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

A Superhuman mea culpa, no mea culpa but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake, inside Walmart’s turf battles over ecommerce, HQ Trivia lays off staff, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: CognitoHQ.com Tiny.website Firesideconf.com/ride Links: Read Statuses (Superhuman) Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro (9to5Mac) HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions (TechCrunch) Inside the conflict at Walmart that’s threatening its high-stakes race with Amazon (Recode) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting (Forbes) Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs (Ars Technica) Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q (Ars Technica) How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear (BuzzFeed News) Hayflick limit (QZ) Books Recommendations: The Dog Stars Orphan X Subscribe to the ad-free feed!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Jul 201918min

Telsa sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected, more signs of tech manufacturing fleeing China, Uber’s new Dine-In service is kinda brilliant, and have you seen the whole tech world arguing over Superhuman? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Instacart.com Promocode RIDE at checkout. Links: Tesla sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected in latest quarter (Digital Trends) HP, Dell and Microsoft join electronics exodus from China (Nikkei Asian Review) House lawmakers officially ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold (The Verge) Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too (CNET) Uber Eats invades restaurants with Dine-In option. (TechCrunch) Superhuman is Spying on You (Mike Industries) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Jul 201917min

We know when the Galaxy Note 10 is coming, we don’t know why Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, Nvidia refreshes the RTX line, meditation app Calm is finding success in an interesting way, and Loon is about to have its first big test. Sponsors: FiresideConf.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Samsung confirms next Unpacked event will be Aug. 7 in New York (CNET) Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, and everyone is confused (Engadget) Microsoft finally details its plans for Windows 10 19H2 (WindowsCentral) Nvidia refreshes RTX line: “Super” GPUs add performance at same MSRP (ArsTechnica) Tim Cook disputes 'absurd' reports about Jony Ive's departure from Apple (NBCNews) Calm raises $27M to McConaughey you to sleep (TechCrunch) PlayStation Vue raises prices by $5 per month, following its recent content deals (TechCrunch) Google Stadia's Data Cap Challenge Will Be Addressed By ISPs, Says Phil Harrison (GameSpot) Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings (Reuters) The Ad Free Premium Feed Is HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Jul 201915min

Was Jony Ive burned out at Apple or was he burned out BY Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet mega-player in the streaming wars, how TikTok is spending its way to ubiquity (on the backs of those it wants to supplant) and how tech is revolutionizing Archeology. Sponsors: FiresideConf.com/ride Pantheon.io/ride Links: Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago (WSJ) Roku Will Soon Have 70% More OTT Devices in Global Streaming Market Than Next Closest Competitor (Multichannel News) Streaming Overload? Nielsen Report Finds Average Viewer Takes 7 Minutes To Pick What To Watch; Just One-Third Bother To Check Menu (Deadline) TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious. (WSJ) RealWear AR Closes Series B, Total Funding Over $100M (Forbes) Exclusive: Intel launches blockbuster auction for its mobile portfolio (iam-media.com) New electric cars sold in Europe must be fitted with noise-making device (TechSpot) How Cutting-Edge Tech Is Empowering Ancient Archaeology (OneZero) Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Jul 201917min

I didn’t cover it, but you might have noticed that this week, bitcoin did indeed cross that magical $10,000 mark, in fact, got to $13,000 a coin only to flash crash back down again almost to $10,000. But look, seemingly the crypto spring is upon us and I was just curious as to why, so I asked Aaron Lammer, co-host of the only crypto podcast I listen to, CoinTalk to try to find out what is behind this rally. TLDR, it’s a little bit market cycles and a little bit Facebook Libra. Sponsors: HappyCog.com/ride Wix.com/podcast Subscribe to the CoinTalk podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 Jun 201932min

Is it really different this time? Is the regulatory hammer about to come down on Silicon Valley? Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute; he’s writing a book on the history of Monopoly power; and he has direct experience with this stuff. He was a Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst to the Senate Budget Committee. He also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on financial services policy, including Dodd-Frank, the Federal Reserve, and the foreclosure crisis. How is monopoly power different (or not) in the era of Big Tech? Sponsors: CognitoHQ.com GetKeySmart.com and use the promocode techmeme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Jun 201926min

Jony Ive is leaving Apple, health tech is having its first big IPO, Amazon looks like it is finally ready to kill UPS, I’ve got issues with Google’s new reCAPTCHA’s and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: WeWorkRemotely Gabi.com/ride Links: Apple's Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client (MacRumors) History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive (Motherboard) Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple (Daring Fireball) Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his own words (The Financial Times) Digital health start-up Livongo files to go public (CNBC) Amazon, the new king of shipping (Axios) Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side (Fast Company) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home Empire (Fortune) Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry (The Ringer) New Emails, Old Tech (Tedium) How the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field (GeekWire) How One VC Firm Amassed a 24% Stake in Slack Worth $4.6 Billion (Bloomberg) How Art Arrived at Jackson Pollock (Kottke.org) Subscribe to the ad-free feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Jun 201917min

Twitter still allows public figures to break its rules, but it will warn you when they do, Zuckerberg says you need him on that wall, the US Wireless Emergency Alert system can be easily spoofed, and the mystery that is Superhuman. Sponsors: SVB.com/next WeWorkRemotely.com Links: Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures (The Verge) Mark Zuckerberg Is Rethinking Deepfakes (The Atlantic) Mark Zuckerberg: We can’t stop Russian election interference by ourselves, US government must help (CNBC) Amazon partners with retailers for new Counter package pickup service, starting with Rite-Aid (GeekWire) Second Florida city pays giant ransom to ransomware gang in a week (ZDNet) Researchers Demonstrate How U.S. Emergency Alert System Can Be Hijacked and Weaponized (Motherboard) Would You Pay $30 a Month to Check Your Email? (NYTimes) Ad-Free Feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Jun 201916min