Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 21st, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Sonos launches its own streaming radio service. Huge trove of Facebook accounts has been

purchased on the dark web. Google goes with free to compete with Amazon and

product search. Kickstarter is seeing a huge drop in project launches and we finally have a date for the

HBO Max launch. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Sonos has launched its own streaming radio product called

appropriately enough Sonos Radio. It comes preloaded now on the Sonos app with more than 60,000 stations from multiple

partners alongside original programming. It is free to use and it should show up in

a software update rolling out today, quoting the

Virge. Sono says radio playback accounts for nearly half of all the time

that customers spend listening to its products, Quote, complementing the 100 plus streaming options available on Sonos, the new service introduces

a holistic and cohesive way to explore radio, bringing together more than 60,000 stations from multiple streaming partners

alongside original programming from Sonos, the company said in its press release.

These partners include Tune In and I-Heart Radio to obvious go-to picks for this category.

In the local radio section of Sonos Radio you'll be able to easily pull up your local

NPR station, Sports Talk, News Shows, or Other Favorits, or Listen to Something from Across the Globe if you choose.

You won't get every feature of Tune In or I Heart Radio as part of Sonus Radio, but the partnerships

check off the core function of streaming live radio.

Sonos says more partners including radio.com in the US and global in the UK are coming soon.

But the second more interesting pillar of Sonos Radio is

original programming found under the Sonos Presents section and this is

headlined by an ad free station called Sonos Sound System. Think of it like Apple's Beats One. The company

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