TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement

• Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
• The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
• Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
• A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
• Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
• Pinterest bans political ads
• Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
• Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
• Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
• China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
• We still don't know who will buy TikTok
• Apple announcement coming 9/8?
• AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
• Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
• Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
• US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
• California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
• CableCARD nearing its end
• Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
• It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
• Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, and Louis Maresca

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