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June 01, 2021Tue. 06/01 – Flagship GPU Headlines From Computex
Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why.
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Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica)
Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times)
21 min
May 31, 2021Introducing SpaceCasts!
Introducing our new Clubhouse Room/Twitter Spaces audio collective. Subscribe now:
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4 min
May 28, 2021Fri. 05/28 – SolarWinds Back In The Headlines
The SolarWinds hackers are back, and I’m starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here. Mark Gurman thinks we’ll see redesigned AirPods this year. Have I Been Pwned goes open source. And come for the longreads suggestions as always, but stay for my rant about that insane Citizen app story.
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Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times)
Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg)
Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice)
Own the Internet (Not Boring)
A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (New York Times)
The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times)

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23 min
May 27, 2021Thu. 05/27 – Upgraded Nintendo Switch Imminent
An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead.
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Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg)
You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge)
James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times)
Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg)
PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors)
Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge)
Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)
16 min
May 26, 2021Wed. 05/26 – Amazon To Launch A Rocky Extended Universe?
Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding?
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Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC)
Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica)
Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge)
USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET)
Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)
20 min
May 25, 2021Tue. 05/25 – Fuchsia OS Finally Arrives
Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app, and it debuted number one on the app store. And Noom has raised a hell of a lot of money, but that’s because, its making a ton of money helping people lose weight.
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Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google)
ARM's first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget)
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times)
Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors)
Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch)
Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol)
Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)
18 min
May 24, 2021Mon. 05/24 - Reading The Tea Leaves Of The Epic/Apple Trial
After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is considering rent-a-cops as a service. The AI community wants to open source large language models to address recent controversies. And a computer chip that changes its structure to thwart hackers.
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Links:
Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch)
Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol)
HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac)
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas)
19 min
May 22, 2021(Bonus) How Ransomware Works With Cybereason's CISO Isreal Barak
Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service works.
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28 min
May 21, 2021Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff
Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge)
Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge)
Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge)
Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information)
U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC)
$ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg)
Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget)
How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer)
Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign)
22 min
May 20, 2021Thu. 05/20 – Hello F-150 Lightning; Goodbye IE; Hello Again, RSS…
The newly announced electric F-150 is maybe the biggest EV effort since the launch of Tesla. Google is launching its first ever retail store. Internet Explorer is finally going to that great recycle bin in the sky. But could Google be breathing new life into RSS feeds in web browsers?
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Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (New York Times)
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (Tech Crunch)
'I'm not very social': ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
Apple cites 'significant' malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet)
Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)
17 min