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April 02, 2021Fri. 04/02 – Coinbase Going Public With A Confident Swagger
Coinbase is going public and sharing its numbers ahead of time, which is rare and probably a sign of confidence. The App Store has started rejecting apps ahead of that big new privacy change. Has Tencent’s gaming studio become the biggest in the world? Another Clubhouse clone, this time from Discord. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt)
Apple Rejecting Apps With Fingerprinting Enabled As iOS 14 Privacy Enforcement Starts (Forbes)
Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes (The Verge)
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge)
Exclusive: Tencent's Timi gaming studio generated $10 billion in 2020, sources say (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard)
5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next? (Wired)
How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars (Bloomberg)
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker)
Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech (WSJ)
Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes)
20 min
April 01, 2021Thu. 04/01 – Microsoft’s Pentagon Deal Validates The AR Industry
Microsoft’s big HoloLens deal with the Pentagon is maybe the big bang for the augmented reality industry. Amazon says their folks can come back to work soon, and in fact, they’d prefer if you did. Bearish signs for the work remotely movement? Why these are boom times for chip makers. And why Siri’s new voices think of gender as a spectrum.
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Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years (CNBC)
Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC)
TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity (Bloomberg)
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch)
Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal’s Movies From HBO Max, Netflix (Bloomberg)
Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps (TechCrunch)
20 min
March 31, 2021Wed. 03/31 – Everything Old Is New Again In The News Feed
Facebook has announced News Feed changes to bring chronology back. LinkedIn is working on a Clubhouse rival and I think that makes total sense. Apple actually leads an interesting investment round. Deliveroo has a disastrous first day on the public markets. And how about Roblox, but inside the Unreal Engine?
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Facebook Adds New 'Most Recent' Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch)
Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (ArsTechnica)
Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch)
Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat)

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19 min
March 30, 2021Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor
It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for WWDC. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry. A bunch of new phones from Xiaomi. Substack is raising another big round. And that’s not all. There’s so much that happened today in the world of tech, that I can’t even promo it all, so let’s just get to it.
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Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge)
Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios)
Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information)
Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac)
Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider)
There's Something Fishy About Amazon's Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated] (Gizmodo)
Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ)
Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge)
Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge)
20 min
March 29, 2021Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work?
New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The official PHP Git repository was hacked. Boston Dynamics has a new robot that isn’t as scary… unless you’re a warehouse worker. And what is Amazon’s aggressive PR recently all about?
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New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports.' Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday)
Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer)
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge)
OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day (The Verge)
Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg)
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)
19 min
March 28, 2021 (Bonus) Monday 03.22 Clubhouse Room
This is the clubhouse room from Monday, March 22nd. Topics discussed here include the situation with the Dispo app. Zoom’s new SDK. The fate of the HomePod and that secret new gizmo inside the HomePod Mini, and a deep dive into two of the longreads from LAST week: Moore's Law for Everything post and Tim O’Reilly’s piece The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?
1 hr 43 min
March 27, 2021 (Bonus) Friday 03.26 Clubhouse Room
So, as I said, this is one of the clubhouse rooms we did this week. In fact, it’s the one from last night. Chris convinced me to split the two rooms into two episodes, so I’m releasing this one, from Friday first, and tomorrow I’ll post the one we did Monday night. Topics for this episode: Slack getting into social audio, Microsoft buying Discord, what the heck is BitClout! The great Brady Dale @BradyDale from Coindesk helped us out with that. And more explication of my rant concerning the whole Medium situation.
1 hr 50 min
March 26, 2021Fri. 03/26 – The House Tech Hearings Were… Whatever…
The House tech hearings were a nothing burger, but I’ll try to explain what that means for us. Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch. Slack is doing a Clubhouse clone and… stories. WeWork is back, with a SPAC. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge)
Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg)
Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol)
WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 (Stratechery)
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab)
Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg)
The fuss about BitClout (Axios)
Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch)
Analysis: Money no object as governments race to build chip arsenals (Reuters)
Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (ArsTechnica)
VC Firms Have Long Backed AI. Now, They Are Using It. (WSJ)
The Hard Truth About Bitcoin's Energy Consumption (Decrypt)
Mac OS X Turns 20: A Look Back at the Operating System That Helped Save Apple (PCMag)

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22 min
March 25, 2021Thu. 03/25 – DDR5 Arrives (F*** Everything, We're Doing Five Blades)
Remember that Onion headline, F- Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades? Well, Samsung says welcome to the DDR5 era. There’s more tech testimony on Capitol Hill today. That Arizona bill that would have regulated the App Store mysteriously disappears. Deliveroo is facing a full on revolt. And my wife covers the Chrissy Teigen twitter news.
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Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice As Fast As DDR4 (HotHardware)
Zuckerberg suggests how to tweak tech's liability shield (Axios)
Genshin Impact Races Past $1 Billion on Mobile in Less Than Six Months (SensorTower)
Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores (The Verge)
Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC)
Deliveroo Hit by Investor, Rider Revolt Ahead of London IPO (Bloomberg)
Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge)
20 min
March 24, 2021Wed. 03/24 – Buying Teslas With Bitcoin Is More Bullish For Whom?
You can now use Bitcoin to buy a Tesla. You can now DM anyone on Slack. Intel is now doing what Ben Thompson has been telling them to do for years. What Medium is doing to journalists is dumb. What Verizon is doing with Yahoo+ is dumb. And is the Chief Impact Officer title a real role, or is it… dumb?
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Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC)
WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol)
Trading App Robinhood Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO (Bloomberg)
Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies (The Verge)
Exclusive: Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff (Android Police)
Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard)
Verizon to center media arm around new subscription platform Yahoo+ (Axios)
Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC)
Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ)
20 min