TWiT 887: Chorizo in Spaaaaaaaaace! - Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

08/07/22 • 147 min

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Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.
French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Georgia Dow

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Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.
French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Georgia Dow

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TWiT 886: The Barn Has Left the Horse - CHIPS Act, earnings week, FTC sues Meta, Twitter Blue price hike

CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022.
Intel Kills Optane Memory Business Entirely.
Apple's $83B quarter by the numbers.
FY22 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft.
Amazon (AMZN) Q2 2022 earnings.
Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
Collect and Trade NFL Highlights As NFTs.
Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money.
Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals.
FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal.
Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed.
Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
Twitter v. Elon Musk trial date set to start October 17th.
FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history.
Tim Hortons offers free coffee to settle mobile app class action lawsuits.
Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours.
Details from FBI Raid of U.S. Private Vaults Being Kept from Public.
Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
HBO Max will begin streaming 'Game of Thrones' in 4K HDR next month.
Ultiworld on Twitter: "Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) with the MASSIVE sky for @PrideofNY at the World Ultimate Club Championships"
NASA on Twitter: "We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible."

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Snell, Shoshana Weissmann, and Dan Patterson

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TWiT 888: Frolic and Detour - FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

AngledDesigners on Etsy.
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.
The FTC has kicked off its massive push to regulate the data economy.
Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests.
Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors.
Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.
Sunset of the social network.
Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever.
Apple is in talks to acquire streaming rights for Big Ten athletics, report says.
Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods.
Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked.
California DMV accuses Tesla of deceptive practices in marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving options.
The Creators of 'King's Quest' Are Back With a New Game.
Netflix's slow start in gaming.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.