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Are S10 sales in Korea the first indication of the Covid-19 effect? Is the FCC gonna fine the wireless carriers enough for selling location data? Is Apple going to release an iPad Pro with a trackpad? A hybrid scooter/tiny car. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters) Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald) FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters) Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information) An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld) Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac) Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC) The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian) Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review) A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol) How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired) YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator) Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Feb 202017min

What else? More Coronavirus stuff. F8 8'nt gonna happen. Roblox is the most interesting raise in a long time. DoorDash files for an IPO but don’t expect it soon. Nokia is exploring its options. Oh, and the first reviews for the Galaxy S20 Ultra suggest the cameras are having issues. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Links: Facebook cancels F8 developers conference over coronavirus (CNET) Microsoft warns it will miss guidance for segment that includes Windows because of coronavirus (CNBC) Roblox raises $150M Series G, led by Andreessen Horowitz, now valued at $4B (TechCrunch) DoorDash preps for IPO, confidentially files documents with SEC (CNBC) Nokia to Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts (Bloomberg) It took Google three years to add Firefox, Edge and Opera support to Google Earth (Ghacks.net) Timex is releasing a GPS smartwatch with 25 days of battery life (The Verge) SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA REVIEW: SHUTTER BUG (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Feb 202016min

Facebook bans ads around the Cornavirus, a deeper dive into how the Coronavirus crisis might be affecting iPhone development, Bob Iger is no longer Disney’s leader (kinda), why Waymo is hiring like crazy in hopes of a self-driving breakthrough, and if you see someone using an iPhone in a mystery movie, guess what? They’re probably not the bad guy. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com TryGrasshopper.com/ride Links: Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure the coronavirus (BusinessInsider) Coronavirus clouds Apple's timeline for new iPhones (Reuters) Disney has a new CEO, but its old CEO isn’t going away quite yet (Recode) Inside Waymo’s Hiring Binge (The Information) Plume raises $85 million to bring smarter Wi-Fi networks to more homes (VentureBeat) Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Vice) Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free (TNW) Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director (The Verge) Jif settles the great debate with a GIF peanut butter jar (CNN Business) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Feb 202017min

Netflix launches Top 10 lists, Firefox rolls out DNS over HTTPS, Amazon Go Grocery means no cashiers or checkout lines, consolidation or super app in the Southeast Asian on demand transport space, and why this might be Signal’s moment to go mainstream. Sponsors: Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy Tinycapital.com Rhone.com/ridehome Promocode: ridehome for 20 percent off Links: New Netflix feature reveals the top 10 most popular programs on its service (TechCrunch) Netflix added a top 10 list of its most-watched content — here’s how to find it (The Next Web) Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (Ars Technica) Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock (TechCrunch) Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines (GeekWire) Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek (TechCrunch) EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (Politico.eu) SourceCode Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Feb 202015min

The phantom announcements from MWC start trickling in. Safari might be getting strict with HTTPS certificates. Apple might release an ARM-based Mac as soon as early 2021. TONS of specs revealed concerning the Xbox Series X. And Fintech continues to be on a roll. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com MintMobile.com/ride Links: Huawei unveils the Mate Xs and MatePad Pro 5G w/ no Play Store access (9to5Google) Intel debuts 5G server and base station chips, plus a PC network card (VentureBeat) Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months (The Register) Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X specs (Polygon) Apple to release first ARM Mac without Intel processor in next 18 months, predicts Kuo (9to5Mac) Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion (WSJ) Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019 (TechCrunch) Enveil raises $10 million for enterprise-scale homomorphic encryption (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Feb 202018min

I am honored to be speaking today to Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has a new book out called Discovering Precision Health, and if you are interested in health tech at all, ESPECIALLY if you are interested in trying your hand at a health tech startup? This is required reading. And for the rest of us, it’s also a great primer on how tech is about to transform health, and what we can (hopefully) look forward to as tech finally (again, hopefully) disrupts the health care space… in a positive sense! Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Feb 202024min

Well, we mentioned it a couple weeks ago, but Tesla has had quite the month. Maybe one of the banner months of its entire life as a company. No better time to check in on the world of Elon Musk with Rob Mauer of the always excellent Tesla Daily podcast. Why did Tesla’s stock shoot to the moon, come back down a bit, and then inch back up toward the moon this month? What are the fundamentals behind that excellent earnings report? Is this it? Have the Tesla bulls won? Such a fascinating company… Sponsors: Tinycapital.com Podcorn.com (promocode "ride" at checkout) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Feb 202032min

Shopify joins the Libra Association, Facebook will pay you for your data in one specific instance, Google is cutting down on apps using background location, more Coronavirus cancellations and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co Podcorn.com (promocode: "ride" at checkout) Links: Shopify joins Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra Association (TechCrunch) Google Resists Demands From States in Digital-Ad Probe (WSJ) Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings (The Verge) Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background (The Verge) PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns (GamesIndustry.biz)  Weekend Longreads: Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? (Slate) Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet (Wired) How the BBC’s Netflix-killing plan was snuffed by myopic regulation (WiredUK) Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC) Debt is Coming (AlexDanco.com) The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software) (A16Z) Aircraft, Big and Small, Are Changing Our Relationship With Flight (NYTimes) Classified Ad info: Email: cofounders@icloud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Feb 202018min