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April 20, 2020Mon. 04/20 – Well, Your iPad IS A Laptop Now, Which Means Bigger And Heavier
Paging Farmville: Facebook takes another stab at owning mobile gaming. Rupert Murdoch's longstanding wish is granted. Dropbox had longstanding doubts about its erstwhile partner Zoom. More data on the health of tech investing, and the first reviews of the iPad as laptop are… mixed.
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Links:
Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming (NYTimes)
Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field' with traditional news media (ABC News Australia)
Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox (NYTimes)
With Shut-In Kids Flocking to Streaming, Disney Channel Retools (Bloomberg)
The Q1 2020 Global VC Report: Funding Slowly Impacted By Coronavirus (Crunchbase News)
Private Equity Sees $20 Billion of Tech Deals Shelved by Virus (Bloomberg)
MAGIC KEYBOARD FOR THE IPAD PRO REVIEW: THE BEST WAY TO TURN AN IPAD INTO A LAPTOP (Bloomberg)
17 min
April 18, 2020 (Bonus) Who's Right About The Economy? Wall Street Or Silcon Valley? With Alex Wilhelm @alex
I wasn’t supposed to do a weekend episode this weekend. I’ve got one scheduled for next week that I still need to record. But a few days ago, I saw Alex Wilhelm at TechCrunch tweet that he was doing a piece about why everyone in Silicon Valley and the VC world and the startup world still seem to be preparing for a nuclear winter, while the stock market has been roaring back to life, and I was like YES! I need to talk about that with somebody right now! I’m asking myself that question every day. It’s not that I’m rooting for a crash, it’s not that I want the economy to suffer, but everyone I know in the Tech world thinks we're in for a bad recession and yet… well, we get into all this. I needed to have this discussion with somebody right away, so forgive me if this is a little self indulgent, but join Alex and I as we ask the question: who’s right about the economy right now? Silicon Valley, or Wall Street?
PS: This is Alex's piece I was referring to: As stocks recover, private investors aren't buying the hype
40 min
April 17, 2020Fri. 04/17 - Y Combinator Gets Picky
Microsoft has some AI tech that can catch bugs 99% of the time, Y Combinator is going to be more picky about who it invests in, macOS is getting a smarter battery management system for your laptop, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time (VentureBeat)
Changing policy, Y Combinator cuts its pro rate stake and makes investments case-by-case (TechCrunch)
Google's fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link (Reuters)
Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health (Six Colors)
Apple CEO Talks Covid-19 Crisis, Return to Work Plan at Company-Wide Meeting (Bloomberg)
'Needle in a haystack': Reborn tech offices may need distance and mass testing (Protocol)
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer (Ars Technica)
Can Comic Books Survive the Coronavirus Era? (NYTimes)
LIDAR: Peek Into The Future With iPad Pro (Halide)
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired)
In Half-Life’s improv scene, anyone can speak for Gordon Freeman (Ars Technica)
19 min
April 16, 2020Thu. 04/16 - The Video Conferencing Space Is So Hot, We’re Getting Steamy M&A Action Now.
The video conferencing space is so hot, we’re getting steamy M&A action now. Apple wants to get stylish with over the ear headphones. Robinhood bucks a couple of trends with a new round. And is Facebook’s Libra just gonna drop like a stone?
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Links:
Verizon Buys Zoom Conferencing Rival BlueJeans (The Verge)
Apple Developing High-End Headphones With Interchangeable Parts (Bloomberg)
Sony Plans Limited PlayStation 5 Output in First Year (Bloomberg)
Robinhood Is Raising New Funds at About $8 Billion Value, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020, CEO Tells Staff (Bloomberg)
Facebook-Backed Libra Cryptocurrency Project Is Scaled Back (NYTimes)
Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
Amazon to close French warehouses until next week after court order (Reuters)
TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts (The Verge)

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17 min
April 15, 2020Wed. 04/15 – New iPhone SE!
Hellooooo new iPhone SE. Airbnb raises another debt round. Amazon kneecaps affiliate marketers. Now it’s Medium’s turn to face fake news (or, at least, fake experts) scrutiny. And why Houseparty is now, officially, another unlikely winner of the Coronavirus moment.
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Links:
Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020 (The Verge)
Airbnb raises another $1bn (Financial Times)
Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives publishers a cut of sales (CNBC)
Github is now free for all teams (TechCrunch)
Washington AG sues Facebook for violating state political ad law (GeekWire)
How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news (The Verge)
Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice (Bloomberg)
18 min
April 14, 2020Tue, 04/14 - Seems Like Old Times! An Actual Smartphone Launch Event!
We have an actual smartphone launch event to report on! Google is apparently close to powering it’s devices with its own custom-design silicon. Microsoft Teams is getting closer to Zoom in a good, feature-wise way. An update on the venture funding environment and new gaming ratings to alert people to loot boxes.
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Links:
OnePlus Announces OnePlus 8 & OnePlus 8 Pro: Step-Up 2020 Flagships (AnAndTech)
ONEPLUS 8 PRO REVIEW: BIG LEAGUE (The Verge)
Q&A: Apple and Google discuss their coronavirus tracing efforts (TechCrunch)
iPhone China Shipments Rebound as Manufacturing Resumes (Bloomberg)
Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks (Axios)
Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from (The Verge)
Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web (BleepingComputer)
New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon (ZDNet)
Amazon to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff (WSJ)
VC Firms Raised $21 Billion Last Quarter Despite Pandemic Chaos (Bloomberg)
ESRB introduces a new label to indicate that a game has loot boxes (The Verge)
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19 min
April 13, 2020Mon. 04/13 – Back To The iPhone 5 Design Future?
Deeper dives into that Google/Apple contact tracing project, solid rumors about the new iPhone design, the telecom industry might lose $25 billion dollars this year and international roaming charges are to blame, and an open source live streaming and video streaming app that can help you Twitch and YouTube better, without being beholden to their tools.
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Links:
@moxie Tweet Thread
How Apple and Google are tackling one of the toughest parts about tracking COVID-19 exposures (The Verge)
NHS phone app holds key to lifting UK’s coronavirus lockdown (The Times (UK))
Apple Plans iPad-Like Design for Next iPhone, Smaller HomePod (Bloomberg)
SoftBank Group forecasts $7-bn full-year net loss (Yahoo Finance)
Son’s $2 Billion Guarantee at Risk as Virus Hits SoftBank Star (Bloomberg)
Fall of the roaming empire: telecom groups face revenue loss as travel collapses (Financial Times)
As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting (OneZero)
‘It’s still niche’: Esports see audience surge, more tepid ad demand (Digiday)
Anyone's a Celebrity Streamer With This Open Source App (Wired)
19 min
April 11, 2020(Bonus) Tech Giant Psychoanalysis With Alex Kantrowitz
I couldn’t tell you the amount of times, over the last two years, I’ve quoted pieces from Alex Kantrowitz on this show. Hundreds of times? Easy? Alex is the senior tech reporter at Buzzfeed News, and, while I don’t have favorite people to quote from on this show (I shouldn’t anyway) the sheer number of times I quote from someone should tell you something about the amount of news they break. The insights they have. Alex has an amazing new book out called Always Day One- How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay On Top Forever. And as I said yesterday, it’s an amazing breakdown of not only the cultural DNA of each of the tech giants, but also a useful playbook to their success… a way to understand how they do what they do and why they win more often than not. Amazing book. Anyone who listens to this show every day will find it useful in informing the competitive analysis we always engage in.
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28 min
April 10, 2020Fri. 04/10 – HUGE: Apple and Google Join Forces For Coronavirus Contact Tracing
Amazon is creating a system to test its own employees for Coronavirus, Google creates a system to help with unemployment claims, one more attempt to keep track of the Google messaging branding mess, more evidence Zuckerberg really is jealous of Instagram, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Apple, Google debut major effort to help people track if they’ve come in contact with coronavirus (Washington Post)
Amazon developing coronavirus testing lab for workers (Washington Post)
The pandemic is playing to almost every one of Amazon's strengths (CNN Business)
Google creates online unemployment application with state of New York (CNBC)
Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (The Verge)
Everyone can now access their Instagram DMs on the web (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus? (Citylab)
Atlassian’s tools helped build today’s tech. How’s it prepping for the future? (Protocol)
Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Was Leisure Suit Larry Really an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks? (Vice)
Has Apple finally bitten off way more than it can chew? (WiredUK)
Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies (Stratechery)
20 min
April 09, 2020Thu. 04/09 – Why The Pandemic Might Be Long-Term Good For The Internet
Disney+ continues to blow the doors off the place. Good old phone calls are back, along with the Desktop web. Don’t expect to see new emoji for a while. Stadia is free for anyone with a Gmail account, COBAL skills are in high demand and why the pandemic might be a long-term good for Internet infrastructure.
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Links:
Disney+ Surpasses 50 Million Paid Subscribers After Launches in Europe & India (The Streamable)
Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security (Bleeping Computer)
MICROSOFT THINKS CORONAVIRUS WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK AND LEARN (The Verge)
The Humble Phone Call Has Made a Comeback (NYTimes)
Microsoft: Don't expect any Windows 10X devices this calendar year (ZDNet)
No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic (The Verge)
Google Stadia now free to anyone with a Gmail address (Polygon)
Now It’s Falling Apart (OneZero)
Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever (MIT Technology Review)
Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers (The Verge)
17 min