Tech Brew Ride Home

Fri. 08/05 – Amazon To Acquire iRobot

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Amazon wants to acquire the company that makes the Roomba robot, or as it’s known in my family, Vrrrrooom. We finally know the legal arguments both sides are making in the Elon/Twitter case. Does crashing semiconductor demand prove we’re in a recession or not? And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

  • Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B (TechCrunch)
  • Twitter slams Elon Musk's response to its lawsuit (Axios)
  • Cooling Semiconductor Sales Heighten Fears of a Global Recession (Bloomberg)


    Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

    • The endless search for a crypto use case (Networked substack)
    • It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art (TechCrunch)
    • CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications (CNN)
    • THE UNSUNG INVENTOR WHO CHASED THE LED RAINBOW (ieee Spectrum)

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