Thu. 10/13 – The End Of The Office Era

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Signal is phasing out SMS and MMS. Microsoft is sunsetting Microsoft Office branding. The SEC is poised to officially ban some Chinese hardware. Is AR not living up to its promise as a tool for soldiers on the battlefield? And would you ghostwrite tweets for prominent venture capitalists? There’s good money in it. Sponsors: Merge Conflict Podcast Links: Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android (BleepingComputer) Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul (The Verge) FCC poised to ban all U.S. sales of new Huawei and ZTE equipment (Axios) Microsoft’s Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test (Bloomberg) TikTok Parent ByteDance Sets Sights on Spotify With Music-Streaming Expansion (WSJ) I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here's how I found my clients and built a booming side hustle from scratch. (Insider) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, October 13th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Signal is phasing out SMS and MMS. Microsoft is sunseting Microsoft Office branding.
0:15.4	The SEC is poised to officially ban some Chinese hardware.
0:19.1	Is AR not living up to its promise as a tool for soldiers on the battlefield, and would you ghost
0:24.4	write tweets for prominent venture capitalists?
0:27.3	There's good money in it.
0:28.3	Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Signal is planning to phase out SMS and MMS support from its Android app.
0:38.0	Users have several months, apparently, to transition away from SMS and export messages to other apps, quoting
0:46.4	bleeping computer. While this announcement may surprise those who don't know
0:50.2	signal can also be used to manage this type of text message.
0:54.2	The Signal for Android app could be configured as the default SMS MMS app since its beginning
0:59.7	as text secure, an app that used the axelotel ratchet protocol.
1:05.0	Quote, we have now reached the point where SMS support no longer makes sense in order to enable a more streamlined signal experience.
1:12.0	We are starting to phase out SMS support from the Android app. to enable a more streamlined signal experience.
1:12.6	We are starting to phase out SMS support from the Android app,
1:15.1	the company said in a blog post published today.
1:17.5	You will have several months to transition away from SMS and Signal
1:20.5	to export your SMS messages to another app and to let the people you talk to
1:24.0	know that they might want to switch to signal or find another channel if not."
1:28.0	The change will only affect Android users who set up Signal as their default SMS app.
1:34.0	Signal will start notifying them to export their SMS messages and switch to a new default
1:38.0	app to manage their SMS messages soon.
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