Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as… X. Moar price hikes in streaming! Worldcoin has officially rolled out its token, so long as you’ve scanned your eyeball. Let me introduce you to the Flipper Zero. And should it be titled: Hollywood Strike: Rise Of The TikTok Stars? Sponsors: Collective.com/ride startups.tech/techmeme Links: Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge) Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (TechCrunch) It’s Spotify’s turn to increase prices (The Verge) Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchanges Lose Ground in Shrunken Market (Bloomberg) Sam Altman’s Worldcoin crypto project begins international rollout (FT) The Flipper Zero is a Swiss Army knife of antennas (The Verge) The Flipper Zero has an app store now (The Verge) The creator economy was already exploding. Then Hollywood went on strike. (Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, July 24th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as X. More price hikes and streaming.
0:15.0	World Coin has officially rolled out its tokens so long as you've scanned your eyeball.
0:19.0	Let me introduce you to the Flipper Zero and should it be titled Hollywood Strike, Rise of the
0:25.2	Tik-Toc stars. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.3	Over the weekend Elon Elon Musk tweeted, quote, and soon we shall bid a due to the Twitter
0:36.9	brand and if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make it go live worldwide tomorrow."
0:43.0	So this morning Twitter rolled out an updated interim X logo replacing the iconic
0:50.4	Twitter bird logo X.com apparently redirects to
0:55.1	Twitter.com now though when I just tried it it sent me to a domain parking
0:59.7	page with GoDaddy quoting from a Verge piece originally posted yesterday.
1:05.0	Around 12 a.m. Eastern time last night,
1:08.0	Musk started tweeting and did so for hours
1:11.0	about the Twitter rebrand 2X, the one letter name he's used repeatedly
1:15.4	in company and product names forever.
1:17.7	It started with a tweet saying, quote, soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter
1:21.5	brand and gradually all the birds, followed by a second tweet adding that
1:25.0	quote if a good enough X logo is posted tonight will make it go live worldwide tomorrow.
1:29.2	Musk then over the next several hours gestured at the change in between other posts and replies,
1:34.3	tweeting things like Deus X or replying to other users talking about it.
1:39.4	At one point he joined a Twitter spaces session called No One Talk until we summon Elon Musk and sat
1:45.0	silently for almost an hour before unmuting and confirming he would be changing
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