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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network. Major legal setback for Uber and Lyft in California. Businesses using Bitcoin as their capital reserve. Parallels Desktop supports Big Sur. Nreal still believes in consumer AR glasses. And we try my deepfake audio experiment. Sponsors: LiftOff.to LinkedIn.com/ride Links: ANDROID IS BECOMING A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE DETECTION NETWORK (The Verge) California Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Uber, Lyft (Bloomberg) MicroStrategy becomes first listed company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy (The Block) Parallels Desktop 16 adds Big Sur support, 3D Metal support, and more (Ars Technica) Nreal’s augmented reality glasses are shipping this month in Korea (The Verge) Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August (WSJ) SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month (CNBC) Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? (Electrek) Onyx Launches a 6-Inch Color E-Re

Amazon wants to literally take over Malls. How exposed to China is Apple at the moment? Apple is literally doing legal battle with a pear. An app to help guide you on your psychedelic trips. And why I would personally be in the market for a foldable e-ink notebook. Sponsors: MintMobile.com/ride Wipers123.com promocode: ride Links: Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers (WSJ) TikTok To Sue Trump Administration Over Ban, As Soon As Tuesday (NPR) Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination (WSJ) Google gives Android TV developers instant apps, speech-to-text, and predictive typing (VentureBeat) Apple Takes Legal Action Against This Small Company’s Pear Logo [Update] (iPhone In Canada) On Your Next Psychedelic Journey, Let an App Be Your Guide (Wired) E Ink demos a folding e-reader that can also take notes (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The President officially signs an order to block ByteDance AND Tencent. Apple confirms the reasons why xCloud and Stadia aren’t coming to iOS any time soon. Uber is now, officially, more burrito delivery company than taxi company. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing Podcast DoubleUp.Agency Links: Trump will prohibit transactions with ByteDance beginning September 20th in apparent TikTok ban (The Verge) Mark Zuckerberg Says A Ban On TikTok Would Set “A Really Bad Long-Term Precedent” (BuzzFeed.news) Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines (The Verge) I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (TroyHunt.com) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Pinduoduo: Vertically Integrated Social Commerce (Turner Novak's Substack) The New Network (The Bulwark) The Vigilante Hunting Down Cheaters in Video Games (Motherboard) The Next 'Mafia'? Mapping The Alumni Of Square (Protocol) Dan Rose Kind

Will the US Government’s “Clean Network” plan lead to the definitive fracturing of the Internet we’ve all feared? Nintendo is killing it thanks to Covid and Animal Crossing. Are Samsung’s new earbuds actually Cool Beans? You no longer have to pay Apple $700 to put wheels on your Mac Pro. And why wireless charging could be a global environmental disaster waiting to happen. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency BlueNile.com code: RIDE Links: Trump administration wants to see ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat removed from U.S. app stores, Pompeo says (CNBC) The US is building a new Great Firewall (Quartz) TikTok to Spend $500 Million on First EU Data Center in Ireland (Bloomberg) TikTok announces first data center in Europe (TechCrunch) Animal Crossing outsells Breath of the Wild in mere months (Polygon) SAMSUNG GALAXY BUDS LIVE REVIEW: COOL BEANS (The Verge) OWC undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with $199 conversion kit (Apple Insider) Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happ

All of the headlines from the Samsung Unpacked event: new Galaxy Note 20s, New Galaxy Buds, New Galaxy Watch and more. Disney has already hit its goal for Disney+. ByteDance remains defiant even as Facebook launches Instagram Reels. And Anthony Levandowski remains defiant, even as he is sentenced. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Harrys.com/techmeme Links: Samsung Galaxy Note 20, Note 20 Ultra go official from $999 w/ Snapdragon 865+ (9to5Google) Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Fold 2 with bigger screens and better cameras (The Verge) Disney+ grows to more than 60.5M subscribers (TechCrunch) Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US (TechCrunch) ByteDance CEO Says Trump’s Real Goal Is to Kill Off TikTok (Bloomberg) Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed (TechCrunch) Files by Google adds PIN protection for your most sensitive files on Android (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho

Last hurrah? Intel iMacs get a major update. The TikTok, Microsoft, Trump situation can only be described as nuts-o-butts-o. Looks like Garmin paid the ransom. Why xCloud is launching soon on Android but not on iOS. And get ready for games to get more expensive with the next generation consoles. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Discover.bot/podcast Links: Apple updates the iMac with new Intel processors and a better webcam (The Verge) Trump calls TikTok a hot brand, demands a chunk of its sale price (TechCrunch) Microsoft Should Refuse Trump’s TikTok Payoff (WSJ) Microsoft’s Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Operations Raise Ire in China (WSJ) China Brands Trump’s Demands on TikTok Sale a ‘Smash and Grab’ (Bloomberg) Garmin reportedly paid multimillion-dollar ransom after suffering cyberattack (The Verge) Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google (EU Commission) Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming will launch on September 15th on Android (The

TikTok has not been banned by Trump, but it came close this weekend. Microsoft almost walked away from buying TikTok this weekend, but it looks like it’s back on board and might buy non-Chinese TikTok operations soon. Google invests in ADT. The new Pixel 4As are here. And a profile of the alleged teenaged Twitter hack mastermind who has now been arrested. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Kiwico.com/ride Links: Inside the Microsoft Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Business (WSJ) Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the United States (Official Microsoft Blog) Exclusive: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal (Reuters) Google to invest $450M in smart home security solutions provider ADT (TechCrunch) GOOGLE ANNOUNCES PIXEL 5, PIXEL 4A 5G, AND PIXEL 4A ALL AT ONCE (The Verge) GOOGLE PIXEL 4A REVIEW: BACK TO BASICS FOR $349 (The Verge) System for thwarting deepfakes unveiled (Axios) From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path

Sources say Nvidia is in talks to buy Arm. Music Videos are coming to Facebook in a bigger way. The iPhone is delayed a tiny bit. A run-down of the earnings reports: TLDR: Apple made a ton of money when people thought they wouldn’t but Alphabet shrunk for the first time ever. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co JoinFightCamp.com/techmeme Links: Nvidia in talks to buy Arm from SoftBank for more than $32bn (Financial Times) Facebook Is Set to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos (Bloomberg) Apple confirms short release delay for this year's iPhones (Axios) Comment: Analysts half-right about AAPL’s Q3 … but so wrong! (9to5Mac) Weekend Longreads Suggestions Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3) (Daily Nous) Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams (Kislay Verma) Tech Sector Feeling COVID-19’s Economic Pain (Indeed Hiring Lab) The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. (OneZero) Car Companies Want to Mon

A comprehensive rundown of the big tech testimony in Congress yesterday. Don’t worry. I tried to keep it brief. Are seller fees quietly twice as big a business for Amazon as AWS is? There’s a new king of the smartphone hill as Huawei surpasses Samsung. And I think we can officially say that the Peacock launch has been a success. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing podcast Metalab.co Links: ‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS (The Verge) Report: Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth (ILSR.org) Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple With EU (MacRumors) Google's $2.1 billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust probe: sources (Reuters) Canalys: Huawei trumps Samsung for first time in worldwide smartphone market in Q2 2020 (Canalys) TikTok says it will pay creators a total of $2 billion in the next 3 years (Digital Trends) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A rundown of what the big tech CEO’s told Congress this afternoon. Are Samsung and Google about to get a lot more integrated? The biggest news in the ongoing streaming media transformation of Hollywood. Buying out TikTok is going to be pretty expensive. And Shopify’s earnings blow the roof off the place. Sponsors: Metalab.co MintMobile.com/ride Links: Watch Cook, Bezos, Pichai and Zuckerberg testify in Big Tech antitrust hearing — live updates and analysis (CNBC) Google in Talks to Take Over More Search Tasks on Samsung Phones (Bloomberg) AMC and Universal agree to let movies go from theaters to digital rentals much sooner (The Verge) Exclusive: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50 billion in takeover bid - sources (Reuters) Shopify shares jump 7% after hot e-commerce company says second-quarter revenue increased 97% (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to expect from tomorrow’s Big Tech Congressional testimony. Instagram is trying to woo TikTok stars. Qualcomm has some amazing new quick charge tech. Roblox continues to look like the next big thing. And Deadspin—the true Deadspin—lives to fight another day. Sponsors: Metalab.co Harrys.com/techmeme Links: Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. (NYTimes) Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (The Markup) Congress has battled airlines, banks, tobacco and baseball. Now it’s preparing to clash with Big Tech. (Washington Post) Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators (WSJ) Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 refuels phones 50% in 5 minutes, 100% in 15 (VentureBeat) Roblox jumps to over 150M monthly users, will pay out $250M to developers in 2020 (TechCrunch) After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google’s offices might remain closed due to Covid for another full year. Australia has sued Google on competition and consumer grounds. Looks like Garmin is being ransomed. A handheld device to replace guide dogs for the blind. And you know Software as a Service, but get ready for Hardware as a Service. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing podcast Metalab.co Links: Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ) ACCC takes second swing at Google for allegedly misleading customers (ITNews) Samsung Galaxy Unpacked trailer teases five new devices to be unveiled on August 5th (The Verge) Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack (Bleeping Computer) VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices (TechCrunch) Mobility device for the blind works like a handheld robotic guide dog (New Atlas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Might Twitter have too many cooks in the kitchen to have decent op-sec? Intel has to delay its next gen chip process. Again. The US unveiled official plans for a quantum internet. AT&T announced its nationwide 5G network is operational. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Metalab.co Links: Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (Reuters) Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 (Tom's Hardware) Big Tech CEO hearing is 'likely' to be postponed (Protocol) U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum Internet that might be unhackable (Washington Post) AT&T's low-band 5G network is now available nationwide (CNET) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results (NYTimes) Robinhood and How to Lose Money (The Margins) Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. (Rest Of World) The Inside Story of How a Sleep Tracker Became the Hott

Corning has introduced what it is calling it’s best Gorilla Glass ever, with a tough new name: Victus! HBO Max already has more than 4 million customers. It was Nvidia that was inquiring about buying ARM. And more on the whole ad supported free streaming tv angle. Sponsors: Metalab.co Tovala.com/ride Links: Corning’s new Gorilla Glass Victus could let your phone survive a six-foot drop, plus scratch resistance (The Verge) Plex launches a live TV service with over 80 free channels, most available worldwide (TechCrunch) HBO Max has more than 4 million subscribers, AT&T says (The Verge) Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts (TechCrunch) Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm (Bloomberg) Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online (BuzzFeed.News) Tesla reports fourth straight quarter of profits (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip 5G! TikTok’s US-based investors are considering buying it out as a last resort. Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft. Fiat Chrysler signs a deal with Waymo that points to that pivot we were just talking about. And an interesting raise involving ugly fruit. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Metalab.co Links: Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $1,449.99 (The Verge) Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown (NBC News) ByteDance Investors Discuss TikTok Purchase (The Information) Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition (NYTimes) Waymo and Fiat Chrysler's next big project is to develop self-driving Ram vans (TechCrunch) Misfits Market raises $85 million Series B to send you 'ugly' fruits and veggies (TechCrunch) Apple Lining up Periscope Telephoto Lens Suppliers for 2022 iPhone (MacRumors) Jeff Bezos hated ads — now Amazon is America's top advertiser (Axios) Learn more a

Apple says it will be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. Microsoft has been talking to Congress ahead of next week’s hearings. LinkedIn is cutting jobs cause of Covid. Smartphone sales took a hit last quarter for the same reason. Coinbase kept its customers from sending BTC to those Twitter hackers. And might the entire autonomous driving industry be pivoting to less autonomy? Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Discover.bot/podcast Links: Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030 (Apple Newsroom) Microsoft President Met With House Antitrust Committee (The Information) LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hiring (Reuters) iPhone SE attracting Android switchers, unlikely to cannibalize iPhone 12 sales (9to5Mac) Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers (The Block) AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen 4000 desktop chips bring the fight to Intel (The Verge) Self-driving industry takes

eBay seems to be selling every last thing it can before all it's left with is its marketplace and its pride. Disney has quietly cut its Facebook advertising too. When might we actually seen Windows 10x? And what is GPT-3 and why was everyone freaking out about it over the weekend? Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Metalab.co Links: EBay Nears Deal to Sell Classified-Ad Unit to Adevinta (WSJ) Reliance Jio: World’s First ‘Super Operator’? (Counterpoint) Disney Slashed Ad Spending on Facebook Amid Growing Boycott (WSJ) The easiest way to start meditating is now in... Snapchat? (Mashable) Microsoft plans for single-screen Windows 10X rollout in spring 2021; dual-screen in spring 2022 (ZDNet) Quick thoughts on GPT3 (Operators & Delian's Ramblings) Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test (Kevin Lacker's Blog) Video Example 1 Video Example 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Twitter hack! Can Apple REALLY buy Arm? The Ad-tier being key to Peacock's strategy. Will open standards ever make a comeback? And much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Krebs has a theory of who specifically he thinks was behind the Twitter hijack, but other people have theories too. Netflix kicks off tech earnings season, but also makes a pretty interesting executive move. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Discover.bot/podcast Links: Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? (Krebs on Security) 130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack (The Guardian) Netflix shares fall after earnings miss, weak subscriber guidance for third quarter (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions Some of Reddit's Wildest Relationship Stories Are Lies. I'd Know – I Wrote Them (Motherboard) Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices (Fast Company) Inside Peacock’s Ambitious Plan to Crash a Crowded Streaming Field (Variety) Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data (Recode) Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 Prem

I run down the whole mess of the great twitter hijacking from last night. Facebook is rolling out more labels for politicians. Facebook might also be positioning itself for a TikTok diaspora. Amazon now lets influencers run home shopping-network-style shows on the website. And Apple officially has a podcast. Sponsors: JoinFightCamp.com/techmeme TinyCapital.com Links: Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam (TechCrunch) A hacker used Twitter’s own ‘admin’ tool to spread cryptocurrency scam (TechCrunch) Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (Motherboard) The Interface (Casey Newton) Facebook to label posts about voting from presidential candidates (Axios) Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor (NBC News) Amazon Influence Program opens to live streamers for broadcasting Amazon Life (TechCrunch) How to subscribe to Apple’s free daily news podcast (9to5Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit