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Google is building a fart button into Android
The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia
Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok
A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power.
Supreme Court Rejects Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Appeal in SEC Win
Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion
Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
Musk Wins China's Backing for Tesla's Driver-Assistance Service
Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk's Flaws
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team
Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction
Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
Remember that Sora balloon video?
From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old
Is history repeating itself? I have concerns.
The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google
How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge
The Chilling of TikTok
FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching
Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage
Paris' nuts
Rabbit R1
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More wearable AI: IYO One
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'
The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy
Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web'
Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam
Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room'
This fun little web game: Equinox.Space
magCulture
No one buys books
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed."
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Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles.
Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act
Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption
Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA
Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced
Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months
Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens
Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding
Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul
'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Prophet Song
Strands, the superior NYT game
Cow magnets
Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stacey Higginbotham

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Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
Talking about the old internet
Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act
Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom
First look at federal privacy bill
Instagram Generated Almost 30% of Meta's Revenue in Early 2022
Elon Musk's 'self-inflicted wounds' and other highlights from a newly released deposition
5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24
Fitbit app rolling out redesigned Sleep stats
Google's Nest Secure is shut down — and you've got options besides ADT
Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free
The wonderful world of Taskmaster
Also! A report from the teens at PS 47
Mario meets Pareto
Suno music
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024
Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television
YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50%
Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
20 years of Gmail
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
Google is Bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and Circle to Search to More Devices
Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners
Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going 'AI-First,' Yum's New Tech Chief Says
Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast
Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details
Very good by Katie Harbath: Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes
Hume, an "empathic" voice-to-voice AI chatbot
Harvard Releases the Caselaw Access Project
Ant: I streamed with Logitech's Mevo Core camera and it nearly beat out my $3,600 Canon
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
AI news that's fit to print
How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting
Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access
Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
Collective AI' expected to resemble Star Trek's Borg — only nicer (hopefully)
Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff
Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google
Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
Intercept sues OpenAI not on copyright but on DMCA
Google Chat rolling out voice messages for Workspace
Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some
Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
ELON MUSK FOUGHT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE — WHILE PROFITING OFF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
[Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL
Shine by Sunshine on the App Store
Good by David Kaye on the risks of internet regulation
Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts
Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists' Voices From AI Impersonation
Apple's Journal app
The fish doorbell
'Beyond our wildest dreams': How the Forward removed its paywall – and generated 37% more revenue

New Google NY office has foot-washing station
Sign o' the Times: Brooklyn apartment building to include podcast studio
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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