This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Dr. Matthias Farwick, CEO and Co-founder of Txture and Thomas Trojer, CTO and Co-founder of Txture. Together, they talk about Tik Tok’s fate, Snowflake’s IPO, Uber backs out of China a bit, Alicloud’s next move, Txture (https://txture.io/en) and more!

00:00 – Life in the Clouds
04:20 – Trump reviews TikTok bid
09:30 – IPSnow
13:00 – Uber’s latest sale
15:50 – Yet another new Cloud Operating System
21:30 – Belarus drying out
25:30 – Ransomware death
31:00 – Lex takes on real English
34:30 – Massive cloud migrations with Txture

 In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Apple, privacy and bag searches; Facebook's new approach to political ads as well as their AR glasses and impressive results for Watch; Microsoft tackling deepfakes; Samsung's new $2,000 folding phone; Qualcomm's new power-efficient processor; Intel's rebrand; and more!  00:00 Bank holidays and back to school 03:33 Apple's got your back... or do they 10:21 Apple's got your bag... or do they 13:19 Facebook gets political 19:27 Glasses that help you to hear 23:06 Facebook Watch has lots of watchers 26:39 Microsoft takes on the deepfakers 28:54 Samsung wants the folding stuff for its folding stuff 32:32 Qualcomm lets your laptop live 35:21 Intel gets jazzy 37:37 What next week brings 

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss the latest on the Tik Tok acquisition, Twitter's new approach to copy/paste, Amazon's new offerings and more!

00:00 – Yep, Everything still sucks
02:00 – Tiking time bomb
17:00 – Twitter shuts down the twits
21:00 – Netapp pulls the rip cord on legacy
23:00 – Expanding web based security signal, Fastly
26:00 – Google gets anti-trusted
31:00 – Amazon’s “fresh” grocery store idea
34:30 – A Halo, but with horns and hooks