Fri. 9/20 - Airbnb Plans an Open House in 2020

More on Apple’s China controversy, hands-on with Google’s Pixelbook Go laptop, Twitter returns to the Mac, Africa’s first homegrown smartphone, SpaceX and NASA kiss and make up, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Castro CognitoHQ.com Today In Digital Marketing Podcast Links: TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball) Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery] (9to5Google) Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge) Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company) NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters) Apple Launches In-House Studio With 'Band of Brothers'/'The Pacific' Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter) Weekend Longreads: Is Amazon Unstoppable? (The New Yorker) Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic) When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic) Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker) The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired) The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient) Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes) Subscribe to the ad-free feed RIGHT IN YOUR PODCAST APP! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Loka 201919min

Apple takes down the Hong Kong app that it reinstated after taking it down in the first place, Waymo will soon let real people into driverless cars, Grammarly is the newest unicorn, and why, if you live in the Bay Area, your house might be without power… but your work probably won’t be. Sponsors: Castro Legacybox.com/ride Links: Apple Removes App That Helps Hong Kong Protesters Track the Police (NYTimes) APPLE REMOVES HKMAP.LIVE FROM APP STORE (Daring Fireball) Apple, Google Pull Hong Kong Protest Apps After China Uproar (WSJ) Tweetstorm (@Grummz) Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools (TechCrunch) Splinter Shutting Down (Daily Beast) Why the PG&E Blackouts Spared California's Big Tech HQs (Wired) What Happens When Your Tweet Becomes a Subway Ad (One Zero) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Loka 201918min

Twitter used your 2-Factor credentials to sell ads against you, the China/Hong Kong/tech controversies roll on, Mark Zuckerberg is going back to Washington, and the Nobel Prize for chemistry gives long overdue recognition to the most important technology innovation of our time. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing Podcast Castro Leap.FidelityCareers.com Links: Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising (Axios) Twitter says phone numbers users provided for security were ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes (The Washington Post) 'Protecting rioters': China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police (The Guardian) 'Call of Duty: Mobile' smashes records with 100 million downloads in first week (Reuters) Kuo: New iPad Pro and iPhone SE 2 in early 2020, followed by Apple AR headset collaboration with ‘third-party brands’ (9to5Mac) Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC) Postmates’ new IPO delay says something bigger: Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley (Recode) Smart fitness device Mirror launches one-on-one personal training (CNET) Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries (The Guardian) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Loka 201916min

The PlayStation 5 is coming in about a year and Wired has the details, Hulu finally lets you download video, a gamer is banned for voicing support for Hong Kong protesters, how the Galaxy Fold was “fixed,” and Robinhood takes another crack at Cash Management. Sponsors: Castro Vistaprint.com promo code Ride Sponsors: Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5 (Wired) Hulu finally launches support for downloads, initially to ad-free viewers (TechCrunch) Group Nine to Acquire PopSugar, Continuing Wave of Digital Media Tie-Ups (The WSJ) Blizzard Bans Gamer, Rescinds Money, on Hong Kong Protest Support (Bloomberg) Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments (Hacker News) Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown (iFixit) Robinhood revives checking with new debit card & 2% interest (TechCrunch) Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot (Smithsonian.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Loka 201916min

A Kindle Kids Edition is here, Sonos speakers via subscription is here, macOS Catalina is here, but the following tab is gone from Instagram, PayPal is ghosting Libra, and why investors think the time to jump into Quantum Computing is now. Sponsors: Castro Podcast App Today In Digital Marketing Podcast Links: Amazon debuts its first ever Kindle Kids Edition (CNET) New Sonos service lets you rent its speakers (The Verge) Instagram’s Following Activity Tab Is Going Away (BuzzFeed News) Music labels wary as Apple tries to bundle subscriptions (Financial Times) Apple’s macOS Catalina update is coming today (The Verge) macOS Catalina Review (iMore) PayPal Bails on Facebook-Led Libra Cryptocurrency Dream (Bloomberg) PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC) Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups (Nature) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Loka 201918min

Satish Jeyachandran is the Head of Hardware at Waymo. Before that he lead the self-driving team at Tesla, so he was in charge of the Autopilot team, and his job change lead to headlines at the time. Today Satish gives us a history lesson on Waymo, tells us what the future holds for self-driving tech generally, and most importantly for me, answers a question I’ve always wondered. Why go for full autonomy? If you can give me the ability to let the car drive itself on highways, why not give me that now? Why try to solve the full 99.99% of the problem? It turns out, that Waymo learned you can’t do half measures. You have to do full autonomy or you do nothing. Very interesting conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Loka 201918min

Really bad Android zero-day discovered, is the scooter space back? Apple makes an interesting acquisition, an exoskeleton allows a paralyzed man to walk again and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: PixelUnion.net Election Ride Home podcast Links: Attackers exploit 0-day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones (ArsTechnica) Bird raises $275 million Series D round at a $2.5 billion valuation (TechCrunch) Apple May Have Acquired Motion Capture Company IKinema [Update: Confirmed] (MacRumors) Apple’s AR plans may come to life after acquiring iKinema motion tech (VentureBeat) A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab (MIT Technology Review) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Off-the-Radar Baseball League That’s Trying to Reboot the Game (GEN) Inside Disney’s New York Stream Factory (Variety) My Time at Snap (@marko_tupper) Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to unleash growth. Then things got messy (CNN Business) Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die (The Atlantic) The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Loka 201917min

Instagram launches Threads, the iPhone SE might ride again, the biggest content recommendation players have merged, Vice Media and Refinery 29 have merged, and why has Apple banned an app for users in Hong Kong? Sponsors: PixelUnion.net Manscaped.com, code: "ride" Links: Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status (TechCrunch) Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (NYTimes) Kuo: Apple to release ‘iPhone SE 2’ in Q1 2020 with iPhone 8 design, A13 processor (9to5Mac) What the Taboola-Outbrain combination means for publishers (Digiday) Vice Media to Acquire Refinery29, as Both Digital-Media Players Seek Scale (Variety) Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources (NY Daily News) Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store (The Register) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Loka 201916min