Episodes

Aug. 10, 2023

Thu. 08/10 – Streaming $$$+

Oh why not? Disney+ is raising prices too. A new executive order targeting Chinese tech. New features in Threads, but not the ones they need. Are the robot card shufflers in Vegas easily hackable? And we did the Flip. Now th…
Aug. 9, 2023

Wed. 08/09 – CAPTCHA Supremacy

Slack announces its biggest ever redesign. Sony signals that the smartphone recession is real and is not getting better anytime soon. Is WeWork circling the drain? Why a Gizmodo editor is suing Apple over Tetris. And guess w…
Aug. 8, 2023

Tue. 08/08 – UK Election Hack?

Hackers accessed the UK Electoral Commission, so how worried should we be? Apple, Samsung and others can’t wait to buy Arm stock. OpenAI explains how its bot is crawling the web. More details on the new M3 chips Apple is tes…
Aug. 7, 2023

Mon. 08/07 – Is Apple Facing An iPhone Recession?

In earnings last week, Apple was forced to admit softness in iPhone sales. But the big question is, will the iPhone 15 be enough to turn things around? A stablecoin from PayPal. What the world being flooded with cheap AI-pro…
Aug. 5, 2023

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Aug. 4, 2023

Fri. 08/04 – HUGE Show News

Apple and Amazon earnings make me wonder if the law of large numbers is dead. Coinbase is willing to argue over what the definition of is is. Threads continues its precipitous decline. The weekend longreads suggestions. And …
Aug. 3, 2023

Thu. 08/03 – Pandemic High Fliers Crash To Earth

Two stories today of startups who flew high during the pandemic, but have crashed down to earth in meaningful ways. NFT trading volumes might be sinking, but developers continue to flood into the space. And does Goldman Sach…
Aug. 2, 2023

Wed. 08/02 – Elon’s Gonna Get Me To Pay For Blue

Seems like I’ll have to be paying up for an X Blue subscription any day now. Meta releases a new AI music generator. We might actually be getting a big tech IPO in a matter of weeks. Amazon is readying an aggressive new push…
Aug. 1, 2023

Tue. 10/01 – Uber Profitable

Uber reports meaningful, not gimmicky profitability for the first time ever. Meta’s gonna give you AI chatbots with personality. Google is overhauling Assistant with AI stuff. Even Pierson is getting ahead of the whole, let …
July 31, 2023

Mon. 07/31 – Will Only Bitcoin Survive?

Brian Armstrong strongly hints that US regulators believe only Bitcoin is legal. A deep dive into what we can expect from this year’s iPhones. Is the US crackdown on tech to China having a real impact? And the artist that tr…
July 28, 2023

Fri. 07/28 – Is The Clock Ticking For Threads?

The whole Threads saga has been a whirlwind. At the beginning of the month I asked if Threads had already won. At the end of the month, I’m wondering if the clock is ticking in terms of their chances of survival. Generative …
July 27, 2023

Thu. 07/27 – Meta Back To Par

Meta’s earnings say, hey, let’s just forget the last two years even happened. Is the next iPhone about to get an “action” button? What does it mean if Waymo is basically hitting pause on self driving trucks? Checking in on S…
July 26, 2023

Wed. 07/26 – Samsung Unpacked Event

All the headlines from the big Galaxy Unpacked event today. This was the foldable event, but there were interesting watch announces too. Quick earnings roundup. Threads gets a follower tab. And the group that wants to battle…
July 25, 2023

Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here)

Twitter. The Arc Browser is now available for anyone to try out. And if you think Elon likes to have his hand in a lot of pies, a look at the increasing, and increasingly ambitious portfolio of Sam Altman-related companies.
July 24, 2023

Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home

Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as… X. Moar price hikes in streaming! Worldcoin has officially rolled out its token, so long as you’ve scanned your eyeball. Let me introduce you to the Flipper Zero. And sho…
July 21, 2023

Fri. 07/21 – Reddit Doesn’t Blink

Reddit is choosing violence with their biggest holdouts. More data on the ebbing of Threads usage. AI seems to be bringing Sergey Brin back into the office. Why you should be getting your paycheck quicker. And an Oppenheimer…
July 20, 2023

Thu. 07/20 – An Apple GPT

Rumors that Apple already has an LLM framework and their own generative chatbot. Google is shopping an AI bot that can write news stories to various journalism outlets. Has GPT-4 actually gotten dumber of late? More streamin…
July 19, 2023

Wed. 07/19 – More Proof The Big Folks Are Winning AI (For Now)

Microsoft announced aggressive pricing for their AI products and got rewarded with an all-time high stock market valuation. More price aggression in the streaming wars. Meta released Llama 2. Google is asking for employees t…
July 18, 2023

Tue. 07/18 – Checking In With Threads

It’s been… two weeks. Let’s check in on how Threads is doing. Streaming players continue to raise prices. Microsoft still plans on fighting for its prize. Are the incumbents winning the AI race? And the interesting startup t…
July 17, 2023

Mon. 07/17 – Sony And Microsoft Stop Fragging Each Other Over Call Of Duty

Sony and Microsoft have made nice. Bitcoin ETFs continue to look like a possibility. How the Vision Pro is shaking up Apple’s org structure in a meaningful way for the first time since the Steve Jobs Era. And why Netflix’s r…
July 14, 2023

Fri. 07/14 – Twitter Starts Showing People The Money

Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta unveils a new AI image generator that they say is significantly smaller …
July 13, 2023

Thu. 07/13 – Elon Launches An AI Company

Elon has launched his own AI company with some pretty big names involved. The FTC will appeal! Roblox is coming to Zuckerberg’s metaverse. Meta does plan to commercialize LLaMA. And a cool new “do a napkin sketch and have AI…
July 12, 2023

Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case

A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might ha…
July 11, 2023

Tue. 07/11 – A Meaningful Anti-Tracking Law

Could Massachusetts pass the first meaningful anti-tracking law in the country? With social media in transition, what’s the lane for someone like Tumblr? Instagram is going after Twitter, but is someone coming for Instagram …