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Nov. 7, 2024
Thu. 11/07 – More Election Stuff
More in depth analysis of what the Trump victory might mean for Silicon Valley, and Elon Musk’s companies in particular. Canadian regulators going after TikTok. Australia wants to make sure no one uses social media until the…
Nov. 6, 2024
Wed. 11/06 – The Tech Angle To Election Day
The tech angle to the election news yesterday, and interestingly a lot of it is crypto related. The EU Commission looks like it will fine Apple and has opened a case against Corning? Perplexity is raising another massive new…
Nov. 5, 2024
Tue 11/05 – Apple: Maybe Smartglasses Are The Way To Go
Big hacking arrest in Canada. More evidence Apple is thinking: “You know, maybe smartglasses are the way to go…” More signs OpenAI is focusing on hardware. More signs they’re about to go for-profit. And what it’s actually li…
Nov. 4, 2024
Mon. 11/04 – Apple Buying And Investing In Things
Apple is investing more in Satellite technology, and also acquires Pixelmator. What does this all mean for them? Is the high end Vision Pro getting abandoned? What does it mean that Google Cloud is now growing faster than AW…
Nov. 1, 2024
Fri. 11/01 – ChatGPT Search
OpenAI officially gets into the search game. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. Why Google is switching up how it does Android. And in the longreads, Meta to win AI even if doesn’t produce AGI, and how downsizing is helping gam…
Oct. 31, 2024
Thu. 10/31 – Spooky… I Mean, Earnings Season
We’ve got that day where all the tech earnings have come at once, but this time I’m gonna mention Uber too cause did you know they’re making bank these days? China says that two can play the sanctioning technology game. A ni…
Oct. 30, 2024
Wed. 10/30 – M4 MacBook Pros
The Apple release week continues with new MacBook pros. GitHub goes multi-model. Alphabet earnings were good, but Reddit earnings were massive. Why Samsung is having such a hard time since the summer. And a summary of the co…
Oct. 29, 2024
Tue. 10/29 – A Whole Bunch Of New Macs
A whole bunch of new Macs plus the first dribbles of Apple Intelligence. Apple is taking a big step in weening itself off of China reliance for manufacturing. Microsoft accuses Google of astroturfing. And potentially the ret…
Oct. 28, 2024
Mon. 10/28 – Betting On The Election
As Robinhood rolls out smart contract derivatives around the election, a look at how smart markets have seemed to have their mainstream breakthrough this year. TikTok now has a Fediverse, open-source competitor. AI now has a…
Oct. 25, 2024
Fri. 10/25 – GPT-5 Coming By December?
The Verge says we could get GPT-5 by December, but it might be called Orion. The biggest health care data breach in US history. Turns out Americans can actually produce high yield, quality silicon. Or, at least, Arizonans ca…
Oct. 24, 2024
Thu. 10/24 – Surge Pricing In The Grocery Store?
Raspberry PI does AI now too. Apple is cutting iPhone production orders. Microsoft says China, Russia and Iran are still doing the dirt as the election nears. What if Foxconn got into the business of manufacturing cars? And …
Oct. 23, 2024
Wed. 10/23 – Strong ARM Tactics
A huge dispute in the semiconductor space has gone nuclear with implications that are crazy. Anthropic’s new AI app can control your computer for you. Runway’s new model lets you do your own motion capture. And farewell to F…
Oct. 22, 2024
Tue. 10/22 – The Next Gen Snapdragon
Qualcomm has unveiled its big, next gen Snapdragon SoC which will someday be in all the phones. Except iPhones, of course. Is Netflix pulling back on its gaming strategy? Why a new marketplace from Epic might actually point …
Oct. 21, 2024
Mon. 10/21 – Google Get’s A Stay
Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is looking to raise again. How far behind Apple thinks it is in AI. And what i…
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Brian McCullough
Host, Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough is the co-founder of Ride Home Media and host of The Techmeme Ride Home. He founded ResumeWriters.com and is the author of How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone.
