Meta Investing Billions in Eyewear? & Netflix Keeps Adding Subscribers

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 369: Neal and Toby discuss Meta’s interest in buying a stake in Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica, signaling it wants to lead the pack in smart eyewear tech. Then, Netflix adds another 8 million subscribers and continues to show why it’s the king of streaming. Next, the EA Sports College Football 25 video game launches after an 11-year hiatus now that NIL allows college players to profit from their likeness. Plus, small cap companies are the week’s standout stock and Bud Light is the week’s Dog of the Week. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is apparently fed up with California and is taking SpaceX and X to Texas. Lastly, high school students are getting better grades, improving attendance, and engaging with one another in NYC. The school needed to lock up their phones. Expand your world with Meta AI. Now on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. Get your Morning Brew Daily T-Shirt HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-radio-t-shirt?_pos=1&_sid=6b0bc409d&_ss=r&variant=45353879044316 Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow 00:00 - Microsoft outage 2:30 - Meta leans into eyewear tech 07:30 - Netflix keeps its crown 11:15 - College Football (video game) is back! 16:45 - Stock: Small-cap companies, Dog: Bud Light 22:20 - SpaceX moves to TX 25:00 - Lock away the phones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.3	Have a question or need how to advice? Just ask Meta-AI. Whether you want to design a marathon training program or you're curious what planets are visible in tonight's sky, Meta-AI has the answers. You can also summarize notes, visualize your ideas, and so much more. It's the most advanced AI. At your fingertips, expand your world with Meta AI. Now on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and
0:21.6	Messenger. what's app Facebook and messenger.
0:28.0	Good morning Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freeman and I'm Toby Howell. Today a college football video game returns after more than a decade.
0:32.0	Toby are we going to take Western Michigan to the ship?
0:35.0	Then Zuck is coming for your eyes.
0:38.0	Why Meta is exploring an investment in the company that makes its Meta Raybans.
0:42.0	It's Friday, July 19th. Let's ride.
0:47.0	If you're just waking up, brace yourself. It is total chaos out there. A massive IT
0:55.1	outage has disrupted businesses, banks, airlines, media outlets, and
0:58.6	emergency services across the world. The problem appears to be caused by a crowd strike update that affected millions of Microsoft Windows
1:06.6	devices sending them crashing in countries from the US to China to Australia.
1:11.6	Microsoft said it was working on a fix and was observing a positive trend in service
1:16.2	availability, but as of 6 a.m. Eastern time, it's still Bedlam.
1:20.8	I mean, this thing affected everything.
1:23.4	The FAA at one point grounded all flights from Delta, United American Airlines due to a communication
1:28.8	issue.
1:29.8	911 emergency call centers in Alaska and New York City have also been impacted. They were
1:33.9	handwriting boarding passes at some airports in India this morning and then the UK
1:38.7	broadcaster Sky News literally wasn't able to broadcast its morning news bulletin because of the outage.
1:44.0	It is chaos.
1:45.6	Well, what can I still watch the British Open?
1:47.4	There's no word on the British Open, but I certainly hope so.
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