Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”
A look at how all the platforms are dealing with the Taliban being a modern social media enterprise. Amazon is bigger than Walmart for the first time. Samsung stops cluttering its phones with ads. Att...
18 Aug 202117min
Tue. 08/17 – Yik Yak Is Back. Act Accordingly.
Yik Yak is back, but can it make it in a Tik Tok world? Concerns about how the Taliban are using WhatsApp. OnlyFans wants you to try out a new safe for work app. TikTok is distributing music via the b...
17 Aug 202116min
Mon. 08/16 – NHTSA Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot
Now it’s T-Mobile investigating a data breach that may or may not affect more than 100 million people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot. Everybody’...
16 Aug 202117min
(TWTR SPC) Samsung Event And The 1Password Team
Wrapping up the Samsung event with @samrutherford of Gizmodo, taking stock of the state of foldable phones, and the 1Password engineering and founding team joins for the entire second half! Le...
14 Aug 20211h 29min
Fri. 08/13 – The Growing Power Of Stablecoins
Disney reported some surprisingly strong streaming numbers. A recent Nvidia keynote included a virtual replica of its CEO. What if USDC becomes a stablecoin defacto backed by the US Fed. And in the we...
13 Aug 202118min
Thu. 08/12 – Legislation To Break Open App Stores
There is officially a bill to crack open the App Store. DoorDash wanted to buy Instacart, but fear of regulators scuppered the deal. WhatsApp will let you migrate your chat history. Lionel Messi’s new...
12 Aug 202116min
Wed. 08/11 – Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Event
All the flipping and folding phone news from today’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event. A big crypto crime in the DeFi space. Did AWS beat out Microsoft for a secret NSA contract? And why are all the majo...
11 Aug 202119min
Tue. 08/10 – iPhone To Get An Apple Watch-Like Always-On Screen?
Time for iPhone rumor season to hit fever pitch. Will the next iPhone take a page out of the Apple Watch’s book when it comes to screens? Has Apple run afoul of US labor law? The Crypto fix fails in t...
10 Aug 202116min
