This Week in Tech 794: Pulmonary Gold Disease - a podcast by TWiT

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AOC Streams Among US, iPhone Reviews, RIP Quibi


  • Politicians go gamer: AOC streams Among Us, Biden's Animal Crossing Island

  • How campaigning on social media is changing

  • Did social media break democracy?

  • Bot orders $18,752 of McFlurrys every minute

  • iPhone 12 reviews are in - the flat edges are cool, 5G is not.

  • Quibi fails after only 6 months

  • Google Stadia developer says streamers should be paying game developers for the right to stream their games

  • DOJ sues Google over antitrust

  • Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on November 17th

  • The US government goes after Section 230

  • Judge says the US government can't ban WeChat

  • Edward Snowden gets permanent residence in Russia

  • RIAA takes down 18 GitHub projects for downloading YouTube videos

  • Adobe Max introduces controversial AI filters

  • iPhone 12 - are you skipping this year?

  • Xbox Series x or Playstation 5?

  • The coolest electric cars

*Correction*: Adobe does not sanction the "Make Her Smile" video. Attributing this video to Adobe was an error on TWiT's part.


Host: Leo Laporte


Guests: Shira Lazar, Heather Kelly, and Brianna Wu


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