Mon. 04/22 - The Galaxy Fold Is Delayed

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🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Samsung Galaxy Fold is delayed, Sri Lanka blocking social media is complicated, how you’re being tracked in the airport and at work, and why there’s no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to free apps. Sponsors: tech.FidelityCareers.com Tiny.webiste Links: Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Smartphone Release Delayed (WSJ) Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blasts (The Washington Post) Zillow launches AI-powered 3D home tours in the U.S. and Canada (VentureBeat) The US wants to scan the faces of all air passengers leaving the country (QZ) Employee privacy in the US is at stake as corporate surveillance technology monitors workers’ every move (CNBC) That mental health app might share your data without telling you (The Verge) Turns Out, Meal Kits Might Not Suck for the Planet (Earther) Support the podcast directly! Subscribe to the ad-free feed right here inside your podcast app! 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 Monday, April 22nd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today the Samsung Galaxy Fold is delayed. Sri Lanka blocks social media, but it's complicated.
0:16.0	How you're being tracked in the airport and at work
0:18.8	and why there's no such thing as a free lunch ever
0:21.6	when it comes to free apps. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.7	Yes, there have been endless. No when to hold them and no when to fold them jokes on Twitter all morning.
0:35.8	But now, according to the Wall Street Journal, CMBC, and a bunch of other sources, Samsung
0:39.6	is officially delaying the expected Friday rollout of the Galaxy Fold until at least next month because, well, remember, screen issues.
0:49.0	I'm going to quote from the original Wall Street Journal piece earlier in the day that could only quote sources.
0:55.4	Quote, the delayed launch came hours after the South Korean technology giant abruptly scrapped
1:00.8	pre-release media events planned for Hong Kong on Tuesday and Shanghai
1:04.7	on Wednesday, a company spokesman said earlier on Monday adding the journalist briefings would
1:09.6	be rescheduled at a later date.
1:11.9	The South Korean technology giant didn't specify why the two media
1:15.3	briefings had been aborted.
1:16.7	Quote, we are conducting a thorough inspection into the issues reported by some of the reviewers
1:21.0	of early Galaxy Fold samples,
1:22.9	said a Samsung spokesman in earlier comments.
1:25.6	We will share the findings as soon as we have them, end quote.
1:29.5	There's really no other information
1:31.0	to dig in here at the moment, just that now a few minutes before I started
1:34.9	recording this the delay has been officially confirmed but allow me to just state something that
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