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Brian McCullough
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Wed. 05/26 – Amazon To Launch A Rocky Extended Universe?
Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is drop...
Tue. 05/25 – Fuchsia OS Finally Arrives
Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app,...
Mon. 05/24 - Reading The Tea Leaves Of The Epic/Apple Trial
After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is...
(Bonus) How Ransomware Works With Cybereason's CISO Isreal Barak
Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service w...
Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff
Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growt...
Thu. 05/20 – Hello F-150 Lightning; Goodbye IE; Hello Again, RSS…
The newly announced electric F-150 is maybe the biggest EV effort since the launch of Tesla. Google is launching its first ever retail store. Internet...
Wed. 05/19 – Google I/O Roundup
Google I/O continues and continues to produce new headlines for us to cover. Nvidia is nerfing the ability to mine crypto. Ethereum says it’s going to...
Tue. 05/18 – Google I/O
All the headlines from Google I/O. Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM and James Bond. When we might expect those new MacBook Pros, the first reviews of...
Mon. 05/17 – Better Quality Streaming Audio (Basically) For Free
Apple Music and Amazon Music HD bring better audio quality to everyone. AT&T throws in the towel on Warner Media by doing a shotgun marriage with...
(TWTR SPC) Tipping As The Currency For The Creator Economy
From Friday, May 14, 2021. A long discussion about tipping as the base unit (???) of the creator economy? Featuring @gregarious as well as @NigelKofi...
Fri. 05/14 – Now Ransomware Is Shutting Down The Irish Health Service
A ransomware attack has brought down large sections of the Irish health service. Why Disney+ numbers are suddenly looking so weak to investors. A deep...
Thu. 05/13 – Elon Rekt Crypto
The whims of Elon Musk go both ways when it comes to crypto markets. SpaceX signs a deal with Google Cloud to do battle with AWS and the Kuiper Projec...
Wed. 05/12 – Xiaomi Gets Out Of The Dog House
The US lets Xiaomi out of the blacklist. GitHub ads security key support and wants to move on from the password era. eBay wants in on the NFT action....
Tue. 05/11 – It’s New Chip Tuesday!
It’s new chip day. Intel unveils it’s 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm chips, while Nvidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs. So expect a bu...
Mon. 05/10 – No PlayStation For Me Until 2023?
Sony warns that it might be literal years before I can finally win one of those PlayStation 5 sales windows on Walmart.com. The big ransomware attack...
(TWTR SPC) Tip Jar, Basecamp And Doge
We talk about the Tip Jar and all the other big changes Twitter has been making. We get into the Basecamp brouhaha and also why I didn’t end up coveri...
Fri. 05/07 – Twitter Introduces Tip Jar
Twitter introduces a tip jar, literally called Tip Jar. Why crypto trading juicing Square’s earnings is worth thinking about. What is the mysterious s...
Thu. 05/06 – Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of Moore’s Law
IBM says it has created the world’s first 2nm chip. Google really wants everyone to use two factor authentication. Twitter is enacting more speed bump...
Wed. 05/05 – Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban
Facebook’s Oversight Board upholds the Trump account suspension. Signal trolls Facebook using its own ad system. An appeals court has ruled that Secti...
Tue. 05/04 – How Many People Still Pay For AOL?
Twitter opens up Space more broadly, and buys the startup Scroll. So, what is the larger endgame here with their subscription play? Apple benefits fro...
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