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Porsche & things that caught my eye this week
Porsche enlists Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Porsche enlisted Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (aka Bill & Ted) to promote their new electric powered sports cars. There is so much to unpack here. I suspect Porsche wanted to target gen-xers (and more likely early millennials) with a mid-life crisis. They probably wanted something that was…
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Signal messenger + more things
Signal privacy orientated messenger Signal has become a popular messaging clients among my contacts for privacy orientated messaging. I’ve shared this guide a number of times, so I thought I would share it here. More on Signal messaging here. I use Signal on my phone and my desktop computer, both of which are an integrated…
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VR Headset + more things
Apple’s first VR headset will reportedly be powerful and pricey – CNET – its a rumour so take with a pinch of salt, the approach outlined reminded me of being rather similar the way Oculus was in their early model VR headset devices. It is also interesting how they consider a VR headset as a…
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Frys Electronics + more things
The disappearing history of the Bay Area’s themed Frys Electronics stores | SF Gate – there couldn’t have been hardware startups without Frys electronics stores. As Frys goes, so does Silicon Valley and I don’t think that loss of hardware hacking is a good thing. Frys is odd and idiosyncratic, but that’s part of the…
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Hydrogen fuel cells + more news
Hydrogen fuel cells Hyundai and Ineos team up to develop hydrogen future | CAR Magazine BMW details fuel cell plans | EE News – I think that this move to hydrogen fuel cells makes more sense than lithium ion batteries. Hydrogen fuel cells are well understood, having been used by NASA during the Apollo space mission,…
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Ant Group saga + more things
Ant Group saga Beijing interviews Jack Ma over $37bn Ant IPO | Financial Times – Ant Group founder and shareholder Mr Ma last month gave a speech in Shanghai criticising regulators in China and abroad. He felt that Ant Group shouldn’t suffer their excessive regulation of banking and financial technology. That didn’t go down that…
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Vietnam boomtowns + more things
Apple’s Shifting Supply Chain Creates Boomtowns in Rural Vietnam – Bloomberg – Vietnam is becoming the new China. While China has been impacted by problems of its own making, resulting in diversification of supply chains and trade disputes. This Vietnam build-out feels very much like build out in China during the late 1990s and the…
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CPO
I came across the idea of CPO in GQ magazine. I know few people that have bought anything other than the G-Shocks in their collection for retail. There’s a few reasons for that: Watch resellers A number of watch dealers that were known by word-of-mouth have gone to the wall. For instance, Austin Kaye, which…
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iPhone 12 range launch
Apple announced a four phone iPhone 12 range: I looked at the event using a social listening tool and the thing that really struck me was where the people commenting on it where commenting from. Thinking about key Apple markets; at least some of the buzz seems geographically misplaced. There was a distinct lack of…