Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future?
The SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs trade a soon as next week. Google finally does away with pagination on the mobile web. Why are Waymo autonomous taxis all piling up on one dead end street in San Francisco? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Dataiku.com Links: SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg) Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch) Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS) Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head (Platformer) Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek) SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic) Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15 Okt 202118min
Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China
Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ) Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ) Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge) Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star) TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge) Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge) Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Okt 202118min
Wed. 10/13 – Supply Chain Woes Come For The iPhone
Apple is forced to cut iPhone 13 production due to lack of parts. Are health features coming to the AirPods? NFT’s are coming to Coinbase. Stripe is hiring for a big push into crypto. Would you like a laptop with a 3D screen? And G4 TV is back, everybody, to remind you how you fell in love with tech in the first place. Sponsors: Postie.com/techmeme UrbanCatalyst.com/techmeme Links: Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg) Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ) Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia) G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge) Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk) Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk) Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge) APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge) Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Okt 202119min
Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning
Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing? Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Gainful.com/techmeme Links: Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget) Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios) A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider) Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch) Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch) 1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget) Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record) Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat) US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Okt 202118min
Mon. 10/11 – Pixels To Go Big On Cameras?
Is Google aiming to take back the smartphone camera crown with next week’s Pixel event? That Twitch leak reinforces the idea that on platform ecosystems, there very much is a 1%. The Chinese Tesla competitors that are hitting milestones faster than Tesla ever did. When and should Disney give ESPN streaming religion? And would you buy Squid Game merch? Sponsors: Oracle.com/goto/ride OurCrowd.com/ride Links: Google says Pixel 6 camera captures ‘150% more light,’ shows ‘Magic Eraser’ on leaked marketing site (9to5Google) Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows (WSJ) EV Sales At BYD, XPeng Soar In Sept., Underscoring Strong China Demand (Forbes) China’s booming electric car industry is much bigger than just Nio and Xpeng (CNBC) Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ) Disney’s shift to streaming puts ESPN in awkward position of clinging to the past (CNBC) Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ T-Shirts Are Coming to a Walmart Near You (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Okt 202120min
Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood
Tech real estate report. Tesla leaves for Texas, while Apple rocks up in Hollywood. YouTube is gonna stop doing those year-end Rewind videos. A developer says Facebook banned him for life cause they didn’t like his app. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions where we ask the question: is Google’s famous hiring gauntlet broken? Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com RealVision.com/techmeme Links: Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ) Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety) YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter) Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo) Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek) WeBack (Ramp Recap) Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol) HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge) Planet Squid Game (Vulture) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Okt 202119min
Thu. 10/07 – Forget The iCar, Apple Wants To Take Over Your EXISTING Car
Forget the iCar, Apple wants to take over your existing car. The first candidate to test the App Store cracks has stepped forward. AMD warns that if you install Windows 11, your computer could run slower. GM gets me closer to the self-driving future I want sooner rather than later. And a weird new NFT hybrid lets you play fantasy sports with startups. Sponsors: Wealthfront.com/techmeme Dataiku.com Links: Apple’s Plan for Cars: Using iPhone to Control A/C, Seats, Radio and More (Bloomberg) Paddle Plans to Launch Alternative In-App Purchase System on iOS That Circumvents Apple's Fees (MacRumors) AMD: Windows 11 Slows Our CPUs Up To 15%, Patch Coming (Tom's Hardware) Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ) GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios (The Verge) ‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch) ‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7 Okt 202118min
Wed. 10/06 – ALL Of Twitch Leaked?
The entirety of Twitch has allegedly been leaked. Like, everything from the source code to a creator payout spreadsheet. Snap gears up in the creator economy platform wars. Some AirPods gain Find My Support. The SEC says it has no plans to ban crypto. But worrying stories of alleged fraud have started trickling out of the NFT space. Sponsors: UrbanCatalyst.com/techmeme Dataiku.com Links: The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle) Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch) Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety) Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac) EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters) SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk) Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Okt 202116min
