Tech News Weekly 19

• 1:38 Dr. Jenny Radesky signed a letter urging Facebook to discontinue its Messenger Kids app and talks about how tech can affect young children.
• 16:59 Nate Lanxon from Bloomberg discusses what happens to Bitcoin when someone passes away, and the changes being made to enable heirs to locate those abandoned funds.
• 33:18 Kelsea Weber from iFixIt shows off the remains of their HomePod teardown to demonstrate how difficult it might be to repair.
• 48:16 Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica searched far and wide for a way to watch the Olympics in 4K and has some pointers to make it a bit easier for viewers.

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Links

• commercialfreechildhood.org
• American Academy of Pediatrics Announces New Recommendations for Children’s Media Use
• “It’s not a drug, but it may as well be”: Expert opinions on whether kids are addicted to tech
• Bitcoin Industry Grapples With Age-Old Problem of Inheritance
• HomePod Teardown
• Apple HomePod Review: It Only Sounds Great
• The Winter Olympics in 4K and HDR: A pain in many ways, but gosh, those sparkles
• Hands-On: Brass Tactics Arena Is A Delightful Tease Of An RTS
• The Facebook Hackers Gaming Its Video Algorithm
• How I Cracked Facebook’s New Algorithm And Tortured My Friends