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Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South Korean law is actively cracking open the App Stores in that country. Google might be back in the defense contract business. And why it MIGHT be worth paying $30 for a keyboard with only 3 keys. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch) Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge) Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t. (Recode) Google Allows Alternate In-App Payment Options in South Korea, Though Familiar Fees Remain (WSJ) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes) STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Nov 202117min

Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray into games officially launches widely. And Microsoft says hey Zuckerberg, if you think the Metaverse is going to be about work meetings with cartoonish avatars and virtual whiteboards? Hold our beer! Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (NYTimes) Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters (GeekWire) CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, orders agencies to patch (The Record) Netflix games are coming to all members on Android, starting this week (TechCrunch) Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge) Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Nov 202117min

Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stablecoins. Zoom is going to start showing you ads unless you pay up. Zillow misjudged the housing market. And a security flaw has been found, inside, of all things: Unicode. Sponsors: BoxOfAwesome.com code "techmeme" for 20% off your first box Arm Viewpoints Podcast Links: Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia) Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia) Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk) Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge) ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity) Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg) Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Nov 202118min

How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But new iOS devices might have crash detection built in. Why was Roblox down for so long? And why Hollywood thinks there’s money in their old banana stands after all. Sponsors: HeyLaika.com/techmeme Links: Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (Financial Times) The Chip Shortage Slams Into Apple at the Worst Possible Time (Bloomberg) Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ) Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 (WSJ) Roblox Servers Are Turning Back On (Slowly) After 60+ Hour Outage (Kotaku) 5D data storage technology offers 10,000 times the density of Blu-ray (New Atlas) Snapchat Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Use Audio From ‘SNL,’ ‘The Office’ and More (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Nov 202117min

Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Amazon. Very important detail from the reviews of the new MacBook Pros involving battery life. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Leaked Photo Shows Meta’s Planned Competitor to Apple Watch (Bloomberg) Meta (Stratechery) The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes) APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14 AND 16 REVIEW: RETURN TO FORM (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: MARK ZUCKERBERG ON WHY FACEBOOK IS REBRANDING TO META (The Verge) What the metaverse will (and won’t) be, according to 28 experts (Fast Company) Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google (WSJ) Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions (Intelligencer/NYMag) Life in the FAST Lane: Free Streaming, Big Money (Vulture/NYMag) A Very Big Little Country (Afar) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Okt 202120min

Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device. And how to handle the notch on the MacBook Pro if its driving you crazy. Sponsors: Wealthfront.com/techmeme Dataiku.com Links: Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes) Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios) The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired) Apple Reveals 'Scale to Fit' Setting to Prevent a Mac App's Menu Bar Items From Being Hidden Under Notch (MacRumors) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Okt 202118min

Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, you can be wounded by them too. Will the Facebook Files force some sort of FTC action? AWS goes after Google’s tensor processing units. And do you think I could produce this show on MS-DOS? Probably not, but Dune was written on it. Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Tovala.com/ride Links: Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC) Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC) FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control (ArsTechnica) Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures (WSJ) Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip (VentureBeat) Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC (The Verge) The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Motherboard/Vice) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Okt 202117min

Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, joining the Quantum Computing race, and lending Project Kuiper to Verizon. And the big review of Apple’s new chips calls their performance "downright absurd." Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Stripe.com Links: Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet) Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge) Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge) Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge) Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center (The Washington Post) Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge) Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge) Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoC's Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights (AnandTech) Pixel 6 Pro Review: The flagship Google needs right now is the one buyers deserve (9to5Google) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Okt 202117min