(Bonus) Taking Elon's Temperature With Tesla Daily

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

So, as I said, this is one of the clubhouse rooms we did this week. In fact, it’s the one from last night. Chris convinced me to split the two rooms into two episodes, so I’m releasing this one, from Friday first, and tomorrow I’ll post the one we did Monday night. Topics for this episode: Slack getting into social audio, Microsoft buying Discord, what the heck is BitClout! The great Brady Dale @BradyDale from Coindesk helped us out with that. And more explication of my rant concerning the whole Medium situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Mars 20211h 49min

The House tech hearings were a nothing burger, but I’ll try to explain what that means for us. Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch. Slack is doing a Clubhouse clone and… stories. WeWork is back, with a SPAC. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: EditorX.com ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast Links: Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge) Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg) Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol) WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 (Stratechery) The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab) Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg) The fuss about BitClout (Axios) Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch) Analysis: Money no object as governments race to build chip arsenals (Reuters) Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (ArsTechnica) VC Firms Have Long Backed AI. Now, They Are Using It. (WSJ) The Hard Truth About Bitcoin's Energy Consumption (Decrypt) Mac OS X Turns 20: A Look Back at the Operating System That Helped Save Apple (PCMag) Subscribe to the RideHome+ Feed at: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Mars 202121min

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