Oct. 11, 2019
Fri. 10/11 - Gruber Says Tim Cook's Email "Doesn't Add Up"
More on Apple’s China controversy, hands-on with Google’s Pixelbook Go laptop, Twitter returns to the Mac, Africa’s first homegrown smartphone, SpaceX and NASA kiss and make up, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Sponsors:
Links:
- TIM COOK’S COMPANY-WIDE MEMO ON HKMAP.LIVE DOESN’T ADD UP (Daring Fireball)
- Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery] (9to5Google)
- Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
- Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (Fast Company)
- NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
- Apple Launches In-House Studio With 'Band of Brothers'/'The Pacific' Follow-Up (The Hollywood Reporter)
Weekend Longreads:
- Is Amazon Unstoppable? (The New Yorker)
- Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic)
- When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic)
- Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker)
- The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired)
- The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient)
- Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes)
Subscribe to the ad-free feed RIGHT IN YOUR PODCAST APP!
Support Brian's work on the Techmeme Ride Home directly!
For just $5/month, you can subscribe to the ad-free Premium feed.
Full details at tech.supercast.com
Thank you for your support of Brian and the Techmeme Ride Home!
