Tech News Weekly (Video)

TNW 193: Akamai's DNS Outage - Alexa Live 2021, Right to Repair and the FTC, Wear OS 3

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  • Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies breaks down the biggest announcements from Amazon's Alexa Live 2021 developer conference.
  • Right to Repair got a huge boost by the Federal Trade Commission and Taylor Dixon from iFixit is pleasantly surprised by how specific the policy is.
  • Right before showtime, a number of major websites were taken offline due to an Akamai DNS outage. (Akamai is a TWiT Network sponsor)
  • Google unveiled the name of its anticipated Wear OS collaboration with Samsung but the bigger news is that most current watches won't get it.

    • Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

    Guests: Carolina Milanesi and Taylor Dixon

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