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episode 727: Artisanal Pickles from Williamsburg
Top Stories This Week
- Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
- The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
- Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
- Instagram vs bullies
- Prime Day deals and dilemmas
- Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
- Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
- Your car is watching you
- Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
- RIP MacBook
- Mac update kills Zoom hack
- Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
- Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
- Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
- Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
- Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
- Netflix Cuphead Show
- Prime Day phishing scams
- HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
- France's Tech Tax
- Niantic kills its first app
- Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
- Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
- Google is listening to you in Flanders
- Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
- A eulogy for the father of the password
- Chatterbox will teach children robotics
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Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins
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