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We recap Apple's event, including the MacBook Pros, M1 Pro and M1 Max, third-gen AirPods, the Apple Music Voice Plan, and the HomePod mini.

Hosts: Emil Protalinski (@epro), Brian McCullough (@brianmcc), and Steve Moser (@SteveMoser)

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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Facebook's apparent pivot to privacy, Snap losing creators as its payouts decrease, the seemingly endless battle against racist abuse online, and lots, lots more.

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Some of the headlines from Big Tech News this week: Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Google Tensor, YouTube Premium Lite, Windows 11, Windows 365, Apple's controversial photo scanning, and plenty in between. Subscribe to the BTN newsletter here.

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• Emil Protalinski (@epro)
• Kyle Wiggers (@Kyle_L_Wiggers)

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All things metaverse! Why is it on everybody's lips at the moment? When will it arrive? Is it already (kinda) here? With @janineyorio from Republic.co.

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• @chrismessina
• @brianmcc

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Plus, the Hyper fund from Product Hunt, Automattic's acquisition game, and Twitter tests downvotes?

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Boost VC has been backing blockchains since before anyone called the industry crypto: it was just bitcoin then. An early stage investor that also ran an incubator, Brayton Williams takes us back to the days when they decided to back 100 bitcoin startups. They met that goal by 2018, though they expanded their thinking into all of crypto. Today they also invest in amazing people and potentially trillion dollar future markets. The idea is: make science fiction a reality. 

BACKGROUND: https://www.coindesk.com/boost-vc-just-fulfilled-a-crypto-funding-pledge-4-years-in-the-making

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Ash Egan has been investing in crypto for about 6 years, inspired in particular by the Ethereum whitepaper. He's been part of rounds with firms like Chainalysis, BlockFi and Circle, was prescient on decentralized finance and saw early the potential for other smart contract blockchains, a narrative that's still playing out. We discuss venture investing in crypto as well as some of his greatest hits so far. 

Some background: https://www.coindesk.com/ash-egan-accomplice-vc-acrylic-ventures-55m

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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: RIP fleets, Facebook's problem with admitting it has a problem, tackling abuse of sportspeople on social media and lots more.

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• Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)

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Bloomberg's @Lucas_Shaw comes on to explain the math of that Black Widow stream release story from Monday. Then @alexeheath from the Verge explains the death of Fleets, the creator thirst at Facebook and then we all get into the questioning the real value/process of Twitter verification.

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Mark Nadal is building the GUN Database, a vision of the web where the internet only has the data users give it for as long as applications really need it. He's a pioneer in a decentralized internet but is vocally not a blockchain guy. He describes a vision for the internet in which everyone gains and it isn't about getting rich or focusing on financializing everything. Debate ensues.

Some background links:

https://hackernoon.com/twitter-bluesky-a-decentralized-protocol-proposal-hi193337

https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20

https://www.coindesk.com/sign-on-web-not-websites

https://www.dropbox.com/s/elcarpqbh888oy0/The%20Decentralized%20Web.mp3?dl=0

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