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November 04, 2019Mon. 11/04 - Everyone Got a New Logo
Your smart speakers aren’t secure in a wild new way, crazy product announcement day from Microsoft and Adobe, crazy new logo design day from everyone but especially Facebook, and Wikipedia makes a big change to citations.
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Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home (Wired)
Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge)
Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget)
Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge)
Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet)
Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge)
Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom)
Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store (WCCFTech)
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired)
18 min
November 02, 2019(Bonus) Steve Case on Investing Outside of Silicon Valley
Steve Case is obviously an internet and technology legend, as the founder of America Online. But as I said when I did a segment about it this week, I’ve always been fascinated with his Rise of the Rest Tour and Fund because, look, the whole basic principle of the project is to try new things, try to find new ideas and new people in new places. So after doing the segment on the new Rise of the Rest Fund II, I reached out to Steve to learn more about what he’s been learning as he’s been barnstorming the country to try to find exciting new companies outside of the major tech hubs.
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22 min
November 01, 2019Fri. 11/01 - Google Acquires Fitbit
Google acquires Fitbit, Apple TV+ officially launches, might the US Government be about to bring the hammer down on TikTok, and of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1 billion (CNBC)
Maps Incognito is launching for Google Maps Android Users (Google Maps Help)
Apple TV+ is now live in the TV app: Start watching Apple’s original TV shows and movies (9to5Mac)
Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 (Fast Company)
Talking with former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos (CJR)
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (AlexDanco.com)
The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups (Craft)
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois (ProPublica)
18 min
October 31, 2019Thu. 10/31 - Twitter Takes A Stand (And Subtweets Facebook)
Twitter says it will ban ALL political advertising, Cognizant says it is getting out of the content moderation business, Facebook earnings are good, Apple earnings are good… and evolving, and can the Chinese monitor SMS messages at the provider level, at scale?
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Links:
Jack Dorsey's Twitter Thread
Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue (TechCrunch)
Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg (NYTimes)
Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B (TechCrunch)
A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations (The Verge)
Apple is laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription (CNBC)
Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network (ArsTechnica)
Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery (OneZero)
20 min
October 30, 2019Wed. 10/30 - HBO Max Deets
WhatsApp sues the NSO Group about that crazy exploit, Uber is threating to sue Los Angeles about a crazy tracking program that I’m not sure about, we’ve got the full details surrounding HBO Max, an activist is taking Facebook’s political advertising policy to its logical conclusion, and how come none of you told me about Mario Kart Tour?
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Links:
Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking (Washington Post)
WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program (NYTimes)
The New HBO Max is competing with Netflix by giving you Friends and Game of Thrones for $15 a month (Recode)
Report: Apple to Use Qualcomm's X55 5G Modem in All Three 2020 iPhones (MacRumors)
Uber in talks with Los Angeles as scooter location data lawsuit looms (CNET)
Privacy groups actually side with Uber in scooter data fight (Mashable)
This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads (CNN Business)
Mario Kart Tour Has a Rocket Start With 123.9 Million Downloads in Its First Month (SensorTower)
18 min
October 29, 2019Tue. 10/29 - Playstation Vue Goes To The Deadpool
Earnings from Alphabet and Shopify, hacking the Olympics, the Rise of the Rest rides again, Amazon is making grocery delivery free and letting you pay your electric bill via Alexa, and don’t update your HomePod, or you might brick it.
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Links:
Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost (Bloomberg)
Microsoft: Russian hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics (ZDNet)
AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
China to Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions (Bloomberg)
Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use (TechCrunch)
Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa (VentureBeat)
New 13.2 Update Bricking Some HomePods [Update Pulled by Apple] (MacRumors)
PlayStation Vue is Shutting Down Live TV Streaming Service in January (The Streamable)
17 min
October 28, 2019Mon. 10/28 - Who Needs An Event? The AirPods Pro Are Here!
AirPods Pro are here, new Nvidia streaming gadgets are here, Alphabet might be about to acquire Fitbit, the fallout from the Pentagon JEDI contract and what happens when your entire city orders from Amazon every single day.
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Links:
Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30 (Apple NewsRoom)
Apple unveils new in-ear AirPods Pro coming October 30 for $249 (9to5Mac)
Google parent Alphabet makes offer to buy Fitbit, sending stock soaring (CNBC)
Nvidia’s new Shield TV wins the Android TV market with amazing 4K upscaling (TechCrunch)
Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon (CNBC)
Spotify grows users 30% in Q3 2019, premium subscribers reach 113 million (VentureBeat)
Microsoft’s Xbox bundles are back and ready for the new Project Scarlett Xbox (The Verge)
1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets (NYTimes)

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17 min
October 26, 2019(Bonus) The Fate (And Legacy) Of Yahoo, With Harry McCracken
The news that Yahoo was shutting down Yahoo Groups, as I said, was another gut punch when you realize how much of the web’s history is so ephemeral. It also got me thinking that Yahoo as a company might be about to go down the memory hole, and that got me thinking about Yahoo’s legacy as perhaps the first great Internet company, and that got me talking to one of the deans of tech journalism, Harry McCracken. What IS Yahoo’s legacy? Why has it ended up the way it has? And also, why do we feel nostalgic for the sort of web Yahoo Groups represents? What has changed on the Internet from the Yahoo Groups glory days until now?
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21 min
October 25, 2019Fri. 10/25 - Introducing Facebook News
Introducing Facebook News. Did the major US Carriers do an end-run around Google out of spite? Amazon is back to making as little profit as it possibly can, HBO Max makes its aggressive pricing move, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
[Update: Google responds] Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile join forces to bring RCS to Android in 2020 (9to5Google)
AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon)
Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed)
Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic)
He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business)
Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired)
Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech (NYTimes)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review)
How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion)
18 min
October 24, 2019Thu. 10/24 - Is TikTok A “National Security Risk?”
Is TikTok a national security risk? Inquiring Senators want to know. Earnings running the gamut from bad to surprisingly good from Twitter, Amazon and Tesla. And to paraphrase an old saw: if a voicemail system goes down how would anyone even notice?
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Links:
TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review (The Washington Post)
Music Video Upstart ‘Triller’ Says It’s Taking On TikTok Amid $28 Million Series B (TubeFilter)
Twitter Q3 misses bi on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s Growth Sags, But That Wasn’t the Worst Part (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud; Azure Slows (Bloomberg)
Tesla Shares Soar as Elon Musk Packs Profit Report With Positives (Bloomberg)
AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update (The Verge)
Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices (9to5Mac)
40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology (Vice)
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror (BBC News)
Behold the massive social media explosion from Fortnite’s Season 10 finale (The Washington Post)
Last week's Fortnite update helped Akamai set a new CDN traffic record (ZDNet)
18 min