Fri. 09/30 – Google Shutters Stadia

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Google is abandoning a major project, maybe it’s biggest cancellation ever. More cutbacks at Meta. Though one tech company is gonna test the IPO waters soon. Be a fly on the wall as Elon talks to everyone in Silicon Valley about maybe buying Twitter. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge) Meta to Cut Headcount for First Time, Slash Budgets Across Teams (Bloomberg) TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation (TechCrunch) Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk on Twitter’s board but directors were too ‘risk averse,’ texts reveal (CNBC) Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off The Rails (Big Technology) How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine (The Verge) Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer (Bloomberg) Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (SlashFilm) Someone is pretending to be me. (Connor Tumbleson) 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, September 30th, 2022.
0:07.7	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.7	Stop me if you've heard this one before but Google is abandoning a major project
0:13.2	maybe its biggest cancellation ever. More cutbacks over at Meta, though one
0:18.4	tech company is apparently going to test the IPO waters soon, be a fly on the wall as Elon talks to everyone
0:24.2	in Silicon Valley about maybe buying Twitter.
0:26.5	And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:28.9	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.6	Well, it's the mother of all Google gonna do Google things stories.
0:39.0	Google plans to shut down its cloud gaming service known as Stadia on January 18th,
0:45.7	2023 and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases by members,
0:51.4	members of the Stadia team will be reassigned internally at Google
0:56.8	Quoting the verge
0:58.0	Google detailed some of the finer points of the shutdown in an FAQ
1:01.7	Refunds will automatically be made through the Google and
1:04.7	Stadia stores and you won't have to return any hardware. Stadia Pro subscriptions will not
1:09.9	be eligible for a refund, but you will not be charged during the shutdown period and can
1:14.3	access games you might have redeemed as a pro-user until everything is wound down.
1:18.6	Google has closed the Stadius store so you can't buy games or in-game transactions. The writing has been
1:25.1	on the wall for Stadia for a while now, most recently when Logitech announced its new
1:29.5	Cloud Gaming handheld last week, and Stadia was one of the few Cloud Gaming Services not
1:34.2	mentioned. But Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the
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