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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Netflix launches Top 10 lists, Firefox rolls out DNS over HTTPS, Amazon Go Grocery means no cashiers or checkout lines, consolidation or super app in the Southeast Asian on demand transport space, and why this might be Signal’s moment to go mainstream. Sponsors: Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy Tinycapital.com Rhone.com/ridehome Promocode: ridehome for 20 percent off Links: New Netflix feature reveals the top 10 most popular programs on its service (TechCrunch) Netflix added a top 10 list of its most-watched content — here’s how to find it (The Next Web) Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs (Ars Technica) Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock (TechCrunch) Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines (GeekWire) Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek (TechCrunch) EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (Politico.eu) SourceCode Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Beam Ride Home for Tuesday, February 25th, 2020.
0:08.1	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Netflix launches top 10 lists.
0:11.8	Firefox rolls out DNS over H.TPS.
0:15.6	Amazon Go Gro grocery means no cashiers
0:17.8	or check out lines,
0:19.2	consolidation or super app in the Southeast Asian on-demand transport space and why this might be
0:24.8	signals moment to go mainstream. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.4	Another one of those truisms that we've come to think of as Ironclad has
0:36.5	bitten the dust today, put this in the same category as Twitter not being able to
0:41.6	ship product innovations, we can no longer say
0:45.0	Netflix will never report viewing numbers, sort of. Now Netflix is not going
0:51.3	full Nielsen, they're not going to say, you know, this show
0:53.8	specifically got some X number of million downloads over the last week, but
0:58.8	whereas Netflix used to be religious about not reporting anything in terms of the performance of
1:04.1	individual pieces of content. They suddenly seem to be leaning into the idea of
1:07.9	having a scorecard in some form or other with the launch today of top 10 lists to rank the most popular shows
1:16.7	and movies. The lists will update daily, will be region specific, and Netflix says this is designed to help you watch what everyone else is watching
1:26.3	quoting Sarah Perez and Tech Crunch
1:28.7	The shows and films making the list will also receive a special top 10 badge wherever they appear on
1:33.6	Netflix. That means if you're searching for something to watch or browsing
1:36.8	through your recommendations it will be easier to see if a top 10
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