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Leo talks about his new Apple Watch Ultra.
How Fitbit helped me lose 15 pounds.
YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds.
Adobe's Aquisition of Figma is a Land Grab.
Slack's Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window.
TwistedWave, an Audio Editor.
Word Jazz by Fred Katz and Ken Nordine.
Ken Nordine - Levis Ad.
Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison.
California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The FDA may have unintentionally made 'Nyquil Chicken' go viral on TikTok.
Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges.
'A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,' Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators.
The AI Unbundling.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system.
No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.
Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.
Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers.
How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.
Enterprise Connect: Facing the Tough Issues on Hybrid Work: How Communications Technology Will Support New Ways of Working.
Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Larry Magid, and Shelly Brisbin

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Ethereum merge, GPU demand shifts, Adobe's Figma deal, GTA 6 hack

Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake.
No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge.
GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA's revenue—but it's cutting ties with Nvidia anyway.
 Farthest Frontier on Steam.
Nvidia is about to make a big announcement during a difficult time.
Some iPhone 14 Pro customers are getting their preorders delayed by Apple.
The iPhone 14 Index: How much of a yearly salary you need to spend to afford an iPhone 14 around the world.
Adobe (ADBE) Agrees to Buy Figma in $20 Billion Software Deal.
The career rise, fall, and return of Adam Neumann, the controversial WeWork cofounder who is back with another real-estate startup.
iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US.
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business.
Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. They Must Go, Its Digital Minister Says.
Apple adds souped-up period and ovulation tracking to Apple Watch Series 8.
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120.
Massive GTA 6 gameplay video leak depicts male and female playable characters.
Google loses appeal over illegal Android app bundling, EU reduces fine to €4.1 billion.
Fifth Circuit rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation.
Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?
Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Carolina Milanesi, Alex Wilhelm, and Mike Elgan

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Apple iPhone 14, Dynamic Island, Intel Optane, ETH merge, Atari 2600

News of Queen Elizabeth II's death broke on Twitter before the BBC.
The Steve Jobs Archive.
The Church of Apple Is a Religion Because We Made It One.
Tim Cook would rather have you buy an iPhone than use RCS.
Underestimating Apple's bold moves.
Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.
Apple picks Globalstar for emergency satellite service on iPhone 14.
iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US: Here's what you need to know.
iPhone 14 Pro: An in-depth look at how Dynamic Island works with apps, animations, more.
The Apple Watch Ultra looks like the ultra-rugged smartwatch we've been waiting for.
Passkeys in iOS 16.
Google announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch.
Twitter Whistle-Blower Never Flagged Spam, Company Tells Judge.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Requests a New Trial.
US Treasury to Recommend Issuing Digital Dollar if in National Interest.
Google Is Counting Down to Ethereum Merge with 'Easter Egg' on Search Engine.
3D XPoint™ Breakthrough Non-Volatile Memory - Intel.
The Atari 2600 at 45: The Console That Brought Arcade Games Home.
Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year.
Instagram fined $400 million over children's data.
Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.
Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida.
New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities.
Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Rene Ritchie

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Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Checking in on House of the Dragon.
Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California.
'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'.
Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare.
He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?
@negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!
Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator.
Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project.
Trint AI transcription.
Trint vs Otter.
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting.
Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs.
Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event.
Fitness bike usage down 23%.
Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman.
Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction.
Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion.
Jessamyn West - @jessamyn
USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth.
Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman.
T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable.
Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage.
The Animal Translators.
Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Glenn Fleishman, and Dan Moren

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Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.
Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's.
Apple's 'Far out' iPhone event will be held on September 7.
SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.
Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.
Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.
LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.
How big is your haystack?
Ethereum's Merge: Opportunities and risks.
The Crypto World Can't Wait for Ethereum's 'Merge.'
Web3 is going just great.
A Month on 'Mars': Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.
Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.
10 Million Watched 'House of the Dragon' Premiere, HBO Says.
Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of 'peak TV.'
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.
Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.
Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.
NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.
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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Becky Worley, Rod Pyle, and Wil Harris

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Game of Thrones' v. 'Lord of the Rings': The Biggest Battle in Fantasy TV History Is Here.
How About We Just Don't Watch the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel?
HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, From Streaming.
Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags.
U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says.
Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' Coverage to Be Tracked by Nielsen.
Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign.
Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?
Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter.
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack.
Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash.
HBO Achieves New Heights of Corporate Synergy With Bizarre 'House of the Dragon' Tie-Ins.
Ring's new TV show is a brilliant but ominous viral marketing ploy.
Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy.
Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone.
Now selfie drones can fly inside Apple stores.
The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China.
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools.
Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Nicholas Deleon, and Owen Thomas

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