Episodes

Nov. 10, 2021

Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court

Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No word on if Andy Serkis is part of the package. And Twitter Blue is finally live. A reminder of what that actually is.
Nov. 9, 2021

Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits

Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes a page out of the TikTok playbook. And whole bunch of announces about new DRAM chips, new AMD chips, new custom voicebot toolkits from Nvidia, and Ni…
Nov. 8, 2021

Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private

McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously complicate your tax bill. The latest installment of Today In Elon Musk, and since we’re hitting old features today, let’s check in with how Masa Son is do…
Nov. 6, 2021

(TWTR SPC) Where's The Money In The #CreatorEconomy?

Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy.
Nov. 5, 2021

Fri. 11/05 – Meta To Open Metaverse Retail Stores?

Is Meta going to open actual physical retail stores to try to sell folks on the promise of the Metaverse? More tangible signs Apple’s silicon is leaving everyone, but especially Intel in the dust. The new Mavic 3 drone from DJI. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Nov. 4, 2021

Thu. 11/04 – Instagram Can Post To Twitter Again

Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South Korean law is actively cracking open the App Stores in that country. Google might be back in the defense contract business. And why it MIGHT be worth …
Nov. 3, 2021

Wed. 11/03 – Meta And Zillow Shut It Down

Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray into games officially launches widely. And Microsoft says hey Zuckerberg, if you think the Metaverse is going to be about work meetings with cartoonish…
Nov. 2, 2021

Tue. 11/02 – Apple Sacrifices iPad Production To Protect The iPhone

Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stablecoins. Zoom is going to start showing you ads unless you pay up. Zillow misjudged the housing market. And a security flaw has been found, inside, of al…
Nov. 1, 2021

Mon. 11/01 – How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Et Al?

How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But new iOS devices might have crash detection built in. Why was Roblox down for so long? And why Hollywood thinks there’s money in their old banana stands…
Oct. 29, 2021

Fri. 10/29 – Signs Of A Meta Watch

Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Amazon. Very important detail from the reviews of the new MacBook Pros involving battery life. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Oct. 28, 2021

Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta

Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device. And how to handle the notch on the MacBook Pro if its driving you crazy.
Oct. 27, 2021

Wed. 10/27 – Is Robinhood The Company Doge Made?

Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, you can be wounded by them too. Will the Facebook Files force some sort of FTC action? AWS goes after Google’s tensor processing units. And do you thi…
Oct. 26, 2021

Tue. 10/26 – Facebook Pivots To Youth

Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, joining the Quantum Computing race, and lending Project Kuiper to Verizon. And the big review of Apple’s new chips calls their performance downright ab…
Oct. 25, 2021

Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook

Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla rolls back Full Self Driving, Microsoft keeps its eye on the ransomware gangs and a listener gives us an explainer on why Worldcoin wants to scan your ey…
Oct. 23, 2021

(TWTR SPC) Metaverse? Name Change? Facebook Wither?

F*** it! We did it live! Chris and me and @Kantrowitz around my kitchen table! Are we in for the biggest week of Facebook's life?
Oct. 22, 2021

Fri. 10/22 – Is Apple’s ATT Bite As Bad As People Feared After All?

Snap’s earnings suggest Apple’s ATT bite is having an impact, and what might that mean for others like Facebook? Google lowers Play Store fees and piles pressure on Apple. Did law enforcement give REvil a taste of its own medicine? What the heck is Worldcoin, I still can’t figure it out. And, of co…
Oct. 21, 2021

Thu. 10/21 – PayPal To Buy Pinterest? Why?

PayPal wants to buy Pinterest and everybody is trying to figure out why. Devs, you can now begin testing Android apps on Windows 11. Gamers, you can now do some powerful gaming for the low, low price of $100 a month. Some, just, spectacularly monster raises in the crypto space. And I get talked out…
Oct. 20, 2021

Wed. 10/20 – Facebook To Change Its Name?

Dropping the “the” from The Facebook isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Dropping Facebook as a name entirely. All the news from today’s Samsung event. Spotify and Shopify finally team up in the greatest crossover event of tech naming confusion. And a first look at that Comcast branded smart TV.
Oct. 19, 2021

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

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…
Oct. 18, 2021

Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event

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.
Oct. 16, 2021

(TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse?

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?
Oct. 15, 2021

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

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.
Oct. 14, 2021

Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China

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 c…
Oct. 13, 2021

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

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 tec…