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Monday, December 30 2019 - The Chinese GPS Is Nigh

• IoT vendor Wyze confirms server leak (ZDNet)
• China decouples from US in space with 2020 ‘GPS’ completion (Nikkei Asian Review)
• SPOTIFY TO SUSPEND POLITICAL ADS IN 2020 (AdAge)
• Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show (TechCrunch)
• The New Unicorns Of 2019 (Crunchbase News)
• Israel doubles number of unicorns in 2019 (Globes)
• Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts (WSJ)

Friday, December 27 2019 - All Hail Baby Yoda!

• YouTube gives creators more control over copyright claim disputes with new update (The Verge)
• New rule would make it possible to track and identify nearly all drones flying in the U.S. (CNBC)
• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise (WSJ)
• Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network (Pro Publica)

Thursday, December 26 2019 - “Peace. Out.”

• Travis Kalanick severs all ties with Uber, departing board and selling all his shares (CNBC)
• Sling TV gets more expensive, raises cheapest subscription price to $30 (The Verge)
• Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round (TechCrunch)
• Pentagon tells military personnel not to use at-home DNA kits (NBC News)
• Livestreams are the new telethons, and they’re raising millions for charities (Washington Post)
• Inside YouTube’s Year of Responsibility (Bloomberg)
• Catalyst and Cohesion (WormsandViruses.com)
• Catalyst, Two Months In (Daring Fireball)

Monday, December 23 2019 - A New Competitor For Tesla?

• It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. (NYTimes)
• U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (Reuters)
• DraftKings going public via reverse merger (Axios)
• Rivian adds $1.3 billion in funding for its electric utility and adventure vehicles (TechCrunch)
• Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Cuts Stake in Company by More Than 90% (WSJ)
• Boeing Starliner Lands in New Mexico After Clock Error Prompts Early Return (NYTimes)
• Starliner makes a safe landing—now NASA faces some big decisions (Ars Technica)

Friday, December 20 2019 - Now Apple Joins The Space Race?

• Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices (Bloomberg)
• Google buys triple-A game dev Typhoon Studio to beef up Stadia (VentureBeat)
• Care.com shares surge after Barry Diller’s IAC agrees to buy online caregiver marketplace (CNBC)
• Ripple Raises $200 Million as Part of Bid for XRP Adoption (Fortune)
• Robocall fines rise to $10,000 per call under newly passed law (The Verge)
• Labels & Publishers Win $1 Billion Piracy Lawsuit Against Cox Communications (Billboard)

Thursday, December 19 2019 - What If Apple Owned James Bond?

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy (NYTimes)
• Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census (Washington Post)
• To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware (The Information)
• Apple Held Preliminary Talks With Pac-12 Conference, MGM (WSJ)
• Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to revive social music discovery (TechCrunch)
• A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California (LA Times)
• TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $3 Billion Deal (Variety)
• Puma’s first ‘active gaming footwear’ is a sock (Engadget)

Wednesday, December 18 2019 - Did Google Almost “Rage Quit” the Cloud?

• Apple, Google and Amazon are cooperating to make your home gadgets talk to each other (CNBC)
• We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful (Motherboard)
• Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (The Information)
• Cord cutters, you can finally stream your PBS stations online – on YouTube TV (USA Today)
• Virtual product placement is coming for TV and movies and Ryff has raised cash to put it there (TechCrunch)
• Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work (The Guardian)
• A Letter From Gary Larson (TheFarSide.com)
• The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Gift-Wrapping Trick. Here’s the Secret. (Popular Mechanics)
• The Gift Wrapping Video (Twitter)

Tuesday, December 17 2019 - Alexa Is A Hit, But Is It A Business?

• Google accused of firing another worker in union-busting drive (Engadget)
• Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments (WSJ)
• Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa (The Information)
• Amazon Brings in $1.4 Million in 2019 of Alexa Skill Revenue So Far — Well Short of the $5.5 Million Target According to The Information (Voicebot.ai)
• Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions (Winbuzzer)
• A Look Back At the Top Apps & Games of the Decade (App Annie)
• Controversial sale of .org domain manager faces review at ICANN (Ars Technica)
• Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings (The Guardian)

Monday, December 16 2019 - Give Us A Name For $100MM AAR Startups!

• Google pauses Chrome 79 rollout on Android after bug wipes data in some apps (Android Police)
• Watch out, UPS. Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is already delivering half of its packages (CNBC)
• Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver (Fast Company)
• Argo takes different road to skirt self-driving challenges (Reuters)
• The falling price of a TV set is the story of the American economy (The Outline)
• The newest members of the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)
• Zero-to-100 Million in 3 Years (Lemonade Blog)
• Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music? (Rolling Stone)

Friday, December 13 2019 - The Next-Gen Xbox

• Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 (The Verge)
• Apple Buys U.K. Startup to Improve iPhone Picture Taking (Bloomberg)
• Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit (The Verge)
• Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View (CNET)
• Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It’s Under Siege (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Thursday, December 12 2019 - Maybe Just Throw A Dart, Seed Investors…

• FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact (WSJ)
• Google is bringing spam detection and verified business messaging to Messages (The Verge)
• Interpreter, Google’s real-time translator, comes to mobile (TechCrunch)
• Bill.com’s Stock Takes Off On IPO Day (Forbes)
• AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach (The Verge)
• Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals (AngelList Blog)
• Bluesky early thoughts (Sriramk.com)
• Hey @Jack Dorsey, decentralizing Twitter won’t solve hate speech problems (Digital Trends)
• Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air (Motherboard)
• Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom (Forbes)

Wednesday, December 11 2019 - @Jack Wants to Decentralize Social Media

• The Bluesky Thread (@jack)
• YouTube Will Ban Videos That “Maliciously Insult” People Based On Race, Gender, Or Sexual Orientation (Buzzfeed News)
• Apple’s Pro Display XDR With Nano-Texture Can Only Be Cleaned With Special Apple-Provided Cloth (MacRumors)
• Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029 (AnandTech)
• Chrome 79 released with tab freezing, back-forward caching, and loads of security features (ZDNet)
• Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’ List (Bloomberg)
• Big Tech Is Under Attack, and Investors Couldn’t Care Less (NYTimes)

Tuesday, December 10 2019 - Wheels For Your Mac Pro Are $400 Extra

• Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia (The Register)
• Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market (The Information)
• Apple Cards’ interest-free iPhone installment plan goes live, now with 6% back on Apple holiday purchases (TechCrunch)
• SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company (WSJ)
• Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux (VentureBeat)
• Mac Pro Build to Order Options (MacRumors)
• VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo (TechCrunch)
• Robotic exoskeletons: Coming to a factory, warehouse or army near you, soon (ZDNet)

Friday, December 06 2019 - The Future of the iPhone is NO Ports?

• Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year (NYTimes)
• Samsung to Take on iPhone’s Popularity With Big Camera Overhaul (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: Apple to Launch ‘Completely Wireless’ iPhone Without Lightning Connector and ‘iPhone SE 2 Plus’ With Touch ID Power Button in 2021 (MacRumors)
• 5G and face tracking: The weird future of VR headsets like Oculus Quest and HoloLens (CNET)
• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8c and 7c processors will power cheaper ARM laptops (The Verge)
• Spotify Year In Review Thread (@baekdal)

Thursday, December 05 2019 - Why The New Snapdragon Chips Don’t Have Integrated 5G

• Amazon Faces Widening U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny in Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 and 765(G): 5G For All in 2020, All The Details (AnandTech)
• Sources: Microsoft Is Still Planning A Cheaper, Disc-Less Next-Gen Xbox (Kotaku)
• Slack Raises Outlook After Winning New Corporate Customers (WSJ)
• 300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app (TechCrunch)
• Red Flags for Robinhood (Fortune)
• Craigslist Finally Gets an Official App (Gizmodo)

Wednesday, December 04 2019 - Larry and Sergey Into The Sunset

• A letter from Larry and Sergey (The Keyword)
• GOOGLE’S THIRD ERA (The Verge)
• Plex launches a free, ad-supported streaming service in over 200 countries (TechCrunch)
• With Outposts, Local Zones, and Verizon, AWS looks beyond the cloud (Mostly Cloudy)
• YouTube says viewers are spending less time watching conspiracy videos. But many still do. (The Washington Post)
• Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads (Reuters)
• Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 (TechCrunch)
• Subreddit That Hates on ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Popular TV Subreddit of 2019 (The Wrap)

Tuesday, December 03 2019 - Pablo Escobar’s Brother’s Smartphone

• AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet)
• AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch)
• Trump Administration Proposes Tariffs Against $2.4 Billion of French Goods (WSJ)
• Former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing labor charges against the company (Vox)
• Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
• TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org)
• TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge)
• DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes)
• Pablo Escobar’s Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With… an ‘Unbreakable’ Foldable Phone? (Gizmodo)

Monday, December 02 2019 - When An E-Sports Team IPO’s

• T-Mobile launches 600MHz 5G across the US, but no one can use it until December 6th (The Verge)
• 4 new iPhones could have 5G in 2020, but not the same kind of 5G (Mashable)
• Google and Facebook run into more trouble over data in Europe (CNN Business)
• Driving Innovation in Data Portability with a New Photo Transfer Tool (Facebook Newsroom)
• Black Friday sees record $7.4B in online sales, $2.9B spent using smartphones (TechCrunch)
• Now even the FBI is warning about your smart TV’s security (TechCrunch)
• Amazon debuts automatic speech recognition service, Amazon Transcribe Medical (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s kooky new keyboard lets humans and AI write music together (Fast Company)
• Counter-Strike World Champions Aim for First Esport Team IPO (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, November 26 2019 - Amazon Prime Cuts

• Google fires four workers, including one tied to protests (Bloomberg)
• Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees (the Atlantic)
• Amazon’s Own Numbers Reveal Staggering Injury Rates at Staten Island Warehouse (Gizmodo)
• Grass-roots activists on Amazon’s power coalesce (NYTimes)
• Amazon costs Southern California big time in public assistance for its workers, environmental and transportation impact (Economic Roundtable)
• California DMV makes $50 million a year selling personal information (Vice)
• Rev Transcribers Hate the Low Pay, But the Disturbing Recordings Are Even Worse (The Verge)
• Facebook pays people to take surveys (Engadget)
• Zuck talks to old white men (Bloomberg)
• TikTok suspended a teen who posted a viral takedown of China disguised as a makeup tutorial (Business Insider)
• The Texas Instruments Chained-Calculation Massacre (Medium’s GEN)

Monday, November 25 2019 - Deadpool Buys an MVNO

• Uber loses London licence after TfL finds drivers faked identity (The Guardian)
• EBay to sell StubHub to Viagogo for about $4 billion in cash (CNBC)
• India’s financial services firm Paytm raises $1B (TechCrunch)
• The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review: 24 and 32 Cores on 7nm (AnandTech)
• AMD confirms 64-core Threadripper 3990X for 2020 (The Verge)
• Ryan Reynolds now owns a stake in budget carrier Mint Mobile (Engadget)
• Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Cybertruck windows smashed during presentation (The Verge)
• Tesla’s polarizing Cybertruck was preordered 200,000 times within 3 days (USA Today)

Friday, November 22 2019 - CYBERTRUCK!

• Behold, the Tesla Cybertruck is here (TechCrunch)
• Tesla accidentally busted two windows on the Cybertruck while demonstrating how tough they are (TechCrunch)
• Wall Street analysts say Tesla’s pickup is ‘really weird’ and Ford can ‘breathe a sigh of relief’ (CNBC)
• Tesla all-electric ATV makes a surprise debut at Cybertruck event (TechCrunch)
• Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software (BBC News)
• Twitter will finally let users disable SMS as default 2FA method (ZDNet)
• Twitter rolls out its ‘Hide Replies’ feature to all users worldwide (TechCrunch)
• Apple AirPods Shipments Expected to Double to 60 Million in 2019 (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft pushes Surface Earbuds release back to spring 2020 (Windows Central)

Thursday, November 21 2019 - Google’s Culture Is Dead

• An update on our political ads policy (The Keyword)
• Google to Limit Targeting of Political Ads (NYTimes)
• Facebook Weighs Steps to Curb Narrowly Targeted Political Ads (WSJ)
• PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B (TechCrunch)
• Amazon unveils new Dash Smart Shelf that automatically reorders items when supplies run low (GeekWire)
• Route’s app auto-tracks all your packages, raises $12M (TechCrunch)
• Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut (Bloomberg)
• Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts (NYTimes)

Wednesday, November 20 2019 - Our 500th Episode!

• Android Camera App Bug Lets Apps Record Video Without Permission (BleepingComputer)
• Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they’d like, Amazon tells senator (Washington Post)
• Amazon says it’s considered face scanning in Ring doorbells (Associated Press)
• Hacked Disney+ accounts are reportedly being sold for as little as $3 (CNBC)
• Apple expands in Austin (Apple Newsroom)
• Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough (CNN)
• A new solar heat technology could help solve one of the trickiest climate problems (Vox)
• Tackle Box for the Modern Fisherman: Rod, Reel, Drone (WSJ)

Tuesday, November 19 2019 - An Apple Awards Ceremony? (The App-ies?)

• Apple announces press event on Dec. 2 (CNBC)
• Amazon’s latest Fire TV accessory is an IR blaster that lets your Echo control your TV (The Verge)
• Google is putting an algorithmic audio news feed on its Assistant (The Verge)
• Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals (Krebs on Security)
• Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected (MIT Technology Review)

Monday, November 18 2019 - Google Stadia and the Mustang Mach-E

• FORD’S MUSTANG MACH-E IS AN ELECTRIC SUV WITH UP TO 300 MILES OF RANGE (The Verge)
• UP CLOSE WITH FORD’S ELECTRIC MUSTANG SUV, THE MACH-E (The Verge)
• Wayve raises $20 million to give autonomous cars better AI brains (VentureBeat)
• John Legere to step down as T-Mobile CEO next year (CNBC)
• The org that doles out .org websites just sold itself to a for-profit company (The Verge)
• ByteDance to take on rivals with music streaming launch (FT)
• HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s bid to acquire the company (CNBC)
• GOOGLE STADIA REVIEW: THE BEST OF CLOUD GAMING IS STILL JUST A BETA (The Verge)
• Stadia the Technology? Awesome. Stadia the Service? Not So Much (Vice)
• Stadia tech review: the best game streaming yet, but far from ready (EuroGamer)

Friday, November 15 2019 - Apples Says: Vapers, No Vaping!

• Exclusive: Apple to remove vaping apps from store (Axios)
• November 2019 Xbox One Update Brings Xbox Action for the Google Assistant, Gamertag Updates, Text Filters and More (XBox Wire)
• Microsoft to launch xCloud in 2020, with PS4 controllers and PC streaming on the way (The Verge)
• Google demos Stadia UI and lists several missing launch features (Engadget)
• Amazon cites ‘unmistakable bias’ in Microsoft’s military cloud contract win (CNBC)
• TikTok surpasses 1.5 billion downloads — with almost 500M in India (TNW)

Thursday, November 14 2019 - The Razr Returns!

• Motorola’s foldable Razr: Inside the remaking of a flip phone icon (CNET)
• MOTOROLA RESURRECTS THE RAZR AS A FOLDABLE ANDROID SMARTPHONE (The Verge)
• Apple Plans Mega Bundle of Music, News, TV as Early as 2020 (Bloomberg)
• Apple launches Research app, US users can enroll in three health studies (9to5Mac)
• In Its First Funding In 14 Years, Toronto’s 1Password Raises $200M Series A Led By Accel (Crunchbase)
• Netflix and Nickelodeon partner on original programming, following Disney+ launch (TechCrunch)
• First ‘Tuned by THX’ home theater speakers need no A/V receivers — or wires (Digital Trends)

Wednesday, November 13 2019 - The AI That Can Predict When You’ll Die

• APPLE’S 16-INCH MACBOOK PRO IS HERE AND IT HAS A GOOD KEYBOARD (The Verge)
• 16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers (Daring Fireball)
• Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance: Banking (WSJ)
• Brave 1.0 launches, bringing the privacy-first browser out of beta (The Verge)
• DoorDash Picks Up Another $100 Million at Nearly $13 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Border officials can’t have ‘boundless’ access to search devices, court rules (The Verge)
• AI can predict if you’ll die soon - but we’ve no idea how it works (New Scientist)

Tuesday, November 12 2019 - Google Wants Your Medical Records

• Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans (WSJ)
• Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Pay is a new payment system for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook (The Verge)
• Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots (TechCrunch)
• Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M (TechCrunch)
• WordPress.com sites can now accept subscriptions with new ‘Recurring Payments’ feature (TechCrunch)
• Here’s what time every episode of The Mandalorian and other Disney+ shows go live (The Verge)

Monday, November 11 2019 - Apple Eyes An iPhone Replacement

• Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe (Bloomberg)
• @dhh Thread (Twitter)
• About the Apple Card (dhh.dk)
• Uber CEO backtracks after calling Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake” (Axios)
• Apple Eyes 2022 Release for AR Headset, 2023 for Glasses (The Information)
• Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods (CNET)
• DoorDash Won Food Delivery by Seizing the Suburbs and $2 Billion (Bloomberg)

Friday, November 08 2019 - Twitter Is Weirdly Awake All Of The Sudden

• Disney stock rises after beating on top and bottom lines (CNBC)
• Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school (TechCrunch)
• Twitter Is Trying To Fix The Dunk And Ratio (BuzzFeed)
• T-Mobile dangles $15 plan, 5G gains, big freebies to get Sprint deal done (CNET)

Thursday, November 07 2019 - Alleged Spies Inside Twitter

• Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics (Washington Post)
• Alphabet’s board of directors is investigating executives over inappropriate relationships (CNBC)
• AMD unveils world’s most powerful desktop CPUs (ZDNet)
• Uber faces costly choices after expert finds it uses Waymo self-driving tech (Reuters)
• Ghost raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars self-driving capabilities (VentureBeat)
• Wrench’s on-demand vehicle repair and maintenance service picks up $20 million (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Portal survives Pwn2Own hacking contest, Amazon Echo got hacked (ZDNet)

Wednesday, November 06 2019 - Xerox Makes Some News!

• Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline (The Verge)
• Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP (WSJ)
• California Says Facebook Failed to Comply With Subpoenas (NYTimes)
• California asks for court order forcing Facebook to hand over Cambridge Analytica documents (The Verge)
• Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Designed to See Jaywalkers (Bloomberg)
• Uber is entering the ads business (TechCrunch)
• Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI inferencing speed on off-the-shelf processors (VentureBeat)
• How Arweave’s Permaweb cheaply hosts sites & apps forever (TechCrunch)
• Ford built an electric Mustand with a manual transmission. And we’re mad. (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, November 05 2019 - Is All Well With Softbank?

• SoftBank imposes new standards to rein in start-up founders (FT)
• WeWork Isn’t the Only Stumble for SoftBank’s Vision Fund (WSJ)
• Uber Books Another Quarterly Loss as Revenue Climbs (WSJ)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO X REVIEW: HEARTBREAKER (The Verge)
• Xiaomi unveils its 108-megapixel smartphone (Engadget)
• Actively exploited bug in fully updated Firefox is sending users into a tizzy (Ars Technica)
• IOS 13.2 IS OVERZEALOUSLY KILLING APPS IN THE BACKGROUND (Daring Fireball)
• I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. (NYTimes)

Monday, November 04 2019 - Everyone Got a New Logo

• Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home (Wired)
• Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget)
• Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge)
• Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet)
• Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge)
• Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom)
• Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store (WCCFTech)
• The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired)

Friday, November 01 2019 - Google Acquires Fitbit

• Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1 billion (CNBC)
• Maps Incognito is launching for Google Maps Android Users (Google Maps Help)
• Apple TV+ is now live in the TV app: Start watching Apple’s original TV shows and movies (9to5Mac)
• Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources (Reuters)

Thursday, October 31 2019 - Twitter Takes A Stand (And Subtweets Facebook)

• Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Thread (Twitter)
• Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue (TechCrunch)
• Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg (NYTimes)
• Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B (TechCrunch)
• A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations (The Verge)
• Apple is laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription (CNBC)
• Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network (Ars Technica)
• Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery (OneZero)

Wednesday, October 30 2019 - HBO Max Deets

• Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking (Washington Post)
• WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program (NYTimes)
• The New HBO Max is competing with Netflix by giving you Friends and Game of Thrones for $15 a month (Recode)
• Report: Apple to Use Qualcomm’s X55 5G Modem in All Three 2020 iPhones (MacRumors)
• Uber in talks with Los Angeles as scooter location data lawsuit looms (CNET)
• Privacy groups actually side with Uber in scooter data fight (Mashable)
• This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads (CNN Business)
• Mario Kart Tour Has a Rocket Start With 123.9 Million Downloads in Its First Month (SensorTower)

Tuesday, October 29 2019 - Playstation Vue Goes To The Deadpool

• Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
• Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft: Russian hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics (ZDNet)
• AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
• China to Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions (Bloomberg)
• Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use (TechCrunch)
• Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa (VentureBeat)
• PlayStation Vue is Shutting Down Live TV Streaming Service in January (The Streamable)

Monday, October 28 2019 - Who Needs An Event? The AirPods Pro Are Here!

• Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30 (Apple NewsRoom)
• Apple unveils new in-ear AirPods Pro coming October 30 for $249 (9to5Mac)
• Google parent Alphabet makes offer to buy Fitbit, sending stock soaring (CNBC)
• Nvidia’s new Shield TV wins the Android TV market with amazing 4K upscaling (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon (CNBC)
• Spotify grows users 30% in Q3 2019, premium subscribers reach 113 million (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft’s Xbox bundles are back and ready for the new Project Scarlett Xbox (The Verge)
• 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets (NYTimes)

Friday, October 25 2019 - Introducing Facebook News

• Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
• AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon)
• Behind AT&T’s plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters)

Thursday, October 24 2019 - Is TikTok A “National Security Risk?”

• TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review (The Washington Post)
• Music Video Upstart ‘Triller’ Says It’s Taking On TikTok Amid $28 Million Series B (TubeFilter)
• Twitter Q3 misses bi on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches (TechCrunch)
• Twitter’s Growth Sags, But That Wasn’t the Worst Part (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud; Azure Slows (Bloomberg)
• Tesla Shares Soar as Elon Musk Packs Profit Report With Positives (Bloomberg)
• AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update (The Verge)
• Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices (9to5Mac)
• 40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology (Vice)
• BBC News launches ‘dark web’ Tor mirror (BBC News)
• Behold the massive social media explosion from Fortnite’s Season 10 finale (The Washington Post)
• Last week’s Fortnite update helped Akamai set a new CDN traffic record (ZDNet)

Wednesday, October 23 2019 - Google Says We’ve Achieved Quantum Supremacy!

• Zuckerberg, in Washington to Talk Cryptocurrency, Gets Grilled on Everything (NYTimes)
• Snapchat beats in Q3, adding 7M users & revenue up 50% (TechCrunch)
• Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Top Mobile Payment App in the US (eMarketer)
• Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing (NYTimes)
• On “Quantum Supremacy” (IBM Research Blog)
• A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job (The Washington Post)
• Online Influencers Tell You What to Buy, Advertisers Wonder Who’s Listening (WSJ)

Tuesday, October 22 2019 - How Much Can Dark Mode Save Your Battery?

• Neumann to Get Up to $1.7 Billion to Exit WeWork as SoftBank Takes Control (WSJ)
• Verizon Will Give One Year of Disney Plus for Free to All Unlimited Wireless Customers (Variety)
• Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal (CNBC)
• Comcast’s ‘free’ streaming box actually requires an additional $13 / month fee (The Verge)
• Forty-six attorneys general have joined a New York-led antitrust investigation of Facebook (The Washington Post)
• Dark Mode in iOS 13 significantly helps iPhone battery life, robotic test shows (9to5Mac)

Monday, October 21 2019 - Review-A-Palooza

• Facebook disables Russian, Iranian networks, illustrating continued 2020 election threat (Washington Post)
• Helping to Protect the 2020 US Elections (Facebook Newsroom)
• Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs to counter firmware attacks (VentureBeat)
• Twitch’s new Watch Parties test taps Prime Video for movie night (SlashGear)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO 7 REVIEW: I WISH THIS LOOKED LIKE A SURFACE PRO X (The Verge)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP 3 15-INCH REVIEW: IT’S A BIGGER SURFACE LAPTOP (The Verge)
• Google Pixel 4 XL review: A night vision camera that’s dead by sunset (Android Central)
• GOOGLE PIXEL 4 AND 4 XL REVIEW: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS SENSORS (The Verge)

Friday, October 18 2019 - Zuckerberg Says Free Speech Is Good! (Facebook, Also Good!)

• Samsung says fingerprint security fix is coming as early as next week (The Verge)
• Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech (NYTimes)
• On Facebook’s live stream, Zuckerberg’s free-speech lecture got a big thumbs up (Washington Post)
• Google Photos format loophole seems to give iPhone free unlimited storage for orig. quality photos, Pixel 4 left behind (9to5Mac)
• Photoshop for iPad Nearing Launch With Some Key Features Missing (Bloomberg)
• Vatican launches $110 ‘click to pray’ wearable rosary (CNN)

Thursday, October 17 2019 - Unlocking Tech on Phones Is Broken

• Samsung to patch the Galaxy S10’s fingerprint sensor over screen protector concerns (The Verge)
• Netflix soars 8% after beating on earnings, despite miss on subscribers (CNBC)
• Netflix finally admitted two things we already knew about the streaming wars (CNBC)
• Airbnb’s quarterly loss reportedly doubled in Q1, a bad sign as investors grow wary of money-losers (CNBC)
• Airbnb’s Q1 Loss More Than Doubled, New Data Shows (The Information)
• The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger (The Verge)
• Privacy-focused Brave browser boasts 8M monthly active users (The Block)
• Google Pixel 4 Face Unlock works if eyes are shut (BBC News)
• Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed (Vice)
• Microsoft introduces new open-source specs for developing cloud and edge applications (ZDNet)
• ‘Billions’ Creators to Develop ‘Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber’ Series at Showtime (Variety)

Wednesday, October 16 2019 - Twitter Gonna Twitter

• Twitter says it will restrict users from retweeting world leaders who break its rules (TechCrunch)
• Huawei Reports Stronger Sales Growth (NYTimes)
• LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events (TechCrunch)
• Giphy Arcade lets you play, create, and share mini-games on the web as if they were GIFs (The Verge)
• This brilliant app waits on hold for you (The Verge)
• Go inside Pixel 4’s new camera features with Google’s photo technology experts (CNET)

Tuesday, October 15 2019 - The #MadeByGoogle Event

• PIXELBOOK GO: GOOGLE FINALLY MADE A REASONABLY PRICED CHROMEBOOK (The Verge)
• Google announces Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL (The Verge)
• BEATS ANNOUNCES SOLO PRO ON-EAR HEADPHONES WITH NOISE CANCELLATION (The Verge)
• Facebook’s Libra announces board as support shrinks further (Reuters)
• AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies (NYTimes)
• Fortnite’s black hole has closed, and Chapter 2 is finally here (The Verge)

Monday, October 14 2019 - Apple’s Chinese Conundrum

• How safe is Apple’s Safe Browsing? (Matthew Green)
• Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to users’ phones, report says (The Washington Post)
• Kuo: iPhone SE 2 Launching in Q1 2020 with A13 at $399 Price (MacRumors)
• Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship (CNBC)
• SoftBank is reportedly seeking to take control of WeWork through a financing package (CNBC)
• ‘Fortnite’ Goes Dark: A Masterful Marketing Stroke by Epic Games (Variety)

Friday, October 11 2019 - Gruber Says Tim Cook’s Email “Doesn’t Add Up”

• TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball)
• Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
• Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company)
• NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
• Apple Launches In-House Studio With ‘Band of Brothers’/’The Pacific’ Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter)

Thursday, October 10 2019 - Apple Removed the App Again…

• Apple Removes App That Helps Hong Kong Protesters Track the Police (NYTimes)
• APPLE REMOVES HKMAP.LIVE FROM APP STORE (Daring Fireball)
• Apple, Google Pull Hong Kong Protest Apps After China Uproar (WSJ)
• Tweetstorm (@Grummz)
• Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools (TechCrunch)
• Splinter Shutting Down (Daily Beast)
• Why the PG&E Blackouts Spared California’s Big Tech HQs (Wired)
• What Happens When Your Tweet Becomes a Subway Ad (One Zero)

Wednesday, October 09 2019 - Where Would We Be Without Lithium-Ion Batteries?

• Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising (Axios)
• Twitter says phone numbers users provided for security were ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes (The Washington Post)
• ‘Protecting rioters’: China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police (The Guardian)
• ‘Call of Duty: Mobile’ smashes records with 100 million downloads in first week (Reuters)
• Kuo: New iPad Pro and iPhone SE 2 in early 2020, followed by Apple AR headset collaboration with ‘third-party brands’ (9to5Mac)
• Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
• Postmates’ new IPO delay says something bigger: Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley (Recode)
• Smart fitness device Mirror launches one-on-one personal training (CNET)
• Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries (The Guardian)

Tuesday, October 08 2019 - The PlayStation 5 Is Coming!

• Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5 (Wired)
• Hulu finally launches support for downloads, initially to ad-free viewers (TechCrunch)
• Group Nine to Acquire PopSugar, Continuing Wave of Digital Media Tie-Ups (WSJ)
• Blizzard Bans Gamer, Rescinds Money, on Hong Kong Protest Support (Bloomberg)
• Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments (Hacker News)
• Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown (iFixit)
• Robinhood revives checking with new debit card & 2% interest (TechCrunch)
• Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot (Smithsonian.com)

Monday, October 07 2019 - macOS Catalina is Here!

• Amazon debuts its first ever Kindle Kids Edition (CNET)
• New Sonos service lets you rent its speakers (The Verge)
• Instagram’s Following Activity Tab Is Going Away (BuzzFeed News)
• Music labels wary as Apple tries to bundle subscriptions (FT)
• Apple’s macOS Catalina update is coming today (The Verge)
• macOS Catalina Review (iMore)
• PayPal Bails on Facebook-Led Libra Cryptocurrency Dream (Bloomberg)
• PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
• Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups (Nature)

Friday, October 04 2019 - BAD Android Zero-Day Out There…

• Attackers exploit 0-day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones (Ars Technica)
• Bird raises $275 million Series D round at a $2.5 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
• Apple’s AR plans may come to life after acquiring iKinema motion tech (VentureBeat)
• A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab (MIT Technology Review)

Thursday, October 03 2019 - These Two Content Recommendation Companies Merged… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!

• Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (NYTimes)
• Kuo: Apple to release ‘iPhone SE 2’ in Q1 2020 with iPhone 8 design, A13 processor (9to5Mac)
• What the Taboola-Outbrain combination means for publishers (Digiday)
• Vice Media to Acquire Refinery29, as Both Digital-Media Players Seek Scale (Variety)
• Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources (NY Daily News)
• Here’s that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y’all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store (The Register)

Wednesday, October 02 2019 - Microsoft Is Back In The Smartphone Business

• Microsoft Launches Surface Pro X With New Ultra-Thin Design, Slim Pen, Type Cover (Thurott.com)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE NEO FIRST LOOK: THE FUTURE OF WINDOWS 10X IS DUAL-SCREEN (The Verge)
• Microsoft surprises with new foldable Surface Duo phone running Android (The Verge)
• Galaxy Fold: This flip phone’s a flop, but the folding trend won’t stop (The Washington Post)
• Apple to Loosen Reins on Outside Messaging, Phone Apps Via Siri (Bloomberg)
• UPS Now Runs the First Official Drone Airline (Wired)
• Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook’s Libra Network (WSJ)

Tuesday, October 01 2019 - The Zuckerberg Tapes

• All Hands on Deck (The Verge)
• READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS (The Verge)
• GoPro launches two new cameras as it tries to become profitable this year (CNBC)
• GOPRO HERO 8 BLACK REVIEW: SMOOTH OPERATOR (The Verge)
• Appeals court upholds FCC’s cancelling of net neutrality rules (The Washington Post)
• Microsoft makes Windows Virtual Desktop generally available globally (ZDNet)
• EOS Maker Block.One Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Securities Sale (Coindesk)
• People Using Tesla’s New Smart Summon Feature Are Already Running Into Trouble And It’s Hard To Be Shocked (Jalopnik)

Monday, September 30 2019 - Has WeWork Slain The Unicorn Market?

• Apple Releases iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 with Fixes for Camera, iCloud Backup, HomePod Shortcut, and Flashlight Bugs (MacRumors)
• Spotify users can add podcasts to playlists (Engadget)
• HP’s Spectre x360 13 seems like an improvement in almost every way (The Verge)
• New Checkm8 jailbreak released for all iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips (ZDNet)
• Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer (Ars Technica)
• The ‘Checkm8’ exploit isn’t a big deal to iPhone or iPad users, and here’s why (Apple Insider)
• WeWork pulls IPO filing (CNBC)
• The Great Public Market Reckoning (AVC)
• Elon Musk aims to put SpaceX’s Starship in orbit in six months (The Verge)

Friday, September 27 2019 - Your Slacks Can Always Come Back To Haunt You

• DoorDarsh confirms data breach affected 4.9 million customers, workers and merchants (TechCrunch)
• Spotify is finally getting Siri support with iOS 13 (The Verge)
• That Motorola Razr foldable will squeak out a debut before year’s end (CNET)
• AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store with a built-in Nintendo emulator (The Verge)
• Tesla starts rolling out biggest software update ever with Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and more (The Verge)

Thursday, September 26 2019 - Uber Wants To Be ‘the operating system for your everyday life’

• Uber overhauls its app in ambitious bid to become ‘the operating system for your everyday life’ (The Verge)
• Peloton slides after opening below IPO price in market debut (CNBC)
• At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds (NYTimes)
• Attorney General Barr Seeks DOJ Facebook Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)
• Match.com connected daters to fake accounts to boost subscriptions, US regulators say (The Verge)
• Amazon’s new Echo Flex lets you put Alexa everywhere in your home (The Verge)
• Alexa’s ‘Certified for Humans’ wants to eliminate smart-home headaches (CNET)
• Divvy Homes Raises $43M Series B To Help Renters Become Homeowners (Crunchbase News)

Wednesday, September 25 2019 - It’s Alexas All The Way Down!

• Amazon announces high-end $199 Echo Studio speaker (The Verge)
• Alexa gains multilingual mode, celebrity voices, and frustration detection (Venture Beat)
• Amazon’s new Echo Show 8 combines the best of its big and small smart displays (The Verge)
• Amazon announces new $99 Eero mesh router with Alexa voice controls (The Verge)
• Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff (TechCrunch)
• Kuo: 2020 iPhones to Have Redesigned Metal Frame Similar to iPhone 4 (MacRumors)
• You can now sign up for Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming preview (The Verge)
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 24 2019 - Adam Neumann Out of (We)Work

• WeWork CEO Adam Neumann to step down amid controversy and retain chairman role (CNBC)
• Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind (Bloomberg)
• KIK CHAT APP SHUTS DOWN AS COMPANY GOES “ALL IN” ON KIN (Betakit.com)
• SEC sues Kik for running an unregistered Initial Coin Offering (Engadget)
• Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case (BBC News)
• AMAZON CREATES A HUGE ALLIANCE TO DEMAND VOICE ASSISTANT COMPATIBILITY (The Verge)
• Amazon plans Alexa wireless earbuds with fitness-tracking built in, bigger Echo with better sound, source says (CNBC)
• Microsoft’s new ‘Data Dignity’ team could help users control their personal data (ZDNet)

Monday, September 23 2019 - Google Play Pass And WeWork Soap Opera

• Google Play Pass bundles 350 Android games and apps for $4.99 per month (The Verge)
• Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO (WSJ)
• SoftBank’s Masa Son is in favor of ousting WeWork CEO Adam Neumann (CNBC)
• How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves. (WSJ)
• Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier (WSJ)
• Samsung Galaxy Fold will be available September 27th in the US (9to5Google)
• World Robotics Report: Global Sales of Robots Hit $16.5B in 2018 (Robotics Business Review)
• Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’ (The Verge)

Friday, September 20 2019 - Airbnb Plans an Open House in 2020

• Airbnb Says It Plans to Go Public in 2020 (NYTimes)
• Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020 (Airbnb)
• Twitter suspends account of former top Saudi aide implicated in Khashoggi killing (Washington Post)
• Disclosing new data to our archive of information operations (Twitter)
• French court rules that Steam’s ban on reselling used games is contrary to European law (Polygon)
• New features available with iOS 13 (Apple)
• Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe (The Verge)
• Inside Tinder’s Secret Streaming Series (Variety)
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? (NYTimes)
• How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen (Wired)
• The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution (Six Colors)
• Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis (Wired)
• iOS and iPadOS 13: The MacStories Review (MacStories)

Thursday, September 19 2019 - Huawei Launches a Flagship Without Google Apps

• Huawei Mate 30 Pro goes official w/ no Google apps, ‘horizon’ display (9to5Google)
• GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle (TechCrunch)
• “WE COULD SAY ANYTHING TO EACH OTHER”: BOB IGER REMEMBERS STEVE JOBS, THE PIXAR DRAMA, AND THE APPLE MERGER THAT WASN’T (Vanity Fair)
• Datadog Rises 53% in Trading Debut After Rebuffing Cisco (Bloomberg)
• Amazon signs Climate Pledge to advance Paris Climate Accords goals by 10 years (VentureBeat)
• Built Robotics raises $33M for its self-driving construction equipment (TechCrunch)
• Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures (TechCrunch)
• Fintech Company Stripe Joins Silicon Valley Elite With $35 Billion Valuation (WSJ)
• Samsung unveils new PCIe 4.0 SSDs that “never die” (TechSpot)

Wednesday, September 18 2019 - Does Anyone Know What “Unlimited” Means?

• Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box (TechCrunch)
• Facebook’s second-generation Portal devices are cheaper, smaller, and support WhatsApp (The Verge)
• Facebook working on smart glasses with Ray-Ban, code-named ‘Orion’ (CNBC)
• Smart TVs sending private data to Netflix and Facebook (FT)
• Google Fi launches a more traditional unlimited plan (The Verge)
• HP Elite Dragonfly hands-on: A really light business notebook (Engadget)
• APPLE WATCH SERIES 5 REVIEW: THE BEST SMARTWATCH (The Verge)
• Apple Watch Series 5 (Daring Fireball)
• FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 17 2019 - The iPhone 11 Reviews Are In

• Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments (Motherboard)
• WeWork delays IPO after frosty investor response (Reuters)
• SoftBank Backers Rethink Role in Next Vision Fund on WeWork (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Music rolls out a lossless streaming tier that Spotify and Apple can’t match (The Verge)
• Snapchat is adding a 3D Camera Mode, the latest salvo in its feature race with Instagram (TechCrunch)
• Netflix Lands ‘Seinfeld’ Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing ‘Friends’ and ‘The Office’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to Show on New Streaming Service HBO Max (WSJ)
• NBCUniversal’s Streaming Service Is Called Peacock and It’s Launching Next April (Vulture)
• APPLE IPHONE 11 REVIEW: THE PHONE MOST PEOPLE SHOULD BUY (The Verge)
• Apple iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: Better, but not groundbreaking (Engadget)
• Review: The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 do Disneyland After Dark (TechCrunch)
• Review: Apple iPhone 11 Pro (Wired)
• IPhone 11 and 11 Pro Review: Thinking Differently in the Golden Age of Smartphones (NYTimes)
• Apple Arcade’s best selling point: Games you’ll actually want to play (Engadget)

Monday, September 16 2019 - Did Amazon Change its Algorithms to Make Itself More Profitable?

• Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products (WSJ)
• Facebook and JP Morgan meet with global central banks to discuss cryptocurrencies (CNBC)
• Google announces October 15th hardware event for Pixel 4 (The Verge)
• Iger Departs Board of Apple, Disney’s New Streaming Competitor (NYTimes)
• Wi-Fi 6 officially launches today, ahead of iPhone 11 availability on Friday (9to5Mac)
• Wi-Fi 6 certification is here to make next-gen speeds a widespread reality (CNET)
• Multiple camera simultaneous recording coming to iPhone XS and iPhone XR, not just iPhone 11 (9to5Mac)
• TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience (The Washington Post)
• MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14 (CNBC)

Friday, September 13 2019 - Cloudflare IPO: Good. WeWork IPO: (???…)

• Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
• WeWork’s valuation could fall to below $15 billion in IPO, down from $47 billion private valuation (CNBC)
• House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe (The Washington Post)
• Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down (TechCrunch)
• J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The end of the backend? Disney wants to limit profit participation on its new TV shows (LA Times)

Thursday, September 12 2019 - Uber: We’re NOT in the Ride Hailing Business!

• Uber argues its drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t reclassify them as employees (The Verge)
• FACEBOOK’S LIBRA CRYPTOCURRENCY WILL BE BLOCKED IN EUROPE, FRANCE SAYS (The Independent)
• Slack’s desktop apps get dark mode options (Engadget)
• The FBI is investigating a venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel for financial misconduc (Vox)
• Exclusive: Amazon will let anyone answer your Alexa questions now (Fast Company)
• Healthy.io raises $60 million to help patients complete urine tests on their phone (Venture Beat)
• An Exoplanet Like No Other Yet Found (The Atlantic)

Wednesday, September 11 2019 - California Borks The Gig Economy (?)

• California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees (NYTimes)
• Uber lays off 435 people across engineering and product teams (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s Quantum Ledger Database is now generally available (Silicon Angle)
• These brothers just raised $15 million for their startup, Dutchie, a kind of Shopify for cannabis dispensaries (TechCrunch)
• Switzerland warns Facebook’s Libra it will face extra scrutiny (Reuters)
• IPHONE 11 PRO AND 11 PRO MAX: HANDS-ON WITH APPLE’S NEW FLAGSHIP PHONES (The Verge)
• iPhone 11’s ultra-wideband chip helps you AirDrop with the right person (Engadget)
• Editorial: Apple just told you that they aren’t going to make an ‘iPhone SE 2’ any time soon (Apple Insider)
• Apple’s Biggest Surprise: More Aggressive Device and Services Pricing (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, September 10 2019 - The iPhone 11 Event

• Apple reveals the powerful new iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max (Engadget)
• Apple reveals iPhone 11 with a dual-camera system, Night mode, and new colors (The Verge)
• Apple Watch Series 5 has an always-on display and comes in titanium or ceramic finishes (The Verge)
• Apple unveils entry-level 2019 iPad with a 10.2-inch screen (Venture Beat)
• Apple TV+ costs $4.99 per month and launches on November 1 (Venture Beat)
• Apple Arcade is launching on September 19th for $4.99 a month (The Verge)
• Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general (CNBC)
• 48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California? (LA Times)
• SoftBank urges WeWork to shelve IPO (FT)

Monday, September 09 2019 - Apple Hides Its Own Apps (Sorta)

• Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein (NYTimes)
• How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (New Yorker)
• How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls (NYTimes)
• Facebook, Google face off against a formidable new foe: State attorneys general (Washington Post)
• GOOGLE NEST HUB MAX REVIEW: BIGGER SCREEN, BETTER SOUND, AND A CAMERA (The Verge)
• Drivetime raises $11 million for interactive audio games like Jeopardy in the car (Venture Beat)
• Daimler brings driverless truck tests to public roads in Virginia (Venture Beat)

Friday, September 06 2019 - Sonos Goes Portable and Apple Music Goes To The Web

• Apple Music launches a public beta on the web (TechCrunch)
• Sonos’ first portable speaker is the $399 Move (The Verge)
• Streaming makes up 80 percent of the music industry’s revenue (The Verge)
• New York attorney general is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations (CNBC)
• Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode turns Android devices into smart displays (The Verge)

Thursday, September 05 2019 - Know When To Unfold Them

• China hacked Asian telcos to spy on Uighur travelers (Reuters)
• WeWork Targets $20 Billion to $30 Billion IPO Value (Bloomberg)
• How Samsung fixed the Galaxy Fold (The Verge)
• Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone (Bloomberg)
• MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified (MIT Technology Review)
• Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration (TechCrunch)
• Why ‘SIM Swapping’ Is a Growing Security Nightmare (NYTimes)
• I Broke The Official Jeremy Renner App By Posting The Word “Porno” On It (Deadspin)

Wednesday, September 04 2019 - A Phone to Save You From The Internet?

• YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws (CNBC)
• Google emerges as target of a new state attorneys general antitrust probe (Washington Post)
• Google’s paid search ads are a ‘shakedown,’ Basecamp CEO says (CNBC)
• Android 10 launches today, and Pixel phones get the day one update (Ars Technica)
• An Update About Face Recognition on Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
• Acer announces a $14,000 gaming chair because why not (TechCrunch)
• Amazon unveils a new Fire TV Cube, soundbar, and over a dozen Fire TV Edition products (TechCrunch)
• Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID (New York Post)
• The Light Phone 2 Wants to Save You From the Internet (Gizmodo)

Tuesday, September 03 2019 - Foldable Phones Refuse To Die

• Samsung Is Secretly Working on a Foldable Phone That Collapses Into a Square (Bloomberg)
• Apple Watch sleep tracking revealed: sleep quality, battery management, more (9to5Mac)
• Firefox 69 arrives with third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining blocked by default (VentureBeat)
• Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times (ZDNet)
• Ring Neighbors Is the Best and Worst Neighborhood Watch App (WireCutter)
• Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged (NYTimes)

Friday, August 30 2019 - The Worst iPhone Attack Ever

• Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking (Wired)
• Project Zero (Google Project Zero)
• Microsoft unveils new tablet experience for Windows 10 (The Verge)
• The Long-Term Stock Exchange raises $50 million in new funding (Axios)
• More Airlines Ban MacBook Pros in Checked Luggage (Bloomberg)
• When Elon Met Jack: Musings on AI, Mars and the End of Civilization (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 29 2019 - Apple Bends On “Right To Repair”

• Apple is allowing independent repair shops to officially service iPhones (9to5Mac)
• Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking (GeekWire)
• National Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook (WSJ)
• YouTube to adjust UK algorithm to cut false and extremist content (The Guardian)
• Former MLB Pitcher’s DC Startup Lands $23M for Sports Betting Platform (DCInno)
• Inkitt raises $16M led by Kleiner Perkins to publish crowdsourced novels in ‘mini-episodes’ (TechCrunch)
• Netflix ships milestone 5 billionth disc (CNET)

Wednesday, August 28 2019 - Apple Walks Back the Siri Thing

• Apple is turning Siri audio clip review off by default and bringing it in house (TechCrunch)
• Peloton (Finally) Drops Its S-1, Revealing Sharply Rising Revenue And Net Losses (Crunchbase News)
• Fitbit Versa 2 hands-on: Alexa makes a good smartwatch better (Engadget)
• The Fitbit Versa 2 Chases Apple’s Dominance (Gizmodo)
• Fitbit’s new premium subscription service hopes to sway you with personalized data, challenges, and more (The Verge)
• US border officials are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others’ social media (TechCrunch)
• Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked (Harvard Crimson)
• Microsoft’s lead EU data watchdog is looking into fresh Windows 10 privacy concerns (TechCrunch)
• Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, August 27 2019 - Anthony Levandowski Arrested

• Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets (NYTimes)
• Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads (The Verge)
• Yelp adds personalized search results to its iPhone app (Engadget)
• BBC to launch Alexa rival that will grasp regional accents (The Guardian)
• Sprint launches its 5G network in NYC, LA, Phoenix, and Washington, DC (The Verge)
• Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2nd in New York City (The Verge)
• Google Maps will now let users combine transit directions with biking and ride-sharing (The Verge)
• Netflix Unveils Release Plans for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ (Variety)
• Exclusive: U.S. officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election (Reuters)
• World of Warcraft Classic players are standing in long lines to finish quests (Polygon)

Monday, August 26 2019 - The Most Powerful Chromebooks Ever

• Google and Dell team up on the first Chromebooks made for business (Engadget)
• Baidu replaces Google to become number two in smart speaker market in Q2 2019 (Canalys)
• Binance enters into crypto lending space, offers interest-earning opportunities for BNB, ETC and Tethe (Reuters)
• Amazon’s Audible Sued by Publishers Over New Text Feature (Bloomberg)
• Netflix tests human-driven curation with launch of ‘Collections’ (TechCrunch)
• Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (Freedom to Tinker)
• The Robot Ship Set to Cross the Atlantic and Change the World (Daily Beast)

Friday, August 23 2019 - Are “Partners” Looking To Exit Libra?

• Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests (CNBC)
• Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project (FT)
• Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products (WSJ)
• SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10 PLUS REVIEW: SHOULD YOU SPEND FOR THE STYLUS? (The Verge)
• The Galaxy Note 10+ Is Damn Near Perfect (Gizmodo)
• REVIEW: SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE10+ (Wired)

Thursday, August 22 2019 - Google Deserts Desserts (h/t The Verge)

• Apple Readies Camera-Focused Pro iPhones, New iPads, Larger MacBook Pro (Bloomberg)
• Google proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting controls for the web (TechCrunch)
• Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q (The Verge)
• The Google Play store’s visual refresh (Android Developers Blog)
• Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave From AI Lab (Bloomberg)
• SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online (VentureBeat)
• Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a perfect example of Netflix’s big screening dilemma (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 21 2019 - The Bull Case For WeWork

• Intel Launches Comet Lake-U and Comet Lake-Y: Up To 6 Cores for Thin & Light Laptops (AnandTech)
• Dell unveils new XPS, Inspiron, and Vostro models with Intel Comet Lake processors (VentureBeat)
• Exclusive: Alibaba postpones up to $15 billion Hong Kong listing amid protests: sources (Reuters)
• Amazon opens its biggest global campus in India (Reuters)
• Gmail in G Suite now uses AI for inline spelling and grammar suggestions (VentureBeat)
• Shazam data is powering Apple Music’s newest chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 25 (TechCrunch)
• Apple aims to protect kids’ privacy. App makers say it could devastate their businesses. (The Washington Post)
• The WeWork IPO (Stratechery)

Tuesday, August 20 2019 - Is Apple TV+ DOA?

• Information operations directed at Hong Kong (Twitter)
• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China (Facebook)
• Updating our advertising policies on state media (Twitter)
• Apple Targets Apple TV+ Launch in November, Weighs $9.99 Price After Free Trial (Bloomberg)
• Apple splashes $6bn on new shows in streaming wars (FT)
• States to Move Forward With Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms (WSJ)
• Sony to acquire Insomniac Games (Polygon)
• Over 20 Texas local governments hit in ‘coordinated ransomware attack’ (ZDNet)
• The first Lightning security key for iPhones is here, and it works with USB-C, too (The Verge)
• Amazon Wants to Put Alexa in Cars. Google and Apple Are There Already (Bloomberg)

Monday, August 19 2019 - The Silicon Chip To Define The AI Era?

• Binance planning to launch ‘Venus,’ similar to Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra (The Block)
• Spotify’s Premium Family plans get an explicit content filter (Engadget)
• The Roku Channel is adding a kids and family section with free TV shows and movies (The Verge)
• Disney+ will stream on these devices at launch (The Verge)
• Ikea goes all in on smart home tech (The Verge)
• Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years (Motherboard)
• A new unicorn is born: Toor Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
• Root raises $350 million to drive auto insurance change (Axios)
• Cerebras (Pierre Lamond)

Friday, August 16 2019 - Coinbase says all your bitcoin base are belong to us

• Exclusive: Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55 Million, Eyes Lending Business (Fortune)
• Apple Files Lawsuit Against Virtualization Company Corellium for Illegally Replicating iOS and Apple Apps (MacRumors)
• Amazon offered vendors ‘Amazon’s Choice’ labels in return for ad spending and lower prices (Digiday)
• YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue (TechCrunch)

Thursday, August 15 2019 - Three Words And An App That Could Save Your Life

• Facebook is simplifying group privacy settings and adding admin tools for safety (The Verge)
• THE SEGA GENESIS MINI BUILDS ON WHAT MADE NINTENDO’S TINY CONSOLES GREAT (The Verge)
• UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks (The Verge)
• Stay organized and productive with new Assignable reminders (Google)
• Do Tech Companies Really Need to Snoop Into Private Conversations to Improve Their A.I.? (Slate)
• What3words: The app that can save your life (BBC News)

Wednesday, August 14 2019 - “We” Files, a MacBook Pro “No Fly List” and “Boatbnb”

• WeWork files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
• Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firm (The Guardian)
• AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (WSJ)
• HBO Max eyeing ‘Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ in $1.5 billion deal (The Daily Dot)
• Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats (Bloomberg)
• Peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace Boatsetter raises $10M as it looks to grow globally (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, August 13 2019 - Automattic & Tumblr & Snap & Spectacles 3

• Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner (WSJ)
• Snap Unveils a New Version of Video-Recording Spectacles (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Cancels Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft (Thurrott.com)
• Singularity 6 raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz to create a ‘virtual society’ (TechCrunch)
• Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack (The Verge)
• Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
• Design Memes: The Origin of those Helvetica List T-Shirts (HowDesign.com)

Monday, August 12 2019 - Your 108 Megapixel Smartphone Camera

• Samsung’s 108-megapixel mobile sensor closes in on mirrorless cameras (Engadget)
• Ninja calls out Twitch after his dormant channel highlights porn (updated) (Engadget)
• The New York Times is still detecting Chrome Incognito Mode after Google’s fix (9to5Google)
• Apple Deserves More Credit for Wearables (Above Avalon)
• How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power (NYTimes)
• Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls (USNI News)

Friday, August 09 2019 - Can Ride Hailing EVER Make Money?

• Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (NYTimes)
• Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android (Engadget)
• Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ)
• How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far (NiemanLab)
• Here’s why the internet is obsessed with ‘number neighbors,’ a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider)

Thursday, August 08 2019 - I Put Zero Thought Into This Episode Title (explained in the episode)

• The 7 biggest announcements from the Samsung Note 10 event (The Verge)
• Google Maps lets you pull up flight and hotel reservations on the go (CNET)
• Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results (The Verge)
• Now you can choose how fast Alexa talks on your Amazon Echo (The Verge)
• Instagram’s lax privacy practices let a trusted partner track millions of users’ physical locations, secretly save their stories, and flout its rule
• ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Close $200M Netflix Overall Deal (The Hollywood Reporter)

Wednesday, August 07 2019 - The Disney+ Bundle Is Nuts

• Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ Available At Launch (The Streamable)
• FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal With Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Amazon’s PillPack is battling with CVS and Walgreens over getting patient prescriptions (CNBC)
• Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls (Vice)
• Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature (The Information)
• Slack unveils new admin security controls (ITPro)
• The biggest risks to TikTok (The Interface)
• End of an era? Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine is ending its run after more than three decades (Onmsft.com)

Tuesday, August 06 2019 - The Apple Card is Here, And It’s A… Credit Card…

• The Apple Card starts rolling out today (The Verge)
• Cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled over the last 6 months (ZDNet)
• Microsoft: Russian state hackers are using IoT devices to breach enterprise networks (ZDNet)
• Microsoft launches Azure Security Lab, expands bug bounty rewards (ZDNet)
• Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Motherboard)
• Amazon Squeezes Sellers That Offer Better Prices on Walmart (Bloomberg)
• Amazon’s Scout robots roll out in Southern California (Venture Beat)
• AT&T rolls out (limited) 5g in (parts of) New York City (TechCrunch)
• Note 10 Plus? Here’s what to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked on August 7 (Digital Trends)

Monday, August 05 2019 - Cloudflare Breaks Up With 8chan

• Terminating Service for 8Chan (Cloudflare Blog)
• 8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes (The Guardian)
• The Problem Isn’t 8chan. It’s Americans. (Buzzfeed News)
• Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 brings back the bezel control (The Verge)
• Fossil’s latest Wear OS watches have 1GB RAM, smart battery modes, Snapdragon Wear 3100 (9to5Google)
• Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media (Reuters)
• News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1b (TechCrunch)
• Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn Is Run by a 22-Year-Old (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• NOW ON USED CAR LOTS: GREAT ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR CHEAP (Wired)

Friday, August 02 2019 - Stop Listening To Me, Siri!

• 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)

Thursday, August 01 2019 - Chips Get Faster, Scooters Get Rugged-er

• 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)

Wednesday, July 31 2019 - Apple: What, Me Worry?

• 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)

Tuesday, July 30 2019 - The Capital One Breach Is A Weird One

• 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)

Monday, July 29 2019 - Google Leaks, So We Don’t Have To

• (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)

Friday, July 26 2019 - The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is Approved

• 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)

Thursday, July 25 2019 - The Galaxy Fold Lives!

• 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)
• NETFLIX’S THE GREAT HACK BRINGS OUR DATA NIGHTMARE TO LIFE (Wired)

Wednesday, July 24 2019 - Is Media Piracy Coming Back?

• 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)
• PLEX MAKES PIRACY JUST ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE (The Verge)

Friday, April 12 2019 - Uber’s IPO and Disney+ Deets

• Uber unveils IPO with warning it may never make a profit (Reuters)
• Alphabet Is Uber IPO’s Surprise Winner With Potential $5 Billion Stake (Forbes)
• Uber’s Venture Investors Set for a Windfall (WSJ)
• Disney+ app and worldwide rollout plans revealed (Engadget)
• Disney+ streaming service will be available starting Nov. 12 for $6.99 a month (CNBC)

Thursday, April 11 2019 - Alexa Snags Its Own “Scandal”

• Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Bezos challenges retail rivals to outdo Amazon’s $15 minimum wage (The Verge)
• YouTube TV Hikes Price to $50 per Month for All Customers After Inking Discovery Deal (Variety)
• PagerDuty pops more than 50% in debut as tech IPO market heats up (CNBC)
• Affectiva raises $26 million to bring emotional intelligence AI to car safety systems (VentureBeat)
• Triplebyte raises $35M for its online coding test and credentialing service for hiring engineers (TechCrunch)
• Lemonade picks up $300 million Series D led by SoftBank Group (TechCrunch)
• That image of a black hole you saw everywhere? Thank this grad student for making it possible (CNN)

Wednesday, April 10 2019 - Day 2 of Google’s Cloud Next Conference

• Google Assistant now works with your G Suite work calendar (GeekWire)
• Google launches new security tools for G Suite users (TechCrunch)
• Google launches an end-to-end AI platform (TechCrunch)
• Remove, Reduce, Inform: New Steps to Manage Problematic Content (Facebook Newsroom)
• Exclusive: Uber plans to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in IPO - sources (Reuters)
• Slack Is Fetching High Prices in Private Stock Deals Ahead of Public Offering (Bloomberg)
• Zoom is poised to be one of the most richly valued tech companies after it goes public (CNBC)
• Next major macOS version will include standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV apps, Books app gets major redesign (9to5Mac)
• Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots (WSJ)
• Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site (Ars Technica)
• Congress is about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing (Ars Technica)
• Falcon Heavy making only second flight, but it’s already changing the game (Ars Technica)

Tuesday, April 09 2019 - Google Cloud Next Announcements

• Google Cloud announces 7 open source partners, Seoul and Salt Lake City regions (VentureBeat)
• Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)
• Google announces Cloud Run for open and portable serverless compute (VentureBeat)
• China, home to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency mining farms, now wants to ban them completely (South China Morning Post)
• To cut down on spam, Twitter cuts the number of accounts you can follow per day (TechCrunch)
• The next front of the streaming wars is the battle for ad-supported programming (Digiday)
• Roblox hits milestone of 90M monthly active users (TechCrunch)
• Why Are People Still Playing Google’s Halloween Ghost Game in April? (Slate)

Monday, April 08 2019 - About Those iPhone Triple Camera Rumors…

• Pinterest sets IPO range at $15-17, valuing it at $10.6B vs previous valuation of $12.3B (TechCrunch)
• iPhone rumors now claim two OLED models with triple-camera arrays for 2019 (The Verge)
• New report claims that the triple-camera iPhones in 2019 will feature 6.1-inch and 6.5-inch OLED screens, tweaked chassis thickness (9to5Mac)
• Netflix confirms it killed AirPlay support, won’t let you beam shows to Apple TVs anymore (The Verge)
• ‘CHANGE MY VIEW’ REDDIT COMMUNITY LAUNCHES ITS OWN WEBSITE (Wired)
• To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft launches first Chromium Edge builds for Windows 10 (VentureBeat)

Friday, April 05 2019 - Alexa is Coming for AirPods

• Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (Vox)
• Amazon Is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie (The Washington Post)
• Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform (TechCrunch)
• Snapchat will power Stories & ads in other apps (TechCrunch)

Thursday, April 04 2019 - Amazon Joins The Internet Space Race

• Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers (TechCrunch)
• MIT suspends ties with China’s Huawei and ZTE (CNN Business)
• Apple drops HomePod price down to $299 (The Verge)
• Google launches Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking Bubbles, foldables emulator, and zoomable microphones (VentureBeat)
• Hundreds of thousands of ‘lost’ MySpace songs have been recovered (The Verge)
• Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation (GeekWire)
• Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart (Vox)
• THE PROBLEM WITH AI ETHICS (The Verge)
• Electric car battery with 600 miles of range? This startup claims to have done it (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 03 2019 - Google’s Credibility Problem When It Comes To Products Dying

• ‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords (Daily Beast)
• Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords (Gizmodo)
• Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords (Axios)
• WhatsApp finally lets you prevent people from adding you to their shitty groups (TNW)
• WhatsApp now lets you control who can add you to groups (The Verge)
• Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
• Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple (NYTimes)
• Tweet Storm on Apple+ and The New Yorker (@Michaelluo)
• Google Duplex rolling out to non-Pixel, iOS devices in the US (9to5Google)
• Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network (The Verge)
• Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (Ars Technica)
• Wayve claims ‘world first’ in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, April 02 2019 - YouTube’s Turn In The Woodshed

• Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst (Reuters)
• April Fools: Traders Chase Another Unexplainable Bitcoin Rally (Bloomberg)
• Report: ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018 (CoinTelegraph)
• Walmart Unveils Voice-Activated, Google-Powered Grocery Shopping (Bloomberg)
• Morning Lineup – “It’s Just a Fad” (Bespoke)
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again) (Forbes)
• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (Bloomberg)

Monday, April 01 2019 - Gmail Was the ONLY Good April Fools’ Joke

• Google launches Gmail message scheduling and expands Smart Compose to more devices and languages (VentureBeat)
• New Facebook tool answers the question ‘Why am I seeing this post?’ (TechCrunch)
• The biggest winners of Lyft’s $24 billion IPO (Quartz)
• The CEO behind ‘Fortnite’ says it’s ‘evolving beyond being a game’ and explains the company’s ambitious vision (Business Insider)
• Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas. (The Washington Post)
• Citizen Zuck: The making of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (CNET)
• Burger King begins selling the meatless Impossible Whopper (The Verge)

Friday, March 29 2019 - We have Lyft-Off! (Sorry)

• Lyft pops 20% in trading debut (CNBC)
• In This Tech I.P.O. Wave, Big Investors Grab More of the Gains (NYTimes)
• Huawei tops $100 billion revenue for first time despite political headwinds (CNBC)
• The Next CEO of Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow Blog)
• Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps (VentureBeat)

Thursday, March 28 2019 - Spotify Tests Subscriptions For Two

• Facebook has been charged with housing discrimination by the US government (The Verge)
• Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities (NYTimes)
• Spotify is testing Premium Duo, a discounted subscription for two (The Verge)
• Microsoft sues to take control of domains involved in Iran hacking campaign (TechCrunch)
• The Business of Your Face (Fortune)

Wednesday, March 27 2019 - Microsoft Puts the Kibosh on April Fools’ Jokes

• Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (NYTimes)
• THE GODFATHERS OF THE AI BOOM WIN COMPUTING’S HIGHEST HONOR (Wired)
• Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed (Android Police)
• Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email (TechCrunch)
• Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm (WSJ)
• FTC announces inquiry into the privacy practices of broadband providers (The Verge)
• NYPD’s Big Artificial-Intelligence Reveal (Governing.com)
• India says it has just shot down a satellite in space (MIT Technology Review)
• Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 26 2019 - The EU’s Copyright Directive Cometh

• Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval (The Verge)
• HUAWEI’S P30 PRO IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC POWERHOUSE WITH A TINY NOTCH (The Verge)
• Uber announces $3.1 billion deal to buy Middle East rival Careem (CNBC)
• McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: First look at Apple’s new AirPods-like ‘Powerbeats Pro’ truly wireless sport headphones (9to5Mac)
• Very Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Show Time’ Apple Event (Daring Fireball)

Monday, March 25 2019 - Apple Goes Hollywood!

• Apple launches $9.99 Apple News Plus with more than 300 magazines (The Verge)
• Apple introduced its own credit card, the Apple Card (TechCrunch)
• Apple announces Apple TV Plus video subscription service (The Verge)
• YouTube Bows Out of Hollywood Arms Race With Netflix and Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Nintendo to Launch Two New Switch Models (WSJ)
• Digital media companies Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are said to be in talks to merge (Business Insider)
• Shenzhen Transsion applies to raise capital on Shanghai’s technology board after taking Africa’s phone market by storm (South China Morning Post)

Friday, March 22 2019 - AT&T’s “5G E” is…. zzzzzzzzz…..?

• New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch (Reuters)
• Apple’s plan for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services (Recode)
• 750,000 Medtronic defibrillators vulnerable to hacking (StarTribune)
• Facebook acknowledges concerns over Cambridge Analytica emerged earlier than reported (The Guardian)
• AT&T’s fake 5G E is slower than Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s 4G (CNET)
• Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10% (WhatsNewInPublishing)
• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 (RedMonk)

Thursday, March 21 2019 - Santa Tim Has Forsaken Us!

• Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years (Krebs on Security)
• Can Duruk’s Tweet Storm (Twitter)
• Windows Virtual Desktop is now in public preview (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft launches previews of Windows Virtual Desktop and Defender ATP for Mac (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft warns Windows 7 users of looming end to security updates (TechCrunch)
• European Wikipedias have been turned off for the day to protest dangerous copyright laws (The Verge)
• Hottest Crypto Coin’s Massive Rally Echoes Bitcoin’s Glory Days (Bloomberg)
• APPLE IPAD MINI REVIEW: NO COMPETITION (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 20 2019 - Give Us More, Santa Tim!

• Google hit with €1.5 billion antitrust fine by EU (The Verge)
• Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints (NYTimes)
• AirPods, the world’s most popular wireless headphones, are getting even better (Apple Newsroom)
• The Oculus Rift S is real and arrives in spring for $399 (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s entry-level Kindle gets a light and a higher price tag (The Verge)
• Facebook Messenger now has message threads (VentureBeat)
• MoviePass’ unlimited plan is back and at the original price — for now (Polygon)
• All 88 companies from Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, March 19 2019 - Stadia is Google’s Gaming Streaming Service

• Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs (9to5Google)
• Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019 (The Verge)
• Stadia, Google’s gaming platform, changed the rules of the console wars (Polygon)
• Apple Updates iMac Lineup With Up to 8-Core 9th-Gen Intel Processors and Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Options (MacRumors)
• Instagram tests in-app shopping with Kylie Cosmetics, Nike and Huda Beauty (Digiday)
• Nvidia announces $99 AI computer for developers, makers, and researchers (The Verge)
• Intel claims Aurora will be the first U.S. supercomputer to hit 1 exaflop (Venture Beat)
• Here are the 85+ startups that launched at YC’s W19 Demo Day One (TechCrunch)

Monday, March 18 2019 - MySpace Loses All Your Stuff From 2005

• Apple launches new iPad Air and iPad mini (TechCrunch)
• Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems (Washington Post)
• Myspace player won’t play songs, and I want to download them if possible (Reddit thread on the Myspace news)
• The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down (The Verge)
• Lyft Aims for Valuation Near $20 Billion in Biggest U.S. IPO (Bloomberg)
• Ride-hail service Juno is seeking a buyer (Quartz)
• Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future? (Both Sides)
• Decade in review: Trends in seed and early-stage funding (TechCrunch)
• Apple’s Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape (NYTimes)
• Google Spent Years on a Secret New Plan to Attack a $140 Billion Industry. It All Starts Tomorrow (Inc.)

Friday, March 15 2019 - Does Chris Cox’s departure from Facebook mean the pivot is real?

• FACEBOOK’S HEAD OF PRODUCT LEAVES AFTER PRIVACY PIVOT (Wired)
• As Mark Zuckerberg Tightens Grip on Facebook, 2 Top Deputies Leave (NYTimes)
• Addressing Spotify’s claims (Apple Newsroom)
• The New Zealand Massacre Was Made to Go Viral (NYTimes)

Thursday, March 14 2019 - Facebook Under Criminal Investigation

• Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation (NYTimes)
• Google launches Android Q Beta 1 (Venture Beat)
• Telegram gained three million new users during Facebook outage (The Verge)
• Tumblr traffic dropped by nearly 100M views the month after it banned porn (TNW)
• Dropbox device linking limits just got added for Basic accounts (SlashGear)
• Microsoft announces Xbox Live for any iOS or Android game (The Verge)
• In Silicon Valley, Plans for a Monument to Silicon Valley (NYTimes)
• Silicon Valley Wants a Monument to Itself. Will It Scale? (NYMag)
• Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Blog)

Wednesday, March 13 2019 - Spotify Anti-Trust’s Apple

• Spotify files EU antitrust complaint against Apple (Reuters)
• Apple Courts HBO and Showtime for Service to Challenge Netflix (Bloomberg)
• Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent (NBC News)
• Google has told dozens of employees on its laptop and tablet division to find new jobs at the company, raising questions about its hardware plans (Business Insider)
• Verizon’s 5G service will cost $10 extra, launches in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11th (The Verge)
• Microsoft demonstrates xCloud game streaming a week before Google’s ‘future of gaming’ event (The Verge)
• How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream (The Atlantic)
• A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality (MIT Technology Review)

Tuesday, March 12 2019 - The Web Is 30 Years Old!

• Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup (Politico)
• Apple’s March 25th event is official: ‘It’s show time’ (9to5Mac)
• Spotify Premium now includes Hulu for no extra cost (The Verge)
• Amazon’s Alexa has 80,000 Apps—and No Runaway Hit (Bloomberg)
• Peak California (Byrne Hobart)
• Goodbye, Silicon Valley, hello, Atlanta: Black entrepreneurs part of new migration to South (USA Today)
• 30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? (Tim Berners)
• The original Web proposal

Monday, March 11 2019 - How TikTok Is Different

• Nvidia to Buy Mellanox for $6.9 Billion in Data Center Push (Bloomberg)
• Landlords to Tesla: You’re Still on the Hook for Your Store Leases (WSJ)
• How TikTok Is Rewriting the World (NYTimes)
• Facebook vs. Apple (Slate)
• Facebook has a big, terrifying dream to be the communication backbone for the Western world (Business Insider)
• ELIZABETH WARREN WANTS TO BREAK UP APPLE, TOO (The Verge)
• Elizabeth Warren Wants To Break Up Amazon, Google And Facebook; But Does Her Plan Make Any Sense? (TechDirt)
• How to Enable Dark Mode Nearly Everywhere It’s Available Right Now (Gizmodo)

Friday, March 08 2019 - Senator Warren Wants To Break Up Big Tech

• Here’s how we can break up Big Tech (Warren For President)
• Airbnb Wanted Travelers To Stay In Homes. Now It’s Buying HotelTonight. (BuzzFeed News)
• Three Reasons Behind Airbnb’s Deal for HotelTonight (The Information)
• Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B (EdSurge)
• Combatting Vaccine Misinformation (Facebook Newsroom)

Thursday, March 07 2019 - Facebook Pivots To Privacy

• A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking (Mark Zuckerberg)
• A ‘privacy-focused’ Facebook would kill Zuckerberg’s business model (The Guardian)
• Facebook’s Privacy Cake (Stratechery)
• Mark Zuckerberg Tried Hard To Get Facebook Into China. Now The Company May Be Backing Away. (Buzzfeed News)
• Amazon’s joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven (CNBC)
• Huawei: US Congress acted as ‘judge, juror and executioner’ with ban on our products (CNN)
• Google brings its Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to 43 states (TechCrunch)
• How Bird plans to blanket the world with electric scooters without going bankrupt (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 06 2019 - This Podcast Is A Year Old!

• Fitbit’s new $160 Versa Lite is a stripped-down version of its entry-level smartwatch (The Verge)
• Fitbit kills Alta, Alta HR, Flex 2, and Zip (VentureBeat)
• Samsung Working on Two More Foldable Smartphones (Bloomberg)
• WANT A FOLDABLE PHONE? HOLD OUT FOR REAL GLASS (Wired)
• Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets (WSJ)
• Uber found not criminally liable in last year’s self-driving car death (QZ)
• Grab confirms $1.46B investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund (TechCrunch)
• Waymo Starts Selling Sensors to Lower Cost of Self-Driving Cars (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, March 05 2019 - Don’t Use “ji32k7au4a83” As A Password

• Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says (NYTimes)
• Microsoft is creating Windows Lite for dual-screen and Chromebook-like devices (The Verge)
• Apple acquires patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI (9to5Mac)
• Coinbase Pushes Out Ex-Hacking Team Employees Following Uproar (Coindesk)
• Coinbase Users Struggle to Delete Their Accounts in Protest (Motherboard)
• Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition (Coinbase Blog)
• Foxconn, a tale of slashed salaries, disappearing benefits and mass resignations as iPhone orders dry up (South China Morning Post)
• Big Media Isn’t Ready to Fight Back (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 5) (Redef)
• Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password (Gizmodo)

Monday, March 04 2019 - USB 4 Wishes and Password-Free Dreams

• Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting (TechCrunch)
• Scammers abused Facebook phone number search (BBC News)
• Huawei Said to Be Preparing to Sue the U.S. Government (NYTimes)
• Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (Fast Company)
• With USB 4, Thunderbolt 3’s benefits become open to all (The Verge)
• USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Specification (AP News)
• Harry McCracken’s Facebook tweet (Twitter)
• Facebook explains how it’ll review nude photos to stop revenge porn (The Verge)
• Facebook’s New CAPTCHA Test: ‘Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face’ (Wired)
• W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins (VentureBeat)

Friday, March 01 2019 - Lyft Files For Its IPO

• Lyft’s financials show a $911 million loss ahead of its IPO (CNBC)
• Amazon stops selling Dash buttons, goofy forerunners of the connected home (CNET)
• U.S. Music Industry Posts Third Straight Year of Double-Digit Growth as Streaming Soars 30% (Variety)
• Andrew Cuomo Speaks With Jeff Bezos, Hints of ‘Other Ways’ to Clear Path for Amazon’s Return (NYTimes)
• The $35,000 Tesla Model 3 has arrived—but it comes with a price (TechCrunch)

Thursday, February 28 2019 - Make Any Day Amazon Day

• Amazon Prime members can choose a weekly delivery date with launch of ‘Amazon Day’ (TechCrunch)
• Motorola confirms its foldable phone is coming (Engadget)
• Apple self-driving car layoffs hit 190 employees in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Apple shipped 9.2M Apple Watch units in Q4 2018 to capture half of market, report says (AppleInsider)
• Uber and Lyft drivers will reportedly get stock in the highly anticipated IPOs (CNBC)
• Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed (NYTimes)
• Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages (Venture Beat)

Wednesday, February 27 2019 - TikTok Bigger Than Instagram?

• Samsung’s new 512GB flash chip is twice as fast as its predecessor (Engadget)
• TikTok was bigger than Instagram last year after passing the 1 billion download mark (Business Insider)
• Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy (Google’s The Keyword Blog)
• FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot (The Verge)
• Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations (TechCrunch)
• As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills (The Information)
• Containers may be leading to cloud computing cost overruns (ZDNet)
• Rotten Tomatoes tweaks audience ratings system to thwart online trolls (LA Times)
• China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces (NYTimes)

Tuesday, February 26 2019 - Might the FTC Undo Some Tech Mergers?

• Apple Music Integration Possibly Coming to Google Home Devices (MacRumors)
• Apple Plans Sleep Tracking Feature for Future Watch (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that some employees say crosses a line (CNN Business)
• New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies (The Verge)
• Coinbase Lists Controversial Cryptocurrency XRP, Price Jumps 10% (Fortune)
• This 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it (The Verge)
• THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge)
• Facebook Grappling With Employee Anger Over Moderator Conditions (Bloomberg)

Monday, February 25 2019 - Mobile World Congress Headlines

• MICROSOFT’S HOLOLENS 2: A $3,500 MIXED REALITY HEADSET FOR THE FACTORY, NOT THE LIVING ROOM (The Verge)
• Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction (AnAndTech)
• I held the future in my hands, and it was foldable (The Verge)
• Sprint’s 5G network launches in May (The Verge)
• T-Mobile delays full 600MHz 5G launch until second half of 2019 (CNET)
• microSD Express unlocks hyper-fast data speeds for mobile devices (Engadget)
• SanDisk and Micron announce the world’s first 1TB microSD card (MSPowerUser.com)
• The latest Android devices now let you log into apps without requiring a password (The Verge)
• INSIDE THE ALEXA-FRIENDLY WORLD OF WIKIDATA (Wired)

Friday, February 22 2019 - The Most Acquisitive Unicorns

• Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo (TechCrunch)
• Samsung will extend Bixby button remapping to premium Galaxy phones running Android Pie (The Verge)
• Source: Google plans to announce long-rumored ‘Yeti’ hardware at GDC event (9to5Google)
• Airbnb, Automattic, And Pinterest Top Rank Of Most Acquisitive Unicorns (Crunchbase News)

Thursday, February 21 2019 - YouTube’s Ad Problem (Again) and Galaxy Reactions

• Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ hands-on (Engadget)
• You can remap the Bixby button on Samsung’s Galaxy S10 to do whatever you want (The Verge)
• The Galaxy Fold makes no sense as a consumer device yet (The Verge)
• Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone (WSJ)
• Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos (Bloomberg)
• On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight (Wired)
• Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it’s Being Monetized (2019) (Matt Watson, YouTube)
• YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following child exploitation controversy (The Verge)
• Close Enough (Slate)

Wednesday, February 20 2019 - Galaxy Fold!

• Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980 (The Verge)
• Xiaomi’s triple-camera Mi 9 has a fast 20W wireless charger (Engadget)
• Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was ‘never supposed to be a secret’ (Business Insider)
• Google Set To Unveil Netflix-Like Game Streaming Service (Fortune)
• Apple Plans on Combining iPhone, iPad, Mac Apps by 2021 (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, February 19 2019 - Why Emoji Are Screwing Up Legal Cases

• Before the first 5G phone is out, Qualcomm is already moving on to its second-gen 5G modem (The Verge)
• The US cannot crush us, says Huawei founder (BBC News)
• How Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets (The Information)
• Walmart’s US e-commerce sales up 43% in Q4, thanks to growing online grocery business (TechCrunch)
• Key Investors Are Unhappy With SoftBank Tech-Investment Fund (WSJ)
• Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing (Coindesk)
• Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared (The Verge)

Monday, February 18 2019 - Ming-Chi Kuo: Here’s Apple’s Entire 2019 Lineup

• UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook (TechCrunch)
• Australia’s major political parties hacked in ‘sophisticated’ attack ahead of election (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Kuo: 16-inch MacBook Pro, 31-inch 6K display, iPhones w/ upgraded Face ID & bilateral wireless charging coming in 2019 (9to5Mac)
• Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu (BoingBoing)
• Elroy Air raises $9.2 million for delivery drones that can carry up to 500 pounds (VentureBeat)
• Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder (Ars Technica)

Friday, February 15 2019 - FTC To Fine Facebook?

• The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses (The Washington Post)
• Amazon’s Escape From New York (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Copyright Office Refuses Registration for ‘Fresh Prince’ Star Alfonso Ribeiro’s “Carlton Dance” (The Hollywood Reporter)
• HSBC forex trading costs cut sharply by blockchain - executive (Reuters)
• Samsung leaks entire new wearables lineup through its own app (The Verge)

Thursday, February 14 2019 - Amazon to NYC: Drop Dead!

• Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters (NYTimes)
• JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform payments business (CNBC)
• Google plans cheaper smartphone to draw users into internet empire (Nikkei Asian Review)
• Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones (Reuters)
• Lee Clow, mastermind behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ & ‘Get a Mac’ campaigns retires (9to5Mac)

Wednesday, February 13 2019 - Apple’s Event About Services. But Which Ones?

• Apple Plans News Event For March 25 (BuzzFeed News)
• Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service (WSJ)
• The former Apple lawyer who was supposed to keep employees from insider trading has been charged with insider trading (CNBC)
• Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills (The Verge)
• Activision Blizzard cuts hundreds of jobs despite ‘record revenue’ year (Polygon)
• Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out… oh heck – April 6, 2019 (The Register)

Tuesday, February 12 2019 - Amazon Buys Eero

• Why Amazon buying Eero feels so disappointing (The Verge)
• Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed (Bloomberg)
• Apple Taps iPhone Executive to Be First Head of Marketing for AR (Bloomberg)
• Apple fails to block porn & gambling “Enterprise” apps (TechCrunch)
• More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test (MIT Technology Review)
• Apex Legends Quickly Surpasses Fortnite (Thurrott.com)

Monday, February 11 2019 - Trump Wants US To Get Serious About AI

• Trump to lay out an AI plan (Axios)
• US military equipped with tiny spy drones (ZDNet)
• It’s the Real World—With Google Maps Layered on Top (WSJ)
• The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you (Recode)
• Reddit raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation — now it’s ready to take on Facebook and Google (CNBC)
• Driverless delivery startup Nuro gets $940 million SoftBank investment (Reuters)
• Apple teaming up with US Department of Veterans Affairs to bring digital health records to iPhone (9to5Mac)
• When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big (The Atlantic)

Friday, February 08 2019 - The Jeff Bezos Stuff

• No thank you, Mr. Pecker (Jeff Bezos on Medium)
• Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters site, two officials say (Washington Post)
• Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding (Engadget)
• Google warns about two iOS zero-days ‘exploited in the wild’ (ZDNet)
• Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times? (NYMag)
• Amid bad news in the industry, Business Insider parent says it crossed $100m revenue mark and is profitable (Digiday)

Thursday, February 07 2019 - Facebook Dinged In Germany; Killin’ It In China

• Facebook ordered by Germany to gather and mix less data (BBC)
• How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money (NYTimes)
• Twitter Q4 Earnings (TechCrunch)
• Skype Can Now Blur Your Background So You Don’t Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room (Gizmodo)
• Car subscription service Cluno scores $28M in Series B funding (TechCrunch)
• Another self-driving car startup is starting small, and that’s a good thing (The Verge)
• Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing (The Register)

Wednesday, February 06 2019 - Spotify Makes A Big Move Into Podcasting

• Spotify has bought two podcast startups and it wants to buy more (ReCode)
• Relaxation app Calm raises $88 million, valuing it $1 billion (CNBC)
• Facebook’s top PR exec is leaving (ReCode)
• 230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019 (EmojiPedia)
• Programmer finds ridiculous ATM loophole that let him withdraw $1 million in cash (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 05 2019 - Facebook Turns Fifteen

• Being Google is getting very expensive (QZ)
• Zuckerberg’s Facebook Post
• Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace: Sources (Cheddar)
• Boring Game Plus New Orleans Rebellion Leads to Ratings Drop (NYTimes)
• ‘Fortnite’ Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event (Forbes)
• iPhone XR Review (AnAndTech)
• Amazon Alexa Now Lets You Choose Your Own Adventure (Geek.com)

Monday, February 04 2019 - Why CAPTCHA’s Have Gotten So Difficult

• Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Live cross-platform gaming to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and more (WindowsCentral)
• Slack confidentially files to go public (CNBC)
• Crypto Exchange Says It Can’t Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password (Gizmodo)
• Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued (NYTimes)
• MacBook keyboard failures could end with introduction of glass panel keyboards (AppleInsider)
• WHY CAPTCHAS HAVE GOTTEN SO DIFFICULT (The Verge)

Friday, February 01 2019 - The Apple/Facebook/Google Cold War

• Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment (TechCrunch)
• Twitter removed some accounts originating in Iran, Russia and Venezuela that targeted U.S. midterm election (The Washington Post)
• Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Why the Outlook for Digital Media Behemoths is Worse than You Think (Talking Points Memo)
• Amazon Notches Third Record Profit in a Row (WSJ)
• Americans are lining up to work for Amazon for $15 an hour (QZ)
• Why Alexa usually won’t respond when someone says ‘Alexa’ on TV (VentureBeat)

Thursday, January 31 2019 - Facebook’s Still Making Bank

• Mark Zuckerberg wants to get back to building new Facebook products (ReCode)
• Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast despite strong holiday season (The Verge)
• Apple Is Planning 3-D Cameras for New iPhones in AR Push (Bloomberg)
• HACKERS ARE PASSING AROUND A MEGALEAK OF 2.2 BILLION RECORDS (Wired)
• Hulu announces a new ad unit that appears when you pause (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 30 2019 - Facebook “Slaps Apple In The Face”

• Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them (TechCrunch)
• Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (The Verge)
• Apple Reports First Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)
• Report: Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017 (Washington Post)
• 1TB phones are coming and I’m so f***ing ready (TNW)

Tuesday, January 29 2019 - The FaceTime Bug

• Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up (9to5Mac)
• U.S. Charges Huawei With Stealing Trade Secrets, Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
• BitTorrent Tokens Sold Out in Under 15 Minutes, Netting Over $7 Mln (CoinTelegraph)
• Bluetooth gains ‘direction finding’ for location accuracy to the centimeter (VentureBeat)
• After backlash, BuzzFeed says it will pay out earned paid time off to laid off employees (CNN Business)
• Aiming to change the way people take medicine, Lyndra Therapeutics raises $55 million (TechCrunch)

Monday, January 28 2019 - An Apple Subscription Gaming Service?

• Apple Plans Gaming Subscription Service: Sources (Cheddar)
• A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ (NYTimes)
• China created a unicorn every 3.8 days in 2018 (South China Morning Post)
• [China’s smartphone shipments dropped 14 percent in 2018](https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/chinas-smartphone-shipments-dropped-14-percent-in-2018/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch) (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name (Bloomberg)
• Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complain claims (TechCrunch)
• AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee (IEEE Spectrum)

Friday, January 25 2019 - AI Can Beat Us At Starcraft II Too (Also?)

• Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (NYTimes)
• Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money (Reveal)
• Facebook ignored kids’ spending problems, internal documents reveal (BBC News)
• DeepMind AI Challenges Pro StarCraft II Players, Wins Almost Every Match (ExtremeTech)
• Coming to a TV near you: personalized ads (Axios)

Thursday, January 24 2019 - Your Flying Car Is Here

• China Appears to Block Microsoft’s Bing as Censorship Intensifies (NYTimes)
• Sonos Plans Headphones in Move Outside the Home (Bloomberg)
• Boeing’s ‘flying car’ lifts off in race to revolutionize urban transport (VentureBeat)
• The U.S. Government Shutdown Has Delivered A Surprise Blow To Bitcoin (Forbes)
• Apple just dismissed more than 200 employees from Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle group (CNBC)
• Verizon Media Group is laying off 7% of its staff (CNBC)
• BuzzFeed is laying off more than 200 people, its second round of cuts in 14 months (Recode)

Wednesday, January 23 2019 - Jony Ive’s Dream Phone Concept

• YouTube TV finally goes nationwide almost two years after launch (The Verge)
• Hulu drops to just $5.99 per month after Netflix’s price hikes (The Verge)
• Waymo says it will build self-driving cars in Michigan (Reuters)
• Xiaomi’s flexible phone concept folds on both sides (Engadget)
• Meizu Zero debuts with no physical buttons, speaker or charging port (GSMarena)
• Millions and Billions | Celebrating Patrons, Creators, and Major Milestones (Patreon Blog)
• Digitimes: AirPods 2 launching in first half of this year, redesigned to support ‘health monitoring’ features (9to5Mac)
• Spotify Will Soon Let You Block Artists (Thurrot.com)
• The economics of streaming is making songs shorter (QZ)
• Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? (The Ringer)

Tuesday, January 22 2019 - Munchery Enters the Deadpool

• Munchery closes on-demand meal-delivery business (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Foxconn Looks Beyond China to India for iPhone Assembly (WSJ)
• Apple Supplier in Japan Looks to Taiwan for Bailout After iPhone XR Letdown (WSJ)
• Apple Pay coming to Target, Taco Bell and more top US retail locations (Apple Newsroom)
• Netflix in advanced talks to join major Hollywood lobbying group (Politico)
• Rosetta Stone for iPhone adds AI to identify objects for live translations (VentureBeat)
• FENDER’S NEW ACOUSTIC GUITAR HAS A MILLION DIFFERENT VOICES (Wired)

Monday, January 21 2019 - Email is Back, Baby!

• French data protection watchdog fines Google $57 million under the GDPR (TechCrunch)
• Copyright negotiations hit a brick wall in Council (Julia Reda)
• Uber is exploring autonomous bikes and scooters (TechCrunch)
• A POKER-PLAYING ROBOT GOES TO WORK FOR THE PENTAGON (Wired)
• Amazon helped 50,000 SMBs generate $500,000 in sales (Neowin)
• The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email (WSJ)

Friday, January 18 2019 - Gadget Reviews Now Mean Sneaker Reviews

• Netflix beats on subscriber growth, but misses slightly on revenue — stock falls after hours (CNBC)
• It’s Official: Satya Nadella Confirms Cortana Defeat (Thurrott)
• Nike’s auto-laced future (TechCrunch)
• NIKE’S NEW SELF-LACING BASKETBALL SHOE IS ACTUALLY SMART (Wired)

Thursday, January 17 2019 - Tim Cook Sayz: Regulate THOSE Guys

• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia (Facebook Newsroom)
• You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It (Time)
• I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can’t Stay Silent About What’s Happening. (Time)
• Huawei Targeted in U.S. Criminal Probe for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets (WSJ)
• HACK BRIEF: AN ASTONISHING 773 MILLION RECORDS EXPOSED IN MONSTER BREACH (Wired)
• AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project (GeekWire)
• Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 16 2019 - Razr’s Coming Back To Usher in the Foldable Phone Era

• WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork (WSJ)
• Apple is in talks with private Medicare plans about bringing its watch to at-risk seniors (CNBC)
• App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts (ZDNet)
• FACEBOOK’S ‘10 YEAR CHALLENGE’ IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT? (Wired)
• Madagascar has become a business outsourcing hotspot thanks to its super-fast internet (QZ Africa)
• Return of the Razr—With a Foldable Screen and $1,500 Price (WSJ)

Tuesday, January 15 2019 - Netflix Raises Prices

• Netflix will raise prices for US subscribers, with its most popular plan going up to $13 per month (TechCrunch)
• Apple Q1 Numbers: Missing Explanations (Monday Note)
• ON APPLE’S $29 IPHONE BATTERY REPLACEMENT PROGRAM AND ITS ROLE IN THEIR EARNINGS MISS (Daring Fireball)
• MongoDB Follow-up, AWS’ Incentives, Batteries: The iPhone’s Missing Miss (Stratechery)
• Apple’s 5G iPhone shift bogged down by Qualcomm chip battle (CNET)
• German court throws out Qualcomm’s latest patent case against Apple (Reuters)
• Feds Can’t Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules (Forbes)
• Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare (GeekWire)

Monday, January 14 2019 - Am I Gonna Do That Egg Instagram Story?

• Facebook’s new Stories feature for event sharing actually sounds useful (The Verge)
• CES 2019: A Show Report (Learn By Shipping)
• SoundGuys: USB-C audio is dead (Android Authority)
• Wiliot nabs $30M from Amazon, Avery Dennison, Samsung for a chip that runs on power from ambient radio frequencies (TechCrunch)
• The rise of Alexa creates a dilemma for your open plan office (Wired)
• A Picture Of An Egg Beat Kylie Jenner For The Most Liked Instagram Of All Time (BuzzFeed News)

Friday, January 11 2019 - Mooaaarrr… Cameras on Smartphones!

• I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Motherboard)
• AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation (Washington Post)
• Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct (Bloomberg)
• Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down (ZDNet)
• Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras (WSJ)
• Amazon Developing Game Streaming Service (The Information)

Thursday, January 10 2019 - Foldable Phones Have An Arrival Date

• Samsung to Show Off Its New Foldable Phone in February (WSJ)
• Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database (GeekWire)
• Google Nears Win in Europe Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ (WSJ)
• Google Only Has to Respect Your ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ in the EU, Court Says (Gizmodo)
• 2019 is already full of weird and wonderful monitors (The Verge)
• Government shutdown halts FCC device approvals (Axios)
• How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong (WSJ)

Wednesday, January 09 2019 - Google Assistant Everywhere!

• GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge)
• The world’s first foldable phone is charmingly awful (The Verge)
• Twitter hopes you want to watch NBA games from a camera focused on just one player (Recode)
• Zuckerberg’s 2019 Challenge Post
• VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era (GeekWire)
• Venture Capital Funding Report 2018 (CBInsights)
• Cable operators will fight off 5G with 10-gigabit cable modems (VentureBeat)
• This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise (Fast Company)

Tuesday, January 08 2019 - Smartphone Recession?

• Sorry, Samsung. Seems nobody is immune to peak smartphone (The Register)
• Apple’s Errors (Stratechery)
• Sony doubles down on 8K TVs and the entertainment to play on them (VentureBeat)
• AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates (Ars Technica)
• Uber’s Confidential Documents Show Path to $90 Billion IPO (The Information)
• Exclusive: WeWork rebrands to The We Company; CEO Neumann talks about revised SoftBank round (Fast Company)
• Amazon’s new ad strategy: Free samples based on what it knows about you (Axios)

Monday, January 07 2019 - Is Apple’s Resolution Hardware Agnosticism?

• Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs (The Verge)
• Google Assistant will soon be on a billion devices, and feature phones are next (The Verge)
• Everything you may have missed from Nvidia’s CES keynote (Techspot)
• HP Launches First-Ever AMD Chromebook (LaptopMag)
• Withings undercuts Apple Watch, debuts $129 ECG monitoring smartwatch (Ars Technica)
• LG’s groundbreaking roll-up TV is going on sale this year (The Verge)
• Keeping up with Netflix originals is basically a part-time job now (QZ)

Friday, January 04 2019 - The Verge vs. AT&T And L.A. vs. The Weather Channel app

• AT&T tries to trademark ‘Verge TV’ as if we’re going to let them get away with it (The Verge)
• Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data (NYTimes)
• D-Link debuts a 5G Wi-Fi router with 40 times wired broadband speeds (Venture Beat)
• BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON (The Verge)

Thursday, January 03 2019 - Apple-ocalypse Now?

• Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors
• Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit (NYTimes)
• Segway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot (TechCrunch)
• What to expect from CES 2019 (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 02 2019 - What would I have to pay you to give up Facebook for a year?

• Activision Plans to Fire CFO Neumann, Puts Him on Paid Leave (Bloomberg)
• ROKU BREAKS FREE FROM BOXES AND TVS (Wired)
• Tesla slashes EV prices by $2,000 to offset reduced tax credits (Engadget)
• Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study (Ars Technica)
• Popsugar’s Twinning app was leaking everyone’s uploaded photos (TechCrunch)
• HOW THE SURPRISE NEW INTERACTIVE BLACK MIRROR CAME TOGETHER (Wired)