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episode 738: The Twerklight Sonata
This Week's Stories
- What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event
- Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo
- Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you
- Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for?
- Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous
- Do we really trust all these voice assistants?
- Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall
- Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling
- Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state?
- Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy
- Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X
- Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
- Mac Pro to be made in Texas
- Google will stop showing news snippets in France
- QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world?
- Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them
- Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech
- Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!
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Guests: Daniel Rubino, Mikah Sargent, and Caroline Haskins
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