Fri. 05/24 - iFixit Tears Down the MacBook Keyboard Tweaks

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🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Facebook cryptocurrency could be here in about six months, SpaceX launches its first batch of internet satellites, iFixit tears down the MacBook keyboard tweaks, the robots are coming for MLB umpires, and a supersized weekend longreads segment. Sponsors: AirTable.com/techmeme Linkedin.com/ride Castro App Links: Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' currency in 2020 (BBC News) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deals out a deck of 60 Starlink internet satellites (GeekWire) Apple’s keyboard ‘material’ changes on the new MacBook Pro are minor at best (The Verge) Robot umpires are coming to baseball (Axios) The Weekend Longreads: Special report - Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China's tech giant (Reuters) WeWork Wants to Become Its Own Landlord With Latest Spending Spree (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules (Politico) AFTER 15 YEARS, THE PIRATE BAY STILL CAN’T BE KILLED (Mel) One Inventor’s Race to Manage His Parkinson’s Disease With an App (OneZero) Business Bets on a Quantum Leap (Fortune) Can AI escape our control and destroy us? (Popular Science) The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (OneZero) A Revolution In Your Pocket (RBS.io) Subscribe to the ad-free premium feed! 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, May 24th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, the Facebook cryptocurrency could be here in about six months.
0:13.9	SpaceX launches its first batch of internet satellites.
0:17.1	I fix it tears down the MacBook keyboard tweaks.
0:20.7	The robots are coming for Major League Baseball umpires and a super-sized weekend long reads segment.
0:26.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.0	Further confirmation that a Facebook coin is coming and it's actually coming
0:37.2	quite soon in fact as soon as Q1 of next year according to the BBC who I'm
0:42.4	going to quote from now.
0:44.2	The social media giant wants to start testing its cryptocurrency, which has been referred to internally
0:49.2	as Global Coin, by the end of this year.
0:52.4	Facebook is expected to outline plans in more detail
0:54.8	this summer and has already spoken to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.
0:59.2	founder Mark Zuckerberg met Mr. Carney last month to discuss the opportunities and risks involved
1:05.2	in launching a cryptocurrency. Facebook has also sought advice on operational and regulatory issues
1:10.8	from officials at the U.S. Treasury. The firm is also in talks with
1:14.3	money transfer firms including Western Union as it looks for cheaper and faster ways
1:18.0	for people without a bank account to send and receive money."
1:20.8	End quote. The internal code name for this whole business is
1:25.4	apparently for those of you keeping track Project Libra.
1:32.0	SpaceX SpaceX has successfully launched its first batch of 60 Starlink
1:39.6	satellites out of the nearly 11,000 planned to go into a low Earth orbit to provide
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