Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, January 27th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Vine has a spiritual successor in Bight. The new razor might have bumps and lumps.

Your antivirus program might be selling all your clicks. Seameless might be inventing restaurants

from whole cloth and the AI algorithm that spotted the

Wu-HAN virus early. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Now in theory you've all had all weekend to hear about this and even play with it

but as this is potentially the biggest long-term news of the week I wanted to

make sure that you were at least aware of it.

As we have gotten into the modern era of social networks slash messaging platforms,

people have long been bemoaning the fact that Vine is not a part of it.

That's because a lot of people think that Vine laid the groundwork for the modern social environment, best exemplified by Tic-Toc.

Quick history lesson here. Vine was founded in June of

2012. It allowed you to post short looping videos and before it was even

launched it was acquired by Twitter.

By 2013, Vine was the most used mobile video sharing app in the land, and the most downloaded

free app in the App Store. It reached 200 million active users at its height and in 2016

Twitter shut it down. Again, given where Tik-Toc is at the moment, lots of people have been wondering how

big Vine would be today had it been allowed to live.

There's a reason that Twitter until recently had a very bad reputation for products, of course.

Well, over the weekend, Vine co-founder Dom Hoffman launched Bight, what can only be described as a true descendant of Vine.

Bight is a short form video app on iOS and Android.

Here's how Tech Crunch describes it.

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