Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

See, I had a feeling.

Reuters says Apple really is revealing an Apple car soon.

More details on that suit charging Facebook and Google allegedly agreed to divvy up the

ad market. The third biggest cryptocurrency says the SEC is coming after it, and

the crazy story behind those sexy butt flat pajama ads you've been seeing all over the internet

this month. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So I don't know why I had a feeling about that Apple car rumor at the end of yesterday's show but I just did have a feeling and now suddenly I look like a genius

Because all night the top of tech meme was a big story from Reuters saying sources have told them that

Apple is indeed planning to manufacture a car by 2024 which may or may not

include self-driving tech but will probably include what is being described as

quote breakthrough technology for batteries quoting the piece.

Apple has progressed enough that it now aims to build a vehicle for consumers to people familiar

with the effort said asking not to be named because Apple's plans are not

public. Apple's goal of building a personal vehicle for the mass market

contrasts with rivals such as

Alphabet's Waymo, which has built robot taxis to carry passengers for a

driverless ride hailing service.

Central to Apple's strategy is a new battery design that could quote radically reduce the cost of batteries

and increase the vehicle's range according to a third person who has seen

Apple's battery design making a vehicle represents a supply chain challenge even for Apple, a company

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