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Wednesday, December 30 2020 - Wed. 12/30 – Apple Loses A Copyright Lawsuit

Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium (Washington Post)
Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram (TechCrunch)
Amazon’s advertising business booms in pandemic (FT)
Apple iPhone Devices Sweep 9 of Top 10 Devices on Christmas 2020 (Flurry)

Tuesday, December 29 2020 - Tue. 12/29 – Coinbase To Suspend Trading of XRP

Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple (CoinDesk)
Ant Considers Holding Company With Regulation Similar to Bank, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet (Bloomberg)
Qualtrics Files for U.S. IPO Two Years After Sale to SAP (Bloomberg)
Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis (NBC News)
TV Ratings: First Streaming-Only NFL Game Scores Solid Numbers for Amazon (Variety)

Monday, December 28 2020 - Mon. 12/28 – After Jack Ma, Is China Freezing Its Entire Tech Sector?

Wednesday, December 23 2020 - Wed. 12/23 – XRP, The 3rd Biggest Cryptocurrency Might Be In Big Trouble

SEC Sues Ripple Over 7-Year, $1.3B ‘Ongoing’ XRP Sale (CoinDesk)
Biden @POTUS Account Reset to Zero With Trump Followers Out (Bloomberg)
Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app (TechCrunch)
Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (The Information)
Apple Patent reveals new Through-Body’ input for AirPods allowing users to control functionality by touching their face, clicking their teeth & more (Patently Apple)

Tuesday, December 22 2020 - Tue. 12/22 – Why I Think The Apple Car Is For Real

Monday, December 21 2020 - Mon. 12/21 – Big Day For Real Estate Tech

Opendoor Rides SPAC Deal to Lofty $18 Billion Valuation at Market Debut (The Information)
Real estate software and data analytics company RealPage to be acquired for $10.2 billion (VentureBeat)
Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning (Wired)
Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs (Bloomberg)
U.S. States Weighs New Google Suit Over App Store Fees (Bloomberg)
THE WORLD’S FIRST UNDER-DISPLAY SELFIE CAMERA ISN’T VERY GOOD (The Verge)
Sketchy Report Says Apple Car is Years Ahead of Schedule, Will Debut Next Year (MacRumors)

Friday, December 18 2020 - Fri. 12/18 – Chinese Drone Maker DJI Blacklisted By The US

US government adds DJI to Commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government (The Verge)
Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices (The Verge)
Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing (TechCrunch)
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and offering full refunds (The Verge)
Source Code newsletter
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response (Microsoft Blog)
Coinbase announces IPO in a milestone for the crypto industry (Fortune)

Thursday, December 17 2020 - Thu. 12/17 – The Apple-Facebook Cold War Is Getting Hot

Wednesday, December 16 2020 - Wed. 12/16 – Google’s Stadia Arrives on iOS and iPadOS In Beta

Stadia comes to the iPhone and iPad with new iOS beta (The Verge)
Investors in breached software firm SolarWinds traded $280 million in stock days before hack was revealed (The Washington Post)
Microsoft starts rolling out native Microsoft 365 for Mac apps for Macs with M1 (ZDNet)
Firefox Updated With Native Support for M1 Macs, Mozilla Touts ‘Dramatic Performance Improvements’ (MacRumors)
Exclusive: States close to filing new Google antitrust suit (Politico)
Bitcoin Hits Record Above $20K as Analysts Remain Confident of Future (Coindesk)
APPLE AIRPODS MAX REVIEW: LUXURIOUS SOUND FOR A LUXURY PRICE (The Verge)
I’m so excited about this board games console I just peed a little (TNW)

Tuesday, December 15 2020 - Tue. 12/15 – Europe’s Big New Rules for Big Tech

Monday, December 14 2020 - Mon. 12/14 – The “10-out-of-10” US Treasury/SolarWinds Hack

Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails - sources (Reuters)
U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Linked to Russia (WSJ)
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform (Vice)
Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service (Bloomberg)
Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ (NYTimes)
Sizzling Tech IPO Market Leaves Investors Befuddled (WSJ)
Jony Ive is reportedly in the running to take the driver’s seat at Ferrari (Cult of Mac)
Ferrari’s Camilleri will be a hard act to follow (Reuters)

Saturday, December 12 2020 - The Future of Video With A16Z’s Connie Chan

Friday, December 11 2020 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit More Expensive

Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 (The Verge)
‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming (NYTimes)
Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion (CNBC)
x64 emulation has come to Windows on ARM (The Verge)
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says (Bloomberg)

Thursday, December 10 2020 - Thu. 12/10 – The Big Facebook Antitrust Cases, Explained

Wednesday, December 09 2020 - Wed. 12/09 – FireEye Says It Got Hacked By A Nation State

U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers (WSJ)
Microsoft confirms Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in spring 2021 (9to5Mac)
Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public (9to5Google)
Here are the official Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra teasers (Android Police)
DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share (CNBC)
Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit to AI Chief (Bloomberg)
The state of European tech 2020: 20 things you should know (Sifted)
Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely (TechCrunch)
Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic (TechCrunch)
San Francisco’s 35% Plunge in Rents Shows Effects of Tech Fleeing City (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 08 2020 - Tue. 12/08 – Apple’s $549 AirPods Max

Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design (Apple Newsroom)
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol (TechCrunch)
Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow (The Verge)
Samsung’s SmartThings can finally control your Google Nest devices (The Verge)
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband (GeekWire)
Uber sells its self-driving unit to Aurora (CNBC)
Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as “Worst Streaming Service,” Denounces Warner Bros.’ Plan (The Hollywood Reporter)
‘Dune’ Producer Legendary Entertainment May Sue Warner Bros. Over HBO Max Deal (Variety)

Monday, December 07 2020 - Mon. 12/7 – ARMpocalypse Soon For The Entire Mac Lineup?

Saturday, December 05 2020 - (Bonus) Peter Kafka on Media, Hollywood, Substack and TikTok

Friday, December 04 2020 - Fri. 12/04 – CRACK! Warners Blows Up The (Traditional) Hollywood Business Model

Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max (The Verge)
WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business (Recode)
Stripe to Offer Banking Services in Deal With Goldman Sachs, Citigroup (WSJ)
Stripe: Platform of Platforms (Stratechery)
China Stakes Its Claim to Quantum Supremacy (Wired)
Triton’s latest submarine puts six people in a bubble, 3,300 feet under (New Atlas)

Thursday, December 03 2020 - Thu. 12/03 – A Law To Turn Crypto Basic?

US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters (Coindesk)
PhonePe raises $700 million, becomes a separate entity (TechCrunch)
FedEx to Buy ShopRunner in Quest for Closer E-Commerce Ties (Bloomberg)
U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources (Reuters)
Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI (The Verge)
Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’ (Wired)
Hulu’s Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers (The Verge)
Google Maps now lets you create Street View photos with just a phone (The Verge)

Wednesday, December 02 2020 - Wed. 12/2 – A Salesforce/Slack Deal Analysis

Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal (TechCrunch)
Why Salesforce bought Slack (Divinations)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston (CNBC)
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 is a glimpse into how much better your next Android phone will be (CNET)
Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines (FT)
Techmeme Snapshot of re:Invent headlines (Techmeme)
Wyze announces $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life (The Verge)
Looking Glass’s next product is a holographic digital photo frame (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, December 01 2020 - Amazon Launches EC2 Mac Instances

AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud (TechCrunch)
Libra Rebrands to ‘Diem’ in Anticipation of 2021 Launch (CoinDesk)
Airbnb seeks valuation of up to $35 billion in its IPO (CNBC)
Samsung may discontinue high-end Galaxy Note smartphones - sources (Reuters)
Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms (WSJ)
London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery (NYTimes)
AI Protein Breakthrough Tweetstorm (@adamRutherford)
Varjo’s lidar-enabled XR-3 VR headset shows where VR and AR are bound to blend (CNET)
Justices express qualms about sweeping computer crime law (Politico)

Monday, November 30 2020 - Mon. 11/30 – DoorDash’s IPO Seems To Be Cresting The Wave

DoorDash seeks valuation of up to $32 billion in IPO, double what it was in June (CNBC)
Airbnb, DoorDash Aim for Higher-Than-Expected Valuations Ahead of Debuts (WSJ)
Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close (CNBC)
U.K. Bans Installation of Huawei 5G Gear From September (Bloomberg)
Bitcoin Hits New Record, This Time With Less Talk of a Bubble (NYTimes)
SAMSUNG’S ODYSSEY G9 DOES THE WORK OF THREE MONITORS (The Verge)
Apple Suppliers’ Exodus From China Won’t Slow Down Under Biden (Bloomberg)
Tony Hsieh, RIP (Om.co)
Tony. (Paul Bradley Carr)
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Legacy, From Tech Leaders Who Knew Him Well (Forbes)

Wednesday, November 25 2020 - Wed. 11/25 – The Blue Checkmarks Are Returning To Twitter

Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy (TechCrunch)
Payments Startup Stripe in Talks for Funding at $70 Billion Valuation or More (Bloomberg)
MacBook Pro 16-inch M1X chip just leaked — and it’s game over for Intel (Tom’s Guide)
Kuo: iPhone 12 demand strong, new form factor Apple Watch and MacBooks in late 2021 (9to5Mac)
Ethereum 2.0’s Genesis Day Is Officially Set for Dec. 1 (Coindesk)

Tuesday, November 24 2020 - Tue. 11/24 – Apple’s Head Of Global Security Indicted On Bribery Charges

Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes (PaloAltoOnline)
Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth (NYTimes)
OnlyFans Chief Talks Sports Ambitions and Role of Adult Content in Site (The Information)
Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person behind Jeff Bezos (The Verge)
SPACEX MARS CITY: WERNER HERZOG ISSUES A STARK WARNING TO ELON MUSK (Inverse)

Monday, November 23 2020 - Snapchat Launches Spotlight, A TikTok Clone

Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators (TechCrunch)
Facebook Ads Could Be Reaching Saturation Point (WSJ)
BuzzFeed to Acquire HuffPost in Stock Deal With Verizon Media (WSJ)
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism (NYTimes)
Bots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork—and They’re Often Wrong (WSJ)
Data Heroes of Covid Tracking Project Are Still Filling U.S. Government Void (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Saturday, November 21 2020 - (Bonus) Office Hours With Chris Messina

Friday, November 20 2020 - Fri. 11/20 – Facebook And Apple Trade Schoolyard Taunts

Apple doubles down on upcoming iOS 14 privacy features, slams Facebook for collecting ‘as much data as possible’ (9to5Mac)
Roblox files for its IPO (Axios)
Stadia will be playable on iOS via Safari in the coming ‘weeks’ (9to5Google)
Robotaxi companies get the green light to charge for rides in California (TechCrunch)

Thursday, November 19 2020 - Thu. 11/19 – Google Pay Pivots In An Interesting Way

Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance (TechCrunch)
YouTube will run ads on some creator videos, but it won’t give them any of the revenue (The Verge)
Affirm drops S-1, revealing sharply rising revenue on a narrower net loss (FinLedger.com)
Apple to pay $113 million to settle state investigation into iPhone ‘batterygate’ (The Washington Post)
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service launches on iOS as a web app (The Verge)
Pixelmator Pro gets update for M1 Macs (The Verge)
Apple releases forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS Big Sur (VentureBeat)
The iPhone 12 Pro Max: Real Pro Photography (Halide Blog)
Apple embraces iOS 14 home screen customization by fixing how app shortcuts work (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, November 18 2020 - Wed. 11/18 – Crack! Apple Cuts Its App Store Vig In Half

Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st (The Verge)
‘Fortnite’ now offers Houseparty video calls on PC, PS4 and PS5 (Engadget)
Robinhood Seeks Advisers for Potential IPO Next Year (Bloomberg)
Marissa Mayer wants to clean up your contacts, and that’s just for starters (Fast Company)
Beats debuts new glow-in-the-dark Powerbeats, available from Apple starting tomorrow (9to5Mac)
Beats launches a glow-in-the-dark pair of Powerbeats for $200 (The Verge)
Yubo could be the next big social app as it raises $47.5 million (TechCrunch)
Not Dead Yet: News Site Mistakenly Runs Dozens of V.I.P. Obituaries (NYTimes)

Tuesday, November 17 2020 - Tue. 11/17 – Amazon Pharmacy Aims To Conquer Another Huge Retail Sector

Amazon jumps into the pharmacy business with online prescription fulfillment, free delivery for Prime members (CNBC)
Twitter rolls out Stories, aka ‘Fleets,’ to all users; will also test a Clubhouse rival (TechCrunch)
Airbnb files to go public, turned a profit last quarter (CNBC)
Adobe releases Arm beta version of Photoshop for Windows and macOS (The Verge)
APPLE MAC MINI WITH M1 REVIEW: OVER-PERFORMER (The Verge)
APPLE MACBOOK PRO WITH M1 REVIEW: FLEXING ARM (The Verge)
MacBook Air M1 review: Faster than most PCs, no fan required (Engadget)
Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 16 2020 - Mon. 11/16 – Is Big Sur Apple’s Vista?

macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models (MacRumors)
Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac in Single Core Benchmark (MacRumors)
Exclusive: Specs and features of Samsung’s Galaxy S21 smartphones (Android Police)
Nvidia launches A100 80GB GPU for supercomputers (VentureBeat)
Samsung’s new Smart Monitor is like a TV for your PC (The Verge)
HBO Max Is Finally Coming to Amazon Fire TV (Variety)
‘Godspeed’: 4 astronauts make history as SpaceX’s ‘Resilience’ launches for International Space Station (USAToday)

Friday, November 13 2020 - Fri. 11/13 – The DoorDash S-1 Is Surprisingly Good

DoorDash files to go public (TechCrunch)
U.S. Backs Down on TikTok (WSJ)
China’s President Xi Jinping Personally Scuttled Jack Ma’s Ant IPO (WSJ)
macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs (Ars Technica)
Disney Plus Hits 73.7 Million Subscribers As They Reach Their One-Year Anniversary (The Streamable)

Thursday, November 12 2020 - Thu. 11/12 – The Google Photos Free-For-All Is Over

Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 (The Verge)
Google warns Google Drive users: Use it, or lose your files (Mashable)
Google Photos Just Made the Case for Breaking Up Big Tech (OneZero)
Apple updates TestFlight beta testing app with support for automatic updates (9to5Mac)
Amazon Alexa Care Hub update will make it easier to help aging family members (CNBC)
Railsbank, the Banking-as-a-Service, raises $37M in growth funding (TechCrunch)
APPLE HOMEPOD MINI REVIEW: PLAYING SMALL BALL (The Verge)

Wednesday, November 11 2020 - Wed. 11/11 – Groundhog Day! Is TikTok Going Dark Tomorrow?

TikTok hasn’t heard from the Trump administration in weeks, prompting latest CFIUS petition (CNBC)
Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 - What to Expect, Based on A14 (AnAndTech)
Samsung tops U.S. smartphone market in Q3: report (Yonhap News Agency)
Roku Adds Apple AirPlay to 4K Devices, Which Gives Users New Workaround to Stream HBO Max and Other Mobile Apps (Variety)
Ring recalls 350,000 smart doorbells after some of them caught fire (CNN Business)
VIRGIN HYPERLOOP HITS AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE: THE FIRST HUMAN PASSENGER TEST (The Verge)
China drafts new antitrust guideline to rein in tech giants, wiping US$102 billion from Alibaba, Tencent and Meituan stocks (South China Morning Post)

Tuesday, November 10 2020 - Tue. 11/10 – The Apple Silicon Macs Are Here

EU accuses Amazon of breaching antitrust rules (FT)
Slingbox discontinued, services sunsetting (SlashGear)
Walmart and Cruise launch pilot to deliver orders via self-driving cars (Venture Beat)
Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 09 2020 - Mon. 11/09 – Apple Mad At Pegatron

Apple Freezes New Business for Pegatron on China Labor Abuse (Bloomberg)
Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks are getting crushed on the positive vaccine news (CNBC)
Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021 (Android Police)
SoftBank Recovery Gains Ground With Vision Fund’s Record Profit (Bloomberg)
Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
‘Awakened a sleeping giant’: Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook (Washington Examiner)
Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what? (Protocol)

Saturday, November 07 2020 - Son Of The Call-in-a-ning

Friday, November 06 2020 - 11/06 – Is It Too Soon To Start Talking About iPhone 13?

Kuo: iPhone 13 to Come in Same Four Model Sizes As iPhone 12, Pro Models to Feature Major Upgrade to Ultra Wide Camera (MacRumors)
Sizing up the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max (The Verge)
DOJ files antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid (TechCrunch)
PLAYSTATION 5 REVIEW: A BIG, CONFIDENT STEP INTO NEXT GEN (The Verge)

Thursday, November 05 2020 - WhatsApp Gets Disappearing Messages Ten Years After Snapchat!

WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days (TechCrunch)
DJI Mini 2 drone arrives with 4K camera and ultra-portable design (SlashGear)
Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service (BBCNews)
Ethereum 2.0 Set to Launch on December 1 (Decrypt)
‘The party is pushing back’: why Beijing reined in Jack Ma and Ant (FT)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Seeks to Raise Cash at $180 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Razer’s first mainstream laptop still has an RGB keyboard (Engadget)
XBOX SERIES X REVIEW: A NEXT-GEN PC (The Verge)

Wednesday, November 04 2020 - Wed. 11/04 – Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, et al Win In California

Tuesday, November 03 2020 - Tue. 11/03 – Apple Silicon Coming To MacBook Pros Already?

Apple to Launch MacBooks With Own Chips Next Week (Bloomberg)
China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster I.P.O. (NYTimes)
China Halts Ant’s Record IPO, Throwing Ma’s Empire Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)
AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances (TechCrunch)
Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves (WSJ)
NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” (Ars Technica)
Spotify will now allow artists and labels to promote tracks in your recommendations (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 02 2020 - Raspberry Pi Launches the Raspberry Pi 400

The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer (The Verge)
What to Expect From Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Election Day (NYTimes)
Huawei develops plan for chip plant to help beat US sanctions (FT)
Tencent claims record 100M daily users on mobile game Honor of Kings (TechCrunch)
What it’s like to get locked out of Google indefinitely (Business Insider)

Friday, October 30 2020 - Fri. 10/30 – Netflix Raises Prices

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 (The Verge)
Google One’s 2TB+ plans adding Android VPN, coming to iOS & Mac/Windows soon (9to5Google)
SmartThings Find app can track down lost Samsung Galaxy devices (Engadget)
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)

Thursday, October 29 2020 - Thu. 10/29 – Troubling Ransomware Attacks On Hospitals

Building wave of ransomware attacks strike U.S. hospitals (Reuters)
AMD’s new Radeon RX 6800 XT promises to go head to head with Nvidia’s RTX 3080 (The Verge)
It’s Official- Marvell Acquiring Inphi For $10B That Boosts Its Cloud And 5G Opportunities (Forbes)
Honeywell announces its H1 quantum computer with 10 qubits (TechCrunch)
Honeywell introduces quantum computing as a service with subscription offering (ZDNet)
Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed ‘Sun Valley’ (Windows Central)
Samsung posts highest-ever quarterly revenue as demand roars back (CNET)
Kuo: iPhone 12 Pro Demand Higher Than Expected (MacRumors)
Genshin Impact made $245m in its first month on mobile alone (GamesIndustry.biz)
Amazon Argues Users Don’t Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content (The Hollywood Reporter)

Wednesday, October 28 2020 - Wed. 10/28 – Does The iPhone 12 Have A Secret Reverse Wireless Charging Feature?

Tuesday, October 27 2020 - Tue. 10/27 – AMD Buys Xilinx for $35 Billion

AMD Acquiring Xilinx In Bold, $35B Semiconductor Mega-Deal (Forbes)
UK announces ban on sale of network-locked phones (Android Authority)
Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally (TechCrunch)
Zoom’s end-to-end encryption has arrived (The Verge)
Porn is about to get uncomfortably high-res thanks to new OLED tech (Input)
The No-Code Generation is arriving (TechCrunch)

Monday, October 26 2020 - Mon. 10/26 – New AirPods And AirPods Pro This Spring?

Saturday, October 24 2020 - (Bonus) Joshua Schachter And The del.icio.us Story

BitTrustIRA.com/techmeme
Monday.com/ride
NewYorker.com/techmeme (The New Yorker)

Friday, October 23 2020 - Fri. 10/23 – What If PayPal Goes Big In Crypto?

PayPal in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo (Bloomberg)
Uber, Lyft likely violated California labor law, appeals court finds (NBCNews)
Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it. (Recode)
YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can’t Place Them All (Bloomberg)

Thursday, October 22 2020 - Thu. 10/22 – Quibi QUIckly BItes The Dust

Quibi’s Open Letter
Quibi Is Shutting Down Barely Six Months After Going Live (WSJ)
In defense of Quibi (Recode)
Airbnb announces multi-year partnership with Jony Ive, a year after leaving Apple (9to5Mac)
Huawei’s Mate 40 Pro is another powerful flagship that you won’t buy (Engadget)
Snapchat doubles down on India with new original series, games (The Economic Times)
Central Bank of Bahamas Launches Landmark ‘Sand Dollar’ Digital Currency (Coindesk)
Tesla is putting ‘self-driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready (Washington Post)

Wednesday, October 21 2020 - Wed. 10/21 – PayPal Adds Crypto

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (Reuters)
Dropbox’s family plan offers a shared 2TB for $17 per month (Engadget)
Facebook Building Neighborhood Feature as Nextdoor Eyes IPO (Bloomberg)
Katzenberg May Shut Down Quibi as Options Run Short (The Information)
Netflix misses on subscriber additions and EPS (CNBC)
Snap stock rockets up after surprise earnings beat (CNBC)
APPLE IPAD AIR (2020) REVIEW: TAKE IT FROM THE PRO (The Verge)
Apple iPad Air (2020) review: Who needs the iPad Pro? (Engadget)
Review: iPad Air, smooth criminal (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, October 20 2020 - Tue. 10/20 – The DOJ Antitrust Suit Against Google

The DOJ sues Google for monopoly practices – and says there’s more to come (Protocol)
Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (WSJ)
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly (NYTimes)
US charges Russian hackers behind NotPetya, KillDisk, OlympicDestroyer attacks (ZDNet)
Intel Agrees to Sell Storage Unit to SK Hynix for $9 Billion (Bloomberg)
Google confirms the Nest Secure has been discontinued (Android Police)
Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system (The Verge)
Microsoft launches Azure Space initiative; partners with SpaceX (ZDNet)
APPLE IPHONE 12 PRO REVIEW: AHEAD OF ITS TIME (The Verge)
APPLE IPHONE 12 REVIEW: RAISING THE BAR (The Verge)
Review: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, two gems, one jewel (TechCrunch)
iPhone 12 and 12 Pro review: Apple enters the 5G era (Engadget)

Monday, October 19 2020 - Mon. 10/19 – Apple Launches Apple Music TV (A-MTV? iMTV?)

Apple Launches ‘Apple Music TV,’ a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream (Variety)
Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra leaked in full, confirms January 2021 launch (AndroidCentral)
The British Company That’s Bringing Augmented Reality to Your Windshield (Bloomberg)
Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms might soon be a bit less mysterious (Fast Company)
Japan to join forces with U.S., Europe in regulating Big Tech firms: antitrust watchdog head (Reuters)
Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak (WSJ)

Friday, October 16 2020 - Fri. 10/16 – You Can Now Hum To Search Music On Google

Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head (The Verge)
Apple might hold another event on November 17 to introduce first Apple Silicon Mac (9to5Mac)
Trump Foes Fume Over FCC’s Efforts to Rein In Twitter (Bloomberg)
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data (MIT Technology Review)

Thursday, October 15 2020 - Thu. 10/15 – Xbox Series X Preview

XBOX SERIES X PREVIEW: THE NEXT GEN FEELS LIKE A PC (The Verge)
GOOGLE PIXEL 4A 5G REVIEW: MORE THAN JUST A BIGGER BUDGET PHONE (The Verge)
Google Pixel 5 review: An off year for Pixel fans (Engadget)
iPhone 12 Pro Models Have 6GB of RAM, iPhone 12 and 12 Mini Remain at 4GB (MacRumors)
Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time (MIT Technology Review)
WeWork’s Adam Neumann Returns to Real Estate With Startup Investment (Bloomberg)
Landscape site launches with the aim of becoming the ‘Glassdoor for VC’ (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 14 2020 - Wed. 10/14 – iPhone 12 Pricing and Availability Surprises

The iPhone 12’s mysterious groove is a 5G mmWave antenna window — and it’s exclusive to the US (The Verge)
iPhone 12 actually costs $829, advertised $799 price includes ‘carrier special offers’ (9to5Mac)
Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR (TechCrunch)
Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch)
‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg)
Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC)
Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog)
WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, October 13 2020 - Tue. 10/13 – The iPhone 12 Event: All The Deets

Techmeme Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12 Pro (Techmeme)
Techmeme Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12 (Techmeme)
Techmeme Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12 mini (Techmeme)
PC shipments climb in Q3, Gartner and IDC report (ZDNet)
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage (NYTimes)
Disney says its ‘primary focus’ for entertainment is streaming — announces a major reorg (CNBC)
Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail (The Verge)

Monday, October 12 2020 - Mon. 10/12 – Nest’s New Smart Thermostat Ditches the Rotating Dial

Google’s Nest announces new smart thermostat with simpler design, lower price (The Verge)
Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup (Politico)
Microsoft and others orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet (ZDNet)
Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election (CNN Business)
Katzenberg Strikes Out on Quibi Sale Efforts, So Far (The Information)
Twilio confirms it is buying Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal (TechCrunch)
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016 (NYTimes)
Caterpillar bets on self-driving machines impervious to pandemics (Reuters)

Friday, October 09 2020 - Fri. 10/09 – Microsoft Game Pass To Do An App Store End-run?

Thursday, October 08 2020 - Thu. 10/08 – AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs Announced

AMD reveals its new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 processors, including the ‘world’s best gaming CPU’ (The Verge)
Facebook to temporarily halt political ads in U.S. after polls close Nov. 3, broadening earlier restrictions (The Washington Post)
Google is adding cross-app account security alerts on iOS (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey’s Square purchases $50 million worth of bitcoin (The Block)
Airbnb Burned Through $1.2 Billion as IPO Loomed (The Information)
Fancy Cars, Fine Dining, Creator Mansions, Cash: Triller Is Shelling Out for Talent (NYTimes)
Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s New Venture Fund Invests in Disposable Camera App (WSJ)

Wednesday, October 07 2020 - Wed 10/07 – The House Antitrust Report

Tuesday, October 06 2020 - G Suite Is No More! (But Don’t Worry)

G Suite is now Google Workspace (TechCrunch)
Apple Stops Selling Rival Earphones, Speakers Ahead of Launches (Bloomberg)
Facebook’s Portal adds support for Netflix, Zoom and other features (TechCrunch)
AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet (Ars Technica)
Cooler Screens raises $80M to bring interactive screens into cooler aisles (TechCrunch)
Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in (TechCrunch)

Monday, October 05 2020 - Mon. 10/05 – Nvidia’s Zoom-Killer, “Maxine”

Nvidia unveils Maxine, a managed cloud AI videoconferencing service (VentureBeat)
Nvidia says its AI can fix some of the biggest problems in video calls (The Verge)
Facebook Says Government Breakup of Instagram, WhatsApp Would Be ‘Complete Nonstarter’ (WSJ)
Google defers 30% in-app commission in India to April 2022 after protests (The Economic Times India)
Google delays mandating Play Store payments rule in India to April 2022 (TechCrunch)
Ethereum Dapp Volumes Hit $120 Billion in Third Quarter (Decrypt)
What Is DeFi? (CoinDesk)
States are finally starting to use the Covid-tracking tech Apple and Google built — here’s why (CNBC)
Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm (NYTimes)

Friday, October 02 2020 - Fri. 10/02 – Tesla Smashes Its Previous Delivery Record

Thursday, October 01 2020 - Thu. 10/01 – New Surface Laptop Go: Smaller Display, $549

Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete with Chromebooks (The Verge)
Microsoft updates the Surface Pro X with a new processor option (Engadget)
Google will spend $1 billion to pay publishers for news showcase (Axios)
Improved Google Photos editor is rolling out now on Android (The Verge)
The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch (The Verge)
Palantir closes below first trade after NYSE debut (CNBC)
Six Figures in 6 days (tr.af)

Wednesday, September 30 2020 - Wed. 09/30 – The New Pixel Phones, Chromecast and More From Today’s Google Event

Here’s what the new Chromecast’s Google TV software looks like (The Verge)
Google launches Nest Audio speaker, successor to Google Home, available Oct. 5 for $99 (9to5Google)
Google’s Pixel 5 includes 5G and an ultrawide camera for $699 (Engadget)
Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones (Bloomberg)
Rally raises $17M to expand a platform that lets you invest in (but not buy) collectibles (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 29 2020 - With Amazon One, Amazon Wants You To Pay With Your Palm

Amazon will now let you pay with your palm in its stores (Recode)
Google Demands 30% Cut From App Developers in Its Play Store (NYTimes)
Judge suggests Apple vs Epic should go to jury, trial expected in July 2021 (Apple Insider)
Google Meet brings noise cancellation to Android and iOS, adds attendance reports for schools (9to5Google)
Zoom’s earliest investors are betting millions on a better Zoom for schools (TechCrunch)
The world’s first foldable PC is now available to order from Lenovo (The Verge)
Disney+ now lets you binge watch with friends, even when you’re not together (CNN Business)
Netflix Price Hike Is “Probable” Soon, But It Won’t Slow Company’s Roll, Analyst Says (Deadline)

Monday, September 28 2020 - Mon. 09/28 – Roku’s New $130 Streambar and Updated $100 Roku Ultra

Roku’s Streambar is a compact soundbar with built-in streaming smarts (The Verge)
Roku Unveils Redesigned $100 Ultra Streaming Box, Will Add Ability to Stream HBO Max via Apple AirPlay (Variety)
Dell updated its 13-inch XPS laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs (Engadget)
TikTok Wins Reprieve From U.S. Ban (NYTimes)
Prepare for the ‘iPhone 12 mini,’ suggest recent leaks (The Verge)
LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign (TechCrunch)
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites could make US Army navigation hard to jam (MIT Technology Review)
Amazon Prime Day set for Oct 13 and 14 after coronavirus delayed original summer date (CNBC)
The original FarmVille on Facebook is shutting down at the end of the year (The Verge)

Saturday, September 26 2020 - (Bonus) TikTok’s Secret Sauce With Eugene Wei and A16Z’s 16 Minutes Podcast

TikTok and the Sorting Hat (Eugene’s original essay)

Friday, September 25 2020 - Fri. 09/25 – Amazon Announces The Luna Cloud Gaming Service

A closer look at Luna, Amazon’s cloud gaming service (Engadget)
Amazon announces all-new Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Dot with Clock (CNBC)
AMAZON’S NEW ECHO SHOW 10 MOVES TO LOOK AT YOU (The Verge)
Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house (The Verge)
Amazon’s Bizarre Home Drone Flies Around Inside Your House (Wired)
Apple Buys Startup That Creates Radio-Like Stations for Podcasts (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 24 2020 - Thu. 09/24 – The Rebel Alliance Forming To Battle App Stores

Epic, Spotify and others ally against Apple and Google app policies (Engadget)
New Microsoft Office on the way for people who don’t want a subscription (Windows Central)
The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE brings some flagship specs at a $699 price (The Verge)
Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer (TechCrunch)
Sneaker Platform Goat Group Raises $100 Million to Fund Expansion Plans (WSJ)
How a marked-up term sheet and messy rollout threw TikTok deal into disarray (Reuters)
THE GAMING INDUSTRY KEEPS FAILING MISERABLY AT SELLING ITS MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTS (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 23 2020 - Wed. 09/23 – Microsoft “Exclusively” Licenses GPT-3

Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communications Services (TechCrunch)
Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon (GeekWire)
Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation (VentureBeat)
Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (TechCrunch)
Swift language tools now available for Windows 10 (iMore)
Kuo: Mini-LED Displays to Debut in Apple’s Next iPad Pro (MacRumors)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says company can build a $25,000 self-driving car within three years (CNBC)
Elon Musk promises $25,000 Tesla and says Model S ‘Plaid’ is coming soon (CNN)
Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta (TechCrunch)
Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’ (OneZero)

Tuesday, September 22 2020 - Tue. 09/22 – Quibi Is “Exploring Options”

Quibi Explores Strategic Options Including Possible Sale (WSJ)
Justice Department expected to brief state attorneys general this week on imminent Google antitrust lawsuit (Washington Post)
PSA: New Apple Watch Owners Have to Return Entire Device for Ill-Fitting Solo Loop or Braided Solo Loop (MacRumors)
A $50 Phone is Ambani’s Weapon to Dominate India Telecom Market (Bloomberg)
SEC, OCC Issue First Regulatory Clarifications for Stablecoins (CoinDesk)
CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits (MIT Technology Review)
You can now stream your Xbox One games to your Android phone for free (The Verge)
Microsoft to Buy Bethesda for $7.5 Billion to Boost Xbox (Bloomberg)
Microsoft to acquire Elder Scrolls, Fallout, other hit games in $7.5B deal for Bethesda Softworks parent (GeekWire)
Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding phone, on sale today for roughly $1,500 (The Verge)

Monday, September 21 2020 - Mon. 09/21 – ByteDance Says It Won. Trump Says Not So Fast. TikTok Continues… For Now.

Friday, September 18 2020 - Fri. 09/18 – WeChat Officially Banned On Sunday. TikTok Only Kinda Banned.

Thursday, September 17 2020 - Thu. 09/17 – PS5 Details Revealed. But Good Luck Pre-Ordering!

PlayStation 5 preorders: Sony reveals release date and price (VentureBeat)
The PS5 will launch on November 12th for $499.99 (The Verge)
Sony confirms PS5’s first-party launch lineup and free game upgrade plans for PS4 titles (The Verge)
Oracle’s TikTok Bid Leaves Open Some U.S. Security Concerns (Bloomberg)
Pro Rata Newsletter (Axios)
Snowflake IPO Spurs Flood of Wealth for Silicon Valley Elite (Bloomberg)
‘Helping people discover information’: How Red Ventures grew into a giant (Digiday)
Sit Like an Apple Engineer in This 70s-Era British Office Chair (Gear Patrol)

Wednesday, September 16 2020 - Wed. 09/16 – Facebook Unveils The Oculus Quest 2

Oculus Quest 2 delivers standalone VR with sharper 90Hz screens for $299 (Engadget)
OCULUS QUEST 2 REVIEW: BETTER, CHEAPER VR (The Verge)
Snowflake is largest software IPO ever (Axios)
Amazon Music Joins Podcasting Fray (WSJ)
Driver Charged in Uber’s Fatal 2018 Autonomous Car Crash (NYTimes)
Spotify says Apple One bundle is a ‘threat to collective freedom’ (Apple Insider)
Apple accuses Epic of ‘starting a fire and pouring gasoline on it’ in new Fortnite filing (The Verge)
Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (Mashable)
Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads (Reuters)
AT&T Plans Lower-Priced Version of HBO Max With Advertising (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, September 15 2020 - Tue. 09/15 – The Apple “Time Flies” Event

Techmeme Headline Rundown of the Apple Event (Techmeme)
Sony Cuts PlayStation 5 Forecast by 4 Million Due to Chip Woes (Bloomberg)
Sen. Hawley calls for US to reject Oracle’s TikTok deal (The Verge)
We’re Heading Toward the Worst Possible Outcome on TikTok (Intelligencer)
Google to launch Pixel 5, new Chromecast, and smart speaker on September 30th (The Verge)
Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud (GeekWire)

Monday, September 14 2020 - Mon. 09/14 – Has Oracle Saved TikTok (In The US)?

Friday, September 11 2020 - Fri. 09/11 – Microsoft Says The Hackers Are Coming For The Election

Thursday, September 10 2020 - Thu. 09/10 – “Campus” Is Facebook, But For College Kids (Insert Joke Here)

Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students (The Verge)
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors (The Verge)
Motorola’s second-gen foldable Razr adds 5G, better cameras, and a chance at redemption (The Verge)
Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds and $179 Sport Earbuds (The Verge)
MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO REVIEW: DOUBLE TROUBLES (The Verge)
TikTok, U.S. Discuss Ways to Avoid Sale (WSJ)

Wednesday, September 09 2020 - Wed. 09/09 – Clarifications And Follow-Ups

Xbox Series X launches on November 10th for $499 (The Verge)
Microsoft is adding EA Play to Xbox Game Pass (Engadget)
Nintendo Boosts Switch Production by Another 20% (Bloomberg)
Apple to Hold Sept. 15 Online Launch Event to Reveal New Watch (Bloomberg)
Apple doubles down in fight with Fortnite creator Epic Games, seeks damages for breach of contract (CNBC)
Fortnite is launching a concert series it hopes will become a ‘tour stop’ for artists (The Verge)
Google’s new ‘Verified Calls’ feature will tell you why a business is calling you (TechCrunch)
Taboola and Outbrain end talks to merge after nearly a year (CNBC)
Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all (The Verge)
Fastest Mobile Networks 2020 (PCMag)

Tuesday, September 08 2020 - Tue. 09/08 – Xbox Series X and (Series S!) Details Revealed

Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S release date and price finally revealed (WindowsCentral)
Leaked Xbox Series S commercial reveals 1440p, ray tracing, and 512GB SSD (The Verge)
China Launches Initiative to Set Global Data-Security Rules (WSJ)
Google binds no-code tools, API management and serverless computing into new development platform (Silicon Angle)
Scene Bust Triggered Historic Drop in ‘Pirate’ Releases (Torrent Freak)
SoftBank’s Bet on Tech Giants Fueled Powerful Market Rally (WSJ)
SoftBank, Robinhood and a Margins Singularity (Margins Newsletter)

Friday, September 04 2020 - Fri. 09/04 – Ad-Pocalypse (Not) Now

Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks (NYTimes)
Apple to Delay iOS Change Roiling Mobile Ad Market (The Information)
Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming (Bloomberg)
Oculus halts headset sales in Germany (GamesIndustry.biz)
TCL’s new paper-like display can also play videos (Engadget)

Thursday, September 03 2020 - Thu. 09/03 – Will Only One iPhone (The Expensive One) Get The Fastest 5G?

Source: Only one of Apple’s new iPhones supports the fastest 5G (Fast Company)
Facebook will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election (The Verge)
Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November (NYTimes)
Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay (Politico)
Feds can’t ask Google for every phone in a 100-meter radius, court says (Ars Technica)
Intel announces its new 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, available on laptops this fall (The Verge)
Qualcomm promises better AI for its next Snapdragon PC chip (Engadget)
China to Plan Sweeping Support for Chip Sector to Counter Trump (Bloomberg)
Qualcomm hopes to topple AirPods Pro with ‘adaptive’ noise cancellation for true wireless earbuds (The Verge)
The first battery-free Game Boy wants to power a gaming revolution (CNET)

Wednesday, September 02 2020 - Wed. 09/02 – Nvidia’s New GPU Powerhouse, the RTX 3090

Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 GPU, priced at $699 and launching September 17th (The Verge)
Nvidia’s new RTX 3090 is a $1,499 monster GPU designed for 8K gaming (The Verge)
iOS app economy creates 300,000 new US jobs as developers adapt during pandemic (Apple Newsroom)
TikTok Deal Talks Are Snarled Over Fate of App’s Algorithms (WSJ)
Patreon Tops $1 Billion Valuation as Pandemic Brings a Surge in Creators to Platform (WSJ)
Twitch’s Prime Video watch parties are now available to everyone (Engadget)
Amazon Is Openly Hiring Union-Busters (Gizmodo)
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work (Bloomberg)
How the British studio behind ‘Fall Guys’ went from near-disaster to launching one of the biggest gaming hits of all time (Business Insider)

Tuesday, September 01 2020 - Tue. 09/01 – Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 Released; All The Details

Monday, August 31 2020 - Mon. 08/31 – TikTok Has A Buyer?

TikTok deal to sell U.S. business could be announced as soon as Tuesday (CNBC)
The Yoga 9i is Lenovo’s new flagship convertible laptop (The Verge)
Samsung says its latest mobile memory is a production breakthrough (Engadget)
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 732G, a follow-up to the Pixel 4a’s chipset (9to5Google)
Netflix Is Offering Free Access to Select Original Movies and Series, Even Without an Account (Gadgets360)
Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet (CNBC)
Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones (The Drive)
Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market (Bloomberg)
Jack Ma’s Ant Fuels Tech IPO Frenzy Not Seen Since Dotcom Bubble (Bloomberg)

Friday, August 28 2020 - Fri. 08/28 – Ok, So… How About Walmart Owning TikTok?

Walmart wanted to be majority owner of TikTok, and was teamed up with Alphabet and SoftBank before Microsoft (CNBC)
Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft on TikTok bid (CNBC)
Exclusive: Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees (Reuters)
Exclusive: First look at the LG Wing with its twisty dual display (Update) (Android Authority)
Xiaomi will launch a phone with an invisible under-display camera in 2021 (Android Central)

Thursday, August 27 2020 - Thu. 08/27 – Halo, Amazon’s New Fitness Wearable

AMAZON ANNOUNCES HALO, A FITNESS BAND AND APP THAT SCANS YOUR BODY AND VOICE (The Verge)
Facebook Says Apple’s Changes to iOS Will Dramatically Hurt Ads (Bloomberg)
Kevin Mayer calls it quits (Source Code Newsletter)
Intel Slips, and a High-Profile Supercomputer Is Delayed (NYTimes)
Opensignal: U.S. 5G speeds slump as other countries leap ahead (VentureBeat)
The reMarkable 2 is the latest attempt to turn your paper notepad digital (The Verge)
Joe Budden is taking his podcast off Spotify because the company ‘is pillaging’ his audience (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 26 2020 - Wed. 08/26 – Palantir’s S-1 Takes A Swipe At Silicon Valley

Palantir files to go public, lost about $580 million last year (CNBC)
Apple Plans Augmented Reality Content to Boost TV+ Video Service (Bloomberg)
Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization (TechCrunch)
White House announces creation of AI and quantum research institutes (VentureBeat)
Desktop Metal going public in SPAC-led deal that could value 3D printer company at $2.5B (TechCrunch)
Researchers at University College London Set a New World Record for Fastest Internet (Gizmodo)
Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 25 2020 - Tue. 08/25 – Fitbit’s Sense Smartwatch and Versa 3

Fitbit unveils Sense and Versa 3 smartwatches with Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
Level’s latest smart lock can be unlocked with a touch (The Verge)
Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Console and Major Games for 202 (Bloomberg)
Nintendo reportedly releasing upgraded Switch next year (The Verge)
Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite (The Verge)
iRobot is giving its vacuum cleaners a new AI-powered brain (The Verge)
TSMC Details 3nm Process Technology: Full Node Scaling for 2H22 Volume Production (AnandTech)
Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC (Above The Crowd)

Monday, August 24 2020 - Mon. 08/24 – Is Apple Evil Now?

WordPress founder claims Apple cut off updates to his completely free app because it wants 30 percent (The Verge)
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all (The Verge)
[Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020 AAPL](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-ratio) (Macrotrends)
Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in new motion (The Verge)
Lawsuit Claims U.S. WeChat Ban Is Unconstitutional (WSJ)
Zoom is working again, even if you’re not (The Verge)
Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Luminar to Go Public in $3.4 Billion Merger (Bloomberg)

Friday, August 21 2020 - Uber’s Former CSO Charged With Obstruction of Justice

Former Uber Security Chief Charged With Concealing Hack (NYTimes)
Uber and Lyft Get Reprieve After Threatening to Shut Down (NYTimes)
Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s consumer boss and a top lieutenant to Bezos, will step down in 2021 (CNBC)
Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes (The Verge)
Apple secretly acquired Israeli photography startup Camerai (CalcalisTech)
Kuo: Apple Looking to Save on Costs in iPhone 12 With Simpler Battery Board Design (MacRumors)

Thursday, August 20 2020 - Thu. 08/20 – Lyft Ends Service In California At Midnight

Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory (NYTimes)
Facebook restricts more than 10,000 QAnon and US militia groups (The Guardian)
Airbnb files confidential IPO paperwork (CNBC)
Airbnb Files Confidentially for IPO With SEC (WSJ)
Online Thrift Shop ThredUp Plans IPO Early Next Year (Bloomberg)
Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform (TechCrunch)
This Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet—and It Actually Works (Wired)
DoorDash launches grocery delivery to compete with Amazon and Instacart (The Verge)
Data-analysis giant Palantir moves headquarters to Denver (Denver Business Journal)
Alibaba posts 124 per cent gain in quarterly profit, sees China retail back to pre-pandemic levels (SCMP)
Lyft will suspend its ride-hailing service in California (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 19 2020 - Wed. 08/19 – You Won’t Be Able To Use An Oculus Without A Facebook Account

You’ll need a Facebook account to use future Oculus headsets (The Verge)
Zoom is coming to Google Nest, Amazon Echo, and Facebook Portal smart displays (The Verge)
Trump Expresses Support for Oracle to Buy TikTok (WSJ)
Netflix test puts a ‘Shuffle Play’ button right on your home screen (TechCrunch)
New BlackBerry-branded devices w/ QWERTY keyboards set to come in 2021 (9to5Google)
A TikTok Ban Is Overdue (NYTimes)
The ecommerce surge (Benedict Evans)
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (NYTimes)

Tuesday, August 18 2020 - Tue. 08/18 – Apple Goes Nuclear Against Epic Games

Monday, August 17 2020 - Mon. 08/17 – Why Regulatory Change For Big Tech Is Maybe Inevitable

Friday, August 14 2020 - Fri. 08/14 – Fortnite Banned! The Epic/Apple/Google Battle Royale

Fortnite for Android has also been kicked off the Google Play Store (The Verge)
Epic is suing Google over Fortnite’s removal from the Google Play Store (The Verge)
Epic rallies Fortnite players against Apple with a warning that they’ll miss the next season (The Verge)
Epic’s 1984 Parody Video (YouTube)
Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped (Wired)
Disney+ Gains Foothold in Streaming Battlefield, Nielsen Says (The Hollywood Reporter)

Thursday, August 13 2020 - Thu. 08/13 – Apple Subscription Bundles By October?

Apple Readies Subscription Bundles to Boost Digital Services (Bloomberg)
Epic offers new direct payment in Fortnite on iOS and Android to get around app store fees (The Verge)
Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers (The Verge)
Intel offers a first look at its next-gen Tiger Lake processors and Xe graphics (The Verge)
Corporate America Worries WeChat Ban Could Be Bad for Business (WSJ)
Facebook, Snap Held Talks to Buy TikTok Rival Dubsmash (The Information)

Wednesday, August 12 2020 - Wed. 08/12 – Microsoft Launches Surface Duo!

Tuesday, August 11 2020 - Tue. 08/11 – Google To Create A Global Android-Powered Earthquake Alert System

ANDROID IS BECOMING A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE DETECTION NETWORK (The Verge)
California Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Uber, Lyft (Bloomberg)
MicroStrategy becomes first listed company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy (The Block)
Parallels Desktop 16 adds Big Sur support, 3D Metal support, and more (Ars Technica)
Nreal’s augmented reality glasses are shipping this month in Korea (The Verge)
Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August (WSJ) (CNBC)
Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? (Electrek)
Onyx Launches a 6-Inch Color E-Reader (PCMag)

Monday, August 10 2020 - Mon. 08/10 – Amazon to Turn Malls Into Fulfillment Centers?

Friday, August 07 2020 - Fri. 08/07 – The Executive Order To Ban TikTok and WeChat

Trump will prohibit transactions with ByteDance beginning September 20th in apparent TikTok ban (The Verge)
Mark Zuckerberg Says A Ban On TikTok Would Set “A Really Bad Long-Term Precedent” (BuzzFeed.news)
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines (The Verge)
I’m Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (TroyHunt.com)

Thursday, August 06 2020 - Thu. 08/06 – Will The US’s “Clean Network” Plan Break The Internet?

Trump administration wants to see ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat removed from U.S. app stores, Pompeo says (CNBC)
The US is building a new Great Firewall (Quartz)
TikTok to Spend $500 Million on First EU Data Center in Ireland (Bloomberg)
TikTok announces first data center in Europe (TechCrunch)
Animal Crossing outsells Breath of the Wild in mere months (Polygon)
SAMSUNG GALAXY BUDS LIVE REVIEW: COOL BEANS (The Verge)
OWC undercuts Apple’s $699 Mac Pro wheels with $199 conversion kit (Apple Insider)
Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen (OneZero)

Wednesday, August 05 2020 - Wed. 08/05 – Samsung’s Unpacked Event And The New Galaxy Note 20s

Samsung Galaxy Note 20, Note 20 Ultra go official from $999 w/ Snapdragon 865+ (9to5Google)
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Fold 2 with bigger screens and better cameras (The Verge)
Disney+ grows to more than 60.5M subscribers (TechCrunch)
Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US (TechCrunch)
ByteDance CEO Says Trump’s Real Goal Is to Kill Off TikTok (Bloomberg)
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed (TechCrunch)
Files by Google adds PIN protection for your most sensitive files on Android (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 04 2020 - Tue. 08/04 – Last Hurrah? iMacs Get A Major Update

Apple updates the iMac with new Intel processors and a better webcam (The Verge)
Trump calls TikTok a hot brand, demands a chunk of its sale price (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Should Refuse Trump’s TikTok Payoff (WSJ)
Microsoft’s Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Operations Raise Ire in China (WSJ)
China Brands Trump’s Demands on TikTok Sale a ‘Smash and Grab’ (Bloomberg)
Garmin reportedly paid multimillion-dollar ransom after suffering cyberattack (The Verge)
Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google (EU Commission)
Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming will launch on September 15th on Android (The Verge)
Take-Two Interactive coasts to $831.3 million in Q1 2021 revenue as fans flock to online games (Venture Beat)
Take-Two: Next-gen software price hikes “reflect the quality of the experience” (GamesIndustry.biz)

Monday, August 03 2020 - Mon. 08/03 – The TikTok, Microsoft, Trump Ban Saga Explained

Inside the Microsoft Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Business (WSJ)
Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the United States (Official Microsoft Blog)
Exclusive: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal (Reuters)
Google to invest $450M in smart home security solutions provider ADT (TechCrunch)
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES PIXEL 5, PIXEL 4A 5G, AND PIXEL 4A ALL AT ONCE (The Verge)
GOOGLE PIXEL 4A REVIEW: BACK TO BASICS FOR $349 (The Verge)
System for thwarting deepfakes unveiled (Axios)
From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path (NYTimes)

Friday, July 31 2020 - Fri. 07/31 – Nvidia In Talks To Buy Arm?

Thursday, July 30 2020 - Thu. 07/30 – A Comprehensive (8-Minute) Rundown of the Big Tech Congressional Testimony

‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS (The Verge)
Report: Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth (ILSR.org)
Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple With EU (MacRumors)
Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust probe: sources (Reuters)
Canalys: Huawei trumps Samsung for first time in worldwide smartphone market in Q2 2020 (Canalys)
TikTok says it will pay creators a total of $2 billion in the next 3 years (Digital Trends)

Wednesday, July 29 2020 - Wed. 07/29 – Big Tech CEO’s Testimony Before Congress

Tuesday, July 28 2020 - Tue. 07/28 – Instagram Is Making TikTok-ers An Offer (They Hope) They Can’t Refuse

Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. (NYTimes)
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (The Markup)
Congress has battled airlines, banks, tobacco and baseball. Now it’s preparing to clash with Big Tech. (Washington Post)
Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators (WSJ)
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 refuels phones 50% in 5 minutes, 100% in 15 (VentureBeat)
Roblox jumps to over 150M monthly users, will pay out $250M to developers in 2020 (TechCrunch)
After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site (NYTimes)

Monday, July 27 2020 - Mon. 07/27 – Googlers May Not Return To The Office Until NEXT July

Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
ACCC takes second swing at Google for allegedly misleading customers (ITNews)
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked trailer teases five new devices to be unveiled on August 5th (The Verge)
Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack (Bleeping Computer)
VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices (TechCrunch)
Mobility device for the blind works like a handheld robotic guide dog (New Atlas)

Friday, July 24 2020 - Fri. 07/24 – The US Has A Quantum Internet Plan

Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (Reuters)
Intel’s 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 (Tom’s Hardware)
Big Tech CEO hearing is ‘likely’ to be postponed (Protocol)
U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum Internet that might be unhackable (Washington Post)
AT&T’s low-band 5G network is now available nationwide (CNET)

Thursday, July 23 2020 - Thu. 07/23 – Corning Introduces A New Gorilla Glass: Victus!

Corning’s new Gorilla Glass Victus could let your phone survive a six-foot drop, plus scratch resistance (The Verge)
Plex launches a live TV service with over 80 free channels, most available worldwide (TechCrunch)
HBO Max has more than 4 million subscribers, AT&T says (The Verge)
Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm (Bloomberg)
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online (BuzzFeed.News)
Tesla reports fourth straight quarter of profits (CNBC)

Wednesday, July 22 2020 - Samsung Announces the Galaxy Z Flip 5G

Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $1,449.99 (The Verge)
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown (NBC News)
ByteDance Investors Discuss TikTok Purchase (The Information)
Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition (NYTimes)
Waymo and Fiat Chrysler’s next big project is to develop self-driving Ram vans (TechCrunch)
Misfits Market raises $85 million Series B to send you ‘ugly’ fruits and veggies (TechCrunch)
Apple Lining up Periscope Telephoto Lens Suppliers for 2022 iPhone (MacRumors)
Jeff Bezos hated ads — now Amazon is America’s top advertiser (Axios)

Tuesday, July 21 2020 - Tue. 07/21 – Apple Pledges 100% Carbon Neutrality by 2030

Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030 (Apple Newsroom)
Microsoft President Met With House Antitrust Committee (The Information)
LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hiring (Reuters)
iPhone SE attracting Android switchers, unlikely to cannibalize iPhone 12 sales (9to5Mac)
Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers (The Block)
AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen 4000 desktop chips bring the fight to Intel (The Verge)
Self-driving industry takes to the highway after robotaxi failure (FT)

Monday, July 20 2020 - Mon. 07/20 – eBay to Sell Its Classified Ads Business?

EBay Nears Deal to Sell Classified-Ad Unit to Adevinta (WSJ)
Reliance Jio: World’s First ‘Super Operator’? (Counterpoint)
Disney Slashed Ad Spending on Facebook Amid Growing Boycott (WSJ)
The easiest way to start meditating is now in… Snapchat? (Mashable)
Microsoft plans for single-screen Windows 10X rollout in spring 2021; dual-screen in spring 2022 (ZDNet)
Quick thoughts on GPT3 (Operators & Delian’s Ramblings)
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test (Kevin Lacker’s Blog)
Video Example 1 (Twitter)
Video Example 2 (Twitter)

Friday, July 17 2020 - Fri. 07/17 – Is A 21-Year-Old British Hacker Behind The Great Twitter Hijacking?

Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? (Krebs on Security)
130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack (The Guardian)
Netflix shares fall after earnings miss, weak subscriber guidance for third quarter (CNBC)

Thursday, July 16 2020 - Thu. 07/16 – The Great Twitter Hijack of 2020

Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam (TechCrunch)
A hacker used Twitter’s own ‘admin’ tool to spread cryptocurrency scam (TechCrunch)
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (Motherboard)
The Interface (Casey Newton)
Facebook to label posts about voting from presidential candidates (Axios)
Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor (NBC News)
Amazon Influence Program opens to live streamers for broadcasting Amazon Life (TechCrunch)
How to subscribe to Apple’s free daily news podcast (9to5Mac)

Wednesday, July 15 2020 - Wed. 07/15 – Is It Too Early To Start Talking About 6G?

Apple Wins Fight Over $14.9 Billion Tax Bill in Blow to EU (Bloomberg)
Sony Boosting Output of PlayStation 5 to Meet Surge in Demand (Bloomberg)
Google invest $4.5 billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599 (TechCrunch)
Samsung: Expect 6G in 2028, enabling mobile holograms and digital twins (VentureBeat)
Peacock’s interface aims to recreate the feeling of live TV, but it comes up short (The Verge)
Peacock is live: Prices, free trials, devices, shows and movies (CNET)

Tuesday, July 14 2020 - Tue. 07/14 – What If Apple Bought Arm?

Monday, July 13 2020 - Mon. 07/13 – SiriusXM Makes the Biggest Podcast Acquisition Yet

SiriusXM Is Buying Stitcher in Deal Worth Up to $325 Million (Variety)
Amazon says it will not ban TikTok from employee phones (The Verge)
For TikTok, an Amazon Ban That Wasn’t, a Wells Fargo Ban That Was (The Information)
DNC and RNC warn campaigns about using TikTok (CNN Politics)
Google to invest $10 billion in India (TechCrunch)
Autonomous drone startup Skydio rises $100 million and launches the X2 commercial drone (TechCrunch)
The real reason Apple is warning users about MacBook camera covers (ZDNet)

Friday, July 10 2020 - Fri. 07/10 – Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs Coming THIS Year

Thursday, July 09 2020 - Thu. 07/09 – Apple’s Not Gonna Abandon Thunderbolt

Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say (Reuters)
Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired (The Verge)
Apple promises to support Thunderbolt on its new ARM Macs (The Verge)
Nvidia eclipses Intel as most valuable U.S. chipmaker (Reuters)
Google launches Android 11 Beta 2 with final APIs and behaviors (VentureBeat)
Musk Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ to Developing Fully Autonomous Vehicles (Bloomberg)
Microsoft’s plan to make video calls less miserable (Axios)

Wednesday, July 08 2020 - Wed. 07/08 – Facebook Fails Its Own Audit

Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott (NYTimes)
Facebook Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds (NYTimes)
Exclusive: Apple is working on QR Code payments for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals (9to5Mac)
Thunderbolt 4: A supercharged port upgrade with 8K monitor support (Digital Trends)
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus is its most powerful mobile chip, designed for gaming (The Verge)
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 event confirmed for August 5th (The Verge)
Twitter is working on a new subscription platform, hints job listing (The Verge)
Android 11’s official launch appears set for September 8th (Android Police)
Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 07 2020 - Tue. 07/07 – Will The US Government Ban TikTok?

TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong (Axios)
U.S. is ‘looking at’ banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says (CNBC)
India’s TikTok shutdown has left careers and fortunes in tatters (Wired)
Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO (TechCrunch)
Palantir Technologies Files to Go Public (NYTimes)
Fraunhofer’s VVC promises to reduce video file sizes by 50% to improve mobile network efficiency (VentureBeat)
73. “Father” of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg (Internet History Podcast)
U.S. tech chiefs to testify before House antitrust panel on July 27: committee (Reuters)
A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet (NYTimes)

Monday, July 06 2020 - Mon. 07/06 – Uber Buys Postmates

Uber agrees to buy food-delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion in stock (CNBC)
Uber acquires meal delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion (The Verge)
Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter Suspend Review of Hong Kong Requests for User Data (WSJ)
Microsoft announces Xbox Series X games event for July 23rd (The Verge)
iOS 14: iCloud Keychain now alerts users about leaked passwords, more (9to5Mac)
Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves? (NYTimes)
Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers from genetic data (Washington Examiner)
SONY’S WEARABLE, POCKET-SIZED AIR CONDITIONER IS FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR SALE! (Yanko Design)

Thursday, July 02 2020 - Thu. 07/02 – ALL of Silicon Valley (kinda) Has A Date With Washington

Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff He Expects Advertisers to Return ‘Soon Enough’ (The Information)
Apple CEO Tim Cook agrees to testify in House antitrust investigation (Apple Insider)
Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone (TechCrunch)
How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime (Motherboard)

Wednesday, July 01 2020 - Wed. 07/01 – YouTube TV Has Recreated The TV Bundle At Essentially The Same Price Point

Facebook frustrates advertisers as boycott over hate speech kicks off (Reuters)
Third of top brands likely to suspend social media spending, survey finds (FT)
Spotify brings its Premium Duo plan to the US, UK and dozens more countries (updated) (Engadget)
YouTube TV hikes price to $64.99 per month following new channel additions (TechCrunch)
Apple races to push ahead with 5G iPhone mass production (Nikkei Asian Review)
Apple Cancels Some Arcade Games in Strategy Shift To Keep Subscribers (Bloomberg)
Google Pushes Back U.S. Office Reopening Plan After Virus Surge (Bloomberg)
Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, June 30 2020 - Tue. 06/30 – Amazon Prime Video Launches Watch Party

Lululemon set to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M (TechCrunch)
Uber in Talks to Buy Postmates for About $2.6 Billion (WSJ)
Amazon Prime Video introduces ‘Watch Party,’ a social co-viewing experience included with Prime (TechCrunch)
Nearby Sharing — Android’s AirDrop competitor — is rolling out now in beta (Android Police)
CodeGuru, AWS’s AI code reviewer and performance profiles, is now generally available (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting (Axios)
An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming (Wired)

Monday, June 29 2020 - Mon. 06/29 – Reddit Bans r/The_Donald and The Facebook Ad Boycott, Explained

Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules (The Verge)
Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say (Reuters)
The hard truth about the Facebook ad boycott: Nothing matters but Zuckerberg (CNN Business)
Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box (9to5Mac)
Amazon eliminates single-use plastic in packaging in India (TechCrunch)
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh (India Today)
Microsoft’s new Windows File Recovery tool lets you retrieve deleted documents (The Verge)

Friday, June 26 2020 - Amazon Buys Self-Driving Startup Zoox

Thursday, June 25 2020 - Thu. 06/25 – Amazon Has A Counterfeit Crimes Unit (Sounds Like An NBC TV Show)

Wednesday, June 24 2020 - Wed. 06/24 – Oculus Go and Olympus (and Force Touch?) Go Bye Bye

Brazilian Authorities Suspend WhatsApp Payments (Bloomberg)
Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (NYTimes)
Facebook To Stop Selling Oculus Go, Vows No More 3DOF Headsets (UploadVR)
Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years (WSJ)
watchOS 7 drops Force Touch support, likely ahead of Apple Watch Series 6 hardware changes (9to5Mac)
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (NYTimes)
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime (Motherboard)

Tuesday, June 23 2020 - Tue. 06/23 – Zoom is No Longer The King of the Work-From-Home Era

Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Is Arrested (WSJ)
Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming (The Verge)
Japanese Supercomputer Is Crowned World’s Speediest (The Verge)
Zoom is no longer the best-performing work-from-home stock (CNBC)
China launches its final satellite to complete its rival to the US-owned GPS system (CNBC)
Apple update to allow iPhone users to choose default apps (The Guardian)
Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One (Six Colors)
The iPadification of the Mac is coming, no touchscreen required (The Verge)

Monday, June 22 2020 - Mon. 06/22 – WWDC 2020 (Virtually)

Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over (The Verge)
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally (NYTimes)
Google’s U.S. Ad Revenue Is Expected to Decline in 2020, eMarketer Says (WSJ)
Nintendo Chills Mobile Ambitions After Animal Crossing Success (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 19 2020 - Fri. 06/19 – It’s Gonna Be An Interesting WWDC…

Interview: Apple’s Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch)
Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google’s Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters)
Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’ (NPR)
Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (FT)
Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters)
Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 18 2020 - Thu. 06/18 – Audio Comes To Tweets

Apple Rejects Facebook’s Gaming App, for at Least the Fifth Time (NYTimes)
Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS (The Verge)
UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model (BBC News)
Zoom to Offer All Users Full Encryption, Bending to Pressure (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: DoorDash valued at $16 billion after new funding round (Axios)
India’s Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $1.5 billion stake to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (TechCrunch)
Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing (FT)
6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple (WBZ Boston)
Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics (Wired)

Wednesday, June 17 2020 - Wed. 06/17 – HEY! The Whole Brouhaha Between Apple And Basecamp

Tuesday, June 16 2020 - Tue. 06/16 – Apple’s Turn in The EU Antitrust Toolshed

EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices (The Verge)
Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce in 2019 (TechCrunch)
Instagram ‘will overtake Twitter as a news source’ (BBC News)
Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion (Protocol)
Hey YouTube WalkThrough (YouTube)
Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files (The Verge)
Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 (The Verge)

Monday, June 15 2020 - Mon. 06/15 – People Are Actually MORE Honest On Their Cellphones

Friday, June 12 2020 - Fri. 06/12 – Why Chris Cox Returning to Facebook is Such A Big Deal

Twitter deletes China-linked accounts that spread false information about Hong Kong and Covid-19 (CNN Business)
UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook’s $400M acquisition of Giphy (TechCrunch)
Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer (The Verge)
Zuckerberg Lieutenant Returns to Facebook, a Year After Departure (WSJ)
This is the PlayStation 5 (The Verge)

Thursday, June 11 2020 - Thu. 06/11 – Regulation News Thursday

Wednesday, June 10 2020 - Wed. 06/10 – Robocallers Face The Music

Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again (Ars Technica)
TSMC on schedule for 3nm Apple ‘A16’ iPhone and iPad chip in 2022 (Apple Insider)
On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month (Daring Fireball)
Robocallers face $225M fine from FCC and lawsuits from multiple states (TechCrunch)
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement (The Verge)
Just Eat Takeaway.com Nears All-Stock Deal for Grubhub (WSJ)
Zynn, the Hot New Video App, Is Full of Stolen Content (Wired)
Interactive Storytelling App Whatifi Launches With $10 Million in Funding (The Hollywood Reporter)

Tuesday, June 09 2020 - Tue. 06/09 – Apple Could Announce Arm Chips For Macs at WWDC In A Matter Of Days

Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC (Bloomberg)
IBM is exiting the face recognition business (Axios)
New York-Based Wahed Raises $25M For Islamic Investment Platform (Crunchbase News)
Didi Chuxing CEO says ride sharing orders recover to pre-pandemic levels (Reuters)
Get around safely with these new Google Maps features (The Keyword)
INSIDE NEXTDOOR’S ‘KAREN PROBLEM’ (The Verge)
Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job (GeekWire)

Monday, June 08 2020 - Mon. 06/08 – Airbnb Is Suddenly Seeing More Travel Bookings Than It Did This Time Last Year

Airbnb Joins Vacation-Rental Sites Seeing Surge in Demand (Bloomberg)
Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust (Decrypt)
Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain (TechCrunch)
Apple Preparing Monthly iPad, Mac Payment Plans for Apple Card (Bloomberg)
Scientists funded by Zuckerberg sent him a letter calling Facebook’s practices ‘antithetical’ to his philanthropic mission (Washington Post)

Friday, June 05 2020 - What If Self-Driving Cars Won’t Prevent As Many Accidents As We Hoped?

Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (CNBC)
Google says Iranian, Chinese hackers targeted Trump, Biden campaigns (TechCrunch)
Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news of protests and COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
Study: Autonomous vehicles won’t make roads completely safe (Associated Press)

Thursday, June 04 2020 - Thu. 06/04 – A Class-Action Lawsuit Around Incognito Mode

Speaking up on racism (Tim Cook)
Early Facebook Employees Disavow Zuckerberg’s Stance on Trump Posts (NYTimes)
Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after concluding his tweets incited violence (The Verge)
Exclusive: Amazon in talks to buy $2 billion stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel - sources (Reuters)
Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use (Reuters)
Suit Claims Google’s Tracking Violates Federal Wiretap Law (NYTimes)
iOS 13.5.5 code provides evidence of future Apple services bundle in development (9to5Mac)
CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year (The Verge)
ZoomInfo aiming to price IPO $1 above revised price range (CNBC)
Gaming Startup Unity Is Said to Prepare for IPO This Year (Bloomberg)
Kitty Hawk ends Flyer program, shifts focus to once-secret autonomous aircraft (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, June 03 2020 - Is On-Device Translation Coming to iOS?

Tuesday, June 02 2020 - Tue. 06/02 – Everything is Postponed

Facebook finally makes it way easier to trash your old posts (TechCrunch)
HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will (The Verge)
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter (NBC News)
Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence (The Verge)
Cisco, Sony postpone events amid continued protests (Axios)
Third Pixel feature drop improves AI-powered Adaptive Battery, integrates Recorder and Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
Android update delivers new ‘Bedtime’ features focused on improving sleep (TechCrunch)
Apple releases iOS 13.5.1 and watchOS 6.2.6 with ‘important security updates’ (9to5Mac)
YouTube’s Chase for Streaming-TV Ad Dollars Faces Hurdles (WSJ)
Samsung’s rotating mobile-friendly TV goes on sale for $1,999 (The Verge)

Monday, June 01 2020 - Mon. 06/01 – The Facebook Walkout

Friday, May 29 2020 - Fri. 05/29 – The Best Summary of the Executive Order I Can Muster (Replacement)

Thursday, May 28 2020 - Thu. 05/28 – The Most Consequential Tweets For Silicon Valley of All Time?

Trump expected to sign executive order that could threaten punishment against Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations of political bias (Washington Post)
Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn’t be ‘the arbiter of truth’ (Fox News)
Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri (Bloomberg)
Apple TV Plus acquires past Fraggle Rock seasons ahead of reboot (The Verge)
What developers want, what they don’t, and what you can do to attract top talent (TechRepublic)
LG’s $1,500 48-inch 4K OLED TV goes on sale next month (Engadget)
This lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment (Rest of World)
Nuro’s driverless delivery robots will transport medicine to CVS customers in Texas (The Verge)

Wednesday, May 27 2020 - Wed. 05/27 – Amazon Joins The Self-Driving Race

Amazon in Advanced Talks to Buy Self-Driving-Car Tech Company Zoox (WSJ)
Google to begin reopening offices July 6, will let workers expense $1,000 for equipment while telecommuting (CNET)
Advertisers Seek to Revise Deal Terms With Streamer Quibi (WSJ)
HBO Max debuts without the two most popular streaming platforms, Roku or Amazon (USAToday)
ByteDance Hit $3 Billion in Net Profit Last Year (Bloomberg)
Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity, in new SEC complaint (Washington Post)
Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time (Washington Post)
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive (WSJ)
EU privacy enforcer hits make-or-break moment (Politico)
Tech Giants’ Top EU Privacy Watchdog Attacked Over Slow Pace (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, May 26 2020 - Tue. 05/26 – What Does A 3-Day Weekend Even Mean Anymore?

ARM’s Cortex-A78 CPU and Mali-G78 GPU will power 2021’s best Android phones (The Verge)
Google Messages preparing end-to-end encryption for RCS messages (9to5Google)
There’s a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS (Wired)
JioMart, the e-commerce venture from India’s richest man, launches in 200 cities and towns (TechCrunch)
Run The World raises $10.8 million to bring live events online (VentureBeat)
Why Facebook’s Plan to Tie Remote Pay to Location Will Probably Fail (Intelligencer)

Friday, May 22 2020 - Fri. 05/22 – I Do A Complete 180 on WFH

MARK ZUCKERBERG ON TAKING HIS MASSIVE WORKFORCE REMOTE (The Verge)
Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts (CNBC)
IBM Is Latest Tech Giant to Cut Jobs in Midst of Pandemic (Bloomberg)
Magic Leap Raises $350 Million, Withdraws Layoff Notices (The Information)
Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules (Ars Technica)
ScreenHits TV to Launch Streaming Aggregator to Combat “Subscription Fatigue” (The Hollywood Reporter)

Thursday, May 21 2020 - Thu. 05/21 – The Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition

Twitter is testing a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets (TechCrunch)
Three US states have signed on to Apple and Google’s exposure notification system (The Verge)
Apple releases final iOS 13.5 with coronavirus exposure alert support (VentureBeat)
Coinbase to Make Working From Home Permanent (The Information)
Samsung launches Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition for Department of Defense (ZDNet)
How a 20-year-old convinced Facebook’s former security chief to invest in his data privacy start-up (CNBC)
Autonomous aviation startup Xwing raises $10M to scale its software for pilotless flights (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 20 2020 - Wed. 05/20 – Joe Rogan is Podcasting’s Howard Stern Moment

Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, making it easier for businesses to list products for sale (CNBC)
Ecommerce penetration graph (Dennis Hong)
Is the e-commerce shift going to last? (TechCrunch)
A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go (NYTimes)
‘iPhone 12’ predicted to ship without EarPods, will boost AirPods sales (Apple Insider)
Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience” to an exclusive multi-year deal (TechCrunch)
Bill Simmons Just Wants to Win (Vulture)
With its Joe Rogan exclusive, Spotify’s new podcast strategy is to kill podcasts (Digital Trends)
New Spec Gives SD Cards a Massive Boost in Speed (Gizmodo)

Tuesday, May 19 2020 - If You Virtual Build It, They Will Come

Microsoft’s new PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10 is now available to download (The Verge)
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (The Verge)
Microsoft to adapt its cloud software for healthcare industry (Reuters)
Deliver better experiences, insights, and care with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (Microsoft)
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids (The Verge)
Microsoft and Sony to create smart camera solutions for AI-enabled image sensor (ZDNet)
Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs (Engadget)
Apple’s AR Glasses! (Front Page Tech on YouTube)
Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge (Bloomberg News)
Attorney General William P. Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray Announce Significant Developments in the Investigation of the Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting (DOJ)
Walmart is shutting down Jet.com 4 years after buying the company for $3.3 billion (Business Insider)
Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn’t Actually Chuck E. Cheese (Food & Wine)
Introducing the World’s Largest Medical Repair Database, Free for Everyone (iFixIt)

Monday, May 18 2020 - Mon. 05/18 – Pizza Arbitrage Shows How The Food Delivery Space Is Broken

TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions (Nikkei Asian Review)
China Injects $2.2 Billion Into Local Chip Firm (Bloomberg)
General Atlantic to invest $870M in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
Google Meet surpasses 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store (9to5Google)
Andreessen Horowitz Wins VC Sweepstakes To Back Clubhouse, Voice App Still In Beta, At $100 Million Valuation (Forbes)
London-based Fly Now Pay Later raises £35 million Series A to provide flexible financing to travellers (Tech.eu)
Austin-Based Real Estate Startup Homeward Secures $105M In Debt & Equity (TechCrunch)
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage (Margins, by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk)

Friday, May 15 2020 - Fri. 05/15 – Facebook Buys GIPHY

U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers as China eyes retaliation (Reuters)
Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million (Axios)
Apple Acquires Startup NextVR that Broadcasts VR Content (Bloomberg)
Apple’s computerized glasses won’t be ready until 2022 ‘at the earliest,’ top analyst says (Bloomberg)
Latest leak has “sleek” Apple Glasses coming out in 2021 instead of 2022 (Apple Insider)
Uber’s CEO, a Seasoned Dealmaker, Pursues His Biggest One Yet (Bloomberg)
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August (VentureBeat)
Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Thursday, May 14 2020 - Thu. 05/14 – “Monstrous” Chip News

Nvidia unveils monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and 5 petaflops of performance (VentureBeat)
Nvidia’s first Ampere GPU is designed for data centers and AI, not your PC (The Verge)
Sony Says It Created World’s First Image Sensor With Built-in AI (Bloomberg)
Reddit to launch Ethereum-based tokens for cryptocurrency and Fortnite subreddits (The Block)
Chrome will soon group tabs together to save pack rats from themselves (Engadget)
The mastermind behind the Pixel’s camera has left Google (AndroidCentral)
Adding three more companies to the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 13 2020 - Wed. 05/13 – What If We Never Go Back To The Office?

Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays (The Verge)
Amazon updates the Fire HD 8 with a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C (The Verge)
Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job (The Verge)
Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+ (Digiday)
US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery (TechCrunch)
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever (Buzzfeed News)
Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, May 12 2020 - Quibbling With Quibi

Monday, May 11 2020 - Mon. 05/11 – Why Call it “Thunderspy” and not “Thunderstruck” or “Thunderstorm?”

Friday, May 08 2020 - Fri. 05/08 – How Good Can an $18 Apple Watch Knock-Off Really Be?

Thursday, May 07 2020 - Thu. 05/07 – Do Lyft Earnings Mean Ride Hailing As An Industry Might Survive?

Wednesday, May 06 2020 - Wed. 05/06 – Disney+ Is Saving Mickey’s Bacon At The Moment

Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor (The Verge)
Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 has 10th-gen Intel CPUs and new NVIDIA GPUs (Engadget)
Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce (CNBC)
The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode)
Magic Leap is turning to a major health care company to save its future, potentially raising as much as $100 million (Business Insider)
Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes)
Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, May 05 2020 - Tue. 05/05 – UK’s Contact Tracing App Won’t Work In the Background

Apple kicking off week of virtual WWDC on June 22, jackets and pins for Swift Challenge winners (9to5Mac)
UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location, may be illegal (The Register)
The U.K.’s Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Is a Complete Mess (Vice)
Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps (Reuters)
Uber in Talks to Lead $170 Million Lime Investment at Lower Valuation (The Information)
Confirmed: Intel is buying urban mobility platform Moovit in a $900M deal (TechCrunch)
Microsoft confirms Windows 10X is coming to laptops amid big jump in Windows usage (The Verge)
Facebook’s Oculus Is Developing a New Quest VR Headset (Bloomberg)
Google Meet starts rolling out in Gmail, continuing Google’s quest to unseat Zoom (The Verge)
Sensor Tower raises $45M as demand for app data grows (TechCrunch)

Monday, May 04 2020 - Usable Keyboards Return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro

Apple announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard (The Verge)
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers (Vice)
Bye, Amazon (Tim Bray)
Silver Lake to invest $747M in India’s Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: Uber will soon require drivers and riders to wear face coverings in the US (CNN Business)
Intel set to buy Israeli co Moovit for $1b (Globes)
European Heart Journal: Apple Watch ECG detects signs of coronary ischemia missed by hospital ECG (9to5Mac)
Apple Watch blood oxygen detection feature found in iOS 14 code snippet (9to5Mac)

Friday, May 01 2020 - Sometime Sanity Wins (ICANN Edition)

A Private Equity Firm Is Blocked From Buying .Org (NYTimes)
Amazon says it’ll spend $4 billion or more dealing with COVID-19 (The Verge)
House lawmakers demand Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify in antitrust probe, threatening potential subpoena (Washington Post)
Reddit removes chat room feature after one day due to site-wide bug (The Verge)

Thursday, April 30 2020 - Thu. 04/30 – Don’t Fight The Tape (Tech Earnings Edition)

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz (AnAndTech)
Andreessen Horowitz raises $515 million for second crypto fund (Axios)
Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims (The Verge)
Reddit adds chat rooms for subreddits (Engadget)
Smartphone Production to Drop by 16.5% YoY in 2Q20, Setting Historical Record in YoY Decline, Says TrendForce (TrendForce)
Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more (CNBC)
Facebook soars after reporting ‘stability’ in ad revenue after fall in March (CNBC)
Press Release & Webcast (Microsoft Investor Relations)
Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swings to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M (TechCrunch)
Tesla posts profit despite hit from coronavirus (CNN Business)

Wednesday, April 29 2020 - Wed. 04/29 – Here Come the Tech Earnings…

Alphabet earnings hit by ‘significant slowdown’ in ad sales, but revenue boosts stock (Marketwatch)
Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody (The Verge)
Spotify Q1 beats on sales of $2B with monthly active users up 31% to 286M (TechCrunch)
Uber Discusses Plan to Lay Off About 20% of Employees (The Information)
Ford postpones autonomous vehicle service until 2022 (TechCrunch)
How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus (CNBC)

Tuesday, April 28 2020 - Tue. 04/28 – Deepfakes As A Killer (Advertising) App

Shopify launches Shop, a new mobile app (TechCrunch)
NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan (BBC News)
DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time (The Verge)
GOOGLE PIXEL BUDS REVIEW: SECOND TIME’S THE CHARM (The Verge)
Tesla says cars can automatically stop for traffic lights (Associated Press)
Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch (TechCrunch)
Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (The Blog of Palmer Luckey)
An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (NYTimes)

Monday, April 27 2020 - Mon. 04/27 – It’s Always A Good Day When Your Starship Doesn’t Explode

Apple Delays Mass Production of 2020 Flagship iPhones (WSJ)
Two Million Australians Download Coronavirus Contact-Tracing App (Bloomberg)
Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing (Reuters)
Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers’ code (TechCrunch)
Blunt New CEO Inherits Challenge of Turning AT&T Into Media Star (Bloomberg)
John Stankey’s challenge: Making AT&T’s $100 billion bet on Time Warner pay off (CNBC)
The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future (Ars Technica)
SpaceX’s future deep-space rocket passes key test, paving the way for short flight (The Verge)

Friday, April 24 2020 - Google Battens Down The Hatches

Thursday, April 23 2020 - Thu. 04/23 – Privacy Hypocrisy From France?

Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021 (Bloomberg)
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is helping hospitals remotely treat coronavirus patients (The Verge)
Magic Leap Cuts Half of Jobs In Major Restructuring (Bloomberg)
Worldwide Digital Video Game Spending Hits All-Time High of $10B in March (The Hollywood Reporter)
Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund (WSJ)
France urges Apple and Google to ease privacy rules on contact tracing (The Guardian)
French Hypocrisy: Fines Google For Being Soft On Privacy; Now Angry That Google Won’t Let It Spy On Users (TechDirt)
Mire lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, April 21 2020 - Tue. 04/21 – Sonos Radio

Sonos launches its own streaming radio service (The Verge)
267 million Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web (BleepingComputer)
Apple launches App Store, Music, Arcade, Podcasts, and iCloud in new countries (9to5Mac)
In major shift, Google Shopping opens up to free product listings (Search Engine Land)
Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders (NBC News)
Google’s Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns (Wired)
WarnerMedia Sets Late May HBO Max Launch (The Hollywood Reporter)
AT&T’s HBO Max Will Dive Into Crowded Streaming Market on May 27 (Bloomberg)
Kickstarter plans layoffs after new projects on the site drop off by 35 percent (The Verge)

Monday, April 20 2020 - Mon. 04/20 – Well, Your iPad IS A Laptop Now, Which Means Bigger And Heavier

Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming (NYTimes)
Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to ‘level playing field’ with traditional news media (ABC News Australia)
Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox (NYTimes)
With Shut-In Kids Flocking to Streaming, Disney Channel Retools (Bloomberg)
The Q1 2020 Global VC Report: Funding Slowly Impacted By Coronavirus (Crunchbase News)
Private Equity Sees $20 Billion of Tech Deals Shelved by Virus (Bloomberg)
MAGIC KEYBOARD FOR THE IPAD PRO REVIEW: THE BEST WAY TO TURN AN IPAD INTO A LAPTOP (The Verge)

Friday, April 17 2020 - Y Combinator Gets Picky

AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time (VentureBeat)
Changing policy, Y Combinator cuts its pro rate stake and makes investments case-by-case (TechCrunch)
Google’s fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link (Reuters)
Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health (Six Colors)
Apple CEO Talks Covid-19 Crisis, Return to Work Plan at Company-Wide Meeting (Bloomberg)

Thursday, April 16 2020 - The Video Conferencing Space Is So Hot, We’re Getting Steamy M&A Action Now.

Verizon Buys Zoom Conferencing Rival BlueJeans (The Verge)
Apple Developing High-End Headphones With Interchangeable Parts (Bloomberg)
Sony Plans Limited PlayStation 5 Output in First Year (Bloomberg)
Robinhood Is Raising New Funds at About $8 Billion Value, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020, CEO Tells Staff (Bloomberg)
Facebook-Backed Libra Cryptocurrency Project Is Scaled Back (NYTimes)
Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
Amazon to close French warehouses until next week after court order (Reuters)
TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 15 2020

Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020 (The Verge)
Airbnb raises another $1bn (FT)
Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives publishers a cut of sales (CNBC)
Github is now free for all teams (TechCrunch)
Washington AG sues Facebook for violating state political ad law (GeekWire)
How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news (The Verge)
Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, April 14 2020 - Seems Like Old Times! An Actual Smartphone Launch Event!

OnePlus Announces OnePlus 8 & OnePlus 8 Pro: Step-Up 2020 Flagships (AnAndTech)
ONEPLUS 8 PRO REVIEW: BIG LEAGUE (The Verge)
Q&A: Apple and Google discuss their coronavirus tracing efforts (TechCrunch)
iPhone China Shipments Rebound as Manufacturing Resumes (Bloomberg)
Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks (Axios)
Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from (The Verge)
Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web (BleepingComputer)
New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon (ZDNet)
Amazon to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff (WSJ)
VC Firms Raised $21 Billion Last Quarter Despite Pandemic Chaos (Bloomberg)
ESRB introduces a new label to indicate that a game has loot boxes (The Verge)

Monday, April 13 2020 - Mon. 04/13 – Back To The iPhone 5 Design Future?

@moxie Tweet Thread (Twitter)
How Apple and Google are tackling one of the toughest parts about tracking COVID-19 exposures (The Verge)
NHS phone app holds key to lifting UK’s coronavirus lockdown (The Times (UK)
Apple Plans iPad-Like Design for Next iPhone, Smaller HomePod (Bloomberg)
SoftBank Group forecasts $7-bn full-year net loss (Yahoo Finance)
Son’s $2 Billion Guarantee at Risk as Virus Hits SoftBank Star (Bloomberg)
Fall of the roaming empire: telecom groups face revenue loss as travel collapses (FT)
As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting (OneZero)
‘It’s still niche’: Esports see audience surge, more tepid ad demand (Digiday)
Anyone’s a Celebrity Streamer With This Open Source App (Wired)

Friday, April 10 2020 - Fri. 04/10 – HUGE: Apple and Google Join Forces For Coronavirus Contact Tracing

Apple, Google debut major effort to help people track if they’ve come in contact with coronavirus (Washington Post)
Amazon developing coronavirus testing lab for workers (Washington Post)
The pandemic is playing to almost every one of Amazon’s strengths (CNN Business)
Google creates online unemployment application with state of New York (CNBC)
Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (The Verge)
Everyone can now access their Instagram DMs on the web (The Verge)

Thursday, April 09 2020 - Thu. 04/09 – Why The Pandemic Might Be Long-Term Good For The Internet

Disney+ Surpasses 50 Million Paid Subscribers After Launches in Europe & India (The Streamable)
Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security (Bleeping Computer)
MICROSOFT THINKS CORONAVIRUS WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK AND LEARN (The Verge)
The Humble Phone Call Has Made a Comeback (NYTimes)
Microsoft: Don’t expect any Windows 10X devices this calendar year (ZDNet)
No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic (The Verge)
Google Stadia now free to anyone with a Gmail address (Polygon)
Now It’s Falling Apart (OneZero)
Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever (MIT Technology Review)
Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 08 2020 - Wed. 04/08 – The Desktop Web Is Back (for the time being…)

@jack’s tweet storm (Twitter)
Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing Announced Monday (WSJ)
Airbnb In Talks To Raise More Debt (Bloomberg)
Update on Zoom’s 90-Day Plan to Bolster Key Privacy and Security Initiatives (Zoom Blog)
Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update (The Verge)
Google is requiring Virtual A/B on new Android 11 devices, paving the way for mandatory Seamless Updates (XDA Developers)
Microsoft is freezing hiring except in some unspecified ‘strategic areas’ (Business Insider)
All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021 (The Verge)
The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (NYTimes)
Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff (TechCrunch)
Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform (VentureBeat)
Google’s video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus (CNET)
Don’t be surprised when ‘Hangouts Meet’ becomes ‘Google Meet’ (9to5Google)

Tuesday, April 07 2020 - The Latest Startup Gunning For Gmail

WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news (The Guardian)
Airbnb is raising $1 billion amid fallout from coronanvirus (CNBC)
Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider (WSJ)
Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and Softbank Under Siege (Forbes)
Pixel April updates land, bringing eyes-open face unlock setting to the Pixel 4 (Android Police)
Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t (KrebsonSecurity)
This tiny startup thinks it can do email better than Google (Protocol)

Monday, April 06 2020 - Mon. 04/06 – Happy Quibi Day!

Quibi app review: shifting landscape (The Verge)
How to stream Quibi (The Verge)
SAMSUNG GALAXY CHROMEBOOK REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL TO A FAULT (The Verge)
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: Great, until the battery runs out (Engadget)
Tim Cook: Apple shipping custom face shields to medical workers as mask donations cross 20M (9to5Mac)
Call for social media platforms to act on 5G mast conspiracy theory (The Guardian)
Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others (ZDNet)
Microsoft Edge is now 2nd most popular desktop browser, beats Firefox (BleepingComputer)

Friday, April 03 2020 - It’s An 80’s Style Free HBO Bonanza!

Thursday, April 02 2020 - Zoom Apologizes And Wow’s On DAUs

A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
‘Content network effect’ makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)
Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut (Bloomberg)
‘It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode’ The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)

Wednesday, April 01 2020 - The Zoom Privacy Storm

Legere is out as T-Mobile CEO as Sprint merger officially closes (CNBC)
Samsung Display to end all LCD production by end 2020 (Reuters)
Marriott discloses new data breach impacting 5.2 million hotel guests (ZDNet)
Comcast waiving data caps hasn’t hurt its network—why not make it permanent? (Ars Technica)
Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials via UNC Links (Bleeping Computer)
@c1truz_ thread about Zoom (Twitter)
Amazon’s Covid Hiring Boom Has Applicants Packed Into Job Fairs With No Special Precautions (Bloomberg)
Amazon Struggles to Find Its Coronavirus Footing. ‘It’s a Time of Great Stress.’ (WSJ)
Amazon’s past catches up with it (The Interface)

Tuesday, March 31 2020 - Apple Buys Dark Sky!

Apple purchases hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky, ending API and killing Android apps (9to5Mac)
Snapchat preempts clones, syndicates Stories to other apps (TechCrunch)
Surprise! Fitbit’s First New Product Since Google Deal Is A Fitness Tracker (Gizmodo)
Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, Skype daily active users up 70% to 40 million (VentureBeat)
Microsoft 365 bundles Office 365 with AI and cloud-powered features (VentureBeat)
Spotify Brings Standalone Kids’ App to U.S., Featuring a ‘Wash Your Hands’ Playlist (Variety)
New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices (NYTimes)
ZOOM MEETINGS AREN’T END-TO-END ENCRYPTED, DESPITE MISLEADING MARKETING (The Intercept)
Comcast says voice and video calls have skyrocketed 212 percent during widespread self-isolation (The Verge)
Apple Tests Its Secrecy Somewhere New: Employee Homes (Bloomberg)
Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking (Ars Technica)

Monday, March 30 2020 - Mon. 03/30 – HQ Trivia Back From The Dead!

HQ Trivia Returns Thanks to Anonymous Investor (WSJ)
Facebook Strikes Deal for AR Displays, Squeezing Out Apple (The Information)
Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
Coronavirus has led to a 775 percent increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services (BetaNews)
Apple’s factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand (Reuters)
Candor: 267 companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, 111 are hiring (VentureBeat)
OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Space News)
Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount (The Information)
Lyft Tells Drivers to Work for Amazon After Ridership Plummets (Bloomberg)
Bird lays off about 30% of workforce amid COVID-19 pandemic (TechCrunch)
Hack Attack Takes Down Dark Web Host: 7,595 Websites Confirmed Deleted (Forbes)

Friday, March 27 2020 - Apple’s Covid-19 App

Apple releases new COVID-19 app and website based on CDC guidance (Apple Newsroom)
Kuo: Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022 (MacRumors)
Sony Spins Off Camera Business Into Separate Company (PetaPixel)
Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Motherboard)

Thursday, March 26 2020 - Thu. 03/26 – No New iPhone Until 2021?

Apple weighs delaying 5G iPhone launch by months, sources say (Nikkei Asian Review)
Apple Testing AR/VR Headset With HTC Vive-Like Controller, Crosswalk Bowling Game, and More (MacRumors)
What Qualcomm’s new chips mean for upcoming true wireless earbuds (CNET)
Airbnb Hosts to Help Provide Housing to 100,000 COVID-19 Responders (Airbnb Newsroom)
TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown (Crunchbase News)
What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis (Protocol)
Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising (The Information)
StubHub furloughs employees, other ticket sites face challenges in wake of pandemic (ESPN)
Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce (TechCrunch)
LIVING A GOOGLE-FREE LIFE WITH A HUAWEI PHONE (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 25 2020 - Google Podcasts Comes To iOS

Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes)
The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse (NYTimes)
Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch)
Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge)
Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg)
iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg)
Coronavirus: S’pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times)
Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post)

Tuesday, March 24 2020 - Instagram Co-Watching

Microsoft says hackers are attacking Windows users with a new unpatched bug (TechCrunch)
Apple promises App Store expansion to 20 new countries starting next month (9to5Mac)
Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80% (VentureBeat)
Google opens Stadia Makers program for indie game developers (9to5Google)
Google unveils Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and Cloud Firestore for game developers (VentureBeat)
Instagram has a new way for people isolated by coronavirus to connect: sharing posts via video chat (CNBC)
Exclusive: Disney+ Sees Huge Subscription Spike As Homebound Audiences Clamor For Content (Forbes)
Revolut launches its neobank in the US (TechCrunch)
Review: Apple iPad Pro (2020) (Wired)
APPLE IPAD PRO REVIEW 2020: SMALL SPEC BUMP, BIG CAMERA BUMP (The Verge)

Monday, March 23 2020 - The Pros And Cons Of Surveilling Against Covid19

Friday, March 20 2020 - Instagram Copies The Last Snapchat Feature Left

Amazon AWS launches $20 million initiative to help fight the coronavirus (CNBC)
Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate unifies graphics tech for PC gaming and Xbox Series X (The Verge)
Ex-Uber executive Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to trade-secret theft (Washington Post)
The End of Starsky Robotics (Medium)

Thursday, March 19 2020 - This Is The Microsoft Teams Moment

Square gains FDIC conditional approval for a banking license (Silicon Angle)
Microsoft Teams passes 44 million daily active users, thanks in part to coronavirus (VentureBeat)
What worries Mark Zuckerberg (The Interface)
EU warns of broadband strain as millions work from home (FT)
Improved iPhone, AirPods availability suggests Chinese production nearing normality (Apple Insider)
Music streaming may actually be falling because of coronavirus (QZ)
Apple’s iPad Pro becomes more like a Surface, and that’s a problem for Microsoft (Windows Central)
Steven Sinofsky tweet thread about the iPad (Twitter)

Wednesday, March 18 2020 - The iPad is a Laptop Now!

Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild keyboard cover (The Verge)
The MacBook Air gets an updated keyboard and souped-up specs, starting at $999 (TechCrunch)
Apple’s $799 Mac mini debuts with double the storage (Apple Insider)
Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages (VentureBeat)
Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet (The Verge)
PlayStation 5 hardware specifications revealed (Polygon)
How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine (Marker)

Tuesday, March 17 2020 - Microsoft Wants To Own The Dev Stack

Microsoft’s GitHub acquires npm to help JavaScript developers (WindowsCentral)
iOS 14 code confirms Apple planning ‘iPhone 9 Plus’ with A13 as larger version of rumored entry-level model (9to5Mac)
Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon’s service in this stressful time (Amazon Day One Blog)
Uber, Lyft suspend pooled rides in U.S., Canada to limit spread of coronavirus (Reuters)
Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? (Wired)
To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data (NYTimes)
With Movie Theater Shutdown, Universal Pictures to Stream New Release Films on Prime Video, iTunes, & More (The Streamable)
Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good. (NYTimes)

Monday, March 16 2020 - What REALLY Happened W/That Google Coronavirus Project?

Apple fined a record $1.2 billion by French antitrust authorities (CNBC)
FCC’s largest spectrum auction nets $4.47 billion for 5G mmWave bands (VentureBeat)
Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life (The Verge)
Inside Xbox Series X: the full specs (Eurogamer)
Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 (The Verge)
Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus (NYTimes)
Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects (The Verge)
Silicon Valley Was First to Send Workers Home. It’s Been Messy. (WSJ)
Coronavirus Impact: Netflix Shuts Down Film, TV Work in U.S. and Canada as Production Nears Standstill (The Hollywood Reporter)

Friday, March 13 2020 - Has Coronavirus Proven ISP Datacaps Are A Sham?

Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon (Bloomberg)
AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis (Vice)
Comcast accidentally published 200,000 “unlisted” phone numbers (Ars Technica)
Airbnb’s Loss Nearly Doubles in Fourth Quarter, Before Virus (Bloomberg)
Atlassian brings new automation tools to Jira Cloud (TechCrunch)

Thursday, March 12 2020 - Bye, Bye, Butterfly

Apple Closes All 17 Stores in Italy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Bloomberg)
Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
Resumption of work at Foxconn factories in China beats expectations, says founder (Reuters)
Scoop: Google’s G Suite cracks 2 billion users (Axios)
Kuo: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Models With Scissor Keyboards to Launch in Second Quarter (MacRumors)
The next iPhone will get a ‘world facing’ 3D camera (Fast Company)
Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap to Explore a Sale (Bloomberg)
Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics (TechCrunch)
Bitcoin Hits 10-Month Low Below $6K as Stocks Plunge in Massive Sell-Off (CoinDesk)

Wednesday, March 11 2020 - Now E3 Is Cancelled

E3 2020 Canceled After ‘Overwhelming Concerns’ About Coronavirus (Variety)
Uber may suspend accounts of riders, drivers who test positive for coronavirus (Reuters)
Exclusive: Google plans new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV (w/ remote!) (9to5Google)
Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos (MacRumors)
UK presses ahead with digital tech tax in spite of pressure from Trump (CNET)
Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks (ZDNet)
Amazon’s Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute (AnAndTech)
More good news: Medical equipment is still prone to hacker attacks (VentureBeat)
SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 REVIEW: JUST RIGHT (The Verge)
Venture funding into crypto on pace to be down 40% from Q1 2019 (TheBlockGenesis)

Tuesday, March 10 2020 - Hold Me Closer, Tiny iPhone

iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac)
Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac)
Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac)
Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple)
Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News)
Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter)
Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard)
Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog)
Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat)
DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store)
Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company)
How to clean your Apple products (Apple)
All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC)
Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet)
Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home
Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN)
Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News)
How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review)

Monday, March 09 2020 - @Jack Lives To Fight Another Day

Friday, March 06 2020 - Sonos Won’t Brick Your Old Hardware Anymore

5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable (Ars Technica)
Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps that aren’t from health organizations, app makers say (CNBC)
YC W20 Online Demo Day (YCombinator)
Sonos kills its device-bricking ‘recycle mode’ (Engadget)
Quibi is giving people a 90-day free trial in hopes they’ll actually sign up (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey is reconsidering Africa move amid coronavirus and activist investor threats (The Verge)

Thursday, March 05 2020 - Apple Allows Ads in Push Notifications!?

Microsoft tells Bay Area and Puget Sound employees to work from home if possible as coronavirus spreads (CNBC)
Apple Warns Stores About a Shortage of Replacement iPhones (Bloomberg)
Ex-Uber self-driving head declares bankruptcy after $179 million loss to Google (Reuters)
Apple now lets apps send ads in push notifications (The Verge)
Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services (Redmond Channel Partner)
Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 (Search Engine Land)
Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys (Wired)
VSCO’s new editing tool Montage lets you edit and layer both photos and videos (TechCrunch)
Google starts rolling out 4K Stadia gaming on the web (9to5Google)
Samsung launches its 2020 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs (The Verge)
Exclusive: For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info (Fortune)

Wednesday, March 04 2020 - Are Fleets On Fleek?

Twitter Is Finally Doing Stories (Buzzfeed)
Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades (TechCrunch)
Robinhood offers traders $15 for going down as markets gained $1.1T (TNW)
Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns (9to5Google)
Amazon employee in Seattle tests positive for coronavirus (GeekWire)
Tesla downgraded Model 3 chip in China thanks to coronavirus (BBC News)
Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content (VentureBeat)
$75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100 (TechCrunch)
After attracting 800K web developers, Netlify wins $53M in funding (SiliconAngle)
New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch)
Streamer Quibi Raises Additional Funds Ahead of Launch (WSJ)
Hulu’s live TV service is now on PS4 consoles after PlayStation Vue shutdown (The Verge)
Roku is in talks for original programming, following the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon (Digiday)

Tuesday, March 03 2020 - What If Golf Is The Most Like Fortnite?

Monday, March 02 2020 - I Don’t Think Streaming Platforms Have Coke Habits

Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over (TechCrunch)
Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey (Bloomberg)
Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones (Reuters)
Google’s ambitious push into gaming is floundering, and it’s due largely to too few games on its Stadia platform — here’s why developers have held back (Business Insider)
AT&T TV now available nationwide with Android TV set-top box — and a two-year contract (The Verge)
Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (Bloomberg)
The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry (NYTimes)
Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus (Bloomberg)
Kuo: iPhone Production Will Not Significantly Improve Until Second Quarter of 2020 (MacRumors)

Friday, February 28 2020 - Is Apple Gonna Give the iPad a Trackpad?

Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters)
Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald)
FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters)
Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information)
An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld)
Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac)
Citroën’s new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget)

Thursday, February 27 2020 - The Year Of No Conferences

Facebook cancels F8 developers conference over coronavirus (CNET)
Microsoft warns it will miss guidance for segment that includes Windows because of coronavirus (CNBC)
Roblox raises $150M Series G, led by Andreessen Horowitz, now valued at $4B (TechCrunch)
DoorDash preps for IPO, confidentially files documents with SEC (CNBC)
Nokia to Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts (Bloomberg)
It took Google three years to add Firefox, Edge and Opera support to Google Earth (Ghacks.net)
Timex is releasing a GPS smartwatch with 25 days of battery life (The Verge)
SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA REVIEW: SHUTTER BUG (The Verge)

Wednesday, February 26 2020 - Bad Guys Can’t Use iPhones

Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure the coronavirus (BusinessInsider)
Coronavirus clouds Apple’s timeline for new iPhones (Reuters)
Disney has a new CEO, but its old CEO isn’t going away quite yet (Recode)
Inside Waymo’s Hiring Binge (The Information)
Plume raises $85 million to bring smarter Wi-Fi networks to more homes (VentureBeat)
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Vice)
Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free (TNW)
Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director (The Verge)
Jif settles the great debate with a GIF peanut butter jar (CNN Business)

Tuesday, February 25 2020 - Is Signal The Next Big App?

New Netflix feature reveals the top 10 most popular programs on its service (TechCrunch)
Netflix added a top 10 list of its most-watched content — here’s how to find it (The Next Web)
Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (Ars Technica)
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock (TechCrunch)
Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines (GeekWire)
Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek (TechCrunch)
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (Politico.eu)
SourceCode Newsletter

Monday, February 24 2020 - ARM-based Macs By Early 2021?

Huawei unveils the Mate Xs and MatePad Pro 5G w/ no Play Store access (9to5Google)
Intel debuts 5G server and base station chips, plus a PC network card (VentureBeat)
Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months (The Register)
Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X specs (Polygon)
Apple to release first ARM Mac without Intel processor in next 18 months, predicts Kuo (9to5Mac)
Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion (WSJ)
Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019 (TechCrunch)
Enveil raises $10 million for enterprise-scale homomorphic encryption (VentureBeat)

Friday, February 21 2020 - Libra Gets A (Shopify) Win!

Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association (TechCrunch)
Google Resists Demands From States in Digital-Ad Probe (WSJ)
Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings (The Verge)
Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background (The Verge)
PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns (GamesIndustry.biz)

Thursday, February 20 2020 - What’s a Pirate’s Favorite Business Model? ARR…

Wednesday, February 19 2020 - It’s Friggin’ App News Wednesday

Twitter acquires Stories template maker Chroma Labs (TechCrunch)
Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen (TechCrunch)
Firefox releases Android app for its VPN service (Android Police)
Spotify finally starts showing proper, complete song lyrics synced with music (Android Police)
Google Docs autocorrect widely rolling out as Smart Compose exits G Suite beta (9to5Google)
Adobe brings more desktop-quality Photoshop tools to the iPad (Engadget)
Microsoft’s new Office app arrives on iOS and Android with mobile-friendly features (The Verge)
Ring now requires two-factor sign-ins for its home security devices (Engadget)
Record labels rush to IPO amid music streaming boom (Axios)
Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy and paste, dies at 74 (Cult of Mac)

Tuesday, February 18 2020 - Apple’s Coronavirus Warning

Investor update on quarterly guidance (Apple Newsroom)
APPLE WARNS THAT CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN CHINA WILL AFFECT REVENUE THIS QUARTER (Daring Fireball)
Forget foldable: These leaked images show a phone concept with a slide-out screen (CNET)
Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question (The Verge)
Qualcomm’s New 3rd Generation 5G Modem (AnAndTech)
Microsoft’s new all-in-one Office app is now available for all, but tablets aren’t supported (Android Police)
Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads (Krebs on Security)
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change (The Verge)

Monday, February 17 2020 - HQ Trivia Into The Deadpool

UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world’s fastest weather supercompute
Game over for HQ Trivia (CNN Business)
Exclusive: Apple is designing its own antenna for this year’s 5G iPhone (Fast Company)
Our Motorola Razr’s display is already breaking and peeling at the fold (Input)
US Army testing all terrain electric scooter for tactical use (Electrek)
In India, mom-and-pop stores are proving to be the holy grail for tech startups (KrASIA)

Friday, February 14 2020 - Is It Time For a $500 PlayStation?

Thursday, February 13 2020 - Modular Apple Watches and Quantum Internets?

The US is charging Huawei with racketeering (TechCrunch)
Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down (NYTimes)
Apple Watch of the future could have a modular back for upgrades & new sensors (Apple Insider)
Broadcom launches Wi-Fi 6 extended combo processor, aims to hit 2 Gbps speeds (ZDNet)
Uber’s latest test books rides with a phone call, not the app (Engadget)
Intuition Robotics raises $36 million to bring AI companions to everyone (VentureBeat)
Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service (TechCrunch)
Dieter Bohn’s Processor newsletter (The Verge)
Quantum entanglement over 30 miles of fiber has brought super secure internet closer (MIT Technology Review)

Wednesday, February 12 2020 - Is CISO A Thankless Job?

U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks (WSJ)
Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics (FT)
FTC Expands Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech (WSJ)
Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO (WSJ)
Apple Pay is on pace to account for 10% of all global card transactions (QZ)
State of Software Engineers (Hired.com)
Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout (ZDNet)
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: This is more like it (TechCrunch)
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: Razr who? (Engadget)
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip beats the Motorola Razr in nearly every way (The Verge)
The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 11 2020 - The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Event

SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S20, PLUS, AND ULTRA FIRST LOOK: CAMERAS, 5G, AND 120HZ SCREENS (The Verge)
Samsung’s new foldable Galaxy Z Flip will arrive on February 14th for $1,380 (The Verge)
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip debuts w/ less expensive ‘flip phone’ design (9to5Google)
Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint (CNBC)
Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund’s first failure (Protocol)
SiriusXM Acquires Minority Stake in SoundCloud for $75 Million (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix dominates viewing on TVs over all other streaming services (CNET)
‘The intelligence coup of the century’ (Washington Post)

Monday, February 10 2020 - The Race To Make The Cloud Redundant (For AI)

U.S. charges Chinese military hackers with massive Equifax breach (Politico)
As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards (TechCrunch)
Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show (BBC News)
Motorola Razr review: It’s the most personal phone I’ve used, but I have concerns (CNET)
Motorola Razr review: A tragedy unfolds (Input Magazine)
Netflix Spends Big for Oscars—Will Hollywood Give In? (WSJ)
Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale (KrebsonSecurity)
ARM’s new edge AI chips promise IoT devices that won’t need the cloud (The Verge)

Friday, February 07 2020 - Uber Can See The Promised Land

Thursday, February 06 2020 - Google Maps Freshens Up For Its Birthday

Wednesday, February 05 2020 - It Turns Out…

Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode)
Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance)
LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge)
NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ)
Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg)
Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired)
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge)
Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet)
Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes)
Steve Jobs’ personality changed after Apple’s success, Wozniak says (CNET)

Tuesday, February 04 2020 - Tech Is the Angle In Iowa

YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time (The Verge)
This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses (HuffPost)
Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November (9to5Google)
Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook (FT)
Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg)
Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst (Bloomberg)
Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry (NYTimes)
The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech (Recode)

Monday, February 03 2020 - Is THIS the End of the BlackBerry Era?

BlackBerry’s Android smartphones will stop being sold in August 2020 (9to5Google)
Ming-Chi Kuo Says Coronavirus Outbreak Impacting iPhone Supply, Lowers Shipment Forecast (MacRumors)
Uber Suspends 240 Mexican Accounts to Prevent Coronavirus Spread (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (The Verge)
Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung’s folding Galaxy Z Flip (The Verge)
Disney Takes Tighter Control of Hulu After Disney+ Bundle Revs Up Growth (Bloomberg)
Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg)
Spotify, Apple Music Trail Little-Known Rival in Music-Obsessed India (WSJ)
A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated) (Android Authority)

Friday, January 31 2020 - Did Uber and DoorDash Almost Merge?

Amazon Revenue Jumps on Holiday Sales as Profit Rises (WSJ)
Apple’s redesigned Maps app is available across the US (TechCrunch)
Uber and DoorDash held merger talks after SoftBank push (FT)
SoftBank Is Funding Every Side of a Bruising Startup Battle (WSJ)
EU lawmakers snub Apple’s pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard (Apple Insider)
How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok (TechCrunch)

Thursday, January 30 2020 - Tesla’s Earnings Home Run

Wednesday, January 29 2020 - Apple Has More Active Devices Than Microsoft

Tuesday, January 28 2020 - Gruber’s iPad Disappointment

UK Huawei decision appears to avert row with US (The Guardian)
As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media (NYTimes)
iPhone 11’s new multicam app lets you shoot video with two cameras at once (CNET)
Product Hunt Has Released YourStack, A Social Network Where People Talk About Products (BuzzFeed News)
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (Daring Fireball)
Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook (The Washington Post)
Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (Venture Beat)
Atari is opening eight video game hotels across the U.S

Monday, January 27 2020 - The AI That Spotted the Wuhan Virus Early

Vine reboot Byte officially launches (TechCrunch)
Motorola on the Razr’s folding screen: ‘bumps and lumps are normal’ (The Verge)
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus (Wired)
YouTube signs exclusive streaming deal for Activision e-sports like Call of Duty and Overwatch (The Verge)
Online mattress retailer Casper IPO to raise $182.4 million (CNBC)
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data (Motherboard)
Seamless, Grubhub deliver confusion with mistaken restaurant listings (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Alex Danco Tweet Thread (Twitter)

Friday, January 24 2020 - RIP Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen, guru of disruptive innovation and Latter-day Saint leader, dies at 67 (DesertNews)
Exclusive: Quick Share is Samsung’s alternative to AirDrop for Galaxy phones (XDADevelopers)
Apple, Broadcom Strike $15 Billion Worth of Chip-Supply Deals (Bloomberg)
Apple and Google’s tough new location privacy controls are working (Fast Company)
Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia (ThreatPost)
Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring (The Verge)
Esports Training Site ProGuides Raises $5 Million In Seed Funding (Forbes)

Thursday, January 23 2020 - Security Features As A Feature

Samsung’s new foldable phone already sounds way better than the Galaxy Fold (Mashable)
New leak says the Galaxy S20’s display will run at 60Hz by default (Android Central)
Microsoft starts rolling out developer tools for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android phone (ZDNet)
Match Group invests in Noonlight to power new safety features in Tinder and other dating apps (TechCrunch)
Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone (Motherboard)
Alex Stamos Tweet Storm (Twitter)
Google’s ads just look like search results now (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 22 2020 - The Bezos Phone Hacking Thing

Tuesday, January 21 2020 - Why Didn’t Apple Encrypt iCloud Backups?

Friday, January 17 2020 - Jack Dorsey Asked Elon Musk How To Fix Twitter

Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (WSJ)
NBC’s Peacock streaming service will launch on July 15th with three different price tiers (The Verge)
Twitch’s loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says (TechCrunch)
Huawei P40 Pro leak shows off five-camera bump and ceramic body (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk How to Fix Twitter (Bloomberg)

Thursday, January 16 2020 - Apple Acquires Xnor.ai

Exclusive: Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range (GeekWire)
XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer (TechCrunch)
Microsoft launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (VentureBeat)
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (TechCrunch)
Fitbit quietly enables blood oxygen tracking on its wearables (Engadget)
Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley (Axios)
App stores saw record 204 billion app downloads in 2013, consumer spend of $120 billion (TechCrunch)
Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 15 2020 - @Jack On An Edit Button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’

Exclusive: Leaked Samsung Galaxy S20+ Hands-on confirms 120Hz display, ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner, and no headphone jack (XDAdevelopers)
You can now use iPhones as Google security keys for 2FA (9to5Google)
Google acquires no-code app development platform AppSheet (VentureBeat)
Four years after being acquired, Hipmunk is shutting down (TechCrunch)
Apple Takes a (Cautious) Stand Against Opening a Killer’s iPhones (NYTimes)
European Venture Report: VC Dollars Rise In 2019 (Crunchbase News)
Disney+ was the most downloaded app in the US in Q4 2019 (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 14 2020 - The End of the Windows 7 Era

Monday, January 13 2020 - Get Hyped For the Galaxy S20 Lineup!

Exclusive: This is the Samsung Galaxy S20+ (XDAdevelopers)
Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests (TechCrunch)
A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings (TechCrunch)
Casper’s IPO could be a bellwether for unprofitable startups in the post-We-Work era (TechCrunch)
Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money selling mattresses (TechCrunch)

Friday, January 10 2020 - I Flip-Flop on Quibi

SoftBank-Backed Oyo Firing Thousands Across China and India (Bloomberg)
E-scooter startup Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 (Axios)
The Q4/EOY 2019 Global VC Report: A Strong End To A Good, But Not Fantastic, Year (Crunchbase News)
U.S. Music Streams Topped a Trillion in 2019 (WSJ)
Streaming Services Reckon With Password-Sharing “Havoc” (The Hollywood Reporter)
I’m a Millennial, and I Don’t Understand What Quibi Is Trying to Do (Fortune)

Thursday, January 09 2020 - Thu. 01/09- The Phantom Title (Explained at the End of the 01/10 Episode)

Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen (The Verge)
Firefox gets patch for critical 0-day that’s being actively exploited (Ars Technica)
iPhone Hits Double-Digit Growth in China, Official Data Show (Bloomberg)
Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users (TechCrunch)
Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System (Exclusive)
At CES 2020, the AirPods Pro competitors arrived in droves (The Verge)
Sex-Tech Companies Are Having More Fun Than the Rest of Us at CES (Wired)

Wednesday, January 08 2020 - CES Day 3

Don’t Tilt Scales Against Trump, Facebook Executive Warns (NYTimes)
CES 2020: Intel previews Tiger Lake mobile processors and discrete GPU (CNET)
Getaround to Lay Off About One-Fourth of Staff (The Information)
ClassPass, finally a unicorn, raises $285M in new funding (TechCrunch)
Quibi unveils “Turnstyle,” its flagship mobile video format (Axios)
Quibi’s secret weapon: Videos that work in portrait and landscape mode (Engadget)
Mind-blowing Delta board shows 100 passengers personalized flight details at the same time (Mashable)
I tried Nreal’s mixed reality glasses at CES and now I want a pair (Android Authority)

Tuesday, January 07 2020 - CES Day 2

Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google (NYTimes)
Enforcing Against Manipulated Media (Facebook Newsroom)
Facebook bans deepfakes, but new policy may not cover controversial Pelosi video (Washington Post)
Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S (The Verge)
Mercedes-Benz unveils an Avatar-themed concept car with scales (The Verge)
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Laptop Has a Second Screen on the Lid (TomsHardware)
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen (The Verge)
Lenovo’s Yoga 5G laptop packs nine antennas and Snapdragon power (Engadget)
Ring adds privacy dashboard to app in response to security concerns (The Verge)
Atmos Faceware makes clean air an expensive accessory (The Verge)

Monday, January 06 2020 - CES Day 1

Fire TV Edition expands to more soundbars, plus cars, cables boxes and more (TechCrunch)
Roku TV adds 15 more brand partners plus a new ‘Roku TV Ready’ program (TechCrunch)
THE SAMSUNG GALAXY CHROMEBOOK IS BEAUTIFUL, FAST, AND EXPENSIVE (The Verge)
Scoop: SoftBank shafts startups (Axios)
News coverage gets geo-fragmented (NiemanLab)
Samsung details its stunning bezel-less 8K TV (The Verge)
The 10 Neatest Things We’ve Seen at CES So Far (Wired)
Intel just confirmed it’s building this tiny modular desktop gaming PC (The Verge)
Processor With Dieter Bohn Newsletter Signup (The Verge)

Friday, January 03 2020 - What To Expect From CES

A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms (NYTimes)
Apple Deal Returns Former HBO Boss Richard Plepler to Spotlight (NYTimes)
HERE’S WHAT’S NEXT FOR GADGETS IN 2020 (The Verge)
Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M (TechCrunch)
Instagram User Growth in the US Will Drop to Single Digits For the First Time (eMarketer)

Thursday, January 02 2020 - A Grand Unified Theory of the Google Civil War

Dell’s latest XPS 13 has a new design with a bigger display and Ice Lake chips (The Verge)
Dell debuts 5G-ready Latitude 9510 laptop, adds iOS mirroring to PCs (VentureBeat)
Apple restores Imagination GPU chip agreement after public dispute and employee poaching (9to5Mac)
IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax (ProPublica)
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. (Ross LaJeunesse)
Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)