TWiT 965: Baby's First Layoff - Apple Vision Pro, Google Retires Cache links
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
- The panel gives their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro
- Online safety hearing gets skeptical response from kids, advocates
- Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
- Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs
- There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube
- Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
- Google Search officially retires cache link
- The panel discusses the recent spat of tech industry layoffs
- Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
- Amazon Content Spending 2023 Rose 14% to $18.9B for TV, Film and Music
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in Tech. |
| 0:03.0 | This show has an unusual ending. |
| 0:05.0 | You're gonna see it in just a bit, but in a moment we'll go to the studio |
| 0:08.0 | where Wesley Faulkner will join us. |
| 0:10.0 | Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, lots to talk about their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro headset coming |
| 0:16.8 | up. |
| 0:17.8 | We'll also talk about AI in the workplace, why so many people are getting laid off, and where all those tech workers are going |
| 0:24.8 | and why next time you get invited to a Zoom call with the CFO and all your financial |
| 0:31.3 | friends from your office you might want to think twice about sending |
| 0:35.1 | them $25 million. |
| 0:37.1 | Didn't look out so well. |
| 0:38.7 | Twit is next. |
| 0:39.8 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:45.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:50.0 | This is |
| 0:54.1 | This Week in Tech episode 965 recorded Sunday February 4th |
| 1:00.9 | 2024. Baby's first layoff. |
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| 1:08.7 | If I asked you how many subscriptions you have, |
| 1:11.2 | would you be able to list them all and how much you're paying? I couldn't but let me tell you something as soon as I started using rocket money |
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