This Week in Tech 824: Ask Shatner's Ghost - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-05-23T13:28:56

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Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified


  • LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology.

  • Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company.

  • DeepMind reportedly lost a yearslong bid to win more independence from Google.

  • Google's Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram.

  • Android 12 preview: First Look at Google's Radical New Design.

  • Google and Samsung unite to reboot Android watches, with a dose of Fitbit too.

  • Chrome testing RSS-powered 'Follow' button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive.

  • 12 Google Workspace updates for better collaboration: Smart Canvas.

  • Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029.

  • An ex-Googler brings Silicon Valley thinking to Sacramento.

  • Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer.

  • Triangulation 428 - Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary'.

  • Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed.

  • Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022.

  • Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling.

  • Snap CEO Evan Spiegel: We're happy to pay Apple 30% — without Apple we wouldn't exist.

  • Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple's culminating testimony.

  • Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial.

  • Apple Music announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio.

  • HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update.

  • Amazon Music Unlimited plans now include HD streaming at no extra cost.

  • Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force.

  • Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space.

  • Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017.

  • Mike's article: How holograms, deepfakes, and AR are raising the dead.

  • Bitcoin plunges 30% to $30,000 at one point in wild session, recovers somewhat to $40,000.

  • Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts.


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Guests: Mike Elgan, Jason Howell, and Iain Thomson


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