Jul 22nd 2021
Tech News Weekly 193
Akamai's DNS Outage
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Alexa Live 2021, Right to Repair and the FTC, Wear OS 3
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Carolina Milanesi,
Taylor Dixon
- 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.
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Links
- Alexa Live 2021
- FTC Unanimously Approves Policy of Fighting Repair Restrictions
- Banks, Brokerages, PSN, The Steam Store, and More Went Down in Massive Internet Outage
- The Internet Outage That Took Down Several Major Websites Seems to Be Fixed
- Google’s Wear OS 3 Plans Mean Android Users Should Wait to Buy a Smartwatch
- These Smartwatches Are Confirmed to Be Compatible With Wear OS 3