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All of the headlines from the big Samsung Unpacked event, the T-Mobile-Sprint merger is officially a go… mostly, Brandless is the first Softbank company to shut down entirely, a Sirius lifeline for Soundcloud, and has the CIA quietly been the real owner of the leading encryption company for decades now? Sponsors: DoubleUP.agency LinkedIN.com/ride Links: SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S20, PLUS, AND ULTRA FIRST LOOK: CAMERAS, 5G, AND 120HZ SCREENS (The Verge) Samsung’s new foldable Galaxy Z Flip will arrive on February 14th for $1,380 (The Verge) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip debuts w/ less expensive ‘flip phone’ design (9to5Google) Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint (CNBC) Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund's first failure (Protocol) SiriusXM Acquires Minority Stake in SoundCloud for $75 Million (The Hollywood Reporter) Netflix dominates viewing on TVs over all other streaming services (CNET) ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ (Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Feb 202019min

The DOJ says the Chinese were behind the Equifax hack, MWC is becoming a ghost conference, the Razr reviews are in, the Corp.com domain name is a weird story, and why ARM’s new edge chips could revolutionize the Internet of Things. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi Ashford.edu/ride Links: U.S. charges Chinese military hackers with massive Equifax breach (Politico) As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards (TechCrunch) Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show (BBC News) Motorola Razr review: It's the most personal phone I've used, but I have concerns (CNET) Motorola Razr review: A tragedy unfolds (Input Magazine) Netflix Spends Big for Oscars—Will Hollywood Give In? (WSJ) Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale (KrebsonSecurity) ARM’s new edge AI chips promise IoT devices that won’t need the cloud (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Feb 202017min

Uber says it will be profitable quicker than it had expected to, yet another entrant into the lists at the Streaming Wars, what’s it like to use a 64-core processor, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Podcorn.com Links: Uber stock is on pace for its best day ever (CNBC) ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels (CNBC) NYSE Owner Abandons Potential eBay Deal (WSJ) The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review (AnandTech) Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else (Recode) Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature (The Verge) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS FUTURE IS NOW TIED TO HARDWARE (The Verge) Steven Levy's Plaintext An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away (NYTimes) ‘ClassPass Is Squeezing Studios to the Point of Death’ (Vice) Elon Musk Can’t Lose (BuzzFeed News) A SMALL ROCKET MAKER IS RUNNING A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACE RACE (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Feb 202017min

Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Podcorn.com Links: Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge) New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac) Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge) Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge) Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch) Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC) The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet) Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC) U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Feb 202016min

Spotify officially buys The Ringer, we have the official Disney+ subscriber numbers, Jeff Weiner is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO, a Rockstar Games co-founder is apparently leaving the company, and what languages do most developers say they want to learn next? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com NetGear.com/bestwifi Links: Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode) Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance) LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge) NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ) Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg) Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired) Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge) Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet) Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes) Steve Jobs' personality changed after Apple's success, Wozniak says (CNET) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Feb 202016min

We finally know how big a business YouTube is, the tech angle on that Iowa Caucuses mess IS the only angle, Mastercard explains why it pulled out of Libra, and why has the US Government decided to break up Big Razor, before it gets around to Big Tech. Sponsors: Capterra.com/ride WarbyParker.com/tech Links: YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time (The Verge) This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses (HuffPost) Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November (9to5Google) Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook (Financial Times) Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg) Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst (Bloomberg) Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry (NYTimes) The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Feb 202016min

The end might truly be nigh for Blackberry this time. Will the Corona Virus mean we won’t have an Apple event next month after all? Leaked video of the Galaxy Z Flip. Did Jeff Bezos succumb to Elon Musk envy? And why one of the most popular music streaming services in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com LegalZoom.com (code: ride at checkout) Links: BlackBerry’s Android smartphones will stop being sold in August 2020 (9to5Google) Ming-Chi Kuo Says Coronavirus Outbreak Impacting iPhone Supply, Lowers Shipment Forecast (MacRumors) Uber Suspends 240 Mexican Accounts to Prevent Coronavirus Spread (Bloomberg) Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (The Verge) Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung’s folding Galaxy Z Flip (The Verge) Disney Takes Tighter Control of Hulu After Disney+ Bundle Revs Up Growth (Bloomberg) Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg) Spotify, Apple Music Trail Little-Known Rival in Music-Obsessed India (WSJ) A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated) (Android Authority) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Feb 202018min

This is the promised interview with Angela Strange from Andreessen Horowitz. I told you about it on the weekend longreads segment yesterday, so no more need to explain it: let’s talk about why soon, every company could be a Fintech company. Sponsor: Tinycapital.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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