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Remember that Onion headline, F- Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades? Well, Samsung says welcome to the DDR5 era. There’s more tech testimony on Capitol Hill today. That Arizona bill that would have regulated the App Store mysteriously disappears. Deliveroo is facing a full on revolt. And my wife covers the Chrissy Teigen twitter news. Sponsors: Calderalab.com use code TECHMEME (all caps one word) at checkout Masterworks.io, promocode ride Links: Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice As Fast As DDR4 (HotHardware) Zuckerberg suggests how to tweak tech's liability shield (Axios) Genshin Impact Races Past $1 Billion on Mobile in Less Than Six Months (SensorTower) Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores (The Verge) Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC) Deliveroo Hit by Investor, Rider Revolt Ahead of London IPO (Bloomberg) Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Mars 202119min

You can now use Bitcoin to buy a Tesla. You can now DM anyone on Slack. Intel is now doing what Ben Thompson has been telling them to do for years. What Medium is doing to journalists is dumb. What Verizon is doing with Yahoo+ is dumb. And is the Chief Impact Officer title a real role, or is it… dumb? Sponsors: The Hello, User Podcast From Ping Identity BuyRaycon.com/tech for 15% off Links: Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC) WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol) Trading App Robinhood Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO (Bloomberg) Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies (The Verge) Exclusive: Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff (Android Police) Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard) Verizon to center media arm around new subscription platform Yahoo+ (Axios) Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC) Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Mars 202119min

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy Discord but Discord might just take itself public instead. A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebranding, a new Niantic partnership with Nintendo, and new rumors of that upgraded Nintendo switch. A new consortium wants to take the pain out of browser compatibility and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over the butterfly keyboards. Links: Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg) Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge) Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge) Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg) Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin) Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch) Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge) Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Mars 202117min

Red hot app Dispo is losing some big name investors and the founder is leaving the startup’s board. As anticipated, Zoom goes platform. Microsoft is beginning a soft HQ reopening. The secret sensor found in the HomePod mini. And the smart startup that has cloned Amazon’s biggest competitive moats, to make them available to everybody. Sponsors: Kiwico.com, promocode "ride" for 30 percent off! BuyRaycon.com/tech for 15% off Links: David Dobrik, Losing Sponsors and Fans, Steps Down From App He Co-founded (NYTimes) Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with David Dobrik’s Dispo app weeks after leading deal (TechCrunch) Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services (TechCrunch) Microsoft to start reopening headquarters on March 29th, with hybrid workplace focus (The Verge) Apple’s HomePod Mini Has a Secret Sensor Waiting to Be Switched On (BLoomberg) Inside the Democrats' strategy to bombard Big Tech (Axios) On-demand logistics and fulfillment startup Flowspace raises $31M (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Mars 202116min

Last weekend a listener to this show, Ti Zhang, (@zero_chill_tea) tagged me on twitter around a conversation they were having about NFTs and the degree to which, lots of folks in the art world are not so thrilled with the advent of NFTs. They said, sure, we see all the headlines around famous artists and celebrities and all the money being made. But was I aware that artists were seeing their work stolen and sold as NFTs? That artists were taking their work down from the internet to make sure it wasn’t scraped and used on a blockchain somewhere? I was not. They started sending articles and links, some of which I posted in the show notes and I was like, hey, instead of just educating me about the NFT thing from the artist perspective, come on the show real quick and educate us all. So, the first half of the show is that. Thank you Ti, for being such a great resource. Then, after a break, the second half of the show will be just some of the Interesting Raises from the Interesting Raises episode that RideHome+ subscribers got this weekend. Less than half the content. If hearing these gives you a bit of FOMO, of course you can always sign up for the RideHome+ feed anytime, at tech.supercast.tech. As always, link to sign up for that feed is in the bottom of the show notes. Sponsors: ManlyBands.com/techmeme Subscribe to the RideHome+ Feed by tapping this link, right here in your podcast app: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Mars 202133min

It’s app platform product news day! Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids. Twitter wants you to watch YouTube in-stream. Telegram is basically adding all the Clubhouse features I’ve been dreaming of. Was an anti-Apple rebel alliance born last night in a Clubhouse room? Why China is banning Tesla in some cases. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: EditorX.com Molekule.com, code "techmeme" at checkout to save as much as $120! Links: Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News) Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch) Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers) Zuckerberg: Facebook may actually be in a ‘stronger position’ after Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes (CNBC) China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? (O'Reilly) Moore's Law for Everything (SamAltman.com) Empathetic Robots Are Killing Off the World’s Call-Center Industry (Bloomberg Businessweek) Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India (Rest of World) How a social app you’ve never heard of became a haven for Gen Z (Protocol) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Mars 202118min

It’s an Apple rumor Thursday from both the boys, Gurman and Kuo. Sony is taking what it’s learned from the DualSense controllers and bringing that to VR. YouTube rolls out its TikTok rival. Spotify wants you to know it gets artists paid. And I do my best to explain the whole creator economy controversy that has sprung up over at Substack. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Links: Apple Nears Launch of New iPads After Stay-At-Home Sales Boost (Bloomberg) PS5's VR 2.0: First Look At New Controllers (GameSpot) YouTube Shorts arrives in the US to take on TikTok, but the beta is still half-baked (The Verge) Spotify says over 13,000 artists’ catalogs earned at least $50K in royalties last year (The Verge) Here's why Substack's scam worked so well (The Hypothesis) Substack is for independent writers (Substack Blog) Crypto marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million to be the ‘Amazon of NFTs’ (Fortune) Intel puts Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ guy into new ads praising PCs (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Mars 202117min

Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the year brings new midrange phones. But are they really discontinuing the Galaxy Note, and are chip shortages the real reason why? Are reductions in app store fees really what they’re cracked up to be? Has Uber had a change of heart or just an acknowledgement of the inevitable? And the bear case for Clubhouse that everyone is talking about. Sponsors: NewYorker.com/techmeme promocode techmeme Tovala.com/ride Links: Samsung’s midrange phones now feature fast refresh rate screens, stabilized cameras (The Verge) Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone (Bloomberg) Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales (CNBC) Google and Apple are giving up less than 5% of their revenue from apps with payout changes, analytics firm estimates (CNBC) Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle (CNBC) Pinduoduo Founder Colin Huang Steps Down From Company (WSJ) Clubhouse Tweet Thread (ShaanVP) Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison (Tampa Bay Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Mars 202116min