This Week in Tech 822: Five Pounds of Mortadella - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-05-09T17:48:34

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Facebook Oversight Board, Google vs. Roku, Epic vs. Apple, Musk on SNL


  • SNL and Elon Musk: Dogecoin takes center stage.

  • What's wrong with Doge?

  • 'Tiger King' star Carole Baskin explains why she's releasing a 'purr-ency' crypto coin.

  • Oversight Board upholds former President Trump's suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose a proper penalty.

  • Twitter account sharing posts from Trump's new blog is already banned.

  • Fortnite made more than $9 billion in revenue in its first two years.

  • Apple's App Store Had 78% Margin in 2019, Epic Expert Says.

  • App Store review process has over 500 human experts; less than 1% of rejections are appealed.

  • Emails reveal 128 million iOS users were affected by 'XcodeGhost' malware.

  • 96% of US users opt-out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find.

  • Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned.

  • Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app.

  • Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication.

  • Introducing Tip Jar.

  • Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites.

  • IBM Creates First 2nm Chip.

  • What a Crossword AI Reveals About Humans' Way With Words.

  • Digging in the dust of AOL and Yahoo's lost internet empires.

  • Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality.

  • Study Finds No Link Between Time Teens' Spend On Tech Devices And Mental Health Problems.

  • Noah Bought $2,619 Worth of SpongeBob Popsicles.


Host: Leo Laporte


Guests: Owen Thomas, Christina Warren, and Alex Wilhelm


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