Thu. 06/13 - The Most Interesting Startup I've Heard Of In A While

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Telegram is getting DDoS’d, Google pulls a Radiohead on Pixel phone leakers, Bird buys Scoot, my dream TV is a wall, and the most interesting startup I’ve heard about in a while. Sponsors: SVB.com/next PixelUnion.net Links: Telegram faces DDoS attack in China... again (TechCrunch) NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13 (TechCrunch) This is Google’s Pixel 4 (The Verge) Scooter Startup Bird Buys Struggling Competitor Scoot (WSJ) Ford will test new third-generation self-driving cars in Detroit (The Verge) Samsung's massive The Wall TV is now available in a 292-inch, 8K luxury version (TechSpot) Official Breaking Bad mobile game is now available (TechSpot) Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking (VentureBeat) Napster Founder’s IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C (CoinDesk) 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 Thursday, June 13th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, telegram is getting Majorly D. D-D-D-D-S.
0:13.1	Google Pools a radio head on Pixel Phone Leakers.
0:16.4	Bird buys Scoot, my dream TV is a wall,
0:19.2	and the most interesting startup I've heard about in a while. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.0	Telegram reports that it is facing a massive D-D-D-S attack originating from China and just so happens to
0:37.2	coincide with those protests that have been happening in Hong Kong where organizers have been
0:42.3	known to be using the telegram app to evade
0:45.8	surveillance.
0:46.8	Quoting Tech Crunch.
0:48.8	The company described a distributed denial of service attack as when your servers get gazillions of
0:54.8	garbage requests which stop them from processing legitimate requests.
0:58.4	Imagine that an Army of Lemings just jumped the cue at McDonald's in front of you and each is ordering
1:04.0	a wauper according to telegram.
1:06.8	The server is busy telling the wauper lemings they came to the wrong place but there are so many of
1:11.5	them that the server can't even see you to try to take your order."
1:16.0	This isn't the first time that someone has tried to take down telegram at a time when China was experiencing significant unrest.
1:24.6	Four years ago, a similar attack struck the company's service just as China was initiating
1:29.0	a crackdown on human rights lawyers in the country." End quote.
1:33.0	With the coming of iOS 13, iPhones will be gaining the ability to read
1:40.8	NFC enabled passports and other government IDs as well as write to
1:46.2	NFC tags. So for example with the ID part of this the Japanese government
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