MacBook Pro updates show Apple listened to pro users, who never warmed to the Touch Bar or lack of ports [TechMeme]
Jan. 6 committee recommends contempt charges against Bannon [AXIOS]
WTF Is bitcoin doing today? Oh, new ETF [Quartz]
Apple's China Problem — Much of Apple’s success is built around its relationship with China, which is both one of Apple’s largest markets as well as where most of its products are manufactured. It’s a complicated relationship that has seen Apple make compromises with an authoritarian regime over privacy and human rights in pursuit of huge profits.
This episode is produced in collaboration with reporter Wayne Ma and the technology and business publication ‘The Information.’ [Recode]
Everything Apple announced at its 2021 MacBook Pro event [TheNextWeb]
A Toasty Bulgogi Melt Recipe From TikTok’s the Korean Vegan [Eater]
How NFTs are creating a generational divide between platforms [Platformer]
Gary Vaynerchuk's Next Act: Spreading the Gospel of 'Kind Candor'Soft skills are the brash media executive's secret weapon. He explains his philosophy--and why he's not a walking contradiction. [Inc.]
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I Wrote Over 52,000 Words Last Month Thanks to an AI Writing Assistant [Medium]
Stress-Less Leadership (by Nadine Greiner) [Entrepreneur]
Google's Much-Hyped Pixel 6 Undercuts Its Peers at Just $599 [WIRED]
TWiT News 377 - Apple Unleashed Event - M1 Pro & M1 Max MacBook Pro [TWIT]
NEW M1 Max MacBook Pro Reaction: The Ports are Back! [MKBHD]
Driving the Rivian R1T in NYC: electric pickup truck! [Sam Sheffer]
The TEAL Gaming PC [Dave2D]
The most POWERFUL MacBooks are HERE! M1 Pro and M1 Max! [iJustine]
Google Tensor is a milestone for machine learning [Google Blog]
Google at ICCV 2021 [Google AI Blog]
Digital Get Down -- How we come together online. [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Martian floods filled Jezero Crater, Perseverance finds [Astronomy Magazine]
What Is a Trailblazer? [Salesforce]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 375 & BENKYO RADIO 375.

While everybody is excited about the new Apple products, here is something that we must remember. Apple pushed all of us to use a bunch of adaptors for USB-C, and 5 years later, they’re essentially selling us a 2008 laptop. It’s nice that it has HDMI and SD card slot but still no regular USB ports, you’ll still need an adaptor for those. These new laptops sound incredibly amazing, but still out of reach for the average user. Tim Cook has a chance to redeem himself by doing the following: releasing a new Mac Mini with M1 Pro & M1 Max. He can definitely make it affordable because it won’t have a screen and it’s not a laptop. A new Mac Mini (available in the rainbow colors of the new iMac) would sell like hotcakes. Please make it happen. If you want me to dip my toes into Logic Pro again, please release a new Mac Mini ASAP. Don’t make us wait many more months. Need I remind you that there are huge Microsoft announcements on the horizon including #RazerCon2021. I can either go for a Mac Mini soon, or start working on a “Starship Enterprise”-looking monitors setup. Thanks for listening.

Until Next Time!