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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 933: The Iliad Flow - Amazon vs Walmart, Prime dark patterns, Canadian link tax, Zuck+Musk cage match

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Amazon vs Walmart, Prime dark patterns, Canadian link tax, Zuck Musk cage match

  • A new book reveals how Amazon used 'shady' strategies at its bookstores to drive up Prime subscriptions.
  • Trader Oooh's.
  • FTC Sues Amazon Over 'Manipulative' Tactics Used to Enroll Millions in Prime.
  • Deceptive Patterns: Hall of Shame.
  • Sony's PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft's Activision deal wasn't about Xbox exclusives.
  • Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and 'Buy with Prime' sites.
  • TikTok prepares 'Project S' plan to break into online shopping.
  • The Curious Case of Chris Evans's Sweater in "Knives Out".
  • NFL finalizes new 11-year media rights deal, Amazon gets exclusive Thursday Night rights.
  • Gannett sues Google over its alleged ad tech monopoly.
  • As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada.
  • Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets by Jason Del Rey.
  • Disney Adds Facial Recognition to Parks.
  • Tom Morello, Zack de la Rocha Boycott Venues Using Face-scanning Tech.
  • Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison.
  • Google's YouTube Is Testing an Online-Games Offering.
  • Meta Will Launch Twitter Competitor In Mid-July: Report.
  • Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg's fight started before Meta's Twitter rival.
  • "Stunning"—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Alex Lindsay, and Jason Del Rey

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0:00.0

It's time for twit this week in tech. We have a great panel for you. The return of Denise Howell, formerly of this week in

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Lush will be telling you about her new podcast launching soon. Alex Lindsay, you know him from Macbreak Weekly and office hours dot global.

0:13.0

And a brand new visitor Jason Del Rey, his new book, Winner sells all is all about between the battle between Amazon and Walmart.

0:22.0

And we'll be talking a lot about Amazon and Walmart and Google and yes, we'll mention the cage match. It's all coming up next on twit.

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This is twit this week in tech episode 933 recorded Sunday June 25th 2023. The Iliad flow. This week in tech is brought to you by look out whether on a device or in the cloud your business data is always on the move minimize risk increase

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2:16.0

It's time for twit this week at tech show we cover the weeks tech news. Oh, you're going to like this panel because we got two oldies and a goodie.

2:31.0

Denise how you're not an oldie you're a goodie internet and technology lawyer former host of this weekend law her new podcast is coming soon hearsay culture dot com hi Denise.

2:43.0

Hi there that's our network will have a number of podcasts there what's yours going to be called.

2:49.0

I'm going to be on to mine my main one is going to be called uneven distribution with a nod to William Gibson.

2:57.0

And I'm also going to be on R&D with D&D.

3:02.0

You're one of the D's I presume I'm one of the days that's awesome Dave Levine is the other D nice can't wait.

3:10.0

It's great to see you we were down your way, but I didn't knock on your door because we just drove by and waived I hope that was good enough.

3:19.0

Another oldie and goodie Alex Lindsay is also here normally you see him on Mac break weekly.

3:25.0

But every once in a while we let him come up to the adult table office hours that global and zero and zero dot media hi Alex.

3:33.0

I was thinking about rum slag when I was at the Disney the new Disney star was you see rum slag was either I looked for him.

3:41.0

I couldn't find him we did buy two hundred fifty dollar lightsabers though.

3:47.0

You know for a good quality lightsaber it's about that there are some folks that I work with that make like really like movie quality when they're from the model shop.

3:56.0

These are like that metal they're really nice yeah but of course they don't have it they don't actually they won't cut you in half which is probably a good thing.

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