Twitter Blue for individuals, Gold for businesses, and Grey for government officials, but you will have to pay $8.00 monthly to get it. The blue checkmark was a thing when it was super selective and odd who would get it and who would not. But if you spent years validating people, I wonder how you feel when they will delete all those verified checkmarks.

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* –Five sites for free Christmas carols, Karaoke, and songs

* –Rvian pauses partnership

* –Carvana

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* –Jeff Bezos and Micheal Strahan 

* –Ticketmaster is in trouble again

* –LG’s first 27-inch OLED monitor

* –Lexus is developing a manual transmission for EVs.

* –Twitter Blue for the second time

* –Amazon sued 

* Apple to encrypt cloud backups

* –Amazon CEO putting a stamp on the company

* –DOJ split over charging Binance 

* –Lyft’s latest EV inc...

Apple Advances User Security in a big way with announcements today about beefing up encryption across many facets of iCloud storage. The FBI of course is not happy about this as they do not have a backdoor to access those encrypted files. At this point, the more security, the better.

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* –6 social media predictions for 2023

* –6 cool things you can do with your old iPhone

* –SpaceX to launch satellites 

* –Jeep recalls over 64,000 Wranglers 

* –The ten best Chome extensions for holiday shopping

* –Telsa may bring back radar-autopilot hardware

* –A Warren Buffet-backed Tesla competitor 

* –Pixel Fold rumors

* –Elon Musk posts photos of his son X

* –Watch the moon’s eclipse 

* –“Why is SBF getting treated with kid gloves?”

* –Biden signs bill

* FBI calls end-to-end encryption “deeply concerning”

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Twitter Files announcements are huge revelations for Big Tech, MSM & Politicians and should wake people up if they can leave their politics at the door for 10 minutes. Everything today is about messaging and controlling the narrative. Why can’t the narrative be the narrative? We will see if Musk can find where the rest of the dead bodies are buried.

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* –Verizon’s 5G now covers 175 million people

* –2022 was the worst year for Chromebooks

* –The five biggest data breaches in 2022

* –HBO Max and Discovery + to be Max?

* –Tesla denies China cut production.

* –US Forest Service to try electric trucks

* –Former Twitter employees explain why Apple paused ads

* –“Duplex on the Web”

* –SpaceX pushes back Starlink data caps

* –Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter

* –You don’t have to get a Real ID for another two years

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German-based Hive App shut down servers for security issues because it reportedly leaked user data like crazy. Instead of patching it on the fly, they shut the service down and left users hanging because it was full of holes, security researchers reported. While it may have become a Twitter proxy the platform has a ways to go with the hive team announcing the shutdown ironically on Twitter.

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* Where to get free cookies 

* Spyware steals data

* Former CEO weighs on Elon

* A new huge satellite 

* Meta is moving 

* An engineer might retire or die 

* Skiers are accidentally setting off crash technology 

* Battle for Section 230

* Elon Musk’s Neurolink

* Google’s best app of 2022

* No more copper lines for Norway 

* Mozilla acquires Pulse

* Hive shuts down

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Has Apple helped suppress the Chinese people and, in turn, helped the Chinese Government in recent crackdowns? By limiting certain functions of the Apple phone. One has to begin to wonder if they only like controlled speech when there are rumors that they may remove support for Twitter on the iPhone. One may start to question the value of the iOS ecosphere when one starts to hear this combined with the actions in China.

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* –11 Amazon Prime Video tips

* –Elon Musk posted a bizarre photo

* –BlockFi files for bankruptcy 

* –New wireless smart bandage

* –EVs reduced gasoline consumption

* –Google says should do betting patching phones

* –Chinese police are searching phones

* –Comcast’s broadcast fee

* The US chip war

* –ISS resupply drops off experiments 

* –Google partners with medical tech company

* –Elon Musk claims Apple threatened to withhold Twitter

You can now support this show by the minute while using the fountain podcast app and its ability to stream Satoshi to the show at an amount you set by the minute. V4V is a model I hope you all start to embrace in all of the Podcasting 2.0 shows you support. Meanwhile, at Tesla, many prior employees are looking for a job. Considering how the job market has tightened up, we will see how that works out.

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–Google Fi offers free YouTube Premium 

* –Ten best Thanksgiving movies and where to stream them

* –Meteor lit up the sky over Niagra Falls

* –Twitter in chaos

* –Tesla recalls 321,000 cars

* –Domino’s buys EVs

* –Trump refuses to return to Twitter

* –LG reveals vibrating speakers

* –Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure.”

* –Waymo’s new robotaxi

* –A PS5 in an electric car?

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I complain about the Broadband cost I pay for not only my home internet but my office internet, which is insane. I am not alone; compared to other modern places, we pay top dollar for Internet services. The linked report below breaks down what people are paying the providers. I do not think you will be surprised.

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* –Verizon’s new test drive 

* –Meta punished employees 

* –Tesla’s new CEO?

* –Fired SpaceX employee files charges

* –Twitter Blue

* –GM will stop burning cash

* –Ticketmaster cancels sale 

* –What’s next for the Orion Spacecraft 

* –On the Lyft app, you can request a tow truck 

* –ID.me

* –Roku with layoff employees 

* –Elon Musk’s top 5 projects 

* –Facebook will remove political and religious views 

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Based on preliminary reports, many people should be imprisoned for a very long time over the FTX’s apparent Ponzi scheme, which allegedly lost 16 billion dollars in investors’ crypto investments. The financials are enough to make those that have read them go insane. Of course, with a lot of the companies offshore, we will see how much actual prosecution can actually be done.

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* –Mike’s Swoosh

* –Space Force’s Space Plane

* –Elon trolls a Senator 

* –Sonic boom rips across Florida 

* –Elon fires an engineer

* –Alexa caregiver service 

* –Hulu with Live TV adds new channels 

* –Waymo uses its taxi service for weather maps

* –Department of Interior seeks a cloud contract

* Google pays millions

* –Amazon plans layoffs

* –Apple sued for collecting user data

* –Google launches Health Connect

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Apple has placed restrictions on Apple Airdrop in China to keep activists from openly sharing police brutality and political information against the Chinese Dictator. This is now the first time Apple has bowed to Chinese government pressure in restrictions on Apple devices.

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* –Amazon loses $1 trillion in market value

* –Amazon is reevaluating Alexa

* –NASA leaves its rocket exposed to the winds

* –An “overweight” neutron star

* –Hubble image captured a supernova

* –Spotify starts testing its payments on Android

* –Tumblr will sell useless blue ticks

* –Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices

* –Twitter’s chief privacy officer and others resign

* –Rivian Q3

* –NASA confirms debris from Challenger explosion

* –Google expands its test of Google Play Store billing 

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Starlink just ruined their service with Data Caps. Rural users once again get screwed! Saved from Broadband hell and now to be throttled after 1TB of monthly usage. Very pissed off that 1TB for a Family is insulting. Elon try living in rural America, where there are few options. Plus, the insane price of paying 25 cents per GB for overage if you do not want to be throttled. Just cheaper to buy a second dish. Not a happy camper. That is the worst news of the year.

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* –New “contact protocols” for aliens

* –Over a thousand Rivian vans making deliveries 

* –SolarWinds and the SEC

* –Mastodon reaches 1 million active users 

* Barry Diller says said there is something odd with Meta

* –The electric Hummer counterpart

* –Trump won’t leave Truth Social 

* –Apple working on just Siri

* –Hopper raises $96 million

* –56-foot asteroid hurtling toward Earth

* –NASA will launch a heat shield in the shape of a saucer 

* –The DOJ seizes Bitcoins

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