About this episode
Robinhood files for its long-awaited IPO. The Chinese government took the shine off of Didi’s recent IPO. More new features from Twitter. Is Apple the first to take advantage of 3nm chips? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: CreditKarma.com/podcast Calm.com/techmeme Links: Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios) How Robinhood's explosive growth rate came to be (Tech Crunch) Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC) Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (Tech Crunch) Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC's latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Three Weeks with iOS and iPadOS 15: Foundational Updates (Mac Stories) Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built? (Wall Street Journal) ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg) ‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (Los Angeles Times) The Tin Man Gets His Heart: An Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (The Ringer) Subscribe to SpaceCasts on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices