Celebratory adult beverages were likely consumed around the technosphere these past few days as Apple became the first trillion-dollar company, Motorola announced 5G phone hardware was on the way and fans of white wine pushed for their very own emoji. El Kaiser (fresh off an appearance on the Wide Range Media podcast) and J.D. explore those stories and more, and a soon-to-be-vacationing Kaiser shares packing tips for his traveling gear bag. Grab a cold one and chill out to Episode 283!
Note: Pop Tech Jam is on vacation next week.
Links to Stories on This Week’s Show
- Apple Is Worth $1 Trillion; 21 Years Ago It Was on the Brink of Bankruptcy (The New York Times)
- Apple Earnings Call (Apple)
- MoviePass Stock Craters as It Accuses Theaters of Price Gouging (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Motorola Connects You to 5G First (The Official Motorola Blog)
- Campaigns Enter Texting Era With a Plea: Will U Vote 4 Me? (The New York Times)
- The World’s First Home Body Scanner (Naked Labs)
- Naked Labs video (YouTube)
- Naked Labs raises $14M Series A led by Founders Fund for its 3D body scanning mirror (TechCrunch)
- Is It Time for Facebook to Consider Hard Limits to Zuckerberg’s Power? (Bloomberg)
- Opinion | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (The New York Times)
- Google in China: Internet giant ‘plans censored search engine’ (BBC News)
- Logitech to buy Yeti microphone maker Blue for $117M (CNET)
- Comcast to Launch Amazon Prime Video on Xfinity TV in 2018 (Variety)
- Kendall-Jackson Is Trying to Get Unicode to Add a White Wine Emoji (Fortune)
- Let’s stop pretending the white wine emoji movement is something it’s not (The San Francisco Chronicle)
- We Don’t Need a White-Wine Emoji (Slate)
Bonus El Kaiser Session