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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Amazon Sidewalk launching; Twitter unsurprisingly pauses verification program; invisible sculptures & fake NFT markets; AI takes on disinformation; Tweet labels based on how wrong you are; Lemonade's bad week on Twitter; WhatsApp backtracks; Venmo to provide some privacy controls; Google buries tracking settings; Elon bores Vegas, Neuralink will end language in 10 years; Army of the Dead; Crime of the Century; Friends; Moby; Star Wars cartoons; Fire tablets; Zoom PodTrak; Drafts Pro; Cook Unity; transformers to the Moon; Muderbots; Code Girls; Have I Been Pwned; dreamy Troy Hunt.
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FOLLOW UP
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Apple delays paid podcast subscription launch to June
Twitter pauses its new public verification program after just one week
IN THE NEWS
World’s First Invisible Sculpture Sells for a Whopping $18,000
Buying a pink NFT cat was a crypto nightmare
Artificial intelligence system could help counter the spread of disinformation
Twitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are
A disturbing, viral Twitter thread reveals how AI-powered insurance can go wrong
WhatsApp won’t limit accounts for users who don’t accept its new privacy policy
Venmo now lets users hide their friends lists following Biden discovery
Google reportedly made it harder to find Android privacy settings
Tesla may have to ship Texas-made EVs out of state to sell them to Texans
MEDIA CANDY
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
APPS & DOODADS
Apple TV 4K review (2021): Finally, a Siri remote I don’t hate
Zoom PodTrak P8 Podcast Recorder – $499
Zoom BTA-2 Bluetooth Adapter for P4/P8 PodTrak Recorder – $49.99
Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the Moon
AT THE LIBRARY
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries Book 6) by Martha Wells
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
SECURITY HAH!
FBI to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned
US soldiers accidentally leak nuclear secrets via study apps
Robert G. Reeve Twitter Thread
Robert G. Reeve Twitter Thread Reader version
MORON OF THE WEEK
Neuralink Brain Chip Will End Language in Five to 10 Years, Elon Musk Says
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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| 1:29.0 | setting up payment processors Brian. Oh yes. Oh my god. Yeah no this is it's a |
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