TWiG 637: Private Socks - Twitter Blue, Amazon's distopian holiday ad, Google's big EU fine, "on background"

Leo recaps his Oaxaca trip.

Twitter Blue launches today in the US with Ad-Free Articles.

Twitter is building a crypto team.

Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin.

Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine.

YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos across its platform.

Troubleshooting Stacey's new Pixel 6 Pro.

Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple.

AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers' Trust in Google-led Initiatives.

Updating The Verge's background policy.

Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy.

Adele debuts new song 'Hold On' in Amazon holiday ad.

Facebook's "Meta" Trademark Application.

Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok.

TikTok food creators (damnit, where's Salt_Hank?)

TikTok @Jax plus violin.

#TeamSeas: Help us remove 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022.

Google is taking sign-ups for Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech.

Google Assistant no longer offers 'Your News Update' audio digests.

Google Home 2.46 for Android brings promised Android/Google TV remote.

Nest Hub (2nd gen) update adds sleep stages & localized snore detection, tracking now free until 2023.

Adaptive Sound feature appears to be rolling out now to Pixel 6 devices.

Used car market gets even more bizarre.

TwitterTV: make an account a screensaver.

The Chip That Could Transform Computing.

Picks:

Stacey - Happy holidays! Here's our 2021 gift guide!

Ant - The Harder They Fall on Netflix

Ant - Congrats and Good Luck to RCHS

Ant - Register for the Wanderers' Photo Workshop

Jeff - Apple's first computer, a collector's dream, could fetch $500,000 at auction

Jeff - How much Wikipedia weighs

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