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Facebook bans Trump, the Supreme Court takes on tech, and China’s Tesla killer Jun 06, 2021

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Protocol’s Ben Brody joins the show to discuss Facebook’s latest (and surely not last) decision on what to do with Donald Trump. Then Issie Lapowsky explains the Supreme Court’s decision in Van Buren v. United States and what it means for tech. Finally, Zeyi Yang introduces us to the cutest EV in China, and unpacks the state of the industry.

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The brick-and-mortar revolution starts at checkout Jun 02, 2021

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If you’ve ever been into one of Amazon’s Go stores, you know the strange and somewhat magical feeling of checkout-free shopping. Walk in, grab your stuff, walk out. A receipt shows up on your phone a few minutes later. End of interaction. For Amazon, Go offers a chance to bring some of the convenience of online shopping into the real world. It also gives Amazon more insight into how people shop, what they look for, and how stores themselves work. That data can be invaluable.

Standard Cognition is one of Amazon’s leading competitors in this space, a company offering similar technology and features to existing stores all over the world. It already operates inside a network of convenience stores, and CEO Jordan Fisher said self-checkout is only the beginning. The company’s underlying tech, which it calls The Platform, could someday bring powerful computer vision to nearly any physical space. Fisher and his team are trying to figure out how to make it work, how to reckon with the privacy implications, and how to make checkout-free shopping even easier going forward.

Fisher joined the Source Code podcast to talk about what Standard is working on, what it’s like to compete with Amazon, how physical and online retail are merging into a single shopping experience, how Instacart and Uber Eats are changing stores, how computer vision systems can be both pervasive and privacy-preserving, and much more.

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Why Epic v. Apple matters May 26, 2021

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Protocol's Ben Brody, Karyne Levy and Nick Statt join the show to talk about the end of Epic v. Apple, why the rest of the industry (and world) is watching this case, and how Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers might rule.

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Bitcoin crashes, tech’s diversity woes, and how Apple works May 23, 2021

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Tomio Geron joins the show to discuss a wild week in the crypto world, and what the U.S. government is trying to do to calm things down. Then, Megan Rose Dickey explains what we’ve learned from a recent set of tech company diversity reports, and where the industry still has the most work to do. Finally, Nick Statt catches us up on another week of Epic v. Apple, and tells us what happens after the trial wraps up this week.

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A cable bundle for the streaming era May 20, 2021

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Struum co-founders Lauren Devillier and Paul Pastor both have long histories in Hollywood. But now they’re starting a tech company, trying to aggregate niche streaming services and turn them into a giant that can take on Netflix and Disney. That requires new interfaces, new business models, and new ideas about content. They joined the show to discuss all that and more.

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A huge win for the right-to-repair movement May 12, 2021

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iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens joins the show to discuss the FTC’s recent report on the repair industry in the U.S., why it’s such good news for the right-to-repair movement, and where things go from here.

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What's next for Trump and Facebook May 09, 2021

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Protocol’s Issie Lapowsky joins to talk about the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision (or lack thereof) on what to do with Donald Trump, and then plays us part of her discussion with board director Thomas Hughes. Then, Nick Statt joins the show to talk about what happened in the first week of Epic v. Apple.

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Facebook’s plan to win the future of messaging May 05, 2021

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Stan Chudnovsky, the VP of Messenger at Facebook, is in charge of the company’s plans for the future of communication. Those plans are big and getting bigger. Chudnovsky joins the show to discuss Messenger as an app, Messenger as a protocol, how privacy figures into the future of messaging, his theories on super apps like WeChat, and how the pandemic changed the course of digital communication forever.

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Basecamp chaos and Epic v. Apple May 02, 2021

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Anna Kramer joins the show to discuss Basecamp’s big shift in company culture, and the huge backlash that followed. Then, Ben Brody and Nick Statt discuss why Epic v. Apple matters, and how it could affect the rest of the tech industry.

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The tech non-profit helping transform prisons Apr 28, 2021

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Recidiviz, a technical nonprofit that provides open source data tracking and management software for state prison, probation and payrolls systems, became astoundingly important in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the prison system.

Protocol's Anna Kramer sat down with Clementine Jacoby, the company’s co-founder and CEO, to talk about the last year inside her company, what it’s like hiring top tech talent for nonprofit pay, why engineers want to work for mission-driven companies, and the lessons other future founders might learn from her own path from ex-Googler to nonprofit founder.

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