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Big acquisition for GitHub... which really means: big acquisition for Microsoft as it continues to gobble up the entire developer stack. The iPhone 9 chips will not be underpowered at all. How Amazon is, in fact, trying to cope with the Corona-surge. And is this crisis the tipping point for streaming media? Sponsors: Tinycapital.com TryExpressVPN.com/ride Links: Microsoft's GitHub acquires npm to help JavaScript developers (WindowsCentral) iOS 14 code confirms Apple planning ‘iPhone 9 Plus’ with A13 as larger version of rumored entry-level model (9to5Mac) Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon’s service in this stressful time (Amazon Day One Blog) Uber, Lyft suspend pooled rides in U.S., Canada to limit spread of coronavirus (Reuters) Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? (Wired) To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data (NYTimes) With Movie Theater Shutdown, Universal Pictures to Stream New Release Films on Prime Video, iTunes, & More (The Streamable) Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good. (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple fined by France, the FCC nets a bundle at auction, new Beats earbuds, all the specs for the new Xbox Series X, and how Google got caught by surprise by President Trump’s announcement regarding Coronavirus work. Sponsors: Tinycapital.com TryExpressVPN.com/ride Links: Apple fined a record $1.2 billion by French antitrust authorities (CNBC) FCC’s largest spectrum auction nets $4.47 billion for 5G mmWave bands (VentureBeat) Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life (The Verge) Inside Xbox Series X: the full specs (Eurogamer) Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 (The Verge) Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus (NYTimes) Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects (The Verge) Silicon Valley Was First to Send Workers Home. It’s Been Messy. (WSJ) Coronavirus Impact: Netflix Shuts Down Film, TV Work in U.S. and Canada as Production Nears Standstill (The Hollywood Reporter) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has the Coronavirus proven that datacaps from ISPs are a sham? Comcast accidentally published the numbers of customers who paid them not to do that. Airbnb continues to be in trouble. Cool no-code tools from Atlassian, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency BuyRaycon.com/tech Links: Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon (Bloomberg) AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis (Vice) Comcast accidentally published 200,000 “unlisted” phone numbers (ArsTechnica) Airbnb’s Loss Nearly Doubles in Fourth Quarter, Before Virus (Bloomberg) Atlassian brings new automation tools to Jira Cloud (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind (Wired) TIM COOK’S TRICK FOR MAKING IPHONES IS NOW AT RISK FROM THE PANDEMIC (The Verge) Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding (Marker) How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts (Protocol) A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm (NYTimes) The History of the URL (Cloudflare) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the factories coming back online in China? Is G Suite quietly one of the biggest platforms out there? Why is Magic Leap “exploring options” and why does it want everyone to know that? An interesting raise. And I really didn’t mean to crash the crypto markets with my comments yesterday. Sponsors: Protect.eset.com/ride DoubleUp.agency Links: Apple Closes All 17 Stores in Italy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Bloomberg) Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19 (TechCrunch) Resumption of work at Foxconn factories in China beats expectations, says founder (Reuters) Scoop: Google's G Suite cracks 2 billion users (Axios) Kuo: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Models With Scissor Keyboards to Launch in Second Quarter (MacRumors) The next iPhone will get a ‘world facing’ 3D camera (Fast Company) Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap to Explore a Sale (Bloomberg) Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics (TechCrunch) Bitcoin Hits 10-Month Low Below $6K as Stocks Plunge in Massive Sell-Off (CoinDesk) End music: "Shoutout" by Cousin Stizz Link to the Coronavirus Daily Briefing podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E3 is cancelled. Uber might ban drivers AND riders who test positive for Coronavirus. A 2nd gen Chromecast Ultra might be coming. A Peloton-style workout app from Apple might be coming. A look at Amazon’s entry into the suddenly hot ARM-s race. And am I wrong or wasn’t crypto supposed to help during the apocalypse? Sponsors: Protect.eset.com/ride DoubleUp.agency Links: E3 2020 Canceled After ‘Overwhelming Concerns’ About Coronavirus (Variety) Uber may suspend accounts of riders, drivers who test positive for coronavirus (Reuters) Exclusive: Google plans new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV (w/ remote!) (9to5Google) Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos (MacRumors) UK presses ahead with digital tech tax in spite of pressure from Trump (CNET) Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks (ZDNet) Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute (AnAndTech) More good news: Medical equipment is still prone to hacker attacks (VentureBeat) SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 REVIEW: JUST RIGHT (The Verge) Venture funding into crypto on pace to be down 40% from Q1 2019 (TheBlockGenesis) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure, a company offering panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social-media scraping apps, Google adds quantum computing to its machine-learning open-source TensorFlow development kit, DoNotPay lets users share streaming and news logins, the latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world, and things fall apart: political strife broke the knitting community at Ravelry. Sponsors Links: iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac) Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac) Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac) Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple) Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News) Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter) Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard) Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog) Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat) DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store) Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company) How to clean your Apple products (Apple) All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC) Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet) Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN) Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News) How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another day of markets in turmoil, another Robinhood outage. Jack Dorsey lives to fight another day. Apple is repairing some iPad Airs for free, and might bring 64 MP cameras to the iPhone 12. Gaming out the reality of a ARM-based Mac. And let me hip you to “sleep streaming” on TikTok. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Links: Robinhood goes down again, causing clients to miss out on another historic trading day (CNBC) Twitter CEO Dorsey keeps his job after company strikes investment deal with Elliott Management, Silver Lake (CNBC) Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus (Reuters) Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers (Reuters) SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’ (CNBC) Apple opens repair program for 2019 iPad Air models suffering from blank screen issue (AppleInsider) iPhone 12 Pro leak reveals how Apple will beat the Samsung Galaxy S20 (Tom's Guide) New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture (AMD Responds) (Tom's Hardware) ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? (Jean-Louis Gassee) How to Make Money in Your Sleep (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’ve said before, Steven Levy is the dean of the tech writers. All the way back in 1984 his classic book Hackers defined a tech space that wasn’t even fully aware of itself yet. Steven has written book length histories and examinations of Apple and Google, and now, with his new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, he finally tells the full Facebook story for the first time. Not the movie version, but the real story of how Facebook became Facebook from the earliest days at Harvard through the rise to 2 and a half billion users. It is, as I tell him, the best tech book I’ve read in years. If you want to fully understand Facebook, or just how a modern startup works or how a modern tech behemoth functions and sees itself in the world, I cannot recommend this book more highly. Buy the book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another flaw in Intel chips, this time unfixable. Y Combinator demo day is going online only. Sonos won’t brick your old hardware anymore. Jack Dorsey probably won’t be moving to Africa anymore. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Metalab.co TheUSample.com/product Links: 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable (Ars Technica) Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps that aren’t from health organizations, app makers say (CNBC) YC W20 Online Demo Day (YCombinator) Sonos kills its device-bricking 'recycle mode' (Engadget) Quibi is giving people a 90-day free trial in hopes they’ll actually sign up (The Verge) Jack Dorsey is reconsidering Africa move amid coronavirus and activist investor threats (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: So you wanna buy a used IP address block? (Web Informant) The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible (One Zero) Sportswriting’s future may depend on the Athletic, which is either reassuring or terrifying (Washington Post) Hideo Kojima’s Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds (NYTimes Magazine) Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web? (NYTimes) This Utility Heats New York State—And Mines Its Own Bitcoin (Bloomberg) Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music (One Zero) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Cornavirus worries, Apple is allowing ads in push notifications, Google is switching to mobile first indexing, hackers can hack your car keys, Samsung’s 4k and 8k tv lineup is here, and why I’m struggling to find a reason NOT to subscribe to DoNotPay at this point. Sponsors: Metalab.co Capterra.com/ride Links: Microsoft tells Bay Area and Puget Sound employees to work from home if possible as coronavirus spreads (CNBC) Apple Warns Stores About a Shortage of Replacement iPhones (Bloomberg) Ex-Uber self-driving head declares bankruptcy after $179 million loss to Google (Reuters) Apple now lets apps send ads in push notifications (The Verge) Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services (Redmond Channel Partner) Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 (Search Engine Land) Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys (Wired) VSCO's new editing tool Montage lets you edit and layer both photos and videos (TechCrunch) Google starts rolling out 4K Stadia gaming on the web (9to5Google) Samsung launches its 2020 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs (The Verge) Exclusive: For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info (Fortune) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You already know Tweets, but let me introduce you to Fleets. Robinhood explains its outages. Google assistant can now read you webpages out loud. Netlify is an interesting raise. And why getting a big-named VC in your seed round might actually be detrimental to your startup. Sponsors: Metalab.co Kiwico.com/ride Links: Twitter Is Finally Doing Stories (Buzzfeed) Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades (TechCrunch) Robinhood offers traders $15 for going down as markets gained $1.1T (TNW) Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns (9to5Google) Amazon employee in Seattle tests positive for coronavirus (GeekWire) Tesla downgraded Model 3 chip in China thanks to coronavirus (BBC News) Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content (VentureBeat) $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100 (TechCrunch) After attracting 800K web developers, Netlify wins $53M in funding (SiliconAngle) New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch) Streamer Quibi Raises Additional Funds Ahead of Launch (WSJ) Hulu’s live TV service is now on PS4 consoles after PlayStation Vue shutdown (The Verge) Roku is in talks for original programming, following the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon (Digiday) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waymo has an interesting raise. Interesting for what it says about self-driving and about Google Moon Shots. Robinhood has the worst possible outages at the worst possible time. A new player in the quantum computing race. And sports tech offers a new way to watch… golf? Sponsors: Metalab.co Legalzoom.com Code: "ride" at checkout Links: Waymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations (VentureBeat) Robinhood Trading Site Seizes Up, Customers Miss Stock Rally (Bloomberg) Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64 (ZDNet) Ampere Altra is the first 80-core ARM-based server processor (VentureBeat) iPhone Maker Expects China Plants to Return to Normal in Coming Weeks (Bloomberg) Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. (WSJ) Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW) NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some investors want Jack out as Twitter CEO. Apple settles a class action lawsuit for half a billion dollars. If you listen regularly, I bet you can guess why some game developers don’t want to work with Stadia. Spotify wants artists to pay to promote their own songs. And AT&T TV is a new way to re-invent the cable bundle. Sponsors: Metalab.co Zapier.com/ride Links: Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over (TechCrunch) Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey (Bloomberg) Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones (Reuters) Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering, and it's due largely to too few games on its Stadia platform — here's why developers have held back (Business Insider) AT&T TV now available nationwide with Android TV set-top box — and a two-year contract (The Verge) Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (Bloomberg) The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry (NYTimes) Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus (Bloomberg) Kuo: iPhone Production Will Not Significantly Improve Until Second Quarter of 2020 (MacRumors) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are S10 sales in Korea the first indication of the Covid-19 effect? Is the FCC gonna fine the wireless carriers enough for selling location data? Is Apple going to release an iPad Pro with a trackpad? A hybrid scooter/tiny car. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters) Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald) FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters) Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information) An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld) Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac) Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC) The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian) Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review) A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol) How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired) YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator) Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What else? More Coronavirus stuff. F8 8'nt gonna happen. Roblox is the most interesting raise in a long time. DoorDash files for an IPO but don’t expect it soon. Nokia is exploring its options. Oh, and the first reviews for the Galaxy S20 Ultra suggest the cameras are having issues. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Links: Facebook cancels F8 developers conference over coronavirus (CNET) Microsoft warns it will miss guidance for segment that includes Windows because of coronavirus (CNBC) Roblox raises $150M Series G, led by Andreessen Horowitz, now valued at $4B (TechCrunch) DoorDash preps for IPO, confidentially files documents with SEC (CNBC) Nokia to Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts (Bloomberg) It took Google three years to add Firefox, Edge and Opera support to Google Earth (Ghacks.net) Timex is releasing a GPS smartwatch with 25 days of battery life (The Verge) SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA REVIEW: SHUTTER BUG (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Facebook bans ads around the Cornavirus, a deeper dive into how the Coronavirus crisis might be affecting iPhone development, Bob Iger is no longer Disney’s leader (kinda), why Waymo is hiring like crazy in hopes of a self-driving breakthrough, and if you see someone using an iPhone in a mystery movie, guess what? They’re probably not the bad guy. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com TryGrasshopper.com/ride Links: Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure the coronavirus (BusinessInsider) Coronavirus clouds Apple's timeline for new iPhones (Reuters) Disney has a new CEO, but its old CEO isn’t going away quite yet (Recode) Inside Waymo’s Hiring Binge (The Information) Plume raises $85 million to bring smarter Wi-Fi networks to more homes (VentureBeat) Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Vice) Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free (TNW) Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director (The Verge) Jif settles the great debate with a GIF peanut butter jar (CNN Business) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix launches Top 10 lists, Firefox rolls out DNS over HTTPS, Amazon Go Grocery means no cashiers or checkout lines, consolidation or super app in the Southeast Asian on demand transport space, and why this might be Signal’s moment to go mainstream. Sponsors: Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy Tinycapital.com Rhone.com/ridehome Promocode: ridehome for 20 percent off Links: New Netflix feature reveals the top 10 most popular programs on its service (TechCrunch) Netflix added a top 10 list of its most-watched content — here’s how to find it (The Next Web) Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (Ars Technica) Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock (TechCrunch) Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines (GeekWire) Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek (TechCrunch) EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (Politico.eu) SourceCode Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The phantom announcements from MWC start trickling in. Safari might be getting strict with HTTPS certificates. Apple might release an ARM-based Mac as soon as early 2021. TONS of specs revealed concerning the Xbox Series X. And Fintech continues to be on a roll. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com MintMobile.com/ride Links: Huawei unveils the Mate Xs and MatePad Pro 5G w/ no Play Store access (9to5Google) Intel debuts 5G server and base station chips, plus a PC network card (VentureBeat) Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months (The Register) Microsoft reveals more Xbox Series X specs (Polygon) Apple to release first ARM Mac without Intel processor in next 18 months, predicts Kuo (9to5Mac) Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion (WSJ) Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019 (TechCrunch) Enveil raises $10 million for enterprise-scale homomorphic encryption (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am honored to be speaking today to Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has a new book out called Discovering Precision Health, and if you are interested in health tech at all, ESPECIALLY if you are interested in trying your hand at a health tech startup? This is required reading. And for the rest of us, it’s also a great primer on how tech is about to transform health, and what we can (hopefully) look forward to as tech finally (again, hopefully) disrupts the health care space… in a positive sense! Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, we mentioned it a couple weeks ago, but Tesla has had quite the month. Maybe one of the banner months of its entire life as a company. No better time to check in on the world of Elon Musk with Rob Mauer of the always excellent Tesla Daily podcast. Why did Tesla’s stock shoot to the moon, come back down a bit, and then inch back up toward the moon this month? What are the fundamentals behind that excellent earnings report? Is this it? Have the Tesla bulls won? Such a fascinating company… Sponsors: Tinycapital.com Podcorn.com (promocode "ride" at checkout) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shopify joins the Libra Association, Facebook will pay you for your data in one specific instance, Google is cutting down on apps using background location, more Coronavirus cancellations and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co Podcorn.com (promocode: "ride" at checkout) Links: Shopify joins Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra Association (TechCrunch) Google Resists Demands From States in Digital-Ad Probe (WSJ) Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings (The Verge) Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background (The Verge) PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns (GamesIndustry.biz) Weekend Longreads: Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? (Slate) Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet (Wired) How the BBC’s Netflix-killing plan was snuffed by myopic regulation (WiredUK) Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC) Debt is Coming (AlexDanco.com) The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software) (A16Z) Aircraft, Big and Small, Are Changing Our Relationship With Flight (NYTimes) Classified Ad info: Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple might let users choose third-party default apps, Twitter further embraces tweet storms, Morgan Stanley buys E*Trade, a rundown of all the stuff in the new Android developer preview, and if anything, it looks like cord cutting is just accelerating. Sponsors: Metalab.co Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (Bloomberg) Microsoft plans antivirus software for Android and iOS devices (CNBC) Twitter rolling out new ‘Continue thread’ option for connecting multiple tweets together (9to5Mac) Blue Chip Morgan Stanley to Buy Discount Broker E-Trade (NYTimes) Google launches Android 11 Developer Preview ahead of schedule for Pixel phones (9to5Google) Cord-Cutting Accelerated in 2019, Raising Pressure on Cable Providers (WSJ) Classified Ad info: Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ways in which Twitter might be taking a page out of Facebook’s book, and Facebook might be trying some Twitter-like feed experiments. Spotify finally starts showing lyrics. Ring finally requires two factor authentication. And be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to hear about our new Gaming Ride Home podcast. Sponsors: Radar.io Metalab.co Links: Twitter acquires Stories template maker Chroma Labs (TechCrunch) Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen (TechCrunch) Firefox releases Android app for its VPN service (Android Police) Spotify finally starts showing proper, complete song lyrics synced with music (Android Police) Google Docs autocorrect widely rolling out as Smart Compose exits G Suite beta (9to5Google) Adobe brings more desktop-quality Photoshop tools to the iPad (Engadget) Microsoft’s new Office app arrives on iOS and Android with mobile-friendly features (The Verge) Ring now requires two-factor sign-ins for its home security devices (Engadget) Record labels rush to IPO amid music streaming boom (Axios) Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy and paste, dies at 74 (Cult of Mac) Classified Ad info: Email: [email protected] And check out the job description here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Coronavirus crisis forces Apple to miss their already cautious revenue guidance. Wait. Is the Galaxy Z Flip using real glass or not? Qualcomm claps back at Apple with its next gen 5G modem. And Jeff Bezos plans to donate $10 billion dollars to combat climate change. Sponsors: Metalab.co Capterra.com/ride Links: Investor update on quarterly guidance (Apple Newsroom) APPLE WARNS THAT CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN CHINA WILL AFFECT REVENUE THIS QUARTER (Daring Fireball) Forget foldable: These leaked images show a phone concept with a slide-out screen (CNET) Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question (The Verge) Qualcomm's New 3rd Generation 5G Modem (AnAndTech) Microsoft's new all-in-one Office app is now available for all, but tablets aren't supported (Android Police) Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads (Krebs on Security) Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world’s most powerful climate supercomputer, HQ Trivia joins the Deadpool, Apple isn’t happy with Qualcomm’s chips again, foldable phones are having crease issues again, and a bit of an explainer about the Indian e-commerce gold rush. Sponsors: Metalab.co Wealthfront.com/techmeme Links: UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world's fastest weather supercomputer (Engadget) Game over for HQ Trivia (CNN Business) Exclusive: Apple is designing its own antenna for this year’s 5G iPhone (Fast Company) Our Motorola Razr's display is already breaking and peeling at the fold (Input) US Army testing all terrain electric scooter for tactical use (Electrek) In India, mom-and-pop stores are proving to be the holy grail for tech startups (KrASIA) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a company does one of their big product events late in the day, it’s always a mad rush for me to get it out. Apple events are hard, but at least they start a bit earlier. The Samsung event this week just felt like me making a mad list of everything announced and hoping I wasn’t missing anything. So I really felt it was worth sitting back, taking a breath, and looking at everything that was announced in depth. We’re speaking to Gizmodo’s Sam Rutherford today who has actually be hands on with the S20s, so we’ll lay out in a more granular way, the differences between them all, and also, speculate on whether or not the Z Flip is actually the foldable phone we’ve all been waiting for. A foldable phone that might not suck. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency The Special BookNotes Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The DOJ charges a bitcoin mixing service. A judge has blocked Microsoft’s JEDI contract. What happens if the PlayStation 5 is $500? Google takes down some malicious browser extensions. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet) Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (CNBC) Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts (Bloomberg) Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store (ZDNet) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook (Wired) THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge) Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell (Vice) Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity? (EdSurge) SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US charges Huawei with racketeering. Could the future of the Apple Watch be modular? Uber trials ordering an Uber via 800 number. Interesting raises in robotics and in space. And why quantum entanglement could lead to a truly secure internet. Sponsors: Doubleup.agency BuyRaycon.com/tech Links: The US is charging Huawei with racketeering (TechCrunch) Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down (NYTimes) Apple Watch of the future could have a modular back for upgrades & new sensors (Apple Insider) Broadcom launches Wi-Fi 6 extended combo processor, aims to hit 2 Gbps speeds (ZDNet) Uber's latest test books rides with a phone call, not the app (Engadget) Intuition Robotics raises $36 million to bring AI companions to everyone (VentureBeat) Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service (TechCrunch) Dieter Bohn's Processor newsletter (The Verge) Quantum entanglement over 30 miles of fiber has brought super secure internet closer (MIT Technology Review) Click here to give the Ad-Free Feed a Try Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does Uncle Sam have a smoking gun when it comes to Huawei? Could Airbnb’s recent financials imperil its IPO plans? Is Apple Pay eating the payments market? Is the CISO job actually a miserable one? And might the Z Flip actually be the first good foldable phone? Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Zapier.com/ride Links: U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks (WSJ) Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics (Financial Times) FTC Expands Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech (WSJ) Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO (WSJ) Apple Pay is on pace to account for 10% of all global card transactions (QZ) State of Software Engineers (Hired.com) Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout (ZDNet) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: This is more like it (TechCrunch) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: Razr who? (Engadget) Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip beats the Motorola Razr in nearly every way (The Verge) The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All of the headlines from the big Samsung Unpacked event, the T-Mobile-Sprint merger is officially a go… mostly, Brandless is the first Softbank company to shut down entirely, a Sirius lifeline for Soundcloud, and has the CIA quietly been the real owner of the leading encryption company for decades now? Sponsors: DoubleUP.agency LinkedIN.com/ride Links: SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S20, PLUS, AND ULTRA FIRST LOOK: CAMERAS, 5G, AND 120HZ SCREENS (The Verge) Samsung’s new foldable Galaxy Z Flip will arrive on February 14th for $1,380 (The Verge) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip debuts w/ less expensive ‘flip phone’ design (9to5Google) Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint (CNBC) Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund's first failure (Protocol) SiriusXM Acquires Minority Stake in SoundCloud for $75 Million (The Hollywood Reporter) Netflix dominates viewing on TVs over all other streaming services (CNET) ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ (Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The DOJ says the Chinese were behind the Equifax hack, MWC is becoming a ghost conference, the Razr reviews are in, the Corp.com domain name is a weird story, and why ARM’s new edge chips could revolutionize the Internet of Things. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi Ashford.edu/ride Links: U.S. charges Chinese military hackers with massive Equifax breach (Politico) As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards (TechCrunch) Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show (BBC News) Motorola Razr review: It's the most personal phone I've used, but I have concerns (CNET) Motorola Razr review: A tragedy unfolds (Input Magazine) Netflix Spends Big for Oscars—Will Hollywood Give In? (WSJ) Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale (KrebsonSecurity) ARM’s new edge AI chips promise IoT devices that won’t need the cloud (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uber says it will be profitable quicker than it had expected to, yet another entrant into the lists at the Streaming Wars, what’s it like to use a 64-core processor, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Podcorn.com Links: Uber stock is on pace for its best day ever (CNBC) ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels (CNBC) NYSE Owner Abandons Potential eBay Deal (WSJ) The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review (AnandTech) Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else (Recode) Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature (The Verge) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS FUTURE IS NOW TIED TO HARDWARE (The Verge) Steven Levy's Plaintext An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away (NYTimes) ‘ClassPass Is Squeezing Studios to the Point of Death’ (Vice) Elon Musk Can’t Lose (BuzzFeed News) A SMALL ROCKET MAKER IS RUNNING A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACE RACE (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Podcorn.com Links: Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge) New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac) Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge) Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge) Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch) Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC) The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet) Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC) U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spotify officially buys The Ringer, we have the official Disney+ subscriber numbers, Jeff Weiner is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO, a Rockstar Games co-founder is apparently leaving the company, and what languages do most developers say they want to learn next? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com NetGear.com/bestwifi Links: Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode) Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance) LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge) NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ) Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg) Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired) Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge) Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet) Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes) Steve Jobs' personality changed after Apple's success, Wozniak says (CNET) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finally know how big a business YouTube is, the tech angle on that Iowa Caucuses mess IS the only angle, Mastercard explains why it pulled out of Libra, and why has the US Government decided to break up Big Razor, before it gets around to Big Tech. Sponsors: Capterra.com/ride WarbyParker.com/tech Links: YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time (The Verge) This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses (HuffPost) Some Google Photos videos in ‘Takeout’ backups were sent to strangers last November (9to5Google) Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook (Financial Times) Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg) Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst (Bloomberg) Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry (NYTimes) The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The end might truly be nigh for Blackberry this time. Will the Corona Virus mean we won’t have an Apple event next month after all? Leaked video of the Galaxy Z Flip. Did Jeff Bezos succumb to Elon Musk envy? And why one of the most popular music streaming services in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com LegalZoom.com (code: ride at checkout) Links: BlackBerry’s Android smartphones will stop being sold in August 2020 (9to5Google) Ming-Chi Kuo Says Coronavirus Outbreak Impacting iPhone Supply, Lowers Shipment Forecast (MacRumors) Uber Suspends 240 Mexican Accounts to Prevent Coronavirus Spread (Bloomberg) Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (The Verge) Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung’s folding Galaxy Z Flip (The Verge) Disney Takes Tighter Control of Hulu After Disney+ Bundle Revs Up Growth (Bloomberg) Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg) Spotify, Apple Music Trail Little-Known Rival in Music-Obsessed India (WSJ) A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated) (Android Authority) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the promised interview with Angela Strange from Andreessen Horowitz. I told you about it on the weekend longreads segment yesterday, so no more need to explain it: let’s talk about why soon, every company could be a Fintech company. Sponsor: Tinycapital.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amazon earnings, the new Apple Maps is rolling out in the US, Uber and DoorDash held merger talks at Softbank’s behest, who’s number two to TikTok in short form videos, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsor: Metalab.co Links: Amazon Revenue Jumps on Holiday Sales as Profit Rises (WSJ) Apple's redesigned Maps app is available across the US (TechCrunch) Uber and DoorDash held merger talks after SoftBank push (Financial Times) SoftBank Is Funding Every Side of a Bruising Startup Battle (WSJ) EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard (Apple Insider) How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company (Angela Strange/A16Z) Don't Brush Off Mouth Tech As a Passing Fad (Wired) The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years (InPut) Super Bowl 2020: The madness and magic behind the game’s first 4K HDR broadcast (Digital Trends) Researchers Are Racing to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine. Will It Help? (NYTimes) How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses? (NYTimes) Facial Recognition- The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint (California Sunday Magazine) CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong? (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its Earnings Bonanza Day! Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung… Facebook pays a record fine to Illinois, the Switch has outsold the SNES, three interesting Apple stories, Avast changes its business model and the new Fantastical app. Sponsors: Metalab.co BelovedRobot.com/nolowcode Links: Tesla’s record 2019 has bought it some breathing room (The Verge) We’re about to enter a world where Tesla is the cheaper electric car (Quartz) Facebook plunges, wiping out more than $50 billion in market value (CNBC) Xbox revenue falls 21% as Microsoft gears up for Xbox Series X debut (GeekWire) Samsung Posts Lower Profit, Anticipates End of Chip Slump (WSJ) Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit (NYTimes) Avast winds down Jumpshot, cites user data sale privacy concerns (ZDNet) Nintendo upgrades fiscal-year forecast as Switch hits 52.5 million consoles sold (VentureBeat) Apple Hires Key Netflix Engineer in Bid to Boost Subscription Services (WSJ) Apple Ends AI Startup’s Work on ‘Project Maven’ After Acquisition (The Information) Kuo: Apple to Launch AirTags, Small Charging Mat, New iPads and Macs, High-End Headphones, and More in First Half of 2020 (MacRumors) Say hello to the new Fantastical: one robust calendar for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (9to5Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple earnings, Google is testing another chat app, we know Uncle Sam is wary of Huawei but did you know he doesn’t trust DJI either, Lime is testing AI scooters and the new app that will let you skip the ads without screwing over publishers. Sponsors: Metalab.co Links: Apple shares rise after company reports better-than-expected revenue of $91.8B (TechCrunch) Apple could see some impact from coronavirus in China, Cook says (CNET) Google Developing New ‘Unified’ Communications App for Businesses (The Information) Interior Department Adopts Restrictions Aimed at Chinese Drones (WSJ) Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (Gizmodo) Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers (EFF) Lime knows when you're riding on a sidewalk, and will warn you if you do (CNET) Here’s how to stop seeing ads on the internet without screwing over publishers (recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK government will allow Huawei to build SOME 5G components, the coronavirus is testing the Great Firewall of China, Product Hunt has a social network, Gruber is critical of the iPad at 10, and would you stay at an Atari Hotel? Sponsors: Metalab.co Wealthfront.com/techmeme Links: UK Huawei decision appears to avert row with US (The Guardian) As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media (NYTimes) iPhone 11's new multicam app lets you shoot video with two cameras at once (CNET) Product Hunt Has Released YourStack, A Social Network Where People Talk About Products (BuzzFeed News) The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (Daring Fireball) Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook (The Washington Post) Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (Venture Beat) Atari is opening eight video game hotels across the U.S. (Input Magazine) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vine has a spiritual successor in Byte, the new razr might have “bumps and lumps,” your anti-virus program might be selling all your clicks, Seamless might be inventing restaurants from whole cloth, and the AI algorithm that spotted the Wuhan virus early. Sponsors: Metalab.co MintMobile.com/ride Links: Vine reboot Byte officially launches (TechCrunch) Motorola on the Razr’s folding screen: ‘bumps and lumps are normal’ (The Verge) An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus (Wired) YouTube signs exclusive streaming deal for Activision e-sports like Call of Duty and Overwatch (The Verge) Online mattress retailer Casper IPO to raise $182.4 million (CNBC) Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data (Motherboard) Seamless, Grubhub deliver confusion with mistaken restaurant listings (The San Francisco Chronicle) Alex Danco Tweet Thread Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of my favorite newsletters—I’ve really gotta give you all a list of all the newsletters I subscribe to if you’re interested at some point—one of my favorite newsletters is The New Consumer (subscribe here) by Dan Frommer. Dan published his own analysis of the Casper IPO, and I couldn’t help myself. I needed to delve into the Casper financials in greater detail. But also: scandal marketing! Can brands be “cancelled”? And analysis of this week’s Netflix earnings. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Share is coming to challenge AirDrop, how iOS 13 has blown up location marketing, Google takes the wrapping of Dataset Search, an interesting eSports raise and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency BelovedRobot.com/nolowcode Links: Clayton Christensen, guru of disruptive innovation and Latter-day Saint leader, dies at 67 (DesertNews) Exclusive: Quick Share is Samsung’s alternative to AirDrop for Galaxy phones (XDADevelopers) Apple, Broadcom Strike $15 Billion Worth of Chip-Supply Deals (Bloomberg) Apple and Google’s tough new location privacy controls are working (Fast Company) Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia (ThreatPost) Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring (The Verge) Esports Training Site ProGuides Raises $5 Million In Seed Funding (Forbes) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Inside the World's Highest-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest (Wired) We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (NYTimes) The Secret History of Facial Recognition (Wired) Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes (Wired) Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (WSJ) The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk (Bloomberg Businessweek) The Internet of Beefs (Ribbonfarm.com) The Hacker News Thread on The Internet of Beefs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Samsung phone rumors, Match Group invests in safety features as a feature, the Bezos phone hack story gets a lot murkier, and everyone seems to have noticed that Google search has gotten crufty. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency ClearMe.com/techmeme Code: Techmeme Links: Samsung's new foldable phone already sounds way better than the Galaxy Fold (Mashable) New leak says the Galaxy S20's display will run at 60Hz by default (Android Central) Microsoft starts rolling out developer tools for its dual-screen Surface Duo Android phone (ZDNet) Match Group invests in Noonlight to power new safety features in Tinder and other dating apps (TechCrunch) Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone (Motherboard) Alex Stamos Tweet Storm Google’s ads just look like search results now (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The whole Jeff Bezos phone-got-hacked thing blows up into something crazy. That rumored “cheap” iPhone might be mere weeks away. Is Amazon Music almost as big as Apple Music? Cruise unveils the Origin self-driving car. And the first test of voting via smartphone in the US. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Capterra.com/ride Links: Jeff Bezos hack: Amazon boss's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' (The Guardian) Saudi’s MBS implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone (Financial Times) UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi crown prince involvement in Bezos phone hack (CNBC) New Low-Cost iPhone to Enter Mass Production in February (Bloomberg) Amazon Music subscriber numbers close in on Apple (Financial Times) Exclusive: Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections (NPR) EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT CRUISE’S FIRST DRIVERLESS CAR WITHOUT A STEERING WHEEL OR PEDALS (The Verge) Netflix says Disney and Baby Yoda may have cut into the streaming service’s growth (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple could have encrypted iCloud backups… but didn’t… ostensibly to play nice with the government? Getting an Uber from the airport is about to get more expensive. Digital media is actually making money??!! Is IGTV on the way out? Some interesting raises and (potentially) the most consequential lawsuit in Silicon Valley history. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Zapier.com/ride Links: Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources (Reuters) Uber Tests Feature Allowing Some California Drivers to Set Fares (WSJ) A true digital media publishing breakthrough (Axios) Spotify in Early Talks to Buy Sports and Pop-Culture Outlet the Ringer (WSJ) Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app (TechCrunch) DARPA-backed Soft Robotics raises $23 million for autonomous grippers and sorters (VentureBeat) Berlin proptech Home raises €11 million to be tech-enabled middleman between owners and tenants (Tech.eu) Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code (VentureBeat) Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As I said on Friday, we’re going to delve into Sports Tech in a meaningful way for the first time. This will cover the streaming wars from a new angle because, where is sports in all that? This will be esports, the streaming wars surrounding game streaming, the new betting economy, this will be wearables and actual sports tech products. My guest is Will Martin, who’s Sports Tech Newsletter is something you should subscribe to immediately if you like this space. Subscribe to the Sports Tech Live newsletter Sponsor: Tiny Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No ads in WhatsApp… for now. We have all the details on the Peacock streaming service. The other streaming wars are taking their toll on Twitch. Jack Dorsey asked Elon Musk how to fix Twitter. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co Links: Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (WSJ) NBC’s Peacock streaming service will launch on July 15th with three different price tiers (The Verge) Twitch's loss of top streamers impacts hours watched and streamed in Q4 2019, report says (TechCrunch) Huawei P40 Pro leak shows off five-camera bump and ceramic body (The Verge) Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk How to Fix Twitter (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking (Marker) All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen (Polygon) The Promise of Cloud-Native Games (A16Z/Jonathan Lai) The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite (MatthewBall.vc) Islamic fintechs are on the rise — but how viable is this tailored offering? (Sifted) The Big Question Now Facing Apple (Above Avalon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple has acquired a pretty interesting AI startup, the Chromium-based Edge browser is here, but there is trouble in Mozilla land, Fitbit is first to market with blood oxygen monitoring, the state of the app economy and ‘instant’ weather forecasts from Google. Sponsor: Metalab.co Links: Exclusive: Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range (GeekWire) XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer (TechCrunch) Microsoft launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (VentureBeat) Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (TechCrunch) Fitbit quietly enables blood oxygen tracking on its wearables (Engadget) Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley (Axios) App stores saw record 204 billion app downloads in 2013, consumer spend of $120 billion (TechCrunch) Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts (The Verge) Subscribe to the ad-free feed here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices