Episodes

Today MacBook Airs, Mac Minis and new iPad Pros, Coinbase raises a round, the UK has a new tech tax, interesting executive musical chairs, and why reCAPTCHA’s might be a thing of the past.Links:UK chancellor announces 2% ‘digital services tax’ on tech giants’ revenues starting in April 2020 (TechCrunch)Snap CEO Picked a New Business Chief, Then Changed His Mind (Bloomberg)Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 (Security Week)

IBM buys Red Hat, museums get new ways to preserve video games, Sony announces the full list of titles for its retro PlayStation mini-console, DJI has a drone for first responders, and a look at the service Gab.Links:IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion (CNBC)Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM (TechCrunch)IBM’s Old Playbook (Stratechery)Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History (Motherboard)Exemption to Prohibition on Circumv...

The Tech earnings season earnings roundup, new DRM rules allow jailbreaking… for some things, China’s rival GPS system, AI “art” fetches $400,000 at auction and the weekend longreads suggestions.Links:Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat (CNBC)Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations (CNBC)Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3% (VentureBeat)Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit a...

How Google paid Andy Rubin on his way out the door despite allegations of sexual misconduct, Uber Eats and the rise of virtual restaurants, Kickstarter sunsets its Drip service but plans a nice replacement, and older people are worse than younger people at telling fact from opinion.Links:How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (New York Times)Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire (Bloomberg)A New Approach to Our Work on Drip (Kickstarter Blog)Kickstarter to End Drip, Fund New P...

Tim Cook attacks the “data industrial complex,” why political texts are flooding your phone, the US, China and the AI cold war, and how Facebook Messenger got its new look.Links:Apple’s Tim Cook Makes Blistering Attack On the “Data Industrial Complex” (TechCrunch)Why political text messages are flooding your phone (Axios)The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All (Wired)Messenger redesigns to clean up Facebook’s mess (TechCrunch)How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basem...

Tim Cook demands a retraction from Bloomberg, another founder flees Facebook, Repl.it gets a murder’s row of VC backers and the iPhone XR reviews are in.Links:Amazon cloud chief Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story (CNBC)Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (Buzzfeed)Supermicro CEO Joins Cook in Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Supply Chain Hack Story (MacRumors)Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after canc...

Facebook wants to buy some cybersecurity, Washington wants to know what Silicon Valley will do for its country, Fred Wilson wants you to ask yourself if your investors are bad actors, and stealing a Tesla by hacking the entry fob.Links:Facebook on Hunt for Big Cybersecurity Acquisition (The Information)Who Are My Investors? (AVC)Thieves steal a Tesla Model S by hacking the entry fob (Engadget)A tech executive's video of his Tesla Model S being hacked and stolen is going viral (Business In...

Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Links:Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times)Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-...

Spotify Premium gets a spit shine, Facebook think it knows who was behind that big hack, why everyone and their mother has a subscription box service, and an Apple event in Brooklyn!Links:Spotify Premium gets personalized artist radio stations and better search (The Verge)Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (Tech Crunch)Facebook Finds Hack Was Done by Spammers, Not Foreign State (WSJ)Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff (Bloo...

Google bows to the EU’s demands, the biggest thing to happen to Github since the pull request, video game cheaters are getting sued, and Facebook brings back MTV’s The Real World. Links:Google will start charging Android device makers a fee for using its apps in Europe (The Verge)GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (Github)Fortnite, GTA V hackers face legal action for online cheating (Ars Technica)It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Porta...

Uber’s targeting a blockbuster IPO valuation, cops told to stop looking at iPhones, the Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath, the Pixel reviews are in, and remembering Paul Allen.Sponsors:DatadogHQ.com/RideHomeTiny.website99designs.com/techmeme Links:Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO (WSJ)Cops Told ‘Don’t Look’ at New iPhones to Avoid Face ID Lock-Out (Motherboard)The Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath (Engadget)Google Pixel 3 review: improving on incredible ...

The future of Photoshop is here today, Palm is back to bring us a tiny phone, Apple makes another acquisition, and why we’re doomed to a future of genetic surveillance.Links:FINALLY: REAL PHOTOSHOP ON THE IPAD (The Verge)Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools (TechCrunch)Adobe launches Premiere Rush, a cross-platform video editor (Venture Beat)Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii (Axios)THE NEW PALM IS A TINY PHONE TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM YOUR PHONE (The Verge)GENOME HACKERS SHOW...

Facebook announces the results of their investigation into that data breach, the market downturn is biting some tech companies, has Spotify ruined music, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Links:An Update on the Security Issue (Facebook)Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch)Tencent Music Pauses IPO Amid Market Turmoil (WSJ)FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here's how much each one is on sale (Business Insider)T...

Facebook cracks down again, ahead of the election, Apple make some interesting acquisitions, how many cameras does a smartphone need, and Dieter Rams just wants Silicon Valley to slow down.Links:Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit (The Washington Post)Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe (TechCrunch)Apple buys machine learning AR firm specializing in mixed realities (Apple Ins...

Windows needed a do-over, Snapchat hopes its Originals will give it one too, Minecraft abandons Apple TV, and Andy Rubin can’t quit smartphones. Links:Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update after fixing file deletion bug (The Verge)Snapchat becomes the mobile HBO with 12 daily scripted Original shows (TechCrunch)Snap Is ‘Quickly Running Out of Money,’ Analyst Says (Bloomberg)Google Photos adds automated sharing through ‘Live Albums,’ which can stream to Home Hub (TechCrun...

The big Made By Google event, follow up on that Google+ bug, WeChat is willing to debunk rumors for you and Saudi Arabia doubles down on Masa Son.Links:First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge)Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac)Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery)Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)Some adver...

Google has a data scandal and it's a doozy. Facebook portal is real, a Microsoft streaming gaming service is real, next generation Intel chips are manifest, no one knows what to believe in that blockbuster Bloomberg story, and how the Internet Archive works.Links:Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349 (TechCrunch)THE NEW AMAZON ECHO SHOW’S IMPROVED SCREEN AND BETTER SPEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH (The Verge)Microsoft’s xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, conso...

He said she said on that Bloomberg Bombshell, Evan Spiegel’s plan for survival, new Macs are un-repairable, why are Apple Watch faces such a mess, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Stories from: @jsnell, @bizcarsonTweets: @karaswisher, @AdamMinterLinks:Instagram prototypes handling your location history to Facebook (TechCrunch)Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook (The Verge)9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on sur...

Did China pull off a hardware hack to end all hardware hacks, is a new Nintendo Switch coming as soon as next summer, the ThinQ has five cameras on one phone, and Movie Pass? Still alive!Links:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (Bloomberg Businessweek)Russia cyber-plots: US, UK and Netherlands allege hacking (BBC News)Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year (WSJ)LG V40 THINQ REVIEW: ONE PHONE, FIVE CAMERAS (The Verge)Verizon’s Severance Offer Goe...

Highlights from the Microsoft Surface event, Uber launches its scooter play, streaming service fatigue might be pushing consumers back toward piracy, did you get your smartphone alert from the president, and the new app startup from a young entrepreneur by the name of Bill Gates. Links:Microsoft has unveiled the $3,499 Surface Studio 2, its super-powerful and gorgeous new competitor to the Apple iMac (Business Insider)Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk (NYTimes)Facebook Lo...

Amazon raises its minimum wage, Tesla’s hitting its Model 3 marks, another new California law could change the face of Tech Boards of Directors and Netflix wants us to choose our own adventure.Links:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees (CNBC)The Story of Henry Ford's $5 a Day Wages: It's Not What You Think (Forbes)Tesla delivered over 55,000 Model 3s in Q3 (Road Show/CNET)Three US universities now let students use iPhone and Apple Watch as their campus ID card (9to5Mac)...

California ready to do battle over net neutrality, Instagram under new management, Elon settles with the SEC, and Tim Berners Lee kinda wants a do-over on the whole World Wide Web thing.Links:The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law (The Washington Post)Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law (NYTimes)SEC settles charges with Tesla's Elon Musk, will remain as CEO but relinquish chairman role and pay stiff fine (CNBC)Internet, s...

A new Facebook scandal—but this time it’s different, Slack is preparing for an IPO, an exciting new episode of Today in Elon Musk, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:Slack Actively Preparing for Early 2019 IPO (WSJ)Coinbase now lets users buy 'bundles' (TechCrunch)Compound launches easy way to short cryptocurrencies (TechCrunch)Tesla's Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute (CNBC)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:How Uber is getting ...

Facebook said it doesn’t market certain data; surprise, surprise, researchers prove they do, Amazon doesn’t love unions, is the Oculus Quest VR’s iPhone moment, and do ride sharing companies actually make money?Links:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information (Gizmodo)Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video (Gizmodo)Teen Apple Hacker Avoids Jail in Australia After Serious Attacks (Bloomberg)Payment Startup Stripe Is Now a $20...