<ul><li>FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gang</li>
<li>In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years; Will Only Be Reinstated if Conditions Permit</li>
<li>Facebook reverses policy protecting politicians from engaging in harmful speech</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Twitter Blue paid subscription service launches with special features</li>
<li>How TikTok's algorithm seems to work</li>
<li>WWDC 2021: What Apple's HomeKit strategy means for the smart home</li>
<li>Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat</li>
<li>FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web</li>
<li>Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?</li>
<li>The 1619 Project</li>
<li>Google boosts Android privacy protections in attempt to rival Apple</li>
<li>Google News Showcase Targeted by Germany Antitrust Chief Andreas Mundt</li>
<li>Google's new subsea cable handles data surge between US, Brazil, Argentina</li>
<li>Android 12 Beta 2: Google's Privacy focus arrives with camera/mic shutoffs, dashboard, more</li>
<li>Google unveils $99 Pixel Buds A-Series with upgraded connectivity, no volume swipe gesture</li>
<li>Related: Google fixed the frustrating audio cutouts on Pixel Buds A-Series — Here's how</li>
<li>Stadia is coming to Chromecast w/ Google TV and select Android TV devices on June 23</li>
<li>Chromecast with Google TV update adds 'Stadia support,' improves Bluetooth latency, more</li>
<li>June Pixel Feature Drop: Astrophotography video, Photos Locked Folder, and more</li>
<li>Google pulls the plug on ARCore-powered 'Measure' app; no longer available to new users</li>
<li>Google Nest Hub &amp; Hub Max get a more feature-rich browser complete with keyboard</li>
<li>Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility</li>
<li>Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge join forces to improve browser extensions</li>
<li>Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner</li>
<li>Is the viral banana-peel 'bacon' worth the hype? We made it, and we're not convinced</li>
<li>Feds recover more than $2 million in ransomware payments from Colonial Pipeline hackers</li>
<li>El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law</li>
</ul>Picks: 
<ul><li>Stacey - Nanoleaf Element First Look</li>
<li>Jeff - Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm</li>
<li>Jeff - Lego typewriter #1</li>
<li>Ant - Grandpa's description of selfie he took in 1952 blows away the internet: 'A pioneer'</li>
<li>Ant - Babyshark, no not THAT Babyshark</li>
<li>Ant - PLANTastic POT HEADS</li>
</ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/gigastacey" target="_blank">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a> 
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TWiG 615: Bob is Unimpressed - Bezos in space, Twitter Blue, Biden gives TikTok a pass, FaceTime on Android

<ul><li>Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code.</li>
<li>Yes, Actually, The 1st Amendment Does Mean That Twitter Can Kick You Off Its Platform, Wall Street Journal.</li>
<li>Klobuchar targets vaccine misinformation with Section 230 bill.</li>
<li>Pixel 6 Preview: Here's What Google's First Smartphone Chip Can Do.</li>
<li>Nikkei: Google Tensor is a 5nm chip and Samsung is handling production.</li>
<li>Facebook disables accounts tied to NYU's research into political ads.</li>
<li>Why Facebook's claims about the Ad Observer are wrong.</li>
<li>'It has to be known what was done to us': Natick couple harassed by eBay tell their story for the first time.</li>
<li>Tencent cuts kids' playing time on flagship game Honour of Kings to appease Beijing.</li>
<li>Google's 'time crystals' could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes.</li>
<li>The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators.</li>
<li>Google+ class action starts paying out $2.15 for G+ privacy violations.</li>
<li>Top German Court Says Facebook Must Inform Users About Deleting Their Posts Or Suspending Their Account, Explain Why, And Allow Them To Respond.</li>
<li>Google takes legal action over Germany's expanded hate-speech law.</li>
<li>Google founders have sold $1 billion in stock since May, the most since 2017.</li>
<li>Amazon plans to cut waste following backlash over the destruction of unused products.</li>
<li>YouTube bans Murdoch's SkyNews Australia for a week over COVID disinformation.</li>
<li>YouTube's $100 million Shorts Fund to challenge TikTok goes live.</li>
<li>Amazon's Covid Dilemma: Mandate Vaccinations and Risk Losing Warehouse Workers.</li>
<li>Amazon will give you a whole $10 for your palm print.</li>
<li>This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt.</li>
<li>Seth Rogen Assures Fans He's Alive and Well After Hilarious TikTok Questions His Wellbeing.</li>
<li>A PBS for the Internet? (Jarvis: No thanks)</li>
<li>Biden Warns That The Next Kinetic War Will Be The Result Of A Cyberattack, Which Is Stupid.</li>
<li>Google will kill off very old versions of Android next month.</li>
<li>Chrome OS 92 rolling out: Redesigned emoji &amp; picker, eSIM support, pre-installed Meet PWA.</li>
<li>Google Chrome to no longer show secure website indicators.</li>
<li>Chrome for Android becoming a 2FA security key for Google Account sign-in.</li>
<li>YouTube 'Premium Lite' subscription offers ad-free viewing for less.</li>
<li>August security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images &amp; OTAs live.</li>
</ul>Picks: 
<ul><li>Jeff - 40 years since MTV launch</li>
<li>Ant - LumaFusion updated for iOS</li>
<li>Ant - Sign Up for the Wanderers Photo Workshop in NOLA</li>
<li>Leo - Waze now lets you use Master Chief's voice as your guide</li>
<li>Leo - MTV First Four Hours Remastered - 12am Saturday August 1st, 1981</li>
</ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/mmasnick" target="_blank">Mike Masnick</a> 
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TWiG 623: The Evil Ceramicist - Bye bye Google ads, how to fight disinformation, Pixel 6 Pro, YouTube Shorts

<ul><li>Dead letters: Email could be the last federated internet technology — but it isn't.</li>
<li>Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook.</li>
<li>The Moral Panic Engulfing Instagram.</li>
<li>Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament.</li>
<li>Twitter position paper on protecting the open internet.</li>
<li>Why Section 230 'Reform' Effectively Means Section 230 Repeal.</li>
<li>Highlights From William Shatner's Blue Origin Rocket Trip to Space.</li>
<li>Rät by Penelope Scott.</li>
<li>Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday, Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google.</li>
<li>Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history.</li>
</ul>Picks 
<ul><li>Jeff - UK regulator Ofcom's list of bad words</li>
<li>Jeff - How many watched Squid Game</li>
<li>Ant - Irish People Blind Test Irish Whisky vs American Whiskey</li>
<li>Ant - Hall H Show</li>
<li>Ant - All Systems Red</li>
</ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a> 
Guest: <a href="http://craphound.com/" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a> 
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TWiG 633: Nothing About Me Without Me - Federated Twitter, Section 230 reform, Instagram moral panic

<ul><li>Google: Goodbye FLOC, hello Topics.</li>
<li>German publishers raise new opposition to Google's third-party cookie plans.</li>
<li>Google proposes a new way to track people around the Web. Again.</li>
<li>Why Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana.</li>
<li>FLoC is dead. But Topics won't fix Google's ad targeting problems.</li>
<li>IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes.</li>
<li>IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access.</li>
<li>End Of The Line For Google Cloud's G Suite Legacy Free Edition.</li>
<li>G suite migration.</li>
<li>We Studied 81,000 Page Titles - Google Rewrote 61% Of Them.</li>
<li>British law groups recommend immunity for drivers of self-driving cars.</li>
<li>The self-driving car industry is abandoning the term 'self-driving' and leaving it to Tesla.</li>
<li>Halo.car - The electric car that drives to you.</li>
<li>Chicago Public Media to acquire the Sun-Times.</li>
<li>Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over 'False Information About Vaccines'</li>
<li>Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements.</li>
<li>Samsung officially announces February 9 launch event for Galaxy S22.</li>
<li>N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyberattacks -researchers.</li>
<li>Hacktivists say they hacked the Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup.</li>
<li>Manufacturers have less than five days' supply of some computer chips, Commerce Department says.</li>
<li>You no longer have to say 'Hey Google' to get the Assistant to shut up.</li>
<li>Pixel's big At a Glance upgrade starts rolling out with more Google Clock &amp; fitness integrations.</li>
<li>Google Chat adds rich text formatting on the web, rolling out now.</li>
<li>YouTube Music will soon work for supervised kid accounts enrolled with Family Link.</li>
<li>Oh, please, can we have a TWiG mini-musical? By brandonethridgemusic on TikTok.</li>
<li>Mark Cuban's latest business venture is a cash-only pharmacy that takes aim at crushing drug prices.</li>
<li>Meta ad for Horizon.</li>
</ul>Picks: 
<ul><li>Stacey - Hestan Cue: The World's Most Advanced Smart Cooking System</li>
<li>Jeff - Twitter kills Worldle-killing bot</li>
<li>Ant - Ant on Because We Make Podcast</li>
<li>Ant - News Anchor Hit by a Car</li>
<li>Ant - Good Luck, #hardhead</li>
</ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/gigastacey" target="_blank">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a> 
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TWiG 648: Band Saws and Butt Joints - FLoC is dead, ID.me and facial scanning, Neil Young gone from Spotify

Big Quarter for Pixel 6, Spotify's platform rules, too late for Android tablets? 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/gigastacey" target="_blank">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
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TWiG 649: Tone Deaf and Loud - Big Quarter for Pixel 6, Spotify's platform rules, too late for Android tablets?

<ul> 
<li>The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya.</li> 
<li>Trust by Hernan Diaz.</li> 
<li>City on Fire by Don Winslow.</li> 
<li>Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis.</li> 
<li>The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted.</li> 
<li>Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange.</li> 
<li>The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen.</li> 
<li>Play with GPT-3 yourself here.</li> 
<li>Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT.</li> 
<li>VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy.</li> 
<li>Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees.</li> 
<li>When Elon met Twitter.</li> 
<li>Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter.</li> 
<li>SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home.</li> 
<li>Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox).</li> 
<li>'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1.</li> 
<li>Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar.</li> 
<li>How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity.</li> 
<li>Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire.</li> 
<li>Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them.</li> 
<li>NPR &amp; Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans.</li> 
<li>Leo's day with his voice assistant.</li> 
<li>Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization.</li> 
<li>Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing.</li> 
<li>Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month.</li> 
<li>Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis.</li> 
<li>Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation.</li> 
<li>Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing.</li> 
<li>Proof By Seth Abramson.</li> 
<li>SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum.</li> 
<li>Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign.</li> 
<li>Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut.</li> 
<li>Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager.</li> 
<li>Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome.</li> 
<li>Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience.</li> 
<li>Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates.</li> 
<li>Why America Will Lose Semiconductors.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment</li> 
<li>Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy</li> 
<li>Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen</li> 
<li>Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter</li> 
<li>Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro</li> 
<li>Ant - Capture One Update</li></ul> 
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TWiG 669: Mommy Made Me Match My M&Ms - GPT-3, Musk talks to Twitter, Meta Avatar store, VidCon, Amazon drones

<ul> 
<li>The founder of Craigslist on giving away his money, whether billionaires should exist, and why so many of our plutocrats lose their mind.</li> 
<li>S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at Twitter HQ, as Elon Musk criticizes Mayor Breed.</li> 
<li>Sam Altman: "ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!"</li> 
<li>Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day - by Zvi Mowshowitz.</li> 
<li>I asked GPTchat to write about folding T-shirts in the style of Malcolm Gladwell.</li> 
<li>AI Homework.</li> 
<li>Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge.</li> 
<li>Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Under Federal Investigation for Animal Abuse.</li> 
<li>Google shuts down Duplex on the Web, its attempt to bring AI smarts to retail sites and more.</li> 
<li>Google Faces Pressure in Hong Kong Over Search Results for National Anthem.</li> 
<li>Open Source Hospital Price Transparency.</li> 
<li>The Supreme Court battle for Section 230 has begun.</li> 
<li>Online safety bill returns to parliament after five-month delay.</li> 
<li>"Org charts" comic by Manu Cornet.</li> 
<li>A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'.</li> 
<li>"I thought I'd been hacked. It turned out I'd been fired": tales of a Twitter engineer.</li> 
<li>Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups.</li> 
<li>TikTok Is Sued by State of Indiana, Accused of Targeting Young Teens With Adult Content.</li> 
<li>TikTok Shares the Top Clips, Creators and Trends in the App for 2022.</li> 
<li>Corn Kid Is Doing Just Fine.</li> 
<li>Microsoft Eyes 'Super App' to Break Apple and Google's Hold on Mobile Search.</li> 
<li>NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon.</li> 
<li>Pantone's 2023 color of the year is 'Viva Magenta'.</li> 
<li>Leo plays with ChatGPT.</li> 
<li>Google Search brings continuous scrolling to desktop.</li> 
<li>Google will show you suggested keywords right under the search bar.</li> 
<li>Chrome '@' shortcuts search tabs, bookmarks, and history right from the address bar.</li> 
<li>ChromeOS 108: Files app Trash can, touchscreen keyboard redesign, more.</li> 
<li>Google Photos will get worse at estimating your photo locations.</li> 
<li>Google Messages starts rolling out group end-to-end encryption.</li> 
<li>December Pixel Feature Drop has Clear Calling, a free VPN, and new Recorder tools for Google's latest phones.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Stacey - Best binoculars 2022: Top picks for stargazing, wildlife and more.</li> 
<li>Stacey - Ember Mug²</li> 
<li>Stacey - Letter Napkin (Set of 4).</li> 
<li>Stacey - Nori Press, Compact Iron &amp; Steamer for Clothes.</li> 
<li>Jeff - We all use phones on the toilet. Just don't sit more than 10 minutes.</li> 
<li>Jeff - 52 things I learned in 2022.</li> 
<li>Ant - First Look at KRK GoAux Studio Monitors.</li> 
<li>Ant - The Woman King.</li></ul> 
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TWiG 693: The Best Part is the Grease - ChatGPT demo, Twitter HQ bedrooms, Neuralink animal abuse, TikTok best of the year, ChromeOS 108

<ul> 
<li>Discussion of upcoming Black Friday sales on Google Pixel phones and tablets</li> 
<li>Concerns with the Pixel tablet including laggy performance, inability to use independently from dock, and high pricing</li> 
<li>Leo shares his epiphany on the usefulness of AI for expert systems and personalized agents</li> 
<li>Demonstration of Leo's custom AI assistants for Lisp and Emacs programming languages</li> 
<li>Talk of Elon Musk's reputation decline after acquiring Twitter</li> 
<li>Discussion of studies showing people perceive AI-generated faces as more human than real faces</li> 
<li>Overview of lawsuit allowing school districts to sue social media companies for youth addiction</li> 
<li>Interview with Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO and current Stanford professor</li> 
<li>Alex's perspective on risks of deepfakes in elections vs for individual harassment</li> 
<li>Thoughts on moral panic around social media and youth mental health</li> 
<li>Alex recounts attending a closed-door Senate AI hearing led by Senator Schumer</li> 
<li>Discussion of social media companies loosening policies on election misinformation</li> 
<li>Concerns about TikTok as a news source and possible propaganda risks</li> 
<li>Talk of new book ""A History of Fake Things on the Internet"" by Walter Shirer</li> 
<li>Alex's suggestion for comprehensive federal privacy regulations</li> 
<li>Revelation during Google antitrust trial of Apple's cut of Google search revenue</li></ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
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TWiG 742: More Eel Guys Than You Know - Leo's GPTs, Alex Stamos on election disinformation, deepfakes, eels!

<ul> 
<li>From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week</li> 
<li>OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson</li> 
<li>Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."</li> 
<li>Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster</li> 
<li>Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'</li> 
<li>Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI</li> 
<li>DeepMind releases new music model</li> 
<li>Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music</li> 
<li>Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI</li> 
<li>Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand</li> 
<li>Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024</li> 
<li>Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins</li> 
<li>Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone</li> 
<li>Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window</li> 
<li>Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta</li> 
<li>Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!</li> 
<li>What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means</li> 
<li>MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute</li> 
<li>Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars</li> 
<li>Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl</li> 
<li>Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study</li> 
<li>Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15</li> 
<li>Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD</li> 
<li>Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful</li></ul> 
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TWiG 743: Competitive Pantomime - OpenAI deep dive, Musk's Media Matters lawsuit, Stable Video Diffusion

<ul> 
<li>Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act</li> 
<li>Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials</li> 
<li>Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass</li> 
<li>Reflecting on 18 years at Google</li> 
<li>Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running</li> 
<li>AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips</li> 
<li>Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies</li> 
<li>Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?</li> 
<li>Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds</li> 
<li>Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?</li> 
<li>A new low in manels</li> 
<li>Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers</li> 
<li>OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern</li> 
<li>Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers</li> 
<li>Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O</li> 
<li>Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence</li> 
<li>Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral</li> 
<li>Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool</li> 
<li>Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account</li> 
<li>Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites</li> 
<li>Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files</li></ul> 
Picks of the week<ul> 
<li>(Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run</li> 
<li>(Paris) Pentiment</li> 
<li>(Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine</li> 
<li>(Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine</li> 
<li>(Ant) City Nerd on YouTube</li> 
<li>(Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar</li></ul> 
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TWiG 744: Giant Red Ties - Google Online News Act, DeepMind AI

<ul> 
<li>Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook</li> 
<li>Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer</li> 
<li>The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI</li> 
<li>How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom</li> 
<li>Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update</li> 
<li>Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen'</li> 
<li>Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!!</li> 
<li>Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies</li> 
<li>Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year.</li> 
<li>Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America'</li> 
<li>Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess 
Picks of the week</li> 
<li>(Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists</li> 
<li>(Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult</li> 
<li>(Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines</li> 
<li>(Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls</li></ul> 
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TWiG 745: Livvy Rizzed Up Baby Gronk - Google Gemini AI, Beeper Mini

This wide-ranging episode of TWiG covers many hot topics in tech, including the capabilities and limitations of AI writing tools like NotebookLM, controversies around misleading marketing of Google's Gemini AI model, the future of media and magazines, EU regulation of AI, and more.<ul> 
<li>Interview with Steven Johnson about NotebookLM</li> 
<li>Google's best Gemini demo was faked</li> 
<li>Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT | Ars Technica</li> 
<li>Channel1.ai is an AI-generated news show: pilot</li> 
<li>EU's AI Act</li> 
<li>Google's App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games | WIRED</li> 
<li>This A.I. Subculture's Motto: Go, Go, Go</li> 
<li>Tesla (TSLA) Autopilot Recall: Two Million Cars Need Software Fix - Bloomberg</li> 
<li>FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy | TechCrunch</li> 
<li>Ukraine's intelligence claims cyberattack on Russia's state tax service</li> 
<li>Ukraine's largest telecom operator shut down after cyberattack</li> 
<li>Netflix Releases Viewing Data for 18,000 TV Shows and Movies – The Hollywood Reporter</li> 
<li>Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle</li> 
<li>Dropout CEO Talks Doubling CollegeHumor Successor's Streaming Subs and Content Output, Price  
Increase Plans and First Profit Sharing</li> 
<li>Google's Year in Search 2023</li> 
<li>Google's Trends Time Capsule</li></ul> 
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Guest: <a href="https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/" target="_blank">Steven Johnson</a> 
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TWiG 746: Huffin' Hazelnut - NotebookLM, Google's Monopoly, Tesla Recall

<ul> 
<li>Google's $700 million Play Store settlement</li> 
<li>Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations</li> 
<li>Police don't get Google's location data anymore</li> 
<li>How billionaires spend their money on immortality</li> 
<li>No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid</li> 
<li>UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention</li> 
<li>Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material</li> 
<li>Apple watches sales to stop on December 21</li> 
<li>515 Wordles and what we learned</li> 
<li>Jeff tries to hook up Salthank</li> 
<li>Google restructures ad sales</li> 
<li>Chevy's ChatGPT pitches Teslas and sells cars for $1</li> 
<li>A group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits</li> 
<li>EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war</li> 
<li>Tesla Autopilot fix falls short, according to Consumer Reports</li> 
<li>Flipboard enters the fediverse</li> 
<li>Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography</li> 
<li>Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com</li> 
<li>Instacart's numbers</li></ul> 
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TWiG 747: In an Abundance of Caution - AI Patents, Pig Butchering Scams, ChevyGPT

Leo looks back at the best stories they covered in 2023.<ul> 
<li>Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT, Leo introduces Neeva.</li> 
<li>Former Google Employee Talks About Latest Google Layoffs</li> 
<li>Batting a Thousand</li> 
<li>Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Engineer</li> 
<li>Meta Launches Threads</li> 
<li>Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama</li> 
<li>OpenAI Strikes $5M Deal For Local News Initiatives</li> 
<li>Twitter Re-branded as X</li> 
<li>Waffle Party</li> 
<li>Paris announced as new co-host</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
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TWiG 748: Best of 2023 - This Week in Google's Best Moments of 2023

<ul> 
<li>NYTimes sues OpenAI</li> 
<li>How OpenAI could recreate Times quotes</li> 
<li>OpenAI's annualized revenue reportedly tops $1.6B</li> 
<li>As Assistant with Bard inches toward launch, here's its UI in action</li> 
<li>Podcast police</li> 
<li>TikToker 'Tunnel Girl' ordered to stop viral digging project under Virginia home</li> 
<li>Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities</li> 
<li>The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again</li> 
<li>Seattle's Zulily will 'wind down' its business and liquidate its assets</li> 
<li>Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit</li> 
<li>Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws</li> 
<li>How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State</li> 
<li>A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.</li> 
<li>How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun</li> 
<li>FTC Continues To Wade Into Copyright Issues In AI Without Understanding Anything</li> 
<li>Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles</li> 
<li>Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter</li> 
<li>Dave Karpf from Wired's 30th birthday bash</li> 
<li>Don't forget to wish every horse in the northern hemisphere happy birthday</li> 
<li>The online Failure Museum</li> 
<li>A letter of recommendation for Medieval Times</li> 
<li>Gen Alpha</li></ul> 
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TWiG 749: A Well Regulated Jart Team - NYT vs. OpenAI, Google Incognito, Tunnel Girl

<ul> 
<li>Paris' big story: A Healthtech Unicorn Leaves a Trail of Clinic Complaints, Concerns Over Billing Practices</li> 
<li>The Information's 10th Anniversary</li> 
<li>Plagiarism Is Fine</li> 
<li>OpenAI's response to the NYT lawsuit</li> 
<li>Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All</li> 
<li>Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal</li> 
<li>Asus' new laptop has two screens and a removable keyboard</li> 
<li>I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System</li> 
<li>EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub</li> 
<li>FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data | TechCrunch</li> 
<li>Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date</li> 
<li>Layoffs at Humane AI</li> 
<li>Walmart debuts generative AI search and AI replenishment features at CES</li> 
<li>Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'</li> 
<li>We Need To Talk About "Chunkus"</li> 
<li>This Week in Tunnels (Brooklyn edition)</li></ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/cathygellis" target="_blank">Cathy Gellis</a> 
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TWiG 750: The Right to Read - Athelas' Troubles, Free Tax-Filing, Walmart AI

<ul> 
<li>Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?</li> 
<li>Samsung Unpacked recap</li> 
<li>Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams</li> 
<li>Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws</li> 
<li>Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels</li> 
<li>Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message!</li> 
<li>Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet</li> 
<li>Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US."</li> 
<li>Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement</li> 
<li>Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse</li> 
<li>Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain</li> 
<li>Functions Google is killing in Assistant</li> 
<li>Google quietly updates Chrome's incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit</li> 
<li>Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement</li> 
<li>Google introduces 'Circle to Search,' a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures</li> 
<li>GPT Store opens</li> 
<li>Glenn's thing: How Infrastructure Works</li> 
<li>Paris's thing: 1990s internet directories</li> 
<li>Jeff's Thing:  swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own</li></ul> 
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Guest: <a href="https://glennf.com/" target="_blank">Glenn Fleishman</a> 
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TWiG 751: The NUMTOT With a Top Knot - Google Layoffs, Verizon Fees, AI Boyfriends

<img src="http://twit.cachefly.net/coverart/twig/twig144audio.jpg" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="This Week in Google" alt="This Week in Google"/>Hosts:<a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte" target="_blank"> Leo Laporte</a>,<a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis" target="_blank"> Jeff Jarvis</a>
Guest: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mike-elgan" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a>
Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan talk a bit about the Apple DOJ story, Mobile World Congress 2016 hardware, Google AMP, Project Shield, bullying robots, and more...
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TWiG 341: I'm REALLY Feeling Lucky

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Facebook says no to adblockers while Proctor & Gamble says no to Facebook, Intel spends $400 million to buy artificial intelligence company Nervana Systems, and Google Fiber puts the breaks on its rollout in San Jose while exploring alternate technologies.
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TWiG 365: Corgi Shorts

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Allo released today, Google officially announces their October 4th event, and Samsung has 500,000 replacement Note 7s ready. We also talk Facebook, YouTube, and the US Presidential election.
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TWiG 371: Perfectly Paranoid, Yet Oddly Convenient

<img src="https://elroycdn.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/twig1400audio.jpg?itok=h577wSF6" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="This Week in Google (MP3)" alt="This Week in Google (MP3)"/>Today is the Net Neutrality Day of Action. Go to BattleForTheNet.com and write your congressperson. Also, The Pixel XL 2 may feature a squeezable frame. Allo is coming to the desktop in "a few weeks." Android 7.1 has "Panic Detection" mode. Facebook will sell ads in Messenger. Amazon Prime Day sales up 60% over last year's record-setting haul - with Echo Dot as the top-selling item. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 may explode onto the scene on August 23rd. Make Nokia great again. China teleports matter to space.<ul><li>Jeff's Numbers: Google spends $800,000 on newsbots that write 30,000 articles a month in the UK. Google doesn't owe France 1.1bn euros in back taxes. </li><li>Danny's Stuff: Silk Vault Slim Wallet Case, The Big Sick</li><li>Stacey's Thing: Fibaro HomeKit Sensors</li></ul> 
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Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/dannysullivan" target="_blank">Danny Sullivan</a> 
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TWiG 413: You Never Know What's Not Going to Happen

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TWiG 440: Shoe Goo Guru Lyman Van Vliet

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Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="http://buzzmachine.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham">Stacey Higginbotham</a> 
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TWiG 442: Queen of the Mole Rats

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TWiG 538: The Third Most Hated Video of All Time

Section 230 Under Attack, DOJ vs Google, Zoomtopia 
<ul><li>Section 230 is still under attack. Jeffrey Toobin is a perfect example of why we need it.</li>
<li>Is there any way we could improve Section 230?</li>
<li>Five Eyes and Japan want to end encryption. What other ideas do we need to fight against?</li>
<li>Oh, Quibi, we hardly knew ye!</li>
<li>Netflix is the new Hollywood</li>
<li>Prime Day was bad, but Stacey still bought an Alexa-enabled faucet.</li>
<li>23 and Me was on sale on Prime Day. Anyone find anything interesting about their family tree?</li>
<li>San Francisco passes the Caren Act against Racist 911 calls</li>
<li>Department of Justice vs Google is clearly a Repubican charade. It is weak. It will fail.</li>
<li>In a perfect world, how would we break up Google?</li>
<li>The Google Changelog: hum to Google Assistant | Google kills Trusted Contact and Nest Secure | Google Discover Heart | Chrome OS screen recorder | Parallels adds Windows apps on Chromebooks | Alphabet crop-watching robot | Google Chat goes free | Google Assistant might get G Suite | Portrait Light coming to all Pixel Phones | Google tells you where to vote | Free Stadia games</li>
<li>AOC on Twitch Playing Among Us</li>
<li>Biden Island in Animal Crossing</li>
<li>Zoomtopia brings end to end encryption and more</li>
<li>There are many wonderful alternatives to Zoom</li>
<li>How Zoom will define the new office</li>
<li>Jeff Jarvis' Sanitized Office</li>
<li>All the upcoming conferences will be virtual</li>
<li>Zoom towns growing across the country and the world - where would you move?</li>
</ul> 
Picks of the Week 
<ul><li>Leo's Tool: Hank Laporte's Drone Instagram</li>
<li>Leo's Tool 2: TSA checkpoint travel numbers for 2020 and 2019</li>
<li>Stacey's Thing: Amazon Dot: We don't love the sound or the buttons</li>
<li>Stacey's Thing 2: June Oven V3</li>
<li>Jeff's Number: 1.3b parcels shipped last year</li>
<li>Mike's Stuff: Mover Erase - Mini Whiteboard on the Palm</li>
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Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/mmasnick" target="_blank">Mike Masnick</a> 
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TWiG 582: Hipster Antitrust - Section 230 Under Attack, DOJ vs Google, Zoomtopia

TikTok to Trump: What's Up?<ul><li>Amazon Halo Band impressions</li><li>Eric Schmitt applies to be a citizen of Cyprus</li><li>Google trials light-based internet in Africa</li><li>Facebook, Google, and Twitter extend political ad bans to the detriment of Georgia</li><li>reMarkable 2 E-ink tablet first impressions - a beautiful, useless tablet</li><li>TikTok wants to know if Trump still wants to ban them</li><li>EU sues Amazon over Antitrust</li><li>Bye-bye, Ajit Pai</li><li>Zoom settles with FTC over encryption</li><li>Zoom stock tumbles with virus news</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform</li><li>Slingbox shutting servers down</li><li>Chipotle is opening an online order-only restaurant</li><li>Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots will always serve mankind</li></ul> <ul><li>Picks of the Week</li><li>Leo's Tool: Curious Elixirs</li><li>Stacey's Thing: Ghia</li><li>Jeff's Stuff: NYT digital revenue tops print for the first time</li><li>Ant's Stuff: If You Can't Afford Adobe Audition, Get Izotope for $100 off</li><li>Ant's Stuff 2: Dream of Italy (ep #2)</li></ul> 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a> 
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TWiG 585: Suggestive Uses for Whipped Cream - TikTok to Trump: What's Up?

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