TWiG 803: Dadscrolling - Stargate, SkyTok, Chromebook Facial Control
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
- "Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
- Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
- What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
- Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
- SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub
- The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers
- Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
- Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
- Nokia's reaction to the iPhone
- The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy
- Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
- Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show
- The Whole World is Whining
- Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year
- Genrevision podcast
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twig this week in Google. Jeff Jarvis is here, Paris Martin. We're going to talk about |
| 0:04.3 | this new Stargate project. Is it just a bit of puffery to boost up the new president, |
| 0:10.2 | or is there actually something going on, a half trillion dollar spend to create AGI in four years? Wow. |
| 0:18.8 | We're going to talk about Elon Musk. Is he really the gaming genius? He says he is? |
| 0:24.1 | And then what happens when the company that makes those screens on the Walgreens refrigerator turns them off? |
| 0:31.1 | I'll give you a hint. Nothing. It's time for Twig next. |
| 0:37.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:42.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Twig. |
| 0:50.0 | This week in Google, episode 803, recorded Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025. |
| 0:57.3 | Dad scrolling. |
| 0:59.0 | It's time for Twig this week in Google, the show where we, for the next two episodes, we'll talk about Google and then it's off. |
| 1:05.5 | It's over. |
| 1:06.1 | We're done. |
| 1:07.2 | No. |
| 1:07.8 | Google will still be in the mix when we become intelligent machines. |
| 1:10.5 | They have a little bit to do with AI Jeff Jarvis is there professor emeritus of |
| 1:16.9 | journalistic innovation at the Craig Newmark graduate school of |
| 1:20.0 | now we got really we got we, we need a chorus singing, |
| 1:30.2 | Mont, Mont, Mont, Mont, Clare, New Jersey. |
| 1:34.4 | Because that's where he is now also at Stony Brook, Sunni. So, Suu, Suu, we could do that. |
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