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Silicon Valley’s water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day… 15 minutes and you’re up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew’s tech hub.

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(Portfolio Profile) Cognitive Talent Solutions Jul 31, 2022

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(TWTR SPC) Mathew Ball On The Metaverse And Jason Del Rey On Amazon After Bezos Jul 30, 2022

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Matthew Ball comes on to talk about his new book: The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything. Then, Jason Del Rey @DelRey talks to us about how Amazon has been faring in the post-Jeff Bezos era.

Fri. 07/29 – Instagram Listens To The Kardashians Jul 29, 2022

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Even a weak earnings report from Apple can still break records. Instagram’s been in a stare down with the Kardashians, and Adam Mosseri just blinked. Congress just passed a ton of money to jump start domestic chip production. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Apple iPhone Sales Remain Resilient as Company Reports 11% Decline in Profit (WSJ)
Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer)
CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries (The Verge)

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The Buy Now, Pay Later Juggernaut Is About to Be Tested (Bloomberg)
F.T.C. Chair Upends Antitrust Standards With Meta Lawsuit (NYTimes)
Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? (The Markup)
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker)
RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me to be a ruthless capitalist (Polygon)

Thu. 07/28 – Meta Goes Backwards For The First Time Ever Jul 28, 2022

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Meta has reported its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline. The FTC has moved to block a Meta acquisition, the first big regulatory move of the Lina Khan era. Google delays it’s cookie cleanup. Again. You’re not seeing things. There’s been a Gmail redesign. And DeepMind has solved one of the oldest problems in biology.

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Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ)
F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech (NYTimes)
Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group (WSJ)
Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google)
Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
DeepMind's protein-folding AI cracks biology's biggest problem (NewScientist)

Wed. 07/27 – Inflation Hits The Metaverse Jul 27, 2022

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I’ll wrap up the earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, Spotify and Shopify. Proof that the cost of a data breach for companies is skyrocketing. What ever happened to the legislative crackdown on Big Tech? Inflation comes to the Metaverse as Meta is jacking up the prices on Quest headsets. And a big update to Google Maps.

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Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today)
IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before (SiliconAngle)
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us (ArsTechnica)
Senate’s Antitrust Crackdown Sputters as Schumer Signals Doubts (Bloomberg)
Quest 2 Price Jumps To $399 As Meta Costs Rise (UploadVR)
Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch)

Tue. 07/26 – Why Big Tech Hates The Leap Second Jul 26, 2022

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Is the SEC about to crack down on Coinbase? Why is Kylie Jenner mad at Instagram? Why are all the big tech companies mad at the leap second, of all things? And a deep dive look at what Amazon probably wants to do with its big healthcare acquisition.

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Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)
Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to 'stop trying to be TikTok,' which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)
Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)
Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ)
Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)
The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket)

Mon. 07/25 – NFL+ Jul 25, 2022

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NFL+ arrives, and at the end of the show, we’ll take a deep dive into sports rights as the great free radical in the streaming wars and the evolution in sports in general. In between that, people accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of lowballing them. More details on the so-called Apple Watch Pro. And if I told you there’s a global shortage of fiber optic cable, would you be surprised?

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NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter)
Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register)
Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT)
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes)

(TWTR SPC) - Fake Review Economies And How Social Networks Win Jul 23, 2022

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Saoud Kalifah of FakeSpot.com joins us to discuss what I guess we could call, the fake review economy. Chris made a compelling case for the new Browser Company browser Arc. I try to find my way to a Brian’s Unified Theory of what makes new social networks succeed.

Fri. 07/22 – Not Great, Bob! Snap And Twitter Edition Jul 22, 2022

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Well, things weren’t so rosy with Twitter earnings, and downright abysmal over at Snap. The Feds bring the first ever case for insider trading in the crypto space. Your next smart lock might draw its power from your phone as you use it. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Chiplets helped save AMD. They might also help save Moore’s law and head off an energy crisis. (Protocol)
Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’ (Protocol)
Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way (NYTimes)
The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge)
The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent (Skift)

Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash? Jul 21, 2022

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Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available.

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