YouTube shows 9/11 link on live videos of unrelated Notre Dame fire (The Verge) EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SONY'S NEXT-GEN PLAYSTATION (Wired) 15 MONTHS OF FRESH HELL INSIDE FACEBOOK (Wired) Next major macOS version will include standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV apps, Books app gets major redesign (9to5Mac) Improving the update process with your feedback (Android Developer's Blog) AT&T sells Hulu stake, valuing the video streaming company at $15 billion (CNBC) Short video app TikTok extends reach in global markets, sees in-app purchases surge more than 200 per cent (South China Morning Post) TikTok downloads ordered to be blocked on iOS and Android in India over porn and other illegal content (TechCrunch) TikTok sensation Lil Nas X rewrites the rules of country music (Axios)
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You really need to run those Office updates, rumors of chaos at HQ Trivia, further details on Apple Arcade and Apple News+, and hands on with the Galaxy Fold. Sponsors:
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Hackers Could Read Your Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Emails by Abusing Microsoft Support (Motherboard) Kaspersky: 70 percent of attacks now target Office vulnerabilities (ZDNet) Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO (TechCrunch) ‘Basically playing favorites’: Apple News+ gets off to a rocky start for some publishers (Digiday) Apple spends hundreds of millions on Arcade video game service (Financial Times) HANDS-ON WITH THE SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD: MORE THAN JUST A CONCEPT (TheVerge) Unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Fold (TechCrunch) Booking.com is Beating Airbnb in Home Stays, Latest Numbers Show (Fortune)
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You might have noticed that I’ve gone down a bit of a wormhole lately when it comes to space tech, and actually, to understand why, listen to the very first minute of this conversation, because we actually work out why space tech has come to the forefront of my attention. Chris Mims had a piece in the Wall Street Journal this week about the suddenly race to deliver the Internet from space. This was triggered by the recent Amazon news of course, but also, listen for more deep dives into how and why space tech is suddenly having a moment.
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While I talk about big round raises and startups and venture all the time, we haven’t really done a deep dive into where venture is at at the moment. So, who better to talk to than Crunchbase, and in this case, Crunchbase’s Jason Rowley. Today… the state of venture in 2019, and we especially get into the modern world of megarounds, even hypergiant rounds… raises of $250 million or more. Those never used to happen. They happen all the time now… we just talked about one this week… Softbank contributes to them all the time. How has that changed the landscape, and how has that created or influenced the unicorn ecosystem that is currently being harvested, as it were. Sponsors:
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Uber’s IPO filing is officially upon us and there was much rejoicing… or, at least, plenty of takes; Disney outlined its streaming video plans and in doing so it both put Apple to shame and fired a warning shot at Netflix, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Uber unveils IPO with warning it may never make a profit (Reuters) Alphabet Is Uber IPO’s Surprise Winner With Potential $5 Billion Stake (Forbes) Uber’s Venture Investors Set for a Windfall (WSJ) Disney+ app and worldwide rollout plans revealed (Engadget) Disney+ streaming service will be available starting Nov. 12 for $6.99 a month (CNBC)
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The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year? (ArsTechnica) FOXCONN IS CONFUSING THE HELL OUT OF WISCONSIN (The Verge) The man behind Huawei (The Los Angeles Times) The Improbable Rise of Huawei (Foreign Policy) Inside the Biotech Startup That Wants to Extend Your Life (OneZero) VIDEO OF APPLE’S W.A.L.T. IN ACTION – THE 1993-EDITION IPHONE (Sonny Dickson)
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Yes, there are people listening in on your Alexa recordings, but it’s complicated; Jeff Bezos challenges competitors to pay their workers more, the third big unicorn IPO of the year happened today, and a rundown of noteworthy recent startup raises. Sponsors:
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Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa (Bloomberg) Jeff Bezos challenges retail rivals to outdo Amazon’s $15 minimum wage (The Verge) YouTube TV Hikes Price to $50 per Month for All Customers After Inking Discovery Deal (Variety) PagerDuty pops more than 50% in debut as tech IPO market heats up (CNBC) Affectiva raises $26 million to bring emotional intelligence AI to car safety systems (VentureBeat) Triplebyte raises $35M for its online coding test and credentialing service for hiring engineers (TechCrunch) Lemonade picks up $300 million Series D led by SoftBank Group (TechCrunch) That image of a black hole you saw everywhere? Thank this grad student for making it possible (CNN)
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Day two of Google’s Cloud Next conference, an update on the unicorns still queueing up to come to market, the heat death of iTunes is closer to reality, and Walmart doubles down on robots. Sponsors:
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Google Assistant now works with your G Suite work calendar (GeekWire) Google launches new security tools for G Suite users (TechCrunch) Google launches an end-to-end AI platform (TechCrunch) Remove, Reduce, Inform: New Steps to Manage Problematic Content (Facebook Newsroom) Exclusive: Uber plans to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in IPO - sources (Reuters) Slack Is Fetching High Prices in Private Stock Deals Ahead of Public Offering (Bloomberg) Zoom is poised to be one of the most richly valued tech companies after it goes public (CNBC) Next major macOS version will include standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV apps, Books app gets major redesign (9to5Mac) Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots (WSJ) Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site (ArsTechnica) Congress is about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing (ArsTechnica) Falcon Heavy making only second flight, but it’s already changing the game (ArsTechnica)
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The headlines from the Google Cloud Next conference, China seeks to ban cryptominers, why ads on streaming services is the new hotness, and also, why Roblox is the new hotness. Sponsors:
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Google Cloud announces 7 open source partners, Seoul and Salt Lake City regions (VentureBeat) Google's hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (TechCrunch) Google announces Cloud Run for open and portable serverless compute (VentureBeat) China, home to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency mining farms, now wants to ban them completely (South China Morning Post) To cut down on spam, Twitter cuts the number of accounts you can follow per day (TechCrunch) The next front of the streaming wars is the battle for ad-supported programming (Digiday) Roblox hits milestone of 90M monthly active users (TechCrunch) Why Are People Still Playing Google’s Halloween Ghost Game in April? (Slate)
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Pinterest’s IPO looks set to make it an “undercorn,” the UK has some more ideas about regulating internet platforms, about those iPhone triple camera rumors, Netflix dumps AirPlay and Snap opts not to beat ’em; instead, plan’s to join ’em. Sponsors:
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Pinterest sets IPO range at $15-17, valuing it at $10.6B vs previous valuation of $12.3B (TechCrunch) iPhone rumors now claim two OLED models with triple-camera arrays for 2019 (The Verge) New report claims that the triple-camera iPhones in 2019 will feature 6.1-inch and 6.5-inch OLED screens, tweaked chassis thickness (9to5Mac) Netflix confirms it killed AirPlay support, won’t let you beam shows to Apple TVs anymore (The Verge) ‘CHANGE MY VIEW’ REDDIT COMMUNITY LAUNCHES ITS OWN WEBSITE (Wired) To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself (TechCrunch) Microsoft launches first Chromium Edge builds for Windows 10 (VentureBeat)
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Google scraps the AI ethics board, Alexa is coming for AirPods, the Bezos’ divorce is settled, Snap reminds everyone they’re pretty darned good at inventing weird stuff and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (Vox) Amazon Is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable (Bloomberg) Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie (The Washington Post) Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform (TechCrunch) Snapchat launches Scan, its AR utility platform (TechCrunch) Snapchat will power Stories & ads in other apps (TechCrunch)
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Talking Reckless (A Gaming Podcast) Smart home, machine learning and discovery (Benedict Evans) 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds (Linux Journal) ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo (OneZero) The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire (Bloomberg Businessweek) Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet (Buzzfeed News) Astronomers set to make 'groundbreaking' black hole announcement (CNET)
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Facebook. Data. Exposure. Another one. Could Intel issues delay a 5G iPhone? Apple cuts the price of the HomePod, Amazon is going to launch Internet satellites, and the trouble with AI ethics boards. Sponsors:
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Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers (TechCrunch) Inside Apple’s shaky plan to deliver a 5G iPhone in 2020 [Updated] (FastCompany) MIT suspends ties with China's Huawei and ZTE (CNN Business) Apple drops HomePod price down to $299 (TheVerge) Google launches Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking Bubbles, foldables emulator, and zoomable microphones (VentureBeat) Hundreds of thousands of ‘lost’ MySpace songs have been recovered (TheVerge) Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation (GeekWire) Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart (Vox) THE PROBLEM WITH AI ETHICS (TheVerge) Electric car battery with 600 miles of range? This startup claims to have done it (TheVerge)
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Facebook stops asking people to reveal their email passwords, WhatsApp gives you control over group chats, Google has a credibility problem when it comes to product shutdowns and 5G is kinda, officially here. Sponsors:
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‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords (Daily Beast) Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords (Gizmodo) Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords (Axios) WhatsApp finally lets you prevent people from adding you to their shitty groups (TNW) WhatsApp now lets you control who can add you to groups (The Verge) Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple (NYTimes) Tweet Storm on Apple+ and The New Yorker (@Michaelluo) Google Duplex rolling out to non-Pixel, iOS devices in the US (9to5Google) Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network (The Verge) Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (ArsTechnica) Wayve claims 'world first' in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav (TechCrunch)
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The price of bitcoin soars, but is it for real? Walmart wants to let you shop with your voice, Andreessen Horowitz shakes up VC (again) and a scathing look at YouTube’s algorithm problems. Sponsors:
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Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst (Reuters) April Fools: Traders Chase Another Unexplainable Bitcoin Rally (Bloomberg) Report: ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018 (CoinTelegraph) Walmart Unveils Voice-Activated, Google-Powered Grocery Shopping (Bloomberg) Morning Lineup – “It’s Just a Fad” (Bespoke) Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again) (Forbes) YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (Bloomberg)
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Gmail celebrates an appropriate April Fool’s anniversary, the winners from the Lyft IPO, Mark Zuckerberg asks for regulation and food tech has delivered a meatless Whopper™. Sponsors:
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Google launches Gmail message scheduling and expands Smart Compose to more devices and languages (VentureBeat) New Facebook tool answers the question 'Why am I seeing this post?' (TechCrunch) The biggest winners of Lyft’s $24 billion IPO (Quartz) The CEO behind 'Fortnite' says it's 'evolving beyond being a game' and explains the company's ambitious vision (Business Insider) Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas. (The Washington Post) Citizen Zuck: The making of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (CNET) Burger King begins selling the meatless Impossible Whopper (The Verge)
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Today... another dipping of our collective toes into an adjacent tech space that we cover now and then, but don't know all that much about. Another episode where I learn more and hopefully you learn more. Speaking of spaces... Space! Space tech! The final frontier! Bill Gattle is the President for Space and Intelligence Systems at Harris Corp. We're gonna talk today about the state of the space industry, how soon will space tourism be a thing, and a revolution in space tech that I knew nothing about: small satellites, or small sats. Miniaturization and Moore's law comes for all our niche's I guess.
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So, we did the pre-amble for the Apple Services event last week, I figured we should do a debriefing, especially since it was such a confusing event, at least to me. I knew I needed some Apple experts to help me out, so I reached out to Federico Viticci and John Voorhees from MacStories. I don’t know if we sorted it out, but as I said earlier in the week, great minds think alike because Federico and I both had a brainstorm about when we might see AirPower released, if we ever do. By the way, Federico and John host a podcast you should check out, if you never have. AppStories, exploring the world of apps. Subscribe to it wherever you get your podcasts.
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Lyft IPO’d today, Huawei’s profits don’t seem affected by governmental pressures, Stack Overflow is looking for a new CEO, Alexa Business Blueprints allow you to create custom skills for your business and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Lyft pops 20% in trading debut (CNBC) In This Tech I.P.O. Wave, Big Investors Grab More of the Gains (NYTimes) Huawei tops $100 billion revenue for first time despite political headwinds (CNBC) The Next CEO of Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow Blog) Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps (VentureBeat)
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Podcast Suggestion: RunAs Radio The danger of 'I already pay for Apple News+' (TechCrunch) Europe is splitting the internet into three (The Verge) ‘A battle for the top of the funnel’: Pinterest’s long road to becoming a commerce platform (Digiday) Forget Brexit and trade wars, Europe’s start-ups are thriving (Financial Times) The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach (Bloomberg) The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave & Buster's (Vice)
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Facebook is charged with violations of the Fair Housing Act, the UK gives Huawei a pass but drags them at the same time, Spotify lets you share your account with your better half, and let’s take two on that Google podcast transcription search experiment. Sponsors:
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Facebook has been charged with housing discrimination by the US government (The Verge) Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities (NYTimes) Spotify is testing Premium Duo, a discounted subscription for two (The Verge) Microsoft sues to take control of domains involved in Iran hacking campaign (TechCrunch) The Business of Your Face (Fortune)
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The pioneers of modern AI win the Turing Award, Apple still hasn’t fixed its keyboard problem, India shot down a satellite in space and Microsoft puts the kibosh on April Fools’ jokes. The words to search for in Google podcasts (original story from the show that will tell you how to search is here) are as follows: transom mint sponsor hobby secrecy interact evacuate gadgetry. Sponsors
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Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (NYTimes) THE GODFATHERS OF THE AI BOOM WIN COMPUTING’S HIGHEST HONOR (Wired) Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed (Android Police) Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email (TechCrunch) Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm (WSJ) FTC announces inquiry into the privacy practices of broadband providers (The Verge) NYPD's Big Artificial-Intelligence Reveal (Governing.com) India says it has just shot down a satellite in space (MIT Technology Review) Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks (The Verge)
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The EU Parliament approves the “link tax” and the “upload filter.” Uber acquires Careem, McDonald’s makes a tech acquisition, and a wrap-up of the hot-takes from the Apple event. Sponsors:
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Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval (The Verge) HUAWEI’S P30 PRO IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC POWERHOUSE WITH A TINY NOTCH (The Verge) Uber announces $3.1 billion deal to buy Middle East rival Careem (CNBC) McDonald's is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch) Exclusive: First look at Apple’s new AirPods-like ‘Powerbeats Pro’ truly wireless sport headphones (9to5Mac) Very Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Show Time’ Apple Event (Daring Fireball)
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The Apple event broken down piece by piece, YouTube wants out of the streaming video wars, Nintendo is working on two new Switch devices, is consolidation finally coming to the digital media space, and why you should know the name Transsion. Sponsors:
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Apple launches $9.99 Apple News Plus with more than 300 magazines (The Verge) Apple introduced its own credit card, the Apple Card (TechCrunch) Apple announces Apple TV Plus video subscription service (The Verge) YouTube Bows Out of Hollywood Arms Race With Netflix and Amazon (Bloomberg) Nintendo to Launch Two New Switch Models (WSJ) Digital media companies Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are said to be in talks to merge (Business Insider) Shenzhen Transsion applies to raise capital on Shanghai’s technology board after taking Africa’s phone market by storm (South China Morning Post)
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Not too long ago I recommended The Rideshare Guy podcast because I’ve fallen in love with it. That and his website, the Rideshareguy.com. Harry Campbell allows us to look at a space from a different angle than we usually do on this show. So, here’s a great conversation with Harry about the rideshare driver community! What they think about the upcoming IPOs, what they think about the ridesharing platforms generally, who might be the driver’s favorite, what do they think about self-driving cars? TheRideShareGuy.com
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Today, we’re going to talk Facebook’s pivot to privacy and Apple’s big event on Monday. Please do search your podcast apps and subscribe to the Future Forward podcast. Sponsors:
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Might Apple’s Monday event be a huge anticlimax? Is AT&T’s “5G E” slower than 4G? YouTube is responsible for 37% of mobile Internet Traffic, what programming languages are on the up and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch (Reuters) Apple’s plan for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services (Recode) 750,000 Medtronic defibrillators vulnerable to hacking (StarTribune) Facebook acknowledges concerns over Cambridge Analytica emerged earlier than reported (The Guardian) AT&T's fake 5G E is slower than Verizon's and T-Mobile's 4G (CNET) Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10% (WhatsNewInPublishing) The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 (RedMonk)
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Meet Silicon Valley's 'China whisperer (CNNBusiness) Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music (Rolling Stone) Grab vs. Go-Jek: Inside Asia’s Battle of the 'Super Apps' (Fortune) BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRISPR: GROWING HUMAN ORGANS IN PIGS (Wired) A MORE HUMANE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CRISPR (Wired)
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Reset the x number of days without a Facebook scandal calendar, Microsoft launches Virtual Desktop but begins sunsetting Windows 7, European Wikipedia goes dark, and the hottest coin in crypto is making people remember the glory days of 2017. Sponsors:
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years (Krebs on Security) Can Duruk's Tweet Storm Windows Virtual Desktop is now in public preview (TechCrunch) Microsoft launches previews of Windows Virtual Desktop and Defender ATP for Mac (VentureBeat) Microsoft warns Windows 7 users of looming end to security updates (TechCrunch) European Wikipedias have been turned off for the day to protest dangerous copyright laws (The Verge) Hottest Crypto Coin's Massive Rally Echoes Bitcoin's Glory Days (Bloomberg) APPLE IPAD MINI REVIEW: NO COMPETITION (The Verge)
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The EU Commission hits Google with another billion Euro fine, Santa Tim had another surprise for us this morning with next generation AirPods, and in fact, it was a day of quiet upgrades, to the Oculus Rift, to the Kindle, even to Facebook Messenger. Also, MoviePass brings back it’s unlimited plan… for now. Sponsors:
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Google hit with €1.5 billion antitrust fine by EU (The Verge) Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints (NYTimes) AirPods, the world’s most popular wireless headphones, are getting even better (Apple Newsroom) The Oculus Rift S is real and arrives in spring for $399 (TechCrunch) Amazon’s entry-level Kindle gets a light and a higher price tag (The Verge) Facebook Messenger now has message threads (VentureBeat) MoviePass’ unlimited plan is back and at the original price — for now (Polygon) All 88 companies from Y Combinator's W19 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch) New York City is finally getting its own self-driving shuttle service (The Verge)
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Google’s gaming service is called Stadia, the iMac lineup gets an update, Instagram ads in-app shopping, Intel wants to build an exascale computer and Y Combinator’s Demo Day, Day 1. Sponsors:
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Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs (9to5Google) Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019 (The Verge) Stadia, Google’s gaming platform, changed the rules of the console wars (Polygon) Apple Updates iMac Lineup With Up to 8-Core 9th-Gen Intel Processors and Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Options (MacRumors) Instagram tests in-app shopping with Kylie Cosmetics, Nike and Huda Beauty (Digiday) Nvidia announces $99 AI computer for developers, makers, and researchers (The Verge) Intel claims Aurora will be the first U.S. supercomputer to hit 1 exaflop (Venture Beat) Here are the 85+ startups that launched at YC's W19 Demo Day One (TechCrunch)
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An iPad mini refresh and a new iPad Air, MySpace has lost basically all your stuff, details of the Lyft IPO and the state of Seed Investing. Sponsors:
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Apple launches new iPad Air and iPad mini (TechCrunch) Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems (Washington Post) Myspace player won't play songs, and I want to download them if possible (Reddit thread on the Myspace news) The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down (The Verge) Lyft Aims for Valuation Near $20 Billion in Biggest U.S. IPO (Bloomberg) Ride-hail service Juno is seeking a buyer (Quartz) Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future? (Both Sides) Decade in review: Trends in seed and early-stage funding (TechCrunch) Apple’s Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape (NYTimes) Google Spent Years on a Secret New Plan to Attack a $140 Billion Industry. It All Starts Tomorrow (Inc.)
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How technology has impacted policing has come up on this show far more than you would expect, if you think about it. So, when listener of the show Matt Stroud got in touch to talk about his new book about the impact of technology on policing, I said: yes please. The book is coming out this week, it's called Thin Blue Lie: The failure of high tech policing. Reading the book, a couple of things surprised me. As you'll hear, policing wasn't very tech or data driven until very recently, and like in other areas, it just seems like throwing technology at a problem, does not solve everything magically. In fact, there can be serious unintended consequences. And also, I was surprised how much the theme and anecdotes in the book lined up with some of the things we've discussed on this show. IE: technology is a tool, but data and gadgets still need a human element to be used effectively, especially when you're dealing with, you know, humans. Subscribe to the Premium, Ad-Free Feed!
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When issues of consumer data, and consumer privacy come up on the show, I think I've asked a couple of times before, what are the laws here? In the United States. Who owns my data? What are the rules? What mechanisms are in place to give me control over my data? Are there any? Well, Justin Brookman is the Director of Consumer Privacy and Technology Policy at Consumer Reports. He was also previously at the Federal Trade Commission... and as you'll hear, he confirms that there are essentially no nationwide rules or laws in place around a lot of this stuff. Whatever rules are in place are sort of tangential statutes that have been drafted into service in an attempt to address modern issues that the statutes weren't even designed for. Is a big federal data and privacy regulatory regime coming soon? What might it look like? And by the way, the states aren't waiting, they're beginning to pass consumer data and privacy laws, but do they even have the right to do that? Oh, and is the FTC about to bring the hammer down on Facebook? Spoiler alert, Justin thinks most definitely, because the FTC knows it needs to make a statement. Anyway, another episode where I educate myself on corners of the tech world I don't know super much about, and hopefully, education you along with me. Sponsors:
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Does Chris Cox’s departure from Facebook mean the pivot is real, Apple responds to Spotify’s complaint, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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FACEBOOK’S HEAD OF PRODUCT LEAVES AFTER PRIVACY PIVOT (Wired) As Mark Zuckerberg Tightens Grip on Facebook, 2 Top Deputies Leave (NYTimes) Addressing Spotify’s claims (Apple Newsroom) The New Zealand Massacre Was Made to Go Viral (NYTimes)
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‘We Know Them. We Trust Them.’ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave. (NYTimes) DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence (1843) Foursquare’s first decade, from viral hit to real business and beyond (Fast Company) Meet The Billionaire Who Defied Amazon And Built Wish, The World’s Most-Downloaded E-Commerce App (Forbes) How to Stop Your Roommates From Messing With Your Amazon Echo (Lifehacker)
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Facebook’s data sharing is now under criminal investigation, and the company had a bad night with its services intermittently down across the globe, Dropbox is cracking down on freeloaders, Silicon Valley wants to build a monument to itself, and Google makes a π Day statement. Sponsors:
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation (NYTimes) Google launches Android Q Beta 1 (Venture Beat) Telegram gained three million new users during Facebook outage (The Verge) Tumblr traffic dropped by nearly 100M views the month after it banned porn (TNW) Dropbox device linking limits just got added for Basic accounts (SlashGear) Microsoft announces Xbox Live for any iOS or Android game (The Verge) In Silicon Valley, Plans for a Monument to Silicon Valley (NYTimes) Silicon Valley Wants a Monument to Itself. Will It Scale? (NYMag) Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Blog)
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Spotify files a pretty timely anti-trust complaint against Apple, Microsoft tries to get a jump on Google’s steaming video game announcement, is Google scaling back its hardware ambitions, what is Discord and why is it going mainstream all the sudden, and maybe you already knew this, but scientists think they’ve proven that there’s no such thing as objective reality. Sponsors:
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Spotify files EU antitrust complaint against Apple (Reuters) Apple Courts HBO and Showtime for Service to Challenge Netflix (Bloomberg) Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent (NBC News) Google has told dozens of employees on its laptop and tablet division to find new jobs at the company, raising questions about its hardware plans (Business Insider) Verizon’s 5G service will cost $10 extra, launches in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11th (The Verge) Microsoft demonstrates xCloud game streaming a week before Google’s ‘future of gaming’ event (The Verge) How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream (The Atlantic) A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality (MIT Technology Review)
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Facebook self owns by taking down Senator Warren’s ads, Spotify will now give you Hulu for free, why the Bay Area is no longer the best place for startups, and the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Sponsors:
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Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup (Politico) Apple’s March 25th event is official: ‘It’s show time’ (9to5Mac) Spotify Premium now includes Hulu for no extra cost (The Verge) Amazon’s Alexa has 80,000 Apps—and No Runaway Hit (Bloomberg) Peak California (Byrne Hobart) Goodbye, Silicon Valley, hello, Atlanta: Black entrepreneurs part of new migration to South (USA Today) 30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? (Tim Berners-Lee) The original Web proposal
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Nvidia buys Mellanox, Tesla reverses course, a handy primer on how TikTok is different, and we check in on the smart takes from last week’s big stories. Subscribe to the Premium, Ad-Free Podcast Feed! Sponsors:
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Sometimes the bonus episodes are for getting news in areas that I might have missed or might not have made our show, but I still find interesting. This week I reached out to Brady Dale of Coindesk, because I know he’s a listener and I knew he could give us some more background on Facebook’s recent moves in crypto, but also some other crypto news we haven’t gotten to and just the state of the crypto-space generally. Sponsors:
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You know MG Siegler. Once upon a time, he was one of the most prominent tech journalists in the land, when he wrote for TechCrunch. Now-a-days he is a prominent venture capitalist at GV. But he still likes to talk about gadgets. Maybe you’ve heard him do so on Gruber’s podcast. Today’s bonus episode is nothing sophisticated, no deep-dive level of journalism… it’s just two dudes looking at the recent slate of foldable phones and deciding if we want one.
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Senator Warren proposes breaking up big tech, Airbnb buys HotelTonight, why the big platforms are taking down vaccine content, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Subscribe to the Premium, Ad-Free Podcast Feed! Sponsors:
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Here’s how we can break up Big Tech (Warren For President) Airbnb Wanted Travelers To Stay In Homes. Now It's Buying HotelTonight. (BuzzFeed News) Three Reasons Behind Airbnb’s Deal for HotelTonight (The Information) Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B (EdSurge) Combatting Vaccine Misinformation (Facebook Newsroom)
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THE HYPOCRISY OF THE TECHNO-MORALISTS IN THE COMING AGE OF AUTONOMY (WarOnTheRocks) HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY VIDEO GAMES ARE DEVELOPED AND PLAYED (TheVerge) Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files (Gizmodo) How Munchery’s high hopes led to its decline and fall (FastCompany) Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading (MIT Technology Review)
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Facebook pivots to privacy, Huawei follows through on suing the US government, Duplex rolls out wide, and Bird’s white label scooter scheme. Sponsors:
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A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking (Mark Zuckerberg) A 'privacy-focused' Facebook would kill Zuckerberg's business model (The Guardian) Facebook’s Privacy Cake (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) Mark Zuckerberg Tried Hard To Get Facebook Into China. Now The Company May Be Backing Away. (Buzzfeed News) Amazon's joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven (CNBC) Huawei: US Congress acted as 'judge, juror and executioner' with ban on our products (CNN) Google brings its Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to 43 states (TechCrunch) How Bird plans to blanket the world with electric scooters without going bankrupt (The Verge)
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Fitbit unveils a new smartwatch and lowers prices across the board, Samsung is working on two more foldable phones, Grab grabs $1.4 billion from Masa Son and Waymo finally found a way to make money. Sponsors:
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Fitbit’s new $160 Versa Lite is a stripped-down version of its entry-level smartwatch (The Verge) Fitbit kills Alta, Alta HR, Flex 2, and Zip (VentureBeat) Samsung Working on Two More Foldable Smartphones (Bloomberg) WANT A FOLDABLE PHONE? HOLD OUT FOR REAL GLASS (Wired) Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets (WSJ) Uber found not criminally liable in last year’s self-driving car death (QZ) Grab confirms $1.46B investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund (TechCrunch) Waymo Starts Selling Sensors to Lower Cost of Self-Driving Cars (Bloomberg)
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The NSA program Snowden revealed might be done, Microsoft is readying a Windows Lite, poor iPhone sales are hitting Foxconn workers hard, a big strategic look at Netflix and why one seemingly random password is a poor choice if you care about your security. Sponsors:
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Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says (NYTimes) Microsoft is creating Windows Lite for dual-screen and Chromebook-like devices (The Verge) Apple acquires patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI (9to5Mac) Coinbase Pushes Out Ex-Hacking Team Employees Following Uproar (Coindesk) Coinbase Users Struggle to Delete Their Accounts in Protest (Motherboard) Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition (Coinbase Blog) Foxconn, a tale of slashed salaries, disappearing benefits and mass resignations as iPhone orders dry up (South China Morning Post) Big Media Isn't Ready to Fight Back (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 5) (Redef) Why 'ji32k7au4a83' Is a Remarkably Common Password (Gizmodo)
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Facebook lets randos look you up by your phone number; Huawei is about to sue the U.S. government; a Vermont law exposes more than 100 data brokers; USB 4 is announced; Facebook offers a way to log in with your face...kind of; and the W3C has a new standard that promises to do away with passwords forever. Sponsors:
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Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting (TechCrunch) Scammers abused Facebook phone number search (BBC News) Huawei Said to Be Preparing to Sue the U.S. Government (New York Times) Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (Fast Company) With USB 4, Thunderbolt 3’s benefits become open to all (The Verge) USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Specification (AP News) Harry McCracken's Facebook tweet (Twitter) Facebook explains how it’ll review nude photos to stop revenge porn (The Verge) Facebook’s New CAPTCHA Test: ‘Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face’ (Wired) W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins (VentureBeat)
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So, I hope you read the piece I mentioned in the long reads, Called Outgrowing Advertising, by Andreessen Horowitz's general partner Connie Chan. Link in the show notes. Again, I think this points a way forward for the one trick pony-ism that I've bemoaned on this podcast. A model for new startups now that the low hanging fruit of "let's just get to a billion users and throw some ads up" is kinda, sorta, done.
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It's rare that I've seen an investigative piece get as much pickup as The Trauma Floor, Casey Newton's look at the secret lives of Facebook content moderators. It was all anyone could talk about at the beginning of the week. Hope you've read it. If not, link in the show notes. So... simple. We're gonna talk to Casey and dig a bit deeper. How did this story happen? What has the reaction been? And a couple of the implications of the piece, at least to me. THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge)
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Lyft officially files for its IPO and do the numbers reveal concern for Uber, New York wants Jeff Bezos to reconsider, Tesla slashes prices, physical sales trump downloads when it comes to music, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Lyft's financials show a $911 million loss ahead of its IPO (CNBC) Amazon stops selling Dash buttons, goofy forerunners of the connected home (CNET) U.S. Music Industry Posts Third Straight Year of Double-Digit Growth as Streaming Soars 30% (Variety) Andrew Cuomo Speaks With Jeff Bezos, Hints of ‘Other Ways’ to Clear Path for Amazon’s Return (NYTimes) The $35,000 Tesla Model 3 has arrived—but it comes with a price (TechCrunch)
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Do You Trust Your VPN? Are You Sure? (Slate) Is Cloudflare a privacy champion or hate speech enabler? Depends who you ask (Fast Company) The Car That Killed Glamour (The Atlantic) How Disney Built Star Wars, in real life (TechCrunch) THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge) Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy (A16Z/Connie Chan)
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Amazon Day gives you the ability to schedule your Prime Deliveries, Motorola teases more details about the foldable resurrection of the Razr phone, the state of the smartwatch market, and seemingly every messaging platform might soon have a crypto coin. Sponsors:
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Amazon Prime members can choose a weekly delivery date with launch of 'Amazon Day' (TechCrunch) Motorola confirms its foldable phone is coming (Engadget) Apple self-driving car layoffs hit 190 employees in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale (San Francisco Chronicle) Apple shipped 9.2M Apple Watch units in Q4 2018 to capture half of market, report says (AppleInsider) Uber and Lyft drivers will reportedly get stock in the highly anticipated IPOs (CNBC) Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed (NYTimes) Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages (Venture Beat)
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Fast flash storage for phones, TikTok passes a billion downloads, FedEx rolls out its own delivery bot, why you might be overpaying for cloud computing and why China wants to map the faces of pigs. Sponsors:
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Samsung's new 512GB flash chip is twice as fast as its predecessor (Engadget) TikTok was bigger than Instagram last year after passing the 1 billion download mark (Business Insider) Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy (Google's The Keyword Blog) FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot (The Verge) Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations (TechCrunch) As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills (The Information) Containers may be leading to cloud computing cost overruns (ZDNet) Rotten Tomatoes tweaks audience ratings system to thwart online trolls (The Los Angeles Times) China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces (NYTimes)
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The Game of Thrones when it comes to modern tech platforms is very much up in the air, Satya Nadella defends making the HoloLens for the US Army, could the FTC undo previous tech mergers and that big Casey Newton piece about Facebook content moderators. Sponsors:
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Apple Music Integration Possibly Coming to Google Home Devices (MacRumors) Apple Plans Sleep Tracking Feature for Future Watch (Bloomberg) Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that some employees say crosses a line (CNN Business) New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies (The Verge) Coinbase Lists Controversial Cryptocurrency XRP, Price Jumps 10% (Fortune) This 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it (The Verge) THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge) Facebook Grappling With Employee Anger Over Moderator Conditions (Bloomberg)
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It’s a whole slew of headlines from Mobile World Congress: more foldable phones, dates for 5G chip sets and 5G coverage rollouts, and Microsoft unveils its HoloLens2. Plus: why Wikidata proves the bots still need us. Sponsors:
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MICROSOFT’S HOLOLENS 2: A $3,500 MIXED REALITY HEADSET FOR THE FACTORY, NOT THE LIVING ROOM (The Verge) Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction (AnAndTech) I held the future in my hands, and it was foldable (TheVerge) Sprint’s 5G network launches in May (The Verge) T-Mobile delays full 600MHz 5G launch until second half of 2019 (CNET) microSD Express unlocks hyper-fast data speeds for mobile devices (Engadget) SanDisk and Micron announce the world’s first 1TB microSD card (MSPowerUser.com) The latest Android devices now let you log into apps without requiring a password (The Verge) INSIDE THE ALEXA-FRIENDLY WORLD OF WIKIDATA (Wired)
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Taylor Lorenz, over at the Atlantic has the influencer beat down. I’ve told you about so many of her stories, often as longreads. You think influencers… the universe of YouTube stars, Instagram stars, social media stars generally is a niche thing? No way. This is already a huge industry with a ton of money sloshing around in it, and Taylor covers it better than anyone else. Sponsors:
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Last week there was a bunch of gaming news, and if you’ll recall, I put a shout out to see if anyone could tell me what the heck is going on in the gaming space. Well, Jason Schreier, the news editor of Kotaku answered my Bat Signal, and so, here it is. The state of the video game industry, how has Fortnite changed it, does Fornite have a competitor in Apex legends, and even… what is the state of VR gaming? Sponsors:
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Facebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo app, Google’s streaming gaming service might get some hardware to go along with it, the most acquisitive unicorns and the weekend longreads suggestions. Here’s what you missed today in the world of tech. Sponsors:
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Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo (TechCrunch) Samsung will extend Bixby button remapping to premium Galaxy phones running Android Pie (The Verge) Source: Google plans to announce long-rumored ‘Yeti’ hardware at GDC event (9to5Google) Airbnb, Automattic, And Pinterest Top Rank Of Most Acquisitive Unicorns (Crunchbase News)
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Late Night Linux Podcast HOW APPLE’S ENTERPRISE APP PROGRAM BECAME THE NEW WILD WEST OF MOBILE APPS (The Verge) “SHE NEVER LOOKS BACK”: INSIDE ELIZABETH HOLMES’S CHILLING FINAL MONTHS AT THERANOS (Vanity Fair) It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town (NYTimes) Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones (Ars Technica) The curse of the Twitter reply guy (Mashable) YouTube Story 1: Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers (The Guardian) YouTube Story 2: YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained? (NYTimes) YouTube Story 3: How YouTube helps flat-earthers organize (The Verge)
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Take-aways from all the hands-on reports with the new Samsung Galaxy S10 phones, hands-OFF reports about the Galaxy Fold, Apple teams up with Goldman Sachs on a new credit card, YouTube faces yet another scandal running ads on horrible content, and a look at how law enforcement grabbing location data from Google using "reverse location search warrants."
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Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ hands-on (Engadget) You can remap the Bixby button on Samsung’s Galaxy S10 to do whatever you want (The Verge) The Galaxy Fold makes no sense as a consumer device yet (The Verge) Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone (Wall Street Journal) Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos (Bloomberg) On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight (Wired UK) Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it's Being Monetized (2019) (Matt Watson, YouTube) YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following child exploitation controversy (The Verge) Close Enough (Slate/Future Tense)
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The foldable phone is here! And some regular new Galaxies too. Other stuff... (I'm late posting today... sorry! In a rush!)
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Links: Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980 (The Verge) Xiaomi's triple-camera Mi 9 has a fast 20W wireless charger (Engadget) Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret' (Business Insider) Google Set To Unveil Netflix-Like Game Streaming Service (Fortune) Apple Plans on Combining iPhone, iPad, Mac Apps by 2021 (Bloomberg) Princeton Tech Meetup 69 w/ Brian McCullough
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Qualcomm unveils a second gen 5G chip, Huawei’s founder hits back at the US, his biggest investors push back at Masa Son, and why emoji are causing problems in increasing numbers of court cases. Sponsors:
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Before the first 5G phone is out, Qualcomm is already moving on to its second-gen 5G modem (The Verge) The US cannot crush us, says Huawei founder (BBC News) How Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets (The Information) Walmart’s US e-commerce sales up 43% in Q4, thanks to growing online grocery business (TechCrunch) Key Investors Are Unhappy With SoftBank Tech-Investment Fund (WSJ) Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing (Coindesk) Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared (TheVerge)
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Parliament calls Facebook a “digital gangster,” Australia’s Parliament was hacked, a full year of Apple lineup rumors, and since it’s a holiday here in the US, a mini longread segment. Sponsors:
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UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook (TechCrunch) Australia's major political parties hacked in 'sophisticated' attack ahead of election (The Sydney Morning Herald) Kuo: 16-inch MacBook Pro, 31-inch 6K display, iPhones w/ upgraded Face ID & bilateral wireless charging coming in 2019 (9to5Mac) Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu (BoingBoing) Elroy Air raises $9.2 million for delivery drones that can carry up to 500 pounds (VentureBeat) Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder (ArsTechnica)
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Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the reporter who gets Apple scoops like no other. Quick catch up with Mark about his recent scoops, but also some Apple analysis in general:
Apple has spent as much as 3 billion dollars on its original content for its new streaming service. But… they have probably fewer than 10 original movies locked and loaded. When it comes to “Project Titan,” Apple’s self driving car project, Apple still doesn’t have any idea where any of this is headed. I was skeptical we’d actually see an Apple AR headset. Actual Apple Googles. Mark thinks we really will... but not until 2021, or 2022.
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Remember that first weekend longread from yesterday, from NBC’s Tech Correspondent Jacob Ward? As I said, it triggered some things that I’ve been thinking about for a while. About data and data harvesting and data capitalism. So, I reached out to Jacob to delve further, and I’m glad I did. Super provocative deeper dive into the ideas of THIS piece: Why data, not privacy, is the real danger (NBC News) Sponsors:
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More fallout and analysis of Amazon ghosting NYC, more signs of blockchain actually taking hold on Wall Street, Samsung’s lineup of gadgets leaks and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses (The Washington Post) Amazon’s Escape From New York (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) Copyright Office Refuses Registration for 'Fresh Prince' Star Alfonso Ribeiro's "Carlton Dance" (The Hollywood Reporter) HSBC forex trading costs cut sharply by blockchain - executive (Reuters) Samsung leaks entire new wearables lineup through its own app (The Verge)
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The Strong Web (podcast suggestion) Why data, not privacy, is the real danger (NBCNews) Uber’s Secret Gold Mine: How Uber Eats Is Turning Into A Billion-Dollar Business To Rival Grubhub (Forbes) Zillow Wants to Flip Your House (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) The Strange Experience of Being Australia’s First Tech Billionaires (NYTimes) The Secret History of Women in Coding (NYTimes Magazine)
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Amazon says thank you, but no thank you, to New York City, JP Morgan has its own crypto token, Google might try to come at the iPhone on price, and the legendary Lee Clow retires. Sponsors:
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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters (NYTimes) JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform payments business (CNBC) Google plans cheaper smartphone to draw users into internet empire (Nikkei Asian Review) Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones (Reuters) Lee Clow, mastermind behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ & ‘Get a Mac’ campaigns retires (9to5Mac)
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An Apple event focused on services, a former Apple Vice President charged with insider trading, the larger gaming industry is having issues, and why your GPS device might have issues on April 6th of this year. Sponsors:
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Apple Plans News Event For March 25 (BuzzFeed News) Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service (WSJ) The former Apple lawyer who was supposed to keep employees from insider trading has been charged with insider trading (CNBC) Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills (The Verge) Activision Blizzard cuts hundreds of jobs despite ‘record revenue’ year (Polygon) Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019 (The Register)
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Amazon acquires Eero, Apple is putting marketing muscle behind AR, looks like everyone was abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate program, and the new video game sensation giving Fortnite a run for its money. Sponsors:
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The Trump Administration wants America to get serious about AI, Patch is actually profitable, Reddit raises a round, Apple Health for vets and hands on with AR navigation on Google Maps. Sponsors:
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Trump to lay out an AI plan (Axios) US military equipped with tiny spy drones (ZDNet) It’s the Real World—With Google Maps Layered on Top (WSJ) The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you (Recode) Reddit raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation — now it's ready to take on Facebook and Google (CNBC) Driverless delivery startup Nuro gets $940 million SoftBank investment (Reuters) Apple teaming up with US Department of Veterans Affairs to bring digital health records to iPhone (9to5Mac) When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big (The Atlantic)
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Remember this longread piece? Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? It's stuck with me because, a) I didn't quite understand how the math worked out and b) I thought it was an interesting take on the ARTIST side of the equation as we move to a streaming/subscription/one-app-for-that future. So, we're talking to the author of the piece, Victor Luckerson, for more insight.
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I’ve told you plenty that this year, one of the big narratives, one of THE big stories... will be 5G. But what exactly IS 5G? Well, I spoke to Peter Linder, the head of 5G marketing, and evangelist at Ericsson. Here are all the answers to your questions, to prepare us for Mobile World Congress, which is coming later this month, and where all of this 5G stuff might finally begin to happen. For real.
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Yes, we’re gonna talk about the Bezos thing, is Amazon reconsidering HQ2, Sprint sues over 5G, maybe digital media is just fine, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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No thank you, Mr. Pecker (Jeff Bezos on Medium) Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters site, two officials say (Washington Post) Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding (Engadget) Google warns about two iOS zero-days 'exploited in the wild' (ZDNet) Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times? (NYMag) Amid bad news in the industry, Business Insider parent says it crossed $100m revenue mark and is profitable (Digiday)
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How To Be Awesome At Your Job (Podcast) “Do We Want to Be in Business?” The Strange, Never-Ending Saga of MoviePass (The Ringer) The CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species (Cnet) Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn (Bloomberg Businessweek) Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think (Redef) FINDING LENA, THE PATRON SAINT OF JPEGS (Wired)
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Germany is this week’s headache for Facebook, Twitter mixes up its MAU and DAU game, Cluno is subscriptions but for cars and Optimus Ride is what we mean by starting small with autonomous vehicles. Sponsors:
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Facebook ordered by Germany to gather and mix less data (BBC) How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money (NYTimes) Twitter Q4 Earnings (TechCrunch) Skype Can Now Blur Your Background So You Don't Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room (Gizmodo) Car subscription service Cluno scores $28M in Series B funding (TechCrunch) Another self-driving car startup is starting small, and that’s a good thing (The Verge) Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing (The Register)
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THE expert on the Podcasting Industry breaks down today's big news. Subscribe to Nick's newsletter, HotPod. This episode has a full transcript.
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Podcasting has its biggest news day ever, some pretty big executive shakeups, the new emojis for 2019 and how to steal a million dollars from an ATM without anyone noticing. Sponsors:
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Spotify has bought two podcast startups and it wants to buy more (ReCode) Relaxation app Calm raises $88 million, valuing it $1 billion (CNBC) Facebook’s top PR exec is leaving (ReCode) 230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019 (EmojiPedia) Programmer finds ridiculous ATM loophole that let him withdraw $1 million in cash (The Verge)
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It’s getting more expensive for Google to make money, Facebook turns fifteen, choosing your own adventure is becoming a trend, and one specific way Fortnite is measurably bigger than the Super Bowl. Sponsors:
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Being Google is getting very expensive (QZ) Zuckerberg's Facebook Post Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace: Sources (Cheddar) Boring Game Plus New Orleans Rebellion Leads to Ratings Drop (NYTimes) 'Fortnite' Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event (Forbes) iPhone XR Review (AnAndTech) Amazon Alexa Now Lets You Choose Your Own Adventure (Geek.com)
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Soon you can play Xbox live everywhere, Google unveils Live Transcribe, Slack files to go public, the most crypto story ever and why CAPTCHA’s have gotten so difficult. Sponsors:
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Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Live cross-platform gaming to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and more (WindowsCentral) Slack confidentially files to go public (CNBC) Crypto Exchange Says It Can't Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password (Gizmodo) Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued (NYTimes) MacBook keyboard failures could end with introduction of glass panel keyboards (AppleInsider) WHY CAPTCHAS HAVE GOTTEN SO DIFFICULT (The Verge)
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For years, Jay Yarrow and Farhad Manjoo had a podcast, the Jay and Farhad show. You might remember Jay from his time at BusinessInsider (he’s an executive editor at CNBC now) and Farhad of course is a NYTimes columnist. Well, they stopped doing the podcast late last year, which was a super bummer for a lot of us. Jay and Farhad had a super cool chemistry and I know a lot of people for whom the show was unmissable. Well, I got Jay and Farhad to put the band back together, so you’re about to hear a special reunion episode of the Jay and Farhad show! We talk Apple! Facebook! Layoffs! (No twitter, oddly...) It's great! Sponsors:
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Turns out Google poked Apple in the eye also, layoffs hit Vice, Amazon reports earnings and reports that a ton of people responded to that minimum wage hike, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment (TechCrunch) Twitter removed some accounts originating in Iran, Russia and Venezuela that targeted U.S. midterm election (The Washington Post) Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter) Why the Outlook for Digital Media Behemoths is Worse than You Think (Talking Points Memo) Amazon Notches Third Record Profit in a Row (WSJ) Americans are lining up to work for Amazon for $15 an hour (QZ) Why Alexa usually won’t respond when someone says ‘Alexa’ on TV (VentureBeat)
The SmartTouchUSA.com Weekend Longreads Suggestions
The ShopTalkShow podcast Is Alexa working? (Benedict Evans) As I.P.O. Approaches, Lyft’s Chief Is Nudged Into the Spotlight (NYTimes) Why Technology Hasn’t Fixed the Housing Crisis (NYTimes) The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives (The New Yorker)
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Facebook returns to growth, iPhones might be getting USB-C and 3D cameras, Hulu’s launching pause-ads, and on Reddit, it’s paintings of paintings of paintings of birds, all the way down. Sponsors:
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to get back to building new Facebook products (ReCode) Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast despite strong holiday season (The Verge) Apple Is Planning 3-D Cameras for New iPhones in AR Push (Bloomberg) HACKERS ARE PASSING AROUND A MEGALEAK OF 2.2 BILLION RECORDS (Wired) Hulu announces a new ad unit that appears when you pause (TechCrunch)
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Facebook decides to mix it up a bit: what if we had a scandal that pissed off our business partners? Apple’s earnings are mixed but you can see where they’re going with this. Why Americans no longer answer the phone and are you ready for 1TB smartphones? Sponsors:
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them (TechCrunch) Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (The Verge) Apple Reports First Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom) Report: Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017 (Washington Post) 1TB phones are coming and I’m so f***ing ready (TNW)
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Pretty major FaceTime bug from Apple, the DOJ makes it’s case against Huawei, the first successful ICO of the year and what Bluetooth ‘direction finding’ might do for you. Sponsors:
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Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up (9to5Mac) U.S. Charges Huawei With Stealing Trade Secrets, Bank Fraud (Bloomberg) BitTorrent Tokens Sold Out in Under 15 Minutes, Netting Over $7 Mln (CoinTelegraph) Bluetooth gains ‘direction finding’ for location accuracy to the centimeter (VentureBeat) After backlash, BuzzFeed says it will pay out earned paid time off to laid off employees (CNN Business) Aiming to change the way people take medicine, Lyndra Therapeutics raises $55 million (TechCrunch)
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An Apple subscription gaming service? Is Facebook Watch still alive? The GDPR floodgates are truly open. And losing to AI’s might have some benefits. Sponsors:
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Apple Plans Gaming Subscription Service: Sources (Cheddar) A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ (NYTimes) China created a unicorn every 3.8 days in 2018 (South China Morning Post) China's smartphone shipments dropped 14 percent in 2018 (TechCrunch) Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name (Bloomberg) Google and IAB ad category lists show 'massive leakage of highly intimate data,' GDPR complain claims (TechCrunch) AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee (IEEE Spectrum)
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One of my favorite people to read is the Wall Street Journal tech columnist Chris Mims. We talked about his piece this week positing that email was back, baby! And I read a piece he did a while back about the new way of constructing super energy efficient homes, but when I did the email piece and remembered he did a piece recently about how I’m more likely to get a burrito delivered to me for lunch than to have my self-driving wager come in by commuting to work in a robot car, I knew it was time to hit up Chris to come on the pod. He’s a listener! This episode has a full transcript. The posts we discuss:
The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email Why Your Ice Cream Will Ride in a Self-Driving Car Before You Do
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Given all the news of layoffs in the digital media space this week, I knew I couldn't sit on this interview with Rafat Ali any longer. Currently the founder and CEO of digital media company Skift—but also, if you weren’t aware, a true digital media pioneer going back to his founding of Paid Content—I knew he could talk about this stuff, and he has a pretty unique perspective on the state of digital media in 2019. TLDR, it’s not good. Dire might even be the word. This episode has a full transcript. Sponsor:
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Now the AIs can defeat us at StarCraft II (too?), Zuckerberg wants to unify his collection of messaging apps, my grand unifying theory for the streaming video wars and of course the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (NYTimes) Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money (Reveal) Facebook ignored kids’ spending problems, internal documents reveal (BBC News) DeepMind AI Challenges Pro StarCraft II Players, Wins Almost Every Match (ExtremeTech) Coming to a TV near you: personalized ads (Axios)
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From Founder to CEO (podcast) EVERYBODY DOES IT: THE MESSY TRUTH ABOUT INFILTRATING COMPUTER SUPPLY CHAINS (The Intercept) Katzenberg and Whitman: Hollywood’s New Odd Couple (Fortune) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone) “The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging (ArsTechnica) Reddit’s r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be (TNW)
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Bing’s Schrodinger-style China Ban, headphones from Sonos, flying cars from Boeing, layoffs for project Titan, and the serious ongoing layoffs in the digital media world. Sponsors:
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China Appears to Block Microsoft’s Bing as Censorship Intensifies (NYTimes) Sonos Plans Headphones in Move Outside the Home (Bloomberg) Boeing’s ‘flying car’ lifts off in race to revolutionize urban transport (VentureBeat) The U.S. Government Shutdown Has Delivered A Surprise Blow To Bitcoin (Forbes) Apple just dismissed more than 200 employees from Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle group (CNBC) Verizon Media Group is laying off 7% of its staff (CNBC) BuzzFeed is laying off more than 200 people, its second round of cuts in 14 months (Recode)
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YouTube TV goes nationwide, Jony Ive’s dream phone design, Patreon milestones and is Spotify killing music’s middle class? Sponsors:
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YouTube TV finally goes nationwide almost two years after launch (The Verge) Hulu drops to just $5.99 per month after Netflix’s price hikes (The Verge) Waymo says it will build self-driving cars in Michigan (Reuters) Xiaomi's flexible phone concept folds on both sides (Engadget) Meizu Zero debuts with no physical buttons, speaker or charging port (GSMarena) Millions and Billions | Celebrating Patrons, Creators, and Major Milestones (Patreon Blog) Digitimes: AirPods 2 launching in first half of this year, redesigned to support ‘health monitoring’ features (9to5Mac) Spotify Will Soon Let You Block Artists (Thurrot.com) The economics of streaming is making songs shorter (QZ) Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? (The Ringer)
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Munchery bites the big one, Foxconn considers moving production to India, Netflix wants a seat at the adults table, and, yes, even guitar tech is now tech. Sponsors:
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Munchery closes on-demand meal-delivery business (San Francisco Chronicle) Foxconn Looks Beyond China to India for iPhone Assembly (WSJ) Apple Supplier in Japan Looks to Taiwan for Bailout After iPhone XR Letdown (WSJ) Apple Pay coming to Target, Taco Bell and more top US retail locations (Apple Newsroom) Netflix in advanced talks to join major Hollywood lobbying group (Politico) Rosetta Stone for iPhone adds AI to identify objects for live translations (VentureBeat) FENDER'S NEW ACOUSTIC GUITAR HAS A MILLION DIFFERENT VOICES (Wired)
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The GDPR fines begin, but the EU “link tax” might be in trouble, Uber wants self driving scooters, and why email is back, baby! (Hint: it never left.) Sponsors:
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French data protection watchdog fines Google $57 million under the GDPR (TechCrunch) Copyright negotiations hit a brick wall in Council (Julia Reda) Uber is exploring autonomous bikes and scooters (TechCrunch) A POKER-PLAYING ROBOT GOES TO WORK FOR THE PENTAGON (Wired) Amazon helped 50,000 SMBs generate $500,000 in sales (Neowin) The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email (WSJ)
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Ali's Medium Post: Land of the Super Founders On this bonus episode, we’re going to revisit a past weekend longread suggestion and talk to the author of that longread to go further in-depth. Do you remember I recommended Land of the Super Founders a medium piece by Ali Tamaseb who spent 300 hours gathering data on unicorn startups to answer the simple question what did billion-dollar startups look like when they were getting started? What common traits did they share? This episode has a full transcript. Sponsor:
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This week had a lot of health tech news in it… a lot of it broken by CNBC’s health tech reporter Christina Farr. So, I reached out to Christina to chat, and we discussed Amazon getting into healthcare—possibly even getting into health insurance—what Apple’s health strategy is, where health tech might go beyond wearables and how the healthcare industry is responding to Silicon Valley invading their turf. This episode has a full transcript. Sponsor:
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Netflix starts to open up, Cortana stops competing, gadget reviews now include shoes as a category and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Netflix beats on subscriber growth, but misses slightly on revenue — stock falls after hours (CNBC) It’s Official: Satya Nadella Confirms Cortana Defeat (Thurrott) Nike's auto-laced future (TechCrunch) NIKE'S NEW SELF-LACING BASKETBALL SHOE IS ACTUALLY SMART (Wired)
The SmartTouchUSA.com Weekened Longreads
Drone Radio Show Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air (IEEE Spectrum) Why Do Shareholders Agree to Give Up Voting Rights? (New York Magazine) The Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap (The Atlantic) The Story Behind Meta, the AR Startup That Just Had Its Assets Sold to a Mystery Buyer (Variety) Rekindled yet again, Nokia’s next-gen phones offer more than just nostalgia (Digital Trends) INSIDE THE STRANGE YET PROFITABLE WORLD OF RETAIL ARBITRAGE (Mel Magazine) EA’s Troubled Decade Of Star Wars Games (Kotaku)
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Tim Cook calls for a data-broker clearinghouse, a possible criminal case against Huawei, the largest leak of user credentials ever found in the wild, and why we probably need a Unix for machine learning. Sponsors:
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia (Facebook Newsroom) You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It (Time) I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can't Stay Silent About What's Happening. (Time) Huawei Targeted in U.S. Criminal Probe for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets (WSJ) HACK BRIEF: AN ASTONISHING 773 MILLION RECORDS EXPOSED IN MONSTER BREACH (Wired) AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project (GeekWire) Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell (TechCrunch)
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More high profile execs quit Snap, Apple’s in talks to get more Apple Watches in the hands of seniors, the state of the App Economy, and the Razr is coming back to herald in the era of the bendable phone. Sponsors:
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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork (WSJ) Apple is in talks with private Medicare plans about bringing its watch to at-risk seniors (CNBC) App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts (ZDNet) FACEBOOK'S '10 YEAR CHALLENGE' IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT? (Wired) Madagascar has become a business outsourcing hotspot thanks to its super-fast internet (QZ Africa) Return of the Razr—With a Foldable Screen and $1,500 Price (WSJ)
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Netflix raises prices, maybe the Apple battery replacement WAS a big deal after all, cops can’t force you to unlock your phone with your face, and Amazon is driving its retail competitors into the arms of Microsoft. Sponsors:
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Netflix will raise prices for US subscribers, with its most popular plan going up to $13 per month (TechCrunch) Apple Q1 Numbers: Missing Explanations (Monday Note) ON APPLE’S $29 IPHONE BATTERY REPLACEMENT PROGRAM AND ITS ROLE IN THEIR EARNINGS MISS (Daring Fireball) MongoDB Follow-up, AWS’ Incentives, Batteries: The iPhone’s Missing Miss (Stratechery) Apple's 5G iPhone shift bogged down by Qualcomm chip battle (CNET) German court throws out Qualcomm's latest patent case against Apple (Reuters) Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules (Forbes) Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare (GeekWire)
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Event sharing comes to stories, what this year’s CES says about where consumer tech is at the moment, and then a bunch of stories about what that means for the future in different ways, including wireless chips that suck power from the air, and the dilemma that voice assistants pose for the modern office. Sponsors:
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Facebook’s new Stories feature for event sharing actually sounds useful (The Verge) CES 2019: A Show Report (Learn By Shipping/@stevesi) SoundGuys: USB-C audio is dead (Android Authority) Wiliot nabs $30M from Amazon, Avery Dennison, Samsung for a chip that runs on power from ambient radio frequencies (TechCrunch) The rise of Alexa creates a dilemma for your open plan office (Wired) A Picture Of An Egg Beat Kylie Jenner For The Most Liked Instagram Of All Time (BuzzFeed News)
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The great Howard Lindzon and I discuss how Wall Street is thinking of Tech right now, what Apple's deal is and what the prospects are for those big tech IPOs coming down the pike. This episode has a full transcript.
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Motherboard shames the telecom companies into not selling us out, shareholders are suing Alphabet’s board, the government shutdown claims more tech victims, Apple says, “We can add more cameras also!” and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Motherboard) AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation (Washington Post) Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct (Bloomberg) Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down (ZDNet) Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras (WSJ) Amazon Developing Game Streaming Service (The Information)
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Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future (The Outline) The Rise and Demise of RSS (Motherboard) Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber shaped Internet music journalism and now leaves it behind (Los Angeles Times) Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) (Developers.Google) The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test (2069 - Medium) Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee Spectrum) PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai)
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We have a good idea when that foldable Samsung phone is coming, Google is actually close to a big legal win in Europe (for a change), the government shutdown might actually be affecting CES and why the “gig economy” might actually be a big nothingburger. Sponsors:
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Samsung to Show Off Its New Foldable Phone in February (WSJ) Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database (GeekWire) Google Nears Win in Europe Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ (WSJ) Google Only Has to Respect Your 'Right to Be Forgotten' in the EU, Court Says (Gizmodo) 2019 is already full of weird and wonderful monitors (The Verge) Government shutdown halts FCC device approvals (Axios) How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong (WSJ)
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Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES: they want to put Assistant in everything, the first foldable phone arrives at CES, Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Marc Zuckerberg wants to host his own version of a podcast, I guess. Sponsors:
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GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge) The world’s first foldable phone is charmingly awful (The Verge) Twitter hopes you want to watch NBA games from a camera focused on just one player (Recode) Zuckerberg's 2019 Challenge Post VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era (GeekWire) Venture Capital Funding Report 2018 (CBInsights) Cable operators will fight off 5G with 10-gigabit cable modems (VentureBeat) This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise (Fast Company)
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Are we in a smartphone recession, mooooaaaar tv new from CES, AT&T wants to make 5G confusing, and why WeWork is now, simply, We (company). Sponsors:
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Sorry, Samsung. Seems nobody is immune to peak smartphone (The Register) Apple’s Errors (Stratechery) Sony doubles down on 8K TVs and the entertainment to play on them (VentureBeat) AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates (ArsTechnica) Uber’s Confidential Documents Show Path to $90 Billion IPO (The Information) Exclusive: WeWork rebrands to The We Company; CEO Neumann talks about revised SoftBank round (Fast Company) Amazon's new ad strategy: Free samples based on what it knows about you (Axios)
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Is Apple willing to sacrifice Apple TV for the greater subscription good, is Google Assistant is coming to feature phones, what is the use-case for a tv you can roll up into a box, and plenty more like that because it’s time to let the CES headlines rain over you. Sponsors:
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Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs (The Verge) Google Assistant will soon be on a billion devices, and feature phones are next (The Verge) Everything you may have missed from Nvidia's CES keynote (Techspot) HP Launches First-Ever AMD Chromebook (LaptopMag) Withings undercuts Apple Watch, debuts $129 ECG monitoring smartwatch (ArsTechnica) LG’s groundbreaking roll-up TV is going on sale this year (The Verge) Keeping up with Netflix originals is basically a part-time job now (QZ)
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The Verge and AT&T have a trademark dispute, the city of Los Angeles and The Weather Channel app have a location data dispute, more on how shows like Bandersnatch really might be the future of storytelling and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsor:
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AT&T tries to trademark ‘Verge TV’ as if we’re going to let them get away with it (The Verge) Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data (NYTimes) D-Link debuts a 5G Wi-Fi router with 40 times wired broadband speeds (Venture Beat) BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON (The Verge)
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Podcast suggestion: Daily Fortnite Courier Prime He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof. (HuffPo) Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge (NYTimes) The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix (The Ringer) Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game (Audubon) How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code (Quanta) The Hacker News discussion of the Quanta piece
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Apple lowers its guidance and the tech world freaks out, the company that you can outsource your censorship friendly China content to, a more durable e-scooter is coming and what to expect from CES. Sponsor:
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit (NYTimes) Segway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot (TechCrunch) What to expect from CES 2019 (TechCrunch)
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Today, Roku is quietly a major combatant in the Streaming Wars, Tesla slashes prices, how many cameras can we fit on a smartphone, how much would it cost to convince you to quit Facebook, and why Bandersnatch might just be the beginning of the choose your own adventure trend. Sponsor:
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Activision Plans to Fire CFO Neumann, Puts Him on Paid Leave (Bloomberg) ROKU BREAKS FREE FROM BOXES AND TVS (Wired) Tesla slashes EV prices by $2,000 to offset reduced tax credits (Engadget) [Exclusive] Nokia 9 PureView Penta-camera Phone Revealed in Full Glory in First-ever Promo Video (Mysmartprice) Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study (ArsTechnica) Popsugar's Twinning app was leaking everyone's uploaded photos (TechCrunch) HOW THE SURPRISE NEW INTERACTIVE BLACK MIRROR CAME TOGETHER (Wired)
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Happy 2019! And... here's what we've got on tap for the pod in the new year!
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Instagram briefly goes horizontal, more on how epic Fortnite has been for Epic Games this year, Larry Ellison joins Tesla’s board, the global GPS wars are joined and the last weekend longreads of the year. Links:
Instagram briefly switched to a horizontal feed and people freaked out (The Verge) Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, banked a $3 billion profit in 2018 (TechCrunch) Exclusive: Foxconn to begin assembling top-end Apple iPhones in India in 2019 - source (Reuters) Tesla Taps Ellison, HR Expert to Prove Musk Is Reined In (Bloomberg) China ramps up global coverage for domestic Beidou satellite navigation system as rival to GPS (South China Morning Post)
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The Devchat.tv podcasts The GPS wars have begun (TechCrunch) Amazon gets into health insurance — and more 2019 health-tech predictions from top experts (CNBC) The biggest technology failures of 2018 (MIT Technology Review) Why Your Next Home Might Not Need Any Energy at All (WSJ) THE 'FUTURE BOOK' IS HERE, BUT IT'S NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED (Wired) Bird Box Is the First Great Monster Movie About This Poisonous Invention (PaleoFuture/Gizmodo)
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Amazon has a record-breaking holiday season, surprising absolutely no one, another Instagram crackdown, a look at Austin as a tech hub, and why mobile alerts are a Frankenstein monster increasingly out of control.
Amazon Says Alexa Voice Shopping Tripled During 2018 Holiday Season (Fortune) Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown (The Atlantic) Tesla's Supercharger network will cover all of Europe in 2019 (Engadget) With Tech Expansion, Austin Is Still Weird. It’s Just More Wired Now, Too. (NYTimes) Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform (CJR) Movie Theaters Bounce Back: What’s Behind the 2018 Rebound (Variety) Watch the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, releasing Friday 28th on Netflix (The Verge)
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How the US government shutdown affects cybersecurity, how the Open Government Data Act is possibly good tech governance, Airbnb and Slack are considering non-traditional IPOs and the state of AI research at the end of 2018.
How a government shutdown affects America’s cybersecurity workforce (FifthDomain) In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (BoingBoing) Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams (Bloomberg) Layoffs Underway Amid ‘Adjustments,’ Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Confirms (CoinDesk) HQ Trivia launches HQ Words as reinstalled CEO seeks a game-changer (TechCrunch) Airbnb and Slack are considering untraditional IPOs that box out bankers like Spotify did (Recode) Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (VentureBeat)
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Facebook is developing a cryptocoin for WhatsApp, Blind was not quite anonymous enough, which is the most accurate voice assistant and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors:
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Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say (Bloomberg) At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from Silicon Valley employees (TechCrunch) Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Gets Promotion to Senior Vice President (MacRumors) Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test (LoopVentures)
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Software Defined Talk (Podcast) Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (NYTimes) Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley (Bloomberg) The 2019 IPO class headlined by Uber will create a ton of new wealth. Will the billions go to mansions or missions? (Recode) Venture Capital Blind Spots: The Top 7 Reasons Why VCs Miss Billion-Dollar Outcomes (645 Ventures) Prime and Punishment (The Verge) 7 Modern BBSes Worth Calling Today (PCMag)
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Now some iPhones can’t be sold in Germany, is there an iPad Pro bend-gate brewing, drones shut down a major UK airport, and why Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is suing the makers of Fortnite. Sponsors:
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Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 Models in Germany While Appealing Broader Sales Ban [Updated] (MacRumors) Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal (The Verge) Justice Department charges Chinese nationals in ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign (CNBC) Uber's self-driving cars return to public roads after fatal crash (CNET) Drones cause holiday chaos at one of London's busiest airports (Engadget) Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights (BBC News) Pinterest Readies Itself for Early 2019 IPO (WSJ) FORTNITE KEEPS STEALING DANCES — AND NO ONE KNOWS IF IT’S ILLEGAL (The Verge)
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I’m sorry. I truly am. Another Facebook scandal to tell you about. The Boring Company unveils its tunnel, Zwift is gamification, a fitness app play, a social network, VR, and e-sports all in one startup and why Touch ID might return to the iPhone. Sponsors:
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Google presses pause on that Chinese search project, what’s delaying Facebook’s Clear History project, AT&T’s 5G goes live and Audi unveils its autonomous vehicle ambitions. Sponsors:
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Facebook got all the press but the Russians really loved Instagram to spread misinformation, more tech real estate moves, the CEO of HQ Trivia passes away, and how to break into somebody’s phone with a 3D-printed head.Sponsors:Techmeme.Robinhood.comMetalab.coLinks:Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg)Google Details Major New York Expansion (WSJ)Colin Kroll, 34, HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder, Is Found Dead (NYTimes)We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head (Forbes)Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny (Bloomberg)Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla (The Verge)My Talk at Google (Me)
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Fri. 12/14 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiryhttps://feedpress.me/RideHome - Direct RSS feed starting this weekend, just in caseThe bomb scare email scam that demanded bitcoin, Facebook’s Photo API gave away too many photos, Apple strikes back at Qualcomm, Apple kills its second music-based social network, an Apple analyst sounds alarm bells about iPhone unit sales, Instacart breaks up with Whole Foods, PlanetScale brings mega-scaling technology to the masses, and of course the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Sponsors:MacStadium.com/ridehome Tiny.websiteLinks:Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats worldwide, causing evacuations (The Verge)Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos to apps (TechCrunch)Irish regulator to investigate Facebook after new data leak (Financial Times)Apple Says China iPhone Ban Would Force Settlement With Qualcomm (Bloomberg)Apple Music removes ability for artists to post to Connect, posts removed from Artist Pages and For You (9to5Mac)Ming-Chi Kuo cuts first quarter iPhone sales estimates by 20%, says iPhone XR demand is low (9to5Mac)Amazon has officially killed the Whole Foods-Instacart partnership (Recode)They scaled YouTube—now they’ll shared everyone with PlanetScale (TechCrunch)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:EV News Daily (Podcast)Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (New York Times)The State of Technology at the End of 2018 (Stratechery)The rise of the recommendation site (Vox)How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight (Wired)
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Apple keeps Austin weird with a new campus, RobinHood launches checking and savings accounts, hands on with the Apple Watch ECG thingy, and the most disliked video in YouTube history. Sponsors:MacStadium.com/ridehome Tiny.websiteLinks:Apple to invest $1 billion in new Austin campus (Axios)Amazon Hires Lobbyists for N.Y. Site and Tries to Fend Off Ocasio-Cortez’s Supporters (NYTimes)Amazon Went to City Hall. Things Got Loud, Quickly. (NYTimes)High-Tech Degrees and the Price of an Avocado: The Data New York Gave to Amazon (NYTimes)After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning (TechCrunch)Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard & the most ATMs (TechCrunch)A look at the Apple Watch’s ECG, from someone who needs it (Ars Technica)Apple now has dozens of doctors on staff, showing it's serious about health tech (CNBC)POSTMATES' QUEST TO BUILD THE DELIVERY ROBOT OF THE FUTURE (Wired)YouTube Rewind 2018 is officially the most disliked video on YouTube (The Verge)
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Intel’s next generation architecture revealed, was China behind that massive Marriott hack, Good Money wants to give customers a stake in their own banking, and what is Michael Dell’s long game?Sponsors:Eero.com/ride (promo code: ride)Tiny.websiteLinks:Intel unveils a new architecture for 2019: Sunny Cove (Ars Technica)Intel is bringing teraflop integrated graphics to 10nm chips in 2019 (Engadget)AN INTEL BREAKTHROUGH RETHINKS HOW CHIPS ARE MADE (Wired)Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing (NYTimes)Apple Suppliers Are Considering Moving iPhone Output if Tariffs Hit 25% (Bloomberg)U.S. investigators point to China in Marriott hack affecting 500 million guests (The Washington Post)Indonesia e-commerce leader Tokopedia raises $1.1B from Alibaba and SoftBank's Vision Fund (TechCrunch)At this new online banking platform, customers are the owners (Fast Company)Apple’s ‘Netflix for Magazines’ Getting a Chilly Reception (Bloomberg)Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds (TechCrunch)U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year (ReCode)
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Mr. Pichai goes to Washington, another bug prompts Google to kill Google+ even sooner, Keurig for beer makes no sense, and Doom turns 25.Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/ridehomeTiny.websiteFlatironSchool.com/podcastLinks:Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April 2019 (VentureBeat)Uber customers and drivers are furious after a major outage causes all kinds of issues (BusinessInsider)Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source (Pew Research Center)Fintech start-up Plaid raises $250 million at $2.7 billion valuation, adds Mary Meeker to board (CNBC)Vroom nabs $146M from AutoNation, VCs for its used car site (TechCrunch)Keurigs for Beer Make No Sense (Gizmodo)Doom is 25 and co-creator John Romero is putting out a giant expansion for it (TechCrunch)
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iPhone sales blocked in China, Apple’s getting into the A&R business, pump the breaks on the e-scooter hype, and forget the notch, 2019 might be the year of the hole punch.Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/ridehomeTiny.websiteLinks:China bans many iPhone models in Qualcomm patent dispute (Axios)Can the U.S. Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? (NYTimes)Huawei CFO Arrested, Australia’s Awful Law (Stratechery)Apple acquired Platoon, a platform for musicians to create and distribute work (TechCrunch)Investor Frenzy for Scooter Startups Cools (WSJ)Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (NYTimes)Samsung’s A8s is its first phone with an Infinity-O hole-punch display (The Verge)
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Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition AI, the Crypto market crash is starting to claim casualties, Reddit is quietly doing very well, thank you very much, and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Sponsors:Metalab.coDataDogHQ.com/RideHomeLinks:MICROSOFT WANTS TO STOP AI'S 'RACE TO THE BOTTOM' (Wired)Scientists create AI that can crush the world's best AI (at board games, thankfully) (CNET)Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in its Wake (Bloomberg)Reddit’s Year in Review: 2018 (Upvoted)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:The Comics Canon (Podcast)Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar Startups (Ali Tamaseb)YOUTUBE CREATORS BLINDSIDED BY MAJOR NETWORK’S COLLAPSE (The Verge)A 7-year-old boy is making $22 million a year on YouTube reviewing toys (MSN)Almost Every Electric Scooter in the World Comes From This Chinese Company (Bloomberg)Cryptopia In Crisis: Joe Lubin’s Ethereum Experiment Is A Mess. How Long Will He Prop It Up? (Forbes)How Robotics Maker Rethink Crashed and Burned (The Information)The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our workday (GeekWire)
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Huawai’s CFO arrested and stock markets quake, Google’s Allo joins the crowded Google Deadpool, Lyft files for an IPO and are Amazon’s robots finally rebelling?Sponsors:DatadogHQ.com/RideHomeMetalab.coLinks:Canada arrests Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (The Globe and Mail)Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chrome and bringing it to the Mac (The Verge)Google is shutting down Allo (The Verge)Ride-hail firm Lyft races to leave Uber behind in IPO chase (Reuters)These Confidential Charts Show Why Facebook Bought WhatsApp (Buzzfeed)Firefly Nets $21.5 Million Seed Round To Boost Ride-Hail Driver Revenues With On-Car Ads (Crunchbase News)Cuba to roll out mobile internet for the first time (CNBC)Robot Accidentally Hospitalises 24 Amazon Workers After It Sprays Them With Bear Repellent (Huffington Post)
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The UK Parliament docu-dumps on Facebook, Qualcomm fires the starter pistol on 5G rollout, an actual test drive on Waymo’s new ride hailing service, and behind that $100 million Friends deal.Sponsors:Metalab.coDataDogHQ.com/ridehomeLinks:Note by Damian Collins MP (UK Parliament)Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 855 and its news under-display fingerprint sensor (TechCrunch)Qualcomm announces first ultrasonic fingerprint reader: Headed to the Galaxy S10? (CNET)Fortnite’s Minecraft-like creative mode launches tomorrow (The Verge)RIDING IN WAYMO ONE, THE GOOGLE SPINOFF’S FIRST SELF-DRIVING TAXI SERVICE (The Verge)The story behind Netflix’s $100 million ‘Friends’ deal (Recode)
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Another day, another data breach, this time Quora, Microsoft might be replacing the Edge web browser, and maybe even replacing Windows, a review of some low-end smartphones and why 4k streaming and data caps are on a collision course.Sponsors:DatadogHQ.com/ridehomeMetalab.coLinks:Quora Security Update (The Quora Blog)Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 (Windows Central)What is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer (Petri.com)NVIDIA's new AI turns videos of the real world into virtual landscapes (Engadget)MOTOROLA AND NOKIA’S NEW PHONES MAKE $350 LOOK LIKE $1,000 (The Verge)Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is on a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps (Motherboard)
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Tumblr bans adult content, is Apple going to sit on the 5G sidelines, Uber has held talks about acquiring either Bird or Lime, a new self-driving car yardstick and resetting your web browser to square one.SimpleContacts.com/rideMetalab.coLinks:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (TheVerge)Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 to Release a 5G iPhone (Bloomberg)Kuo: ‘All-new design’ AirPods in 2020, wireless charging model in first quarter 2019 (9to5Mac)Uber Exploring Deal to Buy Bird or Lime (The Information)Tencent Music Moves Forward With IPO After Delay (WSJ)Microsoft PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles for presentations (The Verge)The first self-driving car you use will most likely carry your groceries, not you (Vox)How to Reset All of Your Browsers Back to Square One (Gizmodo)
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The monster Starwood Hotels data breach, Apple music comes to Amazon Echo devices, Instagram rolls out “close friends” lists, Airbnb wants to build your house, not just rent it, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach (TechCrunch) SEC charges Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled for promoting ICOs without disclosing payments (CNBC) Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo (TechCrunch) Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends list (TechCrunch) Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019 (Fast Company) Techmeme now publishing paid and free "Leaderboards" showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic (Techmeme.com)
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Our first podcast suggestion: Python Bytes Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? (NYTimes) How China’s Bytedance became the world’s most valuable startup (The Verge) China’s Video Craze Drives Growth for ByteDance (The Information) How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow (NYMag) The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories (Polygon) This Is the Way the Paper Crumples (NYTimes)
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Amazon gets into self-driving cars… in a way, Google Assistant adds some familiar features, YouTube rolls out Stories, and WTF is happening in Crypto?
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Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning (TechCrunch) New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive (WSJ) An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands (Recode) Google Assistant gets visual lyrics and more in big holiday update (Engadget) YouTube is rolling out its Instagram-like Stories feature to more creators (The Verge) Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data (WSJ) WTF is happening to crypto? (TechCrunch)
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The biggest ad fraud ever? Amazon gets into medical records, Project Fi comes to iPhones, one of Elon’s LA tunnels is canceled, and the Big Mouth Billy Bass enters the 21st Century.
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8 People Are Facing Charges As A Result Of The FBI’s Biggest-Ever Ad Fraud Investigation (BuzzFeed) Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health (WSJ) Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices (The Verge) Waymo taps former NTSB chair to oversee safety of self-driving ride-share fleet (CNBC) YouTube to Make New Originals Available for Free, Ad-Supported Viewing With ‘Single Slate’ Strategy (Variety) Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective bought Pop-Up Magazine Productions (Recode) Community Activists Kill Elon Musk's Plan for an Underground Freeway Tunnel in LA (Motherboard) Big Mouth Billy Bass Will Now Annoy the Shit Out of You With Alexa Support Built In (Gizmodo)
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AWS goes the custom silicon route, Facebook Watch goes after the olds, will Microsoft leapfrog Apple and why does Amazon’s shopping experience suck so much?
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Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads (GeekWire) Facebook's YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC) Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (Krebs on Security) Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk) Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun (Cult of Mac) Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple (Bloomberg) What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website? (BuzzFeed)
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AWS goes the custom silicon route, Facebook Watch goes after the olds, will Microsoft leapfrog Apple and why does Amazon’s shopping experience suck so much?
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Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads (GeekWire) Facebook's YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC) Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (Krebs on Security) Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk) Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun (Cult of Mac) Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple (Bloomberg) What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website? (BuzzFeed)
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Apple heads to the Supreme Court over antitrust concerns about its App Store; Facebook’s internal documents are seized by the British Parliament; what’s behind the resurgence of Atari; the human story of Black Friday inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers; and Lenny—a chatbot designed to frustrate telemarketers.
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U.S. top court leans toward allowing Apple App Store antitrust suit (Reuters) My Amicus Brief (AVC/Fred Wilson) Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers (The Guardian) Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament (CNN) Atari CEO interview — How Rollercoaster Tycoon revival saved the company (VentureBeat) The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (Vox) The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll (Motherboard)
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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.
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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)
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Skype calls on Amazon Echos, Tumblr disappears from iOS, Facebook on a war footing, iPhone sales storm clouds, and the Bitcoin Cash hard fork explained.
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Skype calling now available on Alexa (The Verge) Tweet Storm on Where Tumblr's Gone (@bluechoochoo) With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (WSJ) Tim Cook defends multibillion-dollar Google search deal despite Apple’s privacy focus (The Verge) Apple Suppliers Suffer With Uncertainty Around iPhone Demand (WSJ) With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (WSJ) Bitcoin Cash Declares War: Why Coming Hard Fork Could Mean Another Split (CoinDesk) One Day After the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Takeaways and Latest Developments (Bitcoin Magazine)
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Airbnb opens the kimono, a disc-less Xbox, Facebook pushes back on controversy, SpaceX gets a key go-ahead, and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Airbnb booked more than $1 billion in third quarter revenue (CNBC) Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (Thurrott.com) Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ) ‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes) Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (The Verge)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired) Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine) The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (Motherboard) How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (First Round Review) THE HAIL MARY PLAN TO RESTART A HACKED US ELECTRIC GRID (Wired) Space Camp grows up (Mashable)
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That huge New York Times story behind the scenes of Facebook, Google adds business messaging to Google Maps, Uber eats is a monster business, Amazon Go has a rival and there’s a new King of YouTube.
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (NYTimes) Google Maps will let you chat with businesses (The Verge) Uber continues to lose money as it scales scooters, bikes and other newer businesses (TechCrunch) Amazon Go competitor Standard Cognition raises $40 million to expand its cashierless store solution (VentureBeat) PewDiePie's Tumultuous Reign as YouTube King Is Almost Over (Bloomberg)
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Why was Google’s traffic routed from Nigeria through China, Ford partners with Walmart on driverless cars, Amazon’s HQ2 stunt seems to be backfiring, and Uber gets a customer loyalty program.
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Nigerian firm takes blame for routing Google traffic through China (Reuters) Exclusive: Snap reveals U.S. subpoenas on IPO disclosures (Reuters) Ford partners with Walmart and Postmates to test autonomous grocery delivery (TechCrunch) A STARTUP IS SETTING DRONES FREE BY TYING THEM TO THE GROUND (Wired) Amazon’s HQ2 stunt could come back to haunt it (The Verge) This time, Amazon has gone too far: Jeff Bezos's company is profiting and taxpayers are paying the price (NYDailyNews) Uber launches rider loyalty Rewards like credits & upgrades 9 cities (TechCrunch) Amazon's Microwave With Alexa Makes Life Marginally Better (BuzzFeed)
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Amazon’s HQ2 officially lands in Queens and Crystal City; Waymo is launching a driverless car service in December; Apple locks down repairs on modern Macs; get ready for cloud gaming; Pandora applies its music technology to podcasts; and a magic act that’ll make your day.
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Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters (Amazon DayOne Blog) Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York (The Washington Post) Pandora brings its Genome technology to podcast recommendations (TechCrunch) Waymo to Start First Driverless Car Service Next Month (Bloomberg) Apple confirms its T2 security chip blocks some third-party repairs of new Macs (The Verge) The Tricky—but Potentially Lucrative—Task of Streaming Videogames (WSJ) Eric Chien 2018 Fism Grand Prix Magic Act (YouTube)
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SAP buys Qualtrics, the Galaxy S10 might be coming in February and the Galaxy F might be coming in March, what exactly is TikTok and why you should care, and Jony Ive has an exclusive new product design.
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SAP to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion (Axios) How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley (Bloomberg) Samsung Electronics to release first foldable smartphone in March: sources (Yonhap News Agency) Snap’s former No. 2 exec Imran Khan is building an online shopping startup (ReCode) Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso (The Verge) A Guide to TikTok for Anyone Who Isn’t a Teen (Slate) Netflix to Test Lower-Price Plans as It Seeks More Asian Users (Bloomberg) At Netflix, Who Wins When It’s Hollywood vs. the Algorithm? (WSJ) Jony Ive’s latest design is the ultimate diamond ring – made only of diamond … (9to5Mac) The Fading Battlefields of World War I (The Atlantic)
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The great winter of tech worker discontent is definitely here, Disney’s streaming service has a name, Vine might be coming back, Github hits a major milestone and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Amazon is finally selling new iPhones after a long and complicated 'turf war' with Apple (BusinessInsider) A note to our employees (Google)
GoogleWalkout update: Collective action works, and we need to keep working. True equity depends on it. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Amazon Rekognition And ICE At An All-Hands Meeting (BuzzFeed) Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019 (TechCrunch) GitHub passes 100 million repositories (Venture Beat)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic) Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NYTimes) HQ Trivia was a blockbuster hit — but internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed its company to the brink (ReCode) ‘It’s Giant and Has Like Five Million Buttons.’ The Office Desk Phone Won’t Die (WSJ) Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (The New Yorker) Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air (WSJ) ASTRONOMERS SEE MATERIAL ORBITING A BLACK HOLE RIGHT AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER (SyFy Wire)
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Foldable phones are officially a thing, Tesla names a new board chair, Amazon’s mailing a physical toy catalog, Ford doesn’t want to miss out on scooters, and Comcast doesn’t want to miss out on home hubs.
Stories from: @albertwenger, @dmac1, @meganrosedickey Tweets: @bryce Links:
This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone (The Verge) Google says Android will natively support ‘foldables’ to limit fragmentation (The Verge) Amazon is mailing a printed holiday toy catalog to millions of customers (CNBC) Google Plans Large New York City Expansion (WSJ) The Anchor Tenant (Fred Wilson/AVC) Google's Gift to NYC (Albert Wenger) Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin (TechCrunch) Comcast is developing a video-streaming platform for broadband-only customers (CNBC) So I sent my mom that newfangled Facebook Portal (TechCrunch)
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Silicon Valley’s special election day vote, why robocalls have taken over your phone, Jeff Bezos’ clever HQ2 bonus, making 911 calls better and why Jake Tapper is a digital media pioneer.
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San Francisco has passed a first-of-its-kind tax on big businesses — like Square and Stripe — to help the homeless (Recode) Scoop: AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown (Axios) Why robocalls have taken over your phone (The Verge) Amazon gained a huge perk from its HQ2 contest that's worth far more than any tax break (Business Insider) Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk (The Associated Press) RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider, raises $30M as it grows from 10K users to 250M (TechCrunch) Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results (NiemanLab)
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Facebook takes down more accounts ahead of the election, the new Chrome might block ALL ads on some websites, Macbook Air reviews, and why you might not be able to read election results in tomorrow’s newspaper.
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Medium Post on Facebook and the Election (Jonathan Albright) Chrome will soon ad-block an entire website if it shows abusive ads (The Verge) Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities (WSJ) APPLE MACBOOK AIR (2018) REVIEW: THE PRESENT OF COMPUTING (The Verge) The 2018 Retina MacBook Air (Daring Fireball) India's Meesho, which enables social commerce via WhatsApp, raises $50M (TechCrunch) PredictHQ exits stealth with $10 million to help Uber and others forecast demand surges (VentureBeat) VMWare acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes (TechCrunch)
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Has Amazon decided on the location of its new HQ? What do people think of the new iPad Pros? Why are recently IPO’d tech companies hoarding cash? And why you might want to think twice about taking a selfie in the voting booth tomorrow.
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Amazon in Late-Stage Talks With Cities Including Crystal City, Va., Dallas, New York City for HQ2 (WSJ) Amazon waives $25 minimum spend to offer free Christmas deliveries for all U.S. customers (Venture Beat) APPLE IPAD PRO REVIEW 2018: THE FASTEST IPAD IS STILL AN IPAD (The Verge) Apple’s first 5G iPhone will arrive in 2020 (Fast Company) YOU TOO CAN BUILD YOUR OWN CHIP – FOR ONLY $30 MILLION (Digits to Dollars) Newly Public Tech Firms Race Back to Market as IPO Frenzy Continues (WSJ) Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) (NYTimes) You can't take a 'ballot selfie' in Illinois, Florida, or 25 other states — see where it's illegal to take a photo in the voting booth (Business Insider)
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Apple makes a pile of money and their stock tanks, Flickr ends its mega-free-storage plan, a classic internet cartoon gets a 4K makeover, browser extensions steal Facebook private messages, testing the latest smartphones to see how their batteries hold up, and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Apple results: A record September quarter with $62.9B revenue (Six Colors) Apple’s price hike strategy is paying off (The Verge) Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos (The Verge) Several thoughts from your old pal Jason (Jason Scott/Twitter) The Cartoon That Invented Internet Culture Gets a High-Definition Rerelease (Intelligencer) Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale (BBC News) It’s not your imagination: Phone battery life is getting worse (Washington Post) ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online (Wall Street Journal)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
The Facebook Dilemma, Part 1 (Frontline on YouTube) and The Facebook Dilemma, Part 2 (Frontline on YouTube) A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada (New York Times) The Man Behind the Scooter Revolution (CityLab) A Fork in the Road for Avis (Fortune) The Encyclopedia of the Missing (Longreads)
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Google employees stage a walk-out protest around the globe, Vox swallows Recode, the new devices this week continue Apple’s push to increase ASP, and maybe it’s subscriptions that are eating the world.
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Google walkout: Pictures of Google workers leaving their desks in protest over sexual misconduct (Business Insider) Recode Tech and Media Website to Be Folded Into Vox.com (WSJ) New MacBook Air threatens both MacBook and MacBook Pro with Function Keys (Apple Insider) Opinion: The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again (9to5Mac) Apple's new T2 security chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone (TechCrunch) WhatsApp found a place to show you ads (The Verge) Google My Business Adds Setting For Google Assistant Calls Over Duplex (Search Engine Roundtable) Spotify is just $6.8 million away from profitability (Engadget) Liftoff: Mobile users are embracing subscription app economy (Venture Beat)
Tickets for: Brian's 92Y Book Event
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Facebook earnings were not a disaster, another Alphabet employee is out because of scandal, Waymo has a permit to test real driverless cars on California roads, and if you don’t know what computational notebooks are, let me tell you about them.
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Zuckerberg says the future is sharing via 100B messages & 1B Stories/day (TechCrunch) Scoop: Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out (Axios) Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile Won't Support eSIM Until Later This Year (MacRumors) Gmail for iOS now lets you view all of your accounts in a single inbox (The Verge) Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual launch process, explained (Ars Technica) How Facebook Failed To Build A Better Alexa (Or Siri) (Forbes) Google, Accel and Jay Z invest in life insurance start-up Ethos, valuing it at more than $100 million (CNBC) Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice (Nature)
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Today MacBook Airs, Mac Minis and new iPad Pros, Coinbase raises a round, the UK has a new tech tax, interesting executive musical chairs, and why reCAPTCHA’s might be a thing of the past.
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UK chancellor announces 2% ‘digital services tax’ on tech giants’ revenues starting in April 2020 (TechCrunch) Snap CEO Picked a New Business Chief, Then Changed His Mind (Bloomberg) Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 (Security Week)
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IBM buys Red Hat, museums get new ways to preserve video games, Sony announces the full list of titles for its retro PlayStation mini-console, DJI has a drone for first responders, and a look at the service Gab.
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IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion (CNBC) Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM (TechCrunch) IBM’s Old Playbook (Stratechery) Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History (Motherboard) Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies (PDF - US Copyright Office, Library of Congress) Here are the 20 games shipping with the PlayStation Classic (TechCrunch) DJI's latest Mavic 2 drone is built for search and rescue (Engadget) Two more platforms have suspended Gab in the wake of Pittsburgh shooting (TechCrunch) On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full (New York Times)
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The Tech earnings season earnings roundup, new DRM rules allow jailbreaking… for some things, China’s rival GPS system, AI “art” fetches $400,000 at auction and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat (CNBC) Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations (CNBC) Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3% (VentureBeat) Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows (New York Times) Google Stock Falls As Revenue Misses; Amazon Ad Competition To Blame? (Investor’s Business Daily) Snap Hits All-Time Low After Lackluster Earnings Report (CNBC) Copyright Office Ruling Issues Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms (iFixit) In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (Motherboard) How China's GPS 'Rival' Beidou is Plotting to Go Global (BBC News) AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500 (New York Times)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch (Kotaku) At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (WSJ) Podcast on Netflix Culture (Planet Money Podcast) It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech (Fortune) How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber (Fast Company) AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION (Wired)
Bonus Link (from Wednesday):
THE AI COLD WAR THAT COULD DOOM US ALL (Wired)
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How Google paid Andy Rubin on his way out the door despite allegations of sexual misconduct, Uber Eats and the rise of virtual restaurants, Kickstarter sunsets its Drip service but plans a nice replacement, and older people are worse than younger people at telling fact from opinion.
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How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (New York Times) Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire (Bloomberg) A New Approach to Our Work on Drip (Kickstarter Blog) Kickstarter to End Drip, Fund New Platform with XOXO Festival Creators (The Verge) The Team Behind XOXO is Taking Over Kickstarter’s Drip Crowdfunding Community (TechCrunch) Older People Are Worse Than Young People at Telling Fact from Opinion (The Atlantic) Younger Americans Are Better than Older Americans at Telling Factual News Statements from Opinions (Pew Research Center) VIDEO: Joseph Saelee vs. Jonas Neubeauer in CTWC 2018 Finals (Twitter)
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Tim Cook attacks the “data industrial complex,” why political texts are flooding your phone, the US, China and the AI cold war, and how Facebook Messenger got its new look.
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Apple’s Tim Cook Makes Blistering Attack On the “Data Industrial Complex” (TechCrunch) Why political text messages are flooding your phone (Axios) The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All (Wired) Messenger redesigns to clean up Facebook’s mess (TechCrunch) How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement (Wired)
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Tim Cook demands a retraction from Bloomberg, another founder flees Facebook, Repl.it gets a murder’s row of VC backers and the iPhone XR reviews are in.
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Amazon cloud chief Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story (CNBC) Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (Buzzfeed) Supermicro CEO Joins Cook in Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Supply Chain Hack Story (MacRumors) Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset (TechCrunch) Former Facebook engineer quit to build the programming tool he always wanted (CNBC) Apple iPhone XR Review: Better Than Good Enough (The Verge) Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (Bloomberg) Android: A Visual History of Google’s OS On Its 10th Anniversary (The Verge)
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Facebook wants to buy some cybersecurity, Washington wants to know what Silicon Valley will do for its country, Fred Wilson wants you to ask yourself if your investors are bad actors, and stealing a Tesla by hacking the entry fob.
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Facebook on Hunt for Big Cybersecurity Acquisition (The Information) Who Are My Investors? (AVC) Thieves steal a Tesla Model S by hacking the entry fob (Engadget) A tech executive's video of his Tesla Model S being hacked and stolen is going viral (Business Insider) Video of the Tesla theft Google Home Hub review (CNET) Google Home Hub review—Awesome hardware for Google’s nascent smart display software (Ars Technica) Google Home Hub Review: At the intersection of useful and just plain cute [Video] (9to5Google) Google Home Hub review: A more personal smart display (Engadget)
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Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times) Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo) Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News) Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank's. (New York Times) Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (The Verge) Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? (Wired)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times) How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulture/New York Magazine) Drone Journalism's Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review) Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired) The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker)
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Spotify Premium gets a spit shine, Facebook think it knows who was behind that big hack, why everyone and their mother has a subscription box service, and an Apple event in Brooklyn!
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Spotify Premium gets personalized artist radio stations and better search (The Verge) Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (Tech Crunch) Facebook Finds Hack Was Done by Spammers, Not Foreign State (WSJ) Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff (Bloomberg) Inside the $2.6 billion subscription box wars (Fast Company) Beddr’s SleepTuner is a powerful standalone alternative to Apple Watch sleep tracking (9to5Mac)
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Google bows to the EU’s demands, the biggest thing to happen to Github since the pull request, video game cheaters are getting sued, and Facebook brings back MTV’s The Real World.
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Google will start charging Android device makers a fee for using its apps in Europe (The Verge) GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (Github) Fortnite, GTA V hackers face legal action for online cheating (Ars Technica) It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads (Recode) MTV is bringing back 'The Real World' for Facebook Watch, and will let the audience vote on the direction of the show (Business Insider)
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Uber’s targeting a blockbuster IPO valuation, cops told to stop looking at iPhones, the Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath, the Pixel reviews are in, and remembering Paul Allen.Sponsors:DatadogHQ.com/RideHomeTiny.website99designs.com/techmeme Links:Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO (WSJ)Cops Told ‘Don’t Look’ at New iPhones to Avoid Face ID Lock-Out (Motherboard)The Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath (Engadget)Google Pixel 3 review: improving on incredible (Charged)GOOGLE PIXEL 3 AND 3 XL REVIEW: THE BEST CAMERA GETS A BETTER PHONE (The Verge)The Google Pixel 3 XL review (TechCrunch)Google Pixel 3 Review: The Other Way to Make a Killer Phone (Gizmodo)Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 (NyTimes)
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The future of Photoshop is here today, Palm is back to bring us a tiny phone, Apple makes another acquisition, and why we’re doomed to a future of genetic surveillance.
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FINALLY: REAL PHOTOSHOP ON THE IPAD (The Verge) Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools (TechCrunch) Adobe launches Premiere Rush, a cross-platform video editor (Venture Beat) Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii (Axios) THE NEW PALM IS A TINY PHONE TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM YOUR PHONE (The Verge) GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE’S DNA IS ANONYMOUS ANYMORE (Wired) Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed (The Guardian) Tweetstorm about Google+ from @morganknutson
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Facebook announces the results of their investigation into that data breach, the market downturn is biting some tech companies, has Spotify ruined music, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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An Update on the Security Issue (Facebook) Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch) Tencent Music Pauses IPO Amid Market Turmoil (WSJ) FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here's how much each one is on sale (Business Insider) Tesla sets deadline on new orders to get delivery and full tax credit by end of the year (Electrek) Who Needs German Engineering? Tesla Outsells Mercedes-Benz For The First Time—And Has a Plan to Pass BMW Too (Fortune) Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music? (The Guardian)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
This Is How Amazon Loses (NewCo Shift) The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic) Alexa, Should We Trust You? (The Atlantic) Fear and loathing in venture capital (Max Niederhofer) The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (WSJ)
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Facebook cracks down again, ahead of the election, Apple make some interesting acquisitions, how many cameras does a smartphone need, and Dieter Rams just wants Silicon Valley to slow down.
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Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit (The Washington Post) Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe (TechCrunch) Apple buys machine learning AR firm specializing in mixed realities (Apple Insider) Samsung’s Galaxy A9 is the first quad camera phone (Engadget) Samsung hopes these four cameras will save its mid-range phone lineup (The Verge) Gartner: Microsoft passes Acer to become top 5 PC vendor in the U.S. (Venture Beat) Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy (CNBC) Coinbase's Active Customers Drop 80% in Crypto Slump, Study Says (Bloomberg) Plan to Fix Journalism With Cryptocurrency Draws Skepticism (WSJ) Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop (Fast Company)
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Windows needed a do-over, Snapchat hopes its Originals will give it one too, Minecraft abandons Apple TV, and Andy Rubin can’t quit smartphones.
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Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update after fixing file deletion bug (The Verge) Snapchat becomes the mobile HBO with 12 daily scripted Original shows (TechCrunch) Snap Is ‘Quickly Running Out of Money,’ Analyst Says (Bloomberg) Google Photos adds automated sharing through ‘Live Albums,’ which can stream to Home Hub (TechCrunch) Apple's dream of making the Apple TV a gaming console just took a major hit (Business Insider) A China Veggie-Selling App May Be Worth $7 billion (Bloomberg) Android Creator Is Building an AI Phone That Texts People for You (Bloomberg) AT&T will launch a Netflix rival next year (CNBC) Where the next 10 million miles will take us (Waymo)
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The big Made By Google event, follow up on that Google+ bug, WeChat is willing to debunk rumors for you and Saudi Arabia doubles down on Masa Son.
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First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge) Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac) Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery) Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg) Some advertisers are moving half of their search budget from Google to Amazon, say ad industry sources (CNBC) How China's biggest social network fights fake news (Abacus) Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on SoftBank Bet With Extra $45 Billion (Bloomberg)
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Google has a data scandal and it's a doozy. Facebook portal is real, a Microsoft streaming gaming service is real, next generation Intel chips are manifest, no one knows what to believe in that blockbuster Bloomberg story, and how the Internet Archive works.
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Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349 (TechCrunch) THE NEW AMAZON ECHO SHOW’S IMPROVED SCREEN AND BETTER SPEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH (The Verge) Microsoft’s xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, consoles, and mobile devices (The Verge) Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs (AnAndTech) Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public (WSJ) Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? (Krebs on Security) The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” (Ars Technica)
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He said she said on that Bloomberg Bombshell, Evan Spiegel’s plan for survival, new Macs are un-repairable, why are Apple Watch faces such a mess, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Instagram prototypes handling your location history to Facebook (TechCrunch) Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook (The Verge) 9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival (TechCrunch) iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro Systems Must Pass Apple Diagnostics to Function After Certain Repairs (MacRumors) Facebook’s Oculus Looking to Invest in Location-Based Virtual Reality (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Why are Apple Watch faces such a mess? (Macworld) Norway's petabyte plan: Store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive (ZDNet)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets (AnAndTech) Sex Workers Pioneered the Early Internet—and It Screwed Them Over (Motherboard) Raised by YouTube (The Atlantic) Old Unicorn, New Tricks: Airbnb Has A Sky-High Valuation. Here's Its Audacious Plan To Earn It (Forbes) EA announces ‘FIFA 19’ PS4 esports tournament (Engadget)
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Did China pull off a hardware hack to end all hardware hacks, is a new Nintendo Switch coming as soon as next summer, the ThinQ has five cameras on one phone, and Movie Pass? Still alive!
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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (Bloomberg Businessweek) Russia cyber-plots: US, UK and Netherlands allege hacking (BBC News) Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year (WSJ) LG V40 THINQ REVIEW: ONE PHONE, FIVE CAMERAS (The Verge) Verizon’s Severance Offer Goes to About 44,000 Employees (WSJ) Barnes & Noble names board committee to review possible sale, shares soar (CNBC) MoviePass' new funding means it isn't going anywhere just yet (Engadget)
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Highlights from the Microsoft Surface event, Uber launches its scooter play, streaming service fatigue might be pushing consumers back toward piracy, did you get your smartphone alert from the president, and the new app startup from a young entrepreneur by the name of Bill Gates.
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Microsoft has unveiled the $3,499 Surface Studio 2, its super-powerful and gorgeous new competitor to the Apple iMac (Business Insider) Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk (NYTimes) Facebook Login Update (Facebook Newsroom) Facebook Briefs Lawmakers on Breach in Effort to Guard Against Backlash (WSJ) GM and Honda will team up to build an autonomous car (Quartz) First presidential wireless test alert will come to your phone today (Axios) The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy (Motherboard) Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things (GeekWire)
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Amazon raises its minimum wage, Tesla’s hitting its Model 3 marks, another new California law could change the face of Tech Boards of Directors and Netflix wants us to choose our own adventure.
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Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees (CNBC) The Story of Henry Ford's $5 a Day Wages: It's Not What You Think (Forbes) Tesla delivered over 55,000 Model 3s in Q3 (Road Show/CNET) Three US universities now let students use iPhone and Apple Watch as their campus ID card (9to5Mac) THESE TECH COMPANIES WILL NEED MORE WOMEN ON THEIR BOARDS (Wired) Google's Project Stream lets you play Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Chrome (CNET) Netflix Is Planning a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure ‘Black Mirror’ (Bloomberg) Amazon's IMDb will announce this week a new free video service to compete for TV ad dollars (CNBC) The anti-Netflix: Free, ad-supported video streaming services are growing (Digiday)
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California ready to do battle over net neutrality, Instagram under new management, Elon settles with the SEC, and Tim Berners Lee kinda wants a do-over on the whole World Wide Web thing.
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The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law (The Washington Post) Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law (NYTimes) SEC settles charges with Tesla's Elon Musk, will remain as CEO but relinquish chairman role and pay stiff fine (CNBC) Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued after years of growth (Pew Research Center) (SMART) SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE: DESPITE THEIR VAST CAPABILITIES, SMART SPEAKERS ARE ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC (Nielsen) One Small Step for the Web... (Inrupt Blog) Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web (Fast Company)
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A new Facebook scandal—but this time it’s different, Slack is preparing for an IPO, an exciting new episode of Today in Elon Musk, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Slack Actively Preparing for Early 2019 IPO (WSJ) Coinbase now lets users buy 'bundles' (TechCrunch) Compound launches easy way to short cryptocurrencies (TechCrunch) Tesla's Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute (CNBC)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
How Uber is getting flying cars off the ground (CNET) Coinbase Wants To Be Too Big To Fail (Fortune) The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare (Steve Blank) Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive (Motherboard) The first Android phone 10 years later: An annotated review (CNET) Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page (Engadget)
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Facebook said it doesn’t market certain data; surprise, surprise, researchers prove they do, Amazon doesn’t love unions, is the Oculus Quest VR’s iPhone moment, and do ride sharing companies actually make money?
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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (Gizmodo) Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video (Gizmodo) Teen Apple Hacker Avoids Jail in Australia After Serious Attacks (Bloomberg) Payment Startup Stripe Is Now a $20 Billion Company (Bloomberg) Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road (Bloomberg Businessweek) Lyft Shows Financial Improvement Ahead of IPO Filing (The Information)
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More fallout from the Instagram departures and some pretty dirty laundry aired from inside Facebook, Google reverses course on Chrome, Coinbase opens its doors to alts, and maybe I was right about Amazon Homes!
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Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind (Forbes) Facebook’s Messing With Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure (WSJ) Product updates based on your feedback (The Google Chrome Blog) The Temptation of Apple News (Slate) Coinbase will add cryptocurrencies more rapidly, with ratings and reviews (Yahoo Finance) One third of ICOs launched in the past two years aren’t listed anywhere (TNW) Amazon Comes Up With Another Way to Get Alexa Into Your Home (Bloomberg)
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Instagram’s founders turn in their two weeks notice, Samsung accuses Apple of stealing, lots of changes coming to Google Search, and a “Netflix for open source.”
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Why Instagram's founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened (TechCrunch) Facebook’s Terrible Year Hits a New Low (Bloomberg Opinion) Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing chip secrets and giving them to Intel (CNBC) Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet With Top GOP Lawmakers (WSJ) Google's new activity cards will save your previous searches (Engadget) 'NETFLIX FOR OPEN SOURCE' WANTS DEVELOPERS TO GET PAID (Wired) macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Ars Technica review (Ars Technica)
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Office 2019 is here, SiriusXM acquires Pandora, the Chrome browser login controversy, more missed revenue numbers in digital media and Eric Schmidt says there could someday be the regular internet and a separate, Chinese internet.
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SiriusXM to buy Pandora in all-stock deal valued at $3.5 billion (CNBC) Why I’m done with Chrome (Matthew Green) Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago (Recode) Vox Media On Pace to Miss Revenue Target as Digital Advertising Disappoints (WSJ) Amazon: Retailers Gonna Retail (Steven Sinofsky) Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two — and one part will be led by China (CNBC)
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More fallout from that monster Alexa event yesterday, Facebook is gonna take another swing at Portal, Instagram wants to cut down on #hashtagoverload, Gmail was too willing to say “I love you,” and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Sponsors:Ude.my/techTiny.websiteLinks:AMAZON WANTS ALEXA TO HEAR YOUR WHISPERS AND FRUSTRATION (Wired)Amazon just pulled an Apple on the smart home (Stacey on IOT newsletter)Facebook's 'Portal' Video Chat Device to Be Announced Next Week (Cheddar)Instagram may divide hashtags from captions to end overhashing (TechCrunch)Instagram is testing a native resharing feature for the feed (The Verge)Is This Article Worth Reading? Gmail’s Suggested Reply: ‘Haha, Thanks!’ (WSJ)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ (NYTimes)Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York’s Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception (NYTimes)Living The Stream (ESPN The Magazine)A brief history of the numeric keypad (UX Collective)Inside the Dramatic, Painful--and Hugely Successful--Return of Reddit's Founders (Inc)Buy The History of Reddit Book Here
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Amazon announced Alexa for friggin everything, AmazonGos might soon be friggin everywhere, a life insurer will only sell you a policy if you own a smartwatch, and they’ve finally found Spock’s home planet of Vulcan.
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Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 (Bloomberg) Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance (Reuters) Life Insurance Offering More Incentive to Live Longer (NYTimes) ESPN's new streaming service passes 1 million paid subscribers in five months (CNBC) Google, Facebook Lead Digital’s March to Half of U.S. Ad Market (Bloomberg) Spock’s planet ‘Vulcan’ found years after Star Trek prediction (SlashGear)
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Amazon’s ad business is already huge, there’s a new retro Playstation console, Evernote is in our prayers, HQ is moving beyond trivia with a new game and a roundup of the Apple Watch Series 4 reviews.
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The ACLU Is Charging Facebook With Gender Discrimination In Its Targeted Ads (Buzzfeed News) Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men (ProPublica) Amazon becoming 3rd-biggest digital ad platform (Axios) Google Home Mini was the best-selling smart speaker in Q2 (TechCrunch) Sony is launching a PlayStation Classic console this December loaded with 20 games (The Verge) Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce HQ expands beyond trivia with new ‘Wheel of Fortune’-type game (Digiday) Google Maps for CarPlay in iOS 12 is now available (9to5Mac) iOS 12.1 references ‘iPad2018Fall’, all but confirming new iPad Pro debut next month (9to5Mac)
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A reported criminal investigation around Elon Musk’s tweets, Twitter brings back the chronological feed, Alexa for microwaves, and a wrap up of the iPhone XS and XS Max reviews. Links:Tesla Is Facing U.S. Criminal Probe Over Elon Musk Statements (Bloomberg)The Tweet that got Twitter to bring back the chrono-feed (@EmmaKinema)Amazon plans to release at least 8 new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an amplifier, and an in-car gadget (CNBC)Trump Hits China With Tariffs on $200 Billion in Goods, Escalating Trade War (NYTimes)APPLE IPHONE XS AND XS MAX REVIEW: SMOOTHED OUT (The Verge)
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Another Billionaire bails out a major media brand, social network Path is no more, Amazon employees are allegedly taking bribes, Linus Torvalds apologizes for being a jerk, and Steve Jobs had a weird notion about what actually constitutes pizza. Stories from: @cgartenberg Tweets: @laura_nelson, @BuzzFeedBen Links:Are there any other billionaires out there to buy Fortune or Sports Illustrated? (Recode)Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down (TechCrunch)Here are over 150 new features and changes in iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad (Apple Insider)Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes (WSJ)Amazon Storefronts is a new retail hub exclusively for US small businesses (The Verge)Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of being a jerk, takes time off to learn empathy (Ars Technica)AN ORAL HISTORY OF APPLE'S INFINITE LOOP (Wired)
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Literally, what the f*** is up with Tesla? With the Rob Maurer of the Tesla Daily podcast. Subscribe!
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More signs of drama inside Google, how Apple cleared the new Apple Watches through the FDA, how the Weather Channel made that insane flooding video, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:Google Employees Are Quitting Over The Company’s Secretive China Search Project (Buzzfeed News)Google’s internal political battles keep spilling out into the public (The Verge)The new heart-monitoring capabilities on the Apple Watch aren’t all that impressive (Quartz)iPhone XS Max and Apple Watch Series 4 shipping dates now slipping into October (9to5Mac)Apple Is Deleting Bought Films From iTunes Accounts - And Don't Expect A Refund (Forbes)Yes, You Can Name A Website “F***nazis.us”HOW THE WEATHER CHANNEL MADE THAT INSANE STORM SURGE ANIMATION (Wired) The Betterment Weekend Longreads:Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed (Ars Technica)Why a Leading Venture Capitalist Is Betting on a Decentralized Internet (Breaker)Olaf Carlson-Wee Rode the Bitcoin Boom to Silicon Valley Riches. Can He Survive the Crash? (WSJ)Memo to the Silicon Valley boys’ club: Arlan Hamilton has no time for your BS (Fast Company)Driverless Hype Collides With Merciless Reality (WSJ)
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The fallout from the Apple event, Google kills another beloved product, the Nintendo Switch online service comes online, and where in the World is Larry Page? Links:The iPhone Franchise (Stratechery)Making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever (Fast Company)Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye (Fact Company)The Nintendo Switch online service is launching on September 18th (The Verge)How Procore Built The Cloud’s Hottest Unicorn By Bringing Software To Low-Tech Construction Sites (Forbes)Where in the World Is Larry Page? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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What else? The iPhone event. Also, the EU strikes again, the T-Mobile/Sprint merger is on “pause” and "Gawker" is coming back. Links:EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ (The Verge)European Parliament Passes Copyright Directive Giving Artists Greater Share of Revenue (Variety)FCC says it needs more time to review Sprint-T-Mobile deal (CNBC)Verizon to begin 5G home broadband service sign-ups on Thursday (Axios)Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
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ICOs now officially securities, some steps backward in the self-driving car space, parsing the Zuckerberg New Yorker profile, and did Facebook disrespect the memory of Burt Reynolds? Stories from: @eosnos Tweets: @ezraklein, @BrendanNyhan Links:US Judge Rules ICO Frauds Fall Under Securities Law (CoinDesk)Renesas in $6.7 billion deal for IDT to boost chips for self-driving cars (Reuters)GM's Plan to Test Autonomous Cars in New York City Seems to Have Gone up in Smoke (Jalopnik)How to prepare your iPhone for a trade-in program (The Verge)Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)Facebook Apologizes For Taking Down Your Horny Burt Reynolds Posts (Vulture)
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Some juicy new Apple rumors for Wednesday, the end of the Jack Ma era is nigh upon us, there were some naughty apps in the Mac App Store and why following people whose politics you disagree with might not lead to peace in our time. Links:Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and Ceramic Backs on All Apple Watch Series 4 Models, More (MacRumors)Snap just lost its chief strategy officer (Fast Company)Alibaba announces Jack Ma succession plan: CEO Daniel Zhang to take over as chairman in a year (CNBC)Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history (9to5Mac)No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server (9to5Mac)Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization (NYTimes Opinion)Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)
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Tim Armstrong might be on his way out of Oath, Alex Jones is permanently off of Twitter, a Cambridge Analytica figure is officially no longer a Facebook employee, Elon Musk smokes a blunt and the weekend longreads suggestions! Links:Verizon’s Internet Boss Tim Armstrong in Talks to Leave (WSJ)Tim Armstrong is headed out of Verizon. What happens to the $9 billion content company he is leaving behind? (Recode)Charlie Warzel Twitter ThreadHOW THAT MAGICAL JACK DORSEY–ALEX JONES PHOTO HAPPENED (Wired)A Facebook scientist tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook (Fast Company)Weed, whiskey, Tesla and a flamethrower: Elon Musk meets Joe Rogan (CNN Tech)Tesla Erupts in Chaos After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up (Bloomberg) The Betterment Weekend Longreads:Inside the World of Eddy Cue, Apple’s Services Chief (The Information)Bezos Unbound: Exclusive Interview With The Amazon Founder On What He Plans To Conquer Next (Forbes)The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan (Bloomberg)What went wrong at Social Capital (Axios)How Android Pie’s Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness work (Venture Beat)The man who won the lottery 14 times (The Hustle)
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The 2014 Sony hacker gets charged, Lyft beats Uber to the scooter punch, why Roblox is the biggest thing since Minecraft, Spotify plays chicken with the music industry, and let’s play another round of Apple event rumor bingo. Links:U.S. charges North Korean operative in conspiracy to hack Sony Pictures, banks (The Washington Post)Lyft rolls out its first electric scooters in Denver (The Verge)You Will Soon Be Able to Control Your Xbox With Alexa and Cortana (Thurrott)Walmart partners with delivery logistics platform Bringg on last-mile grocery delivery (TechCrunch)The new Roomba could be the end of vacuuming (Quartz)Kids' gaming platform Roblox raises $150M (TechCrunch)The video game turning teens into millionaires has raised a whopping $150 million, making it a $2.5 billion company (Business Insider)A New Spotify Initiative Makes the Big Record Labels Nervous (NYTimes)The Tension Is Building Between Spotify and the Music Industry (Bloomberg)‘iPhone Xs Max’ likely name for 6.5-inch OLED flagship, sources say (9to5Mac)
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Tech CEOs hauled before Congress again, Theranos is no more, Google mulls big changes to URL’s and maybe the whole the-teens-are-abandoning-Facebook is a real thing after all? Links:Video of the Hearings (The US Senate)Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress. Conservative conspiracy theorists lurked behind them. (The Washington Post)Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (WSJ)HOW GOOGLE CHROME SPENT A DECADE MAKING THE WEB MORE SECURE (Wired)GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL (Wired)Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (PEW Research)Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping (The Verge)Snap launches new styles of Spectacles that look more like traditional sunglasses (The Verge)Vimeo pivots business from media to tech (Axios)Vimeo launches stock video marketplace starting at $79 per clip (Venture Beat)
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Amazon hits a trillion, the EU is giving Netflix quotas, gaming out various Apple rumors ahead of next week’s event and the robots are coming to the drive through window. LinksAmazon falls off $1 trillion market cap, leaving Apple the only public US company above the benchmark (Bloomberg)Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics (Google Cloud)Major cryptocurrency exchange delists Bitcoin Gold following $18M hack (TNW)2018 iPad Pro redesign is both brilliant and stupid (Cult of Mac)Samsung teases foldable smartphone launch for later this year (The Verge)China's Silicon Valley Threatens to Swallow Up Hong Kong (Bloomberg)Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants (TechCrunch)
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How those iPhone leaks happened (maybe), the scooter permits happened and some big names got snubbed, Google’s secret deal with MasterCard, and the weekend long reads suggestions. Links:Exclusive: This is ‘iPhone XS’ — design, larger version, and gold colors confirmed (9to5Mac)Exclusive: Apple Watch Series 4 revealed — massive display, dense watch face, more (9to5Mac)Huawei’s AI Cube is a 4G router and Alexa speaker, not a cube (The Verge)Huawei's Google Home clone has Alexa inside (Engadget)Scooters will return to San Francisco, but Bird and Lime aren’t invited (The Verge)Mozilla announces Firefox will block trackers by default (Venture Beat)Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales (Bloomberg) The Betterment Weekend Longreads:Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code (The Guardian)Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media (The Guardian)How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle (Bloomberg Businessweek)The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (The New Yorker)
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An Apple acquisition suggests they’re serious about AR, Uber is serious about escooters, Google lets Kubernetes leave the nest, your IP address is not enough to finger you for a crime, and a fully functional Bugatti made out of Legos. Links:Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses (Reuters)Apple’s AR lenses purchase also sees future mobile storage (ComputerWorld)Google takes a step back from running the Kubernetes development infrastructure (TechCrunch)Uber Is Building Its Own Scooter to Compete in Frenzy (Bloomberg)Microsoft Requires Paid Parental Leave for Subcontractors (Bloomberg)Important Appeals Court Ruling States Clearly That Merely Having An IP Address Is Insufficient For Infringement Claims (TechDirt)FIRST EVER LIFE-SIZE AND DRIVABLE LEGO® TECHNIC BUGATTI CHIRON IS A PIONEERING PIECE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN (Lego)
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A bunch of new laptops from Dell, Amazon might jump into the free tv game, Google updates Wear OS, and why the world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in plain site since 1995. Links:Dell tempts Pixelbook lovers with premium $599 Inspiron Chromebook 14 (ArsTechnica)Dell shows its fall lineup of Alexa-ready Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro laptops and 2-in-1s (VentureBeat)Amazon Plans New Video App, Latest Step Into TV Ad Market (The Information)Google is revamping the Wear OS smartwatch user interface (TheVerge)The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money (Recode)'World Computer' Project Dfinity Raises $102 Million (Fortune)The rise of crypto in higher education (Coinbase Reports)The Hot New Subject on Campus? It's Blockchain (Fortune)The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 (Motherboard)
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President Trump accuses Google of rigged search results, Instagram updates its identity systems, Yahoo scans your mail for marketing purposes, BuzzFeed tests memberships and the rarest Apple device in the world comes to auction. Links:You can now apply to be verified in Instagram (The Verge)Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers (WSJ)Toyota Investing $500 Million in Uber in Driverless-Car Pact (WSJ)AutoX is using its self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries (TechCrunch)BuzzFeed News quietly tests a membership program (Digiday)Buzzfeed, With Nearly $500M In Funding, Asks For Contributions (Crunchbase News)How ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music (Rolling Stone)First Apple Computer Goes Up For Auction, Expected to Fetch More Than $300,000 (Paleofuture)
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The three new iPhones Mark Gurman says are coming our way, Warren Buffet invests in an Indian tech company, Palmer Luckey pans Magic Leap and why Uber thinks e-scooters are cool. Links:Apple to Embrace iPhone X Design With New Colors, Bigger Screens (Bloomberg)Berkshire Hathaway in talks for a stake in Paytm (Economic Times)Microsoft Announces Xbox All Access (Thurrott.com)Public Bravado, Private Doubts: Inside the Unraveling of Elon Musk’s Tesla Buyout (WSJ)Why Elon Musk Reversed Course on Taking Tesla Private (NYTimes)Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently (Android Central)Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (PalmerLuckey.com)Uber plans shift from cars to bikes for shorter trips (The Financial Times)
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Tech’s version of the five families met today to get on the same page over election security, 23andMe shuts down its API just to be safe, robot puppies, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:Google finds evidence of attack linked to Iran state media (Axios)Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy (Buzzfeed News)Microsoft Hit With U.S. Bribery Probe Over Deals in Hungary (WSJ)23andMe will no longer let app developers read your DNA data (CNBC)The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People (Motherboard) The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:Late to the Driverless Revolution (WSJ)Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job (The Atlantic)THE UNTOLD STORY OF NOTPETYA, THE MOST DEVASTATING CYBERATTACK IN HISTORY (Wired)The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man (The New Republic)Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism (The Atlantic)A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft (Polygon) Bonus Link!Sony Aibo hands-on: An adorable robo-pup that needs training (Engadget)
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Australia bans Chinese telecoms equipment, Microsoft might offer an Xbox subscription that includes the whole console, new DJI drones, Alex Stamos on hacking the 2018 election and the backlash against the “app store tax.” Links:Australia Bars China’s Huawei From Building 5G Wireless Network (NYTimes)'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console (Windows Central)DJI Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 2 Zoom add Hasselblad quality and optical zoom to folding drones (CNET)How the U.S. Has Failed to Protect the 2018 Election--and Four Ways to Protect 2020 (Lawfare)Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’ (Bloomberg)The 30% Tax (Fred Wilson/AVC)
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The fake Russians are back and they’ve brought some fake Iranians with them, Verizon throttles firefighters, Google wants to tell you something good, and day two of the Y Combinator demo days. Links:Sprawling Iranian influence operation globalizes tech’s war on disinformation (The Washington Post)Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire (Ars Technica)Google Assistant's latest feature delivers just the 'good news' (TechCrunch)Walmart takes another jab at Amazon as it begins selling e-books for first time (USA Today)How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions (Pew Research Center)‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Is Having a Hard Time Winning Over True Believers (Bloomberg)All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch)
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Microsoft uncovers more Russian political hacking, a possible MacBook Air successor, Netflix “tests” bypassing the App Store, and are you paying for Amazon’s electricity bill? Links:New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says (NYTimes)Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini (Bloomberg)Netflix Tests Promotional Videos but Users See ‘Commercials’ (NYTimes)Netflix tests a bypass of iTunes billing in 33 markets (TechCrunch)Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 (The Washington Post)Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be (Bloomberg Businessweek)Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)
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Fitbit doubles down on fitness trackers, new EU regulations might be coming for web platforms, Karma is a startup selling excess food, Trip Advisor has its own fake news problem, and are women the most valuable mobile gaming consumers? Links:With Charge 3, Fitbit blurs the smartwatch line (TechCrunch)EU Weighs Regulations For Terrorist Content (Financial Times)‘Minecraft: Education Edition’ comes to iPad, as education features expand to mainstream version of game (GeekWire)Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste (Venture Beat)Farfetch files for IPO to trade on NYSE as FTCH; has nearly 1M active users of its luxury goods marketplace (TechCrunch)Arm Unveils Client CPU Performance Roadmap Through 2020 - Taking Intel Head On (AnAndTech)How TripAdvisor changed travel (The Guardian)Women are 79 percent more likely to spend money on mobile games (The Verge)
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A Google smart speaker with a screen, the crypto mining fad is fading, Silicon Valley has lost a piece of its history, the secret Netflix categories and the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:Google to debut display-equipped AI speaker before holidays (Nikkei Asian Review)APNewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy (The Associated Press)Crypto crash: Despite a strong quarter, Nvidia shares fall on disappointing forecast (SiliconAngle)Wish, an Internet Dollar Store, Struggles to Keep Customers (The Information)Silicon Valley is dismantling a priceless piece of its history (Fast Company)The Netflix ID Bible – Every Category on Netflix (What's on Netflix) The Betterment Weekend Longreads:VIRGIN GALACTIC’S ROCKET MAN (The New Yorker)Inside Evernote’s brain (Fast Company)LET’S ALL GO BACK TO TUMBLR (The Outline)Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? (Bloomberg Businessweek)To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians (Bloomberg)
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Amazon might buy a chain of movie theaters, why the Saudis invest the way they do, Twitter pisses everyone off because… what else is new? And reviews of the Note 9 and Android Pie are in. Links:Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain (Bloomberg)Saudi Arabia Goes High-Tech in Approach to Investing (WSJ)Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter (TechCrunch)Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: A better Note for most of us (Engadget)You Can Really Feel the Samsung Note 9's $1000 Price Tag (Gizmodo)Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: Sleek and new, but too much déjà vu (BGR)ANDROID 9 PIE REVIEW: THE PREDICTIVE OS (The Verge)
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Today, Twitter takes action on Alex Jones, a new Intel chip vulnerability, Alexa and Cortana play nice together, consolidation in podcasting and a “rest and vest” for the ages. Stories from: @AnneMarieSteele, @dseetharaman Tweets: @MattRosoff Links:SPECTRE-LIKE FLAW UNDERMINES INTEL PROCESSORS' MOST SECURE ELEMENT (Wired)After a year's wait, Amazon and Microsoft bring Alexa and Cortana to each other's devices (CNET)OneDrive can now automatically backup your PC’s documents, pictures, and desktop folders (The Verge)Public Radio Networks to Merge in Big Bet on Podcasts (WSJ)Uber’s Losses Mount at Self-Driving Car Unit (The Information)Cash Wildfire Spreads Among Young Tech Companies (Bloomberg)WhatsApp Co-Founder’s ‘Rest and Vest’ Reward From Facebook: $450 Million (WSJ)
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NVIDIA announces its next generation GPUs, Apple wants developers to get SaaS-y, what if we just rebuilt the cable bundle with streaming channels, Tinder founders file suit and is Kevin Durant teaming up with Marc Andreessen? LinksNVIDIA Reveals Next-Gen Turing GPU Architecture (AnandTech)How an invite-only meeting at Apple's luxury loft in New York set the stage for one of the biggest subscription businesses in the world (Business Insider)Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap (NYTimes)Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity are accidentally re-creating cable TV (The Verge)Kevin Durant, Will Smith Top the Lineup for a New Venture-Capital Fund for Black Investors (WSJ)
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Is Google tracking you even when you tell it not to? Big executive departure at Netflix, Elon expounds on taking Telsa private, and how machine learning can identify devs simply by the way they code. Links:Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation (AnAndTech)EVEN ANONYMOUS CODERS LEAVE FINGERPRINTS (Wired)Update on Taking Tesla Private (Tesla)China has outspent the US by $24 billion in 5G technology since 2015, study shows (CNBC)An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss. (Buzzfeed News)Dozens of Vegas slots went offline simultaneously during a hacker convention (Mashable)
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Is Apple’s secret car project back on? Is Elon Musk in trouble with the SEC? How many people use Apple Pay? Is Alexa coming to cars? And the weekend Longreads suggestions. Stories from: @gruber Tweets: @jbarro, @kairyssdal Links:Tesla is now worth less than it was before Elon Musk's $420 tweet (Business Insider)Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla (Daring Fireball)Apple Pay Increasingly Central to iPhone (Loop Ventures)Amazon launches Auto SDK to bring Alexa to more cars (VentureBeat)VCs Are On Track To Make 2018 A Record Year For Unicorns (Crunchbase News) The Betterment Weekend Long Reads Suggestions:Fintech Frenzy: Hype or Reality? A Closer Look at 6 Key Sectors (Fortune)HOW THE SHARED FAMILY COMPUTER PROTECTED US FROM OUR WORST SELVES (The Verge)“The Lean Startup” is an unproductive legend (Quartz)THE STRANGE DAVID AND GOLIATH SAGA OF RADIO FREQUENCIES (Wired)THE ULTRA-PURE, SUPER-SECRET SAND THAT MAKES YOUR PHONE POSSIBLE (Wired)
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The new Galaxy Note 9 is unveiled, New York City caps ride hailing companies, Discord kneecaps Steam—as expected, the continuing saga of Alex Jones and what’s up with Elon Musk now? Links:Samsung Galaxy Note9: Design, specs, features, and pricing (VentureBeat)New York Plans to Cap Uber and Lyft (WSJ)Where’s the Money Coming From, Elon? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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We can actually, finally find out what Magic Leap does, Snap reports earnings, Slack gets ready for war, Patreon is building a patronage empire and why you’re probably getting ripped off if you’re paying for DSL. Links:I TRIED MAGIC LEAP AND SAW A FLAWED GLIMPSE OF MIXED REALITY’S AMAZING POTENTIAL (The Verge)Magic Leap Headset Test Drive: Off Your Phone and Into Your World (WSJ)Magic Leap’s headset is real, but that may not be enough (MIT Technology Review)Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates (TechCrunch)Tinder’s business will double this year to more than $800 million (Recode)Study Shows How Bad Most of the Country Is Getting Ripped Off By Their ISPs (Motherboard)
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Voting via app will be tested during the midterms, Old Bitcoin Money and New Bitcoin money are in a power struggle, the truth about how we use Alexa, and a new combatant joins the fray in the Streaming Video Wars. Links:West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections (CNN Tech)A Culture War Is Brewing Between Bitcoin’s Old and New Money (Bloomberg)Wall Street isn’t boosting bitcoin (Quartz)Twitter says Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts don't violate policy, will remain live for now (CNBC)The Reality Behind Voice Shopping Hype (The Information)Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ‘NewTV’ Startup Closes $1 Billion, All Major Studios Among Investors (Variety)Cloudflare Stream makes it easy (and cheap) for developers to work with video (TNW)Airbnb for Work claims 700,000 businesses as bookings tripled for second year in a row (VentureBeat)
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Nearly every major tech platform bans Alex Jones to one degree or another, does Facebook really want to know your bank balance, MoviePass comes with another subscription pivot, Apple’s plans for India and why $1,000 smartphones might only be the beginning. Links:Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones (The Guardian)Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users (WSJ)Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google (TechCrunch)MoviePass Abandons Price Hike, But Will Limit Films to Three a Month (Variety)iPhone Chipmaker Races to Recover After Crippling Computer Virus (Bloomberg)Here’s Apple’s Plan to Keep From Losing the World’s Fastest-Growing Smartphone Market (Bloomberg Businessweek)Why iPhone and Android phone prices will get even higher (CNET)
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Fortnite snubs Google, Amazon Prime Video is coming to Comcast, Peloton raises a ton, the top ten programming languages of 2018 and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Epic Games sidesteps the Play Store with Fortnite for Android launch (TechCrunch)Ready, Aim, Hire a ‘Fortnite’ Coach: Parents Enlist Videogame Tutors for Their Children (WSJ)Google Maps location sharing shows your contact's battery level (Android Police)The 2018 Top Programming Languages (IEEE Spectrum) The Betterment.com/ride Weekend Longreads:How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can (NYTimes)Why the Next Silicon Valley Will Probably Be Outside the U.S. (Citylab)Masayoshi Son’s secret to running his $100 billion fund: Telling start-ups to treat each other like family (CNBC)What Happened to General Magic? (NYMag/SelectAll)Growing Up Jobs (Vanity Fair)
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Apple hits a trillion, a midwestern unicorn cashes in, the Surface Go reviews are in, there are no perfect tools for making memes, and Tesla is adding video games to its cars. Links:Cisco to acquire Ann Arbor-based Duo Security in $2.35 billion deal (Crain's Detroit Business)Surface Go review: The ideal cheap Windows tablet... almost (Engadget)The tiny Microsoft Surface Go is available now, and it’s an overachiever (The Verge)Microsoft Surface Go review: Barely better than a netbook (Mashable)The Microsoft Surface Go Is Practically Perfect (Gizmodo)RideOS raises $25M to become the traffic control center for self-driving cars (TechCrunch)As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up (The Atlantic)How Software Ate the Point of Sale (The Atlantic)
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Google has a secret plan to return to China, the Apple earnings analysis, Masayoshi Son goes “Brandless” and in praise of microfilm! Links:GOOGLE PLANS TO LAUNCH CENSORED SEARCH ENGINE IN CHINA, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL (The Intercept)Apple tops 300 million paid subscriptions as it reportedly preps new subscription services (Digiday)This No-Brand Startup Won $240 Million to Fight Amazon on Price and Quality (Bloomberg)Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (The Atlantic)
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Facebook reveals fresh election meddling, Galaxy 9s might not be selling well, but Nintendo Switches sure are, and Playstation 4s still are, Uber stops truckin’ and Google Maps will predict which restaurant you’ll like. Stories from: @kerby, @fredwilson Tweets: @LDrogen Links:Smartphone Slowdown Hits Profits at Samsung Electronics (Bloomberg)Sony can't stop making money from PlayStation (Engadget)Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars (TechCrunch)Where Did you Go to School? (Richard Kerby)Where Did You Go To School? (AVC)WhatsApp group calls are rolling out to everyone, but don’t ditch Skype just yet (Android Authority)Google Maps can predict how much you'll like a restaurant (Engadget)
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The king of the bitcoin miners mulls an IPO (not an ICO), the prediction market Augur gets dark, a “Netflix for gadgets” and a “Dallas Cowboys for e-sports” both raise money, advice for Twitter and Facebook, and why autonomous cars need to talk to us. Links:Scoop: Bitcoin Mining Company Bitmain Hit $1.1 Billion in Profits in Q1 2018 (Fortune)The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived (CoinDesk)Grover raises €37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription (TechCrunch)Twitter is prioritizing its network ‘health’ over adding new growth features. Is that the right move? (Recode)Why unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook (TechCrunch)Retailers set sights on Facebook, Google ad revenue (Reuters)The self-driving cars hitting the road in Texas today are unlike any we’ve seen before (The Verge)
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Slack takes out some competitors, Twitter get its own earnings shock, Amazon is just fine, thank you very much, Stripe issues credit cards, MoviePass… still alive at the time of this recording… and the weekend longreads suggestions. Stories from: @neilstrauss, @lmatsakis Tweets: @sparkycollier Links:Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software (Bloomberg)This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business (Recode)Stripe Starts Issuing Credit Cards (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads:Brock Pierce: The Hippie King of Cryptocurrency (Rolling Stone)How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy (The Atlantic)THE 'GUERRILLA' WIKIPEDIA EDITORS WHO COMBAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES (Wired)Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce (Bloomberg)MySpace and the Coding Legacy it Left Behind (Code Academy)
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The Facebook earnings disaster. What else? But also Qualcomm walks away from an acquisition, Amazon’s facial recognition tech seems pretty flawed, and Samsung might have invented unbreakable displays for smartphones! Links:Samsung announces new 'unbreakable' display that survives punishing UL certification (Android Central)
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Another internal Facebook memo leaks, China tells Facebook “not so fast,” Steam battles Discord, why the iPhone can’t compete in China, and a Y2K bug for the new millennium. Links:Departing Facebook Security Officer's Memo: "We Need To Be Willing To Pick Sides" (BuzzFeed News)China Said to Quickly Withdraw Approval for New Facebook Venture (NYTimes)Steam is rolling out its new Discord-like chat features to all users (The Verge)General Motors wants its customers to rent their cars to other people (The Verge)Why the iPhone can’t compete in India (The Verge)Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication (The Guardian)
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Alphabet earnings, Google’s Translation app takes over the world, potentially two new Xbox consoles, Verizon wants to deliver TV over 5G and the thin-and-light laptop revolution has gone too far! Links:Alphabet surges to all-time high as Wall Street says internet giant’s big bets are ‘paying off’ (CNBC)Alphabet’s experimental investments in the future continue to cost it a fortune (The Verge)Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a jaw-dropping fact about its translation app that shows how much money is still sitting on the table (Business Insider)Miles is an app that tracks your every move in exchange for deals and discounts (The Verge)A Few More Details About Microsoft’s Xbox Scarlett Game Streaming Service (Thurrott.com)Verizon Is Seeking Google or Apple as 5G TV Provider (Bloomberg)Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All (Motherboard)
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Susan Fowler Rigetti gets a high profile new job, a Lyft and Uber driver was live-streaming without consent, Samsung takes a big step toward a 5G world, and why is Google Translate spitting out religious prophecies? Links:St. Louis Uber driver has put video of hundreds of passengers online. Most have no idea. (St. Louis Dispatch)$20K in Crypto: The First Bets on Prediction Market Augur Just Paid Out (CoinDesk)Qualcomm's new chips fix a major problem for 5G phones (CNET)Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? (Motherboard)Pinterest nears $1 billion in ad sales and valuation rises as it looks to go public in mid-2019 (CNBC)Consumer startups are dead. Long live consumer startups. (Eric Feng)
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WhatsApp limits forwards, Microsoft announces earnings, emergency alerts on Netflix, grocery chain Kroger throws shade at Amazon Prime Day, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links:WhatsApp will drastically limit forwarding across the globe to stop the spread of fake news, following violence in India and Myanmar (Recode)https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/senate-wants-emergency-alerts-to-go-out-through-netflix-spotify-etc/ (TechCrunch)First Test Drive of the Tesla Model 3 Performance: A Thrilling, Modern Marvel (WSJ) Weekend LongreadsHow ‘Small’ Security Errors Lead to a Security Breach (Alex DeFreese)Robots Are Ready to Shake (and Stir) Up Bars (WSJ)AI Could Make Detecting Autism Easier (The Atlantic)Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon (Bloomberg Businessweek)When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity (The Atlantic)
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Facebook and Zuckerberg address misinformation and censorship, Reddit rolls out live chatrooms, will Fuchsia replace Android, and who is online journalism’s newest savior? Links:Facebook says it will begin removing misinformation that leads to violence (The Verge)Full transcript: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode (Recode)Mark Zuckerberg clarifies: ‘I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.’ (Recode)REDDIT REINVENTS THE CHAT ROOM WITH COMMUNITY CHAT (Wired)The European Commission Versus Android (Stretechery)Project ‘Fuchsia’: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android (Bloomberg)Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It works! It actually works! (Ars Technica)
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Google faces a record European fine, Nest gets a major reshuffle inside Google, Walmart guns for Netflix, Venmo transactions can be public, and can cool camera tech destined for smartphones actually improve autonomous vehicles?
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Netflix’s subscriber miss, Amazon’s troubled Prime Day, Walmart and Microsoft team up against Amazon, some big problems with voting machines and the big autonomous vehicle startup you’ve probably never heard of. Links:What Netflix's big miss means for the new tech economy (Axios)STRIKES, BOYCOTTS, AND OUTAGES MAR AMAZON PRIME DAY (Wired)Amazon warehouse workers are striking across Europe on Prime Day (The Verge)Andreessen Horowitz Names Connie Chan A General Partner, Ending VC Firm's No-Promotion Policy (Forbes)Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (Motherboard)VC Firm Social Capital Set Out to Fix Capitalism. Now It’s In Turmoil (Bloomberg)Amazon Foes Walmart and Microsoft Deepen Tech Partnership (WSJ)$800 Million Says a Self-Driving Car Looks Like This (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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A Roku wireless speaker, better Uber pickups, Instapaper goes solo, what to expect from the Galaxy S10 and it’s Amazon Prime Day everybody! Links:Wave Uber’s new Spotlight or send canned chats to find your driver (TechCrunch)Airbnb is grappling with how to treat people with criminal convictions (Quartz)A German court ruled you can inherit Facebook content like a letter or a diary (Quartz)Here's what to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S10, including a new feature you won't find on iPhones (Business Insider)Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend (TechCrunch)
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Full Photoshop is coming to iPads, PC sales are growing again, what now for the AT&T/Time Warner merger, what does an unlimited data plan really mean, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Stories from: @imkialikethecar, @ballmatthew Tweets: @renato_mariotti Links:Top of the Morning (Axios)AT&T’s no-good week shows why it may regret its Google envy (Fast Company)Uber begins monitoring U.S. driver background checks continuously (Axios)Unlimited data plans are a mess: here’s how to pick the best one (The Verge) Weekend Longreads:Hell for Elon Musk Is a Midsize Sedan (Bloomberg Businessweek)How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update (The Atlantic)Why Some of Instagram's Biggest Memers Are Locking Their Accounts (The Atlantic)GEORGE HOTZ IS ON A HACKER CRUSADE AGAINST THE ‘SCAM’ OF SELF-DRIVING CARS (The Verge)THE ONLY GOOD ONLINE FANDOM LEFT IS DUNE (The Outline)Netflix Isn’t Being Reckless, It’s Just Playing a Game No One Else Dares (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 3) (Matthew Ball/Redef)
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Surprise MacBook Pro updates, Broadcom goes for Plan B, the fate of Gawker and The Onion, who will be the first to a trillion dollars, and who wants to be the Pixar of VR. Links:APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK PROS HAVE THE LATEST INTEL PROCESSORS AND QUIETER KEYBOARDS (The Verge)Broadcom reaches deal to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash (CNBC)The Race to a Trillion (Above Avalon)
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Facebook faces its first fine from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a look at what Article 13 might do to the web, a juicy new Apple rumor, more hints from Magic Leap, and a look at Alphabet’s “Moonshot” factory. Stories from: @AlecMuffett, @adavies47 Tweets: @joshelman Links:Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)Thread by @AlecMuffett: "Regards Article13, I wrote up a little command-line false-positive emulator; it tests 10 million events with a test (for copyrighted materia […]" #Article13 (Alex Muffett)European Networks Are Joining Forces to Take On Netflix and Amazon (The Hollywood Reporter)INSIDE X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY RACING TO BUILD THE NEXT GOOGLE (Wired)
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Microsoft unveils a new Surface tablet, police can probably still break into iPhones, YouTube fights fake news, the new silicon gold rush, and Netflix makes binging even easier. Links:Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go aims to stand out from iPads or Chromebooks (The Verge)Microsoft's $399 Surface Go is here to nuke Apple's iPad (Mashable)The AI revolution has spawned a new chips arms race (Ars Technica)Netflix Binge-Watching Just Got Even Easier: Now It Automatically Downloads New Episodes To Watch Offline (BuzzFeed)
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Xiaomi’s IPO disappoints, Apple Music gains on Spotify, Amazon’s ad business could be a contender, and why half the members of a popular subreddit are getting banned. Stories from: @mikelaris, @noamscheiber Tweets: @danprimack Links:Shares of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi stumble on their debut, slipping as much as 6% (CNBC)Xiaomi's weak debut signals trouble for upcoming Hong Kong tech listings (Reuters)Apple slices into Spotify’s lead in the US music market (CNBC)High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too (NYTimes)Federal researchers are using data from Waze and Maryland to try to predict road dangers (Washington Post)The Thanos subreddit is gleefully heading for mass slaughter (The Verge)
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Sonos files for an IPO, Netflix sunsets movie reviews, the iPhone is getting new colors, the memes are safe for now, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:MEPs vote to reopen copyright debate over 'censorship' controversy (TechCrunch)Kuo: New 2018 iPhone models to come in gold, grey, white, blue, red and orange colors (9to5Mac)Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog (Bloomberg)Reddit — one of the world's most popular websites — is trying to cash in through advertising (CNBC) Longreads Suggestions:Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s tech empire goes way beyond smartphones (Quartz)SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE HEADED TOWARD AN AI ROADBLOCK (The Verge)How to Make Piles of Money Using Instagram (Bloomberg)Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer (The New Yorker)
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A big problem with Samsung Messages, Dell comes back to the public markets, more machinations in the transportation shuffle, more NSA shenanigans, and the 10th anniversary of the App Store. Links:Dell to Return to Public Markets With Tracking Stock (NYTimes)Alphabet adds to transport bets with scooter deal (FT)N.S.A. Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records (NYTimes)IPO Market Posts Blistering First Half (WSJ)In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped In Favor Of Chinese Startups Over North America (CrunchBase)These are the top iPhone apps of all time (Tech Crunch)“Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel…was disrupted” (Steven Sinofsky)
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Xiaomi’s IPO disappoints, Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up, the state of the ICO market, the weekend long reads suggestions, and the NES is back, baby! Stories from: @panzer, @tomwarren Tweets: @elonmusk Links:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up (TechCrunch)Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email (The Verge)Digital currency sales hit $13.7 billion in first five months of 2018: report (Reuters)The NES Classic is back: here’s where you can pick one up (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions:I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare (The Atlantic)HOW THE STARTUP MENTALITY FAILED KIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO (Wired)Despite Caution Over Cryptocurrency, Investors Are Bullish (NYTimes)The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet (Bloomberg)
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Amazon makes a ton of news including buying into pharmaceutical commerce and creating its own mini-package delivery army, Apple considers one subscription to rule them all, and the long Apple/Samsung war is over. Stories from: @angelicalavito, @jacknicas Tweets: @eugenegu Links:Amazon shakes up drugstore business with deal to buy online pharmacy PillPack (CNBC)Amazon’s new blue crew: Tech giant enlists entrepreneurs to own the ‘last mile,’ delivering packages in Prime vans and uniforms (GeekWire)Apple Eyes Streaming Bundle for TV, Music and News (The Information)Apple and Samsung End Smartphone Patent Wars (NYTimes)Bird CEO Explains Why His Scooter Startup Needed $300 Million (Bloomberg)AT&T more than doubles ‘admin fee’ for every wireless customer (The Verge)Colossal 128TB SD cards could soon be on the way (TNW)
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Google rebrands AdWords and demos Duplex for reporters, Twitter takes steps to fight spam and make your account more secure, Facebook wants to help you avoid spoilers and is Blackberry back with the Key2? Links:Google is retiring the AdWords & DoubleClick brands in a major rebranding aimed at simplification (Search Engine Land)Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing (CNET)Google Duplex really works and testing begins this summer (The Verge)Facebook tests 30-day keyword snoozing to fight spoilers, triggers (TechCrunch)BlackBerry KEY2 review: One of the most unique phones around comes up short of awesome (Android Police)
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Uber gets legal in London, a16z raises a crypto fund, Apple opts for human editors, Fortnite makes bank, and a check-in on the space race. Links:Uber wins the right to keep operating in London (TheVerge)Wi-Fi security is starting to get its biggest upgrade in over a decade (TheVerge)Fortnite is generating more revenue than any other free game ever (ReCode)Intel and the Danger of Integration (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)Steven Sinofsky Tweet Thread on the Above
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New noise cancelling AirPods might be coming, AT&T buys AppNexus, more Trump and Chinese tech rumblings, and what is the future of Benchmark Capital? Links:Apple to Unveil High-End AirPods, Over-Ear Headphones For 2019 (Bloomberg)The US now officially has the world's fastest supercomputer, knocking China off the top spot (TechSport)Is there a next act for one of Silicon Valley’s top investors after Uber? Benchmark and Bill Gurley are about to find out. (ReCode)Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (BuzzFeed) Book Recommendation:eBoys
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The Supreme Court rules on cell phone tracking, YouTube gets channel memberships, Twitter literally smites Smyte, the Elon Musk sabotage saga gets weirder and the weekend longreads suggestions. Stories from: @sarahintampa, @drewharwell Tweets: @mathewi Links:Supreme Court says police can't use your cellphone to track you without a court order (NBC News)Twitter ‘smytes’ customers (TechCrunch)Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media (BuzzFeed) Weekend Longreads:How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback (BuzzFeed)The Legend of Nintendo (Bloomberg)Intel now faces a fight for its future (The Verge)INSIDE THE CRYPTO WORLD'S BIGGEST SCANDAL (Wired)
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Intel’s CEO steps down, an update on Apple’s AirPower wireless charger, a Supreme Court ruling will have a big impact on e-commerce, and Amazon Fire TV Cube reviews. Stories from: @jessiwrites, @chrisvelazco Tweets: @kevinctofel Links: Why Apple’s AirPower Wireless Charger Is Taking So Long to Make (Bloomberg)AMAZON FIRE TV CUBE REVIEW: A SMARTER STREAMING BOX (The Verge)Google turns on ‘Continued Conversation’ in the Google Assistant (Search Engine Land)WHY LYFT IS TRYING TO BECOME THE NEXT SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS (Wired)
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The immigration controversy comes to Silicon Valley, Instagram debuts IGTV, Disney ups its bid for Fox, and a new phone finds a new way around “the notch.” Links:Facebook launches gameshows platform with interactive video (TechCrunch)Oppo’s Find X ditches the notch for pop-up cameras (The Verge)Crypto Exchange Bithumb Halts Withdrawals After $31 Million Hack (CoinDesk)
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Verizon and AT&T stop selling your location data, Google roles out a couple of cool new things, Alexa is coming to your hotel, Elon Musk is worried about sabotage, and how Europe might kill meme culture. Stories from: @jacknicas Tweets: @coryweinberg, @danprimack Links:In China Trade War, Apple Worries It Will Be Collateral Damage (NYTimes)One Year in, Bird Founder Sells Some Shares (The Information)The EU's bizarre war on memes is totally unwinnable (Wired UK)
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Apple upgrades 911 calls—and is taking a case to the Supreme Court—Google invests big time in China, gaming addiction is officially a disorder, and how an Australian telecom company is screwing up the World Cup. Stories from: @stevelevine, @tiffkhsu Tweets: @mhbergen Links:In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish (Axios)Video Game Addiction Tries to Move From Basement to Doctor’s Office (NYTimes)Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die (Bloomberg)SBS to screen World Cup games after Optus fail (Sydney Morning Herald)
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Oprah signs with Apple, but OLEDs aren’t working out for Apple, Netflix has a hidden source for teen comedy hits, the weekend longreads suggestions, and, if you can believe it, William Shatner’s new gig. Stories from: @mochi_wsj, @McLauchlin Links:APPLE’S ORIGINAL CONTENT IS FURTHER ALONG THAN YOU THINK (LoupVentures)Netflix’s latest hit ‘The Kissing Booth’ is a Wattpad success story (TechCrunch)How Batteries Went From Primitive Power to Global Domination (Bloomberg)William Shatner's new enterprise: A solar-powered bitcoin mining farm in southern Illinois (Chicago Tribune) Weekend Longreads Suggestions:The Time Canada Wanted Its Own Internet Because It Thought the US Would Mess It Up (Motherboard)Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy (The Atlantic)HOW THE TRENDIEST GRILLED-CHEESE VENTURE GOT BURNT (Wired)THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RACY MODULE THAT ALMOST RUINED D&D (Wired)
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Apple tries to lock down it’s phones again, Google makes ad targeting more transparent, Microsoft works to replace cashiers with robots… but the robots have already come for middle managers at Amazon, and a plea to help save Metafilter. Stories from: @spencersoper, @viticci, @CamiRusso Links:Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation (MacStories)Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving From the Warehouse to Headquarters (Bloomberg)Making a Killing in Virtual Real Estate (Bloomberg)The Million Dollar Homepage (Wikipedia)SAVE METAFILTER!
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Today was major revamp day. Twitter’s ringing in big changes. Microsoft is putting a new polish on Office. Also: Intel jumps into the GPU game, Bitcoin might have been manipulated, and Fortnite comes to the Nintendo Switch. Stories from: @nathanielpopper, @PatcohenNYT, @ryanshrout Tweets: @hrtbps Links:Intel makes it a three-way race with AMD and Nvidia on graphics chips (Marketwatch)Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (NYTimes)E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation (NYTimes)Fortnite on the Switch is good enough to make Sony’s cross-play policy look even more stupid (The Verge)
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E-scooter valuations explode, Facebook turns in its homework, Microsoft’s next Xbox is coming in 2020, how Netflix is winning, and a dreaded 51% attack explained. Here’s what you missed today in the world of tech. Tweets: @annehelen, @arielbogle Stories: @danprimack, @bdsams Links:Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2 billion valuation (Axios)Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020 (Thurrott.com)The Guy Tapping His Head Meme Explained (NYMag)Inside the Binge Factory (NYMag)Blockchain's Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular (CoinDesk)TED Residency (TED)
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Snapchat Clear Chats and Facebook’s Memories come at social media from different philosophical viewpoints, headlines from the ramp up to E3, new Apple Watch rumors, the scooter economy, and do on-screen fingerprint scanners work well? Stories from: @thesullivan, @345triangle Links:The Apple Watch will get touch-sensitive, solid-state buttons (Fast Company)The Scooter Economy (Stratechery)How to understand the financial levers in your business (TechCrunch)AT&T-Time Warner Ruling Has Dealmakers Bracing (NYTimes)In-display fingerprint sensors are here, and they actually work (The Verge)
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Google’s lays out ethical principles for AI development, Facebook has another privacy issue (again), why the next generation of gaming consoles might be the last, Yahoo Messenger logs off, and the weekend long-reads suggestions. Stories from: @sundarpichai, @terrortola Links:AI at Google: our principles (Google)Can Google keep its promises on building ethical AI? (Engadget)Airbnb says forced to cancel bookings under new Japan law (Asia One)Ubisoft Believes Next Gen Is the Last for Consoles as Microsoft Looks Beyond Platforms (Variety)Chat Wars (N+1) Longreads:‘I can understand about 50 percent of the things you say’: How Congress is struggling to get smart on tech (Washington Post)The Twitter crime mystery that gripped Spain (BBC)Meet the people who still use Myspace: 'It's given me so much joy' (The Guardian)Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' (Digg)Why Aren’t We All Buying Houses on the Internet? (Slate)
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ZTE makes a deal with Uncle Sam, but Google might be in trouble because of Huawei, the new Amazon Fire TV Cube is announced, a new Blackberry phone, a redesigned Lyft app and more Instagram video rumors. Stories from: @stuwoo, @meganrosedickey LinksAfter Scrutinizing Facebook, Congress Turns to Google Deal With Huawei (WSJ)Lyft redesigns rider app to encourage shared rides (TechCrunch)Instagram plans to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub (TechCrunch)For BlackBerry Key2, privacy is (again) a key pitch for comeback (CNET)
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A whole slew of product announcements. New Sonos speakers. A new Motorola smartphone. A new AMD chip. Instagram may soon allow you to post hour-long videos. Plus: why Microsoft sunk a data center off the Scottish coast and why startups keep naming themselves after… people. Stories from: @DMOberhaus, @janinewolfj9, @laforgia_ Links:Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence (NYTimes)Instagram Could Soon Allow Users to Post Long-Form Video (WSJ)Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean (Motherboard)Marcus, Casper, Oscar: Why Startups Are Obsessed With Human Names (Bloomberg)
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Intel releases some anniversary chips, why WhatsApp and Facebook had a falling out, followups from WWDC and analysis of that GitHub acquisition, and some scientists purposely created a psychopathic AI. Stories from: @jameskobielus, @janewakefield Tweets: @pkafka Links:Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem (SiliconAngle)Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders (WSJ)Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI (BBC News)I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)Roko's basilisk (LessWrong)
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Today, it’s all about developers, everything from Apple’s WWDC Keynote, Microsoft buys GitHub in order to court developers. Oh. And a new Facebook data brouhaha. Tweet commentary: @ericlbarnes, @HenrikJoreteg Links:Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion (The Verge)Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends (NYTimes)
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The end of an era in venture capital, the end of Facebook’s trending news feature, what to expect from WWDC next week, some new ARM chips and the weekend longreads suggestions. Stories from: @joshuarothman, @deborahgage, @meliarobin Links:New Arm Cortex-A76 and Mali-G76 target laptop-class performance (Android Authority)Angry Facebook shareholders challenge Zuckerberg over 'corporate dictatorship' (The Guardian)Apple Is Set to Unveil AR Upgrade, Software to Manage iPhone Use (Bloomberg)Apple’s WWDC 2018: iOS 12, macOS, and what else to expect (The Verge)WWDC 2018: What to expect from Apple’s big event (MacWorld) Weekend Longreads:Obama's US Digital Service Survives Trump—Quietly (Wired)The Search for Women Who Want Cybersecurity Careers (WSJ)How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)The Growing Emptiness of the "Star Wars" Universe (The New Yorker)
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A bunch of self driving car news, a bunch of headline making quotes from the Code Conference, a couple new flagship smartphones, and a new Atari gaming console that nobody is quite sure the purpose of. Stories: @Charlie_L_Hall, @richardlai Tweets: @ChengmingAlpert, @dcseifert Links:Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he’s trying to convince Alphabet to put Waymo self-driving cars on the company’s network (Recode)Xiaomi's transparent Mi 8 also does 3D face unlock (Engadget)Atari is crowdfunding a new console, but who is this device actually for? (Polygon)
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The Code Conference brings us Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report and juicy quotes from Evan Spiegel, web publishers find life after Facebook, a new gaming laptop from HP, and how ambulance chasing lawyers can target ads to people in the hospital. Tweets: @simonowens, @agolis Links:Snapchat preps Snapkit platform to bring camera, login to other apps (TechCrunch)Mobile Direct Traffic Eclipses Facebook (Chartbeat)Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis (Recode)Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs (NPR)Glenn's Kickstarter
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Uber adds a panic button, Apple updates HomePod, the Chinese trade war is back on, Facebook gets a month-long timeout, another EU privacy regulation, and less-desirable dogs get better PR. Tweets from from @lcmoser, @heldavidson, @jimwaterson Links:Uber adds a panic button in its app (The Verge)Uber’s Exit From Southeast Asia Upsets Regulators and Drivers (New York Times)Apple’s HomePod Speaker Finally Gets Multi-Room Audio And Stereo Mode (Buzzfeed)Papua New Guinea To Shutdown Facebook (Post Courier)Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next (Vox)Bid to Block Trump's Deal on ZTE Would Have Support, Rubio Says (Bloomberg News)The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law (New York Times)How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes (Buzzfeed)Credits: Special Guest-Host: Glenn Fleishman Produced by @glennf, @brianmcc, and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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European Union privacy restrictions kick in, Tesla settles a suit, Alexa is listening, Essential becomes a misnomer, and San Francisco brakes scooters. Tweets: @bxchen, @ktbenner, @geoffreyfowler, @zeynep, @cathyyoung63, @mccanner Links:Publications block EU readers (New York Times)Google late to update advertisers and ad-tech networks on GDPR changes (Digiday)Tesla settles on auto-pilot (Reuters)Alexa forwards private conversation by couple (KIRO)Amazon’s statement on Alexa recording and forwarding (Recode)Piles of bike-sharing cycles (Atlantic)Long Reads:Instagram has transformed high-school basketball players into starsAn oral history of the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit that’s now 20 years oldHow Facebook monitors for abuse and misuseIn depth on Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne BoleynCredits: Special Guest-Host: Glenn Fleishman Produced by @glennf, @brianmcc, and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook and Twitter label political ads, Apple’s self-driving car efforts fizzle, the DOJ is looking at cryptocurrency manipulation, there’s a PornHub VPN, and StumbleUpon is no more. Stories from: @jacknicas, @mat Links:Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars (NYTimes)Google Buys 20,000 SUVs, Apple Gets Two Dozen VW Vans (Bloomberg)The Techie Town Of San Francisco Gets A New Tower As Houses Remain Scarce (BuzzFeed) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook helps you find a plumber, Apple lets you download your data, Comcast wants to buy 21st Century Fox, why would Amazon ban you, and Bill Gates’ summer reading recommendations. Stories from: @kottke, @LauraStevensWSJ Links:Next Generation iPhone Chips Go Into Production (Bloomberg)HTC Announces U12 Plus With Pressure-Sensitive Buttons and Sides (The Verge)Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns (WSJ) Bill Gates' Summer Reading List Recommendations:Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David ChristianLeonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson.Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler.Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Another chip flaw found, privacy activists turn their attention to Amazon, ZTE might be saved by the Trump Administration, Zuckerberg’s European sojourn is a damp squib, and now you can mute annoying people on Instagram. Stories from: @katienotopoulos, @sarafischer Links:The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica (Slate)Impatient, distracted consumers upend the media landscape (Axios)Overall Q1 US Smartphone Sales Dip 11% YoY, Apple Grows a Record 16% YoY (Counterpoint)Instagram Finally Adds A Mute Button, Saving Countless Friendships (BuzzFeed) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Is the government coming after Big Tech, Microsoft doubles down on voice AI, Lyft joins the e-scooter scramble, the Obamas officially join Netflix, and which smartphone is most likely to shatter? Stories from: @TaylorLorenz, @coryweinberg Tweets: @tanayj, @ibogost Links:Lyft Explores Launching Scooter Service in San Francisco (The Information)Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control (The Atlantic)We Dropped $18,000 Worth of Phones, and These Are the Toughest (and Weakest) (Tomsguide.com) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Today more leakage of your phone’s location data, Fortnite comes to Android, dataplans for seniors’ smartphones, robotic insects, drone sailboats, and the weekend long reads suggestions. Stories from: @briankrebs, @valleyhack Links: Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site (KrebsonSecurity)The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off (University of Washington)This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean (Bloomberg) Longreads Suggestions:Death in the alpine (High Country News)How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign (The Information)Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men’s Dreams (Bloomberg)I Tried to Get an AI to Write This Story (Bloomberg) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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YouTube Music launches next week, Apple too is looking for a major new campus, Mobileye signs a big deal for autonomous car tech and the SEC creates honeypot to teach investors about scammy ICOs. Stories from: @JessConditt, @josephfcox Links:Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (Motherboard)Xbox Adaptive Controller first look: A new, necessary gamepad (Engadget)The Autonomous-Car Company That’s Selling Safety First (Bloomberg)Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud (WSJ)Howeycoins (SEC) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Zuckerberg to testify in Europe, Prime members to get discounts at Whole Foods, low-end tablets possibly coming from Microsoft, a blockchain phone, a connected toothbrush, and all you need to know about the Yanny or Laurel controversy. Stories from: @markgurman, @chrissyfarr Tweets: @backlon, @anindac92 Links:Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices for Prime members in new grocery showdown (Reuters)Microsoft Plans Low-Cost Tablet Line to Rival iPad (Bloomberg)This start-up made connected toothbrushes -- now it aims to overthrow the 'primitive' dental insurance industry (CNBC)Yanny or Laurel? How an Audio Clip Divided the Internet (NYTimes)The True History of 'Yanny' and 'Laurel' (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Everyone says they’re cleaning up their act: Twitter, Facebook, Uber. The Crypto kids crash New York while Coinbase cozies up to Wall Street. The Surface Hub 2 looks pretty sweet, and we might soon be shooting Wikipedia pages to the moon. Stories from: @lorengrush Tweets: @AaronKlein, @marcoarment, @ballmatthew Links:At NYC’s Big Crypto Conference, the Lamborghinis Are Rented and Protests Are Staged (Bloomberg)Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future (The Verge)Tweetstorm about Netflix and "originals" (Matthew Ball)This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Email encryption might be broken, Facebook suspends suspicious apps, why Google employees are resigning in protest, Silicon Valley could benefit from a gambling gold rush, and how Masayoshi Son is disrupting the entire technology world. Stories from: @Danny_Heifetz, @kateconger Tweets from: @F_Kaltheuner, @dcurtis Links:Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (Gizmodo)New HP all-in-one houses Alexa, provides power with wireless charging base (Ars Technica)The Supreme Court Struck Down the Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling. Here’s What Could Happen Next. (The Ringer)Supreme Court allows states to legalize sports betting, opening floodgates for online gambling profits (TechCrunch)The impact of Masayoshi Son’s $100bn tech fund will be profound (The Economist) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Is a Facebook cryptocurrency really possible? Can Snapchat redesign its way back into users' hearts? What's going on at Symantec? Klout strikes out. And the Weekend Longreads. Stories from: @alexeheath, @mekosoff Tweets: @om, @manjusrii, @sfiegerman Links:"It Was Cataclysmic": Can Snapchat Survive Its Redesign? (Vanity Fair)IAB says online advertising grew to $88B last year — more spending than TV (TechCrunch) Longreads:Don't Skype Me: How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against a Beloved Brand (Bloomberg)How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying (The Atlantic)The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia’s Editors From Killing Each Other (WSJ)The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers (Bloomberg)Supercomputers are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting (Ars Technica)
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The suspected Russian Facebook ads are released, a new Apple credit card, why Roku is a quiet powerhouse, Robinhood raises a ton of money, and how your digital assistant might be susceptible to subliminal commands. Stories from: @jank0, @mattlynley Tweets: @ByronTau, @anildash Links:Link to the Russian Facebook ads (House.gov)Goldman Sachs, Apple Team Up on New Credit Card (WSJ)Roku Earnings Beat Expectations as Ads, Services Surpass Hardware Revenue (Variety)Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding round (TechCrunch)Google Grapples With ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech (Bloomberg)Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? (The Verge)Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. (NYTimes)Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (The Flaming Lips) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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A major Facebook executive shakeup, Walmart beats Amazon to Flipkart, Glassdoor gets acquired, one more chance to fight for net neutrality, and a deeper look at how Google’s Duplex technology works. Stories from: @brianstelter Tweets: @pt, @poniewozik Links:Tweet thread about using crypto for social networking (Parker Thompson @pt)Red Alert For Net Neutrality Email Your Senator Form (Do it!)Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (Google AI Blog)FX and New York Times partner for new series 'The Weekly' (CNN/Money) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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The highlights from Google I/O, Microsoft gives developers 95%, possible encrypted Twitter DMs, the NYSE wants to trade bitcoin, and Uber unveils its flying car. Stories from: @nathanielpopper, @tonyromm Tweets: @puiwingtam, @bzamayo Links:Link to the video of the full I/O keynoteBest video I could find (in a rush) of the Duplex DemoTwitter has an unlaunched ‘Secret’ encrypted messages feature (TechCrunch)Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency (NYTimes)Uber shows its flying car prototype, which looks like a giant drone (CNBC) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Highlights from Microsoft's Build conference, a preview of Google's I/O conference, you might soon be able to add music to your Instagram Stories, who's ahead in the autonomous car race, and the iMac at twenty. Stories from: @backlon, @nickstatt Links:Nadella's Microsoft (The Verge)Eight things to expect at Google I/O 2018 (The Verge)Who’s Winning the Self-Driving Car Race? (Bloomberg)Why 'Stories' Took Over Your Smartphone (The Atlantic) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Would you pay for a Facebook subscription? Would you pay for Facebook satellite internet? Instagram adds native payments, Warren Buffett doubles down on Apple, the weekend longreads suggestions and plenty more. Stories from: @NellieBowles, @beckyquick Jokes from: @behindyourback Links:Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option (Bloomberg)Facebook May Have Secret Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet (ieee spectrum)Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce (TechCrunch)Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought a stunning 75 million Apple shares in first quarter (CNBC)Why Regulators Should Approve the T-Mobile/Sprint Deal (Tech.pinions)The ‘Race to 5G’ Is Just Mindless Marketing BS (Motherboard) Longreads:‘Hi, It’s Amazon Calling. Here’s What We Don’t Like in Your City.’ (WSJ)Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category (Inc)All We Want to Do Is Watch Each Other Play Video Games (NYTimes)CoinTalk (podcast) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Xiaomi files for a monster IPO, Cambridge Analytica might not be dead after all, a whole bunch of news in the digital assistant space, NPR buys a podcast app, and how Stories have eaten social networking. Stories from: @oneunderscore__ , @JoshConstine Tweets: @rycrist Links:How Xiaomi Went From Has-Been to World's Biggest IPO in Years (Bloomberg)Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what? (TechCrunch) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook’s AI announcements from F8, LG announces G7 ThinQ, Apple earnings analysis, Snap earnings analysis, the Pentagon blocks the sale of Chinese phones, and can AI predict the next Avengers: Infinity War? Stories from: @ashleyrcarman, @DanielEran Tweets from: @BenedictEvans, @lexnfx Links:Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy (WSJ)Telegram Messaging App Scraps Plans for Public Coin Offering (WSJ)LG’s G7 ThinQ preserves the headphone jack and introduces a notch (The Verge)Pandora Learns the Cost of Ads, and of Subscriptions (Wired)Over 30? You're Too Old For Tech Jobs In China (Bloomberg)Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War? (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple's earnings numbers, all of the announcements from Facebook's F8 conference, a WhatsApp co-founder leaves, publishers criticize Google over GDPR, and will Comcast only give you faster internet speeds if you subscribe to cable TV? Stories from: @lizzadwoskin Tweets: @anildash, @johnbattelle, @jason_kint Links:Mark Zuckerberg Says it Will Take 3 Years to Fix Facebook (Wired)WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook (Washington Post)Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service (Ars Technica) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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The T-Mobile/Sprint merger, Fitbit wants to share health data with doctors, Oculus wants virtual reality theater, Galaxy S9s get a storage boost, and did Jeff Bezos become a billionaire simply because he wanted to live in space? Links:As controversy swirls, Facebook dials down the swagger on its developer conference (The Verge)Oculus wants to make immersive virtual theater a reality (CNET)Jeff Bezos reveals what it’s like to build an empire and become the richest man in the world — and why he's willing to spend $1 billion a year to fund the most important mission of his life (Business Insider) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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The Price of Amazon Prime is going up, Apple's AirPort is going away, Square buys Weebly, A DNA site might have cracked the Golden State Killer case, will T-Mobile and Sprint finally tie the knot, is Apple working on an AR/VR headset, and the weekend longreads. Stories: @matthew_d_green, @reneritchie Tweets: @jrichlive, @mattmcgee Links:RIP AirPort Base Stations: Why Apple is exiting the Wi-Fi router business (iMore)Apple’s working on a powerful, wireless headset for both AR, VR (CNET)GEDmatch, a tiny DNA analysis firm, was key for Golden State Killer case (Ars Technica)A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal (Matthew Green) Weekend Longreads:Inside Jeff Bezos’s DC Life (Washingtonian)Hulu Beyond 'Handmaid's Tale': Execs and Stars on a Promising Yet Uncertain Future (The Hollywood Reporter)Can Silicon Valley Get You Pregnant? (Fast Company)You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators (Quartz) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer
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It’s an earnings bonanza! Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook… and what might Samsung’s earnings mean for Apple’s? Also, new Snapchat Spectacles, a look behind the scenes at Nintendo, a possible Sonos IPO and Digg finds a new home. Stories from: @maureenmfarrell, @CaseyNewton Tweets: @lexnfx Links:Snap’s second-generation Spectacles are more grown up — and more expensive (The Verge)Inside Nintendo's secretive creative process (The Guardian)Sonos Prepares for IPO as Soon as June (WSJ) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook earnings, Twitter earnings, the Gmail redesign arrives, Alexa for children, a possible solution for law enforcement accessing encrypted phones, and drones are helping first responders in Europe. Stories from: @mm_maack and @StevenLevy Links:DJI launches a new emergency drone program in Europe (TNW)Cracking the Crypto War (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Amazon now delivers to your car, Spotify updates its app for free users, a wrap up of Alphabet’s earnings, jailbreak-able Nintendo Switches, and Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpelès breaks his silence. Stories from: @ShiraOvide, @KyleOrl, @jenwieczner Links:Google's Writing Checks and Trusts Investors Won’t Bounce (Bloomberg)The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable (Ars Technica)Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin’s Biggest Villain (Fortune) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Alphabet's Q1 earnings, Amazon's working on a domestic robot, Aleksandr Kogan says he worked more closely with Facebook than has been reported, spies—like us—fear digital tracking, and the state of the music industry. Stories:Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots (Bloomberg)Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Aleksandr Kogan Wants You To Know He’s Not A Russian Spy (BuzzFeed)Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (WSJ)CIA agents in 'about 30 countries' being tracked by technology, top official says (CNN)Global Recorded Music Revenues Grew By $1.4 Billion in 2017 (Music Industry Blog) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Google brands its replacement for SMS as "Chat," Apple can’t quit Samsung…yet, people are worried about MoviePass, digital design pioneer Susan Kare is honored, the weekend long reads suggestions, and Do Not Disturb While Driving might be having an impact. Stories from: @LangeAlexandra, @backlon, @emiliapetrarca Tweets: @waltmossberg Links:Exclusive: Chat is Google's Next Big Fix for Android's Messaging Mess (The Verge)Apple Can’t Cut Its Dependence on Rival Samsung’s Screens (WSJ)The Woman Who Gave The Macintosh a Smile (The New Yorker)Phone use while driving is still a huge problem, but this is helping (SlashGear) LongReads:Style is an Algorithm (Racked)Everything We Know About the Feud Between These Two Computer-Generated Instagram Influencers (The Cut)Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power (WSJ)The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing Pioneer (NYMag)Can This Man Help Uber Recover From The Travis Kalanick Era? (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Amazon Prime tops 100 million subscribers, clarifying Facebook’s GDPR compliance, Netflix has mobile previews, what metrics show that is Reddit bigger than Facebook, and will you soon be able to letter in eSports? Stories from: @David_Ingram, @aatilley Links:Amazon CEO Shareholder Letter (SEC)Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law (Reuters)Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips (Bloomberg)Intel Plans to Shut Down Smart Glasses Group (The Information)PlayVS wants every high school to have an esports team (TechCrunch) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook rolls out better privacy tools globally, Amazon and Best Buy partner to sell TVs, the IRS suffered from a terribly timed outage, YouTube tries to reassure creators, and the great San Francisco scooter debate. Stories:A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes (TechCrunch)Welcome to the Wikipedia for Terms of Service Agreements (Wired)ToSDR.org Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple is readying a new subscription reading app, tech companies pledge not to help governments wage cyberwar, Facebook outlines its web tracking, and Netflix earnings. Tweets: @DaveLeeBBC, @geoffreyfowler Stories:These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database (Forbes)Hard Questions: What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? (Facebook Newsroom) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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US punishes a Chinese cellphone maker, two interesting acquisitions (General Assembly and Earn.com), App Store earnings, original streaming content numbers, and some Android apps might be collecting data from kids. Links:Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of U.S. Viewing, Study Finds (Variety)How We Need to Remake the Internet (TED) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Is Telegram the new refuge for pirated content, more police departments buy a device to unlock iPhones, Chinese cops use facial recognition to pick criminals out of crowds, more leaks of upcoming Gmail features, the long reads suggestions, and how Instagram might be making poetry popular again. Stories:Telegram is the Hot New Source for Pirated Content (The Outline)Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show (Motherboard) LongReads:Web apps are only getting better (The Verge)In pursuit of the perfect AI voice (Engadget)Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a Challenger (WSJ)Arcade fame turns to infamy as Billy Mitchell's record-setting Donkey Kong score is invalidated (TechCrunch) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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ESPN goes over-the-top, Apple’s Home Pod is reportedly “stumbling,” a final wrap-up of the Zuckerberg testimony, Snap testing commerce, and an AI doctor can diagnose on its own. Stories:How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You (Wired)The Facebook Current (Stratechery)The Most Important Exchange of the Zuckerberg Hearing (The Atlantic)I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. (NYTimes)AI software that helps doctors diagnose like specialists is approved by FDA (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Zuckerberg’s back on the hot seat, Spotify and Hulu have a new bundle, changes might be coming to Gmail, we might have new Spectacles soon, and Uber adds a car rental option. Stories from: @KaleighRogers, @sarahjeong Links:Four Questions Congress Should Ask Mark Zuckerberg (Wired)Let’s Talk About Mark Zuckerberg’s Claim that Facebook 'Doesn’t Sell Data' (Motherboard)Here's How Much Facebook Donated to Every Lawmaker Questioning Mark Zuckerberg this Week (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington, taking the temperature of Facebook employees, a fake Black Lives Matter page, YouTube videos vandalized, an Instagram portrait mode, and a museum of lost sounds. Stories from: @georgia_wells, @dseetharaman Tweets: @marshallk, @cwarzel Links:Some Facebook Workers Feel Outrage Is Misplaced (WSJ)Bots in the Twittersphere (Pew Research)Conserve the Sound Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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A new (PRODUCT)RED iPhone, Uber gets into bike sharing, Zuckerberg crams for Congress, an open source AR headset, and why phishing attacks work. Stories:Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company (Recode)17 percent of employees fall for social engineering attacks (betanews) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook labels political ads, cryptocurrencies might run afoul of GDPR, SpaceX can’t post videos from space, bots help you beat parking tickets, the weekend longreads and what’s the story behind Fortnite? Stories and Longreads:Lawyer bots take the hassle out of fighting parking tickets and property taxes — and could cost local governments real revenue (Recode)How Europe’s new privacy rule is reshaping the internet (The Verge)Checking in with the Facebook fact-checking partnership (Columbia Journalism Review)A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers A New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins (Wired)South Korean millennials are reeling from the Bitcoin bust (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Zuckerberg’s Q&A with reporters, possible social media regulations, Trump may hate Amazon but Uncle Sam seems to love ‘em, a dreaded 51% attack in crypto, and a new home for Moviefone. Stories:How the Government Could Fix Facebook (The Atlantic) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Everything we know about yesterday’s shooting incident at YouTube, rumors of iphones with curved glass, Zuckerberg’s going to testify to congress, Apple poaches Google’s AI chief, and a smart piece about social media overload. Stories from: @markgurman and @BenedictEvans Links:Apple Working on Touchless Control and Curved iPhone Screen (Bloomberg)The death of the newsfeed (Benedict Evans) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Spotify debuts on the stock market, but it needs to depend less on record labels, Trump seems serious about Amazon, your favorite messaging app is changing, Panera has a data leak and Swedes turn against a cash-free future. Links:Spotify relies on the big labels for most of its music. It thinks that will change. (Recode)“Trump is Like, ‘How Can I F--k With Him?’”: Trump’s War With Amazon (And the Washington Post) is Personal (Vanity Fair)No Sympathy for Amazon (The New Republic) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Is Apple replacing Intel’s chips? Is Grindr leaking users’ HIV status? Cloudflare wants to protect your browsing privacy, Zuckerberg gives a longer interview, Macron talks AI, a profile of Amazon’s headquarters search and how many tv viewers are going over the top? Links:Zuckerberg interview with Ezra Klein (The Ezra Klein Show)EMMANUEL MACRON TALKS TO WIRED ABOUT FRANCE'S AI STRATEGY (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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An internal Facebook memo causes controversy, Under Armour was hacked, SpaceX gets FCC approval for satellite internet, utility companies dream of electric sheep cars, and the weekend long read suggestions. Stories from: @om, @sheelahk and @CaseyNewton Long Reads:At Uber, a New C.E.O. Shifts Gears (New Yorker)Microsoft is ready for a world beyond Windows (The Verge)The Curious Case of the Belkin Buy (Om.co)Mozilla's radical open-source move helped rewrite rules of tech (CNET) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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A big re-org at Microsoft, Facebook cuts out third party ad data, iOS 11.3 is out, Trump tweets his “concerns” about Amazon, Atlanta is digitally held hostage and Ripple donates to charity. Tweets from: @tomwarren, @caro_milanesi Stories from: @atbwebb Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Facebook introduces Privacy Shortcuts, Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, Waze launches local ads, Shyp shuts down, video streaming will get faster and there’s more music now than ever! Stories from: @harrymccracken, @NeilShahWSJ Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple's new iPad, Arizona bans Uber test cars, Zuckerberg won't talk to Parliament but might talk to Congress, Foxconn buys Belkin, Apple goes to Hollywood, and will the streaming explosion revive piracy? Stories from: @koblin, @KarlBodeLink: Apple Goes to Hollywood. Will Its Story Have a Happy Ending? (New York Times)Link: The Rise In Streaming Video Exclusives Could Annoy Consumers, Driving Them Back To Piracy (TechDirt) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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The first Chrome OS tablet, Uber exits Southeast Asia, Tim Cook thinks Facebook should be regulated, The Fitbit Versa smartwatch, and a billion dollar ATM hacker gang is taken down. Stories from: @thepacketrat, @VranicaWSJ Tweets from: @alexhern Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Low-cost iPads are coming, Dropbox IPOs, touchscreen issues with Galaxy S9s, Craigslist pulls all personal ads, and the weekend long-read suggestions. Long-reads links:How IKEA's future-living lab created an augmented reality hit (WiredUk)My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data (The Atlantic)The Glory that Was Yahoo (Fast Company) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Zuckerberg's interviews analyzed, Instagram updates the feed, IBM accused of age discrimination, early Oculus Go reviews and a wi-fi wine bottle bites the dust. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Zuckerberg speaks out about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Siri will read your hidden messages, Travis Kalanick's new gig, Facebook Messenger's new features, YouTube's increased ad load, Google gobbles Lytro, and everyone wants to work at a tech company. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Google wants to support journalism, more on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica saga, more on the self-driving car fatality, YouTube rolls out a “go live” feature, and scandal rocks the world of HQ Trivia. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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The fallout from the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story summarized, Facebook launches a Patreon, a self-driving car kills a pedestrian and Apple might be making its own screens. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple takes a field trip, a small town bans bitcoin, Rihanna doesn't accept Snapchat's apology, Adobe transforms itself, and Lyft tests subscriptions. Stories from, @DMOberhaus and @oliviasolon; tweet-analysis from @ow Weekend long-read suggestions:'They'll squash you like a bug': how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers (The Guardian)When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible? (MIT Technology Review)The Perfect Selfishness of Mapping Apps (The Atlantic) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple's troubles with Siri, Amazon's had an amazing last three years, but it didn't kill Toys "R" Us, Nest launches a video doorbell, Google answers with no search results, and Drake crashes Twitch. Stories from @ShiraOvide and @rustybrick and tweet analysis from @taralach Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Theranos Charged with Fraud, Google bans crypto ads, YouTube fights conspiracy theories, a startup that wants to kill you, Google Maps for games, and Twitter comes after Snap. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Trump trumps Broadcom, Larry Page and flying taxis, alleged flaws in AMD chips, Spotify playlist payola, checking in with Lyft, ranking tech brands and WWDC dates are announced. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Apple acquires Texture, details on the Dropbox IPO, drone deliveries might be coming soon, Twitter attacks tweetdecking, more on the Broadcom/Qualcomm story, and an interesting story out of the bitcoin world. Here's what happened today in tech. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Waymo joins the self-driving truck party, Twitter wants you to go verify yourself, Snap wants to break even, Facebook streams Major League Baseball, some weekend long-reads, and why that Obama going to Netflix story is a tech story. The long-reads recommendations: Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) The Story of The Internet, As Told By Know Your Meme (TheVerge) This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town (Politico) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Galaxy S9 reviews, Travis Kalanick's new fund, Google wants to AMP the web, most Netflix is watched on TVs, a Star Wars TV show, and yesterday's Alexa laughter led to a lot of Twitter jokes. Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Android P is released to developers, Blackberry sues Facebook, sources speak of possible Snap layoffs, an interesting Peter Thiel interview, and actually, much more.... Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Google adds AI to drones, Uber trucks start hauling cargo, reading the Uber tea leaves, Washington State brings back net neutrality, Bumble bans guns, and Dyson cuts the cord. Literally. Google says it provides TensorFlow APIs to US Dept of Defense to help interpret drone footage, is working on policies and safeguards for use of machine learning Gizmodo Uber begins using its self-driving trucks for some long haul cargo trips in Arizona as part of Uber Freight service, leaving the last stretch to human drivers The VergeNew York TimesYouTube Source: Uber has burned $10.7B total so far, making its losses worse than tech giants when they had same market cap; revenue lags firms with similar market capBloomberg Washington becomes first state to enact its own net neutrality protections as its bill is signed into law; 25+ states have introduced net neutrality billsGeekwireMashable Bumble updates policy to ban firearm images and will use ~5K moderators to remove gun-related content, won't censor images appearing in users' Instagram feedsNew York TimesTechCrunch@jrsalzman Dyson says it's done making corded vacuumsCNET Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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Amazon checking accounts, Apple noise canceling earphones, Google sells Zagat, Facebook posts a cringeworthy user survey, and VCs take a road trip! Sources: Amazon is in talks with big banks including JPMorgan Chase about a checking-account-like product that would appeal to those without bank accountsWall Street JournalNew York Magazine Sources: Apple is planning to launch high-end headphones with noise canceling and wireless pairing as early as end of 2018, but has faced development challengesBloomberg9to5Mac Google is selling US restaurant review guide Zagat, which it bought for $151M in 2011, to restaurant review company The Infatuation for an undisclosed sum New York TimesEater LAEater NY Facebook admits it was a mistake to run a survey this weekend that asked users what its policy should be for when adults ask underage girls for sexual images The GuardianJonathan Haynes TweetsTechCrunch Some VCs say travels outside the Bay Area, including to Midwest, have helped them see downsides of Silicon Valley, as SF faces high levels of outward migration New York Times Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer
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