Mon. 03/18 - MySpace Loses All Your Stuff From 2005

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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An iPad mini refresh and a new iPad Air, MySpace has lost basically all your stuff, details of the Lyft IPO and the state of Seed Investing. Sponsors: Legacybox.com/ride Metalab.co Links: Apple launches new iPad Air and iPad mini (TechCrunch) Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems (Washington Post) Myspace player won't play songs, and I want to download them if possible (Reddit thread on the Myspace news) The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down (The Verge) Lyft Aims for Valuation Near $20 Billion in Biggest U.S. IPO (Bloomberg) Ride-hail service Juno is seeking a buyer (Quartz) Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future? (Both Sides) Decade in review: Trends in seed and early-stage funding (TechCrunch) Apple’s Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape (NYTimes) Google Spent Years on a Secret New Plan to Attack a $140 Billion Industry. It All Starts Tomorrow (Inc.) Subscribe to the ad-free Premium Feed inside your podcast app here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Monday, March 18th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	An iPad mini refresh and a new iPad air. My space has lost basically all your stuff, details of the
0:16.5	lift IPO and the state of seed investing. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:29.0	So Santa Tim did answer one podcaster's wish at least. I'm still holding off on replacing my busted I-Mac in hopes that they do a quiet refresh
0:34.7	thingy next week. But via tweet this morning, Tim Cook himself announced that the
0:39.2	iPad mini has been refreshed for the first time in three and a half years.
0:44.0	Here are the details. The refreshed iPad minis look identical to old iPad minis.
0:49.0	They're keeping the same rear cameras.
0:51.0	They're retaining the fingerprint scanner and the big thick bezzles and the the A12 chips, which are the same systems on a chip used in the iPhone 10S.
1:06.8	The 7.9 inch display is now reportedly 25% brighter and works with true tone.
1:12.0	It comes in silver, space gray, and gold. It is also
1:15.4	getting support for the apple pencil, though note only the first generation
1:19.9	apple pencil. You can order the refreshed iPad minis today beginning at
1:24.5	$379 for the 64 gigabyte model. Now there was lots of snark on
1:29.6	Twitter about how hey who even needs this anymore?
1:34.2	But feel free to at me, y'all.
1:36.0	The iPad mini is still the best form factor for a tablet.
1:40.1	I don't want to use a tablet as a computer replacement like MG does and I like being able to comfortably use a tablet in one hand.
1:49.0	Yes, I did an Insta purchase right before I sat down to begin writing these words.
1:54.4	I'm willing to die on this particular gadget hill.
1:58.1	But wait, there's more.
1:59.3	A completely new 10 and a half inch iPad air was announced as well, quoting Tech Crunch. While the name sounds
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