Fri. 03/26 – The House Tech Hearings Were… Whatever…

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

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The House tech hearings were a nothing burger, but I’ll try to explain what that means for us. Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch. Slack is doing a Clubhouse clone and… stories. WeWork is back, with a SPAC. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: EditorX.com ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast Links: Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge) Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg) Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol) WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 (Stratechery) The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab) Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg) The fuss about BitClout (Axios) Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch) Analysis: Money no object as governments race to build chip arsenals (Reuters) Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (ArsTechnica) VC Firms Have Long Backed AI. Now, They Are Using It. (WSJ) The Hard Truth About Bitcoin's Energy Consumption (Decrypt) Mac OS X Turns 20: A Look Back at the Operating System That Helped Save Apple (PCMag) Subscribe to the RideHome+ Feed at: tech.supercast.tech 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, March 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	The House Tech Hearings were a Big Nothing burger, but I'll try to explain what that means.
0:14.4	Apple is considering a more rugged Apple Watch, Slack is doing a clubhouse clone, and
0:20.0	stories. We Work is back with a speck and of course the weekend long read
0:25.1	suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.3	So the big house tech hearings yesterday were, I mean they were, whatever. They were sort of
0:39.1	infuriating to listen to while somehow at the same time being completely boring. No real news
0:45.1	was made while at the same time there were all of the usual flash points
0:49.2	erupting all over again that we could cover. Let me lean on how the Tech Mem editors summarized
0:55.3	it on page last night. The Tech House hearings revealed unorganized lawmakers who conflated
1:02.2	issues of competition, privacy, and moderation,
1:05.0	and were unable to move past personal grievances.
1:08.6	Lawmakers accused CEOs of being evasive and condescending.
1:11.8	CEOs seemed barely able to restrain their
1:14.2	exasperation with gotcha yes-no questions. Oh and a lot of folks can't seem to be
1:19.5	bothered to learn how to pronounce Sunarpichai's name, though given my own track record for
1:24.0	butchering people's names, I guess I shouldn't throw stones. Anyway, here's how
1:27.3	McKeena Kelly summed it up for the verge, quote, in the middle of
1:31.5	Congress's first hearing of the year with the chief executives of
1:34.2	Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Thursday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out a poll.
1:39.3	It was just a question mark with two answers, and no it was an obvious troll
1:44.4	directed at the lawmakers questioning Dorsey Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and
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