• Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
• Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden
• Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps
• Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects
• Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
• Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android
• Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience
• Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
• Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV
• YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle
• You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto
• New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation
• Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds
• Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July
• The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee
• Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means
• Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions
• Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews
• TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube

Picks:

• Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine
• Ant - Lupin on Netflix
• Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday
• Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott
• Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
• Joan - Meme War Weekly

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Joan Donovan

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Posted on 17 June 2021 | 4:35 am

• FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gang
• In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years; Will Only Be Reinstated if Conditions Permit
• Facebook reverses policy protecting politicians from engaging in harmful speech
• Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asks whether the Forest Service or the BLM can alter the orbit of the moon or the Earth in order to fight climate change
• Twitter Blue paid subscription service launches with special features
• How TikTok's algorithm seems to work
• WWDC 2021: What Apple's HomeKit strategy means for the smart home
• Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat
• FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
• Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
• The 1619 Project
• Google boosts Android privacy protections in attempt to rival Apple
• Google News Showcase Targeted by Germany Antitrust Chief Andreas Mundt
• Google's new subsea cable handles data surge between US, Brazil, Argentina
• Android 12 Beta 2: Google's Privacy focus arrives with camera/mic shutoffs, dashboard, more
• Google unveils $99 Pixel Buds A-Series with upgraded connectivity, no volume swipe gesture
• Related: Google fixed the frustrating audio cutouts on Pixel Buds A-Series — Here's how
• Stadia is coming to Chromecast w/ Google TV and select Android TV devices on June 23
• Chromecast with Google TV update adds 'Stadia support,' improves Bluetooth latency, more
• June Pixel Feature Drop: Astrophotography video, Photos Locked Folder, and more
• Google pulls the plug on ARCore-powered 'Measure' app; no longer available to new users
• Google Nest Hub & Hub Max get a more feature-rich browser complete with keyboard
• Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
• Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge join forces to improve browser extensions
• Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner
• Is the viral banana-peel 'bacon' worth the hype? We made it, and we're not convinced
• Feds recover more than $2 million in ransomware payments from Colonial Pipeline hackers
• El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law

Picks:

• Stacey - Nanoleaf Element First Look
• Jeff - Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm
• Jeff - Lego typewriter #1
• Ant - Grandpa's description of selfie he took in 1952 blows away the internet: 'A pioneer'
• Ant - Babyshark, no not THAT Babyshark
• Ant - PLANTastic POT HEADS

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Posted on 10 June 2021 | 5:19 am

• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
• New UK Cookie Guidance changes everything
• Google diversity head in 2007: Jews have 'insatiable appetite for war'
• Trump blog page shuts down for good
• Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs for IoT security bolstering
• Google gets enthusiastic green light for a multi-billion-dollar San Jose campus
• Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily
• Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France
• Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup
• YouTube Says It Paid Out $4 Billion to Music Industry Over Past 12 Months
• Amazon Introduces Tiny 'ZenBooths' for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers
• Cannabis stocks rally after Amazon endorses legalization
• Amazon Faced 75,000 Arbitration Demands. Now It Says: Fine, Sue Us
• Pennsylvania police chief charged after threatening citizen over critical Facebook posts
• Fall River police officer suspended for Facebook post after Derek Chauvin verdict
• Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated
• Orange County deputy suspended over TikTok videos
• A California teenager pushed a bear off her property in the wildest TikTok video
• Chrome OS 91 rolling out: Nearby Share launch, app notification badges, and more
• Chrome for Android adds a built-in screenshot tool and editor in the Share menu
• Apple TV app is now available on all Android TV devices, too
• Google Search adds fabulous Pride Month Easter egg
• Google rolls out 'Weather Frog' clock to Nest Hub and Hub Max
• Google Meet web redesign rolling out now with full availability in June
• You can now quickly present Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to ongoing Meet calls
• Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
• The NFT market bubble has popped and we've got the charts to prove it

Picks:

• Stacey - A Memory Called Empire
• Jeff - A Rural-Urban Broadband Divide, but Not the One You Think Of
• Jeff - Thomas Baekdal Naomi Osaka thread
• Ant - Why Netflix's New Series High on the Hog Is a Must-Watch
• Ant - Halston on Netflix
• Ant - The CHAMP is HERE

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Posted on 3 June 2021 | 5:02 am

• Amazon to acquire MGM Studios for $8.5 billion
• Butter Pat Industries Cast Iron Skillet
• A deep dive into Google I/O's smart home news
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
• Roku wants to expand into smart home devices
• A thank-you note to the net
• Biden anitrust people say Amazon's prices are too low; DC's says they are too high
• Florida's New Pro-Disney, Anti-Facebook and Twitter Law
• Google Doodle celebrates the Savoy Ballroom with multiplayer swing dancing game
• A Cappella Group Sings Computer, App, and Game Sound Effects
• 'Charlie Bit My Finger' sold as an NFT, could vanish from YouTube forever
• Feeling blue: drug dealer's 'love of stilton' leads to his arrest
• 2,500 people showed up to a Huntington Beach party that devolved into violence and vandalism, police say
• This new Google Photos tool will help you prep for the end of free storage
• Pixel Launcher Discover feed on Android 12 can be themed by Doodles in Material You-like manner
• Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your searches
• Google adding convenient 'Save to Photos' shortcut for Gmail attachments
• Russia fines Google $81k (yes, k) for not deleting content; threatens to slow it down
• Indian Police Visit Twitter Offices as Modi Goes on Pandemic Offense
• Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it'll take a 20 percent cut of sales
• Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic

Picks:

• Stacey - How Normal Am I?
• Jeff - America Talks: Want to connect with someone who disagrees with you?
• Ant - Test your lungs
• Ant - My Favorite Photo I Captured in Shanghai Is Discussed on "Behind The Shot"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Posted on 27 May 2021 | 4:14 am

• Google sends the Blob Opera on tour, starting with extremely fun show at I/O
• Google and Samsung unite to reboot Android watches, with a dose of Fitbit too
• 12 Google Workspace updates for better collaboration: Smart Canvas
• Do We Have Minds of Our Own?
• Material You is Google's new personalized design language
• Chrome testing RSS-powered 'Follow' button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive
• An experiment in helping users and web publishers create deeper connections on Chrome
• Google's Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram
• Google's Docs dilemma: Why the biggest improvements in years might not be enough
• kinopio.club
• The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
• Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth
• Google I/O swag suggests something fun is happening at 4 p.m. PT today
• LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology
• Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company
• A driverless Waymo got stuck in traffic and then tried to run away from its support crew
• Google Photos update adds new Memories and a Locked Folder, previews Cinematic moments
• Google Fast Pair coming to BMW, Ford cars, and Beats headphones
• Android now powers over 3 billion devices
• Get around and explore with 5 new Google Maps updates
• Helping all your devices work better together
• Chrome now uses Duplex to fix your stolen passwords
• Google Search adds 'DVD screensaver' Easter egg that might eventually hit the corner

Picks:

• Kevin - Map of the Internet
• Stacey - $40,000 Home Theater Bed Offers Unique Opportunity
• Ant - Get A Round Tuit
• Jeff - Apple's compromises in China: Five takeaways

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Marks

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Posted on 20 May 2021 | 3:00 am

• Project CHIP gets a new name and so does the Zigbee Alliance
• With Tile deal Amazon's Sidewalk network just became more interesting
• US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
• Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff
• YouTube will pay $100 million to people who make popular videos for its TikTok competitor
• Tech giants have all become creator companies
• Cory Doctorow: How copyright filters lead to wage-theft
• Apple robbed the mob's bank
• Army of fake fans boosts China's messaging on Twitter
• Why does every advert look the same? Blame Corporate Memphis
• Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support. Be prepared for the change
• Google Pay US users can now send money to users in India and Singapore
• Google Fiber finally has a logo over a decade after launch
• Google brings Gboard to Wear OS for first major app launch in years, more teased for 2021
• Google Assistant Family Broadcasts from Smart Displays can now appear on phones
• Alexa, who are you? New book identifies Amazon's secret voiceover artist
• The people who want to keep masking: 'It's like an invisibility cloak'
• Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking—to Protect Themselves From the Vaccinated
• Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin
• Elon Musk says Tesla will stop accepting bitcoin for car purchases, citing environmental concerns
• Study Finds No Link Between Time Teens' Spend On Tech Devices And Mental Health Problems
• Ebay has officially opened its platform to NFT sales

Picks:

• Stacey - M5Stack Core2 ESP32 IoT Development Kit for AWS IoT EduKit
• Jeff - Amazon's $300 million tax bill rejected by EU judges
• Leo - Stumbled - The greatest Sites of the Internet

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Posted on 13 May 2021 | 4:21 am

• Google offices upon return: Privacy robot bubble walls, individual air, box lunches, no shuttles
• How Basecamp blew up
• Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home
• Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
• Apple hires an ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings
• Google Nest Hub shows up at Bluetooth SIG running 'Fuchsia 1.0'
• Google announces 'Pixel Buds A-Series' in inadvertent unveil
• Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
• Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts to Launch Its Upgraded Starship Prototype Rocket
• Google's next Pixel phone could hop on the ultrawide bandwagon with Samsung and Apple
• Chromebooks dominate the global PC market to 275% growth, with HP leading the charge
• Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
• Oversight Board's decision on Trump
• Jarvis thread on the decision: they punted
• Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies
• Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
• Facebook to give $5m to local journalists covering communities
• Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling
• Twitter acquires Scroll, a big deal for its pay strategy & for the news industry's post-ad strategy
• New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs
• Yahoo and AOL, Early Internet Pioneers, Are Sold to Private Equity Firm
• John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons"
• The computers are getting better at writing
• Gary Vaynerchuk: NFT is the next Amazon
• Dogecoin Co-Creator Sold All His Coins For Just Enough To Afford A Used Honda Civic In 2015 — Now DOGE Is Bigger Than Honda
• Sony ditches DSLRs, moving the camera industry beyond film-era designs
• Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters
• It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games
• Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly
• Google Is Bringing a Google TV-Like Experience to Android Tablets
• YouTube begins testing time-linked comments on videos

Picks:

• Jason - UAD Apollo Twin X
• Jeff - Matrix mold for the letter H
• Ant - Panfurware Music for Creators
• Ant - FLOSS Weekly's SSI and DEMOSCENE Discussion
• Ant - Younger #Hardhead Beats His Older Brother

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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Posted on 6 May 2021 | 4:06 am

• Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms
• Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies
• Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent
• Google Fiber coming to another Utah city
• Sundar Pichai talks about COVID in India
• Google's Oscar commercial
• Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks
• Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
• Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers
• 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
• What really happened at Basecamp
• YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
• Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists
• Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel
• Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new 'Simply Unlimited' plan that lacks 'Unlimited Plus' extras
• Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries
• Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
• Google Photos for Android rolling out new 'Sharpen' and 'Denoise' editor tools
• Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
• YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile
• It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games
• Kevin Tofel: Looks like I'm going to be a GT Yellow Jacket
• What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)
• Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok
• Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
• Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m
• Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more
• Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling
• Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life
• Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
• Introducing Immersive View, A Fun New Way to Meet
• 90s Kids Guide to the Internet
• WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic
• She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony
• Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL

Picks:

• Stacey - Ember Mug
• Jeff - Oscar Viewership Rises To 10.4M In Final Numbers
• Ant - I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)
• Ant - My Newest Short Film
• Ant - Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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Posted on 29 April 2021 | 5:03 am

• Club TWiT details
• Nobody is flying to join Google's FLoC
• Reuters website goes behind a paywall in new strategy
• Google Ads policies
• The 15 Most Trusted Brands Globally
• More on subscriptions
• Questions from Discord
• A discussion on... jeans
• Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
• EU looks to prospectively ban AI across many uses
• Europe fit for the Digital Age: Commission proposes new rules and actions for excellence and trust in Artificial Intelligence
• Google subsidiary moved $75bn in profits through Ireland in 2019 using "double-Irish"
• Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse and podcasts with a suite of new audio products
• Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom
• Facebook oversight board delays decision on Trump ban to 'the coming weeks'
• Apple confirms it will allow Parler to return to App Store
• Amazon is opening a hair salon with an AR color bar
• Amazon Plans Furniture Assembly Service to Catch Wayfair
• Meet Ameronothrus on Twitter, a new bug discovered via a tweet
• TikTok Has a New Filter That Shapeshifts You Into a Movie Character, and You Need to See This
• Latest food fad on TikTok: twisted bacon
• Google Earth's historical 3D time-lapses show the ravages of climate change
• Google Meet is getting a UI refresh next month with smarter meeting features
• Fitbit's Luxe is a fashion-focused fitness band that costs $149.95
• Chrome OS 90 rolling out: Live Caption, Diagnostics app, and more
• Google is adding a price-tracking tool to Chrome for Android
• Google rolling out Android 12 Developer Preview 3 for Pixel phones
• Google Search adds AR Pac-Man, 3D Hello Kitty, Gundam, and other Japanese characters
• South by Southwest Stake Is Sold to Owner of Rolling Stone in Effort to Keep Festival Alive
• Debunking the Vegas Loop
• NASA picks SpaceX's Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon
• Nintendo founding family's site
• Whole Foods Launching Amazon Palm Reader Payment System in Seattle

Picks:

• Ant: Relatively Normal Podcast
• Jeff: Historical yearly trends in the usage statistics of content management systems
• Stacey: Caséta by Lutron

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Posted on 22 April 2021 | 3:40 am