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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 Sinead; Pose; Deshaun; the Real Bling Ring; Food Network; more Dune coming; Spotify downsizes podcast division; Twitter edit; too big TVs; another drone; Metaverse fashion IRL; Media, HAH; Andor, She-Hu...

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 rights to Deepfake firm; Three-Body Problem, Avatar: the Way of Water have us snoozing; Netflix building a game studio; Bravo; Aphex Twin software 20 years too late; tortilla robots and predictive AI; OG...

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 photography; music for programming; Rogue Amoeba celebrates 20 years; OpenAI open-sources Whisper; AI imagery and legal challenges; Douglas Rushkoff and the horrific tech billionaires; Star Wars: Andor & ...

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, Legendary and the power of sub-cultures; Sonos Ray; Apple OS updates generally good, kill Dark Sky bad; iZotope RX 10; Discord adds... forums; the Status Game; Chatter: the Voice in Our Head "I am a Golden God...

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 Dragon; feeding Phil; Stranger Things; Khan prequel; poop for profit; Apple Watch; SetApp; Travel By Bullet, Scalzi; Star Wars upcoming series; Robocop self-defense; cable testing & ranting; ransomware...

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 Their Own; NFT performers at the MTV awards; the Church; the Boys; Animal Kingdom; iPassword; UK police game Waze; digital art & AI created content; Midjourney; FTC sues data broker; malware hidden in J...

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 Shift's dialogue; Light & Magic; She-Hulk; House of the Dragon; Going Back to Xanadu; our preferred chairs, browsers, and fitness apps; trackers on bikes; Netflix games; Binance scammers get scammed; ...

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; the Most Hated Man on the Internet; She-Hulk; Light & Magic; the Slits; VPNs, AirTags, Simplisafe & fitness apps; Jason Bumbles with a bot; Signal third-party breach; Google shutters IoT Core; getting ...

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 subsidies; the Sandman; NeuroNerds; Joni Mitchell; Surface; Prey; Being Canadian; Twitter content AI is crap; home tools; cocktail smoking; Jason goes to Mall Cop school; Meta releases messages in abortion ca...

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 C1 camera; Apple Arcade removes titles; Winamp is back; WebbCompare; fitness apps; Meta Pixel HIPAA lawsuits; everyone's texts have been deleted except Alex Jones; deprogramming conspiracy theorists, H...

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 Oliver is back; the Old Man; Spotify gains users, loses money, ditches Car Thing; hiding AirTags on bikes; Instagram's very busy week; Twitter Blue price hike; Snapchat+ inexplicably doing well; Tinder "...

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; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, ...

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-cutting; Peloton outsources products; Meta generative AI; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrap up; Umbrella Academy; Let's Make a Sci-Fi; AirTags & Prime deals; Wayne Hussey, Hercule Poirot & humans being...

Fun with compound pejoratives; TLDR; the layoffs are coming; old-timey Uber problems; Airbnb parties no more; space travel & the environment; limiting sales of Plan B; Facebook seems to be able to moderate abortion pills posts but not much else; cryptocurrency still a joke, massive losses of money; Apple exec busted for insider trading; HBOMax app issues; Roadrunner & revisiting Bourdain; Westward; the Orville; charging cables; Snapchat+ lets you pay to beta test; Opal C1; Disneyland; TikTok; wh...

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 layoffs; beaver outage; the Orville; Crypto Critics Corner; Cal Newport; the Old Man; Animal Kingdom; continuing HBOMax issues; Cameo; flying death mobiles; levitating with sound; DALL-E; David McRaney chan...

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 council; 10 strikes and you're out at Facebook; Barry; Umbrella Academy; For All Mankind; Apple+ sports streaming; festival pee; Google Nest Protect; audio weapons; Internet Explorer, big in Japan; Peter Danielsson; Warren Ellis; Adrian Tchaikovsky; Obi-Wan; adapters & NFC ca...

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 good run; Rat in the Kitchen; The Orville pivots; Sandman causes uninformed internet to have a cow; Jason gears up new studio; two IKEA turntables & a Marshall stack; Feeting Woices; the Leia show; Tim Ho...

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 are good for workers; Legendary; Stranger Things; Yvonne Orji; Norm MacDonald; Willow; Starz; Groove Belt; Jiffy Reader; Obi Wan Kenobi; toxic fans; China anti-starling measures; I want to be a dog. S...

More crypto & 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 Guys; Sirius XM picks up Team Coco; time zones; Sennheiser; Magic Leap; gaming consolidation; the Sims; we Google it for you; USB SuperDrives; 5k iMac project; Top Gun; finding orphaned accounts; Clea...

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 the Hall return; Barry; Naked Lunch; back on Brave; social media breaks & violent content on Facebook; AI characters, Artbreeder & title tags; Star Wars excitement; tracking period apps; pay with a smi...

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 state agencies; Star Trek hopes; Severance; Avatar & Downton Abbey; iPhone cases; Apple discontinues the iPod; tandem showers; wheelbarrows; crypto muggings; more your phone is listening to you nonsen...

Music for TikTok; NFTs flatlining, still; WAGMI, bro; MyPillow guy re-banned from Twitter; Google fires more AI researchers; Meta's "laptop for the face"; Wikimedia won't take your crypto; Russians steal farm vehicles, they get bricked; the fragility of the blockchain; electioneering on OnlyFans; Grumpy Young Men; Weird Al; George Carlin; Grace & Frankie; Star Trek falters, Star Wars shines; NASA ring tones; Wristcam; Wordle's NYT bump; terms of service; cable testing; Circle K from Bill & Ted c...

The Brimley/Cocoon Line; Elon Musk & the Twitter buyout; Truth Social's masterplan; Meta is a money pit; Ford's electric F-150; NFT phishing scams; virtual homes in the metaverse; taking off your Google Pixel Watch to eat; Discovery+; the Batman; Our Flag Means Death (of comedy); Supergirl; Danny Elfman; Severance; bitcoin got boring; when tech delights; Apple Self Service Repair; eero Pro; Sonos Roam; useful websites; the Sandman Omnibus; regret; the Art of Impossible; Milk Street & cook books ...

Coachella & Revolve; becoming a Gigillionaire; masks off; web scraping is legal; unionization is in the air, but $30 an hour for retail; Netflix stock drop, taking a page from Spotify; quantum computing and Rydberg polaritons; Romancing the Stone & Ghostbusters; the Batman; Picard disappointments; #Adulting; sexy backpacks; label created is not shipped; Honey; salt, salt, salt; the Broken Room; Roland; CNN+ shutting down; hot cable talk; revisiting smart home problems; DNS options; cyber securit...