(Bonus) CoinDesk's Brady Dale On Libra and the "Crypto Spring"

The Supreme Court has ruled on APIs in a way that should make most developers happy. Though, the punted on the President blocking people on Twitter. LG is exiting the smartphone business. And we already knew half a billion people’s Facebook data was out in the wild, but now that we’ve SEEN it in the wild, I’ll tell you why you should take notice. Sponsors: Blockchain.com NewYorker.com/techmeme promocode techmeme Links: Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software (CNBC) Supreme Court vacates lower court decision on Trump blocking Twitter followers (Axios) LG Electronics to end loss-making smartphone business (NikkeiAsia) Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (NYTimes) 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (Insider) Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat‪?‬ (Kara Swisher's Sway Podcast) Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook (MacRumors) Tim Cook says Apple is committed to AR, TV+ and privacy but not to Apple Car (Cult of Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Apr 202116min

We didn’t go as long as last time because after about 45 minutes, somehow no one could hear me, even though I was the space commissar, or whatever they term it. Anyway, as you’ll hear, we ended up talking about that big AR story with Microsoft and the HoloLens and the Pentagon. Robert Scoble, who has been on this beat for years showed up serendipitously, to give us some schooling in the space. Enjoy… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Apr 20211h 6min

Coinbase is going public and sharing its numbers ahead of time, which is rare and probably a sign of confidence. The App Store has started rejecting apps ahead of that big new privacy change. Has Tencent’s gaming studio become the biggest in the world? Another Clubhouse clone, this time from Discord. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: MasterWorks.io promocode ride GivingMultiplier.org/techmeme Links: Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt) Apple Rejecting Apps With Fingerprinting Enabled As iOS 14 Privacy Enforcement Starts (Forbes) Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes (The Verge) Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge) Exclusive: Tencent's Timi gaming studio generated $10 billion in 2020, sources say (Reuters) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard) 5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next? (Wired) How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars (Bloomberg) Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker) Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech (WSJ) Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Apr 202119min

Microsoft’s big HoloLens deal with the Pentagon is maybe the big bang for the augmented reality industry. Amazon says their folks can come back to work soon, and in fact, they’d prefer if you did. Bearish signs for the work remotely movement? Why these are boom times for chip makers. And why Siri’s new voices think of gender as a spectrum. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing Podcast AirMedCareNetwork.com/tech offer code TECH Links: Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years (CNBC) Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC) TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity (Bloomberg) Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch) Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal’s Movies From HBO Max, Netflix (Bloomberg) Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Apr 202119min

Facebook has announced News Feed changes to bring chronology back. LinkedIn is working on a Clubhouse rival and I think that makes total sense. Apple actually leads an interesting investment round. Deliveroo has a disastrous first day on the public markets. And how about Roblox, but inside the Unreal Engine? Sponsors: PingIdentity.com TinyCapital.com Links: Facebook Adds New 'Most Recent' Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors) LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch) Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch) Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (ArsTechnica) Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch) Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ) ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt) Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat) RideHome+ Feed: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31 Mars 202118min

It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for WWDC. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry. A bunch of new phones from Xiaomi. Substack is raising another big round. And that’s not all. There’s so much that happened today in the world of tech, that I can’t even promo it all, so let’s just get to it. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Metalab.com Links: Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge) Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios) Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information) Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge) Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac) Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider) There's Something Fishy About Amazon's Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated] (Gizmodo) Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ) Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge) Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 Mars 202119min

New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The official PHP Git repository was hacked. Boston Dynamics has a new robot that isn’t as scary… unless you’re a warehouse worker. And what is Amazon’s aggressive PR recently all about? Sponsors: Fundrise.com/techmeme Grammarly.com/techmeme Links: New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports.' Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday) Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters) PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer) Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge) OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day (The Verge) Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge) Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg) Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Mars 202118min

This is the clubhouse room from Monday, March 22nd. Topics discussed here include the situation with the Dispo app. Zoom’s new SDK. The fate of the HomePod and that secret new gizmo inside the HomePod Mini, and a deep dive into two of the longreads from LAST week: Moore's Law for Everything post and Tim O’Reilly’s piece The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Mars 20211h 42min