This Week in Tech 851: Doomtown Rats - a podcast by TWiT

Black Friday, Apple sues NSO group, rats play Doom, MicroClimate AIR2

• Scientists Focus on Whether Omicron Variant Causes Severe Illness.


• CES 2022: CES - The Most Influential Tech Event in the World.


• MicroClimate AIR2.


• Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels.


• Amazon sees 'record-breaking' Black Friday, official says.


• New York Times' Wirecutter Staff Goes on Strike Ahead of Black Friday.


• Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware.


• Apple's AR headset coming next year with 'Mac-level' power: report.


• Apple's Car Project: Everything We Know.


• Sam's Thoughts on the Apple Car.


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


• What is the future of personal car ownership?


• Galaxy Note is dead; Samsung reportedly ending production on Note 20, no plans for the 2022 model.


• Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental health.


• Related: The CEO of cosmetics retailer Lush says he's 'happy to lose' $13 million by deleting Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat accounts over teen mental-health harms.


• Germany plans to phase out the sale of combustion-engine vehicles to help meet its ambitious goal of getting 15 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030.


• Rats named Carmack and Romero are playing Doom.


• Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Sam Abuelsamid

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