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episode 787: Dreamliner - TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
- Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
- The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
- Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
- A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
- Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
- Pinterest bans political ads
- Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
- Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
- Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
- China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
- We still don't know who will buy TikTok
- Apple announcement coming 9/8?
- AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
- Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
- Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
- US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
- California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
- CableCARD nearing its end
- Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
- It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
- Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, and Louis Maresca
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