Tue. 11/12 - Google Wants Your Medical Records

Google has hoovered up the health records of millions of folks without telling anyone, Instagram debuts a TikTok competitor, Facebook debuts Facebook Pay, WordPress.com debuts recurring payments and Disney+ literally just debuts. Sponsors: PixelUnion.net Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans (The Wall Street Journal) Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil (TechCrunch) Facebook Pay is a new payment system for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook (The Verge) Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots (TechCrunch) Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M (TechCrunch) WordPress.com sites can now accept subscriptions with new 'Recurring Payments' feature (TechCrunch) Disney+ experiencing ‘unable to connect’ errors on launch day (The Verge) Here’s what time every episode of The Mandalorian and other Disney+ shows go live (The Verge)