Facebook papers to be released by Gizmodo and others upon review. Should be a great read to see the inner workings of Facebook. I am back from Hawaii with a hell of a scare on my back all the details on the show and of course, I hope each of you here in America has a great Thanksgiving with your families and be safe out there. I lost a personal family friend to Covid complications so the danger is still out there.

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Show Notes:

* –People are happier with their routers

* –Disney seeks analysts to spot the online piracy trends

* NASA’s DART spacecraft

* –Astra moves full steam ahead

* –US education software exposed personal data of students

* –Dodge will phase out gas-powered Charger and Challenger

* –Roku customers report streaming issues

* –FCC approves $6 billion Verizon-Tracfone acquisition 

* –Twitter adds aliases 

* –Zoom Q3

* –Rolls-Royce’s all-electric airplane smashes record

* iPhone 14 rumors

* –What’s new on HBO Max

* –FBI and CISA issue holiday warning

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Russia has blown up a Satellite into thousands of pieces and is recklessly endangering the other orbital satellites and the team on the International Space Station had to go to their capsules for real and hide out because of the idiot moves by the Russian government. This is the ultimate act of stupidity by the communist government and now we have two idiot nations causing harm.

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* Microsoft blocks workaround

* Russia rejects accusations of endangering ISS astronauts

* AT&T refused to “listen to anybody”

* Tesla Model 3 and Y without USB ports

* Meta hit with a lawsuit

* Amazon’s Black Friday

* Facebook doesn’t want you to have a chronological news feed

* Tesla’s Model Y will cost over $60,000

* Google reportedly cancels Pixel fold

* Lucid Motors 1st car is worth $169,000

* SOS

* Amazon Prime app for Mac

* Honda’s latest autonomous vehicle 

* NASA scientists and singing trees

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Apple is implementing Legacy contacts as a way for you to designate someone to get access to your iCloud account when you die and have access to that content. I have been pondering many of the questions they seem to be preparing for as folks die and those survivors have no way of accessing pictures and other digital images on their phones etc.

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* –Apple-1 computer sells for $500,000 in auction 

* –Twitter Blue

* –“We lost festive savings in family WhatsApp scam”

* –Subaru reveals the Solterra SUV

* –Vodafone to offer ultrafast broadband to millions

* –WIndows 11 SE

* –Apple to soon launch Legacy Contacts

* –Terry Crews is getting roasted

* –DJI Mavic 3 review

* –Disney CEO says sport-betting pursuits; “no impact” on the family brand

* –Alibaba’s Singles Day

* –DoorDash now delivers household essentials from Dollar General 

* –Bezos lawsuit has delayed return to the moon

* –Earth’s space junk problem is getting worse

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With the massive infrastructure bill passed will the 65 Billion earmarked for Broadband expansion actually work or will it just be a scam as it has been in the past to get internet service providers essentially a free handout. I am very skeptical that this money will truly help those of us in rural America that have absolutely horrid Internet.

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* –Motorola reportedly preps Edge 30 Ultra with Snapdragon 898

* –Elon Musk responds to billionaire tax

* –NASA plans a SpaceX splashdown

* –4 diaper-wearing astronauts leave ISS in capsule

* –US charges Kaseya hacker and seizes $6 million

* –Rivian will start selling electric vans to non-Amazon companies

* –Biden’s “historic” $65 billion broadband plan

* –Facebook considering retail stores

* –NASA’s big new moon rocket

* –Alphabet briefly hit a $2 trillion valuation

* –PepsiCo says its first Tesla semi is coming this year

* –Walmart is using driverless trucks

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Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin team have been smacked down by a judge and their lawsuit going after SpaceX and NASA has been dismissed. Personally, I think if Blue Origin spent more time getting higher into space instead of playing around would go a long way into validating the company for real lift potential versus being used for low orbit joy rides for the rich.

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* –Proposed EV tax credit

* –Waymo and NYC

* –Federal judge quashes Bezo’s lawsuit against NASA

* –Nikola sets aside $125 million to settle with SEC

* –Amazon Flex drivers will start getting checks for $60 million

* –DoorDash adds in-app safe features

* What happens if an asteroid heads toward Earth?

* –Rivian hit with a gender discrimination lawsuit

* –New astronomy roadmap

* –GoPro says the chip shortage won’t affect holiday sales

* –Crypto scammers stole $500,000 

* –Meta announces new tools for Facebook groups

* –AT&T and Verizon will delay 5G expansion

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Facebook has an ongoing PR disaster on its hands with thousands of internal company research papers to show how bad the company has been misbehaving over the years on a wide variety of fronts. Yet it will have little consequence going forward.

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* –“5D” storage could fit 500TB on a CD

* –Elon Musk says he’ll sell Tesla stock if UN can solve the hunger crisis

* –NASA astronauts harvest green chile on the ISS

* –Apple’s app tracking policy 

* –Facebook’s rebranding to Meta mocked

* –Amazon begins Black Friday early

* –Chromebook sales fall hard

* –Facebook takes down a government-run troll farm

* –Amazon’s Project Kuiper

* –Massive Sun solar flare hits Earth

* –Amazon lifts mask mandates

* –Tesla starts selling home charger

* –Apple’s macOS Monterey

* –Facebook planned to lure 6 years olds

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If you have been waiting to upgrade to a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon the wait is over as Apple has announced a quite amazing lineup of new computers so impressive that folks placing advanced orders could barely get them ordered as their website was simple slammed.

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* –The Beatles land on TikTok

* –Scientists successfully encode famous research paper in dye

* –NASA’s Lucy mission launches

* NASA spacecraft launches towards Jupiter asteroids 

* –Facebook, 30 journalists working on “coordinated” articles

* –What to expect from Google’s Pixel event

* –The 10 best websites to find internships

* –T-Mobile extends its speed lead

* –Walmart lures customers to its Walmart+ subscription

* –Amazon’s Zoox

* –Toyota will build a US battery plant

* Foxconn unveils 3 new EV prototypes

* –Facebook posts jobs ad

* –Sinclair says it has been hit by a ransomware attack

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Apple is rumored to announce the new Macbook Pro with the new M1X Apple silicon. Additionally, they may be releasing a Mac Mini with the same chip in it. This will be the announcement many folks have patiently waiting for. The question is what will the availability be for the new computer.

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* –Foxconn reveals “Foxtron” EV

* –Amazon reportedly favors its own brands in search results

* –These are the best cheap Wi-Fi 6 routers

* –Visible confirms hackers accessed user accounts

* –Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China

* Google modernizes US mobile search results

* –Apple’s “Unleashed” event

* –Pressure mounts on Amazon and App Store

* –Facebook says it’s expanding its “less political” newsfeed

* –Twitter begins testing ads in replies

* –Apple captures 75% of the global handset market

* –Spotify opens its Car Thing waitlist

* –House bill would limit Section 230 protections

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October 9th, 2004 was when this show was launched, and while the 17th anniversary is a big thing. The bigger news is that I do not have Melanoma Cancer. I go into great detail about what I was told, what happens next, and of course some warnings to all of you. In addition some changes to the sponsorship offer by GoDaddy as well.

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* –Facebook whistleblower will brief Oversight Board

* –FTC warns of scams

* –Star Trek’s William Shatner on his plan to boldly go into space

* –Sally Ride will be featured on the 2022 quarter

* –SiriusXM partners up with Audio Up

* –Google Pixel 6 leaks

* –15 years of Google Docs

* –Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.0.2

* –Apple tries to block Epic’s court win

* –Google pulls “stalkerware” ads

* –Twitter’s tool for removing unwanted followers

* –Starliner won’t launch until 2022

* –Google TV

* –Ford’s “Charge Angels”

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Happy International Podcast Day everyone. Nothing like starting a show and the gear go weird on you. But otherwise, it has been a very productive week. The People’s Choice Podcast Awards is starting at 9 pm Eastern so if you miss it live you can watch the replay.

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Show Notes:

* –Boost Mobile and Dish’s new phone

* –Amazon’s Astro

* NASA reports multiple fireballs

* –NASA’s Mars helicopter flight delayed

* –Blue Origin is a “toxic environment”

* –GM can’t find the chips

* –Spotify’s quiz will help you find a new podcast

* –Wyze’s new smart scale

* –Visually impaired users for iOS 15 can’t use features

* –US and EU to cooperate

* –Facebook announces updates to Messenger

* –Apple reveals most popular podcast subscriptions

* Google Maps latest update

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