A nation-state accessed FireEye “Red Team” pen testing tools, WhatsApp complains about Apple privacy labels and Samsung teases its Samsung Galaxy S21 phones.
Streaming services are the new hotness. AT&T CEO John Stankey announced at a conference that HBO Max subscriptions rose from 8.6 million at the end of Q3 to 12.6 million as of early December while NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock passed 26 million signups as of Monday up 4 million since October.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Joe
WarnerMedia shocked the world by announcing their 2021 films are going to HBO Max same-day as theaters. Discovery’s new streaming service seems meek, but could have a ton of background content. YouTube is streaming 19 James Bond films for free?! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Iyaz Akhtar.
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Saturday JD.com became the first virtual platform to accept digital yuan, the government’s official digital currency. Is this a watershed moment for government issued digital currency?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Joe.
Bloomberg’s sources say new Apple Silicon chips with up to 20 cores will arrive next year, LG will outsource more low-end and mid-range phone designs, and Google removes extensions from IAC over “policy violations.”
India introduces new regulations on ride-hailing services, Salesforce announces it intends to buy Slack, and WarnerMedia will launch all 2021 movies on HBO Max.
Robb Dunewood has put a lot of work into his home video studio and is ready to share all tricks he’s learned and a few of the products he thinks are worth knowing about.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe
WarnerMedia plans to release all 2021 theatrical releases to HBO Max simultaneously, Chinese researchers use a photonic quantum computer to claim quantum supremacy, and the US DOJ is investigating Facebook’s VR dominance.