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Fri. 08/02 - Stop Listening To Me, Siri!
2 augustus 2019 · 19 min
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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Thu. 08/01 - Chips Get Faster, Scooters Get Rugged-er
1 augustus 2019 · 18 min
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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Wed. 07/31 - Apple: What, Me Worry?
31 juli 2019 · 19 min
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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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results (Apple PR)
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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Tue. 07/30 - The Capital One Breach Is A Weird One
30 juli 2019 · 18 min
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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Mon. 07/29 - Google Leaks, So We Don't Have To
29 juli 2019 · 19 min
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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Fri. 07/26 - The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is Approved
26 juli 2019 · 20 min
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)
Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea Books
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Thu. 07/25 - The Galaxy Fold Lives!
25 juli 2019 · 17 min
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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Wed. 07/24 - Is Media Piracy Coming Back?
24 juli 2019 · 21 min
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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Tues. 7/23 - Intel Outside
23 juli 2019 · 17 min
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.
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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)
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Mon. 7/22 - Just the Equifax, Ma'am
22 juli 2019 · 17 min
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.
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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) -
(Bonus) Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
21 juli 2019 · 39 min
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.
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(Bonus) The Moon Landing With Charles Fishman
20 juli 2019 · 38 min
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…
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Fri. 7/19 - This Pentagon Contract Is Not the One You’re Looking For
19 juli 2019 · 17 min
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.
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FiresideLinks:
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)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
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) -
Thurs. 07/18 - Netflix's Numbers Visit the Upside Down
18 juli 2019 · 17 min
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.
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CastroLinks:
Netflix subscription adds disappoint, stock drops (Variety)
DNC warns candidates to stop using FaceApp, citing Russian danger (CNN)
FaceApp developer describes privacy policy (TechCrunch)
Tesla's plans for self-driving cars worry those who know best (Washington Post)
Self-driving cars remains "way in the future" (New York Times)
The 5G Health Hazard That Isn't (New York Times)
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Wed. 07/17 - Neuralink and Boston Dynamics Are Ready For Their Closeup
17 juli 2019 · 19 min
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.
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SVB.com/nextLinks:
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)Get a podcast classified of your own.
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Tue. 07/16 - Who Put The Politics In My Tech?
16 juli 2019 · 18 min
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.
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Senators aren’t sold on Facebook’s Libra project (The Verge)
Highlights from Facebook's Libra Senate hearing (TechCrunch)
Facebook Cryptocurrency Plans Have a Problem: Facebook’s Reputation (NYTimes)
Amazon in EU Crosshairs as Vestager Fights Big Tech to the End (Bloomberg)
Trump threatens to ‘take a look’ at Google for China ties (Washington Post)
Silicon Valley’s Right Wing Is Angry And Punching Back (BuzzFeed News)
Tesla updates pricing and options across lineup, discontinues several variants (Electrek)
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Mon. 07/15 - Don't Naruto-Rush Area 51
15 juli 2019 · 19 min
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!
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FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement (WSJ)
YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge (Bloomberg)
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Plus chip is built for gaming and VR (Engadget)
I-Team: Florida DMV sells your personal information to private companies, marketing firms (ABC Action News)
Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1 billion times (The Verge)
Microsoft Word passes 1 billion installs on Play Store (Android Police)
Who Needs Amazon HQ2? Not New York Real Estate’s Tech Boom (WSJ)
AT&T to auto block fraud robocalls for free, but blocking spam calls will cost extra (ZDNet)
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(Bonus) Is Ecommerce Gonna Kill The Grocery Store? With Joe Fassler
14 juli 2019 · 28 min
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)
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(Bonus) The Superhuman Brouhaha With Mike Davidson
13 juli 2019 · 31 min
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
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Fri. 07/12 - Amazon Developing A High-End Echo Speaker
12 juli 2019 · 17 min
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.
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Amazon Plans High-End Echo, Ramps Up Work on Alexa Home Robot (Bloomberg)
Gartner: PC shipments grew 1.5% in Q2 2019 (VentureBeat)
Ford-VW alliance expands to include autonomous and electric vehicles (The Verge)
Postmates has explored a sale to Uber or DoorDash instead of going public (Recode)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store (The New Food Economy)
Disney Won. Now What? (BuzzFeed News)
You’re Hired. Now Wear This Headset to Learn the Job. (NYTimes)
New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. (Mother Jones)
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Thu. 07/11 - Bird In Trouble Or Turning The Corner?
11 juli 2019 · 16 min
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.
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Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server (TechCrunch)
Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping (TechCrunch)
WHO’S LISTENING WHEN YOU TALK TO YOUR GOOGLE ASSISTANT? (Wired)
OneTrust raised $200M at a $1.3B valuation to help organizations navigate online privacy rules (TechCrunch)
Amazon becomes fastest-growing music steaming service (Financial Times)
Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds (The Information)
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Wed. 07/10 - The New Switch Lite Drops The... "Switching"
10 juli 2019 · 21 min
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.
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Nintendo announces a handheld Nintendo Switch Lite for $199 (TechCrunch)
HBO Max will be the exclusive streaming home of 'Friends' (Engadget)
BET Streaming Service Taps Netflix Alum as Leader (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)
AT&T says it will automatically block robocalls ‘in the coming months’ (The Verge)
Microsoft might crush Slack like Facebook crushed Snapchat (ReCode)
Snapchat announces new shows from Serena Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others (TechCrunch)
Next on Facebook’s Shopping List: Acquisitions to Beef Up Gaming (The Information)
Bill to provide “safe harbor” for crypto fork taxpayers reintroduced in Congress (The Block)Buy a podcast classified ad at ridehome.info/classifieds
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Tue. 07/09 - Apple Culls The MacBook Herd
9 juli 2019 · 16 min
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.
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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)
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Mon. 07/08 - The Rise of the Professional Dungeon Master
8 juli 2019 · 16 min
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.
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FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches (The Washington Post)
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloud․com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas (9to5Mac)
China's Venture Capital Boom Shows Signs of Turning Into a Bust (Bloomberg)
This Chrome extension lets you disguise Netflix as a Hangout to slack off at work (The Verge)
Aircraft lands itself truly autonomously for the first time (Engadget)
A City Paid a Hefty Ransom to Hackers. But Its Pains Are Far From Over. (NYTimes)
Now Some Families Are Hiring Coaches to Help Them Raise Phone-Free Children (NYTimes)
The Rise of the Professional Dungeon Master (Bloomberg Businessweek)Subscribe to the ad-free feed! Right INSIDE your podcast app!
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(Bonus) The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates? (Pt. 2)
7 juli 2019 · 59 min
Part Two of the legendary Gary Kildall Story...
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(Bonus) The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates? (Pt. 1)
6 juli 2019 · 43 min
Part One of the legendary Gary Kildall Story...
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Fri. 07/05 - Apple Waves the White Flag on Keyboards?
5 juli 2019 · 19 min
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.
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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)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
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)Books Recommendations:
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Wed. 07/03 - Why Is Everyone Arguing Over Superhuman?
3 juli 2019 · 17 min
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?
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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)
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Tue. 07/02 - Are ISP Caps the Achilles Heel of Game Streaming?
2 juli 2019 · 15 min
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.
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Samsung confirms next Unpacked event will be Aug. 7 in New York (CNET)
Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, and everyone is confused (Engadget)
Microsoft finally details its plans for Windows 10 19H2 (WindowsCentral)
Nvidia refreshes RTX line: “Super” GPUs add performance at same MSRP (ArsTechnica)
Tim Cook disputes 'absurd' reports about Jony Ive's departure from Apple (NBCNews)
Calm raises $27M to McConaughey you to sleep (TechCrunch)
PlayStation Vue raises prices by $5 per month, following its recent content deals (TechCrunch)
Google Stadia's Data Cap Challenge Will Be Addressed By ISPs, Says Phil Harrison (GameSpot)
Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings (Reuters)The Ad Free Premium Feed Is HERE
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Mon. 07/01 - Was Jony Ive Burned Out AT Apple or BY Apple?
1 juli 2019 · 18 min
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.
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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)
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(Bonus) Bitcoin- What the Heck? With CoinTalk's Aaron Lammer
30 juni 2019 · 32 min
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.
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(Bonus) Silicon Valley and Monopoly With Matt Stoller
29 juni 2019 · 27 min
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?
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Fri. 06/28 - Jony Ive Leaves Apple
28 juni 2019 · 18 min
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.
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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)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
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)Subscribe to the ad-free feed!
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Thu. 06/27 - The Mystery That Is Superhuman
27 juni 2019 · 17 min
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.
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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)Ad-Free Feed!
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Wed. 06/26 - Apple Acquires Drive.ai
26 juni 2019 · 18 min
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.
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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)Subscribe to the ad-free feed!
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Tue. 06/25 - Bill Gates' Biggest Mistake
25 juni 2019 · 19 min
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.
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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)
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Mon. 06/24 - Why Tonight's SpaceX Launch Is So Important
24 juni 2019 · 16 min
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.
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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)Support the show directly! Subscribe to the ad-free feed right in your podcast app!
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(Bonus) E3 Wrapup and the Gaming Space with Brian Heater of TechCrunch
23 juni 2019 · 22 min
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?
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(Bonus) CoinDesk's Brady Dale On Libra and the "Crypto Spring"
22 juni 2019 · 25 min
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?
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Fri. 06/21 - Google Abandons Tablets
21 juni 2019 · 17 min
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.
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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)The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
THEY WELCOMED A ROBOT INTO THEIR FAMILY, NOW THEY’RE MOURNING ITS DEATH (The Verge)
Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Much of Google’s Search Traffic is Left for Anyone But Themselves? (SparkToro)
Don’t Know Which Toaster to Buy? There’s a Website for That. (The Ringer)
Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead (CNet)
The fake French minister in a silicone mask who stole millions (BBC News)Subscribe to the ad-free feed!
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Thu. 06/20 - Slack's (kinda) IPO
20 juni 2019 · 17 min
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
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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)The Blade Itself (The First Law Trilogy): Joe Abercrombie
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Wed. 06/19 - The Fallout From Facebook Coin
19 juni 2019 · 16 min
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.
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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)The Premium Ad-Free Feed!
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Tue. 06/19 – Is Facebook Now in Crypto... or Just Payments?
18 juni 2019 · 18 min
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.
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Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know (TechCrunch)
FACEBOOK’S CALIBRA IS A SECRET WEAPON FOR MONETIZING ITS NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY (The Verge)
Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum (CoinDesk)
There’s a Second Token: A Breakdown of Facebook’s Crypto Economy (CoinDesk)
Amazon's Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for up to $25M to bolster its esports effort (TechCrunch)
China's unmanned store boom ends as quickly as it began (Nikkei Asian Review)
$1 billion for 20,000 Bay Area homes (Google)
Silicon Valley and Los Angeles Real Estate (LA Times)Ad-free Premium Feed!
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Mon. 06/17 – The 5G iPhones Might Be Both Bigger and Smaller
17 juni 2019 · 18 min
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?
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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)Subscribe to the ad-free feed!
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(Bonus) The Business of Content With Simon Owens
16 juni 2019 · 26 min
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.
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(Bonus) Among the Amazon Robots With Matt Simon
15 juni 2019 · 23 min
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
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Fri. 06/14 - Are Foldable Phones Cursed?
14 juni 2019 · 19 min
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.
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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)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews (The Hustle)
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (Ars Technica)
The story of the first E3 (Polygon)
THE NEWEST HAVEN FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES? WYOMING (Wired)
Comcast CEO’s Son Wants to Turn Philly Into an E-Sports Town (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Beyond the PC: Lenovo's ambitious plan for the future of computing (ZDNet)Subscribe to the ad-free feed RIGHT HERE. Right in your podcast app!
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Thu. 06/13 - The Most Interesting Startup I've Heard Of In A While
13 juni 2019 · 17 min
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.
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Telegram faces DDoS attack in China... again (TechCrunch)
NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13 (TechCrunch)
This is Google’s Pixel 4 (The Verge)
Scooter Startup Bird Buys Struggling Competitor Scoot (WSJ)
Ford will test new third-generation self-driving cars in Detroit (The Verge)
Samsung's massive The Wall TV is now available in a 292-inch, 8K luxury version (TechSpot)
Official Breaking Bad mobile game is now available (TechSpot)
Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking (VentureBeat)
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Wed. 06/12 - The DOJ is Telegraphing its Possible Punches to Silicon Valley
12 juni 2019 · 16 min
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.
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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)Premium Feed Link! Subscribe Right Here In Your Podcast App!
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Tue. 06/11 - "Any data that is collected, WILL be breached."
11 juni 2019 · 16 min
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.
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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)