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Tue. 12/06 – Is Elon’s Neuralink Cruel To Animals?
Is the government investigating Neuralink for animal cruelty? Why is Microsoft increasing prices for Xbox games? How much does it cost every time you...
Mon. 12/05 – Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT
Maybe put the breaks on an early release of that Apple AR/VR headset. And maybe pump the breaks on the AI excitement as Stack Overflow temporarily ban...
Fri. 12/02 – Will 2023 Be The Year Of The Headset Wars?
Mark Gurman has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed-reality headset, targeting a launch next year. Elon has had to block his friend Y...
Thu. 12/01 – Elon And Apple Bury The Hatchet?
A summary of last night’s Sam Bankman Fried show. Elon visits Tim Cook and maybe they buried the hatchet? Now OpenAI has released a chat bot. Neuralin...
Wed. 11/30 – Am I On Your Spotify Wrapped This Year?
The Covid lockdown at that Foxconn factory has lifted. The surprising strength of the smartwatch sector. The surprising failure of the Kindle Scribe....
Tue. 11/29 – Is Elon Going To War With Apple?
Elon says he’s willing to go to war with Apple. Why now? Is Apple really threatening Twitter’s status in the App Store, as he claims? Where, exactly,...
Mon. 11/28 – The China Protests
All of the protests erupting in China have, not only a definite tech angle, but might have been triggered by those lockdowns at that Foxconn factory....
(Bonus) Internet From Space! With The Internet Society
Check out the extensive paper on LEO satellites and Internet from space at InternetSociety.org/techmeme Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Wed. 11/23 – Foxconn Riots?
Actual rioting happening at the major Foxconn factory that produces iPhones. Microsoft fully embraces Linux. Advertisers continue to flee from Twitter...
Tue. 11/22 – The Alexa Deathwatch Is Real
The contagion in crypto continues to teeter on a knife’s edge. Why were Sam Bankman Fried’s parents allegedly buying property in the Bahamas? Elon say...
Mon. 11/21 – More Crypto Trouble?
Ruh roh. Storm clouds gathering in crypto land again. This time it’s DCG and Genesis. The shocking CEO revolving door over at Disney. The surprising r...
(Bonus) Vibe Shift (?) Twitter (Also ?) With @anildash
The great Anil Dash joined us to talk about... well, what do you think we talked about? But also, a broader discussion about the crazy year that the t...
Fri. 11/18 – Twitter: Not Dead At The Time Of This Posting
I’m here with you all as we wait for the end of Twitter together. Unless it doesn’t die. In which case, I dunno. Masa Son is actually personally in ho...
Thu. 11/17 – A Deepfake Detector
The guy who handled the Enron bankruptcy says FTX is the worst he’s ever seen. Xbox gets full Discord integration. Apple’s plans for Major League Socc...
Wed. 11/16 – The Tesla Of Home Appliances
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chip. DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking blocker but for Android, the latest headlines from the two stories you know we have to hit,...
Tue. 11/15 – “An Excel File Full Of The Howling Of Ghosts”
If you tell Elon he doesn’t know what he’s doing, you could get fired. Matt Levine looks into the abyss of the FTX balance sheet and finds the abyss s...
Mon. 11/14 – Paging Jonah Hill For The SBF Movie
Twitter still lives, at least at the time of this writing. But thousands more contractors have been laid off. CZ wants to start a fund to save crypto...
Fri. 11/11 – A Summary Of This Crazy Week
Just two big stories, as it’s been all week, but instead of ONLY giving you the latest, I want to try to sum up where I think we’re at as this week en...
Thu. 11/10 – Binance Lets FTX Dangle
More twists and turns in the FTX, SBF, CZ saga as the entire crypto sector continues to get rocked. I’d love to tell you what is going on with Twitter...
Wed. 11/09 – CZ & SBF Make FTX Go Boom?
The Meta layoffs are here and they’re brutal. But rumors are, TikTok is cutting back also. What even is the new Twitter subscription product at this p...
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