Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech Brew Ride Home episodes

November 10, 2020Tue. 11/10 – The Apple Silicon Macs Are Here
Apple’s One More Thing Mac Event. The EU sues Amazon for antitrust. The Slingbox is no more. And, apparently, the MagSafe Duo charger is no good.
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EU accuses Amazon of breaching antitrust rules (FT)
Slingbox discontinued, services sunsetting (SlashGear)
Walmart and Cruise launch pilot to deliver orders via self-driving cars (Venture Beat)
Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming (TechCrunch)
17 min
November 09, 2020Mon. 11/09 – Apple Mad At Pegatron
Apple is not happy with a key parts supplier. If you’re running an old version of android, you might be shut out of some important websites soon. Is SoftBank’s Vision Fund, back, baby? Is the Raspberry Pi 400 any good to use? And what can Silicon Valley expect from a Biden administration.
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Apple Freezes New Business for Pegatron on China Labor Abuse (Bloomberg)
Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks are getting crushed on the positive vaccine news (CNBC)
Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021 (Android Police)
SoftBank Recovery Gains Ground With Vision Fund’s Record Profit (Bloomberg)
Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
'Awakened a sleeping giant': Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook (Washington Examiner)
Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what? (Protocol)
19 min
November 07, 2020(Bonus) Listener Call In III - Son Of The Call-in-a-ning
You know the drill...
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1 hr 8 min
November 06, 202011/06 – Is It Too Soon To Start Talking About iPhone 13?
Is it too soon to start talking about the iPhone 13? It’s review day. Reviews of the iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and the PlayStation 5. Why I think the DOJ suing to block the Plaid acquisition is such a big deal. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Kuo: iPhone 13 to Come in Same Four Model Sizes As iPhone 12, Pro Models to Feature Major Upgrade to Ultra Wide Camera (MacRumors)
Sizing up the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max (The Verge)
DOJ files antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid (TechCrunch)
PLAYSTATION 5 REVIEW: A BIG, CONFIDENT STEP INTO NEXT GEN (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Ben Thompson’s Stratechery, Part 2 (Tim Wu)
The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now (Wired)
'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon (The Guardian)
How a not-yet-mature web covered the Florida recount in 2000 (Fast Company)
An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons' (Motherboard)

Tonight! 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific, join the listener call-in episode here:
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22 min
November 05, 2020Thu. 11/05 - WhatsApp Gets Disappearing Messages Ten Years After Snapchat!
WhatsApp gets disappearing messages ten years after Snapchat! A new entry-level, ultra-lightweight drone from DJI. Productivity laptops are getting interesting designs, ala gaming laptops. Ethereum 2.0 is coming. How and why Jack Ma pissed off the Chinese government. The Xbox Series X reviews are in. And Justice Department just sued to block Visa from buying Plaid. But that just broke, so I’m telling you it happened now. We’ll analyze it tomorrow.
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WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days (TechCrunch)
DJI Mini 2 drone arrives with 4K camera and ultra-portable design (SlashGear)
Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service (BBCNews)
Ethereum 2.0 Set to Launch on December 1 (Decrypt)
‘The party is pushing back’: why Beijing reined in Jack Ma and Ant (Financial Times)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Seeks to Raise Cash at $180 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Razer's first mainstream laptop still has an RGB keyboard (Engadget)
XBOX SERIES X REVIEW: A NEXT-GEN PC (The Verge)
Link for listener call-in episode TOMORROW night at 9pm eastern:
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19 min
November 04, 2020Wed. 11/04 – Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, et al Win In California
Californians pass Proposition 22, and voters in Massachusetts strike a blow for the right to repair. You no longer need a phone to listen to Spotify on your watch. And why Walmart might partner with Comcast to make TVs, countries might force Netflix to produce content inside their own borders, and Hollywood is losing visual effects talent to Silicon Valley.
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Uber, Lyft Win California Bid to Keep Drivers as Contractors (Bloomberg)
Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data (Engadget)
Wish Spotify streamed on Apple Watch? The time has arrived for many (9to5Mac)
China Tells Ant It Can’t Go Public Until Capital Shortfall Fixed (Bloomberg)
Comcast, Walmart in Talks to Develop and Distribute Smart TVs (WSJ)
Canada to Force Netflix, Amazon Prime to Pay for Local Content (The Hollywood Reporter)
Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality (WSJ)

Link for tomorrow night's Listener Call In Episode:
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20 min
November 03, 2020Tue. 11/03 – Apple Silicon Coming To MacBook Pros Already?
So, that November 10th Apple event might see a full slate of Mac laptops with Apple Silicon inside. Why has Ant Group’s IPOs been called off? Why has Walmart called off plans to allow robots to roam its store aisles? And someone explain to me why Spotify’s proposed new algorithm changes aren’t a modern form of Payola?
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Apple to Launch MacBooks With Own Chips Next Week (Bloomberg)
China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster I.P.O. (NYTimes)
China Halts Ant’s Record IPO, Throwing Ma’s Empire Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)
AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances (TechCrunch)
Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves (WSJ)
NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” (ArsTechnica)
Spotify will now allow artists and labels to promote tracks in your recommendations (TechCrunch)
17 min
November 02, 2020Mon. 11/02 - Raspberry Pi Launches the Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi launches the Raspberry Pi 400. All the big platforms’ plans for election day and beyond. Huawei is gonna make its own chips because it has to. Gaming continues to lead the way into the future in so many ways. And the Kafkaesque nightmare of Google locking you out of all your accounts.
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The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer (The Verge)
What to Expect From Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Election Day (NYTimes)
Huawei develops plan for chip plant to help beat US sanctions (Financial Times)
Tencent claims record 100M daily users on mobile game Honor of Kings (TechCrunch)
What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely (Business Insider)
20 min
October 30, 2020Fri. 10/30 – Netflix Raises Prices
Netflix raises prices. Because they can—and maybe because they should. Google wants to give you a free VPN. Samsung helps you find your galaxy of Galaxy things. A rundown of yesterday’s big day of tech earnings. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 (The Verge)
Google One’s 2TB+ plans adding Android VPN, coming to iOS & Mac/Windows soon (9to5Google)
SmartThings Find app can track down lost Samsung Galaxy devices (Engadget)
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The 100X Club: Software Startup Valuations Skyrocket Despite Small Revenue (The Information)
How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet (Protocol)
The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About (Wired)
Streaming was part of the future — now it’s the only future (The Verge)
The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution (Space.com)
18 min
October 29, 2020Thu. 10/29 – Troubling Ransomware Attacks On Hospitals
Major warnings about a rash of ransomware attacks on US hospitals. The new AMD chips. MOAAR consolidation in the chip industry. Can I introduce you to Quantum Computing as a Service? And a reminder that as Hollywood moves to streaming first, you don’t own anything. Seriously. You’re just renting.
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Building wave of ransomware attacks strike U.S. hospitals (Reuters)
AMD’s new Radeon RX 6800 XT promises to go head to head with Nvidia’s RTX 3080 (The Verge)
It’s Official- Marvell Acquiring Inphi For $10B That Boosts Its Cloud And 5G Opportunities (Forbes)
Honeywell announces its H1 quantum computer with 10 qubits (TechCrunch)
Honeywell introduces quantum computing as a service with subscription offering (ZDNet)
Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed 'Sun Valley' (Windows Central)
Samsung posts highest-ever quarterly revenue as demand roars back (CNET)
Kuo: iPhone 12 Pro Demand Higher Than Expected (MacRumors)
Genshin Impact made $245m in its first month on mobile alone (GamesIndustry.biz)
Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content (The Hollywood Reporter)
21 min