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Wed. 12/11 - @Jack Wants to Decentralize Social Media

A bold new proposal to decentralize social media from Jack Dorsey, YouTube bans “malicious insults,” you can only clean your Pro Display XDR with a sp...

Dec 11, 2019 15m

Tue. 12/10 - Wheels For Your Mac Pro Are $400 Extra

Apple is suing its former chip architect, the Apple Card finally makes sense to me, wheels on the Mac Pro will run you $400, Softbank abandons Wag, Mi...

Dec 10, 2019 18m

Mon. 12/09 - An Interesting Raise From... Us?

China orders its own crackdown on foreign tech, Google is bringing “feature drops” to Pixel Phones, the Mac Pro is here but Wunderlist is exiting stag...

Dec 9, 2019 18m

(Bonus) A Human Algorithm With Flynn Coleman

I’ve been trying to read books about AI lately to get a firmer grasp on this important topic, and the best book I’ve read for both a basic grounding o...

Dec 8, 2019 23m

(Bonus) A Google Civil War? With Bloomberg's Mark Bergen

I had already reached out to Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen this week to talk about the Google Civil War, but then, of course, there was other big Google new...

Dec 7, 2019 28m

Fri. 12/06 - The Future of the iPhone is NO Ports?

The Uber safety report, more Galaxy S11 rumors, could Apple be about to kill the charging port on iPhones entirely and what would that mean, Samsung’s...

Dec 6, 2019 20m

Thu. 12/05 - Why The New Snapdragon Chips Don’t Have Integrated 5G

The FTC might be broadening its look into Amazon, the new flagship Snapdragon Chips, a disc-free Xbox, checkins with Slack, Imgur and Robinhood, and c...

Dec 5, 2019 18m

Wed. 12/04 - Larry and Sergey Into The Sunset

Larry and Sergey ride their Segway’s off into the sunset, a new entrant in the streaming wars, more news from the re:Invent conference, YouTube says i...

Dec 4, 2019 18m

Tue. 12/03 - Pablo Escobar's Brother's Smartphone

Headlines from re:Invent, how tech is caught up in a tariff war with France, Facebook created a chatbot to help employees explain themselves during th...

Dec 3, 2019 17m

Mon. 12/02 - When An E-Sports Team IPO's

Interesting Galaxy S11 leaks, T-Mobile flips the switch on its 5G network, might different models of next year’s iPhone have different versions of 5G,...

Dec 2, 2019 18m

(Bonus) The Forgotten Online Pioneer, Bill von Meister

Since it’s a holiday week in the US, I’m going to do what I’ve done once before on Holiday weeks and give you an episode from the Internet History Pod...

Nov 29, 2019 46m

Tues. 11/26 - Amazon Prime Cuts

Google fires four workers associated with labor organizing, Amazon's ruthless quotas lead to high rates of warehouse injuries, grass-roots opponents t...

Nov 26, 2019 19m

Mon. 11/25 - Deadpool Buys an MVNO

Uber loses its license in London, the web’s founder launches a “contract” to save it, eBay sells StubHub, the Threadrippers seem to be the real deal,...

Nov 25, 2019 17m

Fri. 11/22 - CYBERTRUCK!

We gotta talk about Cybertruck, Twitter continues its shipping products hot streak, AirPods are hotter than even Apple anticipated, some trouble in Ru...

Nov 22, 2019 16m

Thu. 11/21 - Google's Culture Is Dead

Google is changing its rules around political ads, PayPal is acquiring Honey for a ton of money, why have a Dash Button when you can have a Dash Shelf...

Nov 21, 2019 16m

Wed. 11/20 - Our 500th Episode!

Hackers could take over your Android cameras, the police can do whatever they want with your Ring videos, if your Disney+ account is hacked, is it pro...

Nov 20, 2019 17m

Tue. 11/19 - An Apple Awards Ceremony? (The App-ies?)

Apple’s planning an awards ceremony? Amazon has a new fire TV accessory, Spotify launches Your Daily Podcast, Google announces Your News Update, Ranso...

Nov 19, 2019 17m

Mon. 11/18 - Google Stadia and the Mustang Mach-E

The Mustang Mach-E wants to out Tesla Tesla, John Legere is stepping down from T-Mobile, .org domain names might be getting a lot more expensive, and...

Nov 18, 2019 16m

(Bonus) The Razr and the Reality of 5G with QZ's Mike Murphy

So, that Razr event, out in LA... obviously I didn’t get to cover it live… and if there was ever a recent hardware event crying out for “hands-on” rep...

Nov 16, 2019 23m

Fri. 11/15 - Apples Says: Vapers, No Vaping!

Apple takes down vaping apps from the App Store, why is Google going ahead with the Stadia launch this month? Amazon protests the JEDI decision, the T...

Nov 15, 2019 15m

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