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Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Principal Sends $100,000 of School Funds to Fake Elon Musk, Claims She Was 'Groomed' ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim Levi’s use of AI models to increase diversity incites backlash Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism Microsoft adds Bing AI chat to SwiftKey keyboar...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valui...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Bing AI Chat versus Google Bard: A first look Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon Duolingo is working on a music app Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone Meta winds down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook Microsoft Teams will let you tran...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece 'Most disturbing website on Internet' can find every single picture that exists of you Using A.I. to Detect Breast C...

Intro  Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Robot window washers are here to clean our skyscrapers Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone Chinese startup Realme launches $649 smartphone it says can be fully charged in just over 9 minutes UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas For Directly Regulating The Internet, Service Providers U.S. Postal Servic...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication Facebook and Insta...

In this episode:  Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue IRS builds out task force to explore running its own free e-file system Spotify's latest feature lets users exclude playlists from impacting recommendations Tesla's biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD AD BREAK Tesla will open some of its charging stations to other electric cars Elon Musk wanted more...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  RIP To The Best Bots On Twitter Elon Musk will share Twitter ad revenue — but only with creators who pay for Twitter Blue Twitter broke after deploying 4,000-character Tweets Twitter Went Down Because Employee Accidentally Deleted Data Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count Twitter founder...

In this episode:  Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S. Smaller, Cheaper Flow Batteries Throw Out Decades-Old Designs Frontier rolls out 5Gbps fiber internet across the US FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls Google Fi says hackers accessed customers' information Report: Apple is planning both a foldable screen and a kickstand for the iPad ChatGPT creator...

In this episode:  Twitter hired experts for case against Musk—now Musk won’t pay them... Elizabeth Holmes made an 'attempt to flee the country' after her conviction, prosocuters say WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans New Tech Can See People Through Walls Using WiFi Break U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server... NYSE says...

In this episode:  Tesla suddenly slashes prices on many models. ‘I think the real driver for all of this is falling demand.’ The Cheapest And Most Expensive Cars To Maintain, Ranked A Tesla buyer says she feels 'duped' and 'taken advantage of' after missing out on a $13,000 price cut Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies Twitter officially bans third-pa...

In this episode:  Deere & Co. will allow farmers to repair their own equipment Minnesota company rolls out fully electric fire truck The FAA has ordered a temporary nationwide pause on all domestic flights until 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning following a computer failure impacted flights. Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around Med...

In this episode:  Former Zulily software engineer charged for theft scheme inspired by ‘Office Space’ movie Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings With Only 6 Words, Patagonia Explained the Brilliant Reason It Closed All of Its Stores and Paid Its Employees to Take a Week Off Innocent Black Man Jailed After...

In this episode:  Twitter experiences a widespread global outage California Bans Tesla From Marketing Its EVs As "Full Self-Driving" For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans Andrew Tate detained in Romania over rape and human trafficking case Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy AD BREAK What’s in a PR statemen...

In this episode:  After outcry over blocking links to Mastodon, Twitter announces ban on "promotion" of other social platforms Elon Musk launches poll asking if he should quit as Twitter CEO Twitter Users Say Elon Musk Should Quit as Boss Elon Musk suggests journalists want to cause harm to him and his family after restoring suspended Twitter accounts   Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accou...

ElonJet Musk bans Twitter account tracking his jet, threatens to sue creator Elon Musk Is Taking Legal Action Against Student Who Tracks His Private Jet Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show A Tesla owner says his Model Y ordered him to pull over before it suddenly shut down...

Tesla finally delivers first electric Semi to Pepsi after years of delay Tesla says it is adding radar in its cars next month amid self-driving suite concerns Twitter will reportedly charge $11 on iOS for Blue subscription to offset App Store fees Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe Microsoft Eyes ‘Super App’ The future of watching football is here We gave ChatGPT a c...

In this episode:  Elon Musk summons Twitter engineers amid mass resignations and puts up poll on Trump ban Elon Musk posts pictures with engineers as they leave a Twitter 'code review' at 1:30 a.m. Banned Twitter users return: ‘We’re coming back with a vengeance’ Twitter has stopped enforcing its covid misinformation policies 11 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon...

Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees: Do ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out Musk Steps Up Purge of Twitter Engineers Who Criticize Him Twitter Closes All Of Its Office Buildings as Employees Resign En Masse Musk declines former tech CEO's offer to run Twitter for him Elon Musk says he's sleeping at Twitter's HQ 'until the org is fixed' Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authent...

Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back Twitter Employees File Class-Action Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs with No Notice Elon Musk’s response to fake verified Elon Twitter accounts: a new permanent ban policy for impersonation Twitter lost more than 1.3 million users in the week after Elon Musk bought it Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs...

In this episode:  Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi Musk says Twitter will charge $8/month for blue check mark GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover Elon Musk begins mass layoffs of Twitter staff Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board of directors Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘hi...

Poll results: https://twitter.com/sanjay/status/1583471252227862528   "Chief Twit" Elon Musk arrives at TwitterHQ carrying a sink Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover and fires top executives   Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second Facebook and TikTok are approving ads with ‘blatant’ misinformation about voting in midterms YouTube will let doc...

Detroit Airport's 'Parallel Reality' Screen Shows You Only Your Flight Details, Passengers in Disbelief California drivers can now sport digital license plates on their cars Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short Facebook parent Meta admits defeat after Giphy deal is blocked by UK regulators The same app can pose a bigger security and privacy threat depending on the c...

Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge $1.2 Billion Metaverse Horrified by Report It Only Had 38 Active Users Russian-speaking hackers knock multiple US airport websites offline Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally  CNN accused of rug pull as it abandons its NFT...