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May 16, 2021TWiT 823: My Sequel Injection - Colonial Pipeline ransom, Pixel 6 leaks, Biden's Venmo, Twitter Blue
Colonial Pipeline ransom, Pixel 6 leaks, Biden's Venmo, Twitter Blue
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom.
Elliptic Follows the Bitcoin Ransoms Paid by Colonial Pipeline and Other DarkSide Ransomware Victims.
Old photos fuel misinformation around gas shortages.
Apple robbed the mob's bank.
More about Apple's walled garden.
Amazon Sidewalk launches June 8 with support for Tile trackers.
Dan talks about his experience covering Qanon for CBS News.
What to expect from Google I/O 2021.
Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro leak reveals a totally new look and hardware.
Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff.
Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash.
As much as $365 billion wiped off the cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops car purchases with bitcoin.
Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin.
'Twitter Blue' subscription service to include undo tweets feature and 'Collections,' priced at $2.99.
Bill Gates reportedly left Microsoft's board amid probe into relationship with staffer.
We Found Joe Biden's Secret Venmo. Here's Why That's A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Dan Patterson, and Owen JJ Stone
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May 09, 2021TWiT 822: Five Pounds of Mortadella - Facebook Oversight Board, Google vs. Roku, Epic vs. Apple, Musk on SNL
Facebook Oversight Board, Google vs. Roku, Epic vs. Apple, Musk on SNL
SNL and Elon Musk: Dogecoin takes center stage.
What's wrong with Doge?
'Tiger King' star Carole Baskin explains why she's releasing a 'purr-ency' crypto coin.
Oversight Board upholds former President Trump's suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose a proper penalty.
Twitter account sharing posts from Trump's new blog is already banned.
Fortnite made more than $9 billion in revenue in its first two years.
Apple's App Store Had 78% Margin in 2019, Epic Expert Says.
App Store review process has over 500 human experts; less than 1% of rejections are appealed.
Emails reveal 128 million iOS users were affected by 'XcodeGhost' malware.
96% of US users opt-out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find.
Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned.
Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app.
Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication.
Introducing Tip Jar.
Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites.
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip.
What a Crossword AI Reveals About Humans' Way With Words.
Digging in the dust of AOL and Yahoo's lost internet empires.
Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality.
Study Finds No Link Between Time Teens' Spend On Tech Devices And Mental Health Problems.
Noah Bought $2,619 Worth of SpongeBob Popsicles.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Owen Thomas, Christina Warren, and Alex Wilhelm
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May 02, 2021TWiT 821: Bring in the Privacy Pod - Big quarter for big tech, AirTags and privacy, Resident Evil 3 speedrun
Big quarter for big tech, AirTags and privacy, Resident Evil 3 speedrun
'A Perfect Positive Storm': Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech.
EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case.
Apple Signals Hot Streak to Continue as Sales, Profit Surge.
Apple releases iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and watchOS 7.4, allowing Apple Watch owners to unlock with Face ID while wearing a mask.
Apple AirTags could enable domestic abuse in terrifying ways.
Bitcoin Industry Grapples With Age-Old Problem of Inheritance.
Warren Buffett's Deputy Calls Bitcoin 'Disgusting' And Bad For Civilization.
Lossless streaming option for Apple Music may launch within weeks.
AirTags Are Scarily Good At Tracking Items And ... People. I know Because I Tried!
Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms.
Apple commits $430 billion in US investments over five years.
YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue.
Brianna Wu RE3 Speedrun 54m01sec.
Google's Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls.
Roku removes YouTube TV from the channel store as dispute with Google escalates.
Amazon's profit soars 220 percent as pandemic drives shopping online.
Amazon's cloud division reports 32% revenue growth.
Samsung's new Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are lightweight laptops with OLED screens.
Twitter stock plunges on user miss and low guidance.
What really happened at Basecamp.
Basecamp Employees Are Leaving After CEO Bans Politics at Work.
GM rolls out seamless EV charging across multiple networks.
SpaceX Capsule Returns Four Astronauts Safely to Earth in Nighttime Splashdown.
In a nod to Trump, Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies.
Volkswagen investigated by SEC over 'Voltswagen' prank.
After years as a meme, 'Disaster Girl' takes control of her image — with a hefty payoff.
Facebook's Oculus, EA, and Respawn Win Game Industry's First Oscar for 'Colette' Documentary Short.
Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9 billion on fallen giants.
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog's Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash.
Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Brianna Wu, Nate Lanxon, and Tim Stevens
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April 25, 2021TWiT 820: Hide the Pickle - Apple event roundup, Big Tech Antitrust action, Signal CEO hacked Cellebrite device
Apple event roundup, Big Tech Antitrust action, Signal CEO hacked Cellebrite device
Apple announces a new iPad Pro with an M1 chip, Thunderbolt, 5G, XDR display.
Time for Apple to pull off the Band Aid and merge the iPad and Mac—at least their operating systems.
Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event.
Apple announces thinner iMac with M1 chip and bright colors.
Apple announces $29 AirTag, a new Tile-like item tracker.
Apple in the hot seat.
Apple antitrust hearing: Tile likens Find My network to a 'hostage' program, App Store scam apps, more.
How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions.
App Stores in Congress, Apple's Arguments, Meta Points.
No, The Original Siri Remote Doesn't Suck – If You Do This.
Apple announces the new Apple TV 4K.
Someone deciphered the Ted Lasso shortbread recipe from Apple's Spring Loaded event.
Apple Must Face Lawsuit Over iTunes "Buy" Button.
Facebook-backed Diem aims to launch a digital currency pilot in 2021.
Chat App Discord Ends Takeover Talks With Microsoft.
Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool and Became a Legend.
Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal.
The Florida mystery of dormant Pentagon IP addresses.
The Slander Industry.
Over $200 billion wiped off the cryptocurrency market in a day as bitcoin plunges below $50,000.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight.
Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky Has Died.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Rene Ritchie, and Dwight Silverman
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2h 29min
April 18, 2021TWiT 819: Introducing Club TWiT - Apple's Spring event, Jeff Bezos letter to shareholders, Elon Musk and NASA
Apple's Spring event, Jeff Bezos letter to shareholders, Elon Musk and NASA
Introducing Club TWiT.
Apple's 'Spring Loaded' Event Officially Announced for Tuesday, April 20.
Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song.
Why It's Misleading to Say 'Apple Music Pays Twice as Much Per Stream as Spotify'.
Google subsidiary moved $75bn in profits through Ireland in 2019 using "double-Irish".
Google 'partially' misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds.
Nobody is flying to join Google's FLoC.
Jeff Bezos says Amazon needs to do a better job for employees in his final shareholder letter as CEO.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to deliver an Astrobotic lander and NASA water-hunting rover to the moon in 2023.
Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving.
Should We Trust The Facebook Oversight Board?
Facebook oversight board delays decision on Trump ban to 'the coming weeks'.
Amazon's The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465 million for first season.
Google Earth's historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change.
Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors.
You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the "Eee PC".
Dogecoin spikes 400% in a week, stoking fears of a cryptocurrency bubble.
Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023.
NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday.
NYPD Deploys "Creepy" New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex.
Adobe co-founder Chuck Geschke dies at 81.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ed Bott, Rich DeMuro, and Alex Kantrowitz
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2h 40min
April 11, 2021TWiT 818: The Tunnel That Bored Vegas - Google vs Oracle, Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel, Google IO 2021
Google vs Oracle, Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel, Google IO 2021
Why new Apple products are arriving later than ever this year.
White House set to host Google, Intel CEOs to discuss computer chip supply chain.
Sixty-Week Delay on Router Orders Shows Scale of Chip Crisis.
Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software.
Elon Musk's 'Public Transit' in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel.
Kara Swisher Interviews Tim Cook.
Apple Admits Why It Keeps iMessage Off Android.
Classic Hangouts shutdown starts as Google Voice and Fi integrations stop working.
Apple Adds Support For Third Parties to Find My Network.
Apple Arcade finally got the boost it needed.
Apple Details Ways Advertisers Can Measure the Impact of Ads Without Tracking Users Ahead of iOS 14.5 Launch.
Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend.
Pixel 5 sees massive GPU performance gains with April 2021 update.
Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down.
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
Microsoft in Talks to Buy AI Firm Nuance Communications.
Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong.
E3 2021: Dates Set For Free Virtual Video Game Event.
LG to Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide.
Empathy emerges from stealth with $13M for a digital assistant aimed at bereaved families.
Logitech officially discontinues its Harmony remotes.
Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony.
Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Denise Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren
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2h 27min
April 04, 2021TWiT 817: TVPhreak997 - MS Build 2021, Hololens & US Army, ACLU's privacy letdown, Google's Pixel 6 chip
MS Build 2021, Hololens and the US Army, ACLU's privacy letdown, Google's Pixel 6 chip
Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles.
It's official: Microsoft Build will be May 25 to 27.
Microsoft pushes back 'full' Redmond campus reopening to September 7.
How Quarantine Has Affected Introverts.
Introverts faring worse than extraverts emotionally and psychologically amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Google ditches Mobile World Congress 2021, the world's biggest phone show.
Microsoft gets $22bn HoloLens contract with US military.
Cortana killed off on 3rd party apps, Redmond only from now on.
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS.
Who doesn't have a Clubhouse clone?
25 years later, Space Jam has a new website — and the first trailer for the sequel.
Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility - Volkswagen US Media Site.
IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos.
Pixel 6 powered by Google-made' GS101' Whitechapel chip.
Reminiscing about old tech like the Sidekick.
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.
ACLU, a defender of digital privacy, reveals that it shares user data with Facebook.
Supreme Court Rules Facebook's Automated Text System Doesn't Count As Robocalling.
TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity.
Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us.
Activision Reveals Malware Disguised as 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Cheats.
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach "Catastrophic".
Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal's Movies From HBO Max, Netflix.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Iain Thomson, Doc Rock, and Christina Warren
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2h 27min
March 28, 2021TWiT 816: Who Owns the Clone - CryptoPunks and NFTs, Chrissy Teigan quits Twitter, Microsoft buying Discord?
CryptoPunks and NFTs, Chrissy Teigan quits Twitter, Microsoft buying Discord?
CryptoPunks, NFTs, and the Blockchain.
Tesla cars can be bought with bitcoin, says Elon Musk.
The Future Today Institute's 14th Annual Tech Trends Report.
Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion.
Is the ship still stuck?
Evergiven Everywhere.
Amazon delivery drivers have to consent to AI surveillance in their vans or lose their jobs.
New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica unions authorize a strike.
Twitter's 'unofficial mayor' Chrissy Teigen quits the platform after years of harassment.
Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders.
Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits the website contributed to Capitol riots.
Genican, an Alexa-powered trash can.
Prenuvo - Full body MRI for early cancer detection.
Found My Fitness.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google CEOs grilled by Congress on misinformation.
Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Asked Congress to Eliminate all of Facebook's Future Competition.
Inside BitClout, the Dystopian Social Network with Big Backers and Vocal Critics.
New York launches the nation's first 'vaccine passports.' Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out.
Sleep tech: Ooler and Eight Sleep.

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March 21, 2021TWiT 815: Never Go to the Second Location - Twitter hacker sentenced, a sting Apple event, Instagram for kids
Twitter hacker sentenced, a sting Apple event, Instagram for kids.
Ludwig Ahgren: The Twitch Livestream Subathon.
Twitter might let you undo tweets if you pay a subscription fee.
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets.
Donald Trump is creating his own social media network that will go live in a few months.
More on the Twitter subscription model.
Time is running out to bid on an NFT version of Jack Dorsey's first tweet if you really must.
Here's How Bored Rich People Are Spending Their Extra Cash.
530-HP 2022 BMW i4 Revealed, Offers 300-Mile Range.
Amazon driver quits, saying the final straw was the company's new AI-powered truck cameras that can sense when workers yawn or don't use a seatbelt.
Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them.
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13.
What are CryptoPunks and why are they blowing up the NFT art world?
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16.
Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison.
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well.
Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming.
Government Agencies Clash over How Much to Regulate Self-Driving Cars.
Apple seeded disinformation about March 23 event to root out leakers, leaker says.
PS5's VR 2.0: First Look At New Controllers.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizes Apple on Clubhouse.
Owen JJ Stone closes the show.

Host: Leo Laporte
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2h 42min
March 14, 2021TWiT 814: Imbued With Musk - $69 Million JPG, rural internet gets a boost, Netflix password sharing crackdown
$69 Million JPG, rural internet gets a boost, Netflix password sharing crackdown
JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace.
Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme.
Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini.
Amazon Day 1 Editions.
Apple event alert: We could see new Apple products by the end of the month.
Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information to the media.
Nicholas almost opens his NFT purchase from Top Shot on the show.
Leo considers making the first episode of TWiT an NFT.
Google's FLoC Is a Terrible Idea.
Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing.
Google call Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism".
Federal investigators blast Tesla, call for stricter safety standards.
Musk, Tesla Board Sued Over Tweeting in Violation of SEC Deal.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for a record ninth time bringing 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit.
House, Senate Democrats unveil $94 billion bill to improve Internet access.
Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household.
Roblox jumps to $38 billion market cap as public investors get their first crack at the popular kids game app.
'Tech' the new normal after a tough year.
New Deepfake Spotting Tool Proves 94% Effective – Here's the Secret of Its Success.
Optimize Your WiFi Network for Working at Home.

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