Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech Brew Ride Home episodes

January 27, 2022Thu. 01/27 – Apple To Block Block (Née Square)?
Apple is coming for Block’s Square dongle with a new ability to accept payments just using your iPhone. The dilemma that is the Spotify/Neil Young situation. OpenAI is an interesting raise. Fireblocks is an interesting raise. And why has the r/antiwork subreddit suddenly gone private?
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Apple to Rival Square by Turning iPhones Into Payment Terminals (Bloomberg)
Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum (WSJ)
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets (WSJ)
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules start-up fundraising process (CNBC)
Fireblocks raises $550 million in Series E funding, now valued at $8 billion (The Block)
Anti-Work Subreddit Suddenly Goes Private to Clean Up After ‘Brigading’ (Bloomberg)
Anti-work subreddit implodes after rough Fox News interview (Mashable)
Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th (The Verge)
17 min
January 26, 2022Wed. 01/26 – Diem Dead?
Is Mark Zuckerberg abandoning his crypto dreams and looking to sell off Diem? The IMF is subtly suggesting El Salvador abandon bitcoin. Microsoft is gonna play nice with Activision exclusives. For now. Mark your calendars for the next Samsung event. And has YouTube figured out how to beat TikTok at its own game?
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel With Diem Sale Talks (Bloomberg)
Ditch Bitcoin: IMF Urges El Salvador to Rethink Crypto (Bloomberg)
Activision’s Next Three Call of Duty Games Will Be on PlayStation and Xbox (Bloomberg)
Samsung's first Unpacked of 2022 will take place February 9th (Engadget)
Log4Shell: No Mass Abuse, But No Respite, What Happened? (Sophos News)
YouTube Shorts Tops 5 Trillion Views to Date, Platform to Test Shopping and Branded Content for TikTok-Style Videos (Variety)
18 min
January 25, 2022Tue. 01/25 – Is The Nvidia/Arm Deal Off?
That already fraught tie-up between Nvidia and Arm increasingly looks like it’s running out of time. Google kills its cookie-killer. Twitter is developing a close friends feature. Meta’s new Machine Learning supercomputer. And why the situation in Ukraine might be a black swan event that is nigh.
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Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid (Bloomberg)
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics (TechCrunch)
Twitter's new Flock feature takes aim at Instagram Close Friends (Input)
Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022 (The Verge)
Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup (ArsTechnica)
DHS warns of Russian cyberattack on US if it responds to Ukraine invasion (ABCNews)
20 min
January 24, 2022Mon. 01/24 – Do We Even Have The Infrastructure To Make The Metaverse Happen?
States sue Google for data shenanigans. Europe passes a landmark ad targeting and data law. Apple’s 2022 lineup according to Mark Gurman. A look at the state of the crypto crash, and to what degree it is affecting NFTs. And all this talk of metaverses led to record VC investment in AR and VR startups, but what some folks are starting to ask is, even if we build it, do we have the infrastructure that will even allow the people to come?
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Google deceived consumers about how it profits from their location data, attorneys general allege in lawsuits (Washington Post)
MEPs adopt Digital Services Act with significant last-minute changes (Euractiv)
European Parliament approves initial proposal to ban some targeted ads (The Verge)
Apple Nears First Product Launch of 2022, With 5G iPhone SE and New iPad on Tap (Bloomberg)
Solana Slides 17% to Lead Losses Amid Crypto Market Plunge (CoinDesk)
Despite the Drop in Crypto Prices, Weekly NFT Sales Reach $4.7 Billion, Increasing 81% (Bitcoin.com)
VR/AR Investments Increase Just As Metaverse Talk Heats Up—But That May Not Be The Only Reason (Crunchbase News)
The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue (Financial Times)
19 min
January 22, 2022(TWTR SPC) The State Of VC And Startups In 2022
Weirdly, this turned into a sort of education on VC and startup investing episode? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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1 hr 53 min
January 21, 2022Fri. 01/21 – Intel Bringing Silicon Back (To Ohio)
The trend of re-onshoring silicon production domestically and Intel’s turnaround plans collide in a way that is very good for Ohio. Twitter will let you NFT-up your profile picture. Google’s doing the AR headset thing too. That Apple education discount has gotten harder to spoof. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside (Time)
Twitter Embraces NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature (WSJ)
GOOGLE IS BUILDING AN AR HEADSET (The Verge)
Netflix Falls Short of Q4 Subscriber Target, Stock Tumbles on Weak Forecast (Variety)
We regret to inform you that Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How Did ID.me Get Between You and Your Identity? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The SPAC Ship Is Sinking. Investors Want Their Money Back. (WSJ)
THE INSIDE STORY OF IBEER, THE UNDERDOG BEER APP THAT MADE MILLIONS (MelMagazine)
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)
How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (The New Yorker)
19 min
January 20, 2022Thu. 01/20 – Meta Wants To Bring NFTs To Your Insta Profile
Meta is working on NFTs for Instagram and Facebook while Google is starting a blockchain team. Instagram Subscriptions launches. Google Play Games launches on Windows. Amazon launches its first physical fashion store. And why, by this summer, you will only be able to pay the IRS your taxes online by doxing yourself?
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Links:
Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze (FT)
Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive (Bloomberg)
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US (TechCrunch)
Google Play Games for PC starts limited beta for Android games on Windows, sharing system requirements (Android Police)
Amazon to try another tech-infused retail concept with ‘Amazon Style,’ its first physical fashion store (GeekWire)
Crypto.com Says Regulators Haven’t Reached Out After Hack (Bloomberg)
Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs (TechCrunch)
IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Online (Gizmodo)
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access (KrebsonSecurity)
19 min
January 19, 2022Wed. 01/19 – The 5G Flight Issue Comes To A Head
Today is the big day for the showdown between 5G and the airlines. Nobody’s blinked yet, but both sides have sort of blinked. An interesting raise in the NFT space. And I’ve heard of autonomous road cars, but autonomous rail cars? More fallout from the Activision/Microsoft tie-up, and how literally fallout from that undersea volcano may have knocked Tonga off the internet.
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Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch (WSJ)
Major airlines cancel, change flights to US over 5G dispute (AP)
Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard (Decrypt)
OpenSea confirms acquisition of Dharma, sets sights on fiat onramps (The Block)
Michael Jordan, Multicoin Back Solana NFT Firm Metaplex in $46M Round (Decrypt)
Former SpaceX engineers bring autonomous, electric rail vehicle startup out of stealth (TechCrunch)
Activision Blizzard’s Workplace Problems Spurred $75 Billion Microsoft Deal (WSJ)
Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it (Recode)
Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will take to get it reconnected. (MIT Technology Review)
20 min
January 18, 2022Tue. 01/18 – Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard In The Biggest Gaming Deal Of All Time
Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard in the biggest gaming acquisition of all time. Partially this is a metaverse play, but meanwhile, Meta is quietly locking down all the metaverse patents. Crypto.com halts withdrawals on its platform but insists it hasn’t been hacked. And why are countries encouraging their athletes to use burner phones when they attend the upcoming Olympics?
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Links:
Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal (CNBC)
Activision Blizzard Games Will Come To Xbox Game Pass As Part Of Acquisition (PureXbox)
Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse (Financial Times)
Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum (Decrypt)
Samsung begins mass production of Exynos 2200 smartphone processor (ZDNet)
Cross-country Exposure - Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app (Citizenlab.ca)
Olympic burner phones? Athletes warned about bringing personal devices to China for 2022 Beijing Games (USAToday)
19 min
January 15, 2022(TWTR SPC) The Tools Episode!
... and I'm not just talking about the hosts! Myself, Chris, and about a dozen listeners kick around the latest apps, tools, platforms and other things we use to GTD.
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Some of the books I mention at the end:
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
1 hr 56 min