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Thu. 04/08 – Now The Chip Shortage Has Come For Apple? Apr 08, 2021

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If the chip shortage is now biting even Apple, things are getting real, y’all. Twitter apparently took a run at buying Clubhouse. Facebook has a new Clubhouse like product called Hotline. Lenovo’s new phone convinces me gaming phones are truly a thing. And are there signs we’re finally gonna see those Apple AirTags… or do the tea leaves reveal the exact opposite?

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MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple (NikkeiAsia)
Apple MacBook and iPad production may be delayed over global chip shortage (AppleInsider)
Twitter Held Discussions for $4 Billion Takeover of Clubhouse (Bloomberg)
Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live (TechCrunch)
Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 has not one but two cooling fans (The Verge)
YouTube is social media’s big winner during the pandemic (CNBC)
Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage (FT)
Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20 (9to5Google)
Apple Announces Find My Network With Support for Third-Party Devices (MacRumors)

Wed. 04/07 – TLDR: Coinbase Is A Helluva Business Apr 07, 2021

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Coinbase has revealed the number behind their business, and they are brain exploding emoji. A big Patreon raise shows the moneybags are serious about this creator economy thing. Nobody is crying at Plaid over that failed Visa merger. There’s a new king of the gaming laptop hill. And I try my best to unravel the twisted tale of the latest Facebook data scandal.

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Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)
Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)

Tue. 04/06 – Clubhouse Turns On The Money Spigot Quickly Apr 06, 2021

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Clubhouse isn’t messing around when it comes to flipping the monetization switch. TikTok translation might make that platform even more global. Yahoo Answers circles the drain. Are NFT prices already dropping? And with the new digital Yuan, would the Chinese government be able to literally turn off the money in your wallet?

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Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)
The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
E3 2021 Will Take Place as a Free Virtual Conference, In-Person L.A. Event Targeted for Next Year (Variety)
Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (Bloomberg)

Mon. 04/05 – SCOTUS Rules: APIs Not Copyrightable Apr 05, 2021

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The Supreme Court has ruled on APIs in a way that should make most developers happy. Though, the punted on the President blocking people on Twitter. LG is exiting the smartphone business. And we already knew half a billion people’s Facebook data was out in the wild, but now that we’ve SEEN it in the wild, I’ll tell you why you should take notice.

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Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software (CNBC)
Supreme Court vacates lower court decision on Trump blocking Twitter followers (Axios)
LG Electronics to end loss-making smartphone business (NikkeiAsia)
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (NYTimes)
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (Insider)
Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat‪?‬ (Kara Swisher's Sway Podcast)
Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook (MacRumors)
Tim Cook says Apple is committed to AR, TV+ and privacy but not to Apple Car (Cult of Mac)

(Bonus) Friday 04.02 Twitter Space Apr 03, 2021

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We didn’t go as long as last time because after about 45 minutes, somehow no one could hear me, even though I was the space commissar, or whatever they term it. Anyway, as you’ll hear, we ended up talking about that big AR story with Microsoft and the HoloLens and the Pentagon. Robert Scoble, who has been on this beat for years showed up serendipitously, to give us some schooling in the space. Enjoy…

Fri. 04/02 – Coinbase Going Public With A Confident Swagger Apr 02, 2021

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Coinbase is going public and sharing its numbers ahead of time, which is rare and probably a sign of confidence. The App Store has started rejecting apps ahead of that big new privacy change. Has Tencent’s gaming studio become the biggest in the world? Another Clubhouse clone, this time from Discord. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard)
5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next? (Wired)
How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars (Bloomberg)
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker)
Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech (WSJ)
Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes)

Thu. 04/01 – Microsoft’s Pentagon Deal Validates The AR Industry Apr 01, 2021

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Microsoft’s big HoloLens deal with the Pentagon is maybe the big bang for the augmented reality industry. Amazon says their folks can come back to work soon, and in fact, they’d prefer if you did. Bearish signs for the work remotely movement? Why these are boom times for chip makers. And why Siri’s new voices think of gender as a spectrum.

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Wed. 03/31 – Everything Old Is New Again In The News Feed Mar 31, 2021

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Facebook has announced News Feed changes to bring chronology back. LinkedIn is working on a Clubhouse rival and I think that makes total sense. Apple actually leads an interesting investment round. Deliveroo has a disastrous first day on the public markets. And how about Roblox, but inside the Unreal Engine?

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Facebook Adds New 'Most Recent' Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch)
Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (ArsTechnica)
Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch)
Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat)

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Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor Mar 30, 2021

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It’s actually a nutso butso news day. Spotify is launching a Clubhouse competitor. Amazon is spinning up a new line of custom silicon. Big updates to Google Maps. We know the dates for WWDC. Amazon seems to be doing some Twitter sock puppetry. A bunch of new phones from Xiaomi. Substack is raising another big round. And that’s not all. There’s so much that happened today in the world of tech, that I can’t even promo it all, so let’s just get to it.

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Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work? Mar 29, 2021

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New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The official PHP Git repository was hacked. Boston Dynamics has a new robot that isn’t as scary… unless you’re a warehouse worker. And what is Amazon’s aggressive PR recently all about?

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