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Fri. 10/23 – What If PayPal Goes Big In Crypto?
Is PayPal making moves to become a major player in Crypto? A look at the two big ballot initiatives in California that Silicon Valley cares about and...
Thu. 10/22 – Quibi QUIckly BItes The Dust
Quibi’s dead baby. Quibi’s dead. Jony Ive is going to design stuff for… Airbnb? The Mate 40 Pro is the best flagship smartphone you’ll probably never...
Wed. 10/21 – PayPal Adds Crypto
Big news for crypto as PayPal adopts it, both for users to buy, but also, crucially, for them to spend. Facebook is testing a Nextdoor killer. Update...
Tue. 10/20 – The DOJ Antitrust Suit Against Google
The Feds have finally thrown the book at Google. But the DOJ has also targeted the infamous Sandworm hackers. Intel sells its NAND memory unit as cons...
Mon. 10/19 – Apple Launches Apple Music TV (A-MTV? iMTV?)
Apple wants to you to want your A-MTV. iMTV? I dunno. Apple has launched a music videos channel. The new Samsung Galaxies might be coming sooner than...
(Bonus) What Is DeFi? With CoinDesk's Brady Dale
I don’t think I’ve made any bones about the fact that I blow hot and cold on crypto. Sometimes I grow frustrated that it always seems to be a lot of s...
Fri. 10/16 – You Can Now Hum To Search Music On Google
Google now lets you whistle or hum to search, which sounds crazy I know, or crazy cool. Are we due for one more Apple event this year? The FCC wants t...
Thu. 10/15 – Xbox Series X Preview
It’s hardware review Thursday! Reviews of the Xbox Series X, Google Pixel 5 AND 4a 5G. SOME of the new iPhones are getting extra RAM. Room-temperature...
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 tha...
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...
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