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Wednesday, December 29 2021 - Wed. 12/29 – Has Your LastPass Password Been Compromised?

• LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (BleepingComputer)
• Apple Aims to Prevent Defections to Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent (Bloomberg)
• Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions (WSJ)

Tuesday, December 28 2021 - Tue. 12/28 – China Is Mad At Elon’s Satellites

• China berates US after ‘close encounters’ with Elon Musk satellites (The Guardian)
• Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro debut with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets, Xiaomi 12X comes with SD870 (GSMArena)
• Sidewalk Robots Find Foothold on College Campuses (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How Tiger Global, SoftBank Vision Fund And Insight Partners Changed The Venture Landscape In 2021 (Crunchbase News)
• Truly Terrible Performers Multiply Among Startups Taking SPAC Route To Market (Crunchbase News)
• Record Number Of VC-Backed Cyber Companies Acquired in 2021, Even As Venture Funding Hits New Highs (Crunchbase News)

Monday, December 27 2021 - Mon. 12/27 – Gibraltar To Become The Rock Of Crypto?

• ‘Blockchain Rock’: Gibraltar moves to become world’s first cryptocurrency hub (The Guardian)
• Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (Bloomberg)
• Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
• Centralized crypto exchanges saw over $14 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
• Everything You Need to Know About OpenDAO’s SOS Token Airdrop for OpenSea Users (Decrypt)

Thursday, December 23 2021 - (TWTR SPC) The Top 10 Tech Stories Of 2021 (And The Spatial Pivot)

• Dataiku.com
• FindYourFidelity.com

Wednesday, December 22 2021 - Wed. 12/22 – We Still Doing CES?

• Amazon, Meta Scrap CES Plans in Las Vegas After Covid Surge (Bloomberg)
• In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond (CloudFlare Blog)
• Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds (Washington Post)
• Justin Kan’s NFT platform suffers rocky debut as scammer makes off with $150K in user funds (TechCrunch)
• Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog (BBCNews)
• Elon Musk: metaverse isn’t ‘compelling’ and Web3 ‘more marketing than reality’ (The Verge)

Tuesday, December 21 2021 - @Jack And The Tech (Cold) Civil War Over Web3

• Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything (Bloomberg)
• The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups (NYTimes)
• OnlyFans Names Marketing Chief Ami Gan as CEO; Founder Steps Down (Bloomberg)
• Zhang Yiming Still Oversees ByteDance, Despite Stepping Back (The Information)
• Starlink Expands but Q3 2021 Performance Flattens in Some Areas (SpeedTest.net)

Monday, December 20 2021 - Mon. 12/20 – 5G To Ground Airlines?

• Airlines Brace for Flight Restrictions in 5G Standoff (WSJ)
• Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 (AnandTech)
• Apple Should Make a Giant iPad as Its Smart Home Portal (Bloomberg)
• Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform (TechCrunch)
• Why Xbox’s Phil Spencer thinks Minecraft is a blueprint for the metaverse (Protocol)

Friday, December 17 2021 - Fri. 12/17 – Apple Really Is Going To Do The Whole Widget, Aren’t They?

• Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring More Wireless Chips In-House (Bloomberg)
• Biden administration concerned about U.S. investments in Chinese tech companies with military or surveillance ties (Washington Post)
• FTC Slows Meta Platforms’ Metaverse Strategy By Extending Antitrust Probe of VR Deal (The Information)
• Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more (ArsTechnica)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer have NFTs after fan outcry (The Verge)

Thursday, December 16 2021 - Thu. 12/16 – Reddit Files For An IPO

• Reddit Files Confidentially for IPO (WSJ)
• Apple Scraps Office-Return Deadline Without Setting New Date (Bloomberg)
• H&R Block Sues Block, Formerly Square, for Trademark Infringement (WSJ)
• Adidas Originals launches NFTs and buys a plot in the Sandbox metaverse (VentureBeat)
• Scoop: Crypto investor Katie Haun leaving Andreessen Horowitz (Axios)
• Solid-State Batteries Are Here and They’re Going to Change How We Live (Popular Mechanics)

Wednesday, December 15 2021 - Wed. 12/15 – Google To Adopt Vaccine Mandate?

• Google tells employees they’ll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules (CNBC)
• Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone (The Verge)
• Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)
• Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action (TechCrunch)
• US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI (Financial Times)
• How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion (Rest of World)

Tuesday, December 14 2021 - Tue. 12/14 – Is Log4j The Worst Bug Of All Time?

• CISA warns ‘most serious’ Log4j vulnerability likely to affect hundreds of millions of devices (CyberScoop)
• The numbers behind a cyber pandemic – detailed dive (Check Point)
• Apple launches AirTags and Find My detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy (CNET)
• Oppo announces Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ device (The Verge)
• Amazon Ramps Up Plans for Instacart-Like Service in U.S., Europe (The Information)
• Nike acquires NFT collectibles studio RTFKT (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Owner Is Involved in $60M Deal Over Meta Trademark Assets (Coinspeaker)

Monday, December 13 2021 - Mon. 12/13 – Why the Log4j Bug Is Such A Big Deal

• Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet (ArsTechnica)
• The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day (ArsTechnica)
• PROFESSIONAL MAINTAINERS: A WAKE-UP CALL (Filippo.io)
• Apple Set to Release Nudity Detection in Texting, But Other Features Remain on Hold (Bloomberg)
• Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. (NYTimes)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 (CNET)

Saturday, December 11 2021 - (Bonus) a16z’s Andrew Chen On The Cold Start Problem

• RadPowerBikes.com
• AltoIra.com/techmeme

Friday, December 10 2021 - Fri. 12/10 – Google Play Games Coming To Windows

• Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge)
• MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge)
• Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge)
• Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)

Thursday, December 09 2021 - Thu. 12/09 – Instagram To Return To A Chronological Feed

• Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)
• Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)
• What we learned at Congress’ much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)
• Epic v. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay (The Verge)
• Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance (Politico.eu)
• WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)
• Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)
• DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)
• Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)

Wednesday, December 08 2021 - Wed. 12/08 – AWS Outage Is Why You Didn’t Get Your Package

• An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge)
• AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard)
• Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 With New Design and Improved Chip to Launch in Late 2022 (Macrumors)
• Kuo: Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024 With Lighter Design, Redesigned Battery System, and More (Macrumors)
• Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs (Decrypt)
• Roku, Google settle messy battle over YouTube distribution (Axios)
• Facebook’s new website lets fans buy ‘Stars’ without paying the app stores’ commissions (TechCrunch)
• African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Year (Bloomberg)
• Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 07 2021 - Tue. 12/07 – Tim Cook’s Secret China Deal?

• Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them (The Information)
• Samsung’s mobile and consumer electronic divisions merge into one in exec reshuffle (ZDNet)
• Intel to List Shares in Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
• The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (The Markup)
• Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)
• European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)
• [Report Preview] The 2021 NFT Market Explained (Chainalysis)
• Honeywell Unit Offers First-Ever Quantum-Created Encryption Key (Bloomberg)

Monday, December 06 2021 - Mon. 12/06 – DoorDash Tries Something Radical: Employees

• DoorDash breaks gig worker model to hire couriers as employees in New York trial (Financial Times)
• Apple Attempts to Stop Developers Promoting Alternative Payment Options for In-App Purchases in Russia (MacRumors)
• Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto (The Block)
• The Verizon app might be collecting your browsing history and more (The Verge)
• Apple iPhone 13 Rebates Fail to Deliver for Some Buyers (Bloomberg)
• BuzzFeed Tumbles in Turbulent Debut for Digital Media (Bloomberg)

Saturday, December 04 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Jack Dorsey, Halo Infinite And Foldable Phones

• AltoIra.com/techmeme
• RadPowerBikes.com

Friday, December 03 2021 - Fri. 12/03 – Acquisition Deathwatch: Nvidia/Arm

• FTC Challenges Nvidia’s Deal for Arm Holdings (WSJ)
• EXCLUSIVE: Google readies ‘Pixel Watch’ for 2022 launch as it renews ambitions in wearable tech (Insider)
• Didi bows to China regulatory pressure, will delist from NYSE (Reuters)
• Why Instagram Asks Users to Create Second Accounts (WSJ)

Thursday, December 02 2021 - Thu. 12/02 – Square Changes Its Name To Block

• Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (CNBC)
• Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near (Bloomberg)
• Instacart Plans 15-Minute Delivery Trial as Rival Startups Grow (The Information)
• Microsoft Teams Essentials is a new standalone version for small businesses (The Verge)
• TikTok adds creator monetization features, including tips and video gifts (TechCrunch)
• 37 Percent of the World’s Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds (Gizmodo)
• The art and science of Spotify Wrapped (Protocol)

Wednesday, December 01 2021 - Wed. 12/01 – Twitter Bans “Private” Sharing

• Twitter bans sharing ‘private’ images and videos without consent (Engadget)
• Meta’s David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, to Leave Company (Bloomberg)
• Quest v35 Update To Add iPhone Mixed Reality Capture, Messenger Calling (UploadVR)
• China to Close Loophole Used by Tech Firms for Foreign IPOs (Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022 (The Verge)
• Q3’21 Was a Record Quarter for Foldable Smartphones, Samsung Enjoys a 93% Share per DSCC Report (DSCC)
• Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness (NYTimes)

Tuesday, November 30 2021 - Tue. 11/30 – Meta Might Do The Giphy Deal Anyway

• Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK regulator (The Verge)
• Finland Battles ‘Exceptional’ Malware Attack Spread by Phones (Bloomberg)
• Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend (WSJ)
• The Google Pixel 6 will refuse to charge if you use a low-quality USB-C cable or charger (AndroidPolice)
• Amazon launches AWS RoboRunner to support robotics apps (Venture Beat)
• Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (NYTimes)

Monday, November 29 2021 - Mon. 11/29 – Jack Dorsey To Leave Twitter

• Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO (CNBC)
• Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO (The Verge)
• UK regulator expected to block Meta’s Giphy deal (Financial Times)
• Social media companies could be forced to give out names and contact details, under new anti-troll laws (ABC News)
• EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration (ZDNet)
• Report: Apple still working on multi-device charger, a future where all devices ‘can charge each other’ (9to5Mac)
• Kuo: Apple AR Headset Coming in Late 2022 With Mac-Level Computing Power (MacRumors)
• Amazon Builds Out Network to Speed Delivery, Handle Holiday Crunch (WSJ)
• Amazon poised to pass UPS and FedEx to become largest U.S. delivery service by early 2022, exec says (CNBC)

Wednesday, November 24 2021 - (TWTR SPC) That Feeling When You Almost Buy The Constitution

• FindYourFidelity.com
• ARM Viewpoints Podcast
• VPLS.com/goit

Tuesday, November 23 2021 - Tue. 11/23 – How To Automate Your(self out of a?) Job

• Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines (Reuters)
• Samsung to Choose Taylor, Texas, for $17 Billion Chip-Making Factory (WSJ)
• AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360 (MacRumors)
• Niantic raises $300M at at $9B valuation to build the ‘real-world metaverse’ (TechCrunch)
• Walmart will be the first retailer to test Twitter’s new livestream shopping platform (TechCrunch)
• “You’ve Won The Game”: Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years (BoredPanda)

Monday, November 22 2021 - Mon. 11/22 – Adele Says: Spotify, No Shuffling!

• Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (BBC News)
• Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023 (The Guardian)
• Wear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s Highest Quarterly Smartwatch Shipments in Q3 2021 (CounterpointResearch)
• India’s Paytm Tumbles Another 13% After First-Day IPO Flop (Boomberg)
• China’s exiled crypto machines fuel global mining boom (Financial Times)
• Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All (Bloomberg)
• Desperate Parents Turn to Shopping Bots to Hunt for Hottest Christmas Gifts (WSJ)
• Sweden’s Ericsson snaps up cloud firm Vonage in $6.2 bln deal (Reuters)

Friday, November 19 2021 - Fri. 11/19 – ConstitutionDAO Lost The Auction For The Constitution.

• Crypto Investors Lose Out In $43.2 Million Sale Of Rare Copy Of U.S. Constitution (Forbes)
• Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle (Bloomberg)
• Xbox Chief Says He’s Evaluating Relationship With Activision (Bloomberg)
• Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden (Forbes)

Thursday, November 18 2021 - Thu. 11/18 – So… Who Actually “Takes Delivery” Of The Constitution?

• Paytm falls 27% on first trading day after India’s largest IPO (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia easily beats earnings expectations on strong gaming and data center sales (Yahoo!Finance)
• Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI (TechCrunch)
• AllTrails raises $150M after COVID accelerates people’s interest in exploring the outdoors (TechCrunch)
• Nreal’s $599 mixed reality glasses are launching in the US on Verizon (The Verge)
• Twitter partners with S&P 500 on stock index that crowdsources public opinion (CNET)
• Crypto Group’s Bid for Constitution Faces Real-World Snags—Who Picks It Up? (WSJ)

Wednesday, November 17 2021 - Wed. 11/17 – Apple Will Let You Do At-Home iPhone Repairs, Yourself

• Beginning next year, Apple will send you parts and tools to fix your iPhone and Mac at home (TechCrunch)
• Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant (WSJ)
• Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (LATimes)
• Meta’s sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets (The Verge)
• Microsoft states that x64 emulation is only available on Windows 11 on ARM PCs (Windows Central)
• Netflix’s Expanded Viewing Data Move Is Mainly a Flex (Variety)
• Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Auction (Variety)

Tuesday, November 16 2021 - Tue. 11/16 – The War Between The Furries And The NFTs

• TWITTER MAKES BIG CHANGES FOR DEVS AS IT EYES DECENTRALIZED FUTURE (The Verge)
• Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of chip designer Arm faces a UK national security probe (CNBC)
• Newsletter start-up Substack hits 1m subscribers (Financial Times)
• Apple Defends Its Ads for Third-Party Apps, Says It Regularly Communicates With Developers and Has Been Running Them for Five Years (MacRumors)
• Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners (Garbage Day)

Monday, November 15 2021 - Mon. 11/15 – Why Apple Buying Google Ads Might Be Weird

• Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue (Fortune)
• Samsung releases Android 12-powered One UI 4 for Galaxy S21 phones (The Verge)
• Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions (Bloomberg)
• FBI system hacked to email ‘urgent’ warning about fake cyberattacks (Bleeping Computer)
• Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website (KrebsOnSecurity)
• A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know (CNBC Make It)
• A crypto group has raised nearly $3 million in Ether to bid on a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution (Fortune)

Saturday, November 13 2021 - (TWTR SPC) How To Build A Metaverse

• FirstRepublic.com
• Streak.com/techmeme

Friday, November 12 2021 - Fri. 11/12 – MoviePass Is Coming Back

• Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users (Vice/Motherboard)
• Amazon will let you easily share clips from its Prime Video content (The Verge)
• Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (TechCrunch)
• MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch (Insider)

Thursday, November 11 2021 - Thu. 11/11 – Do Gamers Not Like Crypto?

• Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash (TechCrunch)
• Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price (9to5Mac)
• US sues Uber over ‘wait time’ fees for disabled passengers (Protocol)
• YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts (The Verge)
• Disney+ Subscriber Growth Slows, Company Misses Wall Street Expectations (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, November 10 2021 - Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court

• Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay (The Verge)
• Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion EU Shopping-Ads Fine (WSJ)
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces try to make it easier to get apps ready for augmented reality (The Verge)
• Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (TechCrunch)
• Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes)
• Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 09 2021 - Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits

• Robinhood says millions of customer names and email addresses taken in data breach (TechCrunch)
• US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack (CNN)
• Netflix to Roll Out TikTok-Like Short Clip Feature Aimed at Kids (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s new LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3x faster and consumes 20% less power than LPDDR5 DRAM (XDA Developers)
• AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11% (Reuters)
• Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI (VentureBeat)
• Niantic launches platform to build ‘real-world metaverse’ apps (The Verge)

Monday, November 08 2021 - Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private

• McAfee to Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt (Bloomberg)
• House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President (CoinDesk)
• NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol)
• Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale (WSJ)
• A Drone Tried to Disrupt the Power Grid. It Won’t Be the Last (Wired)
• SoftBank Vision Fund Posts a Record Loss on Coupang’s Plunge (Bloomberg)

Saturday, November 06 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Where’s The Money In The #CreatorEconomy?

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Friday, November 05 2021 - Fri. 11/05 – Meta To Open Metaverse Retail Stores?

• To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores (NYTimes)
• Apple’s Road Map for Mac Chips Shows Likely Advantage Over Intel (The Information)
• DJI Launches New Mavic 3 Drone With Longer Flight Time, Improved Cameras and New Safety Features (MacRumors)

Thursday, November 04 2021 - Thu. 11/04 – Instagram Can Post To Twitter Again

• Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch)
• Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge)
• Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t. (Recode)
• Google Allows Alternate In-App Payment Options in South Korea, Though Familiar Fees Remain (WSJ)
• Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes)
• STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge)

Wednesday, November 03 2021 - Wed. 11/03 – Meta And Zillow Shut It Down

• Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (NYTimes)
• Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters (GeekWire)
• CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, orders agencies to patch (The Record)
• Netflix games are coming to all members on Android, starting this week (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge)
• Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, November 02 2021 - Tue. 11/02 – Apple Sacrifices iPad Production To Protect The iPhone

• Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia)
• Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia)
• Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk)
• Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge)
• ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity)
• Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg)
• Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ)

Monday, November 01 2021 - Mon. 11/01 – How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Et Al?

• Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (Financial Times)
• The Chip Shortage Slams Into Apple at the Worst Possible Time (Bloomberg)
• Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ)
• Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 (WSJ)
• Roblox Servers Are Turning Back On (Slowly) After 60+ Hour Outage (Kotaku)
• 5D data storage technology offers 10,000 times the density of Blu-ray (New Atlas)
• Snapchat Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Use Audio From ‘SNL,’ ‘The Office’ and More (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)

Friday, October 29 2021 - Fri. 10/29 – Signs Of A Meta Watch

• Leaked Photo Shows Meta’s Planned Competitor to Apple Watch (Bloomberg)
• Meta (Stratechery)
• The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes)
• APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14 AND 16 REVIEW: RETURN TO FORM (The Verge)

Thursday, October 28 2021 - Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta

• Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
• Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
• Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
• Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
• Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
• Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
• Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes)
• Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios)
• The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired)
• Apple Reveals ‘Scale to Fit’ Setting to Prevent a Mac App’s Menu Bar Items From Being Hidden Under Notch (MacRumors)

Wednesday, October 27 2021 - Wed. 10/27 – Is Robinhood The Company Doge Made?

• Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC)
• Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC)
• FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control (ArsTechnica)
• Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures (WSJ)
• Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip (VentureBeat)
• Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC (The Verge)
• The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Motherboard/Vice)

Tuesday, October 26 2021 - Tue. 10/26 – Facebook Pivots To Youth

• Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet)
• Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge)
• Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge)
• Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge)
• Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center (The Washington Post)
• Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge)
• Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge)
• Apple’s M1 Pro, M1 Max SoC’s Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights (AnandTech)
• Pixel 6 Pro Review: The flagship Google needs right now is the one buyers deserve (9to5Google)

Monday, October 25 2021 - Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook

• Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol)
• The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post)
• PayPal Says It’s Currently Not Pursuing Pinterest Deal (Bloomberg)
• Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs (The Verge)
• Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2 billion (The Verge)
• Microsoft: Russian SVR hacked at least 14 IT supply chain firms since May (BleepingComputer)
• Privacy by Design (WorldCoin)
• How the Launch Works (Worldcoin)

Saturday, October 23 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Metaverse? Name Change? Facebook Wither?

• VPLS.com/goit

Friday, October 22 2021 - Fri. 10/22 – Is Apple’s ATT Bite As Bad As People Feared After All?

• Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC)
• Google lowers Play Store fees for subscriptions and music streaming apps (The Verge)
• Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses (CNBC)
• Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (Reuters)
• Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC)

Thursday, October 21 2021 - Thu. 10/21 – PayPal To Buy Pinterest? Why?

• PayPal Is Exploring a Purchase of Pinterest (Bloomberg)
• Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal (WSJ)
• Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 (The Verge)
• A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (The Verge)
• Nvidia Supercharges GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Service With RTX 3080 GPUs (Gizmodo)
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Exchange Adds $7 Billion of Value in Three Months (Bloomberg)
• Fanatics’ NFT company is worth $1.5 billion, and NFL legend Peyton Manning now owns a stake (CNBC)
• Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album (NYTimes)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 REVIEW: DUO-OVER OR STRIKE TWO? (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 20 2021 - Wed. 10/20 – Facebook To Change Its Name?

• Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (The Verge)
• Galaxy Watch 4 gets its first major update w/ Fall Detection, new watchfaces, more (9to5Google)
• First Bitcoin Futures ETF Rises in Trading Debut (WSJ)
• Facebook Fined $69 Million by U.K. Authority for Breaching Order During Giphy Merger Investigation (Variety)
• Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine (Thurrott.com)
• Spotify Adds Virtual Merch Tables for Music Artists in Pact With Shopify (Variety)
• Comcast Launches XClass TV, Its First TV Sets in the U.S., Taking Streaming Platform Direct-to-Consumer (Variety)

Tuesday, October 19 2021 - Tue. 10/19 – The Google Pixel Event And The Pixel 6

• Android 12 is now rolling out to Pixel phones (Engadget)
• GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND 6 PRO HAVE BIG SCREENS, BIG AMBITIONS, AND SMALL PRICES (The Verge)
• The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC (Ars Technica)
• Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
• Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
• Delivery Hero Leads $1 Billion Funding Round for Gorillas (Bloomberg)
• Apple Selling New $49 Braided MagSafe Cable and $99 140W Power Adapter for 16-Inch MacBook Pro (MacRumors)
• Tweet I mentioned comparing the M1Max to the PS5 (@ZONEofTech)
• YouTube Has Surpassed $3 Billion in Consumer Spend on iOS — Giving The World Access to Tailored Quality Content (App Annie)

Monday, October 18 2021 - Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event

• Apple unveils next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for new Macs (9to5Mac)
• Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: new design, display notch, 120Hz, M1 Pro chip, HDMI, MagSafe, more (9to5Mac)
• Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
• Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (Financial Times)
• Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
• Netflix Estimates ‘Squid Game’ Will Be Worth Almost $900 Million (Bloomberg)

Saturday, October 16 2021 - (TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse?

• Betterhelp.com/ridehome

Friday, October 15 2021 - Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future?

• SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg)
• Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
• Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS)
• Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 14 2021 - Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China

• Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ)
• Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ)
• Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge)
• Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star)
• TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge)
• Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge)
• Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC)

Wednesday, October 13 2021 - Wed. 10/13 – Supply Chain Woes Come For The iPhone

• Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg)
• Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ)
• Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia)
• G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge)
• Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
• Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
• Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge)
• APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge)
• Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge)

Tuesday, October 12 2021 - Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning

• Twitter’s tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
• Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
• A second Facebook whistleblower says she’s willing to testify before Congress and that she’s shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
• Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
• Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
• 1Password’s new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget)
• Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record)
• Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat)
• US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times)

Monday, October 11 2021 - Mon. 10/11 – Pixels To Go Big On Cameras?

• Google says Pixel 6 camera captures ‘150% more light,’ shows ‘Magic Eraser’ on leaked marketing site (9to5Google)
• Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows (WSJ)
• EV Sales At BYD, XPeng Soar In Sept., Underscoring Strong China Demand (Forbes)
• China’s booming electric car industry is much bigger than just Nio and Xpeng (CNBC)
• Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ)
• Disney’s shift to streaming puts ESPN in awkward position of clinging to the past (CNBC)
• Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ T-Shirts Are Coming to a Walmart Near You (Bloomberg)

Friday, October 08 2021 - Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood

• Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ)
• Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
• YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter)
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)

Thursday, October 07 2021 - Thu. 10/07 – Forget The iCar, Apple Wants To Take Over Your EXISTING Car

• Apple’s Plan for Cars: Using iPhone to Control A/C, Seats, Radio and More (Bloomberg)
• Paddle Plans to Launch Alternative In-App Purchase System on iOS That Circumvents Apple’s Fees (MacRumors)
• AMD: Windows 11 Slows Our CPUs Up To 15%, Patch Coming (Tom’s Hardware)
• Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ)
• GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios (The Verge)
• ‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch)
• ‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 06 2021 - Wed. 10/06 – ALL Of Twitch Leaked?

• The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle)
• Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
• Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
• Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac)
• EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters)
• SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk)
• Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)

Tuesday, October 05 2021 - Tue. 10/05 – The Great Facebook Outage

• PSA: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp went down for 6+ hours; here’s why [U] (9to5Mac)
• Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
• Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (Financial Times)
• ANDROID 12 REVIEW: IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT THE LOOKS (The Verge)
• WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio Does It All (Gizmodo)

Monday, October 04 2021 - Mon. 10/04 – Facebook Whistleblower On 60 Minutes

• The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (WSJ)
• Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew (NYTimes)
• Apple Watch Series 7 Pre-Orders to Start This Friday, Available on October 15 (MacRumors)
• Gurman: M1X MacBook Pro still on track for this year, likely ‘in the next month’ (9to5Mac)
• Apple Doesn’t Make Videogames. But It’s the Hottest Player in Gaming. (WSJ)
• Amazon Prime members can now send gifts with just a phone number or email address (The Verge)
• YouTube․com adds ‘Continue watching’ to resume unfinished videos on your phone (9to5Google)

Saturday, October 02 2021 - (Bonus) World Cup Of Entrepreneurs Part 2

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Friday, October 01 2021 - Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

• TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
• USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion (Apple Insider)
• Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
• DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)

Thursday, September 30 2021 - Thu. 09/30 – Facebook: Who You Gonna Trust? Us? Or Your Lying Eyes?

• TinyCaptial.com
• Modern Finance Podcast

Wednesday, September 29 2021 - Wed. 09/29 – Is Amazon’s Astro Robot… Ready?

• Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do (Motherboard)
• Netflix acquires its first game studio in deal with Oxenfree creator Night School Studio (VentureBeat/GamesBeat)
• Imgur has been bought by the owner of Kik, Genius, and WorldStarHipHop (The Verge)
• Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores (The Verge)
• Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (WSJ)
• AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 28 2021 - Tue. 09/28 – The Amazon Hardware Event

• Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families (TechCrunch)
• SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS (The Verge)
• Astro Intro YouTube Video
• Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud’ (Protocol)
• Facebook will publish some of its research on teens and Instagram (Engadget)
• Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
• 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (Engadget)
• Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’ says Satya Nadella (The Verge)

Monday, September 27 2021 - Mon. 09/27 – Instagram Kids On “Pause”

• Pausing “Instagram Kids” and Building Parental Supervision Tools (Instagram Blog)
• Facebook is ‘pausing’ work on Instagram kids app after widespread criticism (The Verge)
• Facebook Rebuts Report Calling Instagram ‘Toxic’ for Teen Girls (Bloomberg)
• Tesla owners can now request ‘Full Self-Driving’, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates (Washington Post)
• Apple to Fix Issue Preventing iPhone 13 Users From Unlocking With Apple Watch in Upcoming Software Update (MacRumors)
• Some Apple, Tesla suppliers suspend production in China amid power pinch (Reuters)
• Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (CNBC)
• Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security (Wired)

Sunday, September 26 2021 - Startups! Send Your Pitch Decks (And How ANY Listener Can Participate)

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Saturday, September 25 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Facebook’s Fortnight Of Controversy

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Friday, September 24 2021 - Fri. 09/24 – China: No, Really. No Crypto.

• China’s central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows harsh crackdown (CNBC)
• Google Brings More Pixel-Exclusive Features to All Android Phones (Gizmodo)
• Amazon Working on Large Wall Echo, Sound Bar and New Auto Device (Bloomberg)
• New York City Council Passes Sweeping Food Delivery Protections (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 23 2021 - Thu. 09/23 – USB-C For Everybody! (Maybe By Law…)

• One to charge them all: EU demands single plug for phones (AP)
• Facebook Chief Technology Officer Schroepfer to Step Down (Bloomberg)
• Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo (The Verge)
• Apple won’t let Fortnite back on iOS until the Epic v. Apple verdict is final (The Verge)
• iPhone 13 and Apple Silicon (CreativeStrategies.com)
• YouTube gets official video downloads on the web, saving you from using some very sketchy sites (Android Police)
• Softorino YouTube Converter
• Chinese augmented reality glasses maker Nreal valued at $700 million after fresh funding (CNBC)

Wednesday, September 22 2021 - Wed. 09/22 – The Microsoft Surface Event

• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display and Thunderbolt (The Verge)
• The Surface Go 3 gets new Intel processors (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around (The Verge)
• Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop (The Verge)
• Robinhood to launch cryptocurrency wallets as bitcoin becomes a bigger part of business (CNBC)
• Microsoft uncovers giant Phishing-as-a-Service operation (The Record)
• No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (NYTimes)
• The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs (Engadget)
• Facebook paid billions extra to the FTC to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege (Politico)

Tuesday, September 21 2021 - Tue. 09/21 – iPhone Reviews, Kindle Drops And HP Laptops

• HP revamps consumer PC lineup with 16-inch Spectre x360, 34-inch Envy all-in-one PC (ZDNet)
• PayPal launches its ‘super app’ combining payments, savings, bill pay, crypto, shopping and more (TechCrunch)
• Fantasy soccer NFT platform Sorare scores $680 million raise led by SoftBank (The Block)
• Coinbase Drops Crypto Lending Program Plans After SEC Balks (Bloomberg Wealth)
• Amazon unveils three new Kindles with bigger screens, longer battery life (CNBC)
• Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion (WSJ)
• Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (WSJ)
• IPHONE 13 REVIEW: YEP, BIGGER BATTERIES ARE BETTER (The Verge)
• IPHONE 13 PRO REVIEW: A BETTER DISPLAY, THE BEST CAMERA, AND INCREDIBLE BATTERY LIFE (The Verge)

Monday, September 20 2021 - Mon 09/20 – New Kindles, Roku Sticks and Surface Pros!

• Roku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features (TechCrunch)
• Amazon is going to release Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition Soon (GoodEReader)
• Surface Pro 8 leaks with 120Hz display and Thunderbolt support (The Verge)
• Galaxy Fold-style Pixel foldable, ‘Jumbojack,’ spotted in Android 12.1 (9to5Google)
• Elon Musk’s Push to Expand Tesla’s Driver Assistance to Cities Rankles a Top Safety Authority (WSJ)
• The App Store is the Games Store. Apple should recognize this. (Mobile Dev Memo)
• Netflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with ‘The Crown’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ (Engadget)

Saturday, September 18 2021 - (Bonus) World Cup Of Entrepreneurs Part 1

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Friday, September 17 2021 - Fri. 09/17 – Facebook’s Week Of Wall Street Journal Woes

• Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. (WSJ)
• How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated (WSJ)
• The Algorithm Tweaks Won’t Save Us (Galaxy Brain/Charlie Warzel)
• Google and Apple Remove App Aimed at Spurring Protest Voting in Russia (NYTimes)

Thursday, September 16 2021 - Thu. 09/16 – Ok, The iPhone Chips ARE (Slightly) Faster

• The iPhone 13 is a pitch-perfect iPhone 12S (The Verge)
• Walmart+ is gaining momentum, hits 32 million members, Deutsche Bank estimates (CNBC)
• The Lucid Air is the first electric car with a 520-mile EPA-rated range (The Verge)
• No Chinese Stock Left Among Global Top 10 as Tencent Slides (Bloomberg)
• Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (Bloomberg)
• Former Startup Darling Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80 Million (Bloomberg)
• LG now makes a 2,000 pound TV that costs $1.7 million (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 15 2021 - Wed. 09/15 – Charging A Smartphone In 17 Minutes?

• Xiaomi announces 11T Pro with 120W fast charging (The Verge)
• Apple releasing iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 on September 20 (9to5Mac)
• iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro feature dual eSIM support for the first time (9to5Mac)
• Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt And The Future Looks Dim As The Impact From The CPU Engineer Exodus To Nuvia And Rivos Starts To Bleed In (SemiAnalysis.substack.com)
• Solana Has Been Down for Hours Due to ‘Resource Exhaustion’ (Decrypt)
• SEC charges App Annie with securities fraud in $10 million settlement (Protocol)
• Canva Raises At $40 Billion Valuation — Its Founders Are Pledging Away Most Of Their Wealth (Forbes)
• Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 14 2021 - Tue. 09/14 – The iPhone 13 Event

• Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (WSJ)
• Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. (WSJ)
• Apple patches an NSO zero-day flaw affecting all devices (TechCrunch)

Monday, September 13 2021 - Mon. 09/13 – Is China Dismantling Its Super Apps?

• Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app (Financial Times)
• Tencent and Alibaba pledge to open up apps to competitors (Financial Times)
• Commercetools raises $140M at a $1.9B valuation as ‘headless’ commerce continues to boom (TechCrunch)
• iPhone 13 Pro will get 1TB option & new ‘AirPods 3’ will not replace AirPods (AppleInsider)
• Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (The Verge)
• Apple Risks Losing Billions of Dollars Annually From Epic Games Ruling (Bloomberg)
• The future of the App Store depends on the difference between a ‘button’ and an ‘external link’ (The Verge)
• Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War (500ish.com)

Saturday, September 11 2021 - (TWTR SPC) An Interview With @kayvz, Who Is Leading The Twitter Product Revolution

• Otter.ai , code RIDE

Friday, September 10 2021 - Fri. 09/10 – Even Under App Store Pressure, Apple Still Unwilling To Play Ball With Epic

• Apple won’t let Epic bring Fortnite back to South Korea’s App Store (The Verge)
• Apple Music is using Shazam to solve the streaming industry’s problem with DJ mixes (TechCrunch)
• Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats Sue New York City Over Fee Caps (WSJ)

Thursday, September 09 2021 - Thu. 09/09 – Facebook Glasses And Amazon Fire TVs

• FACEBOOK ON YOUR FACE (The Verge)
• Amazon Unveils First of Its Own Smart TVs, Will Bring TikTok to Fire TV in U.S. and Canada (Variety)
• Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K Max adds Wi-Fi 6 and faster performance (The Verge)
• Spain’s Football League Seals Digital Player Card Deal With Sorare (Bloomberg)
• Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers (TechCrunch)
• BNPL platform Scalapay raises $155 million in Tiger Global led round (Tech.eu)

Wednesday, September 08 2021 - Wed. 09/08 – Coinbase Tussles With The SEC?

• Brian Armstrong responds to SEC threats to shut down Coinbase yield product (The Block)
• El Salvador Buys Its First 200 BTC a Day Before Its Bitcoin Law Becomes Effective (Coindesk)
• Ford poaches top tech executive Doug Field who helped lead Apple’s top-secret car project (CNBC)
• Apple Event Announced: ‘California Streaming’ on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected (Macrumors)
• Microsoft acquires video-editing software start-up Clipchamp (CNBC)
• PayPal Closes $2.7B Acquisition Deal For Japan’s Paidy (Pymnts.com)
• Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores (CNBC)
• Lenovo’s new Windows 11 laptops could reinvent the IdeaPad brand — and take on the MacBook (Laptopmag.com)

Tuesday, September 07 2021 - Tue. 09/07 – How Private IS ProtonMail?

• ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities (TechCrunch)
• How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users (ProPublica)
• Billions of devices impacted by new BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerabilities (The Record)
• TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
• SMARTWATCHES TRACK OUR HEALTH. SMART TOILETS AREN’T TOO FAR BEHIND. (WSJ)
• Ethereum Rival Solana Climbs to Seventh in Crypto Top 10 (Bloomberg)

Monday, September 06 2021 - (IHP Bonus) Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email

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Sunday, September 05 2021 - Ride Home Early Stage Fund (And How To Maybe Invest In It)

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Saturday, September 04 2021 - (TWTR SPC) This Week’s NFT Explosion With @jacksondame And @SHL0MS

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Friday, September 03 2021 - Fri. 09/03 – An Alexa TV Coming Next Month?

• EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is close to launching its own TV in the US (Insider)
• Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Need Connection to Other Device Such as iPhone (The Information)
• Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (Reuters)
• Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features (9to5Mac)
• Record Doge NFT Sale Highlights Growing Demand for Fractionalization (CoinDesk)

Thursday, September 02 2021 - Thu. 09/02 – Now Apple Will Let Apps Acknowledge The Web Exists

• Apple will allow some media apps to link outside the App Store for payments (Engadget)
• Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up (The Verge)
• Facebook’s WhatsApp Fined Around $270 Million for EU Privacy Violations (WSJ)
• U.S. DOJ Readying Google Antitrust Lawsuit Over Ad-Tech Business (Bloomberg)
• US asks Tesla how Autopilot responds to emergency vehicles (AP)
• Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS (The Verge)
• Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’ (TechCrunch)
• Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting (Bloomberg)
• YouTube music services hit 50m subscribers in race to catch Spotify (Financial Times)

Wednesday, September 01 2021 - Wed. 09/01 – Apple Watch… Out?

• New Apple Watch With Larger Screen Suffers Production Snags (Bloomberg)
• Apple Plans Blood-Pressure Measure, Wrist Thermometer in Watch (WSJ)
• Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger (TechCrunch)
• Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie (The Verge)
• LinkedIn gives up on Stories (The Verge)
• Facebook enters the fantasy gaming market (TechCrunch)
• New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (WSJ)
• Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops (Nikkei Asia)
• Microsoft announces Surface event for September 22nd (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 31 2021 - Tue. 08/31 – Windows 11 Will Launch Without Android Apps

• Windows 11 won’t include Android app support at launch (The Verge)
• Apple buys classical music streaming service Primephonic (The Verge)
• Scoop: Amazon quietly building live audio business (Axios)
• Scoop: Facebook’s new moves to lower News Feed’s political volume (Axios)
• Google, Apple Hit by First Law Threatening Dominance Over App-Store Payments (WSJ)
• Apple Plans to Add Satellite Features to iPhones for Emergencies (Bloomberg)
• White House launches US Digital Corps (FedScoop)

Monday, August 30 2021 - Mon. 08/30 – iPhones With Satellite Internet?

• Kuo: iPhone 13 to Feature LEO Satellite Communications to Make Calls and Texts Without Cellular Coverage (MacRumors)
• Tim Cook’s Run as Apple CEO Could End as Early as 2025. Who Will Replace Him? (Bloomberg)
• China Slashes Kids’ Gaming Time to Just Three Hours a Week (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Google Mobile Dominance Faces Tough Test in South Korea (Bloomberg)
• Google allegedly offered Netflix a break on the usual Play Store commission (The Verge)
• TikTok owner ByteDance takes first step into virtual reality with latest acquisition (CNBC)
• CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges (TechCrunch)

Saturday, August 28 2021 - (TWTR SPC) 1000th Episode Spectacular

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Friday, August 27 2021 - Fri. 08/27 – Another Crack In The App Store

• Apple will let developers email users about payments outside iOS (Protocol)
• Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers (The Verge)
• Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge)
• Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies (TechCrunch)
• Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU’s NFT music platform Royal (The Block)

Thursday, August 26 2021 - Thu. 08/26 – The Big Cybersecurity Summit

• Biden tells top CEOs at White House summit to step up on cybersecurity (Washington Post)
• World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics (WSJ)
• Silicon Valley Exchange Lists First Two Companies in ESG Push (Bloomberg)
• Canalys: US PC sales up 17% YoY for quarter, even as tablet sales stagnate (TechCrunch)
• Wing approaches 100,000 drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch (TechCrunch)
• Stealthy battery company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos has a lot to prove (CNBC)

Wednesday, August 25 2021 - Wed. 08/25 – JK, JK, JK! OnlyFans Reverses Course On Porn Ban

• OnlyFans no longer plans to ban porn, saying in abrupt U-turn that it wants to be a ‘home for all creators’ (Insider)
• FITBIT’S NEW CHARGE 5 HAS A ROUNDED DESIGN AND A COLOR SCREEN (The Verge)
• Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to launch cloud gaming service on Xbox consoles (CNBC)
• Fastest Mobile Networks 2021 (PCMag)
• A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired)

Tuesday, August 24 2021 - Tue. 08/24 – Cybersecurity Meetup At The White House

• Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House (Bloomberg)
• Instagram is retiring the swipe up (The Verge)
• Facebook Retools Messaging Again by Adding Calling to Main App (Bloomberg)
• Airbnb says it will host 20,000 Afghan refugees (CNN Business)
• SpaceX ships 100,000 Starlink terminals to customers, eyes future launches using Starship (TechCrunch)
• Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist (Engadget)
• SAMSUNG GALAXY Z FOLD 3 REVIEW: NEARLY NORMAL (The Verge)
• SAMSUNG’S GALAXY Z FLIP 3 IS THE FIRST FOLDING PHONE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE (The Verge)

Monday, August 23 2021 - Mon. 08/23 – M1X Mac Mini Incoming…

• High-End ‘M1X’ Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the ‘Next Several Months’ (MacRumors)
• The world’s second-largest stablecoin is undergoing a massive change (CNBC)
• Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes first steps into ‘NFT commerce’ (The Block)
• Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse (BleepingComputer)
• Facebook’s Stealth M&A Puts Focus on Deals Under Antitrust Radar (Bloomberg)
• Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March (The Washington Post)
• Post-Culture Review Twitter Thread

Saturday, August 21 2021 - News On The RideHome+ Feed

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Friday, August 20 2021 - Fri. 08/20 – OnlyFans Pulls A Tumblr

• OnlyFans has tons of users, but can’t find investors (Axios)
• OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
• Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots (The Verge)
• Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet (Gizmodo)

Thursday, August 19 2021 - Thu. 08/19 – FTC Files Its Facebook Mulligan

• Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores (WSJ)
• GE Appliances announces partnership with major cloud company to focus on data capabilities (Courier Journal)
• Intel previews its Alder Lake chip, promises hybrid CPUs for desktops and laptops (The Verge)
• FTC files renewed antitrust complaint against Facebook (CNBC)
• INSIDE FACEBOOK’S METAVERSE FOR WORK (The Verge)
• Facebook is sharing data to prove it’s not a political hellhole (Protocol)
• Robinhood says dogecoin accounted for 62% of crypto revenue in Q2 (CNBC)
• Venture Investment In Cryptosecurity Jumps 10x Over Last Year As Sector Hits Sweet Spot With Venture Capitalists (Crunchbase News)

Wednesday, August 18 2021 - Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”

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Tuesday, August 17 2021 - Tue. 08/17 – Yik Yak Is Back. Act Accordingly.

• Remember Yik Yak? Well, it’s back and still anonymous. (Mashable)
• T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (Motherboard)
• WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (Motherboard)
• Facebook ‘Proactively’ Removing Taliban Content, Executive Says (Bloomberg)
• OnlyFans Creates Its First App With a Twist: No Nudity, No Cost (Bloomberg)
• And the First Streaming Service to Partner With TikTok Is… (Rolling Stone)
• Tinder will make its ID Verification option available to all users (The Verge)
• Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition (Venture Beat)
• Twitter taps crypto developer to lead decentralized social media initiative Bluesky (The Block)

Monday, August 16 2021 - Mon. 08/16 – NHTSA Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot

• T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach (Motherboard)
• US probing Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles (Associated Press)
• Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project (WSJ)
• Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable (Reuters)
• This Solar Hydropanel Can Pull 10 Liters of Drinking Water Per Day Out of the Air (Brighter)
• Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say (TechCrunch)

Saturday, August 14 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Samsung Event And The 1Password Team

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Friday, August 13 2021 - Fri. 08/13 – The Growing Power Of Stablecoins

• Disney+ beats expectations to reach 116 million subscribers in Q3 (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech (Motherboard)
• How Circle could create a U.S.-backed digital currency (Axios)
• Crypto platform Poly Network rewards hacker with $500,000 ‘bug bounty’ (Reuters)

Thursday, August 12 2021 - Thu. 08/12 – Legislation To Break Open App Stores

• App Store Competition Targeted by Bipartisan Senate Bill (WSJ)
• DoorDash Recently Held Talks to Buy Instacart (The Information)
• TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications (TechCrunch)
• WhatsApp will let you transfer your chat history between Android and iOS (Engadget)
• Researchers Create ‘Master Faces’ to Bypass Facial Recognition (Motherboard)
• Messi joins crypto craze as gets part of PSG fee in fan tokens (Reuters)
• Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, August 11 2021 - Wed. 08/11 – Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Event

• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 delivers S Pen, better screen durability, IPX8 for $1,799 (9to5Google)
• Samsung breaks the triple-digit barrier w/ Galaxy Z Flip 3 priced at $999 (9to5Google)
• THE GALAXY WATCH 4 INJECTS SAMSUNG’S CAPABLE HARDWARE WITH GOOGLE SOFTWARE (The Verge)
• At least $611 million stolen in massive cross-chain hack (The Block)
• Poly Network attacker returns $256 million of the stolen cryptocurrency (The Block)
• NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (Nextgov)
• OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code (The Machine)
• Google restricts ad targeting of minors and will delist photos of kids at their request (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 10 2021 - Tue. 08/10 – iPhone To Get An Apple Watch-Like Always-On Screen?

• Apple Readies New iPhones With Pro-Focused Camera, Video Updates (Bloomberg)
• APPLE KEEPS SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE-RUN SURVEYS ON PAY EQUITY — AND LABOR LAWYERS SAY IT’S ILLEGAL (The Verge)
• Bitcoin Lobby Loses: Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill (Decrypt)
• Google’s new Titan security key lineup won’t make you choose between USB-C and NFC (The Verge)
• Crypto Platform FalconX Quintuples Valuation to $3.75 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Square’s $29 billion deal for buy-now, pay-later player Afterpay is the starting gun for the race to build a money super app (Insider)
• Exclusive: Salesforce enters the streaming wars (Axios)

Monday, August 09 2021 - Mon. 08/09 – Congressional Crypto Crunch

• Senators Near Deal On Crypto Oversight, But May Be Too Late (Bloomberg)
• Apple CSAM FAQ addresses misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope (Daring Fireball)
• An Unsurprising But Sad Update for Tesla Cybertruck Fans: Production Has Been Pushed to 2022 (Gizmodo)
• Google is planning a new Silicon Valley campus with hardware hub, plans show (CNBC)
• Uber, Lyft Prices at Records Even as Drivers Return (WSJ)
• Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups (NYTimes)

Saturday, August 07 2021 - The Metaverse! With @janineyorio

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Friday, August 06 2021 - Fri. 08/06 – The Apple Photo Scanning Controversy

• Apple confirms it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images (TechCrunch)
• Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies (The Verge)
• John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics (TechCrunch)

Thursday, August 05 2021 - Thu. 08/05 – Nest Refreshes Everything

• Google’s new Nest cameras and doorbell have lower prices and more smarts (The Verge)
• Ethereum just activated a major change called the ‘London hard fork’ — here’s why it’s a big deal (CNBC)
• Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill’s crypto ‘broker’ definition (The Block)
• U.S. Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats (WSJ)
• Nintendo profits decline year-on-year as Switch hits 89 million sold (The Verge)
• Two-year-old events start-up Hopin boomed in the pandemic. Now it’s a $7.75 billion business (CNBC)

Wednesday, August 04 2021 - Wed. 08/04 – Is Robinhood A Meme Stock Now?

• Robinhood surges as much as 81% in second day of wild trading (CNBC)
• Apple, Affirm to Join on Buy Now, Pay Later for Canadian Purchases (Bloomberg)
• WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once’ disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)
• New ‘Google Identity Services’ consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap’ (9to5Google)
• FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free (TechCrunch)
• Blizzard’s head of HR is out (The Verge)
• Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)
• This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt (The Verge)
• Smart homes and vegetable peelers (Benedict Evans)

Tuesday, August 03 2021 - Tue. 08/03 – The Pixel 6 And The New Tensor SoC

• THIS IS THE PIXEL 6, GOOGLE’S TAKE ON AN ‘ULTRA HIGH END’ PHONE (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC service will range from $20 to $162 per user per month (ZDNet)
• Apple Makes Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Available for Separate Purchase (MacRumors)
• Tencent Sinks After China Denounces Online Gaming (WSJ)
• Xiaomi Tops European Smartphone Market in Q2 2021 (Strategy Analytics)
• The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired UK)
• Spotify is testing a less restrictive ad-supported tier costing $0.99 a month (The Verge)

Monday, August 02 2021 - Mon. 08/02 – Try Some “Diet” YouTube

• YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less (The Verge)
• Twitter’s Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay (Reuters)
• Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo then Deletes It: 80Gbps and Pam-3 (AnandTech)
• Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ)
• Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine)
• Robinhood Sold IPO Shares to More Than 300,000 of Its Customers (WSJ)

Friday, July 30 2021 - Fri. 07/30 – For Amazon, Are Ads > AWS?

• Amazon Gets Record $888 Million EU Fine Over Data Violations (Bloomberg)
• Robinhood falls in its public market debut, closes more than 8% lower at $34.82 per share (CNBC)
• U.S. SEC says Chinese IPO hopefuls must provide additional risk disclosures (Reuters)
• Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service (TechCrunch)

Thursday, July 29 2021 - Thu. 07/29 – Vaccine Mandates For Big Tech?

• Most Apple Stores to Require Masks Again for Shoppers, Staff (Bloomberg)
• Facebook beats earnings expectations, but warns of significant growth slowdown (CNBC)
• Didi Global Considers Going Private to Placate China and Compensate Investors (WSJ)
• Robinhood CEO on the meme stock craze: ‘I think it’s a real thing’ (CNBC)
• Peacock Reaches 54M Sign-Ups Thanks to Olympics, 20M Monthly Active Users (The Streamable)
• OpenAI proposes open-source Triton language as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA (ZDNet)
• Bitcoin Seized by DOJ Headed to Crypto Custodian Anchorage in $6.6 Million Deal (Decrypt)

Wednesday, July 28 2021 - Wed. 07/28 – Earnings Bonanza

• Apple’s iPhone hot streak is going to run into the global chip shortage (CNBC)
• Xbox hardware sales spike 172% as Microsoft reports $3.7B in quarterly gaming revenue (GeekWire)
• YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces Estimates (Variety)
• Taiwan Greenlights TSMC’s 2nm Fab: Coming Online in 2024 ~ 2025 (Tom’s Hardware)
• Activision CEO Apologizes After Employees Threaten to Walk Out (Bloomberg)
• Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police (Motherboard)
• Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and ‘super app’ (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, July 27 2021 - Tue. 07/27 – No More Hedging. Tesla Truly Profitable.

• Tesla finally made a profit without the help of emission credits (The Verge)
• Tesla records $23 million in bitcoin-related impairments after cryptocurrency’s second-quarter plunge (CNBC)
• Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025 (Reuters)
• Apple releases fix for iOS and macOS zero-day, 13th this year (The Record)
• China Crackdown Makes Hong Kong Index World’s Biggest Tech Loser (Bloomberg)
• Instagram’s new protections for teens come as experts say tween venture poses big risks (NBC News)
• Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah (Protocol)
• Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise (VentureBeat)

Monday, July 26 2021 - Mon. 07/26 – What The Heck Is Happening In China?

• Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
• Leaders in Cryptocurrency Industry Move to Curb the Highest-Risk Trades (NYTimes)
• Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a ‘Couple of Years’ (MacRumors)
• Leaked Surface Duo 2 photos reveal new triple camera system (The Verge)
• China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul (Bloomberg)
• China’s education sector crackdown hits foreign investors (Financial Times)
• Why is China smashing its tech industry? (Noahpinion.substack.com)

Saturday, July 24 2021 - (Spc Cst) The Zoom Platform Road Map With @ross

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Friday, July 23 2021 - Fri. 07/23 – Alphabet’s New Moonshot Company: Intrinsic

• Google parent Alphabet launches Intrinsic: a new company to build software for industrial robots (The Verge)
• DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence (The Verge)
• Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound (CNBC)
• Snap pops more than 16% on earnings beat and user growth (CNBC)

Thursday, July 22 2021 - Thu. 07/22 – Downvote This Tweet

• Twitter for iOS begins testing dislike button for some users (9to5Mac)
• Clubhouse is no longer invite-only (The Verge)
• Tumblr Introduces Paid Subscription Tool to Woo Younger Bloggers (WSJ)
• ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system (9to5Google)
• China Weighs Unprecedented Penalty for Didi After U.S. IPO (Bloomberg)
• HBO Max and HBO Gain 2.8 Million Subscribers in Q2, AT&T Raises Year-End Target for Streaming Service (Variety)
• FTC pledges to fight unlawful right to repair restrictions (The Verge)
• An ‘Airbnb for Pools’ Is Making a Splash This Summer (WSJ)

Wednesday, July 21 2021 - Wed. 07/21 – Is The Narrative Turning On Netflix?

• Netflix’s gaming expansion starts with mobile (The Verge)
• On the list: Ten prime ministers, three presidents and a king (Washington Post)
• A case against security nihilism (Matthew Green)
• Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11 (TechCrunch)
• Biden Names Tech Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief (Bloomberg)
• Zoom announces general availability of Zoom Apps and its new virtual events platform (ZDNet)
• Crypto Exchange FTX Valued at $18 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
• YouTube’s newest monetization tool lets viewers tip creators for their uploads (TechCrunch)
• Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCS (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 20 2021 - Tue. 07/20 – Apple Once More The Canary In The Covid Coal Mine?

• Apple Delays Office Return by At Least a Month as Covid Spikes (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: Apple planning redesigned iPad mini with A15 processor, USB-C port, more (9to5Mac)
• Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders (TechCrunch)
• DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers (The Verge)
• Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (The Guardian)
• ‘Best day ever’: Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin rocket touch down after historic spaceflight (USAToday)

Monday, July 19 2021 - Mon. 07/19 – NSO Group (Allegedly) Pwning Everyone

• Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones journalists, activists worldwide (Washington Post)
• U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (Axios)
• Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (CNBC)
• CIRP: iPhone catches up to Android, now accounts for 50% of new smartphone activations in the US (9to5Mac)
• Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for (Electrek)

Saturday, July 17 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Black Widow Math And Fleets Fade Away

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Friday, July 16 2021 - Fri. 07/16 – Can Intel Acquire Its Way Back Into Contention?

• Intel Is in Talks to Buy GlobalFoundries for About $30 Billion (WSJ)
• Valve’s gaming handheld is called the Steam Deck and it’s shipping in December (The Verge)
• New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice (The Verge)

Thursday, July 15 2021 - Thu. 07/15 – Oh Yeah. It Definitely Looks Like Netflix Is Getting Into Gaming.

• Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV (Bloomberg)
• Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature (The Verge)
• Facebook plans to pay creators $1 billion to use its products. (NYTimes)
• TSMC Expects Auto-Chip Shortage to Abate This Quarter (WSJ)
• Amazon launches its mobile-first Kindle Vella serialized story platform (Engadget)
• Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 14 2021 - Wed. 07/14 – Did Apple Deep-Six 69? (NOT Nice!)

• Apple, Goldman Plan ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Service to Rival Affirm (Bloomberg)
• Apple Seeks Up to 20% Increase in New iPhone Production for 2021 (Bloomberg)
• Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone 12, available now for $99 (9to5Mac)
• Discord buys Sentropy, which makes AI software that fights online harassment (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Internet Group (The Information)
• Facebook’s groups to highlight experts (CNET)
• REvil ransomware gang’s web sites mysteriously shut down (BleepingComputer)
• Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 13 2021 - Tue. 07/13 – Bribe Or Bot Your Way To Twitter Verification?

• Twitter verified a number of bot accounts—raising questions about security (updated) (DailyDot)
• Gmail deploys support BIMI security standard (The Record)
• Android 12 adds ‘Game dashboard’ and ‘Play as You Download’ in Google Play Store (9to5Google)
• Ring’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out globally (The Verge)
• Disney Plans to Raise ESPN Plus’ Monthly and Annual Subscription Costs (Variety)
• Biden’s non-compete clause executive order is a big deal for Big Tech (Input Magazine)
• Biden Executive Order on Non-Competes Could Roil Tech (Bloomberg)
• Apple AirPod batteries are almost impossible to replace, showing the need for right-to-repair reform (CNBC)
• Tesla’s $16,000 Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters (The Drive)

Monday, July 12 2021 - Mon. 07/12 – Is InfoSec The New Fintech?

• Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ (Bloomberg)
• ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security (WSJ)
• Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked device lineup may have been entirely spoiled in huge new leak (The Verge)
• EU Delays Push for Digital Levy to Focus on Global Tax Deal (Bloomberg)
• Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ Debuts With Dazzling $80 Million in Theaters, $60 Million on Disney Plus (Variety)

Thursday, July 08 2021 - Thu. 07/08 – The States Go After Google First

• 36 states, D.C. sue Google for alleged antitrust violations in its Android app store (Politico)
• Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
• OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life (XDA Developers)
• Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
• London fintech funding soars in first half of the year (Reuters)
• Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules (Bloomberg)
• Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (Wall Street Journal)

Wednesday, July 07 2021 - Wed. 07/07 – Pentagon, RE: The JEDI Contract: Jkjkjkjkjk

• Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)
• Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC (Bloomberg)
• Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
• Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (Venture Beat)
• Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
• China’s Tencent Says It’ll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night (Gizmodo)

Tuesday, July 06 2021 - Tue. 07/06 – New Nintendo Switch (Finally/Kinda)

• Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
• Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal)
• Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
• China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
• Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times)
• REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
• Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch)
• American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times)

Saturday, July 03 2021 - (SPC CST) The Facebook Antitrust Blowup With @Kantrowitz

• @chrismessina
• @brianmcc

Friday, July 02 2021 - Fri. 07/02 – Robinhood’s IPO Success Depends On Doge?

• Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
• How Robinhood’s explosive growth rate came to be (Tech Crunch)
• Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC)
• Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (Tech Crunch)
• Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC’s latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia)

Thursday, July 01 2021 - Thu. 07/01 – Instagram Is “No Longer A Photo-Sharing App”

• Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC)
• TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge)
• Federal judge puts Florida ‘deplatforming’ law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News)
• Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg)
• Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input)
• The EU’s ‘vaccine passport’ and what it means for travel (BBC)
• Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)
• Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
• Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you’ll want it (Input)
• SpaceX’s Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input)

Wednesday, June 30 2021 - Wed. 06/30 – Facebook’s Substack Clone

• Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
• Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch)
• Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
• T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
• Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch)
• Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch)
• Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)

Tuesday, June 29 2021 - Tue. 06/29 – Facebook Beats The Rap

• Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook (CNBC)
• Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11 (The Verge)
• Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers (CNBC)
• YouTube TV Unveils Dolby Digital Support & Premium Add-on with 4K, Offline Downloads, and Unlimited Streams (The Streamable)
• Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)

Monday, June 28 2021 - Mon. 06/28 – Binance Runs Into Trouble Around The Globe

• Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (Financial Times)
• The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 Plus will speed up gaming, AI in high-end 5G phones (Cnet)
• Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor (The Verge)
• Apple Explores Bigger iPads and Reshuffles Its Car Team (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply chain fiasco (Bleeping Computer)
• Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
• Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance (Financial Times)

Saturday, June 26 2021 - (SPC CST) a16z’s Future Plans And Audio Spaces With @smc90 and @kyurieff

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Friday, June 25 2021 - Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)

• WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide (Bleeping Computer)
• Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup (The Verge)
• Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge)
• Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge)

Thursday, June 24 2021 - Thu. 06/24 – New Windows!

• Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
• Google delays Chrome’s cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years (Cnet)
• BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
• Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant (Wall Street Journal)
• Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next (Tech Crunch)
• South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
• John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (New York Times)

Wednesday, June 23 2021 - Wed. 06/23 – Microsoft Joins The $2T Club

• Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
• Apple’s Fight for Control Over Apps Moves to Congress and EU (Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
• Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (Tech Crunch)
• Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta (Tech Crunch)
• What is the ‘brushing’ scam and how can you protect yourself? (Yahoo Life)

Tuesday, June 22 2021 - Tue. 06/22 – More EU Trouble For Google

• EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s advertising business (Financial Times)
• Resolution Games Pulls Blaston Out Of Facebook Ad Test (Upload)
• Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge)
• Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget)
• Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers (The Verge)
• Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, Netflix Forge Film Deal in Sign of Changing Hollywood (Variety)
• Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (Financial Times)
• Amazon Snaps Up Option to Buy Stake in AI Truck-Driving Startup (Bloomberg)

Monday, June 21 2021 - Mon. 06/21 – Can Facebook Win Audio?

• Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US (Tech Crunch)
• China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (Global Times)
• Digital euro will protect consumer privacy, ECB executive pledges (Financial Times)
• ‘Woke up sweating’: Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (KHOU)
• Apple Watch accessory maker Wristcam raises $25M (Tech Crunch)
• Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar (New Atlas)

Friday, June 18 2021 - Fri. 06/18 – Cell Networks Security Deliberately Nerfed?

• Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened (Vice)
• Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cyber criminal crackdown (Financial Times)
• Google may be working on an Android version of Apple’s “Find My” network (XDA Developers)
• Gopuff to Buy Siemens-Backed RideOS in $100 Million-Plus Deal (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 17 2021 - Thu. 06/17 – How About Some Ads On Your Oculus?

• Facebook to begin testing ads inside Oculus virtual reality headsets (CNBC)
• Xbox’s June update adds speech-to-text chat feature (Engadget)
• Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week (The Verge)
• Amazon Appstore will reduce developer revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in Free AWS Credit (AFTV News)
• EXCLUSIVE: Google is downsizing its health team and moving employees to Fitbit as part of a major reorganization (Insider)
• Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. (New York Times)
• Is Facebook cornering the VR market? (Platformer)

Wednesday, June 16 2021 - Wed. 06/16 – A Nightmare FTC Chair For Big Tech?

• Biden Names Lina Khan, a Big-Tech Critic, as F.T.C. Chair (New York Times)
• Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round (CNBC)
• GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits (CNBC)
• Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (Tech Crunch)
• Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
• Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (Wall Street Journal)

Tuesday, June 15 2021 - Tue. 06/15 – Automattic Acquires Day One

• WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (Tech Crunch)
• U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data (Reuters)
• Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (Wall Street Journal)
• Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more (Tech Crunch)
• Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location (Geek Wire)
• Netflix Has a Plan to Sell You Toys, T-Shirts and Concert Tickets (Bloomberg)
• Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (Financial Times)

Monday, June 14 2021 - Mon. 06/14 – An “Extreme” Apple Watch?

• Apple Plans Faster Watch, Future Temperature and Glucose Sensors (Bloomberg)
• Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge)
• Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22 (The Verge)
• Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC)
• TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg)
• Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 11 2021 - Fri. 06/11 – Now The Hackers Have Come For Our Hamburgers

• McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (Wall Street Journal)
• Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice)
• Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet)
• Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC)
• Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 10 2021 - Thu. 06/10 – Another Payoff To Ransomware Hackers

• JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack (Wall Street Journal)
• Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor (The Verge)
• Microsoft is building its own streaming devices as part of a major Xbox Game Pass expansion (Protocol)
• Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor (The Verge)
• Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries (Tech Crunch)
• The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge)

Wednesday, June 09 2021 - Wed. 06/09 – The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As Legal Tender

• El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC)
• Biden revokes and replaces Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat (The Verge)
• Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge)
• Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block)
• Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (Tech Crunch)
• FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs (The Record)
• Encrypted messaging app used by criminals was actually an FBI honeypot (Input)

Tuesday, June 08 2021 - Tue. 06/08 – Fastly Takes Down The Internet

• Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch)
• U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal)
• Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge)
• EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters)
• Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge)
• iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac)
• Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet)
• Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac)
• Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge)

Monday, June 07 2021 - WWDC 2021

• Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight with auction winner (TechCrunch)
• Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices (WSJ)
• Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge)

Saturday, June 05 2021 - (Bonus) SpaceCasts Sampler!

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Friday, June 04 2021 - Fri. 06/04 – iPad Pro Rumors And WWDC Pre-Hype

• Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg)
• Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge)
• Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (New York Times)
• Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters)

Thursday, June 03 2021 - Thu. 06/03 – Twitter Launches Twitter Blue!

• Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC)
• Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge)
• WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors)
• Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN)
• Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
• Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode)

Wednesday, June 02 2021 - Wed. 06/02 – Facebook’s F8 Refresh

• Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (Tech Crunch)
• Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge)
• Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC)
• Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (New York Times)
• U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC)
• Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (Wall Street Journal)
• Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk)
• Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters)

Tuesday, June 01 2021 - Tue. 06/01 – Flagship GPU Headlines From Computex

• Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
• AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
• AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
• Alienware’s New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
• Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica)
• Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times)

Monday, May 31 2021 - Introducing SpaceCasts!

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Friday, May 28 2021 - Fri. 05/28 – SolarWinds Back In The Headlines

• Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times)
• Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg)
• Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet)

Thursday, May 27 2021 - Thu. 05/27 – Upgraded Nintendo Switch Imminent

• Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg)
• You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge)
• James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times)
• Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg)
• PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
• App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors)
• Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
• Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge)
• Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)

Wednesday, May 26 2021 - Wed. 05/26 – Amazon To Launch A Rocky Extended Universe?

• Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC)
• Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica)
• Google’s San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge)
• USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET)
• Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
• Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, May 25 2021 - Tue. 05/25 – Fuchsia OS Finally Arrives

• Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google)
• ARM’s first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget)
• Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times)
• Apple Says iPad Pro’s XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors)
• Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch)
• Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol)
• Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)

Monday, May 24 2021 - Reading The Tea Leaves Of The Epic/Apple Trial

• Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch)
• Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook’s feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol)
• HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac)
• Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
• The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
• Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas)

Saturday, May 22 2021 - (Bonus) How Ransomware Works With Cybereason’s CISO Isreal Barak

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Friday, May 21 2021 - Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff

• Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge)
• Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge)
• Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge)
• Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information)
• U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
• Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge)

Thursday, May 20 2021 - Thu. 05/20 – Hello F-150 Lightning; Goodbye IE; Hello Again, RSS…

• Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (New York Times)
• Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (Tech Crunch)
• ‘I’m not very social’: ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
• Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
• Apple cites ‘significant’ malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet)
• Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
• Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)

Wednesday, May 19 2021 - Wed. 05/19 – Google I/O Roundup

• Helping all your devices work better together (Google)
• Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 (Engadget)
• Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram (Wired)
• Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge)
• Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing)
• Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn’t happening (ZDNet)
• IPAD PRO (2021) REVIEW: DREAM SCREEN (The Verge)

Tuesday, May 18 2021 - Tue. 05/18 – Google I/O

• ANDROID 12 PREVIEW: FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE’S RADICAL NEW DESIGN (The Verge)
• Amazon Pondering Deal to Buy MGM (The Information)
• Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps (Bloomberg)
• APPLE’S NEW IMAC BRINGS M1 GOODNESS TO THE DESKTOP (The Verge)
• Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China (NYTimes)
• Exclusive: These are Apple’s new truly wireless in-ear Beats Studio earbuds (9to5Mac)

Monday, May 17 2021 - Mon. 05/17 – Better Quality Streaming Audio (Basically) For Free

• Apple announces lossless Apple Music is coming in June at no added cost (The Verge)
• Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market (Billboard)
• AT&T to spin off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery in deal that would create streaming giant (CNN Business)
• Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge)
• GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat)
• ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99 (9to5 Mac)
• Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (Wall Street Journal)
• Google’s Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena)

Saturday, May 15 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Tipping As The Currency For The Creator Economy

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Friday, May 14 2021 - Fri. 05/14 – Now Ransomware Is Shutting Down The Irish Health Service

• Cyber attack ‘most significant on Irish state’ (BBC)
• Disney Plus Hits 103.6 Million Subscribers as Rapid Growth Slows, ESPN Plus Perks Up (Variety)
• STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH (The Verge)

Thursday, May 13 2021 - Thu. 05/13 – Elon Rekt Crypto

• Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm (The Verge)
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud (The Verge)
• Biden signs executive order designed to strengthen federal digital defenses (Washington Post)
• Roku will launch original programming fueled by Quibi’s content on May 20 (Tech Crunch)
• Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash (Axios)
• Facebook-backed crypto project Diem abandons Swiss license application, will move to the U.S. (CNBC)
• Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19 (Tech Crunch)

Wednesday, May 12 2021 - Wed. 05/12 – Xiaomi Gets Out Of The Dog House

• US agrees to drop Xiaomi from blacklist after lawsuit (Bloomberg)
• Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras (The Verge)
• GitHub shifts away from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations (ZDNet)
• EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block)
• WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don’t agree to its new privacy policy (Insider)
• E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios)
• SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters)
• A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security)

Tuesday, May 11 2021 - Tue. 05/11 – It’s New Chip Tuesday!

• Intel Launches 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H: Eight Core 10nm Mobile Processors (AnandTech)
• NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti bring ray tracing to affordable laptops (Engadget)
• Dell’s new XPS 15 and XPS 17 get upgraded with Intel’s long-awaited 11th Gen H-series chips (The Verge)
• Next-Gen PlayStation VR Is 4K With Foveated Rendering And Vibration Feature (Upload)
• Foxconn’s iPhone output in India down amid COVID surge-sources (Reuters)
• Apple robbed the mob’s bank (Mobile Dev Demo)

Monday, May 10 2021 - Mon. 05/10 – No PlayStation For Me Until 2023?

• Sony warns tight Playstation 5 supply to extend into next year (Bloomberg)
• Colonial hackers stole data Thursday ahead of pipeline shutdown (Bloomberg)
• Here’s the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown (CNBC)
• Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity (The Verge)
• AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher [Video] (9to5 Mac)
• Apple’s 2023 iPhone could ditch Qualcomm and launch with its own 5G chip (Laptop Mag)
• Apple Awards iPhone Glass Supplier Corning Additional $45M From Advanced Manufacturing Fund (Mac Rumors)
• Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ (The Verge)
• SNL was a good night for Elon Musk — and a bad one for Dogecoin (Protocol)

Saturday, May 08 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Tip Jar, Basecamp And Doge

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Friday, May 07 2021 - Fri. 05/07 – Twitter Introduces Tip Jar

• Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts (The Verge)
• Square gets a bitcoin boost with revenue up 266% (CNBC)
• Playlists and podcasts? Netflix is exploring developing ‘N-Plus’ (Protocol)
• You can now build a “mini media empire” on Substack (Financial Times)
• Everyone yells at the Oversight Board (Platformer)

Thursday, May 06 2021 - Thu. 05/06 – Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of Moore’s Law

• IBM Creates First 2nm Chip (AnandTech)
• Google is going to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification (ZDNet)
• Google relaxes work from home rules to let more staff be remote (Bloomberg)
• Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets (Tech Crunch)
• Emails reveal Apple’s attempts to stop Netflix from dropping App Store In-App Purchase support (9to5 Mac)
• EXCLUSIVE China’s Tencent in talks with U.S. to keep gaming investments -sources (Reuters)
• SpaceX successfully lands its massive Starship for the first time (New Atlas)

Wednesday, May 05 2021 - Wed. 05/05 – Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban

• Facebook’s Trump ban can stay in place, says Oversight Board (The Verge)
• Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned (Gizmodo)
• Facebook Workplace reaches 7 million paid subscribers (CNBC)
• Facebook takes on Nextdoor with Neighborhoods tool (Cnet)
• Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (The Record)
• Snapchat Can Be Sued Over Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules (NPR)
• Epic CEO says he would have taken a special App Store deal if Apple had offered (9to5 Mac)
• Epic CEO argues Fortnite trial is an existential fight for the future (Protocol)
• Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers (WSJ)

Tuesday, May 04 2021 - Tue. 05/04 – How Many People Still Pay For AOL?

• Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more (Tech Crunch)
• Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites (The Verge)
• Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that. (Recode)
• Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues’ firings (Reuters)
• Ford backed Argo sees new sensor as key for self driving cars (Bloomberg)
• Apple and Epic go head-to-head in fiery opening remarks of highly-anticipated trial (9to5 Mac)
• About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet (CNBC)

Monday, May 03 2021 - Mon. 05/03 – Kuo: Foldable iPhone In 2023!

• Kuo: Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 (Mac Rumors)
• Verizon sells media businesses including Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for $5 billion (CNBC)
• Facebook and Instagram notices in iOS apps tell users tracking helps keep them ‘free of charge’ (The Verge)
• A new green cryptocurrency called Chia uses a less energy-intensive method of minting new coins. Here are 6 things to know about the digital asset before it starts trading on Monday. (Markets Insider)
• Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming (The Verge)
• Apple’s App Store Had 78% Margin in 2019, Epic Expert Says (Bloomberg)
• Epic v. Apple: Everything you need to know about the biggest trial in tech (Protocol)

Saturday, May 01 2021 - (Bonus) Bull-Bear Case For Clubhouse

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Friday, April 30 2021 - Fri. 04/30 – The EU Brings The Hammer Down On Apple

• EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case (Wall Street Jounal)
• YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute (Axios)
• Apple says the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will work with the old Magic Keyboard, but ‘may not precisely fit when closed’ (9to5 Mac)
• ‘A Perfect Positive Storm’: Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech (New York Times)

Thursday, April 29 2021 - Thu. 04/29 – What If This Is A Tech Inflection Point?

• Facebook Revenue Grows 48% as Ad Prices Increase (The Information)
• Apple warns of supply shortages likely to impact iPad and Mac in Q3 (9to5 Mac)
• WarnerMedia plans to charge $9.99 per month for ad-supported HBO Max (CNBC)
• Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL (Wall Street Journal)
• Amazon to spend $1B to boost pay for 500k operations workers by as much as $3 an hour (Geek Wire)
• Mighty wants to ‘make Chrome faster’ by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS (9to5 Google)
• Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8% (Ars Technica)

Wednesday, April 28 2021 - Wed. 04/28 – CES Says: “We’re Doing It Live!”

• CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022 (The Verge)
• Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are lightweight laptops with OLED screens (The Verge)
• AirPods demand reportedly falling as Apple cuts production by 25-30% (9 to 5 Mac)
• Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling: How the company is working to solve one of its biggest threats: decision fatigue. (Vulture)
• Huawei reports 16.5% drop in revenues in first quarter, warns of ‘another challenging year’ ahead (CNBC)
• Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one (The Verge)

Tuesday, April 27 2021 - Tue. 04/27 – EU To Charge Apple This Week?

• EU to charge Apple with anti-competitive behaviour this week (Financial Times)
• Spotify launches podcast subscriptions, but you can’t subscribe in-app (The Verge)
• Apple’s follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac (Nikkei Asia)
• Amazon’s new Fire HD 10 tablet has slimmer bezels and better specs (The Verge)
• Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M (Tech Crunch)
• Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid (The Record)

Monday, April 26 2021 - Mon. 04/26 – Listen To The Podcast On Facebook, I Guess?

• Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app(Tech Crunch)
• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat)
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands (Axios)
• OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (Financial Times)
• German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes (Financial Times)
• To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice. (New York Times)
• Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC)
• DoNotPay’s new tool makes your photos undetectable to facial recognition software (Input)

Saturday, April 24 2021 - (TWTR SPC) The Spring Apple Event And Apple Podcast Changes

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Friday, April 23 2021 - Fri. 04/23 – Spotify Quick To Counter Apple’s Podcast Moves

• Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting (Wall Street Journal)
• Did a Human or a Computer Crash This Tesla? (Intelligencer)
• Snap reports accelerating revenue growth, strong user numbers for first quarter (CNBC)

Thursday, April 22 2021 - Thu. 04/22 – Cloud Based Cellular Networking?

• US satellite company Dish taps Amazon for 5G launch (Financial Times)
• Apple Plans Notifications, iPad Home Screen Upgrades for iOS 15 (Bloomberg)
• Stolen MacBook Pro Schematics Confirm Apple’s Plans to Add More Ports and Remove Touch Bar (Mac Rumors)
• Software product planning platform Productboard raises $72M (Venture Beat)
• AIRTAG LOCATION TRACKERS ARE SMART, CAPABLE, AND VERY APPLE (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 21 2021 - Wed. 04/21 – GDPR But For AI?

• Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal (Wall Street Journal)
• Instagram launches tools to filter out abusive DMs based on keywords and emojis, and to block people, even on new accounts (Tech Crunch)
• Apple announces AirTag accessories that cost more than the device (9 to 5 Mac)
• Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event (The Record)
• Netflix falls after pandemic boom reverses to rare weakness (Bloomberg)
• Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole Foods stores (CNBC)

Tuesday, April 20 2021 - Tue. 04/20 – The Apple “Spring Loaded” Media Event

• Apple updates 11” and 12.9” iPad Pros with M1, 8-core GPU, Thunderbolt, up to 2TB storage, 5G, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, and a miniLED screen on the 12.9” model (Techmeme)
• Apple introduces Podcasts Subscriptions to pay creators for content in redesigned app (9to5Mac)
• Facebook unveils suite of new audio products (Axios)
• Clubhouse’s Monthly Downloads Plunged 72% Last Month (The Wrap)
• Cryptocurrency Giant Binance.US Hires Former Top Bank Regulator (WSJ)
• Fitbit’s Luxe is a fashion-focused fitness band that costs $149.95 (The Verge)

Monday, April 19 2021 - Mon. 04/19 – Facebook To Announce Going Big On Audio, Via Audio?

• Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products (Vox)
• Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle (Tech Crunch)
• UK invokes national security to investigate Nvidia’s ARM deal (Reuters)
• Tencent’s Ma dangles billions in aid as antitrust scrutiny grows (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week (The Verge)
• What to Expect From Apple’s April 20 Event: New iPads, AirTags and More (Mac Rumors)

Saturday, April 17 2021 - Office Hours With Chris Fralic Of First Round Capital

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Friday, April 16 2021 - Fri. 04/16 – Chip Shortage To Continue; Sucks For Everyone, Basically

• Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023 (Ars Technica)
• Facebook faces ‘mass action’ lawsuit in Europe over 2019 breach (Tech Crunch)
• Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song (Wall Street Journal)

Thursday, April 15 2021 - Thu. 04/15 – Bezos’ Farewell To Amazon Investors

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Wednesday, April 14 2021 - Wed. 04/14 – Now It’s the FBI Doing The (Legal?) Hacking

• FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks (Vice)
• Kuo: 2022 iPhones to Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, 8K Video, and 6.1 and 6.7” Sizes With No 5.4” Mini Option (Mac Rumors)
• Kuo: Apple to Adopt Under Display Face ID Starting With 2023 iPhones (Mac Rumors)
• Kuo: 2023 iPhones to Feature ‘Periscopic’ Telephoto Lens (Mac Rumors)
• Samsung’s third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28 (Cnet)
• Sony announces the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III with variable telephoto lenses (The Verge)
• Oculus Quest 2 owners can start testing wireless PC VR gaming with Air Link (Engadget)
• NYPD Deploys “Creepy” New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex (Gothamist)

Tuesday, April 13 2021 - New Surface Laptop 4

• Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors (The Verge)
• Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 (Mac Rumors)
• Facebook Announces Oculus Gaming Showcase For April 21 (Upload)
• Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers (Venture Beat)
• Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40 (Ars Technica)
• Spotify’s Car Thing debuts as a limited release for selected US users (The Verge)

Monday, April 12 2021 - Mon. 04/12 – Microsoft Acquires Nuance

• Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal (CNBC)
• Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts (Bloomberg)
• Apple Facing Supply Shortage of Upcoming High-End iPad Displays (Bloomberg)
• Ant to Be Financial Holding Firm in Overhaul Forced by China (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba’s rivals on alert after China’s regulators hand out record fine (FT)
• Google starts rolling out “Heads Up” in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking (XDA Developers)
• THE 2022 MERCEDES-BENZ EQS IS A DECLARATION OF MAXIMUM ELECTRIC LUXURY (The Verge)

Saturday, April 10 2021 - (TWTR SPACE) The Coinbase Moment For Crypto

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Friday, April 09 2021 - Fri. 04/09 – Amazon Wins The Union Battle

• Partial tally in Amazon union drive favors ‘No’ votes. (NYTimes)
• Epic v. Apple discovery details ‘Project Liberty’ scheme to skirt App Store with Fortnite (9to5Mac)
• Apple Admits Purposely Keeping iMessage Off Android Helps Lock Users In (DroidLife)
• Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform’s userbase — and have posted it for sale online (Insider)
• Neuralink’s brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong (Engadget)

Thursday, April 08 2021 - Thu. 04/08 – Now The Chip Shortage Has Come For Apple?

• MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple (NikkeiAsia)
• Apple MacBook and iPad production may be delayed over global chip shortage (AppleInsider)
• Twitter Held Discussions for $4 Billion Takeover of Clubhouse (Bloomberg)
• Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live (TechCrunch)
• Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 has not one but two cooling fans (The Verge)
• YouTube is social media’s big winner during the pandemic (CNBC)
• Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage (FT)
• Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20 (9to5Google)
• Apple Announces Find My Network With Support for Third-Party Devices (MacRumors)

Wednesday, April 07 2021 - Wed. 04/07 – TLDR: Coinbase Is A Helluva Business

• Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
• Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)
• Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
• Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
• Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
• Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)
• What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)

Tuesday, April 06 2021 - Tue. 04/06 – Clubhouse Turns On The Money Spigot Quickly

• Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
• TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
• Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)
• The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
• China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
• E3 2021 Will Take Place as a Free Virtual Conference, In-Person L.A. Event Targeted for Next Year (Variety)
• Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (Bloomberg)

Monday, April 05 2021 - Mon. 04/05 – SCOTUS Rules: APIs Not Copyrightable

• Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software (CNBC)
• Supreme Court vacates lower court decision on Trump blocking Twitter followers (Axios)
• LG Electronics to end loss-making smartphone business (NikkeiAsia)
• Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (NYTimes)
• 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (Insider)
• Is Apple’s Privacy Push Facebook’s Existential Threat‪?‬ (Kara Swisher’s Sway Podcast)
• Sideloading Apps Would ‘Break’ the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook (MacRumors)
• Tim Cook says Apple is committed to AR, TV+ and privacy but not to Apple Car (Cult of Mac)

Saturday, April 03 2021 - (Bonus) Friday 04.02 Twitter Space

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Friday, April 02 2021 - Fri. 04/02 – Coinbase Going Public With A Confident Swagger

• Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt)
• Apple Rejecting Apps With Fingerprinting Enabled As iOS 14 Privacy Enforcement Starts (Forbes)
• Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes (The Verge)
• Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Tencent’s Timi gaming studio generated $10 billion in 2020, sources say (Reuters)

Thursday, April 01 2021 - Thu. 04/01 – Microsoft’s Pentagon Deal Validates The AR Industry

• Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years (CNBC)
• Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC)
• TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity (Bloomberg)
• Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch)
• Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal’s Movies From HBO Max, Netflix (Bloomberg)
• Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, March 31 2021 - Wed. 03/31 – Everything Old Is New Again In The News Feed

• Facebook Adds New ‘Most Recent’ Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
• LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
• Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch)
• Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (ArsTechnica)
• Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch)
• Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
• ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
• Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat)

Tuesday, March 30 2021 - Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor

• Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge)
• Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios)
• Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information)
• Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
• Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac)
• Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider)
• There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated] (Gizmodo)
• Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ)
• Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge)
• Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge)

Monday, March 29 2021 - Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work?

• New York launches nation’s first ‘vaccine passports.’ Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday)
• Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
• PHP’s Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer)
• Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day (The Verge)
• Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
• Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg)
• Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)

Sunday, March 28 2021 - (Bonus) Monday 03.22 Clubhouse Room

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Saturday, March 27 2021 - (Bonus) Friday 03.26 Clubhouse Room

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Friday, March 26 2021 - Fri. 03/26 – The House Tech Hearings Were… Whatever…

• Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge)
• Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg)
• Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol)
• WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ)

Thursday, March 25 2021 - Thu. 03/25 – DDR5 Arrives (F* Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades)**

• Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice As Fast As DDR4 (HotHardware)
• Zuckerberg suggests how to tweak tech’s liability shield (Axios)
• Genshin Impact Races Past $1 Billion on Mobile in Less Than Six Months (SensorTower)
• Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores (The Verge)
• Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC)
• Deliveroo Hit by Investor, Rider Revolt Ahead of London IPO (Bloomberg)
• Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 24 2021 - Wed. 03/24 – Buying Teslas With Bitcoin Is More Bullish For Whom?

• Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC)
• WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol)
• Trading App Robinhood Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO (Bloomberg)
• Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff (Android Police)
• Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard)
• Verizon to center media arm around new subscription platform Yahoo+ (Axios)
• Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC)
• Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ)

Tuesday, March 23 2021 - Tue. 03/23 – Microsoft To Buy Discord?

• Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge)
• Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge)
• Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
• Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
• Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge)
• Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)

Monday, March 22 2021 - Mon. 03/22 – Unusual Trouble At Red-Hot Startup Dispo

• David Dobrik, Losing Sponsors and Fans, Steps Down From App He Co-founded (NYTimes)
• Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with David Dobrik’s Dispo app weeks after leading deal (TechCrunch)
• Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to start reopening headquarters on March 29th, with hybrid workplace focus (The Verge)
• Apple’s HomePod Mini Has a Secret Sensor Waiting to Be Switched On (BLoomberg)
• Inside the Democrats’ strategy to bombard Big Tech (Axios)
• On-demand logistics and fulfillment startup Flowspace raises $31M (VentureBeat)

Friday, March 19 2021 - Fri. 03/19 – A Rebel Alliance, Led By Facebook, And Born In A Clubhouse Room?

• Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News)
• Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch)
• Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers)
• Zuckerberg: Facebook may actually be in a ‘stronger position’ after Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes (CNBC)
• China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees (WSJ)

Thursday, March 18 2021 - Thu. 03/18 – An April Apple Event?

• Apple Nears Launch of New iPads After Stay-At-Home Sales Boost (Bloomberg)
• PS5’s VR 2.0: First Look At New Controllers (GameSpot)
• YouTube Shorts arrives in the US to take on TikTok, but the beta is still half-baked (The Verge)
• Spotify says over 13,000 artists’ catalogs earned at least $50K in royalties last year (The Verge)
• Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well (The Hypothesis)
• Substack is for independent writers (Substack Blog)
• Crypto marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million to be the ‘Amazon of NFTs’ (Fortune)
• Intel puts Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ guy into new ads praising PCs (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 17 2021 - Wed. 03/17 – Samsung’s 2nd Unpacked Brings New A-series Phones

• Samsung’s midrange phones now feature fast refresh rate screens, stabilized cameras (The Verge)
• Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone (Bloomberg)
• Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales (CNBC)
• Google and Apple are giving up less than 5% of their revenue from apps with payout changes, analytics firm estimates (CNBC)
• Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle (CNBC)
• Pinduoduo Founder Colin Huang Steps Down From Company (WSJ)
• Clubhouse Tweet Thread (ShaanVP)
• Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison (Tampa Bay Times)

Tuesday, March 16 2021 - Tue. 03/16 – The 2nd Gen Nest Hub Gets Sleep Tracking

• Google announces 2nd-gen Nest Hub with Soli-powered ‘Sleep Sensing’ for $99 (9to5Google)
• Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores (The Verge)
• Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords (The Verge)
• Xi Warns Against Tech Excess in Sign Crackdown Will Widen (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba browser pulled from Chinese app stores (FT)
• Exclusive: Investors value China’s Ant Group at over $200 billion after IPO halt - sources (Reuters)
• A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 (Motherboard)

Monday, March 15 2021 - Mon. 03/15 – Stripe The Most Successful (Private) SV Startup Ever?

• Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising (Financial Times)
• Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (Forbes)
• Facebook aims to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 (CNET)
• Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism (Washington Post)
• White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks (NYTimes)
• China Lays Plans to Tame Tech Giant Alibaba (WSJ)
• Clubhouse announces accelerator program for creators on its platform (The Verge)

Friday, March 12 2021 - Netflix Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing

• Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household (The Streamable)
• Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information to the media (9to5Mac)
• SoftBank-Backed Coupang Prices U.S. IPO Above Target (Bloomberg)
• I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now (The Verge)

Thursday, March 11 2021 - Thu. 03/11 – The Roblox Debut

• Roblox jumps to $38 billion market cap as public investors get their first crack at the popular kids game app (CNBC)
• Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April (The Verge)
• Verkada Workers Had Extensive Access to Private Customer Cameras (Bloomberg)
• Google paves way to monetize Pay users’ data in India (TechCrunch)
• Photoshop now runs natively on Apple’s M1 Macs (The Verge)
• iPhone 13 to Finally Feature Bigger Batteries (MacRumors)
• Oppo Find X3 Pro goes official w/ Snapdragon 888, 120Hz display, ‘microlens’ camera (9to5Google)
• Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 10 2021 - Wed. 03/10 – Now The Hackers Are In The Security Cams

• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (Bloomberg)
• Apple slashes planned iPhone 12 mini production for 1H (NikkeiAsia)
• Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature (The Verge)
• TikTok adds new comment controls to discourage bullying (Engadget)
• ‘Follow our podcast’: Apple Podcasts to stop using ‘subscribe’ (Podnews)
• T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers (WSJ)
• Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive ‘Vesta’ home robot — but insiders are worried that it’s a niche, gimmicky product that could fail (Insider)
• Inside Facebook Reality Labs: The Next Era of Human-Computer Interaction (Tech@Facebook)
• Facebook’s ready to talk about how its AR glasses will work with neural wristbands (CNET)
• Samsung sets March 17 for its second Unpacked event of 2021 (CNET)

Tuesday, March 09 2021 - Tue. 03/09 – An FTC Commissioner To Make Silicon Valley Cower?

• POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster (Politico/Playbook)
• Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea (NYTimes)
• Attacks on SolarWinds Servers Also Linked To Chinese Threat Actor (The Record)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will reportedly include both AMD and Intel configurations (The Verge)
• Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit vulnerability (Engadget)
• Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites (BBC News)
• LOGITECH’S CIRCLE VIEW DOORBELL IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN APPLE-MADE DOORBELL (The Verge)

Monday, March 08 2021 - Mon. 03/08 – Apple AR Contact Lenses As The Apple Rumor Singularity

• Kuo: Apple to Launch Mixed Reality Headset in Mid 2022 and Augmented Reality Glasses by 2025 (MacRumors)
• Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China (NYTimes)
• Smartphone Lobby Wants Conference for 50,000 People in June (Bloomberg)
• The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (Ars Technica)
• Quantum-Computing Startup IonQ Plans Public Debut in $2 Billion SPAC Merger (WSJ)
• Sidewalk robots get legal rights as “pedestrians” (Axios)

Friday, March 05 2021 - Fri. 03/05 – Eyes Emoji On Tim Wu Joining The Biden Administration

• A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House (NYTimes)
• Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like (The Verge)
• Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two (The Verge)
• Survey finds that the reported exodus of tech companies from San Francisco’s Bay Area is ‘greatly exaggerated’ (Insider)

Thursday, March 04 2021 - Thu. 03/04 – Is Square Buying Tidal A Watershed Moment For The Creator Economy?

• Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. (NYTimes)
• Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
• Apple Probed by U.K. as App Store Payments Scrutiny Mounts (Bloomberg)
• Arizona App Store Bill (The Verge)
• Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
• Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)

Wednesday, March 03 2021 - Wed. 03/03 – Google (Sorta) Pivots To Privacy

• Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies (The Verge)
• Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing (WSJ)
• Microsoft says China-backed hackers are exploiting Exchange zero-days (TechCrunch)
• Recovering from the SolarWinds hack could take 18 months (MIT Technology Review)
• Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings (The Verge)
• Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech (TechCrunch)
• Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 02 2021 - Tue. 03/02 – iPhone 13 To Go Notch-Less?

• Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more (9to5Mac)
• All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)
• Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)
• Microsoft’s new Intelligent Speakers deliver its promised meeting room of the future (The Verge)
• Instacart’s valuation doubles to $39 billion (CNBC)
• Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
• How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
• Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. (NYTimes)
• Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones (MIT News)

Monday, March 01 2021 - Mon. 03/01 – Instagram Launches Live Rooms For Group Broadcasts

• Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators (TechCrunch)
• Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery (The Verge)
• Lime says it will spend $50 million on a huge e-bike expansion (The Verge)
• Skydio valuation raises American hopes in drone war with China (Financial Times)
• Klarna Valued at $31 Billion After U.S. Growth Stoked Investors (Bloomberg)
• As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings (TechCrunch Extra)
• NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (Chris Dixon/Andreessen Horowitz)

Friday, February 26 2021 - Fri. 02/26 – Twitter Does ALL The Things (Even $$$ For Tweets)

• Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets (The Verge)
• Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts (The Verge)
• Google launches Android Sleep API to detect snoozing, waking up; available to apps now (9to5Google)
• 1Password has none, KeePass has none… So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? (The Register)
• European Smartphone Market Down 14% YoY in 2020; Xiaomi gains while Huawei and Samsung Lose (Counterpoint Research)

Thursday, February 25 2021 - Thu. 02/25 – The Biden Administration Addressed The Chip Shortage

• Biden Orders Broad Supply-Chain Review Amid Chip Shortages (WSJ)
• Coinbase Reveals $322M in Profit For 2020 Ahead of Landmark Public Debut (Decrypt)
• ViacomCBS bets you will subscribe to 5 or more streaming services, leaving plenty of room for Paramount+ (CNBC)
• Verizon Leads 5G Airwave Bidding With Record $45 Billion Splurge (Bloomberg)
• NFT marketplace Sorare raises $50 million in Series A led by Benchmark (The Block)
• Ethereum scaling startup Optimism raises $25 million Series A led by a16z (The Block)
• Otter.ai raises $50 million for AI transcription (VentureBeat)

Wednesday, February 24 2021 - Facebook Defends Its Stance In Australia

• The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia (Facebook Newsroom)
• Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t (Nieman Lab)
• MicroStrategy Buys $1 Billion More Bitcoin, Totalling $4.5 Billion (Decrypt)
• HP is buying gaming accessory brand HyperX for $425 million (The Verge)
• Apple’s App Sign-in Button Becomes Hot-Button Issue in U.S. Antitrust Probe (The Information)
• How social networks got competitive again (Casey Newton’s Platformer)
• VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
• Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to your walls (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 23 2021 - Tue. 02/23 – Australia Caves To Facebook

• Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code (ABC.net.au)
• PlayStation CEO says PS5 will get its own VR headset, explains console supply chain shortfall (Washington Post)
• Huawei’s Mate X2 foldable adopts Samsung’s dual-screen design (The Verge)
• Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models With HDMI Port and SD Card Reader to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
• New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped (ArsTechnica)
• Inside ‘NBA Top Shot,’ the Digital Highlights Marketplace Worth Millions (Bleacher Report)

Monday, February 22 2021 - Mon. 02/22 – Spotify’s New “HiFi” Subscription Tier

• Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year (The Verge)
• Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security (Bloomberg)
• Apple Surpassed Samsung as World’s Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter (MacRumors)
• Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO (WSJ)
• Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
• Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)

Friday, February 19 2021 - Fri. 02/19 – UK Supreme Court Officially Smacks Down Uber

• Uber loses a major employment rights case as the UK’s top court rules its drivers are workers (CNBC)
• Android 12 developer preview is available now with many under-the-hood updates (The Verge)
• Apple Is Working on Magnetic Battery Pack Attachment for IPhones (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year (The Verge)

Thursday, February 18 2021 - Thu – 02/18 – Facebook Calls Australia’s Bluff; Google Pays Off Murdoch

• Facebook restricts users, publishers from sharing news content in Australia (AP)
• Facebook calls Australia’s bluff (Platformer)
• SpaceX Funding Round at $74 Billion Valuation Was Led by Sequoia (Bloomberg)
• NVIDIA Annoucnes CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX GPUs For Mining, Cripples Hash Rate Of RTX 3060 (WCCFTech)
• Apple Hiring Engineers to Develop 6G Wireless (Bloomberg)
• If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired)

Wednesday, February 17 2021 - Epic Games Takes Its War With Apple To Europe

• Epic Games files EU antitrust complaint against Apple (FT)
• Apple wins victory as North Dakota votes down bill that would regulate app stores (CNBC)
• New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19 (NYTimes)
• Amazon won’t build this Alexa cuckoo clock unless it hits a preorder goal (The Verge)
• Google Maps will now let you pay for public transportation and parking through its app (The Verge)
• Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share (GeekWire)
• Ethereum NFT Market Primed for Explosive Growth in 2021 (Decrypt)
• First Look: 217 New Emojis in iOS 14.5 (Emojipedia)

Tuesday, February 16 2021 - Tue. 02/16 – Bitcoin Crosses $50k

• Bitcoin Jumps to $50,000 as Record-Breaking Rally Accelerates (Bloomberg)
• Essential is now officially owned by Carl Pei’s Nothing Technologies (9to5Google)
• Microsoft’s new Office app now available on iPad (The Verge)
• New Samsung laptops rumored to include OLED screens and S Pen support (The Verge)
• Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (NYTimes)
• Retro photo app is winning buzz (Axios)
• The bull case for Dispo (Justin Potts)

Monday, February 15 2021 - Mon. 02/15 – First Look At xCloud Via Browser

• Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web (The Verge)
• Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health (The Information)
• Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (WSJ)
• Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm Ltd. (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All (Wired)
• ViacomCBS Goes ‘All-In’ on Streaming, But Without Many of Its Top Shows (Bloomberg)

Saturday, February 13 2021 - (Bonus) Is Silicon Valley “Over?” With Bloomberg’s @noahpinion

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Friday, February 12 2021 - Fri. 02/12 – Google Adds Pixel-Exclusive Photo Editing Features To Google Photos

• Google Photos gets new paywalled editing features for Google One subscribers (The Verge)
• First Apple TV+ AR app launches with ‘For All Mankind’ backstory through mixed reality (9to5Mac)
• Disney says it now has 94.9 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
• Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists (Above Avalon)
• Bumble stock closes up 63% after soaring in market debut (CNBC)

Thursday, February 11 2021 - Facebook Wants To Copy Clubhouse Too.

• Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (NYTimes)
• Microsoft approached Pinterest about a takeover (Financial Times)
• iOS 14.5 Beta Directs ‘Safe Browsing’ Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data (MacRumors)
• Bumble makes Wall Street debut in a milestone moment for female founders (CNN Business)
• NBCUniversal’s Streaming Strategy Raises Prospect of WarnerMedia Merger (The Information)
• Andreessen Horowitz Wins Deal for Creator Economy Startup Stir at $100 Million Valuation (The Information)
• Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen (Motherboard)

Wednesday, February 10 2021 - Wed. 02/10 – TikTok Pardoned By Biden?

• TikTok Sale to Oracle, Walmart Is Shelved as Biden Reviews Security (WSJ)
• Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on (The Verge)
• Apple reportedly developing next-gen ultra-thin displays for AR devices with TSMC (The Verge)
• How Did A LeBron James Video Highlight Sell For $71,455? A Look At A Burgeoning Product Called NBA Top Shot. (Forbes)
• Biggest Ever NFT Sale Made as ‘Axie Land’ Goes for $1.5 Million (Decrypt)
• Microsoft launches Bulletins and Milestones apps for Teams (Windows Central)
• Apple Maps Adds Waze-Like Features in iOS 14.5 for Crowdsourcing Accidents, Speed Traps and Hazards (MacRumors)
• Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? (Vice)

Tuesday, February 09 2021 - Tue. 02/09 – Amazon To Release An Alexa ‘Command Center?’

• Amazon Plans Wall-Mounted Echo as Smart Home Command Center (Bloomberg)
• This may be our first look at Android 12, Google’s next Android OS (XDA)
• Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round (WSJ)
• Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations (The Verge)
• Qualcomm’s new X65 5G modem downloads data at lightning-fast 10Gbps speeds (CNet)
• The Rust programming language just took a huge step forwards (ZDNet)
• Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City’s Water Supply, Police Say (Motherboard)

Monday, February 08 2021 - Mon. 02/08 – Tesla Buys Bitcoin While Elon Sends Dogecoin To The Moon!

• Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (CNBC)
• Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (TechCrunch)
• Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia (Bloomberg)
• Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content (Bloomberg)
• TikTok takes on Facebook with US ecommerce push (FT)
• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective (Platformonomics)
• Xiaomi’s global Mi 11 has a Snapdragon 888 for €749 (The Verge)

Saturday, February 06 2021 - (Bonus) Office Hours With Garry Tan

No show links for this episode ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Friday, February 05 2021 - Fri. 02/05 – An Apple Ad-pocalypse For Everyone?

• Facebook’s not the only one worried about Apple’s privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it (CNBC)
• An Interview with Eric Seufert about Apple, Facebook, and Mobile Advertising (Stratechery)
• Google taps your phone cameras to measure your heart rate (Engadget)
• Chinese flock to freewheeling US chat app Clubhouse (Nikkei Asia)
• Ford says ‘millions’ of its vehicles will run on Google’s Android starting in 2023 (The Verge)
• Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage (FT)

Thursday, February 04 2021 - Thu. 02/04 – The Most Details On Apple’s AR/VR Headset Yet

• New Apple Mixed-Reality Headset Details: Swappable Headbands, Eye-Tracking (The Information)
• Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car (CNBC)
• Kuo: iPhone 13 Now More Likely to Get Upgraded Ultra Wide Camera With Improved Low-Light Performance (MacRumors)
• Amazon is using AI-equipped cameras in delivery vans and some drivers are concerned about privacy (CNBC)
• Klobuchar to Introduce Antitrust Bill Raising Bar for Technology Deals (WSJ)
• The Technology 202: Klobuchar’s new antitrust bill may hit Big Tech where it hurts (Washington Post)

Wednesday, February 03 2021 - Wed. 02/03 – Bezos Drops Mic

• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (Amazon)
• Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant (CNBC)
• Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (Amazon Investor Relations)
• Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)
• Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Facebook starts rolling out Messenger on Oculus headsets (Engadget)
• 60+ Oculus Quest Apps Made More Than $1 Million (UploadVR)
• Google Meet’s new ‘green room’ lets you do an audio / video pre-check (The Verge)
• Zoom adds virtual receptionists for when people start going back to the office (CNBC)

Tuesday, February 02 2021 - Tue. 02/02 – Ok, But Is Stadia Long For This World?

• Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus (Kotaku)
• Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results (TechCrunch)
• iOS 14.5 will let Apple Watch owners unlock iPhones while wearing a mask (Engadget)
• Uber buying booze delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion (Axios)
• Kuo: ‘Apple Car’ to use Hyundai’s E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible (Apple Insider)
• Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders (WSJ)
• Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices (WSJ)

Monday, February 01 2021 - Mon. 02/01 – Google Deadpools The Pixel Slate

• [Update: Final] Pixel Slate discontinued and removed from Google Store (9to5Google)
• Apple’s iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome on Windows is now available (9to5Google)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: There is ‘a big crisis right now’ for cybersecurity (Yahoo Finance)
• Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups,’ Now Plans Overhaul (WSJ)
• US police and fire departments partnering with Amazon’s Ring passes 2,000 (Financial Times)
• New Linux SUDO flaw lets local users gain root privileges (Bleeping Computer)
• Augmented Reality Gets Pandemic Boost (WSJ)
• Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit (TechCrunch)
• Recording of Musk on Clubhouse (Final Stand/YouTube)

Saturday, January 30 2021 - (Bonus) The First Gadgets Episode

• This Nifty Strap Lets You Control the Apple Watch With Gestures (Gizmodo)
• Sony reveals full details on its upcoming 360 Reality Audio speakers (Engadget)
• Sony’s new premium speaker looks like a giant electric razor (Android Police)
• LG TO REINFORCE INDUSTRY DOMINANCE WITH ULTIMATE TV TECHNOLOGY (LG Newsroom)
• LG’s 2021 TV lineup includes its brightest OLED ever (The Verge)
• This new module keeps Philips Hue bulbs connected even when the wall switch gets flipped (TechCrunch)
• Asus’ new Chromebook CX9 offers military-grade durability (The Verge)
• Asus ZenBeam Latte projector is as portable as a cup of coffee (SlashGear)
• Razer Unveils RGB Face Mask and Immersive Gaming Chair Concepts (IGN)
• Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 i bakes a bigger, better e-ink touchscreen into the lid (SlashGear)
• TCL 20 5G and TCL 20 SE are new affordable smartphones for entertainment (GSMArena)
• Vuzix’s new microLED smart glasses look like tech you’d actually want to wear on your face (The Verge)
• Vuzix’s new microLED-powered smart glasses will arrive this summer (TechCrunch)
• This is Sony’s Airpeak drone (The Verge)
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• Linksys unveils a next-gen router that senses motion in your home (CNET)
• Western Digital SSDs (AnAndTech)
• YSL’s lipstick pod gadget will create whatever shade you want (The Verge)
• Samsung’s new robot vacuum uses lidar and empties its own bin like a fancy Roomba (CNET)
• How Samsung’s JetBot 90 AI+ Reimagines Cleaning (Samsung Newsroom)

Friday, January 29 2021 - Fri. 01/29 – Robinhood Is Now The Crazy Stock Story

• Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors (NYTimes)
• Facebook is said to be planning newsletter tools to court independent writers. (NYTimes)
• Hyundai wrestles with the risks of embracing Apple (Reuters)
• SEC scrutiny delays Roblox stock market listing (CNBC)

Thursday, January 28 2021 - Thu. 01/28 – Robinhood Freezes Stonks!

• Robinhood restricts trading in GameStop, other names involved in frenzy (CNBC)
• How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon (Bloomberg)
• WallStreetBets Founder Reckons With Legacy Amid Stock-Market Frenzy (WSJ)
• ‘Smack It Like E. Honda’: Buying NFTs for Pleasure and Profit (CoinTalk)
• Mark Zuckerberg says Apple is now one of Facebook’s biggest competitors (CNBC)
• Facebook Preps Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (The Information)
• Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Feature will be enabled by default and arrive in ‘early spring’ on iOS (TechCrunch)
• Tesla disappoints Wall Street despite strong profits (CNN Business)
• Facebook’s ‘Oversight Board’ overturns 4 cases in first rulings (NBC News)

Wednesday, January 27 2021 - Wed. 01/27 – Introducing The Ride Home+ Premium Feed

• Microsoft profits jump 33 percent as pandemic continues shift to cloud computing. (NYTimes)
• AT&T Q4: HBO Max Activations Double to 17.2 Million, Warner Bros. Revenue Declines 21% (Variety)
• Apple fixes another three iOS zero-days exploited in the wild (ZDNet)
• Apple just had its best quarter in India (TechCrunch)
• YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years (The Verge)
• Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games (The Verge)
• Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, January 26 2021 - Tue. 01/26 – Twitter Acquires Revue

• Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (Axios)
• Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation (NBC News)
• Google warns of ‘novel social engineering method’ used to hack security researchers (The Verge)
• Dan Riccio Transitioning to New Project, John Ternus to Lead Apple’s Hardware Engineering Team (MacRumors)
• Sony’s creator-focused Xperia Pro arrives in the US priced at $2,499 (The Verge)
• Americans spend average of $47 a month on streaming services (The Desk)
• 5G boxes are coming to people’s homes, whether they want them or not (The Verge)

Monday, January 25 2021 - Mon. 01/25 – Clubhouse Raises A New Round At $1B Valuation

• Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (TechCrunch)
• Big Revolution - Inside the Clubhouse (Big Revolution)
• Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites (Engadget)
• Google Maps and Search to show COVID-19 vaccination locations (LaptopMag)
• Exclusive: Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable (The Verge)
• Apple officially launches new ‘Time to Walk’ feature for Apple Watch and Fitness+ (9to5Mac)
• Apple warns iPhone 12 and MagSafe accessories can interfere with medical devices (Silicon Angle)
• SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (CNBC)
• When SPACs Attack! A New Force Is Invading Wall Street. (WSJ)

Saturday, January 23 2021 - (Bonus) Harvard’s Top Astronomer Avi Loeb On Oumuamua

• Netgear.com/bestwifi
• Metalab.co

Friday, January 22 2021 - Fri. 01/22 – Alphabet Sends Loon To The Deadpool

• Alphabet Pops Loon’s Balloons—but Won’t Call It a Failure (Wired)
• Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead (The Guardian)
• Apple Plans Thinner MacBook Air With Magnetic Charger in Mac Lineup Reboot (Bloomberg)
• Plaid Shareholders Field Offers at $15 Billion After Merger Collapse (The Information)

Thursday, January 21 2021 - Thu. 01/21 – Mark Gurman Dishes On The Apple VR Headset

• Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses (Bloomberg)
• LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021 (The Verge)
• Amazon sends letter to President Biden, says it is ‘ready to assist’ with U.S. vaccination efforts (GeekWire)
• Facebook refers Trump ban to independent Oversight Board for review (Axios)
• Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio (The Verge)
• Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app (The Verge)
• WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 20 2021 - Wed. 01/20 – A16Z To Get Into The Media Business?

• Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication as Its Media Ambition Grows (The Information)
• The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (Newcomer)
• Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski (Engadget)
• Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol (ZDNet)
• Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth, considers share buybacks (CNBC)
• Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year (TechCrunch)
• Intel Problems (Stratechery)
• Twitter Thread on the Intel stuff

Tuesday, January 19 2021 - Tue. 01/19 – Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 870

• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 870 reheats the Snapdragon 865 for 2021 phones (The Verge)
• Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round (TechCrunch)
• India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’ (TechCrunch)
• 5G Rivals Face an $81 Billion Tab After Spectrum Buying Spree (WSJ)
• DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time (ZDNet)
• Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced (The Guardian)
• CES 2021: A deep breath for the smart home to determine its future (Stacey On IOT)

Saturday, January 16 2021 - (Bonus) Interesting Raise Episode 1!

• Hipcamp, ‘Airbnb of the Outdoors,’ Raises $57 Million (The Information)
• Local news app News Break raises $115M (TechCrunch)
• Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs (TechCrunch)
• Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports (TechCrunch)
• Graphcore raises $222M for its ultrafast AI chips (SiliconAngle)
• AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $22M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights (TechCrunch)
• Fintech startup Oxygen raises $17M in Series A round (SiliconAngle)
• AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables (VentureBeat)
• WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)

Friday, January 15 2021 - Fri. 01/15 – Are We Really Getting the MacBook of My Dreams?

• Kuo details 2021 MacBook Pro: new design with squared-off sides, MagSafe connector and IO return, Touch Bar removed (9to5Mac)
• Apple Plans Upgraded MacBook Pros With Return of Magnetic Charging (Bloomberg)
• Online clothing reseller Poshmark closes up more than 140% on first day of trading (CNBC)
• Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants (The Verge)
• Galaxy Book Flex2: Samsung’s first 5G laptop has an 11th-gen Intel Processor (Digital Trends)
• Shares in China’s Xiaomi tumble after US investment ban (Financial Times)

Thursday, January 14 2021 - Thu. 01/14 – Samsung Unpacked Brings The New Galaxy S21 Lineup

• SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, S21 PLUS, AND S21 ULTRA FIRST LOOK: POLISHED DESIGN (AND PRICES) (The Verge)
• The Galaxy S21 Ultra packs two telephoto lenses and supports the S Pen (Engadget)
• Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag is a $29.99 Tile competitor (The Verge)
• Max Levchin’s Affirm pops nearly 100% in market debut (CNBC)
• Asus’ 2021 laptop line includes two new dual-screen ZenBooks (The Verge)
• BMW’s Digital Key Plus will let iPhones unlock the iX from a pocket or bag (The Verge)
• Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 13 2021 - Wed. 01/13 – The Visa/Plaid Merger Is Called Off

• Visa Abandons Planned Acquisition of Plaid After DOJ Challenge (WSJ)
• Qualcomm eyes challenge to Apple, Intel with $1.4 billion deal for chip startup (Reuters)
• Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him (CNBC)
• AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinix and EPYC (AnandTech)
• Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived (Gizmodo)
• Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (Gizmodo)
• Exclusive: Apple held talks with EV startup Canoo in 2020 (The Verge)
• WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 12 2021 - Tue. 01/12 – Intel Unveils New Core i9-11900K Flagship Chip

• Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1 (AnandTech)
• Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick (The Verge)
• Walmart to create fintech start-up with investment firm behind Robinhood (CNBC)
• Aptiv unveils new self-driving platform with wireless upgrades (Reuters)
• GM unveils electric delivery van with 250 miles of range as part of new spinoff business (The Verge)
• Parler sues Amazon, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations (The Verge)
• Following Trump Ban, Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Company-Branded Apparel (The Information)
• LG’s Rollable phone is real and launching in 2021 (The Verge)

Monday, January 11 2021 - Mon. 01/11 – All Of Tech Kills Parler

• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service (Buzzfeed)
• Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business (Deadline)
• San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters (TechCrunch)
• HP launches new Envy 14 laptop, Elite Folio 2-in1 tablet, and new… earbuds? (Android Authority)
• Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses can show up to five virtual displays (Engadget)
• HyperX made its first 60-percent mechanical gaming keyboard (The Verge)
• WHY CHAMBERLAIN BUILT A $3,000 AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR FOR YOUR DOG (The Verge)

Friday, January 08 2021 - Fri. 01/08 – An Apple/Hyundai Car?

• Hyundai Motor says it’s in early talks with Apple to develop a car, sends shares soaring 19% (CNBC)
• SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs (Financial Times)
• Encrypted Messaging App Signal Sees Surge in Popularity Following WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update (MacRumors)
• Roku TV Was the Top Selling Smart TV OS in 2020 (The Streamable)
• A New Service Seeks to Streamline Your Streaming (WSJ)
• ‘TV Remote’ is an app that turns your iPhone into a universal control for your TV (9to5Mac)

Thursday, January 07 2021 - Thu. 01/07 – Yes, There’s A Tech Angle To Yesterday’s Events…

• Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill (NYTimes)
• Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (NYTimes)
• SuperData: Games grew 12% to $139.9 billion in 2020 amid pandemic (VentureBeat)
• Wi-Fi industry launches next-gen 6E certification, and new devices are up next (CNET)
• Democrats have won the Senate. Here’s what it means for tech. (Protocol)
• Mercedes-Benz unveils its absolutely massive 56-inch ‘Hyperscreen’ display (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 06 2021 - Wed. 01/06 – New GPT-3 Models Can Generate Images From Text

• This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review)
• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog)
• Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay (Reuters)
• WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook (XDA-Developers)
• CIRP: iPhone 12 sales strong at launch, but iPhone 12 mini ‘likely disappointed Apple’ (9to5Mac)
• Players in Eve Online broke a world record — and then the game itself (Polygon)
• Cameo launches hiring spree following banner year (Axios)

Tuesday, January 05 2021 - Tue. 01/05 – US Banks Can Now Issue Stablecoins

• US regulator: Federally chartered banks can facilitate stablecoin payments, issue their own (The Block)
• Twitter acquires social podcasting app Breaker, team to help build Twitter Spaces (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ app leaks online (The Verge)
• Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years (CNBC)
• Kuo: Apple to Unveil AirTags, Augmented Reality Device, and More in 2021 (MacRumors)
• Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Has Been Missing For 2 Months (ZeroHedge)
• Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations (ZDNet)
• Dell built a range of monitors for video conferencing (Engadget)
• Dell’s new Latitude 9000 laptops feature an automatic webcam shutter (Engadget)

Monday, January 04 2021 - Mon. 01/04 – Some Google Workers Say Union YES!

• Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union (TechCrunch)
• Samsung officially confirms Galaxy S21 event for January 14th (The Verge)
• Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’ (The Verge)
• Google and Snap in talks to invest in India’s ShareChat (TechCrunch)
• Trade-in site Gazelle is ending trade-ins (The Verge)
• Apple will let Amphetamine app stay in the App Store after wrongly telling developer it violated App Store rules (The Verge)
• This LG display transforms from flat to curved for immersive gaming (The Verge)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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?

• Beijing launches antitrust investigation into Alibaba (Financial Times)
• China Tells Ant to Return to Its Payment Roots, Places Curbs (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba Probe Stirs Global Worry on What’s Next for Chinese Tech (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: Apple Car Still in Early Stages, Unlikely to Launch Until 2025-2027 at Earliest (MacRumors)
• Drone-Crowded Skies Get One Step Closer With U.S. Security Rules (Bloomberg)
• Search engine start-ups try to take on Google (Financial Times)
• Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. (WSJ)

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

• Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes ‘next level’ battery technology - sources (Reuters)
• Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft Lawsuit Says (WSJ)
• U.S. vs. Facebook: Inside the tech giant’s behind-the-scenes campaign to battle back antitrust lawsuits (Washington Post)
• Ripple says it will be sued by the SEC, in what the company calls a parting shot at the crypto industry (Fortune)
• Dailyhunt is India’s latest unicorn after backing from Microsoft, Google, others
• Ouster, maker of self-driving tech, agrees $1.9 billion deal to go public (Reuters)
• SoftBank launches blank-check company to join SPAC craze (CNBC)
• IAC shares jump after Vimeo spinoff announcement (CNBC)
• The bizarre case of the sexy butt-flap onesie that has taken over the internet (Business Insider)

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

• Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem (CNBC)
• Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads (Bloomberg)
• Apple Responds to Facebook’s Anti-Tracking Criticism, Says Users Deserve Control and Transparency (MacRumors)
• Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple (WSJ)
• Facebook criticizes Apple as it welcomes Europe’s new tech rules (CNBC)
• EU approves Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, subject to conditions (CNBC)
• HBO Max Is Launching on Roku, After Device Maker and WarnerMedia Finally Bury the Hatchet (Variety)
• Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy (Wired)
• Substack launches an RSS reader to organize all your newsletter subscriptions (The Verge)

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

• Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines (WSJ)
• FTC orders Amazon, Facebook and others to explain how they collect and use personal data (CNBC)
• U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack (Reuters)
• Experimental “Faraday fabric” blocks almost all electromagnetic waves (New Atlas)
• German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor (TechCrunch)
• Ford’s New Mustang Mach-E Owes a Lot to Tesla (Debugger)

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

• VistaPrint.com/techmeme
• TinyCapital.com

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

• The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp (The Verge)
• Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History (Facebook Newsroom)
• Airbnb shares set to double in IPO — likely to be worth nearly $93 billion (CNBC)
• Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion (Polygon)
• Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion (Gizmodo)
• Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)

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?

• Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs (Bloomberg)
• Wish plans to price between $22 and $24 per share at up to $14 billion valuation (CNBC)
• Airbnb Boosts IPO Price Range to Between $56 and $60 a Share (WSJ)
• Sequoia Capital Warned of a ‘Black Swan.’ Instead, 2020 Is One of Its Best Years Ever (Bloomberg)
• Exclaimer raises $133 million to help companies manage email signatures (VentureBeat)
• DRONES ARE POISED TO RESHAPE HOME DESIGN (WSJ)
• Disney faces digital dilemma despite streaming success (Financial Times)

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

• ProtonMail.com/techmeme
• VistaPrint.com/techmeme
• DoubleUp.agency

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 (Financial Times)
• Techmeme Snapshot of re:Invent headlines
• Wyze announces $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life (The Verge)
• Looking Glass’s next product is a holographic digital photo frame (TechCrunch)

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

• VistaPrint.com/techmeme
• Netgear.com/bestwifi

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

• Canva.me/ride
• Metalab.co

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 (Financial Times)
• TikTok Parent ByteDance Seeks to Raise Cash at $180 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Razer’s first mainstream laptop still has an RGB keyboard (Engadget)
• XBOX SERIES X REVIEW: A NEXT-GEN PC (The Verge)

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

• Uber, Lyft Win California Bid to Keep Drivers as Contractors (Bloomberg)
• Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data (Engadget)
• Wish Spotify streamed on Apple Watch? The time has arrived for many (9to5Mac)
• China Tells Ant It Can’t Go Public Until Capital Shortfall Fixed (Bloomberg)
• Comcast, Walmart in Talks to Develop and Distribute Smart TVs (WSJ)
• Canada to Force Netflix, Amazon Prime to Pay for Local Content (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality (WSJ)

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” (ArsTechnica)
• 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 (Financial Times)
• Tencent claims record 100M daily users on mobile game Honor of Kings (TechCrunch)
• What it’s like to get locked out of Google indefinitely (Business Insider)

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?

• Apple’s iPhone 12 seems to have a secret reverse wireless charging feature (The Verge)
• Apple develops alternative to Google search (Financial Times)
• Microsoft Q1 Earnings Release
• Republicans Accuse Zuckerberg and Dorsey of Censorship: Live Updates (NYTimes)
• Visa’s Planned Purchase of Plaid Faces Antitrust Scrutiny at the Justice Department (WSJ)
• SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail (CNBC)
• Whoop Valued at $1.2 Billion With IVP, SoftBank, Eli Manning Backing (Bloomberg)

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?

• Apple Developing Smaller AirPods Pro, Revamped Entry-Level Model (Bloomberg)
• Facebook launches cloud games but says Apple won’t allow it on iOS (CNBC)
• Ant Group to raise $34.5 billion, valuing it at over $313 billion, in biggest IPO of all time (CNBC)
• Ant Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O. (NYTimes)
• SAP Shares Collapse After Lockdowns Force Cuts to Revenue (Bloomberg)
• Fix, or Toss? The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Gains Ground (NYTimes)
• Deleting Facebook Also Deletes Oculus Purchases And Account Information (UploadVR)
• Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest (WSJ)
• Americans Working From Home Face Internet Usage Limits (WSJ)

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

• BitTrustIRA.com/techmeme
• Monday.com/ride
• NewYorker.com/techmeme

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)
• iPhone 12 mini has 2,227 mAh battery, new models will likely be assembled in Brazil and India [U] (9to5Mac)
• Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra leaked in full, confirms January 2021 launch (AndroidCentral)
• The British Company That’s Bringing Augmented Reality to Your Windshield (Bloomberg)
• Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms might soon be a bit less mysterious (Fast Company)
• Japan to join forces with U.S., Europe in regulating Big Tech firms: antitrust watchdog head (Reuters)
• Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak (WSJ)

Saturday, October 17 2020 - (Bonus) What Is DeFi? With CoinDesk’s Brady Dale

No show links for this episode ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 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 Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12
• Techmeme Headline Cluster About the iPhone 12 mini
• PC shipments climb in Q3, Gartner and IDC report(ZDNet)
• The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage (NYTimes)
• Disney says its ‘primary focus’ for entertainment is streaming — announces a major reorg (CNBC)
• Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail (The Verge)

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?

• Microsoft told employees it plans to release a browser-based app for the Xbox Game Pass streaming service next year that will get around Apple App Store rules: ‘We absolutely will end up on iOS’ (BusinessInsider)
• Microsoft app store playbook swipes at Apple, Google (Axios)
• AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx (WSJ)
• Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers (Bloomberg)
• Google Assistant finally works with some third-party apps (Engadget)
• Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable (ArsTechnica)

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

• House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes (CNBC)
• House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups (NYTimes)
• Facebook completely bans QAnon and labels it a ‘militarized social movement’ (The Verge)
• SK Hynix Launches World’s First DDR5 DRAM Modules Rated At 4.8 Gbps And Beyond (HotHardware)
• Shogun raises $35M to help brands take on Amazon with faster and better sites of their own (TechCrunch)
• This extremely slippery VR treadmill could be your next home gym (The Verge)

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

• Tesla delivered 139,300 vehicles in the third quarter, smashing its previous record (The Verge)
• HP’s new Spectre x360 14 laptop has a 3:2 aspect ratio plus a Thunderbolt 4 port hiding in the corner (The Verge)
• Facebook will start surfacing some public group discussions in people’s News Feeds and search results (The Verge)
• Startup IonQ drastically ups the quantum computing ante (Fortune)

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.

• Trump Blesses Oracle’s TikTok Deal, Delays App Store Ban (Bloomberg)
• TikTok deal hit by confusion over who will own and control the app (FT)
• Judge halts Trump administration order banning WeChat from Apple and Google app stores (CNBC)
• Microsoft purchases Bethesda Softworks in industry-changing acquisition [Updated] (ArsTechnica)
• With $100M in funding, Playco is already a mobile gaming unicorn (TechCrunch)
• Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Resigns as Executive Chairman Amid Fraud Allegations (WSJ)
• Nikola’s chairman steps down, stock crashes following allegations of fraud (TechCrunch)
• Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon (TechCrunch)

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

• Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday (CNBC)
• Google pulls India’s Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations (TechCrunch)
• iOS 14 default app settings automatically reset to Mail and Safari after reboot (9to5Mac)
• Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone (The Verge)
• Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence (CNBC)

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 (Dan Primack/Axios)
• Snowflake IPO Spurs Flood of Wealth for Silicon Valley Elite (Bloomberg)
• ‘Helping people discover information’: How Red Ventures grew into a giant (Digiday)
• Sit Like an Apple Engineer in This 70s-Era British Office Chair (Gear Patrol)

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
• 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)?

• Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S., Beating Microsoft (WSJ)
• It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40 Billion To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut (Forbes)
• Verizon to Buy TracFone in Deal Valued at Up to $7 Billion (WSJ)
• Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features (TechCrunch)
• Feds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds (The Verge)
• The LG Wing’s twisting screen offers a new spin on the dual-screen smartphone (The Verge)

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

• Russia, China and Iran launched cyberattacks on presidential campaigns, Microsoft says (NBC News)
• Epic says that Sign in with Apple for Fortnite will still work after all (iMore)
• ‘Apple One’ subscription bundle confirmed by Apple Music for Android ahead of Sept. 15 event (9to5Google)
• A $200 Million Seed Valuation for Roam Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps (The Information)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• Intel announces its new 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, available on laptops this fall (The Verge)
• Qualcomm promises better AI for its next Snapdragon PC chip (Engadget)
• China to Plan Sweeping Support for Chip Sector to Counter Trump (Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm hopes to topple AirPods Pro with ‘adaptive’ noise cancellation for true wireless earbuds (The Verge)
• The first battery-free Game Boy wants to power a gaming revolution (CNET)

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

• Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold2 packs a bigger 120Hz folding glass screen, Snapdragon 865+, and more (Android Police)
• ZTE unveils the Axon 20 5G, the first phone with an under-display camera (Engadget)
• Apple Preparing 75 Million 5G iPhones Alongside New Watches and iPad (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: mmWave 5G iPhone Shipments Likely to Be Weaker Than Expected in 2020-21 (MacRumors)
• Facebook Could Block Sharing of News Stories in Australia (NYTimes)
• Walmart+ launches Sept 15, offering same-day delivery, gas discounts and cashierless checkout for $98/yr (TechCrunch)
• Zoom shares soar after revenue more than quadruples from last year (CNBC)

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/The Warzone)
• Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market (Bloomberg)
• Jack Ma’s Ant Fuels Tech IPO Frenzy Not Seen Since Dotcom Bubble (Bloomberg)

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 2021 (Bloomberg)
• Nintendo reportedly releasing upgraded Switch next year (The Verge)
• Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite (The Verge)
• iRobot is giving its vacuum cleaners a new AI-powered brain (The Verge)
• TSMC Details 3nm Process Technology: Full Node Scaling for 2H22 Volume Production (AnandTech)
• Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC (Above The Crowd/Bill Gurley)

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

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• 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

• Epic says Apple threatens ‘catastrophic’ response in two weeks if Fortnite doesn’t comply with rules (The Verge)
• Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations (Financial Times)
• Apple Gives Users More Time to Buy AppleCare After Sales Slow (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Bets on Office-Based Work With Expansion in Major Cities (WSJ)
• Uber and Lyft Consider Franchise-Like Model in California (NYTimes)
• Facebook and NYU use artificial intelligence to make MRI scans four times faster (The Verge)

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

• Google says Australian news rule threatens free search services (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace, say sources (Reuters)
• ZTE’s Axon 20 5G smartphone will have the first under-display camera (Engadget)
• Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You (Steve Yegge)
• Results day is a diversity disaster. Here’s all the proof you need (Wired)
• Our Long, Arduous Attempt To Watch ‘Cocoon,’ And Why Some Classic Movies Seemingly Just Vanish (UpRoxx)

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
• 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!

• MICROSOFT’S SURFACE DUO ARRIVES ON SEPTEMBER 10TH FOR $1,399 (The Verge)
• Microsoft Surface Duo’s dual-screen hinge design is already winning me over (CNET)
• Microsoft to launch Xbox Series X in November (The Verge)
• Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California if it’s forced to classify drivers as employees (CNBC)
• Apple supplier Foxconn’s profit beats view, sees smartphone demand off lows (Reuters)
• Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley (Recode)
• Mozilla Corporation to Lay Off 250 Staff (Motherboard)
• Xiaomi reveals its transparent 55-inch TV (CNET)
• Xiaomi’s see-through OLED TV is a transparent attempt at attention, and it’s working (The Verge)

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)
• SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month (CNBC)
• Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? (Electrek)
• Onyx Launches a 6-Inch Color E-Reader (PCMag)

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

• Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers (WSJ)
• TikTok To Sue Trump Administration Over Ban, As Soon As Tuesday (NPR)
• Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination (WSJ)
• Google gives Android TV developers instant apps, speech-to-text, and predictive typing (VentureBeat)
• Apple Takes Legal Action Against This Small Company’s Pear Logo [Update] (iPhone In Canada)
• On Your Next Psychedelic Journey, Let an App Be Your Guide (Wired)
• E Ink demos a folding e-reader that can also take notes (The Verge)

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?

• Nvidia in talks to buy Arm from SoftBank for more than $32bn (Financial Times)
• Facebook Is Set to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos (Bloomberg)
• Apple confirms short release delay for this year’s iPhones (Axios)
• Comment: Analysts half-right about AAPL’s Q3 … but so wrong! (9to5Mac)

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

• Watch Cook, Bezos, Pichai and Zuckerberg testify in Big Tech antitrust hearing — live updates and analysis (CNBC)
• Google in Talks to Take Over More Search Tasks on Samsung Phones (Bloomberg)
• AMC and Universal agree to let movies go from theaters to digital rentals much sooner (The Verge)
• Exclusive: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50 billion in takeover bid - sources (Reuters)
• Shopify shares jump 7% after hot e-commerce company says second-quarter revenue increased 97% (CNBC)

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 (Financial Times)

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
• Video Example 2

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?

• SoftBank Explores Sale or IPO for Chip Designer Arm Holdings (WSJ)
• SoftBank hires Goldman Sachs to explore sale options for chip designer Arm after getting inbound interest, sources say (CNBC)
• U.K. to Ban Huawei From Its 5G Networks Amid China-U.S. Tensions (WSJ)
• Huawei posts revenue growth in H1 despite sanctions and pandemic (TechCrunch)
• Google Is in Advanced Talks to Invest $4 Billion in Jio Platforms (Bloomberg)
• Walmart leads $1.2 billion investment in India’s Flipkart (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s new smart shopping cart lets you check out without a cashier (The Verge)
• Google Cloud steps up privacy, security with Confidential VMs and Assured Workloads (ZDNet)
• Google Cloud’s new BigQuery Omni will let developers query data in GCP, AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)

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

• Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to Include 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air This Year, 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro Models Next Year (MacRumors)
• Apple Reaches New Stage in Development of AR Devices (The Information)
• NBCUniversal’s Peacock is unlikely to reach deals with Amazon and Roku by July 15 launch (CNBC)
• PC shipments grew 3-11% in Q2 2020 despite coronavirus (VentureBeat)

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 (Financial Times)
• Spotify brings its Premium Duo plan to the US, UK and dozens more countries (updated) (Engadget)
• YouTube TV hikes price to $64.99 per month following new channel additions (TechCrunch)
• Apple races to push ahead with 5G iPhone mass production (Nikkei Asian Review)
• Apple Cancels Some Arcade Games in Strategy Shift To Keep Subscribers (Bloomberg)
• Google Pushes Back U.S. Office Reopening Plan After Virus Surge (Bloomberg)
• Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched (TechCrunch)

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

• Amazon to buy self-driving technology company Zoox (CNBC)
• Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores (CNBC)
• Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram (CNBC)
• TikTok says it will stop accessing clipboard content on iOS devices (The Verge)

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

• ‘The money’s gone’: Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion (Reuters)
• Google will start paying publishers to license content (Axios)
• Google will now auto-delete location and search history by default for new users (The Verge)
• Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products (GeekWire)
• Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval (Forbes)
• SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma Part Ways (Bloomberg)
• Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps (CNBC)
• Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good (The Verge)
• Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 (NYTimes)

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 - 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 (Financial Times)
• 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 (Financial Times)
• 6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple (WBZ Boston)
• Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics (Wired)

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

• A new email startup says Apple’s shaking it down for a cut of its subscriptions (Protocol)
• BASECAMP’S NEW APP, HEY, FLAGGED IN APP STORE LIMBO FOR NOT USING IN-APP PURCHASE (Daring Fireball)
• Hey.com exec says Apple is acting like ‘gangsters,’ rejecting App Store updates and demanding cut of sales (The Verge)
• Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse (The Verge)
• Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices (USA Today)
• Uber to Sell Software, Starting With Four-Van Transit Service (Bloomberg)
• TikTok owner ByteDance first-quarter revenue soared to around $5.6 billion (Reuters)
• Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation (TechCrunch)

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
• 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

• Apple launches new 0% Apple Card financing for iPad, Mac, AirPods, and more (9to5Mac)
• Shopify Advances After Deal With Walmart Expands Its Reach (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Says Jeff Bezos Is Willing to Testify Before Congress (NYTimes)
• Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones (WSJ)
• Coronavirus contact tracing apps were tech’s chance to step up. They haven’t. (NBC News)
• Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman Struggle With Their Startup—and Each Other (WSJ)
• SoftBank invests in Credit Suisse funds that finance its technology bets (Financial Times)

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

• Amazon to Face Antitrust Charges From EU Over Treatment of Third-Party Sellers (WSJ)
• Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year (CNBC)
• Uber and Lyft drivers are employees, California regulatory agency finds (NBC News)
• Just Eat Takeaway to Buy Grubhub for $7.3 Billion to Enter U.S. (Bloomberg)
• ‘Master’ and ‘slave’: Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts (CNET)
• Adobe launches Photoshop Camera, a free app with tons of elaborate face filters (The Verge)
• API development platform Postman nabs $150 million at a $2 billion valuation (VentureBeat)
• Scoop: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups (Axios)

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

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

• Zoom revenue grew 169% during the quarter, and the company doubled its revenue guidance for the year (CNBC)
• Zoom won’t encrypt free calls because it wants to comply with law enforcement (TNW)
• iOS 14 to include built-in translator in Safari, full Apple Pencil support on websites (9to5Mac)
• Google takes down ‘Remove China Apps’ from the Play Store (9to5Google)
• Brave passes 15 million monthly active users and 5 million daily active users, showing 2.25x MAU growth in the past year (Brave Browser)
• Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts (NYTimes)
• FC Barcelona Soccer Team Launches Digital Subscription Service (Variety)

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

• Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts (NYTimes)
• Facebook, Snapchat join chorus of companies condemning George Floyd death, racism (Reuters)
• Twilio, Box, Spotify, and Other Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Racism and Police Brutality; Others Stay Silent (The Plug)
• Facebook staff angry with Zuckerberg for leaving up Trump’s ‘looting … shooting’ post (CNBC)
• Zynga to Buy Peak for $1.8 Billion in Its Largest Deal Ever (Bloomberg)
• Samsung Access launches in the US w/ extended warranties, Microsoft 365, more (9to5Google)
• Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real (Science)
• Google delays next week’s Android 11 Beta release and virtual launch event (9to5Google)
• Sony confirms PS5 will have exclusive games playable only on next-gen hardware (The Verge)

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

• Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media platforms (Axios)
• ‘Rammed it through’: Trump’s Twitter order riles staffers and tech reformers (Protocol)
• Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump (NYTimes)
• The Two Things To Understand About Trump’s Executive Order On Social Media: (1) It’s A Distraction (2) It’s Legally Meaningless (TechDirt)
• Trump Executive Order Misreads Key Law Promoting Free Expression Online and Violates the First Amendment (The EFF)
• Scheduled tweets and tweet drafts are now available on Twitter’s website (Neowin)
• Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down (VentureBeat)
• The Rise of New Short-Form Video App Zynn Could Spell Trouble for TikTok (Social Media Today)

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)
• How a 20-year-old convinced Facebook’s former security chief to invest in his data privacy start-up (CNBC)

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)
• Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge (Bloomberg News)
• Walmart is shutting down Jet.com 4 years after buying the company for $3.3 billion (Business Insider)
• Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn’t Actually Chuck E. Cheese (Food & Wine)
• Introducing the World’s Largest Medical Repair Database, Free for Everyone (iFixIt)

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 - 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

• Twitter launches labels, warnings on misleading COVID-19 information (Reuters)
• Exclusive: AirPods Studio to feature head and neck detection, custom equalizer settings, more (9to5Mac)
• Apple releases ‘major’ update to Logic Pro X (AppleInsider)
• Microsoft’s VS Code 1.45 is out: GitHub integration plus JavaScript debugger update (ZDNet)
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (NYTimes)

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

• Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking (Wired)
• Qualcomm’s latest mobile gaming chip packs faster graphics and global 5G (Engadget)
• Eric Schmidt, who led Google’s transformation into a tech giant, has left the company (CNET)
• Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it (ZDNET)
• Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 (ZDNET)
• Apple plans gradual reopening of US retail stores beginning next week (9to5Mac)
• Apple to reopen stores in US starting next week (CNBC)
• Online Car Seller Vroom Files Confidentially for IPO (WSJ)

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

• Uber shares shoot up after CEO says ride volume is increasing again after April bottom (CNBC)
• UK may ditch NHS contact-tracing app for Apple and Google model (The Guardian)
• Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team (The Verge)
• Vista Equity Partners to invest $1.5B in India’s Reliance Jio Partners (TechCrunch)
• Developers say Google’s Go is ‘most sought after’ programming language of 2020 (ZDNET)
• This Apple Watch copycat is surprisingly good for just $18 (CNET)

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

• Zoom buys Keybase — its first acquisition — as part of 90-day plan to fix security flaws (CNBC)
• Google releases unscheduled Android 11 DP4 as first beta pushed back to next month (9to5Google)
• Google Authenticator app update finally lets you transfer two-factor codes between devices (AndroidCentral)
• Lyft shares jump 15% as company reports more riders than last year despite coronavirus (CNBC)
• How Lyft intends to navigate and survive Covid-19 (TechCrunch)
• Sonos debuts new Arc soundbar, next-generation Sonos Sub, and Sonos Five speaker (TechCrunch)
• How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet (Protocol)
• Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg (Wired)

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

• AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, COO Stankey to take over (CNBC)
• Google to cut marketing budgets by as much as half, directors warned of hiring freezes (CNBC)
• Google ditched tipping feature for donating money to sites (TechCrunch)
• Google will make all advertisers prove their identities, so people can see who they are and which country they’re in (CNBC)
• Apple Finds No Evidence Hackers Exploited iPhone, iPad Mail Flaw (Bloomberg)
• Tech companies pull back on hiring, flashing another grim warning sign for the U.S. economy (CNBC)

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 - Wed. 04/15 – New iPhone SE!

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

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

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
• 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!

• Google uses location data to show which places are complying with stay-at-home orders — and which aren’t (The Verge)
• In coronavirus fight, oft-criticized Facebook data aids U.S. cities, states (Reuters)
• PRIVACY EXPERTS SAY RESPONSIBLE CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE IS POSSIBLE (The Intercept)
• Exclusive: iPhone 9 launch imminent, 2020 ‘iPhone SE’ in red, white, and black with up to 256GB (9to5Mac)
• Tesla soars on delivery numbers – company delivered 88,400 vehicles in Q1 (CNBC)
• A third prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket bursts on the test stand (The Verge)
• Airbnb lowers internal valuation by 16% to $26bn (FT)
• HBO Will Stream 500 Hours of Free Programming, Including Full Seasons of ‘Veep,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ (Variety)

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
• 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
• More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America (NYTimes)
• Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch)
• Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge)
• Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg)
• iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg)
• Coronavirus: S’pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times)
• Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
• Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post)

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

• European mobile operators share data for coronavirus fight (Reuters)
• Taiwan’s new ‘electronic fence’ for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring (Reuters)
• Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak (Wired)
• Google’s coronavirus website finally launches alongside enhanced search results (The Verge)
• Google cancels I/O 2020 entirely in light of coronavirus (9to5Google)
• Kuo: Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization Coming to 6.7-Inch iPhone in 2020, Periscope Lens to Follow in 2022 (MacRumors)
• Facebook: 90% Of Quest Users For Christmas Were ‘Brand New’ To Oculus (UploadVR)
• Apple Acknowledges Personal Hotspot Issues Affecting Some iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Users (MacRumors)
• This is how you do that Zoom background thing everyone is talking about (CNET)

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 (Financial Times)
• Improved iPhone, AirPods availability suggests Chinese production nearing normality (Apple Insider)
• Music streaming may actually be falling because of coronavirus (QZ)
• Apple’s iPad Pro becomes more like a Surface, and that’s a problem for Microsoft (Windows Central)
• Steven Sinofsky tweet thread about the iPad

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)

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

• Robinhood goes down again, causing clients to miss out on another historic trading day (CNBC)
• Twitter CEO Dorsey keeps his job after company strikes investment deal with Elliott Management, Silver Lake (CNBC)
• Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus (Reuters)
• Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers (Reuters)
• SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’ (CNBC)
• Apple opens repair program for 2019 iPad Air models suffering from blank screen issue (AppleInsider)
• iPhone 12 Pro leak reveals how Apple will beat the Samsung Galaxy S20 (Tom’s Guide)
• New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture (AMD Responds) (Tom’s Hardware)
• ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? (Jean-Louis Gassee)
• How to Make Money in Your Sleep (NYTimes)

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?

• Waymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations (VentureBeat)
• Robinhood Trading Site Seizes Up, Customers Miss Stock Rally (Bloomberg)
• Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64 (ZDNet)
• Ampere Altra is the first 80-core ARM-based server processor (VentureBeat)
• iPhone Maker Expects China Plants to Return to Normal in Coming Weeks (Bloomberg)
• Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. (WSJ)
• Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW)
• NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer (The Verge)

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…

• Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft plans antivirus software for Android and iOS devices (CNBC)
• Twitter rolling out new ‘Continue thread’ option for connecting multiple tweets together (9to5Mac)
• Blue Chip Morgan Stanley to Buy Discount Broker E-Trade (NYTimes)
• Google launches Android 11 Developer Preview ahead of schedule for Pixel phones (9to5Google)
• Cord-Cutting Accelerated in 2019, Raising Pressure on Cable Providers (WSJ)

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

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

• Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet)
• Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (CNBC)
• Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts (Bloomberg)
• Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store (ZDNet)

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

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

• Uber stock is on pace for its best day ever (CNBC)
• ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels (CNBC)
• NYSE Owner Abandons Potential eBay Deal (WSJ)
• The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review (AnandTech)
• Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else (Recode)
• Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature (The Verge)

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

• Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge)
• New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac)
• Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge)
• Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge)
• Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch)
• Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC)
• The mysterious disappearance of Google’s click metric (ZDNet)
• Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC)
• U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters)

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 (Financial Times)
• Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg)
• Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst (Bloomberg)
• Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry (NYTimes)
• The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech (Recode)

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 (Financial Times)
• SoftBank Is Funding Every Side of a Bruising Startup Battle (WSJ)
• EU lawmakers snub Apple’s pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard (Apple Insider)
• How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok (TechCrunch)

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

• Tesla’s record 2019 has bought it some breathing room (The Verge)
• We’re about to enter a world where Tesla is the cheaper electric car (Quartz)
• Facebook plunges, wiping out more than $50 billion in market value (CNBC)
• Xbox revenue falls 21% as Microsoft gears up for Xbox Series X debut (GeekWire)
• Samsung Posts Lower Profit, Anticipates End of Chip Slump (WSJ)
• Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit (NYTimes)
• Avast winds down Jumpshot, cites user data sale privacy concerns (ZDNet)
• Nintendo upgrades fiscal-year forecast as Switch hits 52.5 million consoles sold (VentureBeat)
• Apple Hires Key Netflix Engineer in Bid to Boost Subscription Services (WSJ)
• Apple Ends AI Startup’s Work on ‘Project Maven’ After Acquisition (The Information)
• Kuo: Apple to Launch AirTags, Small Charging Mat, New iPads and Macs, High-End Headphones, and More in First Half of 2020 (MacRumors)
• Say hello to the new Fantastical: one robust calendar for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (9to5Mac)

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

• Apple shares rise after company reports better-than-expected revenue of $91.8B (TechCrunch)
• Apple could see some impact from coronavirus in China, Cook says (CNET)
• Google Developing New ‘Unified’ Communications App for Businesses (The Information)
• Interior Department Adopts Restrictions Aimed at Chinese Drones (WSJ)
• Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Doesn’t Clear Shit (Gizmodo)
• Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers (EFF)
• Lime knows when you’re riding on a sidewalk, and will warn you if you do (CNET)
• Here’s how to stop seeing ads on the internet without screwing over publishers (recode)

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. (Input Magazine)

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

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
• Google’s ads just look like search results now (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 22 2020 - The Bezos Phone Hacking Thing

• Jeff Bezos hack: Amazon boss’s phone ‘hacked by Saudi crown prince’ (The Guardian)
• Saudi’s MBS implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone (Financial Times)
• UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi crown prince involvement in Bezos phone hack (CNBC)
• New Low-Cost iPhone to Enter Mass Production in February (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Music subscriber numbers close in on Apple (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections (NPR)
• EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT CRUISE’S FIRST DRIVERLESS CAR WITHOUT A STEERING WHEEL OR PEDALS (The Verge)
• Netflix says Disney and Baby Yoda may have cut into the streaming service’s growth (Recode)

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

• Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources (Reuters)
• Uber Tests Feature Allowing Some California Drivers to Set Fares (WSJ)
• A true digital media publishing breakthrough (Axios)
• Spotify in Early Talks to Buy Sports and Pop-Culture Outlet the Ringer (WSJ)
• Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app (TechCrunch)
• DARPA-backed Soft Robotics raises $23 million for autonomous grippers and sorters (VentureBeat)
• Berlin proptech Home raises €11 million to be tech-enabled middleman between owners and tenants (Tech.eu)
• Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code (VentureBeat)
• Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll (Reuters)

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)

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

• Apple Said It Is Helping In The Pensacola Shooting Investigation, But It Won’t Unlock The Shooter’s iPhones (Buzzfeed News)
• Visa to acquire Plaid, the fintech powering Venmo and other banking apps, in $5.3 billion deal (CNBC)
• Epic says its PC game store now has more than 100 million users (The Verge)
• macOS beta hints at future ‘Pro Mode’ to boost performance on portable Macs (9to5Mac)
• PC shipments grew in 2019 ahead of bet on 5G and dual-screen devices (VentureBeat)
• Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday (KrebsOnSecurity)
• MICROSOFT BIDS FAREWELL TO WINDOWS 7 AND THE MILLIONS OF PCS THAT STILL RUN IT (The Verge)
• Free Windows 10 upgrade still works for many Windows 7 users. Here’s how to get it (CNET)
• (Potentially??) Free Windows 10 Upgrade Link

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

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

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) (The Hollywood Reporter)
• At CES 2020, the AirPods Pro competitors arrived in droves (The Verge)
• Sex-Tech Companies Are Having More Fun Than the Rest of Us at CES (Wired)

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

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/Medium)
• Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)

Monday, December 30 2019 - The Chinese GPS Is Nigh

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

Friday, December 27 2019 - All Hail Baby Yoda!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, December 13 2019 - The Next-Gen Xbox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, November 26 2019 - Amazon Prime Cuts

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

Monday, November 25 2019 - Deadpool Buys an MVNO

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

Friday, November 22 2019 - CYBERTRUCK!

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

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

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

Wednesday, November 20 2019 - Our 500th Episode!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, November 14 2019 - The Razr Returns!

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

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

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

Tuesday, November 12 2019 - Google Wants Your Medical Records

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

Monday, November 11 2019 - Apple Eyes An iPhone Replacement

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

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

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

Thursday, November 07 2019 - Alleged Spies Inside Twitter

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

Wednesday, November 06 2019 - Xerox Makes Some News!

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

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

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

Monday, November 04 2019 - Everyone Got a New Logo

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

Friday, November 01 2019 - Google Acquires Fitbit

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

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

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

Wednesday, October 30 2019 - HBO Max Deets

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

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

• Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
• Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft: Russian hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics (ZDNet)
• AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
• China to Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions (Bloomberg)
• Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use (TechCrunch)
• Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa (VentureBeat)
• New 13.2 Update Bricking Some HomePods [Update Pulled by Apple] (MacRumors)
• PlayStation Vue is Shutting Down Live TV Streaming Service in January (The Streamable)

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

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

Friday, October 25 2019 - Introducing Facebook News

• Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
• [Update: Google responds] Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile join forces to bring RCS to Android in 2020 (9to5Google)
• AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon)
• Behind AT&T’s plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters)

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

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

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

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

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

• Neumann to Get Up to $1.7 Billion to Exit WeWork as SoftBank Takes Control (WSJ)
• Verizon Will Give One Year of Disney Plus for Free to All Unlimited Wireless Customers (Variety)
• Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal (CNBC)
• Comcast’s ‘free’ streaming box actually requires an additional $13 / month fee (The Verge)
• Forty-six attorneys general have joined a New York-led antitrust investigation of Facebook (The Washington Post)
• The Pixel 4 supports fast wireless charging on any Qi charger [Updated] (AndroidCentral)
• Dark Mode in iOS 13 significantly helps iPhone battery life, robotic test shows [Video] (9to5Mac)

Monday, October 21 2019 - Review-A-Palooza

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, October 16 2019 - Twitter Gonna Twitter

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

Tuesday, October 15 2019 - The #MadeByGoogle Event

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

Monday, October 14 2019 - Apple’s Chinese Conundrum

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

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

• TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball)
• Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery] (9to5Google)
• Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
• Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company)
• NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
• Apple Launches In-House Studio With ‘Band of Brothers’/’The Pacific’ Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, October 07 2019 - macOS Catalina is Here!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, October 01 2019 - The Zuckerberg Tapes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, September 10 2019 - The iPhone 11 Event

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, September 05 2019 - Know When To Unfold Them

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

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

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

Tuesday, September 03 2019 - Foldable Phones Refuse To Die

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

Friday, August 30 2019 - The Worst iPhone Attack Ever

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, August 27 2019 - Anthony Levandowski Arrested

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

Monday, August 26 2019 - The Most Powerful Chromebooks Ever

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, August 21 2019 - The Bull Case For WeWork

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, August 12 2019 - Your 108 Megapixel Smartphone Camera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns (TechCrunch)
• Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe (The Verge)
• Amazon is going to kill your Dash button (CNET)
• Verizon overhauls its ‘unlimited’ offerings with four new plans and $5 price cuts (The Verge)

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

• Intel unveils its first 10th-gen laptop CPUs (Engadget)
• Bird’s new electric scooter has a better battery and anti-vandalism sensors (The Verge)
• Dongle life: Galaxy Note 10’s 3.5mm to USB-C adapter pictured in leak (SamMobile)
• Cloudflare Said To Pursue September IPO, We Say Heck Yes (Crunchbase News)
• Cisco to Pay $8.6 Million to Settle Government Claims of Flawed Tech (NYTimes)
• IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows (Bloomberg)
• Jeff Bezos Sells $2 Billion of Amazon Stock After 4% Stake Transfer (Bloomberg)
• Solar-sailing satellite proves it can use light to propel through space (The Verge)
• And Now, a Bicycle Built for None (NYTimes)
• Fortnite season X adds mech suits, a meteor, and ‘volatile rift zones’ (The Verge)

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

• Apple Reports Third Quarter Results (Apple PR)
• Samsung’s Q2 profit halved from low memory demand (ZDNet)
• Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 is its latest volley against the iPad Pro (The Verge)
• Spotify Grows to 108M Paid Subscribers Compared to Apple Music’s 60M (MacRumors)
• Facebook Approached Netflix, Disney to Support TV Chat Device (The Information)
• Amazon concedes market share in battle for online consumer goods sales (TalkBusiness.net)
• NOW EVEN FUNERALS ARE LIVESTREAMED—AND FAMILIES ARE GRATEFUL (Wired)

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

• Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications (Washington Post)
• Amazon’s cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn’t seem to be at fault (Business Insider)
• Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, surprising nobody (Android Police)
• Scientists create contact lenses that zoom on command (Engadget)
• Techstars raises $42 million from SVB and Foundry Group to accelerate its growth in Europe and beyond (Tech.eu)
• Israel’s New Top Unicorn: Monday.com Hits $1.9 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Raise (Forbes)
• Real estate platform Compass raises another $370M on a $6.4B valuation en route to an IPO (TechCrunch)
• PBS & PBS Kids Coming to YouTube TV Later This Year (The Streamable)
• The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around (Motherboard)

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

• (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4 (The KeyWord)
• GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Wants to Rule the Grocery Aisles, and Not Just at Whole Foods (NYTimes)
• China’s ByteDance, after Smartisan deal, says developing smartphone (Reuters)
• TikTok owner ByteDance confirms plans to produce a smartphone (The Verge)
• Europe’s top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins (TechCrunch)
• Just Eat £9bn merger plan sends shares soaring (The Guardian)
• Sony is crowdfunding a wearable ‘air conditioner’ (updated) (Engadget)
• Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, 16, wins Fortnite World Cup singles and $3 million (ESPN)

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

• T-Mobile and Sprint merger approved by Justice Department (The Verge)
• Apple and Goldman Sachs Credit Card Targeting August Launch Date (Bloomberg)
• Trump says Apple will not be given tariff waivers or relief for Mac Pro parts made in China (CNBC)
• Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business (The Verge)
• SoftBank CEO Takes More Control in New $108 Billion Vision Fund (Bloomberg)
• Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up. (NYTimes)

Thursday, July 25 2019 - The Galaxy Fold Lives!

• Samsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in September (The Verge)
• Apple Suppliers See Demand for New IPhones Stabilizing This Year (Bloomberg)
• Telsa reports larger-than-expected losses of $408 million in second quarter (TechCrunch)
• Facebook warns of costly privacy changes, discloses another U.S. probe (Reuters)
• DeepMind and Waymo collaborate to improve AI accuracy and speed up model training (Venture Beat)
• AT&T is launching another new streaming service this fall called AT&T TV (CNET)
• AT&T Chief: HBO Max Will ‘Ultimately’ Offer Live News, Sports (Variety)
• IKEA SYMFONISK review: Sonos speakers at IKEA prices (Gizmodo)
• Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review (IGN)
• NETFLIX’S THE GREAT HACK BRINGS OUR DATA NIGHTMARE TO LIFE (Wired)

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

• U.S. government issues stunning rebuke, historic $5 billion fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations (The Washington Post)
• Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight alternative to Google Photos (The Verge)
• GM’s Cruise delays driverless taxi service, plans to build country’s largest EV fast charger station (Venture Beat)
• Snap shares surge as results smash estimates (CNBC)
• DoorDash CEO announces that now your tips will go to delivery workers (Engadget)
• PLEX MAKES PIRACY JUST ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE (The Verge)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, April 09 2019 - Google Cloud Next Announcements

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

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

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

Friday, April 05 2019 - Alexa is Coming for AirPods

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

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

• Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers (TechCrunch)
• Inside Apple’s shaky plan to deliver a 5G iPhone in 2020 [Updated] (FastCompany)
• MIT suspends ties with China’s Huawei and ZTE (CNN Business)
• Apple drops HomePod price down to $299 (The Verge)
• Google launches Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking Bubbles, foldables emulator, and zoomable microphones (VentureBeat)
• Hundreds of thousands of ‘lost’ MySpace songs have been recovered (The Verge)
• Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation (GeekWire)
• Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart (Vox)
• THE PROBLEM WITH AI ETHICS (The Verge)
• Electric car battery with 600 miles of range? This startup claims to have done it (The Verge)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, March 28 2019 - Spotify Tests Subscriptions For Two

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, March 25 2019 - Apple Goes Hollywood!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, March 14 2019 - Facebook Under Criminal Investigation

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, March 11 2019 - How TikTok Is Different

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

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

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

Thursday, March 07 2019 - Facebook Pivots To Privacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, March 01 2019 - Lyft Files For Its IPO

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

Thursday, February 28 2019 - Make Any Day Amazon Day

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

Wednesday, February 27 2019 - TikTok Bigger Than Instagram?

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

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

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

Monday, February 25 2019 - Mobile World Congress Headlines

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

Friday, February 22 2019 - The Most Acquisitive Unicorns

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

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

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

Wednesday, February 20 2019 - Galaxy Fold!

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, February 15 2019 - FTC To Fine Facebook?

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, February 12 2019 - Amazon Buys Eero

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

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

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

Friday, February 08 2019 - The Jeff Bezos Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, February 05 2019 - Facebook Turns Fifteen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, January 29 2019 - The FaceTime Bug

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

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

• Apple Plans Gaming Subscription Service: Sources (Cheddar)
• A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ (NYTimes)
• China created a unicorn every 3.8 days in 2018 (South China Morning Post)
• China’s smartphone shipments dropped 14 percent in 2018 (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name (Bloomberg)
• Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complain claims (TechCrunch)
• AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee (IEEE Spectrum)

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

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

Thursday, January 24 2019 - Your Flying Car Is Here

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

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

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

Tuesday, January 22 2019 - Munchery Enters the Deadpool

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, January 15 2019 - Netflix Raises Prices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, January 09 2019 - Google Assistant Everywhere!

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

Tuesday, January 08 2019 - Smartphone Recession?

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, January 03 2019 - Apple-ocalypse Now?

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

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

• Activision Plans to Fire CFO Neumann, Puts Him on Paid Leave (Bloomberg)
• ROKU BREAKS FREE FROM BOXES AND TVS (Wired)
• Tesla slashes EV prices by $2,000 to offset reduced tax credits (Engadget)
• [Exclusive] Nokia 9 PureView Penta-camera Phone Revealed in Full Glory in First-ever Promo Video (Mysmartprice)
• Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study (Ars Technica)
• Popsugar’s Twinning app was leaking everyone’s uploaded photos (TechCrunch)
• HOW THE SURPRISE NEW INTERACTIVE BLACK MIRROR CAME TOGETHER (Wired)

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

• Instagram briefly switched to a horizontal feed and people freaked out (The Verge)
• Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, banked a $3 billion profit in 2018 (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: Foxconn to begin assembling top-end Apple iPhones in India in 2019 - source (Reuters)
• Tesla Taps Ellison, HR Expert to Prove Musk Is Reined In (Bloomberg)
• China ramps up global coverage for domestic Beidou satellite navigation system as rival to GPS (South China Morning Post)

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

• Amazon Says Alexa Voice Shopping Tripled During 2018 Holiday Season (Fortune)
• Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown (The Atlantic)
• Tesla’s Supercharger network will cover all of Europe in 2019 (Engadget)
• With Tech Expansion, Austin Is Still Weird. It’s Just More Wired Now, Too. (NYTimes)
• Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform (CJR)
• Movie Theaters Bounce Back: What’s Behind the 2018 Rebound (Variety)
• Watch the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, releasing Friday 28th on Netflix (The Verge)

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

• How a government shutdown affects America’s cybersecurity workforce (FifthDomain)
• In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (BoingBoing)
• Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams (Bloomberg)
• Layoffs Underway Amid ‘Adjustments,’ Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Confirms (CoinDesk)
• HQ Trivia launches HQ Words as reinstalled CEO seeks a game-changer (TechCrunch)
• Airbnb and Slack are considering untraditional IPOs that box out bankers like Spotify did (Recode)
• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (VentureBeat)

Friday, December 21 2018 - Facebook Goes Crypto

• Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
• At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from Silicon Valley employees (TechCrunch)
• Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Gets Promotion to Senior Vice President (MacRumors)
• Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test (LoopVentures)

Thursday, December 20 2018 - iPhone Bans and iPad Bends

• Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 Models in Germany While Appealing Broader Sales Ban [Updated] (MacRumors)
• Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal (The Verge)
• Justice Department charges Chinese nationals in ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign (CNBC)
• Uber’s self-driving cars return to public roads after fatal crash (CNET)
• Drones cause holiday chaos at one of London’s busiest airports (Engadget)
• Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights (BBC News)
• Pinterest Readies Itself for Early 2019 IPO (WSJ)
• FORTNITE KEEPS STEALING DANCES — AND NO ONE KNOWS IF IT’S ILLEGAL (The Verge)

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

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

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

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

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

• Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg)
• Google Details Major New York Expansion (WSJ)
• Colin Kroll, 34, HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder, Is Found Dead (NYTimes)
• We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head (Forbes)
• Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
• Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla (The Verge)
• My Talk at Google (Me)

Friday, December 14 2018 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiry

• Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats worldwide, causing evacuations (The Verge)
• Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos to apps (TechCrunch)
• Irish regulator to investigate Facebook after new data leak (Financial Times)
• Apple Says China iPhone Ban Would Force Settlement With Qualcomm (Bloomberg)
• Apple Music removes ability for artists to post to Connect, posts removed from Artist Pages and For You (9to5Mac)
• Ming-Chi Kuo cuts first quarter iPhone sales estimates by 20%, says iPhone XR demand is low (9to5Mac)
• Amazon has officially killed the Whole Foods-Instacart partnership (Recode)
• They scaled YouTube—now they’ll shared everyone with PlanetScale (TechCrunch)

Thursday, December 13 2018 - Apple Keeps Austin Weird

• Apple to invest $1 billion in new Austin campus (Axios)
• Amazon Hires Lobbyists for N.Y. Site and Tries to Fend Off Ocasio-Cortez’s Supporters (NYTimes)
• Amazon Went to City Hall. Things Got Loud, Quickly. (NYTimes)
• High-Tech Degrees and the Price of an Avocado: The Data New York Gave to Amazon (NYTimes)
• After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning (TechCrunch)
• Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard & the most ATMs (TechCrunch)
• A look at the Apple Watch’s ECG, from someone who needs it (Ars Technica)
• Apple now has dozens of doctors on staff, showing it’s serious about health tech (CNBC)
• POSTMATES’ QUEST TO BUILD THE DELIVERY ROBOT OF THE FUTURE (Wired)
• YouTube Rewind 2018 is officially the most disliked video on YouTube (The Verge)

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

• Intel unveils a new architecture for 2019: Sunny Cove (Ars Technica)
• Intel is bringing teraflop integrated graphics to 10nm chips in 2019 (Engadget)
• AN INTEL BREAKTHROUGH RETHINKS HOW CHIPS ARE MADE (Wired)
• Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing (NYTimes)
• Apple Suppliers Are Considering Moving iPhone Output if Tariffs Hit 25% (Bloomberg)
• U.S. investigators point to China in Marriott hack affecting 500 million guests (The Washington Post)
• Indonesia e-commerce leader Tokopedia raises $1.1B from Alibaba and SoftBank’s Vision Fund (TechCrunch)
• At this new online banking platform, customers are the owners (Fast Company)
• Apple’s ‘Netflix for Magazines’ Getting a Chilly Reception (Bloomberg)
• Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds (TechCrunch)
• U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year (ReCode)

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

• Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April 2019 (VentureBeat)
• Uber customers and drivers are furious after a major outage causes all kinds of issues (BusinessInsider)
• Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source (Pew Research Center)
• Fintech start-up Plaid raises $250 million at $2.7 billion valuation, adds Mary Meeker to board (CNBC)
• Vroom nabs $146M from AutoNation, VCs for its used car site (TechCrunch)
• Keurigs for Beer Make No Sense (Gizmodo)
• Doom is 25 and co-creator John Romero is putting out a giant expansion for it (TechCrunch)

Monday, December 10 2018 - iPhone Sales Banned in China

• China bans many iPhone models in Qualcomm patent dispute (Axios)
• Can the U.S. Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? (NYTimes)
• Huawei CFO Arrested, Australia’s Awful Law (Stratechery)
• Apple acquired Platoon, a platform for musicians to create and distribute work (TechCrunch)
• Investor Frenzy for Scooter Startups Cools (WSJ)
• Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (NYTimes)
• Samsung’s A8s is its first phone with an Infinity-O hole-punch display (The Verge)

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

• MICROSOFT WANTS TO STOP AI’S ‘RACE TO THE BOTTOM’ (Wired)
• Scientists create AI that can crush the world’s best AI (at board games, thankfully) (CNET)
• Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in its Wake (Bloomberg)
• Reddit’s Year in Review: 2018 (Upvoted)

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

• Canada arrests Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (The Globe and Mail)
• Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chrome and bringing it to the Mac (The Verge)
• Google is shutting down Allo (The Verge)
• Ride-hail firm Lyft races to leave Uber behind in IPO chase (Reuters)
• These Confidential Charts Show Why Facebook Bought WhatsApp (Buzzfeed)
• Firefly Nets $21.5 Million Seed Round To Boost Ride-Hail Driver Revenues With On-Car Ads (Crunchbase News)
• Cuba to roll out mobile internet for the first time (CNBC)
• Robot Accidentally Hospitalises 24 Amazon Workers After It Sprays Them With Bear Repellent (Huffington Post)

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

• Note by Damian Collins MP (UK Parliament)
• Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 855 and its news under-display fingerprint sensor (TechCrunch)
• Qualcomm announces first ultrasonic fingerprint reader: Headed to the Galaxy S10? (CNET)
• Fortnite’s Minecraft-like creative mode launches tomorrow (The Verge)
• RIDING IN WAYMO ONE, THE GOOGLE SPINOFF’S FIRST SELF-DRIVING TAXI SERVICE (The Verge)
• The story behind Netflix’s $100 million ‘Friends’ deal (Recode)

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

• Quora Security Update (The Quora Blog)
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 (Windows Central)
• What is Windows Lite? It’s Microsoft’s Chrome OS Killer (Petri.com)
• NVIDIA’s new AI turns videos of the real world into virtual landscapes (Engadget)
• MOTOROLA AND NOKIA’S NEW PHONES MAKE $350 LOOK LIKE $1,000 (The Verge)
• Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is on a Collision Course With Your ISP’s Data Caps (Motherboard)

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

• Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (The Verge)
• Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 to Release a 5G iPhone (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: ‘All-new design’ AirPods in 2020, wireless charging model in first quarter 2019 (9to5Mac)
• Uber Exploring Deal to Buy Bird or Lime (The Information)
• Tencent Music Moves Forward With IPO After Delay (WSJ)
• Microsoft PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles for presentations (The Verge)
• The first self-driving car you use will most likely carry your groceries, not you (Vox)
• How to Reset All of Your Browsers Back to Square One (Gizmodo)

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

• Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach (TechCrunch)
• SEC charges Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled for promoting ICOs without disclosing payments (CNBC)
• Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo (TechCrunch)
• Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends list (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019 (Fast Company)
• Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic (Techmeme.com)

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

• Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning (TechCrunch)
• New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive (WSJ)
• An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands (Recode)
• Google Assistant gets visual lyrics and more in big holiday update (Engadget)
• YouTube is rolling out its Instagram-like Stories feature to more creators (The Verge)
• Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data (WSJ)
• WTF is happening to crypto? (TechCrunch)

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

• 8 People Are Facing Charges As A Result Of The FBI’s Biggest-Ever Ad Fraud Investigation (BuzzFeed)
• Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health (WSJ)
• Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices (The Verge)
• Waymo taps former NTSB chair to oversee safety of self-driving ride-share fleet (CNBC)
• YouTube to Make New Originals Available for Free, Ad-Supported Viewing With ‘Single Slate’ Strategy (Variety)
• Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective bought Pop-Up Magazine Productions (Recode)
• Community Activists Kill Elon Musk’s Plan for an Underground Freeway Tunnel in LA (Motherboard)
• Big Mouth Billy Bass Will Now Annoy the Shit Out of You With Alexa Support Built In (Gizmodo)

Wednesday, November 28 2018 - Why Is Shopping On Amazon So Hard? (Replacement)

• Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads (GeekWire)
• Facebook’s YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC)
• Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (Krebs on Security)
• Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk)
• Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun (Cult of Mac)
• Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple (Bloomberg)
• What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website? (BuzzFeed)

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

• Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads (GeekWire)
• Facebook’s YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC)
• Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (Krebs on Security)
• Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk)
• Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun (Cult of Mac)
• Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple (Bloomberg)
• What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website? (BuzzFeed)

Monday, November 26 2018 - Apple Visits the Supreme Court

• U.S. top court leans toward allowing Apple App Store antitrust suit (Reuters)
• My Amicus Brief (AVC/Fred Wilson)
• Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers (The Guardian)
• Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament (CNN)
• Atari CEO interview — How Rollercoaster Tycoon revival saved the company (VentureBeat)
• The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (Vox)
• The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll (Motherboard)

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

• It’s Official: Once Mighty FAANG Stocks Have All Entered a Bear Market (Fortune)
• Silicon Valley wages have dropped for all except highest-paying jobs: report (The Mercury News)
• Bitcoin drops 12% to below $5,000 (CNBC)
• Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues (The Verge)
• Video games could be a short-term answer to science’s gender problem (The Conversation)
• “The space bar trick” is the most amazing feature in iOS 12, and the internet just realized it (Fast Company)

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

• Skype calling now available on Alexa (The Verge)
• Tweet Storm on Where Tumblr’s Gone (@bluechoochoo)
• With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (WSJ)
• Tim Cook defends multibillion-dollar Google search deal despite Apple’s privacy focus (The Verge)
• Apple Suppliers Suffer With Uncertainty Around iPhone Demand (WSJ)
• With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (WSJ)
• Bitcoin Cash Declares War: Why Coming Hard Fork Could Mean Another Split (CoinDesk)
• One Day After the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Takeaways and Latest Developments (Bitcoin Magazine)

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

• Airbnb booked more than $1 billion in third quarter revenue (CNBC)
• Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (Thurrott.com)
• Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ)
• ‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes)
• Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (The Verge)

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

• Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (NYTimes)
• Google Maps will let you chat with businesses (The Verge)
• Uber continues to lose money as it scales scooters, bikes and other newer businesses (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Go competitor Standard Cognition raises $40 million to expand its cashierless store solution (VentureBeat)
• PewDiePie’s Tumultuous Reign as YouTube King Is Almost Over (Bloomberg)

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

• Nigerian firm takes blame for routing Google traffic through China (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Snap reveals U.S. subpoenas on IPO disclosures (Reuters)
• Ford partners with Walmart and Postmates to test autonomous grocery delivery (TechCrunch)
• A STARTUP IS SETTING DRONES FREE BY TYING THEM TO THE GROUND (Wired)
• Amazon’s HQ2 stunt could come back to haunt it (The Verge)
• This time, Amazon has gone too far: Jeff Bezos’s company is profiting and taxpayers are paying the price (NYDailyNews)
• Uber launches rider loyalty Rewards like credits & upgrades 9 cities (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s Microwave With Alexa Makes Life Marginally Better (BuzzFeed)

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

• Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters (Amazon DayOne Blog)
• Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York (The Washington Post)
• Pandora brings its Genome technology to podcast recommendations (TechCrunch)
• Waymo to Start First Driverless Car Service Next Month (Bloomberg)
• Apple confirms its T2 security chip blocks some third-party repairs of new Macs (The Verge)
• The Tricky—but Potentially Lucrative—Task of Streaming Videogames (WSJ)
• Eric Chien 2018 Fism Grand Prix Magic Act (YouTube)

Monday, November 12 2018 - What Exactly Is TikTok?

• SAP to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion (Axios)
• How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
• Samsung Electronics to release first foldable smartphone in March: sources (Yonhap News Agency)
• Snap’s former No. 2 exec Imran Khan is building an online shopping startup (ReCode)
• Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso (The Verge)
• A Guide to TikTok for Anyone Who Isn’t a Teen (Slate)
• Netflix to Test Lower-Price Plans as It Seeks More Asian Users (Bloomberg)
• At Netflix, Who Wins When It’s Hollywood vs. the Algorithm? (WSJ)
• Jony Ive’s latest design is the ultimate diamond ring – made only of diamond … (9to5Mac)
• The Fading Battlefields of World War I (The Atlantic)

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

• Amazon is finally selling new iPhones after a long and complicated ‘turf war’ with Apple (BusinessInsider)
• A note to our employees (Google)
• #GoogleWalkout update: Collective action works, and we need to keep working. True equity depends on it. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
• Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Amazon Rekognition And ICE At An All-Hands Meeting (BuzzFeed)
• Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019 (TechCrunch)
• GitHub passes 100 million repositories (Venture Beat)

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

• This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone (The Verge)
• Google says Android will natively support ‘foldables’ to limit fragmentation (The Verge)
• Amazon is mailing a printed holiday toy catalog to millions of customers (CNBC)
• Google Plans Large New York City Expansion (WSJ)
• The Anchor Tenant (Fred Wilson/AVC)
• Google’s Gift to NYC (Albert Wenger)
• Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin (TechCrunch)
• Comcast is developing a video-streaming platform for broadband-only customers (CNBC)
• So I sent my mom that newfangled Facebook Portal (TechCrunch)

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

• San Francisco has passed a first-of-its-kind tax on big businesses — like Square and Stripe — to help the homeless (Recode)
• Scoop: AT&T to cut off some customers’ service in piracy crackdown (Axios)
• Why robocalls have taken over your phone (The Verge)
• Amazon gained a huge perk from its HQ2 contest that’s worth far more than any tax break (Business Insider)
• Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk (The Associated Press)
• RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider, raises $30M as it grows from 10K users to 250M (TechCrunch)
• Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results (NiemanLab)

Tuesday, November 06 2018 - Schrodinger’s Amazon HQ2

• Medium Post on Facebook and the Election (Jonathan Albright)
• Chrome will soon ad-block an entire website if it shows abusive ads (The Verge)
• Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities (WSJ)
• APPLE MACBOOK AIR (2018) REVIEW: THE PRESENT OF COMPUTING (The Verge)
• The 2018 Retina MacBook Air (Daring Fireball)
• India’s Meesho, which enables social commerce via WhatsApp, raises $50M (TechCrunch)
• PredictHQ exits stealth with $10 million to help Uber and others forecast demand surges (VentureBeat)
• VMWare acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 05 2018 - iPad Pro Reviews Are Mixed

• Amazon in Late-Stage Talks With Cities Including Crystal City, Va., Dallas, New York City for HQ2 (WSJ)
• Amazon waives $25 minimum spend to offer free Christmas deliveries for all U.S. customers (Venture Beat)
• APPLE IPAD PRO REVIEW 2018: THE FASTEST IPAD IS STILL AN IPAD (The Verge)
• Apple’s first 5G iPhone will arrive in 2020 (Fast Company)
• YOU TOO CAN BUILD YOUR OWN CHIP – FOR ONLY $30 MILLION (Digits to Dollars)
• Newly Public Tech Firms Race Back to Market as IPO Frenzy Continues (WSJ)
• Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) (NYTimes)
• You can’t take a ‘ballot selfie’ in Illinois, Florida, or 25 other states — see where it’s illegal to take a photo in the voting booth (Business Insider)

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

• Apple results: A record September quarter with $62.9B revenue (Six Colors)
• Apple’s price hike strategy is paying off (The Verge)
• Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos (The Verge)
• Several thoughts from your old pal Jason (Jason Scott/Twitter)
• The Cartoon That Invented Internet Culture Gets a High-Definition Rerelease (Intelligencer)
• Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale (BBC News)
• It’s not your imagination: Phone battery life is getting worse (Washington Post)
• ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online (Wall Street Journal)

Thursday, November 01 2018 - The Google Employee Walkout

• Google walkout: Pictures of Google workers leaving their desks in protest over sexual misconduct (Business Insider)
• Recode Tech and Media Website to Be Folded Into Vox.com (WSJ)
• New MacBook Air threatens both MacBook and MacBook Pro with Function Keys (Apple Insider)
• Opinion: The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s new T2 security chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone (TechCrunch)
• WhatsApp found a place to show you ads (The Verge)
• Google My Business Adds Setting For Google Assistant Calls Over Duplex (Search Engine Roundtable)
• Spotify is just $6.8 million away from profitability (Engadget)
• Liftoff: Mobile users are embracing subscription app economy (Venture Beat)

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

• Zuckerberg says the future is sharing via 100B messages & 1B Stories/day (TechCrunch)
• Scoop: Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet ‘X’ unit is out (Axios)
• Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile Won’t Support eSIM Until Later This Year (MacRumors)
• Gmail for iOS now lets you view all of your accounts in a single inbox (The Verge)
• Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual launch process, explained (Ars Technica)
• How Facebook Failed To Build A Better Alexa (Or Siri) (Forbes)
• Google, Accel and Jay Z invest in life insurance start-up Ethos, valuing it at more than $100 million (CNBC)
• Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice (Nature)

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

• UK chancellor announces 2% ‘digital services tax’ on tech giants’ revenues starting in April 2020 (TechCrunch)
• Snap CEO Picked a New Business Chief, Then Changed His Mind (Bloomberg)
• Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 (Security Week)

Monday, October 29 2018 - Big Blue Gets Red Hat

• IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion (CNBC)
• Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM (TechCrunch)
• IBM’s Old Playbook (Stratechery)
• Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History (Motherboard)
• Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies (PDF - US Copyright Office, Library of Congress)
• Here are the 20 games shipping with the PlayStation Classic (TechCrunch)
• DJI’s latest Mavic 2 drone is built for search and rescue (Engadget)
• Two more platforms have suspended Gab in the wake of Pittsburgh shooting (TechCrunch)
• On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full (New York Times)

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

• Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat (CNBC)
• Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations (CNBC)
• Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3% (VentureBeat)
• Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows (New York Times)
• Google Stock Falls As Revenue Misses; Amazon Ad Competition To Blame? (Investor’s Business Daily)
• Snap Hits All-Time Low After Lackluster Earnings Report (CNBC)
• Copyright Office Ruling Issues Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms (iFixit)
• In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (Motherboard)
• How China’s GPS ‘Rival’ Beidou is Plotting to Go Global (BBC News)
• AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500 (New York Times)

Thursday, October 25 2018 - The Andy Rubin Scandal

• How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (New York Times)
• Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire (Bloomberg)
• A New Approach to Our Work on Drip (Kickstarter Blog)
• Kickstarter to End Drip, Fund New Platform with XOXO Festival Creators (The Verge)
• The Team Behind XOXO is Taking Over Kickstarter’s Drip Crowdfunding Community (TechCrunch)
• Older People Are Worse Than Young People at Telling Fact from Opinion (The Atlantic)
• Younger Americans Are Better than Older Americans at Telling Factual News Statements from Opinions (Pew Research Center)
• VIDEO: Joseph Saelee vs. Jonas Neubeauer in CTWC 2018 Finals (Twitter)

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

• Apple’s Tim Cook Makes Blistering Attack On the “Data Industrial Complex” (TechCrunch)
• Why political text messages are flooding your phone (Axios)
• The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All (Wired)
• Messenger redesigns to clean up Facebook’s mess (TechCrunch)
• How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement (Wired)

Tuesday, October 23 2018 - iPhone XR Reviews

• Amazon cloud chief Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story (CNBC)
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (Buzzfeed)
• Supermicro CEO Joins Cook in Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Supply Chain Hack Story (MacRumors)
• Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset (TechCrunch)
• Former Facebook engineer quit to build the programming tool he always wanted (CNBC)
• Apple iPhone XR Review: Better Than Good Enough (The Verge)
• Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (Bloomberg)
• Android: A Visual History of Google’s OS On Its 10th Anniversary (The Verge)

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

• Facebook on Hunt for Big Cybersecurity Acquisition (The Information)
• Who Are My Investors? (AVC)
• Thieves steal a Tesla Model S by hacking the entry fob (Engadget)
• A tech executive’s video of his Tesla Model S being hacked and stolen is going viral (Business Insider)
• Video of the Tesla theft
• Google Home Hub review (CNET)
• Google Home Hub review—Awesome hardware for Google’s nascent smart display software (Ars Technica)
• Google Home Hub Review: At the intersection of useful and just plain cute [Video] (9to5Google)
• Google Home Hub review: A more personal smart display (Engadget)

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

• Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times)
• Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)
• Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News)
• Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank’s. (New York Times)
• Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (The Verge)
• Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? (Wired)

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

• Spotify Premium gets personalized artist radio stations and better search (The Verge)
• Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (Tech Crunch)
• Facebook Finds Hack Was Done by Spammers, Not Foreign State (WSJ)
• Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff (Bloomberg)
• Inside the $2.6 billion subscription box wars (Fast Company)
• Beddr’s SleepTuner is a powerful standalone alternative to Apple Watch sleep tracking (9to5Mac)

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

• Google will start charging Android device makers a fee for using its apps in Europe (The Verge)
• GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (Github)
• Fortnite, GTA V hackers face legal action for online cheating (Ars Technica)
• It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads (Recode)
• MTV is bringing back ‘The Real World’ for Facebook Watch, and will let the audience vote on the direction of the show (Business Insider)

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

• Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO (WSJ)
• Cops Told ‘Don’t Look’ at New iPhones to Avoid Face ID Lock-Out (Motherboard)
• The Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath (Engadget)
• Google Pixel 3 review: improving on incredible (Charged)
• GOOGLE PIXEL 3 AND 3 XL REVIEW: THE BEST CAMERA GETS A BETTER PHONE (The Verge)
• The Google Pixel 3 XL review (TechCrunch)
• Google Pixel 3 Review: The Other Way to Make a Killer Phone (Gizmodo)
• Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 (NyTimes)

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

• FINALLY: REAL PHOTOSHOP ON THE IPAD (The Verge)
• Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools (TechCrunch)
• Adobe launches Premiere Rush, a cross-platform video editor (Venture Beat)
• Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii (Axios)
• THE NEW PALM IS A TINY PHONE TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM YOUR PHONE (The Verge)
• GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE’S DNA IS ANONYMOUS ANYMORE (Wired)
• Blockchain isn’t about democracy and decentralisation – it’s about greed (The Guardian)
• Tweetstorm about Google+ from @morganknutson

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

• An Update on the Security Issue (Facebook)
• Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch)
• Tencent Music Pauses IPO Amid Market Turmoil (WSJ)
• FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here’s how much each one is on sale (Business Insider)
• Tesla sets deadline on new orders to get delivery and full tax credit by end of the year (Electrek)
• Who Needs German Engineering? Tesla Outsells Mercedes-Benz For The First Time—And Has a Plan to Pass BMW Too (Fortune)
• Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music? (The Guardian)

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

• Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit (The Washington Post)
• Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe (TechCrunch)
• Apple buys machine learning AR firm specializing in mixed realities (Apple Insider)
• Samsung’s Galaxy A9 is the first quad camera phone (Engadget)
• Samsung hopes these four cameras will save its mid-range phone lineup (The Verge)
• Gartner: Microsoft passes Acer to become top 5 PC vendor in the U.S. (Venture Beat)
• Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy (CNBC)
• Coinbase’s Active Customers Drop 80% in Crypto Slump, Study Says (Bloomberg)
• Plan to Fix Journalism With Cryptocurrency Draws Skepticism (WSJ)
• Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop (Fast Company)

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

• Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update after fixing file deletion bug (The Verge)
• Snapchat becomes the mobile HBO with 12 daily scripted Original shows (TechCrunch)
• Snap Is ‘Quickly Running Out of Money,’ Analyst Says (Bloomberg)
• Google Photos adds automated sharing through ‘Live Albums,’ which can stream to Home Hub (TechCrunch)
• Apple’s dream of making the Apple TV a gaming console just took a major hit (Business Insider)
• A China Veggie-Selling App May Be Worth $7 billion (Bloomberg)
• Android Creator Is Building an AI Phone That Texts People for You (Bloomberg)
• AT&T will launch a Netflix rival next year (CNBC)
• Where the next 10 million miles will take us (Waymo)

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

• First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge)
• Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac)
• Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery)
• Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)
• Some advertisers are moving half of their search budget from Google to Amazon, say ad industry sources (CNBC)
• How China’s biggest social network fights fake news (Abacus)
• Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on SoftBank Bet With Extra $45 Billion (Bloomberg)

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

• Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349 (TechCrunch)
• THE NEW AMAZON ECHO SHOW’S IMPROVED SCREEN AND BETTER SPEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, consoles, and mobile devices (The Verge)
• Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs (AnAndTech)
• Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public (WSJ)
• Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? (Krebs on Security)
• The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” (Ars Technica)

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

• Instagram prototypes handling your location history to Facebook (TechCrunch)
• Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook (The Verge)
• 9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival (TechCrunch)
• iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro Systems Must Pass Apple Diagnostics to Function After Certain Repairs (MacRumors)
• Facebook’s Oculus Looking to Invest in Location-Based Virtual Reality (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
• Why are Apple Watch faces such a mess? (Macworld)
• Norway’s petabyte plan: Store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive (ZDNet)

Thursday, October 04 2018 - Biggest Hardware Hack Ever?

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Russia cyber-plots: US, UK and Netherlands allege hacking (BBC News)
• Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year (WSJ)
• LG V40 THINQ REVIEW: ONE PHONE, FIVE CAMERAS (The Verge)
• Verizon’s Severance Offer Goes to About 44,000 Employees (WSJ)
• Barnes & Noble names board committee to review possible sale, shares soar (CNBC)
• MoviePass’ new funding means it isn’t going anywhere just yet (Engadget)

Wednesday, October 03 2018 - Presidential Alert

• Microsoft has unveiled the $3,499 Surface Studio 2, its super-powerful and gorgeous new competitor to the Apple iMac (Business Insider)
• Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk (NYTimes)
• Facebook Login Update (Facebook Newsroom)
• Facebook Briefs Lawmakers on Breach in Effort to Guard Against Backlash (WSJ)
• GM and Honda will team up to build an autonomous car (Quartz)
• First presidential wireless test alert will come to your phone today (Axios)
• The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy (Motherboard)
• Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things (GeekWire)

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

• Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees (CNBC)
• The Story of Henry Ford’s $5 a Day Wages: It’s Not What You Think (Forbes)
• Tesla delivered over 55,000 Model 3s in Q3 (Road Show/CNET)
• Three US universities now let students use iPhone and Apple Watch as their campus ID card (9to5Mac)
• THESE TECH COMPANIES WILL NEED MORE WOMEN ON THEIR BOARDS (Wired)
• Google’s Project Stream lets you play Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Chrome (CNET)
• Netflix Is Planning a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure ‘Black Mirror’ (Bloomberg)
• Amazon’s IMDb will announce this week a new free video service to compete for TV ad dollars (CNBC)
• The anti-Netflix: Free, ad-supported video streaming services are growing (Digiday)

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

• The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law (The Washington Post)
• Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law (NYTimes)
• SEC settles charges with Tesla’s Elon Musk, will remain as CEO but relinquish chairman role and pay stiff fine (CNBC)
• Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued after years of growth (Pew Research Center)
• (SMART) SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE: DESPITE THEIR VAST CAPABILITIES, SMART SPEAKERS ARE ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC (Nielsen)
• One Small Step for the Web… (Inrupt Blog)
• Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web (Fast Company)

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

• Slack Actively Preparing for Early 2019 IPO (WSJ)
• Coinbase now lets users buy ‘bundles’ (TechCrunch)
• Compound launches easy way to short cryptocurrencies (TechCrunch)
• Tesla’s Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute (CNBC)

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

• Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (Gizmodo)
• Amazon’s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video (Gizmodo)
• Teen Apple Hacker Avoids Jail in Australia After Serious Attacks (Bloomberg)
• Payment Startup Stripe Is Now a $20 Billion Company (Bloomberg)
• Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Lyft Shows Financial Improvement Ahead of IPO Filing (The Information)

Wednesday, September 26 2018 - Facebook Dirty Laundry

• Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind (Forbes)
• Facebook’s Messing With Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure (WSJ)
• Product updates based on your feedback (The Google Chrome Blog)
• The Temptation of Apple News (Slate)
• Coinbase will add cryptocurrencies more rapidly, with ratings and reviews (Yahoo Finance)
• One third of ICOs launched in the past two years aren’t listed anywhere (TNW)
• Amazon Comes Up With Another Way to Get Alexa Into Your Home (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, September 25 2018 - The Instagram Founders Ghost Facebook

• Why Instagram’s founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened (TechCrunch)
• Facebook’s Terrible Year Hits a New Low (Bloomberg Opinion)
• Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing chip secrets and giving them to Intel (CNBC)
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet With Top GOP Lawmakers (WSJ)
• Google’s new activity cards will save your previous searches (Engadget)
• ‘NETFLIX FOR OPEN SOURCE’ WANTS DEVELOPERS TO GET PAID (Wired)
• macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Ars Technica review (Ars Technica)

Monday, September 24 2018 - Office 2019 Is Here

• SiriusXM to buy Pandora in all-stock deal valued at $3.5 billion (CNBC)
• Why I’m done with Chrome (Matthew Green)
• Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago (Recode)
• Vox Media On Pace to Miss Revenue Target as Digital Advertising Disappoints (WSJ)
• Amazon: Retailers Gonna Retail (Steven Sinofsky)
• Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two — and one part will be led by China (CNBC)

Friday, September 21 2018 - Instagram Fighting #hashtagoverload

• AMAZON WANTS ALEXA TO HEAR YOUR WHISPERS AND FRUSTRATION (Wired)
• Amazon just pulled an Apple on the smart home (Stacey on IOT newsletter)
• Facebook’s ‘Portal’ Video Chat Device to Be Announced Next Week (Cheddar)
• Instagram may divide hashtags from captions to end overhashing (TechCrunch)
• Instagram is testing a native resharing feature for the feed (The Verge)
• Is This Article Worth Reading? Gmail’s Suggested Reply: ‘Haha, Thanks!’ (WSJ)

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

• Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 (Bloomberg)
• Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance (Reuters)
• Life Insurance Offering More Incentive to Live Longer (NYTimes)
• ESPN’s new streaming service passes 1 million paid subscribers in five months (CNBC)
• Google, Facebook Lead Digital’s March to Half of U.S. Ad Market (Bloomberg)
• Spock’s planet ‘Vulcan’ found years after Star Trek prediction (SlashGear)

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

• The ACLU Is Charging Facebook With Gender Discrimination In Its Targeted Ads (Buzzfeed News)
• Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men (ProPublica)
• Amazon becoming 3rd-biggest digital ad platform (Axios)
• Google Home Mini was the best-selling smart speaker in Q2 (TechCrunch)
• Sony is launching a PlayStation Classic console this December loaded with 20 games (The Verge)
• Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
• HQ expands beyond trivia with new ‘Wheel of Fortune’-type game (Digiday)
• Google Maps for CarPlay in iOS 12 is now available (9to5Mac)
• iOS 12.1 references ‘iPad2018Fall’, all but confirming new iPad Pro debut next month (9to5Mac)

Tuesday, September 18 2018 - Alexa for Microwaves

• Tesla Is Facing U.S. Criminal Probe Over Elon Musk Statements (Bloomberg)
• The Tweet that got Twitter to bring back the chrono-feed (@EmmaKinema)
• Amazon plans to release at least 8 new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an amplifier, and an in-car gadget (CNBC)
• Trump Hits China With Tariffs on $200 Billion in Goods, Escalating Trade War (NYTimes)
• APPLE IPHONE XS AND XS MAX REVIEW: SMOOTHED OUT (The Verge)

Monday, September 17 2018 - The Benioffs Buy Time

• Are there any other billionaires out there to buy Fortune or Sports Illustrated? (Recode)
• Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down (TechCrunch)
• Here are over 150 new features and changes in iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad (Apple Insider)
• Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes (WSJ)
• Amazon Storefronts is a new retail hub exclusively for US small businesses (The Verge)
• Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of being a jerk, takes time off to learn empathy (Ars Technica)
• AN ORAL HISTORY OF APPLE’S INFINITE LOOP (Wired)

Sunday, September 16 2018 - Bonus Episode! What’s Up With Tesla, With the Tesla Daily podcast

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Friday, September 14 2018 - More Drama Inside Google

• Google Employees Are Quitting Over The Company’s Secretive China Search Project (Buzzfeed News)
• Google’s internal political battles keep spilling out into the public (The Verge)
• The new heart-monitoring capabilities on the Apple Watch aren’t all that impressive (Quartz)
• iPhone XS Max and Apple Watch Series 4 shipping dates now slipping into October (9to5Mac)
• Apple Is Deleting Bought Films From iTunes Accounts - And Don’t Expect A Refund (Forbes)
• Yes, You Can Name A Website “F***nazis.us”
• HOW THE WEATHER CHANNEL MADE THAT INSANE STORM SURGE ANIMATION (Wired)

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

• The iPhone Franchise (Stratechery)
• Making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever (Fast Company)
• Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye (Fact Company)
• The Nintendo Switch online service is launching on September 18th (The Verge)
• How Procore Built The Cloud’s Hottest Unicorn By Bringing Software To Low-Tech Construction Sites (Forbes)
• Where in the World Is Larry Page? (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Wednesday, September 12 2018 - Happy iPhone Day!

• EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ (The Verge)
• European Parliament Passes Copyright Directive Giving Artists Greater Share of Revenue (Variety)
• FCC says it needs more time to review Sprint-T-Mobile deal (CNBC)
• Verizon to begin 5G home broadband service sign-ups on Thursday (Axios)
• Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)

Tuesday, September 11 2018 - ICOs Now Officially Securities?

• US Judge Rules ICO Frauds Fall Under Securities Law (CoinDesk)
• Renesas in $6.7 billion deal for IDT to boost chips for self-driving cars (Reuters)
• GM’s Plan to Test Autonomous Cars in New York City Seems to Have Gone up in Smoke (Jalopnik)
• How to prepare your iPhone for a trade-in program (The Verge)
• Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)
• Facebook Apologizes For Taking Down Your Horny Burt Reynolds Posts (Vulture)

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

• Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and Ceramic Backs on All Apple Watch Series 4 Models, More (MacRumors)
• Snap just lost its chief strategy officer (Fast Company)
• Alibaba announces Jack Ma succession plan: CEO Daniel Zhang to take over as chairman in a year (CNBC)
• Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history (9to5Mac)
• No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server (9to5Mac)
• Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization (NYTimes Opinion)
• Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)

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

• Verizon’s Internet Boss Tim Armstrong in Talks to Leave (WSJ)
• Tim Armstrong is headed out of Verizon. What happens to the $9 billion content company he is leaving behind? (Recode)
• Charlie Warzel Twitter Thread
• HOW THAT MAGICAL JACK DORSEY–ALEX JONES PHOTO HAPPENED (Wired)
• A Facebook scientist tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook (Fast Company)
• Weed, whiskey, Tesla and a flamethrower: Elon Musk meets Joe Rogan (CNN Tech)
• Tesla Erupts in Chaos After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 06 2018 - More iPhone Event Rumor Bingo

• U.S. charges North Korean operative in conspiracy to hack Sony Pictures, banks (The Washington Post)
• Lyft rolls out its first electric scooters in Denver (The Verge)
• You Will Soon Be Able to Control Your Xbox With Alexa and Cortana (Thurrott)
• Walmart partners with delivery logistics platform Bringg on last-mile grocery delivery (TechCrunch)
• The new Roomba could be the end of vacuuming (Quartz)
• Kids’ gaming platform Roblox raises $150M (TechCrunch)
• The video game turning teens into millionaires has raised a whopping $150 million, making it a $2.5 billion company (Business Insider)
• A New Spotify Initiative Makes the Big Record Labels Nervous (NYTimes)
• The Tension Is Building Between Spotify and the Music Industry (Bloomberg)
• ‘iPhone Xs Max’ likely name for 6.5-inch OLED flagship, sources say (9to5Mac)

Wednesday, September 05 2018 - Another Congressional Apology Tour

• Video of the Hearings (The US Senate)
• Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress. Conservative conspiracy theorists lurked behind them. (The Washington Post)
• Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (WSJ)
• HOW GOOGLE CHROME SPENT A DECADE MAKING THE WEB MORE SECURE (Wired)
• GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL (Wired)
• Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (PEW Research)
• Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping (The Verge)
• Snap launches new styles of Spectacles that look more like traditional sunglasses (The Verge)
• Vimeo pivots business from media to tech (Axios)
• Vimeo launches stock video marketplace starting at $79 per clip (Venture Beat)

Tuesday, September 04 2018 - New Trillion-Dollar Baby

• Amazon falls off $1 trillion market cap, leaving Apple the only public US company above the benchmark (Bloomberg)
• Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
• Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics (Google Cloud)
• Major cryptocurrency exchange delists Bitcoin Gold following $18M hack (TNW)
• 2018 iPad Pro redesign is both brilliant and stupid (Cult of Mac)
• Samsung teases foldable smartphone launch for later this year (The Verge)
• China’s Silicon Valley Threatens to Swallow Up Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
• Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants (TechCrunch)

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

• Exclusive: This is ‘iPhone XS’ — design, larger version, and gold colors confirmed (9to5Mac)
• Exclusive: Apple Watch Series 4 revealed — massive display, dense watch face, more (9to5Mac)
• Huawei’s AI Cube is a 4G router and Alexa speaker, not a cube (The Verge)
• Huawei’s Google Home clone has Alexa inside (Engadget)
• Scooters will return to San Francisco, but Bird and Lime aren’t invited (The Verge)
• Mozilla announces Firefox will block trackers by default (Venture Beat)
• Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales (Bloomberg)

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

• Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses (Reuters)
• Apple’s AR lenses purchase also sees future mobile storage (ComputerWorld)
• Google takes a step back from running the Kubernetes development infrastructure (TechCrunch)
• Uber Is Building Its Own Scooter to Compete in Frenzy (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Requires Paid Parental Leave for Subcontractors (Bloomberg)
• Important Appeals Court Ruling States Clearly That Merely Having An IP Address Is Insufficient For Infringement Claims (TechDirt)
• FIRST EVER LIFE-SIZE AND DRIVABLE LEGO® TECHNIC BUGATTI CHIRON IS A PIONEERING PIECE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN (Lego)

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

• Dell tempts Pixelbook lovers with premium $599 Inspiron Chromebook 14 (Ars Technica)
• Dell shows its fall lineup of Alexa-ready Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro laptops and 2-in-1s (VentureBeat)
• Amazon Plans New Video App, Latest Step Into TV Ad Market (The Information)
• Google is revamping the Wear OS smartwatch user interface (The Verge)
• The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money (Recode)
• ‘World Computer’ Project Dfinity Raises $102 Million (Fortune)
• The rise of crypto in higher education (Coinbase Reports)
• The Hot New Subject on Campus? It’s Blockchain (Fortune)
• The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 (Motherboard)

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

• You can now apply to be verified in Instagram (The Verge)
• Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers (WSJ)
• Toyota Investing $500 Million in Uber in Driverless-Car Pact (WSJ)
• AutoX is using its self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries (TechCrunch)
• BuzzFeed News quietly tests a membership program (Digiday)
• Buzzfeed, With Nearly $500M In Funding, Asks For Contributions (Crunchbase News)
• How ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music (Rolling Stone)
• First Apple Computer Goes Up For Auction, Expected to Fetch More Than $300,000 (Paleofuture)

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

• Apple to Embrace iPhone X Design With New Colors, Bigger Screens (Bloomberg)
• Berkshire Hathaway in talks for a stake in Paytm (Economic Times)
• Microsoft Announces Xbox All Access (Thurrott.com)
• Public Bravado, Private Doubts: Inside the Unraveling of Elon Musk’s Tesla Buyout (WSJ)
• Why Elon Musk Reversed Course on Taking Tesla Private (NYTimes)
• Epic’s first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently (Android Central)
• Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (PalmerLuckey.com)
• Uber plans shift from cars to bikes for shorter trips (The Financial Times)

Friday, August 24 2018 - Facebook Summons the Five Families

• Google finds evidence of attack linked to Iran state media (Axios)
• Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy (Buzzfeed News)
• Microsoft Hit With U.S. Bribery Probe Over Deals in Hungary (WSJ)
• 23andMe will no longer let app developers read your DNA data (CNBC)
• The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People (Motherboard)

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

• Australia Bars China’s Huawei From Building 5G Wireless Network (NYTimes)
• ‘Xbox All Access’ looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console (Windows Central)
• DJI Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 2 Zoom add Hasselblad quality and optical zoom to folding drones (CNET)
• How the U.S. Has Failed to Protect the 2018 Election–and Four Ways to Protect 2020 (Lawfare)
• Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’ (Bloomberg)
• The 30% Tax (Fred Wilson/AVC)

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

• Sprawling Iranian influence operation globalizes tech’s war on disinformation (The Washington Post)
• Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire (Ars Technica)
• Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’ (TechCrunch)
• Walmart takes another jab at Amazon as it begins selling e-books for first time (USA Today)
• How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions (Pew Research Center)
• ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Is Having a Hard Time Winning Over True Believers (Bloomberg)
• All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch)

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

• New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says (NYTimes)
• Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini (Bloomberg)
• Netflix Tests Promotional Videos but Users See ‘Commercials’ (NYTimes)
• Netflix tests a bypass of iTunes billing in 33 markets (TechCrunch)
• Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 (The Washington Post)
• Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)

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

• With Charge 3, Fitbit blurs the smartwatch line (TechCrunch)
• EU Weighs Regulations For Terrorist Content (Financial Times)
• ‘Minecraft: Education Edition’ comes to iPad, as education features expand to mainstream version of game (GeekWire)
• Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste (Venture Beat)
• Farfetch files for IPO to trade on NYSE as FTCH; has nearly 1M active users of its luxury goods marketplace (TechCrunch)
• Arm Unveils Client CPU Performance Roadmap Through 2020 - Taking Intel Head On (AnAndTech)
• How TripAdvisor changed travel (The Guardian)
• Women are 79 percent more likely to spend money on mobile games (The Verge)

Friday, August 17 2018 - The Secret Netflix Subcategories

• Google to debut display-equipped AI speaker before holidays (Nikkei Asian Review)
• APNewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy (The Associated Press)
• Crypto crash: Despite a strong quarter, Nvidia shares fall on disappointing forecast (SiliconAngle)
• Wish, an Internet Dollar Store, Struggles to Keep Customers (The Information)
• Silicon Valley is dismantling a priceless piece of its history (Fast Company)
• The Netflix ID Bible – Every Category on Netflix (What’s on Netflix)

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

• Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain (Bloomberg)
• Saudi Arabia Goes High-Tech in Approach to Investing (WSJ)
• Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter (TechCrunch)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: A better Note for most of us (Engadget)
• You Can Really Feel the Samsung Note 9’s $1000 Price Tag (Gizmodo)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: Sleek and new, but too much déjà vu (BGR)
• ANDROID 9 PIE REVIEW: THE PREDICTIVE OS (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 15 2018 - Alexa and Cortana, BFFs

• SPECTRE-LIKE FLAW UNDERMINES INTEL PROCESSORS’ MOST SECURE ELEMENT (Wired)
• After a year’s wait, Amazon and Microsoft bring Alexa and Cortana to each other’s devices (CNET)
• OneDrive can now automatically backup your PC’s documents, pictures, and desktop folders (The Verge)
• Public Radio Networks to Merge in Big Bet on Podcasts (WSJ)
• Uber’s Losses Mount at Self-Driving Car Unit (The Information)
• Cash Wildfire Spreads Among Young Tech Companies (Bloomberg)
• WhatsApp Co-Founder’s ‘Rest and Vest’ Reward From Facebook: $450 Million (WSJ)

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

• NVIDIA Reveals Next-Gen Turing GPU Architecture (AnandTech)
• How an invite-only meeting at Apple’s luxury loft in New York set the stage for one of the biggest subscription businesses in the world (Business Insider)
• Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap (NYTimes)
• Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity are accidentally re-creating cable TV (The Verge)
• Kevin Durant, Will Smith Top the Lineup for a New Venture-Capital Fund for Black Investors (WSJ)

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

• Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation (AnAndTech)
• EVEN ANONYMOUS CODERS LEAVE FINGERPRINTS (Wired)
• Update on Taking Tesla Private (Tesla)
• China has outspent the US by $24 billion in 5G technology since 2015, study shows (CNBC)
• An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida’s Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss. (Buzzfeed News)
• Dozens of Vegas slots went offline simultaneously during a hacker convention (Mashable)

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

• Tesla is now worth less than it was before Elon Musk’s $420 tweet (Business Insider)
• Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla (Daring Fireball)
• Apple Pay Increasingly Central to iPhone (Loop Ventures)
• Amazon launches Auto SDK to bring Alexa to more cars (VentureBeat)
• VCs Are On Track To Make 2018 A Record Year For Unicorns (Crunchbase News)

Thursday, August 09 2018 - Galaxy Note9 Announced

• Samsung Galaxy Note9: Design, specs, features, and pricing (VentureBeat)
• New York Plans to Cap Uber and Lyft (WSJ)
• Where’s the Money Coming From, Elon? (Bloomberg Businessweek)

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

• I TRIED MAGIC LEAP AND SAW A FLAWED GLIMPSE OF MIXED REALITY’S AMAZING POTENTIAL (The Verge)
• Magic Leap Headset Test Drive: Off Your Phone and Into Your World (WSJ)
• Magic Leap’s headset is real, but that may not be enough (MIT Technology Review)
• Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates (TechCrunch)
• Tinder’s business will double this year to more than $800 million (Recode)
• Study Shows How Bad Most of the Country Is Getting Ripped Off By Their ISPs (Motherboard)

Tuesday, August 07 2018 - Voting Via App

• West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections (CNN Tech)
• A Culture War Is Brewing Between Bitcoin’s Old and New Money (Bloomberg)
• Wall Street isn’t boosting bitcoin (Quartz)
• Twitter says Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts don’t violate policy, will remain live for now (CNBC)
• The Reality Behind Voice Shopping Hype (The Information)
• Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ‘NewTV’ Startup Closes $1 Billion, All Major Studios Among Investors (Variety)
• Cloudflare Stream makes it easy (and cheap) for developers to work with video (TNW)
• Airbnb for Work claims 700,000 businesses as bookings tripled for second year in a row (VentureBeat)

Monday, August 06 2018 - Everyone Bans Alex Jones

• Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars’ Alex Jones (The Guardian)
• Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users (WSJ)
• Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google (TechCrunch)
• MoviePass Abandons Price Hike, But Will Limit Films to Three a Month (Variety)
• iPhone Chipmaker Races to Recover After Crippling Computer Virus (Bloomberg)
• Here’s Apple’s Plan to Keep From Losing the World’s Fastest-Growing Smartphone Market (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Why iPhone and Android phone prices will get even higher (CNET)

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

• Epic Games sidesteps the Play Store with Fortnite for Android launch (TechCrunch)
• Ready, Aim, Hire a ‘Fortnite’ Coach: Parents Enlist Videogame Tutors for Their Children (WSJ)
• Google Maps location sharing shows your contact’s battery level (Android Police)
• The 2018 Top Programming Languages (IEEE Spectrum)

Thursday, August 02 2018 - Apple Hits A Trillion!

• Cisco to acquire Ann Arbor-based Duo Security in $2.35 billion deal (Crain’s Detroit Business)
• Surface Go review: The ideal cheap Windows tablet… almost (Engadget)
• The tiny Microsoft Surface Go is available now, and it’s an overachiever (The Verge)
• Microsoft Surface Go review: Barely better than a netbook (Mashable)
• The Microsoft Surface Go Is Practically Perfect (Gizmodo)
• RideOS raises $25M to become the traffic control center for self-driving cars (TechCrunch)
• As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up (The Atlantic)
• How Software Ate the Point of Sale (The Atlantic)

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

• GOOGLE PLANS TO LAUNCH CENSORED SEARCH ENGINE IN CHINA, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL (The Intercept)
• Apple tops 300 million paid subscriptions as it reportedly preps new subscription services (Digiday)
• This No-Brand Startup Won $240 Million to Fight Amazon on Price and Quality (Bloomberg)
• Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (The Atlantic)

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

• Smartphone Slowdown Hits Profits at Samsung Electronics (Bloomberg)
• Sony can’t stop making money from PlayStation (Engadget)
• Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars (TechCrunch)
• Where Did you Go to School? (Richard Kerby)
• Where Did You Go To School? (AVC)
• WhatsApp group calls are rolling out to everyone, but don’t ditch Skype just yet (Android Authority)
• Google Maps can predict how much you’ll like a restaurant (Engadget)

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

• Scoop: Bitcoin Mining Company Bitmain Hit $1.1 Billion in Profits in Q1 2018 (Fortune)
• The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived (CoinDesk)
• Grover raises €37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription (TechCrunch)
• Twitter is prioritizing its network ‘health’ over adding new growth features. Is that the right move? (Recode)
• Why unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook (TechCrunch)
• Retailers set sights on Facebook, Google ad revenue (Reuters)
• The self-driving cars hitting the road in Texas today are unlike any we’ve seen before (The Verge)

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

• Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software (Bloomberg)
• This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business (Recode)
• Stripe Starts Issuing Credit Cards (Bloomberg)

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

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

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

• Departing Facebook Security Officer’s Memo: “We Need To Be Willing To Pick Sides” (BuzzFeed News)
• China Said to Quickly Withdraw Approval for New Facebook Venture (NYTimes)
• Steam is rolling out its new Discord-like chat features to all users (The Verge)
• General Motors wants its customers to rent their cars to other people (The Verge)
• Why the iPhone can’t compete in India (The Verge)
• Big tech warns of ‘Japan’s millennium bug’ ahead of Akihito’s abdication (The Guardian)

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

• Alphabet surges to all-time high as Wall Street says internet giant’s big bets are ‘paying off’ (CNBC)
• Alphabet’s experimental investments in the future continue to cost it a fortune (The Verge)
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a jaw-dropping fact about its translation app that shows how much money is still sitting on the table (Business Insider)
• Miles is an app that tracks your every move in exchange for deals and discounts (The Verge)
• A Few More Details About Microsoft’s Xbox Scarlett Game Streaming Service (Thurrott.com)
• Verizon Is Seeking Google or Apple as 5G TV Provider (Bloomberg)
• Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All (Motherboard)

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

• St. Louis Uber driver has put video of hundreds of passengers online. Most have no idea. (St. Louis Dispatch)
• $20K in Crypto: The First Bets on Prediction Market Augur Just Paid Out (CoinDesk)
• Qualcomm’s new chips fix a major problem for 5G phones (CNET)
• Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? (Motherboard)
• Pinterest nears $1 billion in ad sales and valuation rises as it looks to go public in mid-2019 (CNBC)
• Consumer startups are dead. Long live consumer startups. (Eric Feng)

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

• WhatsApp will drastically limit forwarding across the globe to stop the spread of fake news, following violence in India and Myanmar (Recode)
• https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/senate-wants-emergency-alerts-to-go-out-through-netflix-spotify-etc/ (TechCrunch)
• First Test Drive of the Tesla Model 3 Performance: A Thrilling, Modern Marvel (WSJ)

Thursday, July 19 2018 - Will Fuchsia Replace Android?

• Facebook says it will begin removing misinformation that leads to violence (The Verge)
• Full transcript: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode (Recode)
• Mark Zuckerberg clarifies: ‘I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.’ (Recode)
• REDDIT REINVENTS THE CHAT ROOM WITH COMMUNITY CHAT (Wired)
• The European Commission Versus Android (Stretechery)
• Project ‘Fuchsia’: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android (Bloomberg)
• Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It works! It actually works! (Ars Technica)

Wednesday, July 18 2018 - The Massive Google Fine

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

• What Netflix’s big miss means for the new tech economy (Axios)
• STRIKES, BOYCOTTS, AND OUTAGES MAR AMAZON PRIME DAY (Wired)
• Amazon warehouse workers are striking across Europe on Prime Day (The Verge)
• Andreessen Horowitz Names Connie Chan A General Partner, Ending VC Firm’s No-Promotion Policy (Forbes)
• Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (Motherboard)
• VC Firm Social Capital Set Out to Fix Capitalism. Now It’s In Turmoil (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Foes Walmart and Microsoft Deepen Tech Partnership (WSJ)
• $800 Million Says a Self-Driving Car Looks Like This (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Monday, July 16 2018 - Instapaper Goes Solo

• Wave Uber’s new Spotlight or send canned chats to find your driver (TechCrunch)
• Airbnb is grappling with how to treat people with criminal convictions (Quartz)
• A German court ruled you can inherit Facebook content like a letter or a diary (Quartz)
• Here’s what to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S10, including a new feature you won’t find on iPhones (Business Insider)
• Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend (TechCrunch)

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

• Top of the Morning (Axios)
• AT&T’s no-good week shows why it may regret its Google envy (Fast Company)
• Uber begins monitoring U.S. driver background checks continuously (Axios)
• Unlimited data plans are a mess: here’s how to pick the best one (The Verge)

Thursday, July 12 2018 - New MacBook Pros

• APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK PROS HAVE THE LATEST INTEL PROCESSORS AND QUIETER KEYBOARDS (The Verge)
• Broadcom reaches deal to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash (CNBC)
• The Race to a Trillion (Above Avalon)

Wednesday, July 11 2018 - The 2018 X Graduating Class

• Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)
• Thread by @AlecMuffett: “Regards Article13, I wrote up a little command-line false-positive emulator; it tests 10 million events with a test (for copyrighted materia […]” #Article13 (Alex Muffett)
• European Networks Are Joining Forces to Take On Netflix and Amazon (The Hollywood Reporter)
• INSIDE X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY RACING TO BUILD THE NEXT GOOGLE (Wired)

Tuesday, July 10 2018 - Netflix Smart Downloads

• Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go aims to stand out from iPads or Chromebooks (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go is here to nuke Apple’s iPad (Mashable)
• The AI revolution has spawned a new chips arms race (Ars Technica)
• Netflix Binge-Watching Just Got Even Easier: Now It Automatically Downloads New Episodes To Watch Offline (BuzzFeed)

Monday, July 09 2018 - Thanos Did Nothing Wrong!

• Shares of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi stumble on their debut, slipping as much as 6% (CNBC)
• Xiaomi’s weak debut signals trouble for upcoming Hong Kong tech listings (Reuters)
• Apple slices into Spotify’s lead in the US music market (CNBC)
• High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too (NYTimes)
• Federal researchers are using data from Waze and Maryland to try to predict road dangers (Washington Post)
• The Thanos subreddit is gleefully heading for mass slaughter (The Verge)

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

• MEPs vote to reopen copyright debate over ‘censorship’ controversy (TechCrunch)
• Kuo: New 2018 iPhone models to come in gold, grey, white, blue, red and orange colors (9to5Mac)
• Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog (Bloomberg)
• Reddit — one of the world’s most popular websites — is trying to cash in through advertising (CNBC)

Tuesday, July 03 2018 - Dell Returns!

• Dell to Return to Public Markets With Tracking Stock (NYTimes)
• Alphabet adds to transport bets with scooter deal (FT)
• N.S.A. Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records (NYTimes)
• IPO Market Posts Blistering First Half (WSJ)
• In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped In Favor Of Chinese Startups Over North America (CrunchBase)
• These are the top iPhone apps of all time (Tech Crunch)
• “Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel…was disrupted” (Steven Sinofsky)

Friday, June 29 2018 - All New Apple Maps

• Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email (The Verge)
• Digital currency sales hit $13.7 billion in first five months of 2018: report (Reuters)
• The NES Classic is back: here’s where you can pick one up (The Verge)

Thursday, June 28 2018 - Amazon Kneecaps Walgreens

• Amazon shakes up drugstore business with deal to buy online pharmacy PillPack (CNBC)
• Amazon’s new blue crew: Tech giant enlists entrepreneurs to own the ‘last mile,’ delivering packages in Prime vans and uniforms (GeekWire)
• Apple Eyes Streaming Bundle for TV, Music and News (The Information)
• Apple and Samsung End Smartphone Patent Wars (NYTimes)
• Bird CEO Explains Why His Scooter Startup Needed $300 Million (Bloomberg)
• AT&T more than doubles ‘admin fee’ for every wireless customer (The Verge)
• Colossal 128TB SD cards could soon be on the way (TNW)

Wednesday, June 27 2018 - AdWords No More

• Google is retiring the AdWords & DoubleClick brands in a major rebranding aimed at simplification (Search Engine Land)
• Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing (CNET)
• Google Duplex really works and testing begins this summer (The Verge)
• Facebook tests 30-day keyword snoozing to fight spoilers, triggers (TechCrunch)
• BlackBerry KEY2 review: One of the most unique phones around comes up short of awesome (Android Police)

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

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

Monday, June 25 2018 - Noise-Cancelling AirPods?

• Apple to Unveil High-End AirPods, Over-Ear Headphones For 2019 (Bloomberg)
• The US now officially has the world’s fastest supercomputer, knocking China off the top spot (TechSport)
• Is there a next act for one of Silicon Valley’s top investors after Uber? Benchmark and Bill Gurley are about to find out. (ReCode)
• Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (BuzzFeed)

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

• Supreme Court says police can’t use your cellphone to track you without a court order (NBC News)
• Twitter ‘smytes’ customers (TechCrunch)
• Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media (BuzzFeed)

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

• Why Apple’s AirPower Wireless Charger Is Taking So Long to Make (Bloomberg)
• AMAZON FIRE TV CUBE REVIEW: A SMARTER STREAMING BOX (The Verge)
• Google turns on ‘Continued Conversation’ in the Google Assistant (Search Engine Land)
• WHY LYFT IS TRYING TO BECOME THE NEXT SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS (Wired)

Wednesday, June 20 2018 - Instagram Debuts IGTV

• Facebook launches gameshows platform with interactive video (TechCrunch)
• Oppo’s Find X ditches the notch for pop-up cameras (The Verge)
• Crypto Exchange Bithumb Halts Withdrawals After $31 Million Hack (CoinDesk)

Tuesday, June 19 2018 - Musk Fears Sabotage

• In China Trade War, Apple Worries It Will Be Collateral Damage (NYTimes)
• One Year in, Bird Founder Sells Some Shares (The Information)
• The EU’s bizarre war on memes is totally unwinnable (Wired UK)

Monday, June 18 2018 - Apple Upgrades 911 Calls

• In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish (Axios)
• Video Game Addiction Tries to Move From Basement to Doctor’s Office (NYTimes)
• Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die (Bloomberg)
• SBS to screen World Cup games after Optus fail (Sydney Morning Herald)

Friday, June 15 2018 - Oprah Signs With Apple

• APPLE’S ORIGINAL CONTENT IS FURTHER ALONG THAN YOU THINK (LoupVentures)
• Netflix’s latest hit ‘The Kissing Booth’ is a Wattpad success story (TechCrunch)
• How Batteries Went From Primitive Power to Global Domination (Bloomberg)
• William Shatner’s new enterprise: A solar-powered bitcoin mining farm in southern Illinois (Chicago Tribune)

Thursday, June 14 2018 - Save Metafilter!

• Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation (MacStories)
• Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving From the Warehouse to Headquarters (Bloomberg)
• Making a Killing in Virtual Real Estate (Bloomberg)
• The Million Dollar Homepage (Wikipedia)
• SAVE METAFILTER!

Wednesday, June 13 2018 - Major Twitter Changes

• Intel makes it a three-way race with AMD and Nvidia on graphics chips (Marketwatch)
• Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (NYTimes)
• E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation (NYTimes)
• Fortnite on the Switch is good enough to make Sony’s cross-play policy look even more stupid (The Verge)

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

• Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2 billion valuation (Axios)
• Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020 (Thurrott.com)
• The Guy Tapping His Head Meme Explained (NYMag)
• Inside the Binge Factory (NYMag)
• Blockchain’s Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular (CoinDesk)
• TED Residency (TED)

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

• The Apple Watch will get touch-sensitive, solid-state buttons (Fast Company)
• The Scooter Economy (Stratechery)
• How to understand the financial levers in your business (TechCrunch)
• AT&T-Time Warner Ruling Has Dealmakers Bracing (NYTimes)
• In-display fingerprint sensors are here, and they actually work (The Verge)

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

• AI at Google: our principles (Google)
• Can Google keep its promises on building ethical AI? (Engadget)
• Airbnb says forced to cancel bookings under new Japan law (Asia One)
• Ubisoft Believes Next Gen Is the Last for Consoles as Microsoft Looks Beyond Platforms (Variety)
• Chat Wars (N+1)

Thursday, June 07 2018 - The Fire TV Cube

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

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

• Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence (NYTimes)
• Instagram Could Soon Allow Users to Post Long-Form Video (WSJ)
• Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean (Motherboard)
• Marcus, Casper, Oscar: Why Startups Are Obsessed With Human Names (Bloomberg)

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

• Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem (SiliconAngle)
• Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders (WSJ)
• Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI (BBC News)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)
• Roko’s basilisk (LessWrong)

Monday, June 04 2018 - WWDC Highlights

• Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion (The Verge)
• Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends (NYTimes)

Friday, June 01 2018 - What to Expect From WWDC

• New Arm Cortex-A76 and Mali-G76 target laptop-class performance (Android Authority)
• Angry Facebook shareholders challenge Zuckerberg over ‘corporate dictatorship’ (The Guardian)
• Apple Is Set to Unveil AR Upgrade, Software to Manage iPhone Use (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s WWDC 2018: iOS 12, macOS, and what else to expect (The Verge)
• WWDC 2018: What to expect from Apple’s big event (MacWorld)

Thursday, May 31 2018 - Self Driving Cars 4 Realz

• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he’s trying to convince Alphabet to put Waymo self-driving cars on the company’s network (Recode)
• Xiaomi’s transparent Mi 8 also does 3D face unlock (Engadget)
• Atari is crowdfunding a new console, but who is this device actually for? (Polygon)

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

• Snapchat preps Snapkit platform to bring camera, login to other apps (TechCrunch)
• Mobile Direct Traffic Eclipses Facebook (Chartbeat)
• Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis (Recode)
• Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs (NPR)
• Glenn’s Kickstarter

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

• Uber adds a panic button in its app (The Verge)
• Uber’s Exit From Southeast Asia Upsets Regulators and Drivers (New York Times)
• Apple’s HomePod Speaker Finally Gets Multi-Room Audio And Stereo Mode (Buzzfeed)
• Papua New Guinea To Shutdown Facebook (Post Courier)
• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next (Vox)
• Bid to Block Trump’s Deal on ZTE Would Have Support, Rubio Says (Bloomberg News)
• The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law (New York Times)
• How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes (Buzzfeed)

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

• Publications block EU readers (New York Times)
• Google late to update advertisers and ad-tech networks on GDPR changes (Digiday)
• Tesla settles on auto-pilot (Reuters)
• Alexa forwards private conversation by couple (KIRO)
• Amazon’s statement on Alexa recording and forwarding (Recode)
• Piles of bike-sharing cycles (Atlantic)

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

• Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars (NYTimes)
• Google Buys 20,000 SUVs, Apple Gets Two Dozen VW Vans (Bloomberg)
• The Techie Town Of San Francisco Gets A New Tower As Houses Remain Scarce (BuzzFeed)

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

• Next Generation iPhone Chips Go Into Production (Bloomberg)
• HTC Announces U12 Plus With Pressure-Sensitive Buttons and Sides (The Verge)
• Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns (WSJ)

Tuesday, May 22 2018 - Amazon Vs. The ACLU

• The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica (Slate)
• Impatient, distracted consumers upend the media landscape (Axios)
• Overall Q1 US Smartphone Sales Dip 11% YoY, Apple Grows a Record 16% YoY (Counterpoint)
• Instagram Finally Adds A Mute Button, Saving Countless Friendships (BuzzFeed)

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

• Lyft Explores Launching Scooter Service in San Francisco (The Information)
• Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control (The Atlantic)
• We Dropped $18,000 Worth of Phones, and These Are the Toughest (and Weakest) (Tomsguide.com)

Friday, May 18 2018 - Fortnite Comes to Android

• Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site (KrebsonSecurity)
• The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off (University of Washington)
• This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean (Bloomberg)

Thursday, May 17 2018 - YouTube Music

• Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (Motherboard)
• Xbox Adaptive Controller first look: A new, necessary gamepad (Engadget)
• The Autonomous-Car Company That’s Selling Safety First (Bloomberg)
• Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud (WSJ)
• Howeycoins (SEC)

Wednesday, May 16 2018 - Yanny vs. Laurel

• Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices for Prime members in new grocery showdown (Reuters)
• Microsoft Plans Low-Cost Tablet Line to Rival iPad (Bloomberg)
• This start-up made connected toothbrushes – now it aims to overthrow the ‘primitive’ dental insurance industry (CNBC)
• Yanny or Laurel? How an Audio Clip Divided the Internet (NYTimes)
• The True History of ‘Yanny’ and ‘Laurel’ (Wired)

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

• At NYC’s Big Crypto Conference, the Lamborghinis Are Rented and Protests Are Staged (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future (The Verge)
• Tweetstorm about Netflix and “originals” (Matthew Ball)
• This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets (The Verge)

Monday, May 14 2018 - Email Encryption Might Be Broken

• Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (Gizmodo)
• New HP all-in-one houses Alexa, provides power with wireless charging base (Ars Technica)
• The Supreme Court Struck Down the Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling. Here’s What Could Happen Next. (The Ringer)
• Supreme Court allows states to legalize sports betting, opening floodgates for online gambling profits (TechCrunch)
• The impact of Masayoshi Son’s $100bn tech fund will be profound (The Economist)

Friday, May 11 2018 - A Facebook Cryptocurrency?

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

Thursday, May 10 2018 - Sending Secret Messages to Siri

• Link to the Russian Facebook ads (House.gov)
• Goldman Sachs, Apple Team Up on New Credit Card (WSJ)
• Roku Earnings Beat Expectations as Ads, Services Surpass Hardware Revenue (Variety)
• Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding round (TechCrunch)
• Google Grapples With ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech (Bloomberg)
• Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? (The Verge)
• Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. (NYTimes)
• Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (The Flaming Lips)

Wednesday, May 09 2018 - Facebook’s Executive Shuffle

• Tweet thread about using crypto for social networking (Parker Thompson @pt)
• Red Alert For Net Neutrality Email Your Senator Form (Do it!)
• Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (Google AI Blog)
• FX and New York Times partner for new series ‘The Weekly’ (CNN/Money)

Tuesday, May 08 2018 - Google I/O Highlights

• Link to the video of the full I/O keynote
• Best video I could find (in a rush) of the Duplex Demo
• Twitter has an unlaunched ‘Secret’ encrypted messages feature (TechCrunch)
• Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency (NYTimes)
• Uber shows its flying car prototype, which looks like a giant drone (CNBC)

Monday, May 07 2018 - The iMac at Twenty

• Nadella’s Microsoft (The Verge)
• Eight things to expect at Google I/O 2018 (The Verge)
• Who’s Winning the Self-Driving Car Race? (Bloomberg)
• Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone (The Atlantic)

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

• Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option (Bloomberg)
• Facebook May Have Secret Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet (ieee spectrum)
• Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce (TechCrunch)
• Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought a stunning 75 million Apple shares in first quarter (CNBC)
• Why Regulators Should Approve the T-Mobile/Sprint Deal (Tech.pinions)
• The ‘Race to 5G’ Is Just Mindless Marketing BS (Motherboard)

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

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

Wednesday, May 02 2018 - AI Announcements at F8

• Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy (WSJ)
• Telegram Messaging App Scraps Plans for Public Coin Offering (WSJ)
• LG’s G7 ThinQ preserves the headphone jack and introduces a notch (The Verge)
• Pandora Learns the Cost of Ads, and of Subscriptions (Wired)
• Over 30? You’re Too Old For Tech Jobs In China (Bloomberg)
• Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War? (Wired)

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

• Mark Zuckerberg Says it Will Take 3 Years to Fix Facebook (Wired)
• WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook (Washington Post)
• Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service (Ars Technica)

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

• As controversy swirls, Facebook dials down the swagger on its developer conference (The Verge)
• Oculus wants to make immersive virtual theater a reality (CNET)
• Jeff Bezos reveals what it’s like to build an empire and become the richest man in the world — and why he’s willing to spend $1 billion a year to fund the most important mission of his life (Business Insider)

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

• RIP AirPort Base Stations: Why Apple is exiting the Wi-Fi router business (iMore)
• Apple’s working on a powerful, wireless headset for both AR, VR (CNET)
• GEDmatch, a tiny DNA analysis firm, was key for Golden State Killer case (Ars Technica)
• A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal (Matthew Green)

Thursday, April 26 2018 - Snap’s Spectacles 2.0

• Snap’s second-generation Spectacles are more grown up — and more expensive (The Verge)
• Inside Nintendo’s secretive creative process (The Guardian)
• Sonos Prepares for IPO as Soon as June (WSJ)

Wednesday, April 25 2018 - The Gmail Revamp

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

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

• Google’s Writing Checks and Trusts Investors Won’t Bounce (Bloomberg)
• The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable (Ars Technica)
• Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin’s Biggest Villain (Fortune)

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

• Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots (Bloomberg)
• Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Aleksandr Kogan Wants You To Know He’s Not A Russian Spy (BuzzFeed)
• Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (WSJ)
• CIA agents in ‘about 30 countries’ being tracked by technology, top official says (CNN)
• Global Recorded Music Revenues Grew By $1.4 Billion in 2017 (Music Industry Blog)

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

• Exclusive: Chat is Google’s Next Big Fix for Android’s Messaging Mess (The Verge)
• Apple Can’t Cut Its Dependence on Rival Samsung’s Screens (WSJ)
• The Woman Who Gave The Macintosh a Smile (The New Yorker)
• Phone use while driving is still a huge problem, but this is helping (SlashGear)

Thursday, April 19 2018 - Bezos’ Shareholder Letter

• Amazon CEO Shareholder Letter (SEC)
• Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law (Reuters)
• Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips (Bloomberg)
• Intel Plans to Shut Down Smart Glasses Group (The Information)
• PlayVS wants every high school to have an esports team (TechCrunch)

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

• A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes (TechCrunch)
• Welcome to the Wikipedia for Terms of Service Agreements (Wired)
• ToSDR.org

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

• These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database (Forbes)
• Hard Questions: What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? (Facebook Newsroom)

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

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

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