This Week in Tech - Season 21 / Year 2024

Season 21 / Year 2024

Episodes

961: A Nation of Nerds

962: CES Recap - Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery

963: Low-Key Clippy - Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack

964: No One Talks to the Faucet Anymore - AI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes

965: Baby's First Layoff - Apple Vision Pro, Google Retires Cache links

966: He's Got a Huge Corpus - Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans

967: I'll Be Your Shabbos Goy - KOSA, French Public Scrolling Ban

968: Don't Tell the Moon - NVIDIA Dominates, Gemini Taken Down

969: Chasing Shadows in the Digital Abyss - Doomed Apple Car, Chinese EVs, MWC Roundup

970: Where Does Jazz Come From? - TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion

971 The Element of Chaos - SpaceX Spy Satellites, New Apple Carplay

972 Judicial Whimsy - US vs. Apple, The ELVIS Act

973 The Inverted Goldilocks Zone - Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

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

975 You Don't Want to Make Gandhi Mad - AI Music, Broadband Nutrition Labels

976: Serial Churners - Netflix Earnings, Cybertruck Recall, FISA

977: Gahoo Yoogle - TikTok Ban, Intel's Struggles, Google's Ensh*ttification

978: Baptized in Gatorade - AI Priest, FCC Fines, Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky

979: Musk-stache - Solar Storms, Apple and OpenAI, Tesla Layoffs

980: Hed Dek Lede and Nut Graf - OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign

981: Grab Your Rabbit - Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

982: International Trash - Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

983: Digital Snackwells - NVIDIA's Thor, Adobe's TOS, Insta's Unskippable Ads

984: Fifty-three Clicks - Bot Farms in Ukraine, LA Public Health Dept. Phished

985: TikTok With Wings - AT&T Landlines, US Bans Kaspersky and DJI

986: Our Dope GPS! - Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests

987: Often Plagiarized, Never Equalled - Space Junk, Threads Hits 175M Users, AIndependence

988 Flaming Corn Maze - AT&T Breach, Galaxy Z Fold6, Olympic Disinfo

989 Executive Laundry Folding Disorder - Crowdstrike, Prime Day, Streaming the Olympics

990 Dogecoin Fort Knox - AI Cheese, SearchGPT, "Free" Facebook

991 This Show Is Securities Fraud - Intel Layoffs, KOSA, Don Lemon

992 Why Not Pudding? Google's Monopoly, Net Neutrality, AI Phishing

993 The Save Money Button Pixel 9, Dell Layoffs, Apple Robotics

994 Time Moves On, but I Don't - Pavel Durov Arrested, Hacking Bikes, Apple Event Rumors

995 The Story of Us - AnandTech Shuts Down, Brazil Bans X, Alexa Revamp

996 The Quiet Office Crackdown - Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

997 Put an OLED on it - iPhone Event 2024, $700 PS5, AI in AU

998 Artisanal Locally-Sourced Dopamine - Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down

999 Bananas and Browsers - CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

1000 The Reunion Episode - Catching up With the Original Twits

1001 The Anti-Force Entruster - Tesla's Cybercab, Hacked Robovacs, Mario Alarm Clock

1002 Maximum Iceland Scenario Data Caps, 3rd Party Android Stores, Nuclear Amazon

1003 CrabStrike - Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing

1004 Embrace Uncertainty - Political Texts, Daylight Saving Time, Digital Ad Market

1005 - $125,000 in Baguettes - iPod Turns 23, The $1.1M AI Painting, Roblox

1006 Underwater Alien Civilizations - Bluesky Growth, Tyson Vs. Paul, AI Granny

1007 All the Hotdogs in the World - China's "Salt Typhoon" Hack, Google on the Chopping Block, Recal

1008 Internet Legal - Australia's Social Media Ban for Kids, Smart Home Nightmare, Bluesky's Ascent

1009 Andy Giveth & Bill Taketh Away

1010 The Densest State in the US - TikTok Ban, Drones Over Jersey, GM Quits Robotaxis

1011 The Year in Review - A Look at the Top Stories of 2024

1012 Our Best Of 2024 - The Best Moments From TWiT's 2024
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