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August 27, 2021Fri. 08/27 – Another Crack In The App Store
Another brick is taken out of the App Store wall as Apple blinks on letting devs inform users of outside purchase options. Ticket spaces start rolling out on Twitter, Waymo is having second thoughts about business models, NFTs are cool, but what if you could earn royalties? And of course, the Weekend Longread Suggestions.
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Apple will let developers email users about payments outside iOS (Protocol)
Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers (The Verge)
Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge)
Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies (TechCrunch)
Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU's NFT music platform Royal (The Block)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Netflix and Video Games (MatthewBall.vc)
Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game Is...Everything (IGN)
Cryptocurrency Companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’ (WSJ)
El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment (WSJ)
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps (ArsTechnica)
The Real C.E.O. of “Succession” (The New Yorker)
18 min
August 26, 2021Thu. 08/26 – The Big Cybersecurity Summit
Big tech offered some big cybersecurity commitments after that White House meetup. TSMC raising chip prices might mean gadget price increases across the board. Looks like everyone remembered they like PCs. Drone delivery hits a milestone in Australia. And another secretive startup that wants to create a battery revolution.
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Biden tells top CEOs at White House summit to step up on cybersecurity (Washington Post)
World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics (WSJ)
Silicon Valley Exchange Lists First Two Companies in ESG Push (Bloomberg)
Canalys: US PC sales up 17% YoY for quarter, even as tablet sales stagnate (TechCrunch)
Wing approaches 100,000 drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch (TechCrunch)
Stealthy battery company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos has a lot to prove (CNBC)
18 min
August 25, 2021Wed. 08/25 – JK, JK, JK! OnlyFans Reverses Course On Porn Ban
OnlyFans says it loves porn. Doesn’t want to ban porn from its platform after all. Says it wants to be an inclusive platform for all creators. Even the naked ones. The new Fitbit Charge 5. New Messenger features on the occasion of its 10th birthday. Is T-Mobile winning the 5G war? And I guess bigger really is better for neural networks.
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OnlyFans no longer plans to ban porn, saying in abrupt U-turn that it wants to be a 'home for all creators' (Insider)
FITBIT’S NEW CHARGE 5 HAS A ROUNDED DESIGN AND A COLOR SCREEN (The Verge)
Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences (TechCrunch)
Microsoft to launch cloud gaming service on Xbox consoles (CNBC)
Fastest Mobile Networks 2021 (PCMag)
A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired)
17 min
August 24, 2021Tue. 08/24 – Cybersecurity Meetup At The White House
President Biden is gathering the tech five families to discuss cybersecurity. Instagram is retiring swipe up. Facebook is testing a rebundle of Messenger. Airbnb will house Afghan refugees. SpaceX hits some milestones and a Samsung review roundup.
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Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House (Bloomberg)
Instagram is retiring the swipe up (The Verge)
Facebook Retools Messaging Again by Adding Calling to Main App (Bloomberg)
Airbnb says it will host 20,000 Afghan refugees (CNN Business)
SpaceX ships 100,000 Starlink terminals to customers, eyes future launches using Starship (TechCrunch)
Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist (Engadget)
SAMSUNG GALAXY Z FOLD 3 REVIEW: NEARLY NORMAL (The Verge)
SAMSUNG’S GALAXY Z FLIP 3 IS THE FIRST FOLDING PHONE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE (The Verge)
17 min
August 23, 2021Mon. 08/23 – M1X Mac Mini Incoming…
Mark Gurman says when a new high end M1X Mac mini might be coming. The USDC stablecoin looks to get right with the accounting Gods. Visa buys a CryptoPunk. Did Giphy pay dividend to lower its value for Facebook to acquire it? And do we now know the real reason why OnlyFans is attempting to abandon porn?
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High-End 'M1X' Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the 'Next Several Months' (MacRumors)
The world’s second-largest stablecoin is undergoing a massive change (CNBC)
Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes first steps into 'NFT commerce' (The Block)
Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse (BleepingComputer)
Facebook’s Stealth M&A Puts Focus on Deals Under Antitrust Radar (Bloomberg)
Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March (The Washington Post)
Post-Culture Review Twitter Thread
18 min
August 21, 2021 News On The RideHome+ Feed
Important news about changes to the RideHome+ program.
6 min
August 20, 2021Fri. 08/20 – OnlyFans Pulls A Tumblr
OnlyFans wants to get out of the porn business, which makes sense to nobody on the Internet. Elon Musk says Tesla is building a humanoid robot, and I love you Elon, but you’ve really opened the door to your critics with this one. Microsoft is raising prices, and of course, the weekend longread suggestions.
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OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors (Axios)
OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (Bloomberg)
Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots (The Verge)
Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet (Gizmodo)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The FBI’s warning to Silicon Valley: China and Russia are trying to turn your employees into spies (Protocol)
Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (Nature)
Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest (Bloomberg Businessweek)
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (WSJ)
Amazon Killed the Name Alexa (The Atlantic)
Afghanistan - Part 1 (The Rest Is History Podcast)
19 min
August 19, 2021Thu. 08/19 – FTC Files Its Facebook Mulligan
Headlines out of time: Amazon wants to do department stores. Google partners with GE Appliances. But Intel continues to look to the future with its new hybrid architecture chips. Facebook wants your next conference call to take place in VR. And has Robinhood put all its eggs in the Doge basket?
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Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores (WSJ)
GE Appliances announces partnership with major cloud company to focus on data capabilities (Courier Journal)
Intel previews its Alder Lake chip, promises hybrid CPUs for desktops and laptops (The Verge)
FTC files renewed antitrust complaint against Facebook (CNBC)
INSIDE FACEBOOK’S METAVERSE FOR WORK (The Verge)
Facebook is sharing data to prove it’s not a political hellhole (Protocol)
Robinhood says dogecoin accounted for 62% of crypto revenue in Q2 (CNBC)
Venture Investment In Cryptosecurity Jumps 10x Over Last Year As Sector Hits Sweet Spot With Venture Capitalists (Crunchbase News)
18 min
August 18, 2021Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”
A look at how all the platforms are dealing with the Taliban being a modern social media enterprise. Amazon is bigger than Walmart for the first time. Samsung stops cluttering its phones with ads. Attempting to hire the hacker who hacked you. And I get my answer to why all the platforms want to protect kids all the sudden.
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WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul (Financial Times)
Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal (The Verge)
People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart (NYTimes)
Samsung confirms it’s removing ads from its stock apps later this year (The Verge)
Victim of Major DeFi Cyberattack Offers Its Hacker a Job (Bloomberg)
TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies (The Guardian)
Eve Online’s yearlong war ends with an epic retreat (Polygon)
18 min
August 17, 2021Tue. 08/17 – Yik Yak Is Back. Act Accordingly.
Yik Yak is back, but can it make it in a Tik Tok world? Concerns about how the Taliban are using WhatsApp. OnlyFans wants you to try out a new safe for work app. TikTok is distributing music via the blockchain. And will BlueSky ever see the light of day?
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Remember Yik Yak? Well, it's back and still anonymous. (Mashable)
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (Motherboard)
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (Motherboard)
Facebook ‘Proactively’ Removing Taliban Content, Executive Says (Bloomberg)
OnlyFans Creates Its First App With a Twist: No Nudity, No Cost (Bloomberg)
And the First Streaming Service to Partner With TikTok Is… (Rolling Stone)
Tinder will make its ID Verification option available to all users (The Verge)
Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition (Venture Beat)
Twitter taps crypto developer to lead decentralized social media initiative Bluesky (The Block)
17 min