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October 09, 2022TWiT 896: The Whole Internet Burrito - Pixel Watch, banning AirTags, Musk's Twitter buy, Instagram ads
Pixel Watch, banning AirTags, Musk's Twitter buy, Instagram ads
Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899.

WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach.

Does Google have a chance against Samsung and Apple?

Google Pixel Watch Announced.

Google Kills Stadia; Why Stadia Was a Bad Product; Microsoft, Activision, and Antitrust.

Larry Page's electric air taxi startup is winding down.

Lufthansa Has NOT Banned AirTags (But If It Ever Does, Travelers Won't Comply)

Zelenskyy, Musk in Twitter showdown over Ukraine 'peace' plan.

The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th.

Elon Musk says he'll use Twitter to build an 'everything app' called X. Believe him.

How Twitter employees are reacting to today's Elon Musk news.

Chris Anderson on Twitter: "Amidst all the sneering, I'd like to offer a prediction for how the @elonmusk acquisition of Twitter will play out."

Bake Off contestant horrifies viewers with avocado peeling method during controversial Mexican Week episode.

Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline.

Yes, even Signal is doing stories now.

The Right Stuff dating app.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

FCC Finally Gets Around To Cracking Down On Annoying Robotexts.

Google settles Arizona location data suit for $85 million.

Meta warns 1 million Facebook users who installed password-stealing apps.

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website visitors.

Area Man Is Arrested for Parody. The Onion Files a Supreme Court Brief.

Boston Dynamics pledges not to arm robots.

Israel sets up AI-controlled machine gun in occupied Hebron.

SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security.

$570 million worth of Binance's BNB token stolen in another major crypto hack.

Critical Akamai bug could have let hackers poison millions of major brands' websites.

Business Envy podcast.

White House turns to TikTok stars to take Biden's message to a younger audience.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Huyen Tue Dao, Iain Thomson, and Ben Parr

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3 hr 28 min
October 02, 2022TWiT 895: Eastern Blocks - Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event
Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event
Stadia is issuing refunds - How to get yours.

Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer.

Adobe can't Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab.

Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move.

Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend's UFC Show?

Texts show roll call of tech figures tried to help Elon Musk in Twitter deal.

The True Genius of Tech Leaders.

"Buying Our Way In" was Palantir's (PLTR stock) Secret Plan to Get into the NHS.

Elon Musk unveils Optimus

Is general AI right around the corner?

Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.

James Bridle's "Ways of Being"

In Delaware's Kathaleen McCormick, Elon Musk Finds A Judge Who Means Business.

Klobuchar, Cruz strike deal to advance journalism antitrust bill.

Inside Podcasters' Explosive Audience Growth.

The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed.

Amazon hardware event 2022.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Cory Doctorow

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2 hr 45 min
September 25, 2022TWiT 894: Juking the Stats - Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images
Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images
Leo talks about his new Apple Watch Ultra.

How Fitbit helped me lose 15 pounds.

YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds.

Adobe's Aquisition of Figma is a Land Grab.

Slack's Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window.

TwistedWave, an Audio Editor.

Word Jazz by Fred Katz and Ken Nordine.

Ken Nordine - Levis Ad.

Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison.

California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The FDA may have unintentionally made 'Nyquil Chicken' go viral on TikTok.

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges.

'A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,' Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators.

The AI Unbundling.

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system.

No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.

Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.

Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers.

How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.

Enterprise Connect: Facing the Tough Issues on Hybrid Work: How Communications Technology Will Support New Ways of Working.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Larry Magid, and Shelly Brisbin

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2 hr 42 min
September 18, 2022TWiT 893: She's a Gorgy - Ethereum merge, GPU demand shifts, Adobe's Figma deal, GTA 6 hack
Ethereum merge, GPU demand shifts, Adobe's Figma deal, GTA 6 hack
Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake.

No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge.

GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA's revenue—but it's cutting ties with Nvidia anyway.

Farthest Frontier on Steam.

Nvidia is about to make a big announcement during a difficult time.

Some iPhone 14 Pro customers are getting their preorders delayed by Apple.

The iPhone 14 Index: How much of a yearly salary you need to spend to afford an iPhone 14 around the world.

Adobe (ADBE) Agrees to Buy Figma in $20 Billion Software Deal.

The career rise, fall, and return of Adam Neumann, the controversial WeWork cofounder who is back with another real-estate startup.

iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US.

We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business.

Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. They Must Go, Its Digital Minister Says.

Apple adds souped-up period and ovulation tracking to Apple Watch Series 8.

Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120.

Massive GTA 6 gameplay video leak depicts male and female playable characters.

Google loses appeal over illegal Android app bundling, EU reduces fine to €4.1 billion.

Fifth Circuit rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation.

Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Carolina Milanesi, Alex Wilhelm, and Mike Elgan

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3 hr 2 min
September 11, 2022TWiT 892: You're In Newton's Hands Now - Apple iPhone 14, Dynamic Island, Intel Optane, ETH merge, Atari 2600
Apple iPhone 14, Dynamic Island, Intel Optane, ETH merge, Atari 2600
News of Queen Elizabeth II's death broke on Twitter before the BBC.

The Steve Jobs Archive.

The Church of Apple Is a Religion Because We Made It One.

Tim Cook would rather have you buy an iPhone than use RCS.

Underestimating Apple's bold moves.

Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.

Apple picks Globalstar for emergency satellite service on iPhone 14.

iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US: Here's what you need to know.

iPhone 14 Pro: An in-depth look at how Dynamic Island works with apps, animations, more.

The Apple Watch Ultra looks like the ultra-rugged smartwatch we've been waiting for.

Passkeys in iOS 16.

Google announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch.

Twitter Whistle-Blower Never Flagged Spam, Company Tells Judge.

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Requests a New Trial.

US Treasury to Recommend Issuing Digital Dollar if in National Interest.

Google Is Counting Down to Ethereum Merge with 'Easter Egg' on Search Engine.

3D XPoint™ Breakthrough Non-Volatile Memory - Intel.

The Atari 2600 at 45: The Console That Brought Arcade Games Home.

Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year.

Instagram fined $400 million over children's data.

Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.

Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida.

New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Rene Ritchie

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2 hr 57 min
September 04, 2022TWiT 891: Use a Rivian? That's Nuts - Apple event preview, USB 4, Stable Diffusion AI, fit CEOs
Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Checking in on House of the Dragon.

Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California.

'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'.

Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare.

He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?

@negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!

Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator.

Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project.

Trint AI transcription.

Trint vs Otter.

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting.

Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs.

Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event.

Fitness bike usage down 23%.

Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman.

Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction.

Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion.

Jessamyn West - @jessamyn

USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth.

Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman.

T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable.

Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage.

The Animal Translators.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren

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3 hr 1 min
August 28, 2022TWiT 890: Jail or Olympics - Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan
Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan
Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.

Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's.

Apple's 'Far out' iPhone event will be held on September 7.

SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.

Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.

Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.

LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.

How big is your haystack?

Ethereum's Merge: Opportunities and risks.

The Crypto World Can't Wait for Ethereum's 'Merge.'

Web3 is going just great.

A Month on 'Mars': Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.

Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.

10 Million Watched 'House of the Dragon' Premiere, HBO Says.

Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of 'peak TV.'

Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.

California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.

Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.

Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.

Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.

NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.

Unbound.com offer from Wil: Use code TWIT15

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Becky Worley, Rod Pyle, and Wil Harris

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3 hr 11 min
August 21, 2022TWiT 889: The Thin Green Line - Streaming TV is winning, House of the Dragon, Zuckerberg's avatar, Pixy RIP
Game of Thrones' v. 'Lord of the Rings': The Biggest Battle in Fantasy TV History Is Here.

How About We Just Don't Watch the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel?

HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, From Streaming.

Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags.

U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says.

Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' Coverage to Be Tracked by Nielsen.

Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign.

Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?

Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter.

A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack.

Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash.

HBO Achieves New Heights of Corporate Synergy With Bizarre 'House of the Dragon' Tie-Ins.

Ring's new TV show is a brilliant but ominous viral marketing ploy.

Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy.

Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone.

Now selfie drones can fly inside Apple stores.

The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China.

A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Nicholas Deleon, and Owen Thomas

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August 14, 2022TWiT 888: Frolic and Detour - FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming
FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming
AngledDesigners on Etsy.

This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.

Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.

The FTC has kicked off its massive push to regulate the data economy.

Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests.

Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors.

Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.

TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.

Sunset of the social network.

Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever.

Apple is in talks to acquire streaming rights for Big Ten athletics, report says.

Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.

IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods.

Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked.

California DMV accuses Tesla of deceptive practices in marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving options.

The Creators of 'King's Quest' Are Back With a New Game.

Netflix's slow start in gaming.

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Doc Rock, and Brian McCullough

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2 hr 49 min
August 07, 2022TWiT 887: Chorizo in Spaaaaaaaaace! - Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase
Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase
Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.

Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.

Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.

Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.

Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.

California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.

U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.

Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.

Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.

Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.

How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.

Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.

Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.

Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.

Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.

Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.

HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.

Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.

French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Georgia Dow

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2 hr 28 min

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