Mon. 06/02 – How DoorDash Has Quietly Been Killing It

All the crypt is down bad. Is DeFi lending platform Celsius to blame? More importantly, are margin calls coming for big Bitcoin bag holders, including Tesla? Jack Dorsey’s plan to leapfrog to Web5. Leaked images of the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Is your smart TV committing ad fraud? And why I’m pretty sure that Google AI bot did NOT become sentient. Sponsors: Dragon Ball Z Kakarot! AltoIRA.com/techmeme Links: Celsius Tanks 70% in 1 Hour After Company Pauses Withdrawals to 'Stabilize Liquidity' (Decrypt) Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD unveils proposal for decentralized Web platform (The Block) Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5 (CoinDesk) Galaxy Z Flip 4 leaks in real-life shots with much smaller display crease (9to5Google) Apple Goes Deeper Into Finance With Buy Now, Pay Later Offering (WSJ) Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds (WSJ) The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Washington Post) Nonsense on Stilts (Gary Marcus) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Kesä 202217min

WWDC wrap up, @chrismaddern on @floornfts, and Brian talks about his Mac Studio experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Kesä 20221h 23min

Time to refresh those Yao Ming and Verne Troyer Powerbook ads from the early ‘aughts. Could Meta not release its big metaverse hardware play for years? The NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot seems to be getting serious. Speaking of Austin Powers actors, Seth Green ransomed his Ape. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride Links: 14-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in Early 2023 (MacRumors) Apple Plans 15-Inch MacBook Air for 2023 and New 12-Inch Laptop (Bloomberg) Meta Scales Back AR Glasses Plan Amid Reality Labs Shakeup (The Information) AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture (AnandTech) The federal government’s Tesla Autopilot investigation is moving into a new phase (The Verge) Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home (BuzzFeed News) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: These Drones Could Bring You 5G Networking After a Hurricane (CNET) Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes) The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge (New Yorker) Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story (Kotaku) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Kesä 202217min

Who needs a gaming console? Not Xbox, not anymore. Twitter is gonna give Elon the firehose treatment. Dell unveils some new XPS goodness. Apple does its own banking. More signs of the NFT market cooling off. And a popular developer tool is riding off into the sunset. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride Work Check Links: Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge) The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge) Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge) In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post) Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget) Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg) Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt) ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg) The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch) GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Kesä 202216min

The crypto world’s greatest supervillain looks like he’s joining the crypto bandwagon. Salesforce… (Salesforce?!) has jumped on the NFT bandwagon. Could Netflix buy Roku? How many layoffs has Silicon Valley seen thusfar? And a look at Apple’s big push into the passwordless future. Sponsors: HubSpot.com AthleticGreens.com/ride Links: Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources (CoinDesk) Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud (TechCrunch) US: Chinese govt hackers breached telcos to snoop on network traffic (BleepingComputer) Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (CrunchBase News) Inside Roku, talk is heating up about an acquisition by Netflix (Insider) Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time (Wired) Classified: collaborate@axoncollective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Kesä 202217min

TikTok now has avatars, to keep up with Bitmoji and Memoji. The SEC seems to be seriously probing Binance. The death of the lighting port really might be nigh. Bits and pieces that fell through the cracks from WWDC. And potentially a huge breakthrough in keeping your data encrypted and secure, but still usable and searchable. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: TikTok’s new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch) US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest (Bloomberg) USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’ (The Verge) Security Fixes Won't Require Full iOS Update in iOS 16, Will Be Installed Automatically (MacRumors) Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022 (AnandTech) A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired) Classified: collaborate@axoncollective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Kesä 202217min

All the headlines from WWDC. All the new OS’s and a new MacBook Air with a new M2 chip, but I’ll save you the speculation. Nothing on the AR/VR front. More Bored Apes stolen. More posturing from Elon Musk that he might walk away from the Twitter deal. And is Netflix about to get into live sports? Sponsors: ConstantContact.com WWDC Links: Apple debuts iOS 16 with customizable lock screen, Messages updates, much more (9to5Mac) Apple brings ‘undo send’ to iMessage (TechCrunch) Live Activities is a new iOS 16 feature meant to improve notifications (The Verge) Apple announces in-camera translations and improves dictation (TechCrunch) Apple Pay Later lets you split up purchases into four payments at no interest (TechCrunch) Apple Maps to get multistop routing and more in iOS 16 (TechCrunch) watchOS 9 introduces new running metrics and medication reminders (The Verge) Apple Announces Multi-Display CarPlay With Integrated Speedometer, Climate Controls, and More (MacRumors) Apple announces new flagship M2 processor (The Verge) Apple unveils new MacBook Air: M2 chip, case redesign, new midnight blue color, display notch (MacBook Air) Apple slaps new M2 processor into 13-inch MacBook Pro (TechCrunch) Apple announces macOS 13 Ventura, the next major software update for the Mac (ArsTechnica) Apple unveils iPadOS 16 with beefed up multitasking features (TechCrunch) Apple Previews New 'Freeform' App to Work Collaboratively (MacRumors) Non-WWDC Links: Yuga Labs Confirms Discord Server Hack; 200 ETH Worth of NFTs Stolen (CoinDesk) Musk accuses Twitter of ‘resisting and thwarting’ his right to information on fake accounts (CNBC) Netflix, ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Amazon are racing to win US Formula 1 rights as the global auto sport booms in popularity (Insider) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Kesä 202221min

It’s increasingly looking like we might be approaching a tipping point in terms of driverless ride hailing becoming a reality. Twitter will let you set alerts for your name, among other things. Did Elon Musk order everyone back to the office to encourage some people to quit? What to expect from Monday’s WWDC kickoff. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Cruise can finally charge for driverless robotaxi rides in San Francisco (TechCrunch) Twitter is building a tool for keyword alerts, in case you need more Twitter notifications (The Verge) Elon Musk asks Tesla execs to ‘pause all hiring,’ cut 10% of staff, amid ‘super bad feeling about economy’ (Electrek) Apple Plans to Make the iPad More Like a Laptop and Less Like a Phone (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok. (The Honest Broker) Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub (TechCrunch) The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes (Every.to) Looking Glass might have just invented the GIF’s 3D successor (The Verge) Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Kesä 202217min