Tech Brew Ride Home

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August 19, 2019Mon. 08/19 - The Silicon Chip To Define The AI Era?
Libra gets competition, Spotify and Roku get family friendly, Amazon is sitting out the launch of Disney+ (for now), Ikea is serious about becoming a smart-home player, and can the world’s largest semiconductor chip kickstart an AI revolution?
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Binance planning to launch ‘Venus,’ similar to Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra (The Block)
Spotify's Premium Family plans get an explicit content filter (Engadget)
The Roku Channel is adding a kids and family section with free TV shows and movies (The Verge)
Disney+ will stream on these devices at launch (The Verge)
Ikea goes all in on smart home tech (The Verge)
Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years (Motherboard)
A new unicorn is born: Toor Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
Root raises $350 million to drive auto insurance change (Axios)
Cerebras (Pierre Lamond)
20 min
August 17, 2019(Bonus) Is The Netflix Algo Broken? With Julia Alexander @loudmouthjulia
On a recent weekend longreads segment, I recommended a piece by The Verge’s Julia Alexander asking whether Netflix’s recommendation algorithms were broken, or maybe borked. We’re going to talk a bit about that today, but since Julia is on the Streaming Wars beat at The Verge, you know how I love to talk about the streaming wars, and we are right about at the point where the battle is going to be joined in earnest.
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27 min
August 16, 2019Fri. 08/16 - Coinbase says all your bitcoin base are belong to us
Coinbase says all your bitcoin base are belong to us, Apple sues a “virtualization” company, was Amazon offering vendors a pay to play scheme with Amazon Choice, and, as always, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Exclusive: Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55 Million, Eyes Lending Business (Fortune)
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Virtualization Company Corellium for Illegally Replicating iOS and Apple Apps (MacRumors)
Amazon offered vendors ‘Amazon’s Choice’ labels in return for ad spending and lower prices (Digiday)
YouTube shuts down music companies' use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Weird gadgets that are actually really useful (ZDNet)
Trump Tumult Has Gadget Giants Splitting Along U.S.-China Lines (Bloomberg)
THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH (Wired)
WEWORK ISN’T A TECH COMPANY; IT’S A SOAP OPERA (The Verge)
WeWTF (ProfGalloway.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change (Ars Technica)
SpaceX’s First Astronauts Train Up for Space, but Crew Dragon Faces Delays (Inverse.com)
HOW A 'NULL' LICENSE PLATE LANDED ONE HACKER IN TICKET HELL (Wired)
18 min
August 15, 2019Thu. 08/15 - Three Words And An App That Could Save Your Life
Facebook tweaks groups, Google Assistant lets you remind family members, can we be training voice AI in a better way, say hello to the Sega Genesis Mini, and the free app that can save your life out in the wilderness.
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Facebook is simplifying group privacy settings and adding admin tools for safety (The Verge)
THE SEGA GENESIS MINI BUILDS ON WHAT MADE NINTENDO’S TINY CONSOLES GREAT (The Verge)
UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks (The Verge)
Stay organized and productive with new Assignable reminders (Google)
Do Tech Companies Really Need to Snoop Into Private Conversations to Improve Their A.I.? (Slate)
What3words: The app that can save your life (BBC News)
19 min
August 14, 2019Wed. 08/14 - “We” Files, a MacBook Pro “No Fly List” and “Boatbnb”
WeWork files for its IPO, a huge data leak reveals fingerprints, facial recognition data and more, are you going to have trouble taking your MacBook Pro on your next flight, why Two and a Half Men is the next big piece in the streaming wars and why I’m bullish on an Airbnb for boats.
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WeWork files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms (The Guardian)
FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights (Bloomberg)
AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (WSJ)
HBO Max eyeing ‘Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ in $1.5 billion deal (The Daily Dot)
Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats (Bloomberg)
Peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace Boatsetter raises $10M as it looks to grow globally (TechCrunch)

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August 13, 2019Tue. 08/13 - Automattic & Tumblr & Snap & Spectacles 3
Tumblr finds its final home (hopefully), new Snap Spectacles, a new gaming startup tries to one-up Fortnite’s social model, why your DSLR camera is a prime ransomware target, and yes, Twinfluencers are apparently a thing.
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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner (WSJ)
Snap Unveils a New Version of Video-Recording Spectacles (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Cancels Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft (Thurrott.com)
Singularity 6 raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz to create a 'virtual society' (TechCrunch)
Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack (The Verge)
Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
Design Memes: The Origin of those Helvetica List T-Shirts (HowDesign.com)
17 min
August 12, 2019Mon. 08/12 - Your 108 Megapixel Smartphone Camera
Would you want (or need) a 108MP smartphone camera? The “Ninja” Blevins/Twitch breakup explained. The cat-and-mouse between Chrome and paywalls explained. Credit where due for Apple on wearables, and why touchscreens might not be a user interface panacea.
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Samsung's 108-megapixel mobile sensor closes in on mirrorless cameras (Engadget)
Ninja calls out Twitch after his dormant channel highlights porn (updated) (Engadget)
The New York Times is still detecting Chrome Incognito Mode after Google’s fix (9to5Google)
Apple Deserves More Credit for Wearables (Above Avalon)
How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power (NYTimes)
Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls (USNI News)
20 min
August 09, 2019Fri. 08/09 - Can Ride Hailing EVER Make Money?
Uber and Lyft continue to lose money hand over fist, Huawei has a backup OS plan, Piano has a smarter paywall for news outlets, people are texting their “number neighbors” and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (NYTimes)
Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android (Engadget)
Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ)
How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far (NiemanLab)
Here's why the internet is obsessed with 'number neighbors,' a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider)
The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker)
I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard)
Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet)
With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target's mail room (TechCrunch)
Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget)
20 min
August 08, 2019Thu. 08/08 - I Put Zero Thought Into This Episode Title (explained in the episode)
All the headlines from the Galaxy Note 10 event, to what degree does Zuckerberg really want to keep Instagram independent, Google is expanding podcast search capabilities, you can now tell Alexa to slow down, and Netflix bags Benioff and Weiss and what that means to the streaming wars.
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The 7 biggest announcements from the Samsung Note 10 event (The Verge)
Google Maps lets you pull up flight and hotel reservations on the go (CNET)
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results (The Verge)
Now you can choose how fast Alexa talks on your Amazon Echo (The Verge)
Instagram's lax privacy practices let a trusted partner track millions of users' physical locations, secretly save their stories, and flout its rules (Business Insider)
'Game of Thrones' Creators Close $200M Netflix Overall Deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
19 min
August 07, 2019Wed. 08/07 - The Disney+ Bundle Is Nuts
We have a launch date for Disney+ and we also have confirmation of a wicked compelling bundle, FedEx officially breaks up with Amazon, Amazon trades accusations with CVS and Walgreens, iOS API changes make life difficult for Facebook, and why it might be make or break time for TikTok.
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Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ Available At Launch (The Streamable)
FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal With Amazon (Bloomberg)
Amazon’s PillPack is battling with CVS and Walgreens over getting patient prescriptions (CNBC)
Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls (Vice)
Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature (The Information)
Slack unveils new admin security controls (ITPro)
The biggest risks to TikTok (The Interface)
End of an era? Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine is ending its run after more than three decades (Onmsft.com)

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