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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...

In this episode:  Elon is now buying twitter Musk Revives $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Aiming to Avoid Trial Twitter shares surge 22% after Elon Musk revives deal to buy company at original price With 11 Short Words, Elon Musk Just Revealed His Plans for Twitter. There's Only 1 Problem Elon Musk Doubles Down on Plan to End Ukraine War for Some Reason Banished for an Unleashed Dog: Airbnb Bans Bew...

In this episode:  Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid? Apple Music to sponsor Super Bowl halftime show James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I. Darth Vader's voice in Obi-Wan Kenobi was entirely AI-generated Walmart Is Making Its First Move Into the Metaverse With Virtual Worlds on Roblox Google&rsq...

In this episode:  Ethereum completes the “Merge,” which ends mining and cuts energy use by 99.95% Coloradans can now pay state tax bills with cryptocurrency TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now Hilton to design astronaut suites, facilities for Voyager’s private space station Starlab Watch out, Zoom - Slack is here to eat your lunch Framework’s new Chro...

Good buy, Type O’s: iMessages can finally be edited Uber Eats to Begin Delivering Food with Autonomous Vehicles Deere Invests Billions in Self-Driving Tractors Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ The Nissan Leaf can now officially power buildings Brush up on your office lingo with Biz Jargon voice navigation Copywriter website: Joe Coleman   Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products Ca...

In this episode:  Can new technology tell if you’re lying on LinkedIn? Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach ‘LOTR: The Rings Of Power’ Forges Biggest Premiere Viewership Ever For Amazon Prime Video Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology Next-gen USB promises to be twice as...

In this episode:  Jack Dorsey’s biggest regret is Twitter became a company T-Mobile & SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year The man who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he would stop if Elon took him on a flight and gave him an interview French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools Panera Bread tests artificial intelligence technology in dr...

In this episode:  MoviePass to relaunch on Labor Day in beta form with pricing ranging from $10-$30 a month How Data Is Changing the College Experience This app beeps every time your computer sends data to Google Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll Peloton strikes a deal to sell fitness equipment and apparel on Amazon Does turning the air conditioning off when you're not home act...

WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion New TV show from MGM called ‘Ring Nation’ uses surveillance video footage from Ring cameras Did Fortune Favor The Brave? New technology pulls clean drinking water from the air InMotion unveils ‘fastest in the world’ 87 MPH V13 Challenger electric unicycle A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tr...

In this episode: Amazon buying iRobot in a $1.7 billion all-cash deal Elon Musk sells 7.92 million Tesla shares worth $6.88 billion Jeff Bezos' Megayacht Was Quietly Towed From a Dutch Shipyard — Watch the Video California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot DuckDuckGo browser’s stricter privacy protection will also apply to Microsoft scripts now Slack resets passwords after e...

In this episode:  T-Mobile Is Tracking Users by Default. How to Turn It Off These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy Elon Musk countersues Twitter over merger, but details aren’t yet public Elon Musk’s antics turn owners and would-be buyers against Tesla: ‘I lo...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise ! In this episode: Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient Twitter Pares Office Space to Save Cash, Deepen Remote-Work Tilt Senate passes bill to boost U.S. chip production and China competition, sending to House Don’t Look Now, but Congress Might Pass an Actu...

In this episode: Judge grants Elon Musk an October court date, in early win for Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover trial set to start in October Twitter blames Musk and ad market headwinds for declining revenue Mattel to launch SpaceX vehicles as new Matchbox toys and collectibles Tesla gets exclusive lane at a US-Mexico border crossing Instagram’s new payments feature lets users buy products vi...

In this episode: Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals How Elon’s bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock Japan Wants to Bring Artificial Gravity to the Moon  Peloton will stop making its own bikes Spotify Buys Music Trivia Game Heardle AD BREAK Marriott Hotels suffers fresh data breach, 20GB...

In this episode: The Hummer EV produces more CO2 than a gas-powered sedan Apple expands industry-leading commitment to protect users from highly targeted mercenary spyware FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup Amazon is giving Prime subscribers a free year of Grubhub+ deliveries TikTok is reportedly giving up on its live shopping plans in the US and...

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Micron’s new 1.5TB microSD can record video for five years straight Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost Sleep pods are coming for passengers flying economy U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores AD BREAK Tesla Cuts 200 Autopilot Workers as California Site Clos...