Week in Tech: Could a Dead Cat Sink Waymo?
TechStuff
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Would you buy a boat or a midcentury sideboard from your high school pals? Because Oz’s alma mater has opened an exclusive online marketplace for just this purpose! This week, Oz spins a yarn about Kitkat, the San Francisco cat killed by a Waymo. Locals are furious. Karah fills us in on Blued and Finka, the gay dating apps being censored by the Chinese government. Tech bros are obsessed with building statues, the FBI tries to unmask the owner of a popular internet archiving site, and we check out a flight app that could make your holiday travel more data-driven, if not less hectic. Finally, on Chat and Me, we talk about Kim Kardashian’s use of Chat—and whether it’s really her friend.
Additional Reading:
- Eton’s old boy network app is like eBay for ex-prime ministers - The Times UK
- Waymo Was Thriving in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat. - The New York Times
- Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order - WIRED
- FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site - Ars Technica
- The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell - WSJ
- America’s Tech Rich Is Obsessed with Building Giant Statues - Bloomberg
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.3 | From kaleidoscope and IHeart podcasts, this is Tech Stuff. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Osvalosian. |
| 0:22.8 | And I'm Kara Price. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, we've got a few big stories to break down for you. |
| 0:27.3 | First, the loss of a beloved neighborhood cat puts a spotlight on the autonomous vehicle company, Waymo. |
| 0:34.9 | Then, after facing pressure from the Chinese government, Apple removes two |
| 0:39.5 | popular gay dating apps from its store in China. We'll dive into what that could mean |
| 0:44.2 | for the rest of us. Then we'll tell you about a few other stories that caught our eye this week, |
| 0:48.8 | like how the FBI is suddenly targeting a popular internet archive, the flight app that may take the guesswork out of holiday travel. |
| 0:57.0 | And we break down why tech titans keep building giant statues. |
| 1:01.6 | An obsession with immortality, perhaps? |
| 1:03.9 | Then on Chat and Me, |
| 1:05.5 | Do you consider Chat GPT to be a friend? |
| 1:09.1 | No. |
| 1:10.0 | All of that on the Week in tech is Friday, November 21st. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello, Kara. |
| 1:17.6 | Hi, Oz. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm about to do something I swore I would never do. |
| 1:23.6 | What? |
| 1:24.6 | Do you know what Omerta is? |
| 1:26.7 | No. |
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