Total Ant (Video)

Bezos Hits $200B, Palantir IPO, Trump vs Twitter

• Jeff Bezos, the 200 Billion Dollar Man
• Palantir files for IPO; flips off Silicon Valley
• How much government secrecy is too much government secrecy?
• Verily is getting into insurance for health insurance
• Google to block heavy ads
• Oculus Connect renamed to Facebook Connect
• Facebook requires Oculus users to log in via Facebook
• Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him block Twitter users
• Border Patrol claims the right to collect electronic data and keep it for 75 years from all citizens within 100 miles of the US Border
• Why college students should take a gap year in 2020 and what they should do with it
• Trader Joes has cacio e pepe, and other pasta tips
• The Scottish Wikipedia is written by an American in broken English
• Zoom day is the new snow day
• Why boys are doing better than girls in quarantine

• Picks of the Week
• Leo's Tool: Audible Plus
• Stacey's Thing: S'moresUp
• Stacey's Thing 2: THE CORPORATION FROM ALIEN SHARES ITS REOPENING PLAN
• Jeff's Number: Tech 5 account for 20% of stock market value
• Jeff's Number 2: Forty
• Ant's Stuff: DJI Osmo Mobile 4
• Ant's Stuff 2: Guest appearance on He Shoots He Draws podcast
• Karsten's Mask: A.I.R. SoloTM Personal UV Respirator
• Karsten's Mask 2: Leather ALIEN Facehugger Mask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Is the Sony ZV-1 the perfect digital camera for content creators and vloggers with its 3" flip-out touchscreen, shooting grip, and 20.1MP 1" CMOS sensor? Ant Pruitt gives his review.

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Bodyweight can't be overlooked in personal wellness. Ant Pruitt shares the QuardioBase 2 smart scale on Hands-On Wellness. The smart scale helps track body weight, BMI, and body fat percentage.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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Ant Pruitt continues to discuss flash photography, but this time without actually using a flash. In this episode of Hands-On Photography, Ant shares the thoughts and tips for getting light stands and c-stands (century stands) for your photography. These are useful tools to up your photography skills.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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Facebook vs QAnon, Trump vs TikTok, Google vs Australia

• Google's deprecation policy is killing it.
• Google goes to the Australian public for help after the government blocks snippets
• The Internet War is over, and Google won
• What if Facebook dies?
• Why America should kill TikTok
• Twitter changing Retweet to "Quote Tweet"
• Testing the new 6Ghz bandwidth 5G spectrum
• Spot robot now caring for patients in hospitals
• German princess gets her drunk rants taken off of Google
• Trump praises QAnon as Facebook moves to block them
• Zoom comes to Google Nest Hub, WebEx comes to
• The Pine Phone ultra-secure Linux phone and the Obama Phone for low-income folk
• GPT-3 AI-generated blog post hits the front page of Hacker News
• Zombie pigs!
• Ryan Renolds sells Aviation Gin for $610 million
• Mint Mobile Plus has the best movie selection any streaming provider
• DNC 2020: The YouTube Convention
• The Google Changelog: Google Duo --> Google Meet | Multi-room Nest audio | Google AI hardware in new hands | Google Travel COVID info | Google Maps detail | Android 11 vs camera choice | Activity Cards in Search

• Picks of the Week:
• Stacey's Thing: Firewalla Gold: Multi-Gigabit Cyber Security
• Jeff's Numbers: Amazon adds 3,500 jobs
• Ant's Stuff: Adobe Max Registration
• Ant's Stuff 2: An amazing content creator and an amazing maker
• Karsten's Mask: Handmade leather mask from MereLeather in Ukraine. Very comfortable comes with paper filters, or you can use your own n95 inserts.
• Karsten's Mask 2: YouTuber builds gun that shoots masks onto people's faces

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Pain management is an important part of your personal wellness journey. Ant Pruitt shares the iTENS device on Hands-On Wellness as he explains the importance of managing pain after working out. TENS technology is a non-invasive way to manage pain during your shelter-in-place workouts.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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Creating panoramic photos has gotten easier with the added computation features of smartphone photography. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt shares how to create a panoramic photo with any camera you have with some help from Adobe Lightroom.

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Trump vs. TikTok and Tencent, Microsoft Surface Duo, Twitter Limits Replies

• Sarah Cooper: Google UX designer, Tik Tok star
• Trump vs. TikTok: what does it all mean?
• Trump's Tencent ban makes Reddit, Tesla, and Spotify illegal
• Rate Stacey's Zoom background
• Trump vs. TikTok part 2: where does our data go?
• Microsoft announces Surface Duo
• Lucid Air electric car
• New Jersey Supreme Court says the police can make you unlock your phone
• Twitter rolling out reply-limiting feature
• "Meeterial" Design: Google pushes Meet into everybody's faces
• Why are there no ads on TechDirt?
• US opens 3.5Ghz band to consumer use - this could seriously help out 5G
• Happy Birthday IBM PC
• Boeing 747s are still updated via 3.5 Floppy disk
• Vaporwave's mini-boom of 3.5 floppies
• Alamo Drafthouse offers private theater rentals
• Sleepover at the final Blockbuster
• Genius lost their suit against Google because they don't have standing
• Verily steps into the COVID testing arena
• Amazon wants to launch 3,236 satellites
• Amazon wants to take over JC Pennys
• Jarvis' entire history of media and journalism in 45 minutes
• Google Changelog: Google Lens homework filter | Google Search adds 3D molecules | Google Phone beta app for all | Earthquake alerts | Google Lookout | A bunch of new Android updates | Google profile cards

Picks of the Week:

• Stacey's Thing: DONATE BLOOD
• Jeff's Number: Dreyer Stet Game
• Ant's Stuff: Jett Fuel Java
• Karsten's Mask: GIZDA FAce Shield
• Karsten's Mask 2: Essential Mask Brace

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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The Acer Swift 3 SF313-52-78W6 is a thin and light notebook configurable with a 13.5" 3:2 ratio IPS LED-backlit 2K display, 10th Gen 1.6GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 512GB NVMe SSD. Ant Pruitt gives his review.

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Ant Pruitt continues to share great smartwatch options that can easily compete with the popular Apple Watch. The Polar Ignite smartwatch shapes up to be a solid fitness tracker and sleep tracker at budget pricing.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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