Mon. 08/19 - The Silicon Chip To Define The AI Era?

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Libra gets competition, Spotify and Roku get family friendly, Amazon is sitting out the launch of Disney+ (for now), Ikea is serious about becoming a smart-home player, and can the world’s largest semiconductor chip kickstart an AI revolution? Sponsors: Pixelunion.net BRD.com Links: Binance planning to launch ‘Venus,’ similar to Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra (The Block) Spotify's Premium Family plans get an explicit content filter (Engadget) The Roku Channel is adding a kids and family section with free TV shows and movies (The Verge) Disney+ will stream on these devices at launch (The Verge) Ikea goes all in on smart home tech (The Verge) Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years (Motherboard) A new unicorn is born: Toor Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation (TechCrunch) Root raises $350 million to drive auto insurance change (Axios) Cerebras (Pierre Lamond) 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, August 19th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Libra gets some competition, Spotify and Roku get family friendly.
0:15.0	Amazon is sitting out the launch of Disney Plus for now.
0:18.8	Ikea is serious about becoming a smart home player,
0:22.0	and can the world's largest semiconductor chip
0:24.3	kick-start an AI revolution here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.7	Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency is apparently going to get some competition because Binance says it
0:37.6	plans to launch a new coin called Venus, which it is calling an independent regional version of Libra, which will develop
0:46.4	localized stable coins pegged to local fiat currencies. So if that was sort of a word salad to you, remember that Libra,
0:56.0	again is Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency. Binance is currently the world's
1:00.8	largest cryptocurrency exchange.
1:03.0	And, for you astrologically minded,
1:07.0	Libra's ruling planet is Venus, quoting the block.
1:13.3	Facebook's planned cryptocurrency Libra also has a similar structure.
1:17.2	It intends to serve the unbanked and facilitate low fee money transfers globally.
1:22.2	Libra is expected to go live sometime next year, but it has already faced scrutiny
1:26.0	from central banks and politicians around the world.
1:28.6	Facebook has itself recently said in a risk disclosure filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
1:34.1	that Libra may never launch due to quote significant regulatory scrutiny.
1:38.8	Binance today said that it believes that Libra is growing at an exponential rate and will reshape the world's financial system, bringing changes more than the internet.
1:50.0	Quote, regulatory framework the exchange added. After the publication of the story, Binance CEO
2:05.5	Zhang Peng Jao tweeted that while Venus would help to push
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