Nov 14th 2021
This Week in Tech 849
Disco Mannequin
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Twitter Blue, The Golem Network, The Genesis Machine, GitHub Copilot, Rivian IPO
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Paris Martineau,
Amy Webb
- Twitter launches Blue subscription service in U.S., offers ad-free access to 300 news sites.
- U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google.
- Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business.
- Amazon’s Spinmasters: Behind the Internet Giant’s Battle With the Press.
- Are you worried about Amazon?
- A record 4.4 million people quit in September as Great Resignation shows no signs of stopping.
- Job openings and labor turnover trends for States in 2020.
- Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End.
- Amazon Relay.
- Bezos-Backed Real Estate App to Accept Bitcoin as Payment.
- Golem Network.
- The Genesis Machine.
- The EVELO Compass adult electric tricycle is a comfortable, powerful and stable electric trike with a large cargo basket.
- Wing Bikes are the world's best electric bicycles.
- Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website.
- Europol: Seven REvil/GandCrab ransomware affiliates were arrested in 2021.
- Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple.
- Everyone has questions about Leo's phones.
- GitHub Copilot: Your AI pair programmer.
- Apple to Pay $30 Million Over Store Workers’ Security Checks.
- Facebook says it can’t keep pace with its own Oversight Board.
- Elon Musk Sells About $5 Billion in Tesla Stock.
- AMD reveals an Epyc security 50 flaws, Intel has 25.
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are infectious in all the wrong ways.
- Rivian's Mega IPO is a Good Test of the Meme Stock Craze.
- AMC Theatres debuts online Bitcoin payments after months of teasing.
- Biden’s “historic” $65 billion broadband plan approved by Congress.
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Links
- Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
- Europol: Seven REvil/GandCrab ransomware affiliates were arrested in 2021 - The Record by Recorded Future
- Twitter launches Blue subscription service in U.S., offers ad-free access to 300 news sites
- Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple - The Verge
- U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google | Reuters
- Biden’s “historic” $65 billion broadband plan approved by Congress
- Amazon’s Spinmasters: Behind the Internet Giant’s Battle With the Press
- Apple to Pay $30 Million Over Store Workers’ Security Checks - Bloomberg
- AMD reveals an Epyc security 50 flaws, Intel has 25 • The Register
- Facebook says it can’t keep pace with its own Oversight Board
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are infectious in all the wrong ways | Android Central
- RIVIAN’S MEGA IPO IS A GOOD TEST OF THE MEME STOCK CRAZE
- Elon Musk Sells About $5 Billion in Tesla Stock
- Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
- AMC Theatres debuts online Bitcoin payments after months of teasing
- The EVELO Compass adult electric tricycle is a comfortable, powerful and stable electric trike with a large cargo basket.
- Wing Bikes are the world's best electric bicycles.
- A record 4.4 million people quit in September as Great Resignation shows no signs of stopping
- Job openings and labor turnover trends for States in 2020
- I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End
- Bezos-Backed Real Estate App to Accept Bitcoin as Payment
- Golem Network