• Apple shifts to its own chips - will Google?
• The fastest computer in the world runs on ARM
• Apple Silicon Macs won't run Windows in Boot Camp
• iOS 14 takes the best features of Android - widgets, calls, picture-in-picture, etc.
• What comes after Zoom?
• Pixel 4a coming in July - maybe even July 7th
• Sergey Brin's secret disaster relief squad
• Amazon Kills the Dash Wand
• Amazon wants Live TV, NBC launches Peacock
• Twitter wins Devin Nunes' Cow suit
• Mike Masnick's Bad Section 230 Takes
• Jeff Jarvis's proposal to stop passing dumb tech laws
• Reminiscing about The Site
• Leo's Tool: Hey Email
• Ant's Thing: Photo Quest by Rick Sammon
• Jeff's Numbers: First decline in Google ad revenue because Covid, Amazon and Facebook ad revenue still up

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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• Watch Stacey's Machine Learning on the Edge Conference!
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• Leo buys a $75,000 Boston Dynamics Spot robot
• Google puts Juneteenth on Google Calendar, creates a racial equity task force
• Google did not demonetize The Federalist
• Conservatives want to limit Google's and other social media's Section 230 protections
• Facebook and Instagram will let you block political ads, help 4 million people register to vote
• How to record Twitter audio clips
• Twitter removes Chinese, Turkish, and Russian propaganda accounts
• How the CIA was hacked in Vault 7
• Google tries to fight Zoom by adding Meet to Gmail
• Adobe Flash will finally die this year
• Why T-Mobile was down, and what the FCC will do about it
• Why the Internet Archive bought a record store
• US no longer in top 10 internet speed countries
• eBay executives send journalists roaches and a pig mask
• Leo's Tool: Bellus 3D Printed Mask Guards
• Stacey's Thing: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
• Jeff's Numbers: 21 years ago investment in Google

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Amazon bans police use of their face recognition tech for 1 year
• Android 11 public beta: how to install it
• Collapse OS: a post-apocalyptic operating system
• US Space Force could lose trademark to Netflix Space Force
• Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel phones in 2019
• Pixel Buds get a fix for the wrong problem
• Google sued for sucking up data about you
• Google+ is shutting down for real this time
• Googlers have to eat box lunches, no gym, no sleep pods
• Google Wing drones bring books to children
• DuckDuckGo CEO says Google is in anti-trust trouble
• Protest organizers are using Google Docs
• Jeff Jarvis' letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
• "Dear Class of 2020" highlights
• How 2020 is like 1968
• Bon Appetit apologizes, Conde Nast dithers
• Twitter makes Juneteenth a permanent company holiday
• Nascar nixes Confederate battle flag
• Why the NFL should apologize to Colin Kaepernick in private
• Get Doom and Doom II for free on your Chromebook
• Amazon sues former employee over a non-compete clause
• Twitter: read that article before you retweet it
• Twitter starts verifying people again - if they are COVID scientists
• Jack Dorsey gives $3 mil to Colin Kaepernick's org
• No encryption for free Zoom users so they can cooperate with the police
• ACLU sues Los Angeles for tracking scooter users
• Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian quits, asks to be replaced by a black man. Reddit replaces him with Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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• Jeff gets a Taco Bell care package
• CES 2021 is happening in-person. Would you go?
• Google delays Android 11 beta event out of respect for Black Lives Matter protests
• YouTube drops the 3rd season of Cobra Kai, pivots away from scripted TV
• Facebook employees walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to stand up to Trump
• Snapchat stops promoting Donald Trump over his tweets
• Here's how much money Donald Trump spends on Facebook
• More people are complaining about Pixel Buds
• AT&T says HBO Max will not count towards data caps, but Netflix and Disney+ will
• The German newspaper that is delivering beer, shoes, bread, and office supplies to people sheltering in place
• Elon Musk is taking a break from Twitter
• Netflix buys Grauman's Egyptian Theater so its features can win Oscars
• Italian prosecutor demands the banning of Project Gutenberg's collection of public domain books over copyright infringement.
• Publishers sue the Internet Archive for online book lending. Here's a better way to borrow e-books.
• Third Pixel Drop fixes your battery, improves Recorder, and makes bedtime better
• Google's new AR tool makes social distancing easy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies
• Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less
• Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco
• California's anti-freelancer law under attack
• Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home
• Google employees get a day off on May 22nd
• Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media
• Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots
• Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th
• We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business
• Google launches a podcast about Google
• CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski
• Prime Day moving to September
• Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well
• US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant
• Electric Taste Machine
• Electric Smell Machine
• Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home
• Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching
• HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone
• What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Why didn't IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future
• Zoom vs StreamYard vs HopIn.to vs Whereby vs ZoomCast
• Google bans Podcast Addict for hosting COVID podcasts - back now
• Super Spreaders and Covid-19
• Spotify buys Joe Rogan podcast for $100 Million
• New York Times builds its own ad network
• Apple and Google release coronavirus contact tracing API
• Google is making a new Nest Hub Max interface for Senior Centers
• Facebook launches Shops to compete with Amazon and Rooms to compete with Zoom
• Amazon gives T-shirts to all the employees whose pay they are cutting
• Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for $3.4 billion
• Rumor: Amazon will buy JCPenney
• First species discovered on Twitter eats millipede genitals
• Twitter tests a way to limit who can reply to your tweets
• Google tests touch-sensitive headphone wires
• Google Buds vs Galaxy Buds vs Surface Buds
• Google fights back against accusations that it has cut diversity programs
• IFA will be live this year - 5,000 attendees only
• USA vs Huawei vs Apple
• B8ta launches Shopsafely.co to rate retailer safety
• Protocol is the new GigaOm
• The new work-from-home calculus - when will big tech workers go back?
• Microsoft Build news: RTOS, Fluid Framework, and Azure supercomputers

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Hugo
• Leo's Tool 2: SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator
• Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
• Stacey's Thing 2: Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference
• Jeff's Number: WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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How to Work From Home Forever

• Zoom fatigue is a real thing
• Twitter employees can work from home forever - do you want to go back to the office?
• Google employees are charging their shelter-at-home lunches to their expense account
• Pixel shake-up - top members of the Pixel team have left Google
• Jarvis' Pixel Buds are still busted - and now so are Jason Howell's
• Pixel Buds will get feature drops
• Jeffrey Katzenberg blames Covid-19 for Quibi's failure
• Google Meet captions are incredible
• Jeff interviews the voice of Steak-Umms
• Taco Bell Quarterly - Taco Bell Poetry
• Can Facebook possibly regulate itself?
• Google's Sidewalk project in Toronto is canceled
• Facebook's new American Edge pro-tech advocacy group
• Amazon hired 175,000 new workers to deal with COVID order spikes
• Amazon's new Kindle Fire
• Netflix and Amazon Prime win the streaming wars
• Hamilton coming to Disney+ July 3rd
• Uber tries to buy GrubHub
• Australia wants Google to pay for news snippets
• Doomscrolling
• Luminary podcast network raises another $30 million to burn
• France gives platforms one hour to remove pedophilia and terrorism-related content

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Scunthorpe Sans - A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically
• Stacey's Thing: August Wi-Fi Smart Lock
• Jeff's Numbers: 1.8m people pretend to be ants on FB

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Pixel Buds Problem, Pew Die Pie's YouTube Deal

• New Pixel Buds have a major problem
• Elon Musk and Grimes' baby X AE A-12
• Governor Cuomo appoints Eric Schmitt to COVID panel
• Does technology help education? What lessons are we learning from distance learning?
• Apple/Google contact tracing API sample code
• Bruce Schneier: contact tracing apps have absolutely no value
• PewDiePie gets an exclusive YouTube deal
• Some Good News, YouTube, and Facebook hold online graduation ceremonies
• Facebook announces 20 members of its oversight board
• Serena and Venus Williams' Mario Tennis match
• Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay
• .org sale called off
• Tik Tok is a hard place to make money
• Wink moves to a subscription model
• New Sonos speakers
• New York shuts down the subway for the first time ever
• Twitter will warn you before you send a vulgar tweet
• Tom Cruise and NASA will make a movie in space

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Jukebox
• Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
• Jeff's Numbers: Zoom is worth more than all US Airlines

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Elon Musk vs Coronavirus, Facebook and Oprah's Virtual Graduation

• Elon Musk: "FREE AMERICA NOW!"
• Colleges worry they will go out of business if they stay closed in the fall. Is Zoom the answer?
• What we don't know about Coronavirus is as important as what we do know - how media needs to improve
• Mark Zuckerberg tightens his control of Facebook
• Jeff Bezos back to day-to-day operations at Amazon
• Apple/Google virus contact tracing API launches today
• Facebook and Oprah hold a virtual graduation ceremony for the class of 2020
• Berkeley Students recreate campus in Minecraft
• Google requires all advertisers to verify their identities
• Yale Law Journal: advertising is obsolete in the information age
• Google Meet is now free for all
• Waze tests lane advice
• Google kills Shoelace, the social network nobody knew about

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Sourdough Discard Recipes
• Mathew's Thing: Boston Dynamics' Spot helps COVID-19 patients
• Jeff's Numbers: Cotter dog derby

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mathew Ingram

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Google Debit Card, Zoom Burnout

• Google is working on a debit card to rival Apple card
• Google posts testing center maps
• Zoom burnout is now a thing
• Microsoft: how to preserve privacy while tracking COVID-19
• Amazon shuts down 6,000 accounts for price gouging
• Twitter tried to tell us that the government is spying on you. A judge just said they can't.
• Tubi is mining credit bureaus to target ads at you
• Palantir will track COVID-19 for Trump
• Is Twitter good again?
• Fortnite on Google Play
• Stuntmen on Twitter

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: How-To: Data Tracking for a Sourdough Starter - Twilio
• Stacey's Thing: Folding@Home on a Pi
• Jeff's Numbers: Twitter discovers White Castle paté

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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