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Fri. 12/20 - Now Apple Joins The Space Race?

Does Apple have a secret team to do an end run around telecom carriers, Google buys a game studio, IAC buys Care.com, Ripple is an interesting raise,...

Dec 20, 2019 17m

Thu. 12/19 - What If Apple Owned James Bond?

That big NYTimes piece about location data, is Facebook taking another run at creating its own OS, is Apple considering buying James Bond, is Spotify...

Dec 19, 2019 16m

Wed. 12/18 - Did Google Almost "Rage Quit" the Cloud?

Everyone comes together to create a smart-home standard, did Google consider walking away from its cloud business, the last holdout comes to streaming...

Dec 18, 2019 17m

Tue. 12/17 - Alexa Is A Hit, But Is It A Business?

More reported casualties in the Google Civil War, more strife between Amazon and FedEx, can Amazon turn Alexa into a healthy ecosystem, developers: ge...

Dec 17, 2019 17m

Mon. 12/16 - Give Us A Name For $100MM AAR Startups!

Chrome 79 is wiping data from some apps, Amazon is about to deliver more than FedEx or UPS all by its lonesome, Argo plans to charge by the mile, smar...

Dec 16, 2019 21m

(Bonus) Year-End Checkin On Crypto With Brady Dale of @coindesk

For the final weekend bonus episode of the year, I wanted to check in with Crypto. What a year for the space! Seemingly dead at the beginning of the y...

Dec 14, 2019 27m

Fri. 12/13 - The Next-Gen Xbox

Details about the next-gen Xbox, Apple makes an interesting acquisition around photography, Lyft will rent you a car, why I find Roku so interesting,...

Dec 13, 2019 16m

Thu. 12/12 - Maybe Just Throw A Dart, Seed Investors…

Google releases all the things at once, everyone is mulling over Jack’s decentralized Twitter idea, one last tech IPO of the year, should seed investo...

Dec 12, 2019 20m

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 16m

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 19m

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 19m

(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 24m

(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 29m

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 21m

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 19m

(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 20m

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