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Tue. 10/19 – The Google Pixel Event And The Pixel 6 Oct 19, 2021

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All the headlines from Google’s latest Pixel event with the new Pixel 6. Some odds and sods from yesterday’s Apple event. Maybe Facebook’s crypto project is about to debut. How much money can the delivery space attract or even support? And more signs that YouTube is becoming a monster business that is increasingly supporting all of Alphabet.

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Android 12 is now rolling out to Pixel phones (Engadget)
GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND 6 PRO HAVE BIG SCREENS, BIG AMBITIONS, AND SMALL PRICES (The Verge)
The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC (Ars Technica)
Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
Delivery Hero Leads $1 Billion Funding Round for Gorillas (Bloomberg)
Apple Selling New $49 Braided MagSafe Cable and $99 140W Power Adapter for 16-Inch MacBook Pro (MacRumors)
Tweet I mentioned comparing the M1Max to the PS5 (@ZONEofTech)
YouTube Has Surpassed $3 Billion in Consumer Spend on iOS — Giving The World Access to Tailored Quality Content (App Annie)

Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event Oct 18, 2021

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All the headlines from Apple’s event today. The Bitcoin future’s ETF is real, as of tomorrow. Apple’s privacy changes have indeed upended the mobile advertising space… in Apple’s favor. Steam doesn’t want to play the NFT game. And putting a value on Squid Game’s impact for Netflix.

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Apple unveils next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for new Macs (9to5Mac)
Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: new design, display notch, 120Hz, M1 Pro chip, HDMI, MagSafe, more (9to5Mac)
Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (Financial Times)
Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
Netflix Estimates ‘Squid Game’ Will Be Worth Almost $900 Million (Bloomberg)

(TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse? Oct 16, 2021

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What is the Metaverse? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is Mark Zuckerberg talking SO MUCH about it lately? And come to think of it, what is Facebook's play for the future?

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Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future? Oct 15, 2021

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The SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs trade a soon as next week. Google finally does away with pagination on the mobile web. Why are Waymo autonomous taxis all piling up on one dead end street in San Francisco? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg)
Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS)
Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head (Platformer)
Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic)
Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion)

Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China Oct 14, 2021

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Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO.

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Wed. 10/13 – Supply Chain Woes Come For The iPhone Oct 13, 2021

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Apple is forced to cut iPhone 13 production due to lack of parts. Are health features coming to the AirPods? NFT’s are coming to Coinbase. Stripe is hiring for a big push into crypto. Would you like a laptop with a 3D screen? And G4 TV is back, everybody, to remind you how you fell in love with tech in the first place.

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Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg)
Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ)
Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia)
G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge)
Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge)
APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge)
Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge)

Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning Oct 12, 2021

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Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing?

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Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget)
Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record)
Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat)
US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times)

Mon. 10/11 – Pixels To Go Big On Cameras? Oct 11, 2021

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Is Google aiming to take back the smartphone camera crown with next week’s Pixel event? That Twitch leak reinforces the idea that on platform ecosystems, there very much is a 1%. The Chinese Tesla competitors that are hitting milestones faster than Tesla ever did. When and should Disney give ESPN streaming religion? And would you buy Squid Game merch?

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Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood Oct 08, 2021

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Tech real estate report. Tesla leaves for Texas, while Apple rocks up in Hollywood. YouTube is gonna stop doing those year-end Rewind videos. A developer says Facebook banned him for life cause they didn’t like his app. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions where we ask the question: is Google’s famous hiring gauntlet broken?

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Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
WeBack (Ramp Recap)
Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
Planet Squid Game (Vulture)

Thu. 10/07 – Forget The iCar, Apple Wants To Take Over Your EXISTING Car Oct 07, 2021

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Forget the iCar, Apple wants to take over your existing car. The first candidate to test the App Store cracks has stepped forward. AMD warns that if you install Windows 11, your computer could run slower. GM gets me closer to the self-driving future I want sooner rather than later. And a weird new NFT hybrid lets you play fantasy sports with startups.

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