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Fri. 05/06 – Give Us The Passwordless Future Already May 06, 2022

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With Apple, Google and Microsoft all signed up to offer FIDO Alliance technology, are we about to hear about some big passwordless tech at all the developers conferences this summer? China wants the whole country to turn in their foreign made laptops. Fortnite is available everywhere, including iOS, thanks to Microsoft. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise (Wired)
Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled (CNN)
A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
The Endgame (Newcomer)

Thu. 05/05 – Elon To Be Twitter CEO? May 05, 2022

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Elon gets some friends to join his Twitter deal. And does he expect to be Twitter CEO soon? A Google acquisition shows their metaverse aspirations. Sonos to launch a voice assistant. A hiring slowdown at Meta. How can there be need for layoffs at Cameo? And is anyone other than me and the US Government concerned about quantum computing breaking encryption?

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Wed. 05/04 – Uber Back To Pre-Covid Levels May 04, 2022

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Uber is seeing rider usage return to pre-Covid levels. New, better flash storage. Twitter tests the ability to only tweet to certain circles. An interesting laptop and an interesting raise. And Spotify wants you to hang out, in Roblox.

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Uber reports surging revenue as drivers return, but posts massive loss on investments (CNBC)
NFT Sales Are Flatlining (WSJ)
Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage is a major upgrade, especially for 5G phones (Android Authority)
Twitter Testing New 'Twitter Circle' Feature for Sharing Tweets With a Smaller Number of People (MacRumors)
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free (MIT Technology Review)
Razer’s Blade 15 is the first laptop with a 240Hz OLED display, but you’ll have to wait a while (The Verge)
Larry Ellison leads $21.5 million Series A in cancer treatment startup Imagene AI (CTech)
Spotify becomes first music streamer to launch on Roblox (TechCrunch)

Tue. 05/03 – No More Podcasting On Facebook May 03, 2022

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What do you know? Facebook got bored of something and left the market in a bit of a mess. The SEC seems to be staffing up to get serious about crypto. Apple accuses a rival of stealing trade secrets. And it seems like Meta wants to start getting those Metaverse enabling headsets in our hands sooner rather than later.

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Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year (Bloomberg)
SEC to Hire More Crypto Cops to Fight Digital Frauds (WSJ)
PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments (Bloomberg)
UK ministers ditch plans to empower tech regulator (FT)
Apple accuses engineers of stealing chip secrets with AirDrop and Time Machine (9to5Mac)
Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 (The Information)
Rocket Lab captures booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time (Engadget)

Mon. 05/02 – EU Says Apple’s NFC Chips Don’t Play Well With Others May 02, 2022

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The expected EU hammer is coming down on Apple. Yuga Labs’ latest project didn’t bring down Ethereum, but made it hella expensive. Bots DID bring down Solana. Again. A new book looks at why Jony Ive left Apple. And what the heck is going on with Google and it’s AI researchers?

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Apple charged by Brussels with abusing its market power in mobile payments (Financial Times)
Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum (Bloomberg)
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain (The Verge)
Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool (CoinDesk)
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years (WSJ)
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (NYTimes)
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (NYTimes)

(TWTR SPC) How The Web Evolved - The Reunion Of The Social Web TV Crew (Fixed) May 01, 2022

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(The audio has been fixed in this version)

How was the web won and lost? If you had to do Web2.0 over again, what would you do differently? What is the future of Twitter under Elon Musk. All this and more from a huge crew of web 2.0 OGs. Check them out from 15 years ago on YouTube.

Fri. 04/29 – Snap’s Pixy Drone Is A Flying Camera Apr 29, 2022

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Snap’s Pixy, is a new sort of done/camera hybrid. We wrap up tech earnings week with Apple and Amazon. I continue to wonder if the one click checkout space is all it’s cracked up to be. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy (TechCrunch)
Snap Pixy Review: Don’t Call It a Drone or a Selfie Stick—Even Though It’s Both (WSJ)
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
The Twitter Thread With The Charts On Amazon (@juokaz)
Bolt, a Checkout Startup Worth $11 Billion, Lost Customers as Revenue Stalled (The Information)

The Weekend Longreads Suggestions ™

Elon's Giant Package (Margins Substack)
Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom (Bloomberg)
As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming (Fast Company)

Thu. 04/28 – Twitter’s Last Ever Earnings Report? Apr 28, 2022

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Twitter reports earnings, for maybe the last time, publicly. Meta’s earnings weren’t THAT bad but that’s mostly because the set the table for it. Apple faces antitrust charges in the EU as soon as next week. Another country adopts bitcoin as currency. And would you like a dedicated metaverse room in your next house?

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Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk’s takeover bid (CNBC)
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (The Verge)
Meta's Bleak Q1; Spotify's Netflix Moment (The Information)
Apple to face fresh antitrust charges in Brussels (FT)
Google may now remove search results that dox you (The Verge)
Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (BBCNews)
NSA Re-awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (NextGov)
How the pandemic is changing home design (Axios)

Wed. 04/27 – Earnings Quick Hits Apr 27, 2022

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Quick summation of Alphabet and Microsoft earnings. DJI is trying to prevent its drones from being used in the Ukraine war. Google has released tools to make it easier to spin up your own YouTube. Apple wants you to repair your iPhone yourself. And a deep dive into why autocorrect can’t ducking get it right sometimes. Ducking. I said ducking, which is the iPhone autocorrect version of that word.

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Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (Alphabet)
Earnings Release FY22 Q3 (Microsoft)
Robinhood lays off nine percent of its full-time employees (Engadget)
DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business (Bloomberg)
Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery (TechCrunch)
Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE (CNET)
Apple’s Studio Display’s poor webcam quality is not a software bug after all (9to5Mac)
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (WSJ)

Tue. 04/26 – Twitter, Now Under New Management Apr 26, 2022

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You did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it. You know what that’s referring to, of course. Fidelity lets you allocate some of your 401(k) to bitcoin. More Bored Apes got swiped. And with the F-150 Lightning actually shipping today, another glimpse at the precarious reality of the electric car revolution.

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Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal (CNBC)
Elon Musk buys Twitter (Platformer/Casey Newton)
From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (Financial Times)
Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts (WSJ)
Bored Ape Instagram account hacked: NFTs worth $2.8 million stolen (The Block)
SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash (Bloomberg)
THE F-150 LIGHTNING IS FINALLY SHIPPING — IS FORD READY? (The Verge)

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