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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Covid lockdown at that Foxconn factory has lifted. The surprising strength of the smartwatch sector. The surprising failure of the Kindle Scribe. Gorilla Glass Victus 2. And Sony has an actual new idea for the Metaverse. Sponsors: InternetSociety.org/techmeme Links: China’s Zhengzhou, home to world’s largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same (CNN Business) India Becomes Biggest Smartwatch Market in Q3 2022 (Counterpoint) Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data (TechCrunch) Amazon Kindle Scribe review: absolutely adequate (The Verge) Apple Music reveals top music in 2022 and listener charts (AP News) Gorilla Glass Victus 2 could save your big phone from disastrous falls on concrete (TechRadar) Sony is getting into the metaverse with a new motion-tracking system (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, the final day of November
0:07.4	2022. I'm Brian McCullough today. The COVID lockdown at that FoxCon
0:11.6	factory has lifted the surprising strength of the
0:14.6	smart watch sector the surprising failure of the Kindle scribe
0:18.5	Gorilla Glass Victus II and Sony has an actual new idea for the metaverse. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:26.0	According to Chinese state media that five-day COVID-19 lockdown in Zhang Jeng-Jao, home to Fox
0:39.2	the iPhone plant, has been lifted.
0:41.8	An analyst says the disruptions might have cost
0:44.3	Apple around a billion dollars a week,
0:47.2	quoting CNN business.
0:49.0	The relaxation of restrictions imposed earlier this month
0:51.6	in the manufacturing and transportation hub came after residents clashed with police Tuesday
0:56.8	videos circulated on social media showing residents shouting lift the lockdown
1:00.8	Gang Joachow will stop sending all close contacts of COVID-19 patients to
1:05.1	central quarantine facilities and allow some to isolate at home. The city will
1:09.6	also no longer launch district-wide mass COVID-19 testing.
1:14.0	Quote, all districts should conduct testing in a scientific manner,
1:18.0	said a Chinese official.
1:20.0	Fox Khan's massive facility is not part of Jang Shao's urban districts.
1:24.1	However, analysts say the lockdown would have been detrimental to efforts to restore lost production
1:28.6	at the campus, the site of a violent workers revolt last week.
1:32.2	This is some good news and a dark storm for Cupertino.
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