Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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February 16, 2022TWiG 651: The Voltron of Terrible - Android Privacy Sandbox, EARN IT mistakes, Spotify's big buys, Metamates
Google to limit Android tracking; Social media, ad-tech names slump.

Spotify Buys Podcast Analytics Firms Podsights and Chartable.

Top 25 US papers have total circ of 3.1m.

Coinbase's bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app.

Don't Miss Out on Crypto: Larry David FTX Commercial.

Crypto apps soar in popularity after Super Bowl splurge.

All Superbowl ads: Relevant: Amazon mind-reader, Polestar, Coinbase.

Doctorow: A comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism.

Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans.

Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years.

Meta's Clegg Promoted as Zuckerberg Steps Back From Policy.

The Top Ten Mistakes Senators Made During Today's EARN IT Markup.

Senator Klobuchar's Next Unconstitutional Speech Control Bill: The NUDGE Act.

U.S. Copyright Office Consultation Triggers Massive "Upload Filter" Opposition.

Robots Have No Place Filtering Creative Content, EFF Tells U.S. Copyright Office.

YouTube's Content ID System Flags, Demonetizes Video Of Cat Purring.

Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin case against N.Y. Times regardless of jury verdict.

So nice they killed it twice: Google+'s business pivot is dead.

Trump teases first post on new Twitter-like TRUTH Social site.

Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff.

How a Secret Assault Allegation Against an Anchor Upended CNN and Jeff Zucker.

Nearly a quarter of Americans get news from podcasts.

Big Gmail redesign starts rolling out to personal accounts as Google explains how the new UI works.

It's the end of Google's free storage plan.

Google Drive's new filters that make search easier are rolling out to everyone.

Google Docs getting AI-generated summaries, collaborative email templates, and more.

Android 13 deep dive: Every change, thoroughly documented.

Google Home 2.48 brings Android TV remote to iOS, tweaks for Wifi graphs.

Google Play Store now shows new app install progress directly on the homescreen.

Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs.

The race to reconnect Tonga.

The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now.

Trading.TV raises $8M to be Robinhood-Twitch combo.
Picks:
Leo - The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb

Jeff - Disney is developing planned communities for fans who never want to leave its clutches

Ant - Particle Illusion by Boris FX

Ant - Calibrate Your Monitors with a Spyder

Ant - Thanks for Ordering Ant's Old School "NFTs"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 33 min
February 09, 2022TWiG 650: Theoreticals Upon Hypotheticals - Galaxy S22 Ultra, Meta's Europe threat, Bitcoin laundering
International Space Station will hurtle to Earth in 2031— but it won't hit you.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a Note successor with a built-in stylus.

Samsung's Galaxy S22 preorder site won't let you preorder a phone.

Samsung's new tablets go bigger than ever.

Unpacking 7 features on the latest Samsung Galaxy devices.

Barry Diller's Media Group Ends Print Versions of InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Others.

Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans' data on US servers.

40 Starlink satellites succumb to geomagnetic storm.

Stunning view of SpaceX Starlink satellite breakup over Puerto Rico.

There Are Now 1,000 Unicorn Private Company Startups Worth $1 Billion or More.

Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial.

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems.

Feds arrest married couple, seize $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds.

IRS abandons ID.me facial recognition plans.

The end of #lawyercat.

Google adds Journeys to Chrome: search your history by topic.

Android 12 February security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live.

Google's latest Pixel 6 update breaks things, again.

Pixel 3 and 3 XL get final update with February security patch.

Android 12L Beta 3 rolling out, including for Pixel 6 and 6 Pro.

Google Chrome icon gets first update in 8 years & will now be customized for iOS, Mac, Windows.

Roblox developers and creators earned over $500m in Robux during 2021.

UK to require age checks for porn, which in turn requires verifying identity; privacy fight to follow.

Nvidia officially terminates its Arm purchase.

Google auto-enabled 2SV for over 150M people leading to 50% decrease in compromised accounts.

Meta is adding a 'personal boundary' to VR avatars to stop harassment.

Peter Thiel to exit Facebook's board to focus on 2022 midterms.
Picks:
Stacey - Black history tour of Seattle

Jeff - TikTok media followers

Ant - The Ozone Nightmare

Ant - Thank you, Miss Robin Roberts

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 31 min
February 02, 2022TWiG 649: Tone Deaf and Loud - Big Quarter for Pixel 6, Spotify's platform rules, too late for Android tablets?
Big Quarter for Pixel 6, Spotify's platform rules, too late for Android tablets?

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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2 hr 30 min
January 26, 2022TWiG 648: Band Saws and Butt Joints - FLoC is dead, ID.me and facial scanning, Neil Young gone from Spotify
Google: Goodbye FLOC, hello Topics.

German publishers raise new opposition to Google's third-party cookie plans.

Google proposes a new way to track people around the Web. Again.

Why Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana.

FLoC is dead. But Topics won't fix Google's ad targeting problems.

IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes.

IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access.

End Of The Line For Google Cloud's G Suite Legacy Free Edition.

G suite migration.

We Studied 81,000 Page Titles - Google Rewrote 61% Of Them.

British law groups recommend immunity for drivers of self-driving cars.

The self-driving car industry is abandoning the term 'self-driving' and leaving it to Tesla.

Halo.car - The electric car that drives to you.

Chicago Public Media to acquire the Sun-Times.

Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over 'False Information About Vaccines'

Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements.

Samsung officially announces February 9 launch event for Galaxy S22.

N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyberattacks -researchers.

Hacktivists say they hacked the Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup.

Manufacturers have less than five days' supply of some computer chips, Commerce Department says.

You no longer have to say 'Hey Google' to get the Assistant to shut up.

Pixel's big At a Glance upgrade starts rolling out with more Google Clock & fitness integrations.

Google Chat adds rich text formatting on the web, rolling out now.

YouTube Music will soon work for supervised kid accounts enrolled with Family Link.

Oh, please, can we have a TWiG mini-musical? By brandonethridgemusic on TikTok.

Mark Cuban's latest business venture is a cash-only pharmacy that takes aim at crushing drug prices.

Meta ad for Horizon.
Picks:
Stacey - Hestan Cue: The World's Most Advanced Smart Cooking System

Jeff - Twitter kills Worldle-killing bot

Ant - Ant on Because We Make Podcast

Ant - News Anchor Hit by a Car

Ant - Good Luck, #hardhead

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 33 min
January 19, 2022TWiG 647: It's A Disco Floor For Your Wall - Joe Rogan Misinformation, Blizzard
Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68b

US regulators go after illegal mergers

Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Unbelievable video of EU commissioner promoting digital legislation

Spotify Pressured by 270 Scientists, Medical Professionals Over Joe Rogan Episode

Spotify shuts down its podcast studio

DirecTV Finally Dumps OAN, Limiting The Conspiracy And Propaganda Channel's Reach

Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person's path

Nanoleaf retires original HomeKit Light Panels, takes up to 50% off in commemorative clearance sale

How the SOPA Blackout Happened 10yrs ago

eyeo wins landmark copyright court decision; protects digital rights and sets an important legal precedent for who 'owns' HTML

Crypto.com Suffers Hack For At Least $15M in Ethereum (ETH)

Cryptoderps think buying a copy of a Dune version gives them copyright to produce it

Cryptoderps follow up

German company's use of Google Analytics 'breached GDPR'

SearchEngineLand turned off AMP; nothing happened

Google kills YouTube Originals

Jeff Jarvis Tweets

Tesla driver is first to face felony charges in a crash involving autopilot

Andre Leon Talley passes

Android 12 Update

How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State

Canon EOS R5 C - Ant's Pick

Follow Ant on Instagram

$200k Donatas - Jeff's Pick

GE Cafe Smart Oven - Stacey's Pick

Cheezam ! By Prevision.IO - Computer Vision with AI for cheese - Leo's Pick

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 31 min
January 12, 2022TWiG 646: The Opposite of Long Covid - Web3, Google vs. Sonos, Samsung no-shows, worst of CES, Google Ripple
Taco Bell launches Taco Lover's Pass subscription nationwide with 30 days of tacos for $10.

You can safely ignore Web3 by Mike Elgan.

Web .0000012 by Jeff Jarvis.

My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike.

Signal: New year, new CEO.

Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions.

'Second time lucky?' FTC's case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules.

After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful.

Why Apple's iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble.

Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won't say why.

Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22.

Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk's Starlink antenna hits surprise problem.

Why is Zynga worth a whopping $12.7 billion? (Hint: It's not FarmVille).

500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining.

Wordle - A daily word game.

Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers.

An open letter to YouTube's CEO from the world's fact-checkers.

Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech.

Third-Party Software for Teslas Can Be Hacked, German Teen Says.

E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.

About 70 S.Korean attendees of U.S. tech show test positive for COVID-19.

US man claims his penis has shrunk due to rare Covid side effect.

When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In.

Marques Brownlee: My Pixel 6 Pro has slowly gotten so buggy since launch in October that I can no longer recommend it at $900.

Google rolling out Android 12L Beta 2 for Pixel phones.

Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling.

Pixel Launcher 'At a Glance' widget gains doorbell camera previews, more.

Now you can learn what's new in each Google Play system update for Android.

Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more.

The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism.

The Athletic: Good for the Times, a potential disaster for local news.

"Aw, screw it": LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery.

We're Giving Wyze Person Detection to All Users at Whatever Price You Want.
Picks:
Mike - Chatterbox is the only smart speaker that meets EDUCATIONAL and PRIVACY standards

Jeff - Most populous time zone

Leo - Morgan Stanely out with quite the note on the idea of the mobile metaverse

Ant - A great time on Behind the Shot TV with Steve Brazill and Don Komarechka

Ant - #hardhead Modeled for Me and Jefferson Graham at Balmy Alley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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2 hr 41 min
January 05, 2022TWiG 645: I Will Retaliate At A Later Date - CES 2022, Ancillary Copyright, Elizabeth Holmes, Huey Lewis
CES 2022, Ancillary Copyright, Elizabeth Holmes, Huey Lewis

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2 hr 41 min
December 29, 2021TWiG 644: The Year's Best - The Best TWiG Moments of the Year!
Leo Laporte takes us through some of the best moments from the past year. 2021 highlights include:
Sea-shanty TikTok!

Bernie Mitten Memes!

Trey Ratcliff Talks About NFTs

Is Linux REALLY Better?

How To Create For TikTok

Sabrina VHS Results in Felony

Nobody Seems to Like FLoC

Beethoven and Content ID on YouTube

Map of the Internet

Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

Is Sundar Pichai An Effective Leader?

Leo's Sudoku Recommendations

Sweet Dreams, TWiG

Catching Up With Craig Newmark

TikTok's 'Grace Kelly' Acappella Challenge

Billie Eilish... On Your Echo Studio?

Craig Newmark barbershop quartet!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 13 min
December 22, 2021TWiG 643: The Verdant Lady - Dorsey's anti-Web3 post, Reddit IPO, what Google killed in 2021, Pixel 6 update
Amazon, Meta Scrap CES Plans in Las Vegas After Covid Surge.

Jack Dorsey caused an uproar with a bizarre Web3 Twitter rant.

'Bitcoin will replace the US dollar', says former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Reddit Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement Related to Proposed Public Offering.

Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds.

Everything Google killed in 2021.

Google says Chrome OS users are 'engaging' with Android apps 50% more YoY.

Nearly 1,000 App Publishers Earned $1 Million for the First Time in 2021.

In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond.

Where is the December Update for the Pixel 6 Series?

Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan's FTC.

Long but eventful drive to the hospital.

TikTok Is Getting Into the Restaurant Business.

TCL resumes selling its Google TVs after rolling out software fixes.

Verizon and Google Cloud to collaborate to deliver 5G mobile edge computing.

Chrome 100 could break some websites next year, but Google is working on solutions.

Melania Trump emerges to launch new NFT platform meant to 'inspire' — and earn cash.

Adidas reveals new NFT project with Bored Ape Yacht Club.

NFT of world's first text sells at auction.

'Severe weather alerts' appear to be disabled for the Pixel Launcher 'At a Glance' widget.

Google is turning off the controls for OnHub routers at the end of 2022.

Google Voice lets you create custom rules for incoming calls.

Google finally stops selling the Home Mini after four years.
Picks:
Stacey - The Elevated Craft® Hybrid Cocktail Shaker.

Jeff - Public Domain Day 2022.

Stacey - The Big Book of Espionage.

Jeff - Internet Hall of Fame inductees.

Leo - I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business.

Bunny the talking dog learns to count.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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2 hr 20 min
December 15, 2021TWiG 642: A Clattering of Smart Phones - Log4Shell, Assange extradition, person of the year, Meta naming rights
Hackers Backed by China Seen Exploiting Security Flaw in Internet Software.
US wins appeal over extradition of WikiLeaks founder.
Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021.
Elon Musk named Financial Times 'person of the year' .
Ant Pruitt named TWiT of the Year.
Monkey NFT Typo Causes Seller To Lose Out On $297,000.
Pixel Launcher, 'At a Glance' unintentionally sends out Philippines storm warning globally.
How a bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused this user's 911 call to fail.
Apple Removes All References to Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature From Its Child Safety Webpage.
Better CEO 'Taking Time Off Effective Immediately'.
MGM Resorts Job Seekers Can Try Out Roles in VR Before Starting.
Google is threatening to fire unvaccinated employees.
Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban
Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible.
Why publishers like Vox Media are merging with their biggest rivals.
Internet Association, once a top tech lobby, to fold at end of year.
Google to give additional staff bonus this year.
Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change.
Facebook owner is behind $60 mln deal for Meta name rights.
Instagram quietly hits 2 billion monthly users.
Grand Theft Auto video game ban proposed by Illinois State Rep. Marcus Evans.
December security patch rolling out to Pixel 6 and 6 Pro with 80 bug fixes.
Pixel Stand (2nd gen) starts shipping with first orders arriving this week.
'High-power' 21/23W charging on Pixel 6 & Pro with new Pixel Stand requires December update.
YouTube TV could lose Disney, ABC, & ESPN channels this week, price drop if deal not reached.
Google releases a new Wear OS 3 preview, offering a better look at the design outside of Samsung.
Correcting the history of IoT.
@Nicky_Dover: The Internet of Things boldly asks "what if everything in your house works like that new printer your mom just got"
Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start Into a Subscription Service.
Picks:
Stacey - Peppermint Brownie Cookies.
Stacey - Flic 2 Starter Kit.
Jeff - New elevator data tells the story of the movement of people in cities globally.
Jeff - 52 things I learned in 2021.
Leo - Minecraft crosses 1 trillion views on YouTube.
Ant - New "Adobe Creative Cloud Express" is super useful.
Ant - Christmas Tuba Extravaganza.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 17 min

About Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots.

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