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An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Cybereason.com Links: Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg) You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge) James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times) Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg) PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt) App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors) Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC) Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge) Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding? Sponsors: Masterworks.io promocode RIDE Cybereason.com Links: Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC) Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica) Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle) Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge) USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET) Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch) Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet) Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Touko 202119min

Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app, and it debuted number one on the app store. And Noom has raised a hell of a lot of money, but that’s because, its making a ton of money helping people lose weight. Sponsors: Oracle.com/goto/ride Cybereason.com Links: Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google) ARM's first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget) Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times) Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors) Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch) Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol) Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Touko 202117min

After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is considering rent-a-cops as a service. The AI community wants to open source large language models to address recent controversies. And a computer chip that changes its structure to thwart hackers. Sponsors: PorkBun.com/tld/design Cybereason.com Links: Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch) Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol) HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac) Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice) The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review) Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Touko 202118min

Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service works. Sponsors: Cybereason.com NordVPN.com/ride coupon code ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Touko 202127min

Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Tovala.com/ride Links: Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge) Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge) Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge) Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information) U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC) Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC) $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg) Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget) How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer) Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Touko 202121min

The newly announced electric F-150 is maybe the biggest EV effort since the launch of Tesla. Google is launching its first ever retail store. Internet Explorer is finally going to that great recycle bin in the sky. But could Google be breathing new life into RSS feeds in web browsers? Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Kraken.com/techmeme Links: Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (New York Times) Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (Tech Crunch) 'I'm not very social': ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters) Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge) Apple cites 'significant' malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet) Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge) Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Touko 202116min

Google I/O continues and continues to produce new headlines for us to cover. Nvidia is nerfing the ability to mine crypto. Ethereum says it’s going to go super energy efficient real soon. Microsoft10X is officially, no longer a thing. And reviews of the new iPad Pro reveal it to be… an iPad. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride AirMedCareNetwork.com/tech offer code TECH Links: Helping all your devices work better together (Google) Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 (Engadget) Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram (Wired) Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge) Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing) Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn't happening (ZDNet) IPAD PRO (2021) REVIEW: DREAM SCREEN (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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