TWiT 974: Get at the Young Youngs - Tesla Robotaxi, Marissa Mayer's Sunshine

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill
Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
MrBeast calls for slowing down video editing styles
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts

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Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week at Tech, a live studio audience for the first time in four years.
0:05.1	Great to have them. Plus, hey! Plus Harry McCracken, Lisa Schmeiser, and Micah Sergeant.
0:11.5	We're going to talk about the House and Senate nearing a deal on a landmark online privacy bill.
0:19.0	What are the odds? I think pretty low.
0:23.0	What happened to Marissa Meyer's new app and the price of zero day exploits north of 20
0:30.6	million dollars.
0:31.9	All that more coming up on Twitter.
0:34.3	On Twit.
0:37.3	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:39.9	This is Twit this week in tech episode 974, recorded Sunday, April 7, 2024.
0:56.0	Get at the Young Young's.
0:58.0	It's time for Twit this week in Tech.
1:05.0	The show we cover the week's Tech News and this is a very special Twit
1:10.0	not only because I'm wearing a velvet smoking jacket, although it is kind of
1:16.2	Spuffy, but because we have an all in studio panel and we have for the first time since
1:26.3	COVID since 2020. So February 2020 we have an in studio audience. But start let me introduce the audience later. Let me introduce
1:30.6	the panel Harry McCracken is here the technologist from Fast Company.
1:34.0	Hi Leo.
1:35.0	Hi Harry, always good to have you.
1:36.0	Nice to be here.
1:37.0	And Maria's home.
1:39.0	She's at home, but she says hello.
	...

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