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January 02, 2022TWiT 856: Best of 2021 - The best TWiT highlights of the year!
Leo Laporte takes us through the past year in tech. 2021 highlights include:
Comparisons between the roaring '20s and the NEW roaring '20s

GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader

CryptoPunks, NFTs, and the Blockchain.

Nicholas almost unboxes his NBA NFT

Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13.

Jeff Bezos' Legacy as CEO of Amazon

How Amy Webb Beat Her Insomnia

Rick Roll gets 1 billion views

IBM PC Turns 40 Years Old

"New Data Says More Communities Built Their Own Broadband Because of COVID.

U.S. Broadband Wireless Speeds Climb to Pathetic 14th Place Globally. "

China's central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows harsh crackdown.

iPod is 20 years old

Host: Leo Laporte

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2 hr 12 min
December 26, 2021TWiT 855: Smitten by 2021 - Biggest stories of the year including Meta, mRNA, Log4j, NFTs, Ransomware
Biggest stories of the year including Meta, mRNA, Log4j, NFTs, Ransomware
COVID-19's impact on tech.

Elon Musk in 2021.

The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.

GM's heated seats and steering wheels are the latest casualties of the chip shortage.

Baby Driver: Philadelphia woman gives birth in the front seat of Tesla on autopilot.

The tangled history of mRNA vaccines.

Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage.

The Harvard Job Offer No One at Harvard Ever Heard Of.

Microsoft's very bad year for security: A timeline.

Log4j: The 'most serious' security breach ever is unfolding right now.

REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward.

Billionaires in space.

FAA: No more commercial astronaut wings, too many launching.

Fact check: Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket launch didn't emit carbon.

Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon's C.E.O., handing the reins to Andy Jassy.

In a surprise tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he's stepping down.

Square is changing its name to Block.

The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg's Escape Hatch.

A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived.

Lina Khan's Battle to Rein in Big Tech.

Top trend of 2021: The Metaverse.

2021 ends with a question: Are NFTs here to stay?

Android 12: Everything you need to know about Google's new big update to the popular OS!

Colonial Pipeline: How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom.

Sinclair Confirms Ransomware Attack That Disrupted TV Stations.

A comprehensive breakdown of the Epic v. Apple Ruling.

Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled.

Ever Given container ship leaves Suez Canal 106 days after getting stuck.

VW rebrand turns out to be April Fool's joke.

Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV.

Don't be fooled — Amazon's Astro isn't a home robot, it's a camera on wheels.

I swallowed one of my AirPods.

Woman swallows AirPods accidentally; claims device recorded audio from her stomach.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Mikah Sargent, and Jason Howell

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2 hr 26 min
December 19, 2021TWiT 854: Filters Not Included - Log4j vulnerability, YouTube and Disney make up, Tardigrades, Anti-5G necklace
Log4j vulnerability, YouTube and Disney make up, Tardigrades, Anti-5G necklace
Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks.

The Next Wave of Log4J Attacks Will Be Brutal.

The Numbers Behind Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228.

YouTube TV Reaches Deal To Bring Back Disney-Owned Channels Including ESPN, Disney Channel, & ABC.

Oh Doctah's thoughts on the Great Resignation.

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

BuzzFeed Suffers Wave of SPAC Investor Withdrawals Before Going Public.

Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021.

EV tax credits: Manchin a no on Build Back Better bill, putting $12,500 incentive in doubt.

Record-Breaking Eight Mobile Games Surpass $1 Billion in Global Player Spending During 2021.

Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app development on iPad.

Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start Into a Subscription Service.

Dog helps his human move tires and figures out how to carry four tires in one bite.

TikTok says it's removing 'alarmist warnings' about school violence.

I'm getting this PAGASA message on my AOD and lockscreen.

Meta says nearly 50,000 journalists and activists were targeted by sophisticated spying operations on Facebook and Instagram.

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

RadioShack Announces Ambitious New Cryptocurrency Exchange: RadioShack Defi.

Homeland Security launches 'Hack DHS' bug bounty program.

Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online.

Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive.

Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Jeff Jarvis, and Tim Stevens

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2 hr 46 min
December 12, 2021TWiT 853: Make It Cozy - Worst 0-day in a decade, Amazon outage, Assange extradition, Birds Aren't Real
Worst 0-day in a decade, Amazon outage, Assange extradition, Birds Aren't Real
Six dead, no hope of more survivors after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse.
Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package.
An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries.
Amazon Outage Disrupts Lives, Surprising People About Their Cloud Dependency.
Instagram's CEO faces senators accusing his company of harming some young users.
Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022.
The US wins appeal over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder
Inside Tim Cook's Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities.
Apple's Empty Threat? Silence Over iPhone Ad Workarounds Sows Confusion.
All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan.
Mercedes-Benz gets the world's first approval for an automated driving system.
A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars.
Tesla Cybertruck with updated design spotted on test track.
'No easy solution' for Tesla Cybertruck's comically large windshield wiper, Elon Musk says.
Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain.
I want to go back!' Michael Strahan can't get enough of space after Blue Origin launch.
TCL stops selling Google TV lineup over software & performance issues, updates coming soon.
Amazon is shutting down the web ranking site Alexa.com.
Grand Theft Auto video game ban proposed by Illinois State Rep. Marcus Evans.
Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance.
Jessica Rosenworcel was confirmed by Senate to lead the FCC.
New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions: "It's definitely a life-changer".
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
Ex-Apple Engineer Cher Scarlett No Longer Withdrawing U.S. Labor Agency Complaint Against Apple.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Shira Lazar, Alex Kantrowitz, and Carolina Milanesi
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2 hr 39 min
December 05, 2021TWiT 852: Mystery Hut on the Moon - Jack leaves Twitter, what is Web3, Bitcoin crashes again, Cyber Monday
Jack leaves Twitter, what is Web3, Bitcoin crashes again, Cyber Monday
China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon.
Jack is leaving Twitter and we have ~thoughts~
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?
Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block.
Twitter's new CEO announces major reorganization of the social networking company.
Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent.
Far-right is using Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers.
Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter.
Is web3 BS?
Bukele steps up El Salvador's bet on sliding bitcoin; buys another 150 coins.
Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend.
Black Friday data adds to evidence e-commerce growth is slowing.
The Chip Shortage Has Made a Star of This Little-Known Component.
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy.
FTC Challenges Nvidia's Deal for Arm Holdings.
Move Over, GE. The Tech Conglomerates Are the New Leaders of Industry.
U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy.
Russia threatens criminal charges against a NASA astronaut.
NASA delays ISS spacewalk over debris worries.
The Mars Rover video and sound. It's so eerie and yet so interesting / thought-provoking.
Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider.
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11's controversial default browser changes.
New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media.
Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan
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2 hr 19 min
November 28, 2021TWiT 851: Doomtown Rats - Black Friday, Apple sues NSO group, rats play Doom, MicroClimate AIR2
Black Friday, Apple sues NSO group, rats play Doom, MicroClimate AIR2
Scientists Focus on Whether Omicron Variant Causes Severe Illness.
CES 2022: CES - The Most Influential Tech Event in the World.
MicroClimate AIR2.
Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels.
Amazon sees 'record-breaking' Black Friday, official says.
New York Times' Wirecutter Staff Goes on Strike Ahead of Black Friday.
Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware.
Apple's AR headset coming next year with 'Mac-level' power: report.
Apple's Car Project: Everything We Know.
Sam's Thoughts on the Apple Car.
Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle.
What is the future of personal car ownership?
Galaxy Note is dead; Samsung reportedly ending production on Note 20, no plans for the 2022 model.
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental health.
Related: The CEO of cosmetics retailer Lush says he's 'happy to lose' $13 million by deleting Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat accounts over teen mental-health harms.
Germany plans to phase out the sale of combustion-engine vehicles to help meet its ambitious goal of getting 15 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030.
Rats named Carmack and Romero are playing Doom.
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Doc Rock, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Sam Abuelsamid
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2 hr 24 min
November 21, 2021TWiT 850: Leo, not Leopoldo - Apple's self-repair program, space debris, Constitution NFT, Xbox 20 years old
Apple's self-repair program, space debris, Constitution NFT, Xbox 20 years old
Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena.
Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin Outbid a Group of Crypto Investors for Copy of U.S. Constitution.
Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs.
13 dumb arena names inspired by the Staples Center becoming 'Crypto.com Arena'.
El Salvador to Create 'Bitcoin City,' Use $500M of Planned $1B Bond Offering to Buy More Crypto.\
Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public.
Apple's Pointless Self-Repair Program.
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout, demand CEO step down.
Xbox Chief Says He's Evaluating Relationship With Activision.
Microsoft Pressures Activision Blizzard.
Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle.
Google Cloud encourages more conversational AI with Bot-in-a-Box.
Visualizations show the extensive cloud of debris Russia's anti-satellite test created.
Chris Hadfield says more regulations are needed to protect astronauts from space debris.
Jurors Got to Hear Elizabeth Holmes' Lies For Themselves.
Tesla ranks almost dead-last on a Consumer Reports reliability list.
We Are the Wirecutter Union. We're Prepared to Walk Out.
How Xbox outgrew the console: inside Phil Spencer's multi-billion dollar gamble.
Forza Horizon 5.
Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show.
Meta's sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets.
FlyFin offers an AI-based tax app aimed at freelancers, gig workers.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Wil Harris, and Chris J. Preimesberger
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2 hr 24 min
November 14, 2021TWiT 849: Disco Mannequin - Twitter Blue, The Golem Network, The Genesis Machine, GitHub Copilot, Rivian IPO
Twitter launches Blue subscription service in U.S., offers ad-free access to 300 news sites.
U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google.
Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business.
Amazon's Spinmasters: Behind the Internet Giant's Battle With the Press.
Are you worried about Amazon?
A record 4.4 million people quit in September as Great Resignation shows no signs of stopping.
Job openings and labor turnover trends for States in 2020.
Why America's "Shipping Crisis" Will Not End.
Amazon Relay.
Bezos-Backed Real Estate App to Accept Bitcoin as Payment.
Golem Network.
The Genesis Machine.
The EVELO Compass adult electric tricycle is a comfortable, powerful and stable electric trike with a large cargo basket.
Wing Bikes are the world's best electric bicycles.
Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website.
Europol: Seven REvil/GandCrab ransomware affiliates were arrested in 2021.
Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple.
Everyone has questions about Leo's phones.
GitHub Copilot: Your AI pair programmer.
Apple to Pay $30 Million Over Store Workers' Security Checks.
Facebook says it can't keep pace with its own Oversight Board.
Elon Musk Sells About $5 Billion in Tesla Stock.
AMD reveals an Epyc security 50 flaws, Intel has 25.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are infectious in all the wrong ways.
Rivian's Mega IPO is a Good Test of the Meme Stock Craze.
AMC Theatres debuts online Bitcoin payments after months of teasing.
Biden's "historic" $65 billion broadband plan approved by Congress.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Paris Martineau and Amy Webb
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2 hr 43 min
November 07, 2021TWiT 848: Rippling Chaos - Meta trademark filing, NYC crypto, the Great Resignation, Daylight saving time
Meta trademark filing, NYC crypto, the Great Resignation, daylight saving time
Facebook's "Meta" Trademark Application.
Meta Company lashes out at Facebook over name change in public letter.
Incoming New York mayor Eric Adams vows to take the first three paychecks in bitcoin.
NYC Mayor-Elect Adams Says Crypto Should Be Taught in Schools.
House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President.
The crypto conundrum: Is that hot meme coin a Shiba Inu or a squid?
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk History.
Global Chip Shortage 'Is Far From Over' as Wait Times Get Longer.
I'm A Twenty-Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America's "Shipping Crisis" Will Not End.
The debate over daylight saving time drags on in Europe.
Gastronomad: The art of living everywhere and eating everything!
Leo's time with the Pixel 6 Pro.
Faulty DRM breaks dozens of games on Intel's Alder Lake CPUs.
Apple's New Screen Repair Trap Could Change the Repair Industry Forever.
Apple's Federighi delivers a dramatic speech on the dangers of sideloading.
The Great Resignation.
The 'lying flat' movement standing in the way of China's innovation drive.
TikTok owner ByteDance shortens China work hours, discouraging the notorious '996' routine.
Google News to relaunch in Spain after mandatory payments to newspapers scrapped.
Tesla recalls nearly 12,000 U.S. vehicles over software communication error.
Microsoft fixes Windows 11 features failing due to an expired certificate.
Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Evan Brown, Louise Matsakis, and Owen Thomas
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2 hr 17 min
October 30, 2021TWiT 847: Numb to Dongletown - Facebook is Meta, MacBook Pro impressions, Orbital Reef, Windows XP is 20!
Facebook: Founder's Letter, 2021 (introducing Meta).
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done.
Meta removing Facebook login requirement for Quest headsets by next year.
John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans.
The Facebook Papers' missing piece
The new MacBook Pro is out, and Brianna has one!
Fictional Gamergate Series In The Works From Mind Riot Entertainment & Video Games Developer Brianna Wu.
Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space.
US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console (but only the optical drive).
Android 12 is here: All the details about downloading, compatibility, new features, and more.
Android 12 is so last week: Meet Android 12L, now in developer preview.
Blizzard cancels 2022 BlizzCon amid harassment scandal fallout.
Activision CEO Takes 99.9% Pay Cut Until Gender Goals Are Met.
It's Windows XP's 20th birthday and way too many still use it.
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS.
Google's Stadia Pivots To Being Some White Label Game Streaming Platform For Others To Use.
Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Benchmarks Leaked.

Host: Iain Thomson
Guests: Brianna Wu and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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2 hr 13 min

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