Tech News: The Blue Badge of Dishonor
TechStuff
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4.3 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In less than a week, Twitter's blue checkmark went from a desired status symbol to a mark people want to avoid at all costs. What happened? Plus, news on GM phasing out the Chevy Bolt, Google abandoning a mega campus project and an update on the Apple vs Epic legal battle.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.9 | A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and howl the tech are ya. |
| 0:49.7 | It's time for the tech news for Tuesday, April 25th, 2023. |
| 0:53.8 | Last week, I talked about how the SpaceX Starship launch was a success despite the fact |
| 0:59.4 | that the ding-dang darn things exploded all over the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:03.7 | As a reminder, this was a test launch of the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever, |
| 1:10.5 | and it had no crew aboard it, thank goodness. |
| 1:13.4 | And the purpose was just to get the launch vehicle off the ground without destroying the launch tower in the process. |
| 1:19.3 | While there was a hope that the Starship would actually be able to achieve orbit, that was a secondary goal. |
| 1:26.3 | So when there was an engine failure and a failure for the first stage to separate from the second, |
| 1:32.0 | and then the ship began to spin in the air, SpaceX chose to toggle a self-destruct switch, |
| 1:36.9 | so that the Starship would detonate safely over the Gulf and not go flying off somewhere. |
| 1:42.8 | Since then, we've learned that there was extensive damage to the launch pad itself during the launch. |
| 1:49.4 | While the tower remains standing, there are craters and debris across the launch area, |
| 1:55.2 | and it may be weeks or months before the launch pad is ready for another launch. |
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