Function's Anil Dash joins Matt to discuss how Big Tech broke the web and how we can get it back.
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Anil Dash (@anildash), CEO of Glitch and host of Function with Anil Dash
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Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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David Brear and Sarah Kocianski are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including: Open Banking passes a million customers on its second anniversary, shakeups at RBS as Bo exec to step down, and BlackRock to shift away from fossil fuel…
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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up Facebook, more developer details from I/O, Uber has an arbitration problem, shoe tech is real, and get ready for 64 megapixel smartphone cameras.
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It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (Chris Hughes/NYTimes)
Google is testing Mini-apps in Search and Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
Google to allow users to pay for Android apps using cash (TechCrunch)
Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60,000 Cuts (Bloomberg)
Sick of Getting Returned Sneakers, Nike Tries a New Sizing App (Bloomberg)
The story of the Brannock Device
World’s fastest supercomputer will be built by AMD and Cray for US government (The Verge)
64-megapixel phone cameras are coming (The Verge)
Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spending money (Polygon)
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Google is talking big on privacy, but going after cookies helps their bottom line as well, why the Pixel 3a might usher in a new era of flagship “lite” phones, the huge Binance bitcoin hack and why does Bird want to sell you a scooter, not just rent you one?
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Google strengthens Chrome's privacy controls (TechCrunch)
Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it (TechCrunch)
US digital advertising exceeded $100 billion in 2019 (TechCrunch)
Google shows Apple and Samsung how ‘lite’ flagships are done (Engadget)
Apple should bring back the iPhone SE and model it after Google’s Pixel 3a (MacWorld)
Bird has a new electric scooter: it’s durable, comes in three different colors, and you can buy it (The Verge)
DIY Artists Will Earn More than $1 Billion This Year. No Wonder the Major Labels Want Their Business (Rolling Stone)
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All the news that I could possibly grab from Google’s I/O keynote, again, Alexa IS spying on you, Cruise Automation raises a big round... and will we ever actually see the Galaxy Fold?
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THE PIXEL 3A PUTS GOOGLE’S PHENOMENAL CAMERA IN A $400 PHONE (The Verge)
Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time (The Washington Post)
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Study: Voice Assistants Far From Hot Marketplace For Buying (MediaPost)
GM’s self-driving division Cruise raises another $1.15 billion (The Verge)
How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks (NYTimes)
Samsung Electronics says no anticipated shipping date yet for Galaxy Fold (Reuters)
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