Tech Brew Ride Home

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February 09, 2022Wed. 02/09 – The Samsung Galaxy S22 Event
All the headlines from the Samsung event, including the new S22 lineup and some massive new tablets. Can Meta’s stock crash so much that it would become immune to antitrust liability? And, look, the alleged Bonnie and Clyde for our times, the whole saga of that husband and wife arrested here in NYC yesterday, allegedly related to the big Bitfinex hack.
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SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 AND S22 PLUS PUT IMPROVED CAMERAS AND PERFORMANCE IN A SAMEY DESIGN (The Verge)
SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 ULTRA IS A NOTE BY ANOTHER NAME (The Verge)
Samsung’s new tablets go bigger than ever (The Verge)
Facebook market cap falls below $600 billion — which could actually help it dodge new antitrust scrutiny (CNBC)
Justice Department Says It Seized $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Stolen in 2016 Hack (WSJ)
Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper (Motherboard)
25 min
February 08, 2022Tue. 02/08 – Nvidia And Arm Are Off
It’s a day of retrenchment. Nvidia and Arm are off. Peter Thiel is leaving the Meta board. Peloton loses its CEO ahead of what is likely to be disastrous earnings. The IRS backs down from the whole facial recognition thing. And Tinder stops charging you more if you’re old.
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SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses (THE (?) Financial Times)
Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates (NYTimes)
Peloton CEO John Foley to Step Down, Firm to Cut 2,800 Jobs (WSJ)
I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification (NYTimes)
Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music With Artificial Intelligence (Bloomberg)
Apple announces new Tap to Pay feature that turns iPhones into contactless payment terminals (9to5Mac)
Signal now allows you to keep messages and groups after changing phone numbers (ZDNet)
Tinder will stop charging older users more for premium features (Engadget)
18 min
February 07, 2022Mon 02/07 – Rogangate And The ENS DAO Controversy
Rogangate rolls on. Why a controversy in the Ethereum Name Service community might be even more interesting, because of what it might teach us about the viability of DAOs. Twitter is, oddly, testing ways to make it easier for folks to DM you. And rumors of a new entry level MacBook Pro.
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Spotify CEO Addresses Joe Rogan’s N-Word Use, Doubles Down on Keeping Podcaster on Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
Spotify CEO defends Joe Rogan deal in tense company town hall (The Verge)
Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Team Member Brantly Millegan Over 2016 Tweet (CoinDesk)
Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea (The Verge)
Gurman: New entry-level MacBook Pro with M2 chip coming this year, but no ProMotion (9to5Mac)
Gurman: Apple Event on March 8, At Least Four M2 Macs to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
Mapping the celebrity NFT complex (Read Max)
18 min
February 04, 2022Fri. 02/04 – Tech Earnings Whiplash!
That crack you felt in your spine was just the whiplash from the craziest 24 hours in tech earnings I’ve ever seen. Amazon has created a bigger advertising business than the entire newspaper industry. Apple once again shows it can adjust the App Store vig when it has to. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Snap shares rocket as much as 62% on first-ever quarterly net profit (CNBC)
Amazon Flexes Its Pricing Muscles (WSJ)
Amazon Profit Shows Resilience Even as Labor, Supply Crunch Weigh on Results (WSJ)
Apple will charge 27% commission for app purchases made using alternative payment systems in the Netherlands (9to5Mac)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
HOW ONE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE NFT TRADE (The Verge)
The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You (Wired)
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (Wired)
Startup Investors Cut Valuations Amid Tech Stock Rout, Dismal IPOs (WSJ)
How IBM’s Watson Went From the Future of Health Care to Sold Off for Parts (Slate)
Don’t forget Microsoft (Luttig's Learnings)

(TWTR SPC) The Tools Episode! Recommended Apps List
21 min
February 03, 2022Thu. 02/03 – Meta.Bomb
Meta really steps in it with earnings that send the stock down fully 25%. The plague of hacks hitting crypto startups. The ransomware attack causing a snacks crisis in Britain. Bored Apes Yacht Club is an interesting raise. And why we might not see a HoloLens 3.
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Meta estimates Apple's iOS changes will cost it $10B in 2022 (ZDNet)
Facebook and Google’s Ad Addiction Can’t Last Forever (Bloomberg Opinion)
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole hacked for an estimated $322 million (The Record)
KP Snacks giant hit by Conti ransomware, deliveries disrupted (BleepingComputer)
Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
Inside Microsoft's mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company's metaverse strategy (Insider)
19 min
February 02, 2022Wed. 02/02 – YouTube Bigger Than Netflix?
Alphabet gives a new meaning to the term blowout quarter. Cruise is getting ready to launch its robotaxi business in San Francisco. A GDPR issue that might have huge implications. Starlink has a new premium tier. And what happens if someone buys your house, your IRL house, but in the metaverse? I’m not kidding.
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Google parent Alphabet announces 20-for-1 stock split (CNBC)
Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from SoftBank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public (TechCrunch)
SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (The Verge)
European Ad Group Hit With Sanctions Over Privacy Lapses (Bloomberg)
Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you. (Protocol)
19 min
February 01, 2022Tue. 02/01 – Destiny And Wordle Get Acquired
The year of gaming consolidation is upon us, with Sony snapping up Bungie. Not EXACTLY related, but the NYTimes has acquired Wordle. Did the CEO of Bolt’s tweets lose him the top job at the company he founded? You can no longer roll through stop signs in your Tesla. And the best use of augmented reality I’ve heard in a while.
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Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (GamesIndustry.biz)
SONY’S BUNGIE ACQUISITION IS ALL ABOUT FORTNITE (The Verge)
Microsoft Deal for Activision to Be Reviewed by FTC in U.S. (Bloomberg)
Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)
Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play (The Verge)
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (TechCrunch)
Tesla recall: ‘Full Self-Driving’ software runs stop signs (AP)
Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)

World Cup of Entrepreneurs On YouTube
19 min
January 31, 2022Mon. 01/31 – Spotify “Clarifies” The Joe Rogan Situation
Summing up the whole Joe Rogan brouhaha from over the weekend. Meta joins a crypto legal alliance and takes a page out of Alphabets book by planning to break out reporting of its metaverse business. And the dotcom bubble called and wants its headlines back: wash trading might be rampant on NFT marketplaces, and a look at the six startups trying to succeed, where Kozmo.com failed.
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Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19 (The Verge)
Joe Rogan defends podcast and apologizes to Spotify for backlash (The Verge)
Spotify’s big Rogan mistake (Protocol)
Facebook parent Meta joins crypto group promoting open patents (The Block)
Facebook's metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate. (Insider)
LooksRare Has Reportedly Generated $8B in Ethereum NFT Wash Trading (Decrypt)
Losses Mount for Startups Racing to Deliver Groceries Fast and Cheap (WSJ)
22 min
January 29, 2022(TWTR SPC) Stonks & Startups With @nmasc_ @Katie_Roof and @ChristineMHall
The great Katie Roof, Natasha Mascarenhas and Christine Hall come on to talk more about the craziness in the stock market and what it might mean for tech startups. Then Chris and I debate The Great Debate surrounding Web3. Shoutout to @randras_ for giving us context, even in the podcast space!
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1 hr 26 min
January 28, 2022Fri. 01/28 – Making GPT-3 Less Gross
Ho hum. Apple reports its most revenue and profit in history. You’ll soon be able to unlock your iPhone while masked, even without the Apple Watch. The White House is readying a huge executive order on Crypto. The new version of GPT-3 is less error-prone, and less prone to say bad stuff. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Apple CEO: ‘We Don’t Make Purely Financial Decisions’ About Apple TV Plus Content (Variety)
iOS 15.4 Beta Lets You Use Face ID With a Mask On (MacRumors)
White House reportedly preparing executive order on crypto (CoinTelegraph)
The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic) (Technology Review)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs (Folding Ideas on YouTube)
Three things web3 should fix in 2022 (Platformer)
The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’ (RollingStone)
Nothing Sacred: These Apps Reserve The Right To Sell Your Prayers (Buzzfeed News)
Your Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot. Srsly. (WSJ)
Why Netflix Just Had Its Worst Day in A Decade (Bloomberg)
Netflix stock market woe is warning to Hollywood (Financial Times)
20 min