The media cannot get enough of Elon at the helm at Twitter with a bit of trolling and him moving fast to produce revenue. I share my thoughts on the new $8.00 fee for Twitter blue and all the expected changes. This time next week, things should calm down in the tech space, but wow, the Twitter news is everywhere.

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Show Notes:

* –Sling increasing prices 

* –500 drones will create a giant Candy Crush

* –A Wi-Fi security flaw

* –Mozilla announces $35 million fund

* –AstraZeneca password lapse

* –The first Hyperloop tunnel in California is gone

* –The NYPD and Ring

* –Crime group highjack news websites

* –Half of Twitter users won’t pay to use the site

* –Apple is worth more than Amazon and more

* –Vonage to pay $100 million

* –Netflix ad-supported tier starts at $6.99

* –Amazon does Matter

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A new era has begun at Twitter, with Elon Musk taking control, delisting the company from the stock exchange, and at the very same time, letting the board of directors go. He very quickly started to make changes and brought in an army of engineers and friends that he trusted to figure out what is happening in the company. Employees are running scared, and he has set some immediate agendas and goals. We will see what happens as he fully works to bring the company into profitability.

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Show Notes:

* Verizon is raising fees

* Twitter layoffs and price surge for Twitter Blue

* Musk dissolves Twitter’s board of directors

* iPhone’s production could be hampered

* Google’s Haloween Doodle

* Chegg exposed data

* The White House global ransomware summit

* UK police fail to use facial recognition 

* Facebook probably has your phone number

* M2 MacBook Pros could arrive next March

* Unconfirmed hack of Liz Truss’ phone

* The world’s most powerful rocket

Tonight we celebrate 18 years of podcasting and the journey thus far. Thank you for your long-term support of the show and those that have contributed to the show and supported our sponsors over the years. I am truly humbled. See you a week from now as I am on my way to Riyadh for the Ignite conference to talk about podcasting.

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Show Notes:

* –The seven most common Android hardware problems

* TAG Heuer partners with Nintendo

* –Nudge Security

* –Stanford’s robotic boot

* –Target.com is the latest retailer to support SNAP payments

* –Digital licenses approved in CA

* –OnlyFans lawyers reveal Meta executives took bribes

* –Slack is having issues

* –Black hole “burps.”

* –Amazon’s prototype satellites

* –Google and giant video chat booths

* –The creator of Amazon Kindle has left the company

* –Twitter is testing a way to limit men...

Paypal was going to play moderator of content its customers were posting and impose a $2500 fine for any instance they deemed misinformation. This caught with immediate outrage. The company has denied that this was supposed to be included. I think they were just doing a cover there six uh oh. Also, Geek News Central Podcast turned 18 years yesterday. I will mention it on the next show, as I completely forgot to talk about it tonight, LOL.

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The first map of the Milky Way Graveyard

China fuels Last Space station Module

–YouTube TikTok Battle plan

–Starlink V2 Woes

Microsoft Surface Event.

–Windows 11 Phishing support.

–Whole Food Price Increases.

–YouTube users to get Usernames.

–SpaceX Images of latest Launch unique.

–1 Billion Years of Tectonic Plate shifts.

–NASA Titan Landing Spot.

–Robocall for Landline issues FTC.

–No Starlink for China.

–How to Delete Paypal Account.

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For the next five years, NASA will be flying over five states to search for rare earth minerals to support green initiatives and not depend on the Chinese to sustain green energy manufacturing. Last Friday, the Podcast Awards ceremony went off without a hitch, and I announced the 17th annual winners.

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Show Notes:

* Tim Cook meets with the Pope

* –Apple no longer activates its SIM cards for iPads

* –Yahoo Mail app update

* –Amazon is launching a dedicated hub

* –Black holes can’t trash info about what they swallow

* –Incredible view of DART asteroid impact

* –Stephen King’s latest thriller

* –Walgreens turns to robots

* –YouTube Premium and 4K

* –NASA’s hunt for minerals

* –A data-sharing agreement between the US and the UK

* –Mets settle lawsuit

* –Hulu’s price is going up

Amazon has launched 11 new products leading up to the holidays and their next big sale. See all the details. I will be hosting the Podcast Awards ceremony at 9 pm Eastern tomorrow, Friday the 20th, on all my normal streaming locations. You can also grab the latest New Media Show to glimpse what is happening in the Podcasting 2.0 space I have been talking about.

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Show Notes:

* Roku and Nielsen

*  Twitter rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers

* GM partners with OneD Battery Sciences

* Tesla’s Cybertruck a boat?

* Amazon’s QLED 4K TV

* –Jack tried to get involved with Elon

* iOS 16 is a battery drain

* An Apple executive sues

* –MGM+

* Google challenges ISPs

* YouTube Personal Stories

* Google kills off Stadia

* –Hurricane Ian delays SpaceX launch

* –Super Supernovas

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Dictator Putin has made Edward Snowden and Russian citizen. The traitor has lived in Russia for many years under the regime’s protection. I can only hope that they give him a job in the national security sector, and he also leaks Russian secrets. Congrats to NASA and their successful impact on the Asteroid by the Dart probe.

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Show Notes:

* Apple may release MacBook Air, new Mac Pro, and more

* –New 8K receivers 

* –Prime Early Access Sale

* –Airlines to give out refunds for busted Wi-Fi

* –Australia to overhaul privacy laws

* –Walmart arrives on Roblox

* –Apple Music is the sponsor for the Super Bowl Halftime Show

* –Google fights with Big Tech

* –Elon Musk and Larry Ellison

* –US Department of Energy has $42 million

* –Lego unveils a 6,187-piece “Razor Crest” set

* –Netflix is building a game studio

* –Apps that had adware on both Google Play and Apple App stores

Artemis 1 appears to finally have its leaks fixed and will potentially be able to launch on its third attempt next Tuesday. We will see if our US tax dollars can get this beast off the pad and into space. If so, NASA can redeem itself after being made look like fools the past month or so.

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Show Notes:

* –NASA and Hideo Kojima

* –A cheaper Chromecast with Google TV

* –What’s new on Paramount+

* –Australia phones cyber-attack

* –The first Mario movie trailer

* –The state of Florida and the Supreme Court

* –Facebook users sue Meta

* –Meta could lift the ban on Donald Trump

* –Verizon’s rebranded TracFone

* –The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act

* Amazon scores big with Thursday Night Football

* –Starlink speeds drop

* –The FCC and satellite operators

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YouTube has increased the number of ads viewers endure to unprecedented numbers. Some of them are as short as six seconds, with many ads across programming unable to be skipped, and viewers are not happy. This is one reason why I pay for an ad-free YouTuber experience. How many ads are you being forced to watch on my YouTube channel?

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Show Notes:

* Alexa to provide branded answers

* YouTube ads

* Big Tech to buy to get taller

* NASA’s third attempt

* Zoom outage

* Dinosaurs were not wiped out by asteroids

* School app was hacked

* Uber Posh

* Microsoft is uncertain about the economic environment

* SendBird

* A new AI assistant 

* Elon Musk says self-driving cars are the future

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Blue Origin Capsule Safely Escapes after the main stage suffered an anomaly. This was an uncrewed flight, but the systems worked as advertised, the capsule was fully recovered, and the main stage was lost. While tragic, the simple fact that the safety systems worked as advertised is a real confidence builder.

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Show Notes:

* –Fix laggy internet with these extenders

* –Google pays “enormous sums.”

* –Ford and Lincoln offer hands-free highway driving 

* –No buyouts for Chevy dealers

* –AT&T breaks promise

* –Blue Origin

* –Trevor Milton

* –Football fans unable to watch on DirectTV

* –ReelTime

* –New Tesla attack

* –China discovers new unknown mineral on the moon

* –Apple raises battery costs 

* –A “hard bundle” of Disney+ and Hulu

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