Thu. 01/05 – CES Roundup Part 1

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Amazon’s layoffs are bigger than we thought. Meta’s new fines in Europe could be a way, way bigger deal than you might think. Apple is brining AI narrators to audiobooks. And a roundup of cool CES stuff. Sony and Honda have a new electric car brand. The first truly wireless TV. And a solar powered watch band means you might never need to charge it. Links: Amazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers, the Most in Recent Tech Wave (WSJ) €390M fine strikes blow to Meta’s ad-fueled business model (Politico) Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks (The Guardian) Bankruptcy judge rules that Earn account assets belong to Celsius (Axios) CES Roundup: Sony and Honda just announced their new electric car brand, Afeela (The Verge) iOttie Velox Elite is an actively cooled MagSafe car charger to prevent overheating (Apple Insider) LG’s latest Signature OLED TV receives all of its audio and video wirelessly (The Verge) I'm thinking of ditching my Apple Watch for this solar and body heat-powered band (TechRadar) Shower pods are here to turn your bathroom into a spa (The Verge) Samsung Display’s latest foldable concept can both slide and fold (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, January 5th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.3	Today Amazon's layoffs are bigger than we thought.
0:11.4	Meta's new fines in Europe could be a way, way bigger deal than we thought. Meta's new fines in Europe could be a way way
0:14.4	bigger deal than you might think. Apple is bringing AI narrators to
0:18.6	audiobooks and a roundup of cool CES stuff. Sony and Honda have a new electric car brand,
0:25.0	the first truly wireless TV,
0:27.0	and a solar-powered watch band
0:29.0	means you might never need to charge it.
0:31.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:34.0	What I want to do today and tomorrow is segment out a portion of the show each day
0:42.0	to do a roundup of cool things announced at
0:44.2	C. In order to do that let's get some of the newsy headlines out of the way and
0:49.2	get to the C. E. S. stuff. First of all, Amazon plans to lay off more than 18,000 employees, which
0:55.8	would be more than its initial announced layoff number of around 10,000 announced back in November.
1:03.0	The majority, apparently, of the redundancies will be coming from Amazon's retail and recruiting
1:08.0	departments.
1:09.0	Quoting the journal.
1:10.6	The layoffs are concentrated in the company's corporate ranks and represent roughly 5% of that element of its workforce and just 1.2% of its overall tally of 1.5 million employees as of September.
1:22.0	On Wednesday, after the journal broke the
1:24.2	news about the size of Amazon's layoffs, Chief Executive Andy Jesse addressed the
1:28.4	cuts in a blog post, quote, Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult economies in the past and we will continue to do so, said Mr. Jesse.
1:36.8	He added that the majority of the cuts are on the retail and recruiting areas of Amazon.
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