Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.

This is Brian again everybody. Happy to be back.

Today, the Code Conference brings us juicy quotes from Evan Speiegel and

Marymaker's Internet trends report also. Web publishers find life after

Facebook. There's a new gaming laptop from HP, and how ambulance chasing

lawyers can target ads to people in the hospital.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The annual Code Conference is going on this week.

If you're there right now, say hi to

Gabe for me. The highlight of yesterday's conversations came when Kara spoke to

SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel. They had a lot to cover. Snapchat's redesign issues, the

SNAP IPO, Facebook copying Snapchat's key innovations and on and on and on.

Let's start with the Facebook copycat accusations.

Spiegel told Kara Swisher that his wife, Miranda Kerr,

cared more about the imitation game than he did.

Quote, if you design something that's so simple and so elegant that the only thing other people can do is copy it exactly,

that, as a designer, really is the most fantastic thing in the world.

Spiegel joked that while he was flattered that Facebook wanted to bite snap style,

quote, we would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices also, end quote.

Snap collects less data from users than Facebook does and has never offered an API as robust as Facebook's to allow users to give away their

friends information, for example.

But Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos fired back on Twitter saying, quote,

Snapchat's implicit promise that photos really disappear combined with poor API security

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