Thu. 02/13 – Do We Maybe Have A Roadmap For GPT-5?

Wirecard is wiped out. Amazon has its own Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Apple quietly made a change that will make things pretty tough on advertisers. Google won’t keep your data forever anymore and Hey basically wins. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: 'The money's gone': Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion (Reuters) Google will start paying publishers to license content (Axios) Google will now auto-delete location and search history by default for new users (The Verge) Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products (GeekWire) Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval (Forbes) SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma Part Ways (Bloomberg) Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps (CNBC) Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good (The Verge) Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Kesä 202016min

Brazil puts the breaks on payments via WhatsApp. Advertisers apply pressure on Facebook via a boycott. Oculus is putting an end to the Oculus Go. Olympus is existing the camera business after 80 years. And what might be the first case of a person wrongfully arrested thanks to facial recognition. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Brazilian Authorities Suspend WhatsApp Payments (Bloomberg) Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (NYTimes) Facebook To Stop Selling Oculus Go, Vows No More 3DOF Headsets (UploadVR) Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years (WSJ) watchOS 7 drops Force Touch support, likely ahead of Apple Watch Series 6 hardware changes (9to5Mac) Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (NYTimes) Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime (Motherboard) Subscribe to the ad-free version of the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Kesä 202017min

Wirecard’s former CEO has been arrested. Microsoft pulls out of the other streaming wars by shutting down Mixer. Some analysis and additional details about yesterday’s WWDC news. There’s a new king of the supercomputers. And there’s also a new king of tech companies winning in the post Covid-19 era. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com ExpressVPN.com/techmeme Links: Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Is Arrested (WSJ) Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming (The Verge) Japanese Supercomputer Is Crowned World’s Speediest (The Verge) Zoom is no longer the best-performing work-from-home stock (CNBC) China launches its final satellite to complete its rival to the US-owned GPS system (CNBC) Apple update to allow iPhone users to choose default apps (The Guardian) Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One (Six Colors) The iPadification of the Mac is coming, no touchscreen required (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Kesä 202017min

All of the headlines I can manage to cram in from today’s World Wide Developer Conference from Apple. Hey gets approved, by the way. Google’s ad revenue will decline for the first time probably in, well, ever. And why Animal Crossing might have shied Nintendo away from mobile gaming. Again. Sponsors: Kiwico.com/ride GetRaycon.com/techmeme Links: Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over (The Verge) TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally (NYTimes) Google's U.S. Ad Revenue Is Expected to Decline in 2020, eMarketer Says (WSJ) Nintendo Chills Mobile Ambitions After Animal Crossing Success (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Kesä 202020min

Apple officially says no to HEY and people are pissed, kind of just about the WAY they said it. A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over those rumored Apple Glasses. Twitch is growing as a platform for live music. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Links: Interview: Apple's Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch) Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences (Bloomberg Businessweek) Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters) Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji' (NPR) Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (Financial Times) Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters) Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review) Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (Craigmod.com) The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess (Wired) healthOS (Divinations newsletter) The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (OneZero) We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company) What to expect from Apple's WWDC 2020 (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Kesä 202019min

Apple has rejected a Facebook app five times, so back to that debate again. Twitter lets you add audio to tweets. Door Dash raises a round. Surprise! Reliance Jio raises another monster round. And stick around for the last segment because I’ve got the single weirdest tech story that I think we’ve ever done on this show. Sponsor: DoubleUp.agency Links: Apple Rejects Facebook’s Gaming App, for at Least the Fifth Time (NYTimes) Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS (The Verge) UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model (BBC News) Zoom to Offer All Users Full Encryption, Bending to Pressure (Bloomberg) Exclusive: DoorDash valued at $16 billion after new funding round (Axios) India's Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $1.5 billion stake to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (TechCrunch) Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing (Financial Times) 6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple (WBZ Boston) Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Kesä 202018min

We dive deep into the whole HEY brouhaha and wonder if this is the best time for Apple to draw attention to App Store policies. Uber is getting into the software business. TikTok’s business is a pretty good one, it seems like. And the most reliable web business remains the first web business. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency CognitoHQ.com/techmeme Links: A new email startup says Apple’s shaking it down for a cut of its subscriptions (Protocol) BASECAMP’S NEW APP, HEY, FLAGGED IN APP STORE LIMBO FOR NOT USING IN-APP PURCHASE (Daring Fireball) Hey.com exec says Apple is acting like ‘gangsters,’ rejecting App Store updates and demanding cut of sales (The Verge) Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse (The Verge) Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices (USA Today) Uber to Sell Software, Starting With Four-Van Transit Service (Bloomberg) TikTok owner ByteDance first-quarter revenue soared to around $5.6 billion (Reuters) Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Kesä 202015min

The EU is investigating Apple for antitrust. Is Instagram surpassing Twitter as a news source? A look at that new Hey email service. A look at a whole slew of new services from Dropbox. And if you wanted to get your hands on one of those Boston Dynamics four-legged robots, today is your lucky day. Links: DoubleUp.agency BuyRaycon.com/techmeme Links: EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices (The Verge) Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce in 2019 (TechCrunch) Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source' (BBC News) Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion (Protocol) Hey YouTube WalkThrough Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files (The Verge) Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Kesä 202016min