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Simon Owens is a journalist who, in his writing, podcasting and newsletters, covers the whole gamut of digital media, from the creator side to the publisher side… from the journalist side to the business side. So, we’ve got a great, wide-ranging conversation today about everything from newsletters, to YouTube, to paywalls to podcasts. And check out Simon’s great podcast, The Business of Content. Sponsors: Instacart. Promocode RIDE at checkout. Wix.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Juni 201926min

That Wired longread that I suggested yesterday, about Amazon’s warehouse robots really stuck with me for personal reasons you’ll hear in a second. I talked to the author of the piece, Matt Simon, not only cause I wanted more flavor on what it was like to work with these things, but because he also raises interesting ideas about human/robot symbiosis. In short, the robot apocalypse might still be coming, but not today. And for the foreseeable future, that might be the growth industry for humans: robot baby sitters. Please enjoy. Matt's article: INSIDE THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHERE HUMANS AND MACHINES BECOME ONE Sponsors: Vistaprint.com/ride Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in RIDE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Juni 201923min

Are foldable phones cursed—and will we ever see one? Facebook coin might be coming as early as next week, the hottest crypto is up 330% YTD but you’ve probably never heard of it, some IPOs to report on and, of course, the weekend longread suggestions. Sponsors: PixelUnion.net Tech.FidelityCareers.com Links: Huawei delays foldable phone launch until September to do extra tests after Samsung’s troubles (CNBC) Huawei delays launch of foldable Mate X following Galaxy Fold failure (The Verge) AT&T Cancels All Galaxy Fold Preorders, Issues $100 Promo Card (Tom's Guide) Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers (WSJ) Hottest Crypto Is Up 330% This Year and Its Name Isn’t Bitcoin (Bloomberg) Chewy, PetSmart’s online business, soars as much 86% after IPO pricing at $22 per share (CNBC) THE HIGHLY DANGEROUS 'TRITON' HACKERS HAVE PROBED THE US GRID (Wired) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews (The Hustle) EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (Ars Technica) The story of the first E3 (Polygon) THE NEWEST HAVEN FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES? WYOMING (Wired) Comcast CEO’s Son Wants to Turn Philly Into an E-Sports Town (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) Beyond the PC: Lenovo's ambitious plan for the future of computing (ZDNet) Subscribe to the ad-free feed RIGHT HERE. Right in your podcast app! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Juni 201918min

Telegram is getting DDoS’d, Google pulls a Radiohead on Pixel phone leakers, Bird buys Scoot, my dream TV is a wall, and the most interesting startup I’ve heard about in a while. Sponsors: SVB.com/next PixelUnion.net Links: Telegram faces DDoS attack in China... again (TechCrunch) NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13 (TechCrunch) This is Google’s Pixel 4 (The Verge) Scooter Startup Bird Buys Struggling Competitor Scoot (WSJ) Ford will test new third-generation self-driving cars in Detroit (The Verge) Samsung's massive The Wall TV is now available in a 292-inch, 8K luxury version (TechSpot) Official Breaking Bad mobile game is now available (TechSpot) Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking (VentureBeat) Napster Founder’s IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C (CoinDesk) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Juni 201916min

The state of the Internet according to Mary Meeker, Houseparty joins the Fortnite party, Uber Elevate is planning some important firsts, the DOJ is telegraphing its possible punches to Silicon Valley, and someone find Have I Been Pwned a good home. Sponsors: PixelUnion.net PaintYourLife.com: Text the word TECH to 48-48-48 Links: Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (ReCode) Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty (TechCrunch) Apple Discusses Acquisition of Intel’s German Modem Unit (The Information) Google Is Moving More Hardware Production Out of China (Bloomberg) Uber Wants Your Next Big Mac to Be Delivered by Drone (Bloomberg) Snapchat’s Gender-Swap and Baby Filters Doubled Downloads of the App (OneZero) The DOJ’s antitrust chief just telegraphed exactly how it could go after Google, Apple and other big tech companies (CNBC) Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks for the Antitrust New Frontiers Conference Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt) Premium Feed Link! Subscribe Right Here In Your Podcast App! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 Juni 201916min

An abject example of the maxim, “any data that is collected, will be breached,” Foxconn isn’t worried about a trade war so maybe Apple doesn’t have to be, electric car charging is about to get easier, and why it’s weird that Spotify can advertise against your moods. Sponsors: Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon by Ash Carter PixelUnion.net Links: Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap (Washington Post) The CBP Data Breach (TechCrunch) Apple’s U.S. iPhones Can All Be Made Outside of China If Needed (Bloomberg) Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S. (GeekWire) Amazon launches Personalize, a fully managed AI-powered recommendation service (VentureBeat) Charging an electric car will get easier (TechCrunch) This is how scammers are now abusing Google Calendar to pillage your data (ZDNet) Big Mood Machine (The Baffler) Radiohead Have The Last Laugh After Hackers Hold 18 Hours Of Their Unreleased Music Ransom (HuffingtonPost UK) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Juni 201916min

The next generation Xbox sounds like a beast, Salesforce buys Tableau, Apple might buy a self-driving car startup, we finally get some details on Quibi and does Broadway want to jump on the streaming video bandwagon? Sponsors: Pantheon.io/ride PixelUnion.net Links: Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020 (The Verge) Microsoft’s new Xbox streaming mode is arriving in October for consoles (TheVerge) I tried Project xCloud at Xbox's E3 2019 show. It is real. It is insane. (Windows Central) Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7 B in all-stock deal (TechCrunch) Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent (Bloomberg) The Google Assistant is now available in Waze (The Keyword) Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman Offer Details on Quibi Launch, Pricing (Variety) Would you pay to stream endless musicals? Some Broadway insiders are quietly betting on it. (The Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Juni 201917min

Does what is says on the tin. John Voorhees helps us sum up WWDC, get act dev reaction from the floor of the conference, and pick up some of the stray threads we missed from Apple's biggest week of the year. Sponsors: Capterra.com/ride Molekule.com checkout code: ride for $75 off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Juni 201922min