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Brian McCullough
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Mon. 08/05 - Cloudflare Breaks Up With 8chan
Cloudflare stops doing business with 8chan, two big new smartwatch releases, why the Athletic believes people will pay for sports news, the 22 year ol...
The State of Amazon With Jason Del Rey
The Vox/Recode family has a new podcast, Land of the Giants. And so we’re going to talk to Jason Del Rey, the voice behind the first season of this po...
Fri. 08/02 - Stop Listening To Me, Siri!
Google and Apple suspend their programs where humans listen in on what you say to your voice assistant, Google will let Android users in Europe pick a...
Thu. 08/01 - Chips Get Faster, Scooters Get Rugged-er
Intel’s faster new chips, Bird’s more durable new scooters, Samsung’s new lack of a headphone jack, Cisco settles with the government, IBM’s facing an...
Wed. 07/31 - Apple: What, Me Worry?
Apple isn’t selling as many iPhones, but they want you to know that that’s just fine. Samsung isn’t selling as many high end smartphones as they’d lik...
Tue. 07/30 - The Capital One Breach Is A Weird One
Another day, another data breach… but this Capital One breach has some odd new wrinkles, the Android smartphone industry continues to be a tough gig f...
Mon. 07/29 - Google Leaks, So We Don't Have To
Google continues to leak Pixel 4 details itself, Github bans users from specific countries, will we eventually see a TikTok phone? Consolidation in th...
Fri. 07/26 - The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is Approved
The T-Mobile/Sprint merger gets the go-ahead, a whole bunch of odds-n-ends Apple stories, SoftBank announces a new Vision Fund, the biggest earnings w...
Thu. 07/25 - The Galaxy Fold Lives!
Samsung says we will finally see the Galaxy Fold in September, Tesla has a bad earnings miss, Deep Mind and Waymo partner to hopefully speed up AV dev...
Wed. 07/24 - Is Media Piracy Coming Back?
The FTC comes down on Facebook, but is the new DOJ probe really what Silicon Valley should worry about? Cruise won’t be self-driving taxis in San Fran...
Tues. 7/23 - Intel Outside
Apple may buy Intel’s floundering 5G chip division, new rumored iPhone models seem like modest bumps, the attorney general dreams of an impossible enc...
Mon. 7/22 - Just the Equifax, Ma'am
Equifax agrees to a settlement over its massive 2017 data breach, Microsoft invests a billion dollars in an generalized AI startup, Huawei is linked t...
(Bonus) Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance,...
(Bonus) The Moon Landing With Charles Fishman
So, today, July 20th 2019 is the 50th anniversary of human beings walking on the moon for the first time. As Glenn mentioned on Friday’s weekend longr...
Fri. 7/19 - This Pentagon Contract Is Not the One You’re Looking For
Microsoft makes boring pay dividends, Trump says he’ll use JEDI mind tricks to examine a Pentagon bid, Orlando ends a controversial facial-recognition...
Thurs. 07/18 - Netflix's Numbers Visit the Upside Down
Netflix's growth disappoints, but Stranger Things have happened. The Democratic National Committee tells candidates to avoid the photo-aging simulator...
Wed. 07/17 - Neuralink and Boston Dynamics Are Ready For Their Closeup
Google says Project Dragonfly is dead, Apple might be producing its own original podcasts, the Switch regular gets a refresh, and two long-time intere...
Tue. 07/16 - Who Put The Politics In My Tech?
Facebook explains Libra to Congress, Amazon might be next in the EU’s woodshed, Google might be next in Trump’s woodshed, another Tesla lineup shakeup...
Mon. 07/15 - Don't Naruto-Rush Area 51
The FTC is readying a record fine for Facebook, but is it just a parking ticket? Qualcomm refreshes the Snapdragon lineup, governments want to make mo...
(Bonus) Is Ecommerce Gonna Kill The Grocery Store? With Joe Fassler
Remember that longread from Friday? I knew lots of physical retail was under threat from ecommcerce, but do we have to worry about the grocery store t...
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