On this week’s show, JD takes a short break from watching the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 to round up some news with El Kaiser — including the annual Mary Meeker Internet Trends presentation, legal looks at Big Tech and game-world announcements. El Kaiser, ever on the hunt for good-sounding audio gear at reasonable prices, offers his review of the Mixcder E9 wireless headphones. Have a listen to PTJ 311!
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show
- Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (Vox)
- US regulator acts over plague of nuisance phone calls (BBC News)
- Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Faces New Hurdle With Lawsuit by States (The New York Times)
- House Opens Tech Antitrust Inquiry With Look at Threat to News Media (The New York Times)
- Amazon is creating detailed 3D models of suburbia to train its new delivery robots (The Verge)
- Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent (Bloomberg)
- What Does Apple Know About You? (Axios)
- NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13 (TechCrunch)
- Apple Accidentally Leaks Radical iPhone Upgrade (Forbes)
- Telegram faces DDoS attack in China… again (TechCrunch)
- Huawei Is Said to Demand Patent Fees From Verizon (The New York Times)
- Microsoft deletes massive face recognition database (BBC News)
- Why airport facial recognition raises privacy concerns (The Washington Post)
- Google Fails to Have Lawsuit Originally Brought by James Damore Thrown Out (Gizmodo)
- Exclusive interview: Google CEO defends YouTube practices (Axios)
- YouTube CEO apologizes to LGBTQ community after outcry (The Verge)
- Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S. (GeekWire)
- This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace (Ars Technica)
- Stadia: everything you need to know about Google’s game-streaming service (TechRadar)
- Microsoft Project Scarlett Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD, and ray-tracing in 2020 (The Verge)
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