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Mon. 12/16 - Give Us A Name For $100MM AAR Startups!

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Chrome 79 is wiping data from some apps, Amazon is about to deliver more than FedEx or UPS all by its lonesome, Argo plans to charge by the mile, smart TV’s make margin by watching you, does music lack pricing power and help me find a name for $100 million-dollar annual recurring revenue startups. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com DollarShaveClub.com/ride Links: Google pauses Chrome 79 rollout on Android after bug wipes data in some apps (Android Police) Watch out, UPS. Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is already delivering half of its packages (CNBC) Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver (Fast Company) Argo takes different road to skirt self-driving challenges (Reuters) The falling price of a TV set is the story of the American economy (The Outline) The newest members of the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch) Zero-to-100 Million in 3 Years (Lemonade Blog) Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music? (Rolling Stone) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, December 16th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.4

Chrome 79 is wiping data from some apps.

0:13.0

Amazon is about to deliver more than FedEx or UPS all by its lonesome.

0:17.0

Argo plans to charge by the mile.

0:20.0

Does music lack pricing power and help me find a name for a hundred million dollar annual

0:24.8

recurring revenue startups. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:28.7

Google has halted the Chrome 79 rollout on Android, which was already 50% complete by the way.

0:40.0

After reports came that a misconfiguration in the update was wiping data from many apps

0:45.2

using Android's native web view, quoting Android Police.

0:50.7

You might be wondering, how the heck can a chrome bug erase data in other apps.

0:54.7

Well on most recent versions of Android, Chrome acts as the systems web view, the component that renders

1:01.2

web pages inside of apps.

1:03.0

When you log in with a web page inside an app,

1:05.5

or use browsers like Duck Duck Go that lack their own internal rendering engine,

1:09.0

Chrome is responsible for loading the content.

1:12.0

Some Android apps actually run entirely inside Web View, such as applications

1:17.0

built with Apache Cordova, phone gap, or packaged web apps like Twitter Light.

1:23.0

One of the changes in Chrome 79 is that the location

1:26.2

where web data is stored was updated.

1:29.2

However, as one comment on a chromium bug page pointed out, data from local storage and web

1:35.4

SQL, two types of storage commonly used by web apps and packaged apps, wasn't

1:41.3

migrated properly."

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