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E3 is cancelled. Uber might ban drivers AND riders who test positive for Coronavirus. A 2nd gen Chromecast Ultra might be coming. A Peloton-style workout app from Apple might be coming. A look at Amazon’s entry into the suddenly hot ARM-s race. And am I wrong or wasn’t crypto supposed to help during the apocalypse? Sponsors: Protect.eset.com/ride DoubleUp.agency Links: E3 2020 Canceled After ‘Overwhelming Concerns’ About Coronavirus (Variety) Uber may suspend accounts of riders, drivers who test positive for coronavirus (Reuters) Exclusive: Google plans new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV (w/ remote!) (9to5Google) Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos (MacRumors) UK presses ahead with digital tech tax in spite of pressure from Trump (CNET) Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks (ZDNet) Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute (AnAndTech) More good news: Medical equipment is still prone to hacker attacks (VentureBeat) SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 REVIEW: JUST RIGHT (The Verge) Venture funding into crypto on pace to be down 40% from Q1 2019 (TheBlockGenesis) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Mar 202016min

A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure, a company offering panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social-media scraping apps, Google adds quantum computing to its machine-learning open-source TensorFlow development kit, DoNotPay lets users share streaming and news logins, the latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world, and things fall apart: political strife broke the knitting community at Ravelry. Sponsors Links: iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac) Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac) Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac) Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple) Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News) Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter) Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard) Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog) Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat) DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store) Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company) How to clean your Apple products (Apple) All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC) Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet) Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN) Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News) How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Mar 202019min

Another day of markets in turmoil, another Robinhood outage. Jack Dorsey lives to fight another day. Apple is repairing some iPad Airs for free, and might bring 64 MP cameras to the iPhone 12. Gaming out the reality of a ARM-based Mac. And let me hip you to “sleep streaming” on TikTok. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Links: Robinhood goes down again, causing clients to miss out on another historic trading day (CNBC) Twitter CEO Dorsey keeps his job after company strikes investment deal with Elliott Management, Silver Lake (CNBC) Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus (Reuters) Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers (Reuters) SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’ (CNBC) Apple opens repair program for 2019 iPad Air models suffering from blank screen issue (AppleInsider) iPhone 12 Pro leak reveals how Apple will beat the Samsung Galaxy S20 (Tom's Guide) New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture (AMD Responds) (Tom's Hardware) ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? (Jean-Louis Gassee) How to Make Money in Your Sleep (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Mar 202017min

I’ve said before, Steven Levy is the dean of the tech writers. All the way back in 1984 his classic book Hackers defined a tech space that wasn’t even fully aware of itself yet. Steven has written book length histories and examinations of Apple and Google, and now, with his new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, he finally tells the full Facebook story for the first time. Not the movie version, but the real story of how Facebook became Facebook from the earliest days at Harvard through the rise to 2 and a half billion users. It is, as I tell him, the best tech book I’ve read in years. If you want to fully understand Facebook, or just how a modern startup works or how a modern tech behemoth functions and sees itself in the world, I cannot recommend this book more highly. Buy the book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Mar 202029min

Another flaw in Intel chips, this time unfixable. Y Combinator demo day is going online only. Sonos won’t brick your old hardware anymore. Jack Dorsey probably won’t be moving to Africa anymore. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Metalab.co TheUSample.com/product Links: 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable (Ars Technica) Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps that aren’t from health organizations, app makers say (CNBC) YC W20 Online Demo Day (YCombinator) Sonos kills its device-bricking 'recycle mode' (Engadget) Quibi is giving people a 90-day free trial in hopes they’ll actually sign up (The Verge) Jack Dorsey is reconsidering Africa move amid coronavirus and activist investor threats (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: So you wanna buy a used IP address block? (Web Informant) The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible (One Zero) Sportswriting’s future may depend on the Athletic, which is either reassuring or terrifying (Washington Post) Hideo Kojima’s Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds (NYTimes Magazine) Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web? (NYTimes) This Utility Heats New York State—And Mines Its Own Bitcoin (Bloomberg) Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music (One Zero) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Mar 202016min

More Cornavirus worries, Apple is allowing ads in push notifications, Google is switching to mobile first indexing, hackers can hack your car keys, Samsung’s 4k and 8k tv lineup is here, and why I’m struggling to find a reason NOT to subscribe to DoNotPay at this point. Sponsors: Metalab.co Capterra.com/ride Links: Microsoft tells Bay Area and Puget Sound employees to work from home if possible as coronavirus spreads (CNBC) Apple Warns Stores About a Shortage of Replacement iPhones (Bloomberg) Ex-Uber self-driving head declares bankruptcy after $179 million loss to Google (Reuters) Apple now lets apps send ads in push notifications (The Verge) Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services (Redmond Channel Partner) Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 (Search Engine Land) Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys (Wired) VSCO's new editing tool Montage lets you edit and layer both photos and videos (TechCrunch) Google starts rolling out 4K Stadia gaming on the web (9to5Google) Samsung launches its 2020 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs (The Verge) Exclusive: For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info (Fortune) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Mar 202015min

You already know Tweets, but let me introduce you to Fleets. Robinhood explains its outages. Google assistant can now read you webpages out loud. Netlify is an interesting raise. And why getting a big-named VC in your seed round might actually be detrimental to your startup. Sponsors: Metalab.co Kiwico.com/ride Links: Twitter Is Finally Doing Stories (Buzzfeed) Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades (TechCrunch) Robinhood offers traders $15 for going down as markets gained $1.1T (TNW) Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns (9to5Google) Amazon employee in Seattle tests positive for coronavirus (GeekWire) Tesla downgraded Model 3 chip in China thanks to coronavirus (BBC News) Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content (VentureBeat) $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100 (TechCrunch) After attracting 800K web developers, Netlify wins $53M in funding (SiliconAngle) New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch) Streamer Quibi Raises Additional Funds Ahead of Launch (WSJ) Hulu’s live TV service is now on PS4 consoles after PlayStation Vue shutdown (The Verge) Roku is in talks for original programming, following the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon (Digiday) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Mar 202015min

Waymo has an interesting raise. Interesting for what it says about self-driving and about Google Moon Shots. Robinhood has the worst possible outages at the worst possible time. A new player in the quantum computing race. And sports tech offers a new way to watch… golf? Sponsors: Metalab.co Legalzoom.com Code: "ride" at checkout Links: Waymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations (VentureBeat) Robinhood Trading Site Seizes Up, Customers Miss Stock Rally (Bloomberg) Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64 (ZDNet) Ampere Altra is the first 80-core ARM-based server processor (VentureBeat) iPhone Maker Expects China Plants to Return to Normal in Coming Weeks (Bloomberg) Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. (WSJ) Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW) NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Mar 202016min