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Automated-tech vehicle deaths; Twitter tumbles as Musk deals reviewed; Amazon's bad news week - unions, attrition costs & lawsuits; Bird migrating out of markets; in Uber ads are coming; Microsoft layoffs; Reddit NFTs booming; Kanye & Parler; Metaverse attrition; Meta has to sell Giphy; Unstoppable…

F around & find out; eggs, legs & self driving cars; Alex Jones; Meta, OnlyFans bribes & Within; what's the ROI for 1.2 billion & 38 users; the Metaverse is getting legs; more NFT & crypto news; Rivian recalls almost all it's trucks; DeepMind & DeepCake; DART worked; Netflix announces ad-tier, Appl…

Getting hit by a Tesla at Whole Foods; Deepcake; Elon's wild Twitter week, TeslaBot Prime; Kim K pays up for crypto pump-and-dump; Bitcoin, climate change & personal impact; Coinbase allows buys, unable to cash out for 6 hours; FCC taking robocall database seriously; Love and Thunder; reassessing S…

Why haven't you deleted TikTok yet; Google search gets immersive; Apple Pay Later coming... later; why we aren't going EV or even hybrid yet; space news makes tech cool again; Meta brings the NFTs and... Make-A-Video; James Earl Jones retires, AI Darth Vader is your daddy now; Bruce Willis sells ri…

Patreon & MASH; TikTok treats celebrities not just like us; everyone's getting fined - Uber, Meta & Morgan Stanley; Deep Space Whine; Constantine sequel; Scanners remake; Apple TV+ upcoming projects; Succession; The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick; Serial has an update; Kurt Cobain's abandoned house pho…

Patreon drama ramps up, considerably - allegedly; Amazon accelerates robotics; Twitter's innovation vs Meta's; this week in Musk; Adobe's weird Figma play antitrust cough; Starbucks rewards NFTs; Merriam-Webster yeets pumpkin spice; Rings of Power; She-Hulk; Star Wars trailers; Kiki, Pose, Legendar…

Meta's new fine, data black box, and dissolution of "Responsible Innovation" team; DOJ antitrust action against Google could hurt Apple; more iPhones than Androids in the US for the first time; Tim Cook's burn; LG inexplicably adds NFTs to TVs; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Rings of Power & House of the …

FBI warns about DeFi; SEC after crypto; Facebook supports NFTs while trading tanks; Metaverse standards; blinking pants MetaHTML; Nvidia top AI chip dog; Snap layoffs; Substack reins in spending & perks for writers; Twitter's Onlyfans plans canned; Elon's bad prediction record; Pixar; A League of T…

MoviePass, if at first, you don't succeed; Musk, absurdly broad & overly burdensome; crypto games; virtual rappers; stealing Project Titan; bitcoin mining, data centers & a global energy crisis; Neuralink's Halloween show-and-tell; SpaceX & T-Mobile team up; the Gen-X joys of Top Gun: Maverick; Day…

Technology no one wants: palm scanners, the Metaverse, NFTs & crypto; buying real art; Apple's return to work, hiring freeze, Maps & looking into tripling it's ad revenue; Neumann's back, again; fighting for your right to party at an Airbnb; the Sandman, Better Call Saul nail it; Westworld... WTF; …

Incompetencies; magnets on a stick; tennis elbow & fitness; go ahead and drink the rain in Spain; CHIPS is a go; Cuban does good & bad; Amazon's solutions without problems; Facebook still can't remove white supremacists; Pew study on teen social media usage; FCC rejects Starlink request for subsidi…

Earth no longer has drinkable rain; Goodreads; Pickleball elbow; Twitter goes after Musk; the week in grift - Ponzi schemes, hacks, regulatory lies, "preemptive" theft, oh my; Meta's Super live streaming platform; movies we haven't watched & some we have; Westworld; Trainwreck, Woodstock '99; Opal …

Hot, Hot, Hot; Google fires engineer that claimed AI was sentient; Shkreli, Cracker Barrel enthusiast & ponzi schemer, is back; ghosted politician wants to make ghosting a crime; Senate grills Apple, Google over crypto app scams; Jon & Punch & the CHIPS act; Westworld turns the ship around; John Ol…

A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; sto…

Back from vacation; borrowing for crypto; saving lives; speed news recap: YouTube trailers, Apple & Ive, Microsoft layoffs, Instagram & TikTok for search, Nothing phone, political email spam, GameStop NFT's, population; James Webb telescope images; Twitter sues Elon; Ev leaves Medium; Rivian cost c…

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Breaking News! TikTok, COVID & coked-up shrimp; ad-targeting problems; Metaverse Standards Forum; designer clothes in the Metaverse; Tesla racial abuse; TikTok US data moved to Oracle; Twitter brings back Chirp, adds blogs; hail a Lyft with cash, sort of; crypto not so decentralized; tracking layof…

Crypto-crash; grifters gonna grift; Google chat-bot building system builds a really good chatbot, not an AI; how not to get people to track your jet; Uber & Lyft lose in Massachusetts; smart license plates; Spotify's safety c...

As one of the longest-running podcasts, "Grumpy Old Geeks" discovers what went wrong on the Internet, and who's to blame. Every week they cut through the BS from big tech and tell you what's really going on. With wide-ranging topics, this show has something for everyone. There is a reason Elon Musk…

Pamping the Twetch redesign; NFTs are dead; more crypto lawsuits & investigations; Starbucks shuts down unionized location; Amazon VP pushes sellers to oppose bill good for Amazon; Microsoft cleans up their policies; Apple gets in on Pay Later; Reply All is kaput; Strange New Worlds continues a goo…

More crypto fails; Sheryl Sandberg leans out of the Metaverse; PayPal & other tech firms tighten their belts, lay off workers; Amazon stops in-app purchases on Android; Jonas Brothers launch Scriber for established artists like themselves; Netflix password-sharing plan isn't much of a plan; unions …

More cyypto & NFT fails; proper gambling with class action cash; Uber won, we lose; Amazon delivery partners accident prone; Starlink for RVs; Adam Neumann is back with a new scam; Meta sharing data with researchers; Walmart drones; Kids in the Hall; George Carlin; Ricky Gervais; Westworld; the Bad…

Eggs redux; work from home debate, the Great Whiplash; Hotel Suicide; Twitter sale on hold, over Musk's antics; Youtube isn't a website according to Texas; adtech RTB breach; CityCoins crash; tempests in teapots at Apple; Grubhub's bad promo; Netflix layoffs; HBO app issues; Slower Horses; Kids in …

Humanity stuck in hold my beer mode; returning to work entitlement; many meta verses; crypto crashing, fraud everywhere; affordable connectivity & WIFI before seatbelts on buses; Musk's plan for Twitter; Cameo lays off the Fameo; Peleton's post-covid crunch; Clearview AI banned from direct sales to…