Fri. 01/04 - The Verge vs. AT&T And L.A. vs. The Weather Channel app

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Verge and AT&T have a trademark dispute, the city of Los Angeles and The Weather Channel app have a location data dispute, more on how shows like Bandersnatch really might be the future of storytelling and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsor: Mealime.com (iOS App) (Android App) Links: AT&T tries to trademark ‘Verge TV’ as if we’re going to let them get away with it (The Verge) Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data (NYTimes) D-Link debuts a 5G Wi-Fi router with 40 times wired broadband speeds (Venture Beat) BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON (The Verge) Longreads: Podcast suggestion: Daily Fortnite Courier Prime He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof. (HuffPo) Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge (NYTimes) The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix (The Ringer) Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game (Audubon) How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code (Quanta) The Hacker News discussion of the Quanta piece Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, January 4th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	The Verge and AT&T have a trademark dispute,
0:13.0	the City of Los Angeles and the Weather Channel app have a location data dispute.
0:18.0	More on how shows like Bandersnatch really might be the future of storytelling,
0:22.0	and the Weekend long reads suggestions.
0:25.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.6	Here's a weird sort of tech inside baseball story. AT&T has apparently filed trademark applications
0:38.7	for a product that it is calling Virge TV. And this looks like it might be the name for its upcoming video
0:47.6	streaming service. However, our friends at, you know, the Tech News site The Virge have said, not so fast.
0:57.6	We already have a trademark for things named Virge.
1:01.4	As T.C. Sotick wrote wrote on the verge, quote,
1:05.0	Unfortunately, AT&T, we simply can't let you have the verge,
1:08.8	if only because being a brand that people love and trust
1:12.0	wouldn't make sense to your customers.
1:15.2	Why not try Go 90 instead?
1:17.8	We hear it's available."
1:19.7	End quote.
1:21.3	That's certainly biting.
1:24.0	Dave Zats joked on Twitter,
1:26.0	Bet Quixster TV is available.
1:28.0	Michael Gartenberg noted that oath is probably also available as a branding idea.
1:35.0	This is all very ironic because the Virgin,
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