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In this episode: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA Twitter launches 'Birdwatch,' a forum to combat misinformation NBCUniversal is bringing its live events to Twitter users globally Robinhood Is Losing Thousands of Traders to a China-Owned Rival AD BREAK Musk Targets Telecom for Next Disruption With Starlink Internet Firefox 85 removes Flash and adds protection against supercookies Walmart is expanding its robot-powered fulfillment centers to ‘dozens of locations’ Weird and Wacky: Lord Of The Rings Lego Build Sets New World Record With 150 Million Pieces Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries? Tech Rec: Sanjay - Iubenda Adam - Typeform --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Crackdown on Ant, Alibaba Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner Virgin Orbit just earned the orbit part of its name AD BREAK WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode Instacart to Cut 1,900 Jobs, Including Its Only Union Roles Amazon offers Biden resources for COVID-19 vaccine rollout As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers Weird and Wacky: Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid' Tech Rec: Sanjay - Polaroid Adam - Brackets --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Roku Acquires Rights to Quibi’s Content Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP Airbnb, HotelTonight cancel all Washington, DC, metro reservations ahead of Inauguration Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters This is Sony’s Airpeak drone AD BREAK Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app The Future of Phone Design: Flexible Screens That Roll Up Ford Halts Focus Car Plant for Full Month Due to Chip Shortage Weird and Wacky: The Pentagon will have to reveal all the information it has about UFOs Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice Tech Rec: Sanjay - Qoins Adam - Everydollar --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Google, Alphabet employees unionize Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business Besides providing login credentials, the former employee also showed Ticketmaster managers how to exploit a flaw in the URL generation scheme the rival used for unpublished ticketing webpages. To prevent the pages from being accessed by outsiders before they were made public, each one had a unique numerical value. The former employee told his new employer that the values were generated sequentially, and outsiders could use this information to view artist pages while they were still in early draft stages. Slack starts 2021 with a massive outage AD BREAK Billionaire Jack Ma Hasn’t Been Seen in 74 Days Jack Ma’s absence from public eye sparks Twitter discussions Alarms about Ma’s whereabouts weren’t set off until he was replaced last week as the lead judge of a talent show for entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Finance reported. His photo was also removed from a list of judges on the show’s website, fueling speculation that the Chinese government may have gone beyond scuttling an IPO to chastise Ma for his speech. Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp Twitter acquires Breaker podcast app, will integrate its team to Spaces Weird and Wacky: This Company Is Selling Gold-Plated Apple Headphones for an Absurd Price Tech Rec: Sanjay - TheStreamable.com Adam - soapboxhq.com - a service I’m about to try out --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille. Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices AD BREAK Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues Weird and Wacky: Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park Tech Rec: Sanjay - Aegis Adam - memrise --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this episode: Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 Roku and AT&T reach agreement to distribute HBO Max Science Just Confirmed Elon Musk's Favorite Interview Question Is Brilliant (You Should Steal It) U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack Joe Biden warns he will be tough on state sponsors of cyberattacks, as U.S. suffers massive hack Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019 GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners Amazon Zoox unveils self-driving robotaxi Weird and Wacky: Googling for ‘Baby Yoda’ will bring him into your living room via augmented reality Guy drops iPhone out of plane, iPhone survives, takes video of entire ordeal Microsoft files patent for a chatbot that 'could' become the 'twin' of a deceased person A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3 Tech Rec: Sanjay - locast.org Adam - New Silicon MacBook Pro --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this Episode:  Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers FTC and states sue Facebook on antitrust grounds Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 Disney unveils Star, its Hulu replacement for international Disney Plus subscribers Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed On Trusting Macintosh Hardware Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Tech Rec: Sanjay - Warby Parker Adam - Dropbox Vault --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this Episode: Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46 Tony Hsieh, key figure in downtown Las Vegas revitalization, dies at age 46 A New Zealand Startup Is Using Microbes to Suck Solid Gold Out of E-Waste Gut-Wrenching Photos Show Damage at Arecibo Observatory Following Collapse Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI Salesforce will buy Slack for $28 billion Visa Partners With Ethereum Digital-Dollar Startup That Raised $271 Million US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters Hulu’s Watch Party feature is now available to all subscribers Discovery to launch streaming service in January starting at $4.99 per month, Verizon customers get year free Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max Weird and Wacky: Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no Tech Rec: Sanjay - RODE PSA 1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm Adam -  Stamp Ready --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this Episode: Microsoft Teams takes on Zoom with free all-day video calling on the web Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet People Can’t Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Cloud Servers Are Down Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy Scientists produce rare diamonds in minutes at room temperature Weird and Wacky: Canadian officials warn drivers not to let moose lick their cars A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert Fugitive Maryland couple found after 9 months on the lam because of 'Words with Friends' Tech Recs: Sanjay - Shure X2U XLR-to-USB Signal Adapter Adam - Darn Tough Socks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

In this Episode: Disappearing Tweets? Twitter Now Has a Feature for That Messaging app Go SMS Pro exposed millions of users’ private photos and files Google completes global RCS rollout as Messages starts testing default end-to-end encryption Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode and faster performance Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st Dolly Parton, Country Saint, Funded Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Hulu will increase the price of its live TV service again on December 18th This Device Reads Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Through Their Veins This startup wants to replace the white cane for blind people Not a test anymore: SpaceX, NASA launch 4 astronauts from Cape in historic mission Weird and Wacky: MeowTalk: Alexa developer’s app to translate cat’s miaow Suspect tries to escape FBI agents using underwater "sea scooter" in frigid California lake Tech Recs: Sanjay - Shure SM7B Adam - Evernote Screen Capture Feature --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message