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TWiT 851: Doomtown Rats - Black Friday, Apple sues NSO group, rats play Doom, MicroClimate AIR2


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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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