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Friday, December 28 2018 - Why Horizontal Instagram Might Be Inevitable

• 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)

Thursday, December 27 2018 - Mobile Alerts Are Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

• 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)

Wednesday, December 26 2018 - Airbnb and Slack Mull Untraditional IPOs

• 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)

Friday, December 21 2018 - Facebook Goes Crypto

• 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)

Thursday, December 20 2018 - iPhone Bans and iPad Bends

• 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)

Wednesday, December 19 2018 - Something, Something… Another Facebook Scandal

• As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (NYTimes)
• ELON MUSK UNVEILS THE BORING COMPANY’S CAR-FLINGING TUNNEL (Wired)
• Elon Musk unveils his company’s first tunnel in Hawthorne, and it’s not a smooth ride (LA Times)
• Apple tweaks iOS animation in China in attempt to avoid sales ban (The Verge)
• Zwift, which turns indoor cycling workouts into multiplayer games, raises $120M (TechCrunch)
• This free online tool uses AI to quickly remove the background from images (The Verge)
• Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone (Forbes)

Tuesday, December 18 2018 - Has Google Stopped “Dragonfly?”

• GOOGLE’S SECRET CHINA PROJECT “EFFECTIVELY ENDED” AFTER INTERNAL CONFRONTATION (The Intercept)
• Google will make it easier for people without accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents (TechCrunch)
• Facebook still hasn’t launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago (Recode)
• AT&T’s 5G network is live, if you’re in the right city (CNET)
• Audi pulls the curtain back on its self-driving car program (The Verge)
• Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line (WSJ)
• This tank of a phone has lasted me a week on one charge (The Verge)

Monday, December 17 2018 - Actually, It’s Instagram That’s The Problem?

• 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)

Friday, December 14 2018 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiry

• 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 (FT)
• 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)

Thursday, December 13 2018 - Apple Keeps Austin Weird

• 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)

Wednesday, December 12 2018 - Intel’s Next Generation Architecture

• 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)

Tuesday, December 11 2018 - Mr. Pichai Goes to Washington

• 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)

Monday, December 10 2018 - iPhone Sales Banned in China

• 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)

Friday, December 07 2018 - Microsoft Calls for Regulation of AI

• 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)

Thursday, December 06 2018 - Huawai’s CFO Arrested and Stock Markets Quake

• 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)

Wednesday, December 05 2018 - Facebook Gets Docu-dumped by the UK

• 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)

Tuesday, December 04 2018 - Microsoft To Replace Edge with a Chromium Browser

• 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)

Monday, December 03 2018 - Tumblr Bans NSFW… And Dooms Itself?

• Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (The Verge)
• 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)

Friday, November 30 2018 - The Big Marriott/Starwood Data Breach

• 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)

Thursday, November 29 2018 - YouTube Jumps on the Stories Bandwagon

• 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)

Wednesday, November 28 2018 - Google Fi (née Project Fi) Comes to iPhones

• 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)

Tuesday, November 27 2018 - Why Is Shopping On Amazon So Complicated?

• 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)

Monday, November 26 2018 - Apple Visits the Supreme Court

• U.S. top court leans toward allowing Apple App Store antitrust suit (Reuters)
• My Amicus Brief (AVC)
• 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)

Tuesday, November 20 2018 - Worse Shape: Tech Stocks or Crypto?

• 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)

Monday, November 19 2018 - Are iPhone Sales Really Underwhelming (This Time)?

• 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)
• 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)

Friday, November 16 2018 - How Much Money Does Airbnb Make?

• 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)

Thursday, November 15 2018 - The Bombshell NYTimes Story on Facebook

• 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)

Wednesday, November 14 2018 - Why Was Google’s Traffic Diverted From Nigeria Through China?

• 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)

Tuesday, November 13 2018 - LeBron’s “The Decision” But For Amazon HQ2

• 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)

Monday, November 12 2018 - What Exactly Is TikTok?

• 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)

Friday, November 09 2018 - Amazon and Apple Cut a Deal

• 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)

Thursday, November 08 2018 - Foldable Phones Are Officially A Thing

• 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)
• 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)

Wednesday, November 07 2018 - Why Robocalls Have Taken Over Your Phone

• 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)

Tuesday, November 06 2018 - Schrodinger’s Amazon HQ2

• 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)

Monday, November 05 2018 - iPad Pro Reviews Are Mixed

• 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)

Friday, November 02 2018 - Apple Earnings Up, Stock Down

• 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 (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 (WSJ)

Thursday, November 01 2018 - The Google Employee Walkout

• 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)

Wednesday, October 31 2018 - Facebook’s Earnings Are Not a Disaster

• 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)

Tuesday, October 30 2018 - New MacBook Airs, Mac Minis and iPad Pros

• 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)

Monday, October 29 2018 - Big Blue Gets Red Hat

• 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)
• 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 (NYTimes)

Friday, October 26 2018 - AI “Art” Fetches $400,000 at Auction

• 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 (NYTimes)
• 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 (NYTimes)

Thursday, October 25 2018 - The Andy Rubin Scandal

• How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (NYTimes)
• 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)

Wednesday, October 24 2018 - Tim Cook Attacks the “Data Industrial Complex”

• 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)

Tuesday, October 23 2018 - iPhone XR Reviews

• 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)

Monday, October 22 2018 - Fred Wilson Wants You To Vet Your Venture Funders

• 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 (YouTube)
• Google Home Hub review (CNET)
• Google Home Hub review—Awesome hardware for Google’s nascent smart display software (Ars Technica)
• Google Home Hub review: A more personal smart display (Engadget)

Friday, October 19 2018 - Google Wants China, But Will China Want Google?

• Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (FT)
• 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. (NYTimes)
• 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)

Thursday, October 18 2018 - Apple Says: No… Sleep… Till Brooklyn!

• Spotify Premium gets personalized artist radio stations and better search (The Verge)
• Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (TechCrunch)
• 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)

Wednesday, October 17 2018 - When is Cheating At Video Games a Crime?

• 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)

Tuesday, October 16 2018 - RIP Paul Allen (1953-2018)

• 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)

Monday, October 15 2018 - Palm is Back! Sort of…

• 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 (Twitter)

Friday, October 12 2018 - Facebook Reports on its Breach Investigation

• 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)

Thursday, October 11 2018 - F* Everything, We’re Doing 4 Cameras!**

• 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 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)

Wednesday, October 10 2018 - Andy Rubin Can’t Quit Smartphones

• 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)

Tuesday, October 09 2018 - The “Made By Google” Event

• 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)

Monday, October 08 2018 - Google Gets A Data Scandal All Its Own

• 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)

Friday, October 05 2018 - Evan Spiegel’s Plan For Snap’s Survival

• 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)

Thursday, October 04 2018 - Biggest Hardware Hack Ever?

• 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)

Wednesday, October 03 2018 - Presidential Alert

• 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)

Tuesday, October 02 2018 - Choose Your Own Adventure, But For Netflix

• 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)
• 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)

Monday, October 01 2018 - Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan To Save The Web

• 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)

Friday, September 28 2018 - Facebook Breached, Musk Faces A Ban

• 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)

Thursday, September 27 2018 - When You Take Being an Apple Fanboi Too Far

• 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)

Wednesday, September 26 2018 - Facebook Dirty Laundry

• 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)

Tuesday, September 25 2018 - The Instagram Founders Ghost Facebook

• 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)

Monday, September 24 2018 - Office 2019 Is Here

• 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)

Friday, September 21 2018 - Instagram Fighting #hashtagoverload

• 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)

Thursday, September 20 2018 - Alexa For Friggin’ Everything!

• 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)

Wednesday, September 19 2018 - HQ Wants to Play Wheel of Fortune

• 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 (TechCrunch)
• 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)

Tuesday, September 18 2018 - Alexa for Microwaves

• 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)

Monday, September 17 2018 - The Benioffs Buy Time

• 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)

Friday, September 14 2018 - More Drama Inside Google

• 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 (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” (EFF)
• HOW THE WEATHER CHANNEL MADE THAT INSANE STORM SURGE ANIMATION (Wired)

Thursday, September 13 2018 - Where in the World is Larry Page?

• 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)

Wednesday, September 12 2018 - Happy iPhone Day!

• 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)

Tuesday, September 11 2018 - ICOs Now Officially Securities?

• 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)

Monday, September 10 2018 - The End of the Jack Ma Era

• 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)

Friday, September 07 2018 - Today in Elon, the 4:20 Edition

• 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 Thread (Twitter)
• HOW 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)

Thursday, September 06 2018 - More iPhone Event Rumor Bingo

• 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)

Wednesday, September 05 2018 - Another Congressional Apology Tour

• 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)

Tuesday, September 04 2018 - New Trillion-Dollar Baby

• Amazon 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)

Friday, August 31 2018 - Is This How The iPhone Leak Happened?

• 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)

Thursday, August 30 2018 - iGlasses? (Pun Not Intended)

• 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)

Wednesday, August 29 2018 - Updates To Wear OS Hint At…

• Dell tempts Pixelbook lovers with premium $599 Inspiron Chromebook 14 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (The Verge)
• 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)

Tuesday, August 28 2018 - President Googles Himself, Not Pleased With The Results

• 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)

Monday, August 27 2018 - The Three New iPhones to Expect Next Month

• 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 (FT)

Friday, August 24 2018 - Facebook Summons the Five Families

• 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)

Thursday, August 23 2018 - The Backlash Against the “App Store Tax”

• 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)

Wednesday, August 22 2018 - Fake Russians are Back. And Now There Are Fake Iranians Also!

• 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)

Tuesday, August 21 2018 - Netflix “Tests” an End-Run Around iTunes

• 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)

Monday, August 20 2018 - Fitness Trackers Ain’t Dead Yet

• With Charge 3, Fitbit blurs the smartwatch line (TechCrunch)
• EU Weighs Regulations For Terrorist Content (FT)
• ‘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)
• 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)

Friday, August 17 2018 - The Secret Netflix Subcategories

• 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)

Thursday, August 16 2018 - Now Bezos Wants Movie Theaters?

• 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)

Wednesday, August 15 2018 - Alexa and Cortana, BFFs

• 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)
• Cash Wildfire Spreads Among Young Tech Companies (Bloomberg)
• WhatsApp Co-Founder’s ‘Rest and Vest’ Reward From Facebook: $450 Million (WSJ)

Tuesday, August 14 2018 - Is Kevin Durant teaming up with Marc Andreessen?

• NVIDIA 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)

Monday, August 13 2018 - Does Google Track Even When You Say No?

• 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)

Friday, August 10 2018 - Is Apple’s Car Project Back On?

• 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)

Thursday, August 09 2018 - Galaxy Note9 Announced

• 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)

Wednesday, August 08 2018 - The Magic Leap Is Finally A Thing!

• 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)

Tuesday, August 07 2018 - Voting Via App

• 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)

Monday, August 06 2018 - Everyone Bans Alex Jones

• 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)

Friday, August 03 2018 - Is Fortnite Bigger Than Google Play?

• 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)

Thursday, August 02 2018 - Apple Hits A Trillion!

• 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)

Wednesday, August 01 2018 - Is Google Returning To China?

• 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)

Tuesday, July 31 2018 - Facebook Finds More Election “Bad Actors”

• 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)

Monday, July 30 2018 - Self-Driving Cars Need To Talk To Us

• 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)
• 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)

Friday, July 27 2018 - The Dreaded MAU Strikes Again!

• 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)

Thursday, July 26 2018 - The Greatest Loss of Market Value In a Single Day… Ever

• Samsung announces new ‘unbreakable’ display that survives punishing UL certification (Android Central)

Wednesday, July 25 2018 - China to Facebook: Not So Fast!

• 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)

Tuesday, July 24 2018 - Laptops Are Too Thin and Too Light!

• Alphabet surges to all-time high as Wall Street says internet giant’s big bets are ‘paying off’ (CNBC) (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)

Monday, July 23 2018 - Samsung’s Big Step Toward 5G

• 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)

Friday, July 20 2018 - New Tesla is a “Rainbow-Farting Space Ship”

• WhatsApp will drastically limit forwarding across the globe to stop the spread of fake news, following violence in India and Myanmar (Recode)
• First Test Drive of the Tesla Model 3 Performance: A Thrilling, Modern Marvel (WSJ)

Thursday, July 19 2018 - Will Fuchsia Replace Android?

• 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)

Tuesday, July 17 2018 - A Major Autonomous Car Startup You’ve Never Heard Of

• 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)

Monday, July 16 2018 - Instapaper Goes Solo

• 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)

Friday, July 13 2018 - A Big-Boy Photoshop for iPads

• 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)

Thursday, July 12 2018 - New MacBook Pros

• 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)

Wednesday, July 11 2018 - The 2018 X Graduating Class

• Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)
• 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)

Tuesday, July 10 2018 - Netflix Smart Downloads

• 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)

Monday, July 09 2018 - Thanos Did Nothing Wrong!

• 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)

Friday, July 06 2018 - Memes Are Safe! For Now…

• 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)

Tuesday, July 03 2018 - Dell Returns!

• Dell to Return to Public Markets With Tracking Stock (NYTimes) (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 (TechCrunch)
• “Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel…was disrupted” (Steven Sinofsky)

Friday, June 29 2018 - All New Apple Maps

• 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)

Thursday, June 28 2018 - Amazon Kneecaps Walgreens

• 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)

Wednesday, June 27 2018 - AdWords No More

• 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)

Tuesday, June 26 2018 - London’s Uber-ing

• Uber wins the right to keep operating in London (The Verge)
• Wi-Fi security is starting to get its biggest upgrade in over a decade (The Verge)
• Fortnite is generating more revenue than any other free game ever (ReCode)
• Intel and the Danger of Integration (Stratechery)
• Steven Sinofsky Tweet Thread on the Above (Twitter)

Monday, June 25 2018 - Noise-Cancelling AirPods?

• 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)

Friday, June 22 2018 - The Tesla Sabotage Story Gets Weirder?

• 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)

Thursday, June 21 2018 - Whatever Happened to Apple’s AirPower?

• 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)

Wednesday, June 20 2018 - Instagram Debuts IGTV

• 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)

Tuesday, June 19 2018 - Musk Fears Sabotage

• 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)

Monday, June 18 2018 - Apple Upgrades 911 Calls

• 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)

Friday, June 15 2018 - Oprah Signs With Apple

• 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)

Thursday, June 14 2018 - Save Metafilter!

• 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!

Wednesday, June 13 2018 - Major Twitter Changes

• 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)

Tuesday, June 12 2018 - E-Scooters To The Moon!

• 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)

Monday, June 11 2018 - Snapchat Clear Chats and Facebook Memories

• 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)

Friday, June 08 2018 - Google’s 7 Principles for AI

• 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)

Thursday, June 07 2018 - The Fire TV Cube

• After Scrutinizing Facebook, Congress Turns to Google Deal With Huawei (WSJ)
• Instagram plans to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub (TechCrunch)
• For BlackBerry Key2, privacy is (again) a key pitch for comeback (CNET)

Wednesday, June 06 2018 - Hour-long Instagram Videos?

• 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)

Tuesday, June 05 2018 - Intel Says “F— Everything! We’re Doing 28 Cores!”

• 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)

Monday, June 04 2018 - WWDC Highlights

• 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)

Friday, June 01 2018 - What to Expect From WWDC

• 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)

Thursday, May 31 2018 - Self Driving Cars 4 Realz

• 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)

Wednesday, May 30 2018 - Mary Meeker’s Internet Report

• 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

Tuesday, May 29 2018 - Uber Gets a Panic Button and Facebook Gets Paused

• Uber adds a panic button in its app (The Verge)
• Uber’s Exit From Southeast Asia Upsets Regulators and Drivers (NYTimes)
• 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 (NYTimes)
• How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes (Buzzfeed)

Friday, May 25 2018 - Musk Rages and Alexa Listens In

• Publications block EU readers (NYTimes)
• 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)

Thursday, May 24 2018 - Facebook and Twitter Label Political Ads

• 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)

Wednesday, May 23 2018 - Why Might Amazon Ban You?

• 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)

Tuesday, May 22 2018 - Amazon Vs. The ACLU

• 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)

Monday, May 21 2018 - Break Up The Big Tech Companies?

• 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)

Friday, May 18 2018 - Fortnite Comes to Android

• 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)

Thursday, May 17 2018 - YouTube Music

• 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)

Wednesday, May 16 2018 - Yanny vs. Laurel

• 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)

Tuesday, May 15 2018 - Silicon Valley Cleans Up Its Act

• 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)
• This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets (The Verge)

Monday, May 14 2018 - Email Encryption Might Be Broken

• 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)

Friday, May 11 2018 - A Facebook Cryptocurrency?

• “It Was Cataclysmic”: Can Snapchat Survive Its Redesign? (Vanity Fair)
• IAB says online advertising grew to $88B last year — more spending than TV (TechCrunch)

Thursday, May 10 2018 - Sending Secret Messages to Siri

• 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)

Wednesday, May 09 2018 - Facebook’s Executive Shuffle

• 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)

Tuesday, May 08 2018 - Google I/O Highlights

• Link to the video of the full I/O keynote
• Best video I could find (in a rush) of the Duplex Demo (Twitter)
• Twitter 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)

Monday, May 07 2018 - The iMac at Twenty

• 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)

Friday, May 04 2018 - Would You Pay For Facebook?

• 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)

Thursday, May 03 2018 - Xiaomi files for a monster IPO

• How Xiaomi Went From Has-Been to World’s Biggest IPO in Years (Bloomberg)
• Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what? (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 02 2018 - AI Announcements at F8

• 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)

Tuesday, May 01 2018 - Apple Earnings and Facebook’s F8

• 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)

Monday, April 30 2018 - The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

• 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)

Friday, April 27 2018 - DNA Site Cracks the Golden State Killer Case

• 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)

Thursday, April 26 2018 - Snap’s Spectacles 2.0

• 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)

Wednesday, April 25 2018 - The Gmail Revamp

• DJI launches a new emergency drone program in Europe (TNW)
• Cracking the Crypto War (Wired)

Tuesday, April 24 2018 - Amazon Wants to Deliver to… Your Car?

• 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)

Monday, April 23 2018 - Amazon’s Robot For Your Home

• 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)

Friday, April 20 2018 - Google Has a Plan to Supplant SMS

• 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)

Thursday, April 19 2018 - Bezos’ Shareholder Letter

• 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)

Wednesday, April 18 2018 - Amazon and Best Buy Join Forces (for TVs)

• 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

Tuesday, April 17 2018 - Big Changes Coming to Apple News

• 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)

Monday, April 16 2018 - US Punishes a Chinese Cellphone Maker

• Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of U.S. Viewing, Study Finds (Variety)
• How We Need to Remake the Internet (TED)