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Wed. 10/14 – iPhone 12 Pricing and Availability Surprises
Picking up some odds and ends from yesterday’s iPhone event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability. Zoom is indeed t...
Tue. 10/13 – The iPhone 12 Event: All The Deets
All the details from the iPhone 12 event. PC shipments go into the category of “doing well in covid times.” Disney announces a reorg to emphasize its...
Mon. 10/12 – Nest’s New Smart Thermostat Ditches the Rotating Dial
Google’s Nest thermostat is ditching the iconic dial design. Will regulators first ask Google to divest itself of Chrome? A big takedown of a botnet t...
Fri. 10/09 – Microsoft Game Pass To Do An App Store End-run?
Again, could Gaming, and Microsoft specifically, be the thing that cracks the App Store open? More hints of consolidation in the semiconductor industr...
Thu. 10/08 – AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs Announced
Bunch of new chip announcements from AMD. Facebook is pausing all political ads… after the election. Square puts its money where its mouth is when it...
Wed 10/07 – The House Antitrust Report
The House has released its big antitrust report on big tech. Facebook has banned Qanon everywhere it can. DDR5 chips are finally here. Shogun is an in...
Tue. 10/06 - G Suite Is No More! (But Don’t Worry)
G Suite is no more! But don’t worry. It’s just a name change. Apple is removing non-Apple headphones from its stores. And AT&T is killing DSL. Why...
Mon. 10/05 – Nvidia’s Zoom-Killer, “Maxine”
Nvidia’s new platform to fix video calls. Surprisingly, Facebook says breaking up Facebook is impossible. Google slow rolls enforcement of the 30% tak...
(Bonus) The Creator Economy Opportunity With @JoshConstine
For years, I quoted Josh Constine on this show because he was one of the breaking news-iest folks over at TechCrunch for years. Well, now he’s gone th...
Fri. 10/02 – Tesla Smashes Its Previous Delivery Record
Tesla continues to smash records. Facebook has announced big changes for Groups, and folks are concerned it will smash the platform further. A new sta...
Thu. 10/01 – New Surface Laptop Go: Smaller Display, $549
New Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X from Microsoft. Google is going to pay $1 billion dollars to support journalism. Google has a Photos update, b...
Wed. 09/30 – The New Pixel Phones, Chromecast and More From Today’s Google Event
All the news from the Google Launch Night. Say hello to Google TV. Say hello to a new Chromecast and the new Nest Audio smartspeaker. Say hello to the...
Tue. 09/29 - With Amazon One, Amazon Wants You To Pay With Your Palm
With Amazon One, Amazon wants you to pay with your palm. Google is trying the carrot and the stick approach with its App Store controversies. What if...
Mon. 09/28 – Roku’s New $130 Streambar and Updated $100 Roku Ultra
Roku launches a Streambar and an Ultra with Dolby Vision. Dell updates the XPS 13 lineup. TikTok is still ticking, as of this moment. Will we see the...
(Bonus) TikTok's Secret Sauce With Eugene Wei and A16Z's 16 Minutes Podcast
Eugene Wei and Sonal Chokshi explain plainly how and why TikTok is an evolutionary (and algorithmic) step beyond the social graph.Eugene's original es...
Fri. 09/25 – Amazon Announces The Luna Cloud Gaming Service
All the headlines from Amazon’s hardware event. New Echo devices. Amazon is getting into cloud gaming with Luna. And ring has a literal drone that wil...
Thu. 09/24 – The Rebel Alliance Forming To Battle App Stores
The Rebel Alliance has a name: The Coalition for App Fairness. Microsoft will make office available without a subscription. Software as a purchase, if...
Wed. 09/23 – Microsoft “Exclusively” Licenses GPT-3
All the announcements and headlines from Microsoft’s Ignite 2020. Microsoft is exclusively licensing Open AI’s GPT-3. Google has debuted an Airtable r...
Tue. 09/22 – Quibi Is “Exploring Options”
Quibi is exploring its options, as they say. The Google Antitrust suit could come next week. Why do you have to return the entire Apple Watch if your...
Mon. 09/21 – ByteDance Says It Won. Trump Says Not So Fast. TikTok Continues… For Now.
It looked like we had a TikTok deal the president liked. Then ByteDance went and pointed out they still had control. Now, I dunno where we’re at. Micr...
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