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August 04, 2021Wed. 08/04 – Is Robinhood A Meme Stock Now?
Robinhood’s shares are up so much after that busted IPO that trading had to be halted today. What gives? Also, what’s up with the rush into Buy Now Pay Later all of the sudden? Vudo will become Roku’s official video store. Superhuman raises another round. And do you need a smart soap dispenser in your life? Probably not.
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Robinhood surges as much as 81% in second day of wild trading (CNBC)
Apple, Affirm to Join on Buy Now, Pay Later for Canadian Purchases (Bloomberg)
WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once’ disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)
New ‘Google Identity Services’ consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap’ (9to5Google)
FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free (TechCrunch)
Blizzard’s head of HR is out (The Verge)
Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)
This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt (The Verge)
Smart homes and vegetable peelers (Benedict Evans)

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18 min
August 03, 2021Tue. 08/03 – The Pixel 6 And The New Tensor SoC
Google unveils the new Pixel 6 lineup, but the really interesting detail is the chip inside them. Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product. Microsoft makes Windows as a service live. Now China says games are the opium of the spirit. And what if drone delivery is running into the same wall as self-driving cars?
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THIS IS THE PIXEL 6, GOOGLE’S TAKE ON AN ‘ULTRA HIGH END’ PHONE (The Verge)
Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service will range from $20 to $162 per user per month (ZDNet)
Apple Makes Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Available for Separate Purchase (MacRumors)
Tencent Sinks After China Denounces Online Gaming (WSJ)
Xiaomi Tops European Smartphone Market in Q2 2021 (Strategy Analytics)
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired UK)
Spotify is testing a less restrictive ad-supported tier costing $0.99 a month (The Verge)
18 min
August 02, 2021Mon. 08/02 – Try Some “Diet” YouTube
YouTube is demoing a diet version of YouTube. Square is paying a pretty penny to join the buy now, pay later sweepstakes. Did an Intel exec accidentally leak the specs for Thunderbolt 5? And did Google’s quantum computer create a perpetual motion machine?
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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less (The Verge)
Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay (Reuters)
Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo then Deletes It: 80Gbps and Pam-3 (AnandTech)
Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ)
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine)
Robinhood Sold IPO Shares to More Than 300,000 of Its Customers (WSJ)
18 min
July 30, 2021Fri. 07/30 – For Amazon, Are Ads > AWS?
Are ads a bigger cash cow for Amazon than even AWS? Follow up on Robinhood’s trading debut. How the SEC is dealing with the Chinese tech stock problem. Gopuff indicates that grocery delivery is still white hot to investors. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Amazon Gets Record $888 Million EU Fine Over Data Violations (Bloomberg)
Robinhood falls in its public market debut, closes more than 8% lower at $34.82 per share (CNBC)
U.S. SEC says Chinese IPO hopefuls must provide additional risk disclosures (Reuters)
Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe (NYTimes)
THE SUMMER INTEL FELL BEHIND (The Verge)
Why the US can’t just beam internet into authoritarian states like Cuba (Quartz)
Social-Media Manager, the Most Millennial Job, Comes of Age (WSJ)
Hollywood Calls the Russo Brothers When It’s Time to Build a New Universe (Bloomberg Businessweek)
19 min
July 29, 2021Thu. 07/29 – Vaccine Mandates For Big Tech?
Tech companies dip their toes into vaccine mandate waters. Facebook in so many words says Apple’s privacy changes are about to impact earnings. Will Didi take itself private again to please the Chinese government? Is Peacock doing better than I at least thought? And a crypto startup is sliding into the biggest growth market I’ve seen in this space yet.
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Most Apple Stores to Require Masks Again for Shoppers, Staff (Bloomberg)
Facebook beats earnings expectations, but warns of significant growth slowdown (CNBC)
Didi Global Considers Going Private to Placate China and Compensate Investors (WSJ)
Robinhood CEO on the meme stock craze: ‘I think it’s a real thing’ (CNBC)
Peacock Reaches 54M Sign-Ups Thanks to Olympics, 20M Monthly Active Users (The Streamable)
OpenAI proposes open-source Triton language as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA (ZDNet)
Bitcoin Seized by DOJ Headed to Crypto Custodian Anchorage in $6.6 Million Deal (Decrypt)
17 min
July 28, 2021Wed. 07/28 – Earnings Bonanza
Apple reports earnings but warns of component shortages. Microsoft set profit records but noted shortage materially affected some divisions. Alphabet had good earnings too, but the real story there is YouTube. About the staff walkout at Activision Blizzard. Is Apple asking leakers to snitch on their sources? And an interesting raise to do next generation search on iOS.
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Apple’s iPhone hot streak is going to run into the global chip shortage (CNBC)
Xbox hardware sales spike 172% as Microsoft reports $3.7B in quarterly gaming revenue (GeekWire)
YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces Estimates (Variety)
Taiwan Greenlights TSMC's 2nm Fab: Coming Online in 2024 ~ 2025 (Tom's Hardware)
Activision CEO Apologizes After Employees Threaten to Walk Out (Bloomberg)
Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police (Motherboard)
Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and 'super app' (TechCrunch)
18 min
July 27, 2021Tue. 07/27 – No More Hedging. Tesla Truly Profitable.
Tesla is profitable beyond all caveats and hedges. Intel continues to telegraph its turnaround plans. Tangible numbers of the Chinese tech carnage. Instagram changes the rules for teens on the platform. And what are Facebook’s ultimate designs on building a Metaverse?
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Tesla finally made a profit without the help of emission credits (The Verge)
Tesla records $23 million in bitcoin-related impairments after cryptocurrency’s second-quarter plunge (CNBC)
Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025 (Reuters)
Apple releases fix for iOS and macOS zero-day, 13th this year (The Record)
China Crackdown Makes Hong Kong Index World’s Biggest Tech Loser (Bloomberg)
Instagram's new protections for teens come as experts say tween venture poses big risks (NBC News)
Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah (Protocol)
Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise (VentureBeat)
17 min
July 26, 2021Mon. 07/26 – What The Heck Is Happening In China?
Is the DOJ probing Tether for bank fraud? When might FaceID come to the Mac? What do leaked photos tell us about the next Surface Duo? And I will spend the entire second half of the show trying my best to explain the seeming tech apocalypse happening in China right now.
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Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
Leaders in Cryptocurrency Industry Move to Curb the Highest-Risk Trades (NYTimes)
Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a 'Couple of Years' (MacRumors)
Leaked Surface Duo 2 photos reveal new triple camera system (The Verge)
China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul (Bloomberg)
China’s education sector crackdown hits foreign investors (Financial Times)
Why is China smashing its tech industry? (Noahpinion.substack.com)
21 min
July 24, 2021 (Spc Cst) The Zoom Platform Road Map With @ross
Plus, the Hyper fund from Product Hunt, Automattic's acquisition game, and Twitter tests downvotes?
1 hr 21 min
July 23, 2021Fri. 07/23 – Alphabet’s New Moonshot Company: Intrinsic
Alphabet has a new moonshot company. Existing Big Bet DeepMind might have had a big breakthrough. Why Snap and Twitter are sharing an earnings narrative right now. Hint: it’s cause they’re growing again. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Google parent Alphabet launches Intrinsic: a new company to build software for industrial robots (The Verge)
DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence (The Verge)
Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound (CNBC)
Snap pops more than 16% on earnings beat and user growth (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (NYTimes)
Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries (WSJ)
The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible (WSJ)
Robotaxis: have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology? (Financial Times)
20 min