TWiT 787: Dreamliner - TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement - a podcast by TWiT

TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement

• Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019


• The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods


• Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th


• A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX


• Facebook bans political ads the week before the election


• Pinterest bans political ads


• Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube


• Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century


• Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years


• China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm


• We still don't know who will buy TikTok


• Apple announcement coming 9/8?


• AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now


• Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft


• Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you


• US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal


• California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians


• CableCARD nearing its end


• Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons


• Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code


• It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year


• Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499

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Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, and Louis Maresca

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