Fri. 03/13 - Has Coronavirus Proven ISP Datacaps Are A Sham?

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

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Has the Coronavirus proven that datacaps from ISPs are a sham? Comcast accidentally published the numbers of customers who paid them not to do that. Airbnb continues to be in trouble. Cool no-code tools from Atlassian, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency BuyRaycon.com/tech Links: Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon (Bloomberg) AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis (Vice) Comcast accidentally published 200,000 “unlisted” phone numbers (ArsTechnica) Airbnb’s Loss Nearly Doubles in Fourth Quarter, Before Virus (Bloomberg) Atlassian brings new automation tools to Jira Cloud (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind (Wired) TIM COOK’S TRICK FOR MAKING IPHONES IS NOW AT RISK FROM THE PANDEMIC (The Verge) Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding (Marker) How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts (Protocol) A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm (NYTimes) The History of the URL (Cloudflare) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, March 13th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Has the coronavirus proven that data caps from ISPs are a sham.
0:13.9	Comcast accidentally published the numbers of customers who paid them not to do that.
0:18.2	AirB&B continues to be in trouble, cool no-code tools from Atlasian, and and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:25.2	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.2	What do you think the lead stories are all about today?
0:36.0	Apple has announced that it will hold
0:38.0	W. W. D.C. in June, quote, in an entirely new online format.
0:43.0	Quoting the announcement,
0:45.0	we are delivering W.W.C. 2020 this June
0:47.0	in an innovative way to millions of developers around the world
0:50.0	bringing the entire developer community together
0:52.0	in a new experience, said Phil Schiller. the entire
0:53.4	experience said Phil Schiller Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide
0:56.7	marketing the current health situation has required that we create a new
1:00.0	W. W. D.C. 2020 format that delivers a full program with an online keynote and
1:05.0	sessions offering a great learning experience for our entire developer community
1:09.3	all around the world. We will be sharing all the details and the weeks ahead."
1:13.2	Now that announcement if you read it all the way through doesn't even mention COVID-19 by name,
1:20.0	and it kind of leads the door open to holding some sort of event that would include some form of in-person attendance, but we shall see.
1:29.3	And despite all of that, Mac Rumors is reporting that anonymous sources have told them that Apple
1:35.8	is still planning to announce new Macbook Air models next week.
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