Wed. 03/01 – Bluesky Launches

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

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Decentralized social network Bluesky launches in the iOS App Store. TikTok adds wellbeing feature for families and kids. You know about eSIMs but say hello to iSIMs. Meta's entire four-year AR/VR roadmap. And I’m still banging the drum on laptops and smartphones where you can unroll the screen for more real estate. Sponsors: RelationshipHero.com/techmeme Links: Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app (TechCrunch) Republican Bill That Gives Biden Power to Completely Ban TikTok Passes House Committee Super Fast (Gizmodo) TikTok rolls out new screen time controls, adds new default settings for teens and expands Family Pairing (TechCrunch) Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones are the first to support built-in 'iSIMs' (Engadget) This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (The Verge) Lenovo’s rollable laptop and smartphone are a compelling, unfinished pitch for the future (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, March 1st,
0:06.8	2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.9	Decentralized Social Network Blue Sky launches in the iOS App Store.
0:13.2	Tic-Toc adds well-being features for families and kids.
0:17.2	You know about E-Sims, but let me tell you about I-Sims.
0:21.5	Meta's entire four-year ARV-V-R-V-R-V-R-M roadmap has leaked and I'm still banging the drum on laptops
0:26.7	and smartphones where you can unroll the screen for more real estate. Here's what you missed
0:30.6	today in the world of tech.
0:41.0	The decentralized social network Blue Sky has officially launched in the iOS App Store as an Invite Only Beta.
0:43.5	Twitter started Blue Sky in 2019 and spun off the project in 2022.
0:49.8	And let me take this time to editorialize just a bit.
0:52.3	Nothing says decentralized like having a wait list, right?
0:56.2	Quoting Tech Crunch.
0:57.7	Blue Sky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter
1:00.3	co-founder and CEO Jack Dorseysey has hit the App Store and more testers
1:04.2	are gaining access. Though the app is still only available as an invite-only
1:08.1	beta, its App Store arrival signals that a public launch could be nearing. We
1:12.3	haven't heard much from Blue Sky since October 2022
1:15.0	when the team behind the project shared an update on the Blue Sky blog
1:18.7	detailing the status of the social protocol
1:21.0	that powers its new Twitter-like app also called Blue Sky.
1:24.3	A.T. originally called ADX or authenticated transfer protocol
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