Tech Brew Ride Home

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May 12, 2022Thu. 05/12 – The Everything Everywhere All At Once File Overflows
Other algorithmic stablecoins are teetering. Meta is cutting back, even when it comes to the Metaverse. Could an Instacart IPO lead us out of this darkness? Disney’s streaming business is holding up. For now. And the AR demo that was the most exciting thing from the I/O keynote yesterday.
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Links:
Terra Crunch Shakes Foundations of Crypto Stablecoin Complex (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks (Reuters)
SoftBank Reports Its Biggest-Ever Full-Year Loss (WSJ)
Instacart Files Confidentially for an IPO That Could Happen This Year (Bloomberg)
Senate confirms Bedoya to FTC, establishing Democratic majority (The Verge)
Disney+ Hits 137.7M Subscribers, Beating Wall Street Expectations in Streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
Google releases Android 13 beta 2 with finer privacy controls and improved Material You (Neowin)
Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O (TechCrunch)
18 min
May 11, 2022Wed. 05/11 – Google I/O 2022
All the headlines from Google’s I/O keynote this afternoon. The stablecoin fiasco has gotten rapidly worse. More carnage in tech stocks. Is Apple shifting to USB C for the iPhone at long last? And pour one out for the iPod, the product and brand that very much kicked off our modern era of gadgetry.
Sponsors:
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HubSpot.com
Links:
Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps (9to5Google)
Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future (TechCrunch)
Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen (The Verge)
Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449 (9to5Google)
Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7 (Android Police)
Google unveils the Pixel Buds Pro (9to5Google)
Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7 (9to5Google)
Google will release a Pixel Tablet… in 2023 (TechCrunch)
As Luna holders watch the token slide, many won’t be able to cash out for weeks (The Block)
Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides (CryptoWorld)
Kuo: iPhone 15 to Switch From Lightning to USB-C in 2023 (MacRumors)
The iPod is dead (TechCrunch)
20 min
May 10, 2022Tue. 05/10 – UST Stablecoin Not So Stable
A major algorithmic stablecoin has lost its peg to the dollar. More concerns of a slowdown as Tiger Global has racked up massive paper losses. Match Group sues Google. Has GDPR crushed the European app economy? Amazon engages mom and pop stores to deliver packages. And an interesting raise that is building the GitHub of machine learning.
Sponsors:
ConstantContact.com

Links:
UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg for Second Time in 48 Hours, LUNA Market Cap Falls Below UST's (CoinDesk)
Crypto’s Audacious Algorithmic Stablecoin Experiment Crumbles (Bloomberg)
Tiger Global hit by $17bn losses in tech rout (FT)
Europe's GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps (The Register)
Match Sues Google Over App Store Billing Rules (Bloomberg)
Amazon’s surprising new delivery partners: Rural mom-and-pop shops (Recode)
Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (TechCrunch)

Watch iconic Broadway theatre rise 30 feet above the ground (Borat voice: MY WIFE!)
18 min
May 09, 2022Mon. 05/09 – Everything Is Down
Everything is down, not just tech stocks, but now crypto too. More signs of belt tightening and possible hiring freezes, this time from Uber. Twitter has avoided the overall market route thanks to Elon’s bid, but could the downturn effect that as well? Instagram launches an NFT pilot. And what to expect from Google’s I/O later this week.
Sponsors:
OurCrowd.com/ride

Links:
Bitcoin’s Unraveling Hits 50% From Peak With Drop Below $33,000 (Bloomberg)
Uber CEO tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’ (CNBC)
Why Musk’s Twitter Bid Has Shaken Tesla Investors (NYTimes)
Meta to start testing digital collectibles on Instagram (The Block)
Costa Rica declares national emergency after Conti ransomware attacks (BleepingComputer)
What to expect from Google I/O 2022 (The Verge)
18 min
May 06, 2022Fri. 05/06 – Give Us The Passwordless Future Already
With Apple, Google and Microsoft all signed up to offer FIDO Alliance technology, are we about to hear about some big passwordless tech at all the developers conferences this summer? China wants the whole country to turn in their foreign made laptops. Fortnite is available everywhere, including iOS, thanks to Microsoft. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Sponsors:
HubSpot.com
Ortto.com
Links:
Apple, Google, Microsoft Back 'FIDO' Tech to Dump Passwords on Websites and Apps (CNET)
China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs (Bloomberg)
Epic's Fortnite Now Free to Play on Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console (CNET)
Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise (Wired)
Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled (CNN)
A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
The Endgame (Newcomer)
16 min
May 05, 2022Thu. 05/05 – Elon To Be Twitter CEO?
Elon gets some friends to join his Twitter deal. And does he expect to be Twitter CEO soon? A Google acquisition shows their metaverse aspirations. Sonos to launch a voice assistant. A hiring slowdown at Meta. How can there be need for layoffs at Cameo? And is anyone other than me and the US Government concerned about quantum computing breaking encryption?
Sponsors:
HubSpot.com

Links:
Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter (FT)
Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper (The Verge)
Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)
Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (Protocol)
Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically (TechCrunch)
White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers (The Record)
18 min
May 04, 2022Wed. 05/04 – Uber Back To Pre-Covid Levels
Uber is seeing rider usage return to pre-Covid levels. New, better flash storage. Twitter tests the ability to only tweet to certain circles. An interesting laptop and an interesting raise. And Spotify wants you to hang out, in Roblox.
Sponsors:
AthleticGreens.com/ride

Links:
Uber reports surging revenue as drivers return, but posts massive loss on investments (CNBC)
NFT Sales Are Flatlining (WSJ)
Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage is a major upgrade, especially for 5G phones (Android Authority)
Twitter Testing New 'Twitter Circle' Feature for Sharing Tweets With a Smaller Number of People (MacRumors)
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free (MIT Technology Review)
Razer’s Blade 15 is the first laptop with a 240Hz OLED display, but you’ll have to wait a while (The Verge)
Larry Ellison leads $21.5 million Series A in cancer treatment startup Imagene AI (CTech)
Spotify becomes first music streamer to launch on Roblox (TechCrunch)
19 min
May 03, 2022Tue. 05/03 – No More Podcasting On Facebook
What do you know? Facebook got bored of something and left the market in a bit of a mess. The SEC seems to be staffing up to get serious about crypto. Apple accuses a rival of stealing trade secrets. And it seems like Meta wants to start getting those Metaverse enabling headsets in our hands sooner rather than later.
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CreditKarma.com
Links:
Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year (Bloomberg)
SEC to Hire More Crypto Cops to Fight Digital Frauds (WSJ)
PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments (Bloomberg)
UK ministers ditch plans to empower tech regulator (FT)
Apple accuses engineers of stealing chip secrets with AirDrop and Time Machine (9to5Mac)
Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 (The Information)
Rocket Lab captures booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time (Engadget)
17 min
May 02, 2022Mon. 05/02 – EU Says Apple’s NFC Chips Don’t Play Well With Others
The expected EU hammer is coming down on Apple. Yuga Labs’ latest project didn’t bring down Ethereum, but made it hella expensive. Bots DID bring down Solana. Again. A new book looks at why Jony Ive left Apple. And what the heck is going on with Google and it’s AI researchers?
Sponsors:
Traceroute Podcast (Origins.dev for more info)
Links:
Apple charged by Brussels with abusing its market power in mobile payments (Financial Times)
Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum (Bloomberg)
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain (The Verge)
Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool (CoinDesk)
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years (WSJ)
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (NYTimes)
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (NYTimes)
20 min
May 01, 2022 (TWTR SPC) How The Web Evolved - The Reunion Of The Social Web TV Crew (Fixed)
(The audio has been fixed in this version)
How was the web won and lost? If you had to do Web2.0 over again, what would you do differently? What is the future of Twitter under Elon Musk. All this and more from a huge crew of web 2.0 OGs. Check them out from 15 years ago on YouTube.
1 hr 34 min