Episodes
Feb. 1, 2019
Fri. 02/01 - The Apple/Facebook/Google Cold War
Turns out Google poked Apple in the eye also, layoffs hit Vice, Amazon reports earnings and reports that a ton of people responded to that minimum wage hike, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Jan. 31, 2019
Thu. 01/31 - Facebook's Still Making Bank
Facebook returns to growth, iPhones might be getting USB-C and 3D cameras, Hulu’s launching pause-ads, and on Reddit, it’s paintings of paintings of paintings of birds, all the way down.
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Jan. 30, 2019
Wed. 01/30 - Facebook "Slaps Apple In The Face"
Facebook decides to mix it up a bit: what if we had a scandal that pissed off our business partners? Apple’s earnings are mixed but you can see where they’re going with this. Why Americans no longer answer the phone and are y...
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Jan. 29, 2019
Tue. 01/29 - The FaceTime Bug
Pretty major FaceTime bug from Apple, the DOJ makes it’s case against Huawei, the first successful ICO of the year and what Bluetooth ‘direction finding’ might do for you.
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Jan. 28, 2019
Mon. 01/28 - An Apple Subscription Gaming Service?
An Apple subscription gaming service? Is Facebook Watch still alive? The GDPR floodgates are truly open. And losing to AI’s might have some benefits.
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Jan. 27, 2019
(Bonus) Self Driving Groceries With The WSJ's Christopher Mims @mims
One of my favorite people to read is the Wall Street Journal tech columnist Chris Mims. We talked about his piece this week positing that email was back, baby! And I read a piece he did a while back about the new way of const...
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Jan. 26, 2019
(Bonus) The State of Digital Media With Rafat Ali @rafat
Given all the news of layoffs in the digital media space this week, I knew I couldn't sit on this interview with Rafat Ali any longer. Currently the founder and CEO of digital media company Skift—but also, if you weren’t awar...
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Jan. 25, 2019
Fri. 01/25 - AI Can Beat Us At Starcraft II Too (Also?)
Now the AIs can defeat us at StarCraft II (too?), Zuckerberg wants to unify his collection of messaging apps, my grand unifying theory for the streaming video wars and of course the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Jan. 24, 2019
Thu. 01/24 - Your Flying Car Is Here
Bing’s Schrodinger-style China Ban, headphones from Sonos, flying cars from Boeing, layoffs for project Titan, and the serious ongoing layoffs in the digital media world.
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Jan. 23, 2019
Wed. 01/23 - Jony Ive's Dream Phone Concept
YouTube TV goes nationwide, Jony Ive’s dream phone design, Patreon milestones and is Spotify killing music’s middle class?
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Jan. 22, 2019
Tue. 01/22 - Munchery Enters the Deadpool
Munchery bites the big one, Foxconn considers moving production to India, Netflix wants a seat at the adults table, and, yes, even guitar tech is now tech.
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Jan. 21, 2019
Mon. 01/21 - Email is Back, Baby!
The GDPR fines begin, but the EU “link tax” might be in trouble, Uber wants self driving scooters, and why email is back, baby! (Hint: it never left.)
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Jan. 20, 2019
(Bonus) Land of the "Super Founders" With Ali Tamaseb @alitamaseb
Ali's Medium Post: Land of the Super Founders On this bonus episode, we’re going to revisit a past weekend longread suggestion and talk to the author of that longread to go further in-depth. Do you remember I recommended Land...
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Jan. 19, 2019
(Bonus) Health Tech With CNBC's Christina Farr @chrissyfarr
This week had a lot of health tech news in it… a lot of it broken by CNBC’s health tech reporter Christina Farr. So, I reached out to Christina to chat, and we discussed Amazon getting into healthcare—possibly even getting in...
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Jan. 18, 2019
Fri. 01/18 - Gadget Reviews Now Mean Sneaker Reviews
Netflix starts to open up, Cortana stops competing, gadget reviews now include shoes as a category and the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Jan. 17, 2019
Thu. 01/17 - Tim Cook Sayz: Regulate THOSE Guys
Tim Cook calls for a data-broker clearinghouse, a possible criminal case against Huawei, the largest leak of user credentials ever found in the wild, and why we probably need a Unix for machine learning.
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Jan. 16, 2019
Wed. 01/16 - Razr's Coming Back To Usher in the Foldable Phone Era
More high profile execs quit Snap, Apple’s in talks to get more Apple Watches in the hands of seniors, the state of the App Economy, and the Razr is coming back to herald in the era of the bendable phone.
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Jan. 15, 2019
Tue. 01/15 - Netflix Raises Prices
Netflix raises prices, maybe the Apple battery replacement WAS a big deal after all, cops can’t force you to unlock your phone with your face, and Amazon is driving its retail competitors into the arms of Microsoft.
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Jan. 14, 2019
Mon. 01/14 - Am I Gonna Do That Egg Instagram Story?
Event sharing comes to stories, what this year’s CES says about where consumer tech is at the moment, and then a bunch of stories about what that means for the future in different ways, including wireless chips that suck powe...
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Jan. 12, 2019
(Bonus) What Wall Street Thinks of Tech w/ @howardlindzon
The great Howard Lindzon and I discuss how Wall Street is thinking of Tech right now, what Apple's deal is and what the prospects are for those big tech IPOs coming down the pike. This episode has a full transcript.
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Jan. 11, 2019
Fri. 01/11 - Mooaaarrr... Cameras on Smartphones!
Motherboard shames the telecom companies into not selling us out, shareholders are suing Alphabet’s board, the government shutdown claims more tech victims, Apple says, “We can add more cameras also!” and the weekend longread...
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Jan. 10, 2019
Thu. 01/10 - Foldable Phones Have An Arrival Date
We have a good idea when that foldable Samsung phone is coming, Google is actually close to a big legal win in Europe (for a change), the government shutdown might actually be affecting CES and why the “gig economy” might act...
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Jan. 9, 2019
Wed. 01/09 - Google Assistant Everywhere!
Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES: they want to put Assistant in everything, the first foldable phone arrives at CES, Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Marc Zuckerberg wants to host his own v...
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Jan. 8, 2019
Tue. 01/08 - Smartphone Recession?
Are we in a smartphone recession, mooooaaaar tv new from CES, AT&T wants to make 5G confusing, and why WeWork is now, simply, We (company).
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