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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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(TWTR SPC) The State Of VC And Startups In 2022 Jan 22, 2022

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Weirdly, this turned into a sort of education on VC and startup investing episode? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Fri. 01/21 – Intel Bringing Silicon Back (To Ohio) Jan 21, 2022

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The trend of re-onshoring silicon production domestically and Intel’s turnaround plans collide in a way that is very good for Ohio. Twitter will let you NFT-up your profile picture. Google’s doing the AR headset thing too. That Apple education discount has gotten harder to spoof. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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How Did ID.me Get Between You and Your Identity? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The SPAC Ship Is Sinking. Investors Want Their Money Back. (WSJ)
THE INSIDE STORY OF IBEER, THE UNDERDOG BEER APP THAT MADE MILLIONS (MelMagazine)
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)
How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (The New Yorker)

Thu. 01/20 – Meta Wants To Bring NFTs To Your Insta Profile Jan 20, 2022

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Meta is working on NFTs for Instagram and Facebook while Google is starting a blockchain team. Instagram Subscriptions launches. Google Play Games launches on Windows. Amazon launches its first physical fashion store. And why, by this summer, you will only be able to pay the IRS your taxes online by doxing yourself?

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Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze (FT)
Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive (Bloomberg)
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US (TechCrunch)
Google Play Games for PC starts limited beta for Android games on Windows, sharing system requirements (Android Police)
Amazon to try another tech-infused retail concept with ‘Amazon Style,’ its first physical fashion store (GeekWire)
Crypto.com Says Regulators Haven’t Reached Out After Hack (Bloomberg)
Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs (TechCrunch)
IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Online (Gizmodo)
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access (KrebsonSecurity)

Wed. 01/19 – The 5G Flight Issue Comes To A Head Jan 19, 2022

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Today is the big day for the showdown between 5G and the airlines. Nobody’s blinked yet, but both sides have sort of blinked. An interesting raise in the NFT space. And I’ve heard of autonomous road cars, but autonomous rail cars? More fallout from the Activision/Microsoft tie-up, and how literally fallout from that undersea volcano may have knocked Tonga off the internet.

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Tue. 01/18 – Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard In The Biggest Gaming Deal Of All Time Jan 18, 2022

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Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard in the biggest gaming acquisition of all time. Partially this is a metaverse play, but meanwhile, Meta is quietly locking down all the metaverse patents. Crypto.com halts withdrawals on its platform but insists it hasn’t been hacked. And why are countries encouraging their athletes to use burner phones when they attend the upcoming Olympics?

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Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal (CNBC)
Activision Blizzard Games Will Come To Xbox Game Pass As Part Of Acquisition (PureXbox)
Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse (Financial Times)
Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum (Decrypt)
Samsung begins mass production of Exynos 2200 smartphone processor (ZDNet)
Cross-country Exposure - Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app (Citizenlab.ca)
Olympic burner phones? Athletes warned about bringing personal devices to China for 2022 Beijing Games (USAToday)

(TWTR SPC) The Tools Episode! Jan 15, 2022

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... and I'm not just talking about the hosts! Myself, Chris, and about a dozen listeners kick around the latest apps, tools, platforms and other things we use to GTD.

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Fri. 01/14 – Russia Cracks Down On REvil? Jan 14, 2022

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Russia has cracked down on REvil? Question-mark? Investing in crypto is so hot, FTX has launched its own monster venture fund. Why has the Android 12 rollout been such a disaster so far? How long is the Cybertruck going to be delayed? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Russia takes down REvil hacking group at U.S. request - FSB (Reuters)
Crypto Exchange FTX Sets Up $2 Billion Venture Fund (WSJ)
"You Don't Own Web3": A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail (Startups And Econ)
GOOGLE’S ANDROID 12 UPDATE HAS BEEN THE ROCKIEST IN YEARS (The Verge)
Tesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says reportTesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says report (The Verge)

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Remembering VRML: The Metaverse of 1995 (How To Geek)
After the Beanie Baby bubble burst (Vox)
Crypto Firms Gear Up for Battles Over New Rules in Washington (Bloomberg)
Xbox players are fed up with forced crossplay against PC gamers (The Verge)
Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court. (The Washington Post)

Thu. 01/13 – China To Do NFT’s, Minus The Blockchain Jan 13, 2022

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Apple indeed is removing Wordle clones, but PUBG sues them for NOT removing what they allege are clones of their game. Does Google Analytics run afoul of GDPR? China is going to do NFTs, NOT on the blockchain. And will the new Nuro bot bring me my burrito?

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Apple Removes Wordle Apps Fueled by Confused Users (Bloomberg)
Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit (Reuters)
In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR (TechCrunch)
Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units (TechCrunch)
Instagram, still benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, again became the top app by downloads in Q4 (TechCrunch)
China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure, main developer says (South China Morning Post)
Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses (TechCrunch)

Wed. 01/12 – About Those Apps Cloning Wordle… Jan 12, 2022

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The FTC gets a second shot at Meta, after a judge okays their lawsuit edit. Samsung ghost on its own event. The state of the mobile app economy. Is cloning Wordle to release an app ok or not? And the new app at the top of the App Store that definitely comes from the, why didn’t I think of that file.

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‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules. (Washington Post)
Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch [Update: Samsung speaks] (Ars Technica)
Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22 (BusinessKorea)
App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B (TechCrunch)
The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store (The Verge)
Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store (TechCrunch)

Tue. 01/11 – YC Ups The Ante Jan 11, 2022

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Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as CEO of Signal, and Brian Acton is stepping up. For now. Y Combinator is getting more generous with the investment it makes in its cohort companies. Carriers aren’t pleased with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay service. And another day, another headline like: the Associated Press is getting into NFTs.

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