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October 12, 2021Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning
Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing?
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Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget)
Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record)
Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat)
US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times)
19 min
October 11, 2021Mon. 10/11 – Pixels To Go Big On Cameras?
Is Google aiming to take back the smartphone camera crown with next week’s Pixel event? That Twitch leak reinforces the idea that on platform ecosystems, there very much is a 1%. The Chinese Tesla competitors that are hitting milestones faster than Tesla ever did. When and should Disney give ESPN streaming religion? And would you buy Squid Game merch?
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Google says Pixel 6 camera captures ‘150% more light,’ shows ‘Magic Eraser’ on leaked marketing site (9to5Google)
Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows (WSJ)
EV Sales At BYD, XPeng Soar In Sept., Underscoring Strong China Demand (Forbes)
China’s booming electric car industry is much bigger than just Nio and Xpeng (CNBC)
Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ)
Disney’s shift to streaming puts ESPN in awkward position of clinging to the past (CNBC)
Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ T-Shirts Are Coming to a Walmart Near You (Bloomberg)
21 min
October 08, 2021Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood
Tech real estate report. Tesla leaves for Texas, while Apple rocks up in Hollywood. YouTube is gonna stop doing those year-end Rewind videos. A developer says Facebook banned him for life cause they didn’t like his app. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions where we ask the question: is Google’s famous hiring gauntlet broken?
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Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ)
Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter)
Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
WeBack (Ramp Recap)
Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
Planet Squid Game (Vulture)
20 min
October 07, 2021Thu. 10/07 – Forget The iCar, Apple Wants To Take Over Your EXISTING Car
Forget the iCar, Apple wants to take over your existing car. The first candidate to test the App Store cracks has stepped forward. AMD warns that if you install Windows 11, your computer could run slower. GM gets me closer to the self-driving future I want sooner rather than later. And a weird new NFT hybrid lets you play fantasy sports with startups.
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Apple’s Plan for Cars: Using iPhone to Control A/C, Seats, Radio and More (Bloomberg)
Paddle Plans to Launch Alternative In-App Purchase System on iOS That Circumvents Apple's Fees (MacRumors)
AMD: Windows 11 Slows Our CPUs Up To 15%, Patch Coming (Tom's Hardware)
Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ)
GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios (The Verge)
‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch)
‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch)
19 min
October 06, 2021Wed. 10/06 – ALL Of Twitch Leaked?
The entirety of Twitch has allegedly been leaked. Like, everything from the source code to a creator payout spreadsheet. Snap gears up in the creator economy platform wars. Some AirPods gain Find My Support. The SEC says it has no plans to ban crypto. But worrying stories of alleged fraud have started trickling out of the NFT space.
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The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle)
Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac)
EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters)
SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk)
Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)
17 min
October 05, 2021Tue. 10/05 – The Great Facebook Outage
About that Facebook outage yesterday… A Google moonshot project has a surprise profit. But only because its propping up other Alphabet bets. And then, it’s review day. What you can expect if you download Android 12. What you can expect if you download Windows 11. And what you’ll get if you buy one of those Microsoft Surface Laptop Studios.
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Links:
PSA: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp went down for 6+ hours; here’s why [U] (9to5Mac)
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (Financial Times)
ANDROID 12 REVIEW: IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT THE LOOKS (The Verge)
WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED (The Verge)
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio Does It All (Gizmodo)
18 min
October 04, 2021Mon. 10/04 – Facebook Whistleblower On 60 Minutes
The Facebook whistleblower reveals her identity on 60 Minutes. You can preorder the Apple Watch Series 7 this week. New MacBook Pros could still be coming “this month.” Apple is actually the biggest force in the gaming industry, by far. And signs of a product shipping renaissance at YouTube.
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The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (WSJ)
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew (NYTimes)
Apple Watch Series 7 Pre-Orders to Start This Friday, Available on October 15 (MacRumors)
Gurman: M1X MacBook Pro still on track for this year, likely ‘in the next month’ (9to5Mac)
Apple Doesn’t Make Videogames. But It’s the Hottest Player in Gaming. (WSJ)
Amazon Prime members can now send gifts with just a phone number or email address (The Verge)
YouTube․com adds ‘Continue watching’ to resume unfinished videos on your phone (9to5Google)
17 min
October 02, 2021 (Bonus) World Cup Of Entrepreneurs Part 2
Who wins? Jobs? Gates? Musk? Bezos? Collison, even? The grand finale of our #WorldCupOfEntreprenurs.
1 hr 34 min
October 01, 2021Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
TikTok has joined the NFT craze, so the singularity must be nigh. USB-C tries to clear up its customer confusion problem. Zoom abandons a huge acquisition. And a crypto developer is begging users to give $90 million dollars in tokens back, after an all-time screw up.
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Links:
TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion (Apple Insider)
Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How EA got into mobile — and figured out the future of gaming (Protocol)
Toast built a $30 billion business by defying Silicon Valley and surviving a ‘suicide mission’ (CNBC)
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (The Pragmatic Engineer)
APPLE’S FORTRESS OF SECRECY IS CRUMBLING FROM THE INSIDE (The Verge)
Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity (TechDirt)
20 min
September 30, 2021Thu. 09/30 – Facebook: Who You Gonna Trust? Us? Or Your Lying Eyes?
Facebook finally releases the controversial slides to let them speak for themselves, but doesn’t actually let them speak for themselves. A 4K Nintendo Switch was apparently coming, but now is it never coming? Nreal has some AR glasses for binge watching. And Fairphone has released a smartphone that they want you to think of as your “forever phone.” At least, as far as these things go.
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TinyCaptial.com
Modern Finance Podcast
Links:
Facebook Downplays Internal Research Released on Eve of Hearing (NYTimes)
Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn’t Exist (Bloomberg)
GM’s new software platform will enable over-the-air updates, in-car subscriptions, and maybe facial recognition (The Verge)
Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack (BBC News)
Nreal’s new AR sunglasses are made for binge watching TV (The Verge)
Fairphone’s latest sustainable smartphone comes with a five-year warranty (The Verge)
19 min