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Tech Brew Ride Home

Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2018 - A Spotify/Hulu Bundle

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Zuckerberg’s back on the hot seat, Spotify and Hulu have a new bundle, changes might be coming to Gmail, we might have new Spectacles soon, and Uber adds a car rental option. Stories from: @KaleighRogers, @sarahjeong Links:Four Questions Congress Should Ask Mark Zuckerberg (Wired)Let’s Talk About Mark Zuckerberg’s Claim that Facebook 'Doesn’t Sell Data' (Motherboard)Here's How Much Facebook Donated to Every Lawmaker Questioning Mark Zuckerberg this Week (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, April 11th, 2018. Today Zuckerberg's back on the hot seat.

0:12.0

There's a new Spotify Hulu bundle.

0:15.4

Changes might be coming to Gmail. There might be new spectacles in our future and

0:21.3

Uber adds car rental options. Here's what you missed today in the world

0:26.3

of tech.

0:28.7

This morning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was back on Capitol Hill, this time

0:37.5

testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. A few interesting

0:41.9

tidbits from today, Congresswoman Anna Eshu, who

0:45.8

represent Silicon Valley, asked Zuckerberg if any of his own personal data was

0:50.2

included in the data sold to malicious third parties.

0:54.4

Zuckerberg said yes.

0:56.4

Representative Frank Pallone asked Zuckerberg for a yes or no answer on whether

1:01.4

he'd commit to changing default settings to minimize the

1:05.0

collection of users data, Zuckerberg demyered saying quote, this is a complex

1:10.6

issue that I think deserves more than a one-word answer.

1:15.0

Representative Jan Schakowski read a long list of Zuckerberg's public apologies going all the

1:20.1

way back to his apologies for FaceMash at Harvard.

1:23.2

You have a long list of apologies, the representative said.

1:27.7

She then said that this was an indication that, quote, self-regulation does not work.

1:33.6

The headlines and analysis from yesterday's nearly five hours of testimony before the Senate

1:38.6

Judiciary Committee and the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committees rolled in overnight, a few takeaways from yesterday.

1:47.0

Zuckerberg didn't rule out the possibility that one day Facebook might offer a paid version of its service that would presumably not show ads and in theory

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