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episode 800: It's Coming From Leo2 - Salesforce buys Slack, Warner Bros' HBO Max deal, Ajit Pai, Timnit Gebru
Salesforce buys Slack, Warner Bros' HBO Max deal, Ajit Pai, Timnit Gebru
- Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7b.
- Prop. 24 and the challenges of paying for privacy.
- The Apple M1 chip is fast!
- Apple gets fined in Italy for misleading iPhone claims.
- Apple's Best of 2020 apps list is out.
- Josh Elman, a venture capitalist, is hired by Apple.
- AI scientist Timnit Gebru is fired by Google.
- Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first cases.
- COVID misinformation will be removed from Facebook.
- Chris Krebs details foreign threat over vaccine IP.
- Warner Media's vision of HBO Max.
- Warner Bros' announces day and date release on HBO Max in 2021.
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is under threat.
- resident Trump threatens changes to Section 230.
- TikTok's December 4 deadline is not being enforced.
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces his plan to exit the department.
- China's claim of Quantum Supremacy.
- Arecibo Observatory footage that shows its collapse.
- Lab-grown meat will go on sale for the first time.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Jason Snell, and Seth Rosenblatt
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