Fri. 03/22 - AT&T's "5G E" is.... zzzzzzzzz.....?

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Might Apple’s Monday event be a huge anticlimax? Is AT&T’s “5G E” slower than 4G? YouTube is responsible for 37% of mobile Internet Traffic, what programming languages are on the up and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Skillshare.com/ride Metalab.co Links: New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch (Reuters) Apple’s plan for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services (Recode) 750,000 Medtronic defibrillators vulnerable to hacking (StarTribune) Facebook acknowledges concerns over Cambridge Analytica emerged earlier than reported (The Guardian) AT&T's fake 5G E is slower than Verizon's and T-Mobile's 4G (CNET) Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10% (WhatsNewInPublishing) The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 (RedMonk) Weekend Longreads: Meet Silicon Valley's 'China whisperer (CNNBusiness) Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music (Rolling Stone) Grab vs. Go-Jek: Inside Asia’s Battle of the 'Super Apps' (Fortune) BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRISPR: GROWING HUMAN ORGANS IN PIGS (Wired) A MORE HUMANE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CRISPR (Wired) 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, March 22nd 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today, might Apple's Monday event be a huge anti-climax? Is AT&T's 5G E actually slower than 4G?
0:18.0	YouTube is responsible for 37% of mobile internet traffic, what programming languages are on the up, and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:26.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:29.1	Mark Germin is reporting that Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news
0:37.2	subscription service but only Vox. Other Vox media properties will not
0:42.0	participate in the service at least initially.
0:45.0	This report comes at the exact same time that the CEO of the New York Times is warning fellow publishers
0:51.0	that third-party distribution deals, like the one Apple is trying to get
0:56.0	publishers to make for its new subscription service
0:59.0	can only lead to a loss of product control
1:02.0	comparing news outlets that partner with Apple to the
1:05.6	Hollywood studios that inadvertently helped Netflix grow.
1:08.6	Quote, we tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else,
1:15.6	Mark Thompson told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
1:18.8	We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of
1:23.5	magimix blender with everyone else's journalism. If I was an American
1:28.0	broadcast network I would have thought twice about giving all of my library to
1:31.6	Netflix. Thompson said in response to questions about any talks about giving all of my library to Netflix. Thompson said in response to questions about any talks with Apple to participate in the iPhone
1:36.2	maker's new news service.
1:37.8	Quote, even if Netflix offered you quite a lot of money, does it really make sense to help Netflix build a
1:43.7	gigantic base of subscribers to the point where they could actually spend 9 billion
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