Fri. 02/28 - Is Apple Gonna Give the iPad a Trackpad?

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

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Are S10 sales in Korea the first indication of the Covid-19 effect? Is the FCC gonna fine the wireless carriers enough for selling location data? Is Apple going to release an iPad Pro with a trackpad? A hybrid scooter/tiny car. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters) Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald) FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters) Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information) An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld) Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac) Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC) The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian) Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review) A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol) How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired) YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator) Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, February 28th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Our S10 sales in Korea, the first indication of the COVID-19 effect is the FCC
0:14.8	gonna find the wireless carriers enough for selling location data is Apple
0:18.6	going to release an iPad pro with a track pad a hybrid scooter slash tiny car, and of course the weekend long read
0:26.3	suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.3	Look we can't escape coronavirus news this week and we just need to make our peace with that I guess.
0:38.0	Amazon says it has barred more than 1 million products from being sold on its platform in recent weeks
0:44.6	because those products had either inaccurately claimed to cure COVID-19 or defend against it.
0:51.6	Quote, Amazon also removed tens of thousands of deals from merchants that it said attempted to
0:56.5	price gouge customers.
0:58.3	The world's largest online retailer had faced scrutiny over the health-related offers on its
1:02.2	platform, and earlier this week Italy
1:04.1	launched a probe into surging prices around the internet for sanitizing gels and hygiene masks
1:09.2	while it battled the biggest outbreak in Europe.
1:12.0	One offer comparison site showed recent examples of higher than usual prices for masks on Amazon,
1:17.8	made by U.S. Industrial Conglomerate 3M.
1:21.0	A merchant Thursday offered a 10 pack of N95 masks for $128.
1:26.0	A Reuters reporter saw when clicking through the buying options on Amazon.
1:30.0	That was up from a recent seller average price of $41.24 according to the tracking website
1:36.4	Camel Camel Camel.com. The item was no longer available in a check later in the day.
1:41.5	A two-pack respirator was offered new at $24.99
1:45.8	earlier this week by a third-party seller up from a recent average of $6.65
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