Mon. 09/28 – Roku’s New $130 Streambar and Updated $100 Roku Ultra
Roku launches a Streambar and an Ultra with Dolby Vision. Dell updates the XPS 13 lineup. TikTok is still ticking, as of this moment. Will we see the return of the mini moniker, with an iPhone 12 Mini...
28 Sep 202017min
(Bonus) TikTok's Secret Sauce With Eugene Wei and A16Z's 16 Minutes Podcast
Eugene Wei and Sonal Chokshi explain plainly how and why TikTok is an evolutionary (and algorithmic) step beyond the social graph. Eugene's original essay, TikTok and the Sorting Hat Subscribe t...
26 Sep 202040min
Fri. 09/25 – Amazon Announces The Luna Cloud Gaming Service
All the headlines from Amazon’s hardware event. New Echo devices. Amazon is getting into cloud gaming with Luna. And ring has a literal drone that will fly around the inside of your house for the purp...
25 Sep 202020min
Thu. 09/24 – The Rebel Alliance Forming To Battle App Stores
The Rebel Alliance has a name: The Coalition for App Fairness. Microsoft will make office available without a subscription. Software as a purchase, if you will, instead of a subscription. Radical. Say...
24 Sep 202018min
Wed. 09/23 – Microsoft “Exclusively” Licenses GPT-3
All the announcements and headlines from Microsoft’s Ignite 2020. Microsoft is exclusively licensing Open AI’s GPT-3. Google has debuted an Airtable rival called Tables. Ming-Chi Kuo thinks we’ll see ...
23 Sep 202016min
Tue. 09/22 – Quibi Is “Exploring Options”
Quibi is exploring its options, as they say. The Google Antitrust suit could come next week. Why do you have to return the entire Apple Watch if your wristband doesn’t fit? The CIA has a new plan to c...
22 Sep 202016min
Mon. 09/21 – ByteDance Says It Won. Trump Says Not So Fast. TikTok Continues… For Now.
It looked like we had a TikTok deal the president liked. Then ByteDance went and pointed out they still had control. Now, I dunno where we’re at. Microsoft buys Bethesda. The founder of Nikola steps d...
21 Sep 202018min
Fri. 09/18 – WeChat Officially Banned On Sunday. TikTok Only Kinda Banned.
The Commerce Department officially has brought the hammer down. WeChat is banned on Sunday. TikTok banned on Sunday too, but it’s complicated. PayTM is banned from the Google Play Store in India. Face...
18 Sep 202021min
