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A Superhuman mea culpa, no mea culpa but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake, inside Walmart’s turf battles over ecommerce, HQ Trivia lays off staff, and the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:CognitoHQ.comTiny.websiteFiresideconf.com/rideLinks:Read Statuses (Superhuman)Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro (9to5Mac)HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions (TechCrunch)Inside the...

Telsa sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected, more signs of tech manufacturing fleeing China, Uber’s new Dine-In service is kinda brilliant, and have you seen the whole tech world arguing over Superhuman?Sponsors:TinyCapital.comInstacart.com Promocode RIDE at checkout.Links:Tesla sold a lot more Model 3’s than anyone expected in latest quarter (Digital Trends)HP, Dell and Microsoft join electronics exodus from China (Nikkei Asian Review)House lawmakers officially ask Facebook to p...

We know when the Galaxy Note 10 is coming, we don’t know why Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, Nvidia refreshes the RTX line, meditation app Calm is finding success in an interesting way, and Loon is about to have its first big test.Sponsors:FiresideConf.com/rideTinyCapital.comLinks:Samsung confirms next Unpacked event will be Aug. 7 in New York (CNET)Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0, and everyone is confused (Engadget)Microsoft finally details its plans for Windows 10 19H2 (WindowsCen...

Was Jony Ive burned out at Apple or was he burned out BY Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet mega-player in the streaming wars, how TikTok is spending its way to ubiquity (on the backs of those it wants to supplant) and how tech is revolutionizing Archeology.Sponsors:FiresideConf.com/ridePantheon.io/rideLinks:Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago (WSJ)Roku Will Soon Have 70% More OTT Devices in Global Streaming Market Than Next Closest Competitor (Multichannel News)...

I didn’t cover it, but you might have noticed that this week, bitcoin did indeed cross that magical $10,000 mark, in fact, got to $13,000 a coin only to flash crash back down again almost to $10,000. But look, seemingly the crypto spring is upon us and I was just curious as to why, so I asked Aaron Lammer, co-host of the only crypto podcast I listen to, CoinTalk to try to find out what is behind this rally. TLDR, it’s a little bit market cycles and a little bit Facebook Libra. Sponsors: HappyCog...

Is it really different this time? Is the regulatory hammer about to come down on Silicon Valley? Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute; he’s writing a book on the history of Monopoly power; and he has direct experience with this stuff. He was a Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst to the Senate Budget Committee. He also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on financial services policy, including Dodd-Frank, the Federal Reserve, and the foreclosure crisis. How is monop...

Jony Ive is leaving Apple, health tech is having its first big IPO, Amazon looks like it is finally ready to kill UPS, I’ve got issues with Google’s new reCAPTCHA’s and the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:WeWorkRemotelyGabi.com/rideLinks:Apple's Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client (MacRumors)History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive (Motherboard)Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple (Daring Fireball)Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his ...

Twitter still allows public figures to break its rules, but it will warn you when they do, Zuckerberg says you need him on that wall, the US Wireless Emergency Alert system can be easily spoofed, and the mystery that is Superhuman.Sponsors:SVB.com/nextWeWorkRemotely.comLinks:Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures (The Verge)Mark Zuckerberg Is Rethinking Deepfakes (The Atlantic)Mark Zuckerberg: We can’t stop Russian election interference by ourselves...

Apple buys Drive.ai, the days of the phone notch might be numbered, the first solar powered electric car, fighting over the streaming rights for The Office, and why streaming music hasn’t been kind to classical music.Sponsors:SVB.com/nextWeWorkRemotely.comLinks:Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai (Axios)Oppo unveils the world’s first under-screen selfie camera (The Verge)Airbnb’s New Luxe Tier Includes a $1 Million Polynesian Island (Bloomberg)3D printing platform Carbon rais...

LinkedIn’s changes mean peak newsfeed is truly behind us, hackers have been stealing a massive amount of phone data without touching phones, early impressions of the recent Apple beta releases and Bill Gates fesses up to his greatest career failure.Sponsors:WeWorkRemotelyTech.FidelityCareers.comLinks:Exclusive: LinkedIn goes niche (Axios)Microsoft’s new OneDrive Personal Vault protects a folder with 2FA (The Verge)Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks ...

The Raspberry Pi 4 might finally be a full PC replacement, the first real bipartisan bill around data collection has arrived, is the Echo Show 5 the best Echo ever or just the best smart alarm clock ever, and why tonight’s Falcon Heavy launch might be the biggest test for SpaceX yet.Sponsors:SVB.com/nextWeWorkRemotely.comLinks:Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Here and Wants to Replace Your Desktop PC for $35 (Vice)Scoop: Bipartisan senators want Big Tech to put ...

E3 was last week, not even this past week, but I did want to get a debrief on what went on there, so I had to wait for everyone to get back from E3 and Brian Heater of TechCrunch is here to file a report. Where is gaming in this transition to streaming? What were the headline games announced at E3? What about Project Scarlett? Sponsors: Pantheon.io/ride Rhone.com/ride Promocode RIDE for 20% off! Subscribe to the ad-free premium feed!

Well, given the news of the week, I knew we needed to do a deep dive on Libra, so I called up our friend Brady Dale at CoinDesk and we get into it. What do crypto folk think of Libra? Is he surprised by the governmental backlash? And since by the time you hear this, bitcoin might already be back above $10k dollars? Are we out of the crypto winter and into crypto spring? Sponsors: PaintYourLife.com: Text the word TECH to 48-48-48 Rhone.com/ride promocode RIDE at checkout Subscribe to the ad-free ...

Google is getting out of the tablet business, there’s a MacBook Pro recall but not because of keyboard issues, a startup is aiming to disrupt the billable hour in the legal space, the world’s “first” electric plane is here, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:CastroLighstream.com/rideLinks:Google's officially done making its own tablets (Computerworld)GOOGLE WAS NEVER REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT TABLETS (The Verge)Apple launches recall program for select MacBook Pros du...

Slack debuts as a publicly traded company, there will be Congressional hearings about Libra, a Florida city pays ransom money to hackers, getting your internet from your lightbulbs and are we on the cusp of a fast-charging-battery revolutionSponsors:SVB.com/nextCastroLinks:Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests. (The Washington Post)Facebook called before Senate panel over digital currency project (Reuters)YouTube under federal investigatio...

More revelations about the horrible job that is Facebook Moderation, Best Buy now doubles as a Genius Bar—sorta, YouTube has some new AR tricks and is mulling some changes for kids, and the reaction to Facebook’s crypto play has me fascinated.Sponsors:SVB.com/nextCastroLinks:BODIES IN SEATS (The Verge)Apple expands authorized repairs to ~1,000 Best Buy Stores (TechCrunch)The new Kindle Oasis lets you adjust color temperature for night reading (The Verge)YouTube's new AR Beauty Try-On ...

Facebook announces Libra, Twitch acquires Bebo, are unmanned convenience stores something people even want, Facebook wants more houses in Silicon Valley, and LA real estate is starting to look like Silicon Valley.Sponsors:SVB.com/nextCastroLinks:Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know (TechCrunch)FACEBOOK’S CALIBRA IS A SECRET WEAPON FOR MONETIZING ITS NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY (The Verge)Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum (CoinDesk)...

The 5G iPhones might be both bigger and smaller, both Huawei and the chip industry prepare for tough times, Genius says it caught Google red-handed, is the US making a big 5G mistake and what exactly is farming-as-a-service?Sponsors:CastroLinkedin Links:Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas (Bloomberg)Broadcom's $2 billion warning rattles global chip sector (Reuters)Kuo on 2020 iPhones: 5.4-Inch and 6.7-Inch Models With 5G, 6.1-Inch Model With LTE, All With OL...

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

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: ...

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.netTech.FidelityCareers.comLinks: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...

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/nextPixelUnion.netLinks: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 Detr...

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.netPaintYourLife.com: Text the word TECH to 48-48-48Links:Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (ReCode)Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty (TechCrunch)Apple Discusses Acquisition of Inte...