Mon. 08/02 – Try Some “Diet” YouTube

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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YouTube is demoing a diet version of YouTube. Square is paying a pretty penny to join the buy now, pay later sweepstakes. Did an Intel exec accidentally leak the specs for Thunderbolt 5? And did Google’s quantum computer create a perpetual motion machine? Sponsors: UE.com/fits, use promocode RIDE for 15% of Ultimate Ears FITS Grammarly.com/techmeme Links: YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less (The Verge) Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay (Reuters) Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo then Deletes It: 80Gbps and Pam-3 (AnandTech) Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ) Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine) Robinhood Sold IPO Shares to More Than 300,000 of Its Customers (WSJ) 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, August 2nd 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.2	Today, YouTube is demoing a Diet version of YouTube.
0:12.5	Square is paying a pretty penny to join the buy now pay later sweepstakes.
0:17.3	Did an Intel exec accidentally leak the specs for Thunderbolt 5
0:21.2	and did Google's quantum computer create a perpetual motion machine.
0:25.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	What if you just want YouTube premium to get ad-free viewing and you don't really need all the other bells and whistles?
0:39.0	Well, you're in luck. YouTube is trialing what it is calling premium light a subscription that runs
0:44.4	six-0 99 cents per month offering ad-free viewing across all major platforms
0:49.5	currently available only in Europe, quoting the verge.
0:53.4	Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier
0:56.3	for YouTube that offers ad-free viewing
0:58.4	without YouTube Premiums,
0:59.7	other features like offline downloads
1:01.8	or background playback.
1:03.7	Premium Light is currently being tested in Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
1:06.9	Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
1:09.5	Premium Light includes ad-free viewing across YouTube's main app on web, iOS, Android, smart TV's, and game
1:15.2	consoles, as well as in the YouTube Kids app.
1:18.3	However, it doesn't include any YouTube music benefits like ad-free listening and it doesn't include
1:24.0	premiums other features like background playback for when you want to switch to
1:27.7	another app while continuing to listen to audio from a YouTube video or offline
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