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- Wed. 11/17 – Apple Will Let You Do At-Home iPhone Repairs, Yourself
Hell freezes slightly over. Apple is gonna let you repair your own devices, at home, yourself. The Staples Center goes crypto. Meta wants to bring touch to VR. Netflix now WANTS you to know which shows have been watched the most. And Miramax is suing Quentin Tarantino over NFT’s.
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- Tovala.com/ride
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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)16 min - Tue. 11/16 – The War Between The Furries And The NFTs
Twitter has followed through on its promise to decentralize and play nice with 3rd party developers. Will the Nvidia/ARM acquisition actually happen? Substack reaches a million subscribers. Apple defends buying Google Ads. And I get my answer about the whole civil war between Crypto and NFT folks and… furries?
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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)16 min - Mon. 11/15 – Why Apple Buying Google Ads Might Be Weird
Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions. The audacious hacker that managed to send fake emails from the FBI’s own servers. The story behind the big Taproot update to Bitcoin. And the DAO of crypto enthusiasts looking to buy a copy of the US Constitution.
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- Betterhelp.com/ridehome
- HeyLaika.com/techmeme
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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)19 min - (TWTR SPC) How To Build A Metaverse
Coming at the Metaverse from a different angle. If you're a dev or even just an enthusiast, how, from a technological perspective, will the Metaverse be built?
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- FirstRepublic.com
- Streak.com/techmeme
1 hr 35 min - Fri. 11/12 – MoviePass Is Coming Back
Beware a watering hole, zero day attack that affected macOS. Spotify is getting into the audiobook game. MoviePass looks like it might be coming back from the dead, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Detectify.com/techmeme
- FirstRepublic.com
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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)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution (Wired)The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noahpinion)Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players (NYTimes)The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol With Grant Wahl)19 min - Thu. 11/11 – Do Gamers Not Like Crypto?
Discord floats the idea of incorporating crypto, but backs down after a vicious backlash. Apple wants to manage IT for small and medium businesses. YouTube is starting to hide the dislike option. Disney+ growth is suddenly anemic. And say hello to an NFT band. Like, literally, a Bored Ape Band.
Sponsors:
- FindYourFidelity.com
- Dataiku.com
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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)17 min - Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court
Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No word on if Andy Serkis is part of the package. And Twitter Blue is finally live. A reminder of what that actually is.
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- Masterworks.io/ride
- Oracle.com/ride
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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)17 min - Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits
Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes a page out of the TikTok playbook. And whole bunch of announces about new DRAM chips, new AMD chips, new custom voicebot toolkits from Nvidia, and Niantic doesn’t want to get left behind in the Metaverse race it arguably helped set off.
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- Enterprise.Spectrum.com/techmeme
- Napjitsu.com/techmeme
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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)17 min - Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private
McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously complicate your tax bill. The latest installment of Today In Elon Musk, and since we’re hitting old features today, let’s check in with how Masa Son is doing.
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- OurCrowd.com/ride
- Overland.com/techmeme
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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)18 min - (TWTR SPC) Where's The Money In The #CreatorEconomy?
Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy.
Simon Owen's Media Newsletter
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The Charlie Warzel leaving substack essay we discuss.
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