TWiT 935: Gotta Sleep 'Em All - Threads by Meta, TweetDeck returns, Causal AI, thumbs-up emoji lawsuit
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Threads by Meta, TweetDeck returns, Causal AI, thumbs-up emoji lawsuit
- What to know about Threads.
- Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads.
- Elon Musk Is Making Mark Zuckerberg Seem Cool Again.
- The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long?
- Why We Don't Recommend Ring Cameras.
- Your School's Next Security Guard May Be an AI-Enabled Robot.
- Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones.
- Gizmodo used AI to write a Star Wars story. It was filled with errors.
- The next artificial intelligence frontier: Causal AI.
- A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled.
- Bay Area tech company Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe.
- Farmer owes $82,000 in a contract dispute over the use of a 'thumbs-up' emoji, judge says.
- Here's the deal with the giant sphere causing a buzz in Las Vegas.
- Pokémon Sleep gameplay and pre-registration for Android revealed.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ben Parr, Reed Albergotti, and Seth Weintraub
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech. |
| 0:02.2 | We got a great panel for you with some big stories Ben par is here Seth wine |
| 0:06.2 | Trab from nine to five and electric and read albergati from semaphore of course |
| 0:11.7 | We're gonna talk about threads the hottest I think the hottest app launch in history was this week |
| 0:18.4 | We'll also talk about AI use for everything from writing articles to zapping pests and is it the end of the line forever note |
| 0:26.6 | It's all coming up next on twit |
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| 0:47.6 | 935 recorded Sunday July 9th |
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