With Nilay roaming the wilderness of upstate New York, I talked to Alex and Dan as we imagined the possibility of Macs with OLED screens that you can touch and tried to figure out what MicroLED would do for us.
We also previewed Samsung’s next Unpacked event and attempted to use unlicensed music with some help from Siri.
Two juicy stories in the Bloomberg reporter’s latest Money Stuff newsletter, with one about the CEO of Frank being sued by JP Morgan over the user base of her financial loan application startup:
So, in essence, [Frank] paid a total of $175,000 for a list of email addresses, and then sold that list to JPMorgan for $175 million, for a perfect 99,900% return on its investment. What an arbitrage!
And more on Sam Bankman-Fried’s unusual Substack defense strategy.
Air travel is back on, big TVs are still booming, and Andrew Tate will apparently remain on lockdown for at least a few more weeks.
How’s your Wednesday morning going?
In November, Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes to 135 months, or just over 11 years, in prison for defrauding investors.
NPR reporter Bobby Allyn points out that he’s issued his full order explaining the decision (PDF), noting that Holmes was sentenced based on only about 10 percent of the money Theranos actually raised.
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This Tiger King-like trailer teases a story about a millionaire dog with Madonna’s old mansion, a personal chef, and maybe a cult.
A shocking, surprising and true story that reads like a fairy tale: Gunther, the German shepherd who inherited $400 million from a mysterious countess.
But here’s a spoiler: Gunther’s Millions is really about a long-running publicity stunt by the owner, Maurizio Mian, with no countess to be found.
The CES hangover is just about cleared, which is leaving room for some big entertainment news. That includes the trailer for the next MCU flick, kicking off Phase 5 of its superhero series, and our first review of HBO’s The Last of Us TV show.
Keep an eye on this page; we’ll post the Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania trailer once it’s available after premiering during the college football National Championship game between TCU and Georgia.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever marked the end of Phase 4 for Marvel’s exploding cinematic universe of movies and TV shows, and this flick will kick off Phase 5 before Phase 6 starts with a new Fantastic Four flick in 2024.
Update: And here it is, if you’ve missed it somehow.
Cabel Sasser is the co-founder of Panic (maker of the Playdate handheld) and also, apparently, a sucker for trawling Yahoo Japan auctions.
His annual thread of finds kicks off 2023 with some classic equipment perfect for any retro gamers, an uncle who just woke up from a 17-year coma, or any Sega fanboy / senior news editors you happen to know. And if that’s not rare enough, try this Hitachi Car Navi GPS Sega Saturn with Karaoke.
