Thu – 02/18 – Facebook Calls Australia’s Bluff; Google Pays Off Murdoch

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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I’ll do my best to explain this Australia situation with Facebook and Google. SpaceX is our interesting raise today. Nvidia unveils a line of chips just for crypto. Does Apple want to set the standards for 6G? And if remote work is the future, why is Big Tech still building so much office space? Sponsors: Uber.com/techmeme Tovala.com/ride Links: Facebook restricts users, publishers from sharing news content in Australia (AP) Facebook calls Australia's bluff (Platformer) SpaceX Funding Round at $74 Billion Valuation Was Led by Sequoia (Bloomberg) NVIDIA Annoucnes CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX GPUs For Mining, Cripples Hash Rate Of RTX 3060 (WCCFTech) Apple Hiring Engineers to Develop 6G Wireless (Bloomberg) If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Bride Home for Thursday, February 18th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough
0:08.3	today. I'll do my best to explain this whole Australia situation vis-à-vis Facebook and Google.
0:14.7	SpaceX is our interesting raise today.
0:18.0	NVIDIA unveiled a line of chips just for crypto.
0:20.8	Does Apple want to set the standards for 6G?
0:23.6	And if remote work is the future,
0:25.1	why is Big Tech still building so much office space?
0:28.3	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:39.4	I don't know if you remember that story about that Australian law where they were going to make tech platforms pay money to publishers if they even linked to content from an Australian publisher.
0:47.0	You might recall that Google said that it would consider completely going dark in Australia
0:52.0	if the law came into force. You might recall
0:54.8	that I didn't really have an opinion on that but I kind of wanted both sides to
0:59.6	call each other's bluff just to see what would happen if Google went dark in a whole country.
1:04.0	Meanwhile Facebook was making similar noises about blocking news items in the news feed.
1:11.0	It's been one of those rolling stories where every day there was seemingly another
1:15.2	new wrinkle to it and a new headline. So I have been skipping talking about it because it was always
1:20.3	just so incremental. until now that is.
1:23.6	Ahead of this proposed law which again has not been passed yet,
1:28.4	Facebook has preemptively banned Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and
1:35.2	viewing news on Australian news pages quoting the Associated Press.
1:40.3	Australian publishers can continue to publish news content on Facebook, but links and
1:45.2	posts can't be viewed or shared by Australian audiences, the US-based company said in a statement.
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