TWiG 647: It's A Disco Floor For Your Wall - Joe Rogan Misinformation, Blizzard

01/19/22 • 150 min

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Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68b
US regulators go after illegal mergers
Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
Unbelievable video of EU commissioner promoting digital legislation
Spotify Pressured by 270 Scientists, Medical Professionals Over Joe Rogan Episode
Spotify shuts down its podcast studio
DirecTV Finally Dumps OAN, Limiting The Conspiracy And Propaganda Channel's Reach
Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person's path
Nanoleaf retires original HomeKit Light Panels, takes up to 50% off in commemorative clearance sale
How the SOPA Blackout Happened 10yrs ago
eyeo wins landmark copyright court decision; protects digital rights and sets an important legal precedent for who 'owns' HTML
Crypto.com Suffers Hack For At Least $15M in Ethereum (ETH)
Cryptoderps think buying a copy of a Dune version gives them copyright to produce it
Cryptoderps follow up
German company's use of Google Analytics 'breached GDPR'
SearchEngineLand turned off AMP; nothing happened
Google kills YouTube Originals
Jeff Jarvis Tweets
Tesla driver is first to face felony charges in a crash involving autopilot
Andre Leon Talley passes
Android 12 Update
How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State
Canon EOS R5 C - Ant's Pick
Follow Ant on Instagram
$200k Donatas - Jeff's Pick
GE Cafe Smart Oven - Stacey's Pick
Cheezam ! By Prevision.IO - Computer Vision with AI for cheese - Leo's Pick

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68b
US regulators go after illegal mergers
Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
Unbelievable video of EU commissioner promoting digital legislation
Spotify Pressured by 270 Scientists, Medical Professionals Over Joe Rogan Episode
Spotify shuts down its podcast studio
DirecTV Finally Dumps OAN, Limiting The Conspiracy And Propaganda Channel's Reach
Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person's path
Nanoleaf retires original HomeKit Light Panels, takes up to 50% off in commemorative clearance sale
How the SOPA Blackout Happened 10yrs ago
eyeo wins landmark copyright court decision; protects digital rights and sets an important legal precedent for who 'owns' HTML
Crypto.com Suffers Hack For At Least $15M in Ethereum (ETH)
Cryptoderps think buying a copy of a Dune version gives them copyright to produce it
Cryptoderps follow up
German company's use of Google Analytics 'breached GDPR'
SearchEngineLand turned off AMP; nothing happened
Google kills YouTube Originals
Jeff Jarvis Tweets
Tesla driver is first to face felony charges in a crash involving autopilot
Andre Leon Talley passes
Android 12 Update
How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State
Canon EOS R5 C - Ant's Pick
Follow Ant on Instagram
$200k Donatas - Jeff's Pick
GE Cafe Smart Oven - Stacey's Pick
Cheezam ! By Prevision.IO - Computer Vision with AI for cheese - Leo's Pick

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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Taco Bell launches Taco Lover's Pass subscription nationwide with 30 days of tacos for $10.
You can safely ignore Web3 by Mike Elgan.
Web .0000012 by Jeff Jarvis.
My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike.
Signal: New year, new CEO.
Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions.
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Wordle - A daily word game.
Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers.
An open letter to YouTube's CEO from the world's fact-checkers.
Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech.
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E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.
About 70 S.Korean attendees of U.S. tech show test positive for COVID-19.
US man claims his penis has shrunk due to rare Covid side effect.
When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In.
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Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling.
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Google: Goodbye FLOC, hello Topics.
German publishers raise new opposition to Google's third-party cookie plans.
Google proposes a new way to track people around the Web. Again.
Why Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana.
FLoC is dead. But Topics won't fix Google's ad targeting problems.
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access.
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G suite migration.
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Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over 'False Information About Vaccines'
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N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyberattacks -researchers.
Hacktivists say they hacked the Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup.
Manufacturers have less than five days' supply of some computer chips, Commerce Department says.
You no longer have to say 'Hey Google' to get the Assistant to shut up.
Pixel's big At a Glance upgrade starts rolling out with more Google Clock & fitness integrations.
Google Chat adds rich text formatting on the web, rolling out now.
YouTube Music will soon work for supervised kid accounts enrolled with Family Link.
Oh, please, can we have a TWiG mini-musical? By brandonethridgemusic on TikTok.
Mark Cuban's latest business venture is a cash-only pharmacy that takes aim at crushing drug prices.
Meta ad for Horizon.