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October 23, 2021(TWTR SPC) Metaverse? Name Change? Facebook Wither?
F*** it! We did it live! Chris and me and @Kantrowitz around my kitchen table! Are we in for the biggest week of Facebook's life? Check out Big Technology!
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1 hr 8 min
October 22, 2021Fri. 10/22 – Is Apple’s ATT Bite As Bad As People Feared After All?
Snap’s earnings suggest Apple’s ATT bite is having an impact, and what might that mean for others like Facebook? Google lowers Play Store fees and piles pressure on Apple. Did law enforcement give REvil a taste of its own medicine? What the heck is Worldcoin, I still can’t figure it out. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC)
Google lowers Play Store fees for subscriptions and music streaming apps (The Verge)
Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses (CNBC)
Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (Reuters)
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
The Metaverse Is Bad (The Atlantic)
DeFi Is Like Nothing Regulators Have Seen Before. How Should They Tackle It? (CoinDesk)
Inside Wheel of Time, Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next Game of Thrones (GQ)
17 min
October 21, 2021Thu. 10/21 – PayPal To Buy Pinterest? Why?
PayPal wants to buy Pinterest and everybody is trying to figure out why. Devs, you can now begin testing Android apps on Windows 11. Gamers, you can now do some powerful gaming for the low, low price of $100 a month. Some, just, spectacularly monster raises in the crypto space. And I get talked out of the Microsoft Surface Duo again.
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PayPal Is Exploring a Purchase of Pinterest (Bloomberg)
Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal (WSJ)
Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 (The Verge)
A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (The Verge)
Nvidia Supercharges GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Service With RTX 3080 GPUs (Gizmodo)
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Exchange Adds $7 Billion of Value in Three Months (Bloomberg)
Fanatics’ NFT company is worth $1.5 billion, and NFL legend Peyton Manning now owns a stake (CNBC)
Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album (NYTimes)
MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 REVIEW: DUO-OVER OR STRIKE TWO? (The Verge)
20 min
October 20, 2021Wed. 10/20 – Facebook To Change Its Name?
Dropping the “the” from The Facebook isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Dropping Facebook as a name entirely. All the news from today’s Samsung event. Spotify and Shopify finally team up in the greatest crossover event of tech naming confusion. And a first look at that Comcast branded smart TV.
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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (The Verge)
Galaxy Watch 4 gets its first major update w/ Fall Detection, new watchfaces, more (9to5Google)
First Bitcoin Futures ETF Rises in Trading Debut (WSJ)
Facebook Fined $69 Million by U.K. Authority for Breaching Order During Giphy Merger Investigation (Variety)
Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine (Thurrott.com)
Spotify Adds Virtual Merch Tables for Music Artists in Pact With Shopify (Variety)
Comcast Launches XClass TV, Its First TV Sets in the U.S., Taking Streaming Platform Direct-to-Consumer (Variety)
17 min
October 19, 2021Tue. 10/19 – The Google Pixel Event And The Pixel 6
All the headlines from Google’s latest Pixel event with the new Pixel 6. Some odds and sods from yesterday’s Apple event. Maybe Facebook’s crypto project is about to debut. How much money can the delivery space attract or even support? And more signs that YouTube is becoming a monster business that is increasingly supporting all of Alphabet.
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Android 12 is now rolling out to Pixel phones (Engadget)
GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND 6 PRO HAVE BIG SCREENS, BIG AMBITIONS, AND SMALL PRICES (The Verge)
The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC (Ars Technica)
Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
Delivery Hero Leads $1 Billion Funding Round for Gorillas (Bloomberg)
Apple Selling New $49 Braided MagSafe Cable and $99 140W Power Adapter for 16-Inch MacBook Pro (MacRumors)
Tweet I mentioned comparing the M1Max to the PS5 (@ZONEofTech)
YouTube Has Surpassed $3 Billion in Consumer Spend on iOS — Giving The World Access to Tailored Quality Content (App Annie)
21 min
October 18, 2021Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event
All the headlines from Apple’s event today. The Bitcoin future’s ETF is real, as of tomorrow. Apple’s privacy changes have indeed upended the mobile advertising space… in Apple’s favor. Steam doesn’t want to play the NFT game. And putting a value on Squid Game’s impact for Netflix.
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Apple unveils next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for new Macs (9to5Mac)
Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: new design, display notch, 120Hz, M1 Pro chip, HDMI, MagSafe, more (9to5Mac)
Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (Financial Times)
Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
Netflix Estimates ‘Squid Game’ Will Be Worth Almost $900 Million (Bloomberg)
18 min
October 16, 2021(TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse?
What is the Metaverse? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is Mark Zuckerberg talking SO MUCH about it lately? And come to think of it, what is Facebook's play for the future?
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1 hr 16 min
October 15, 2021Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future?
The SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs trade a soon as next week. Google finally does away with pagination on the mobile web. Why are Waymo autonomous taxis all piling up on one dead end street in San Francisco? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg)
Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS)
Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head (Platformer)
Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic)
Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion)
19 min
October 14, 2021Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China
Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO.
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Links:
Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ)
Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ)
Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge)
Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star)
TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge)
Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge)
Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC)
19 min
October 13, 2021Wed. 10/13 – Supply Chain Woes Come For The iPhone
Apple is forced to cut iPhone 13 production due to lack of parts. Are health features coming to the AirPods? NFT’s are coming to Coinbase. Stripe is hiring for a big push into crypto. Would you like a laptop with a 3D screen? And G4 TV is back, everybody, to remind you how you fell in love with tech in the first place.
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Links:
Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg)
Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ)
Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia)
G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge)
Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge)
APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge)
Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge)
20 min