This Week in Tech 850: Leo, not Leopoldo - a podcast by TWiT

Apple's self-repair program, space debris, Constitution NFT, Xbox 20 years old

• Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena.


• Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin Outbid a Group of Crypto Investors for Copy of U.S. Constitution.


• Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs.


• 13 dumb arena names inspired by the Staples Center becoming 'Crypto.com Arena'.


• El Salvador to Create 'Bitcoin City,' Use $500M of Planned $1B Bond Offering to Buy More Crypto.\


• Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public.


• Apple's Pointless Self-Repair Program.


• Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout, demand CEO step down.


• Xbox Chief Says He's Evaluating Relationship With Activision.


• Microsoft Pressures Activision Blizzard.


• Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle.


• Google Cloud encourages more conversational AI with Bot-in-a-Box.


• Visualizations show the extensive cloud of debris Russia's anti-satellite test created.


• Chris Hadfield says more regulations are needed to protect astronauts from space debris.


• Jurors Got to Hear Elizabeth Holmes' Lies For Themselves.


• Tesla ranks almost dead-last on a Consumer Reports reliability list.


• We Are the Wirecutter Union. We're Prepared to Walk Out.


• How Xbox outgrew the console: inside Phil Spencer's multi-billion dollar gamble.


• Forza Horizon 5.


• Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show.


• Meta's sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets.


• FlyFin offers an AI-based tax app aimed at freelancers, gig workers.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Wil Harris, and Chris J. Preimesberger

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