Sep 30th 2021
Tech News Weekly 203
Is Amazon's Astro a Spy?
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Instagram Teen Safety Hearing, Solar Roofing Technology, Twitch Hate Raids
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Heather Kelly,
Brian Atchley
- Facebook testified at a Senate hearing about the safety of Instagram for teens after a bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal.
- Heather Kelly from the Washington Post details her favorite products from Amazon's cavalcade of announcements this week.
- Brian Atchley, CEO of The R&D Lab, walks through the challenges facing broad adoption of solar and details their unique solution.
- Twitch is finally making changes to its service in an attempt to crack down on hate raids that plague streamers on the platform.
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Links
- Facebook’s Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published
- Teen Girls Body Image and Social Comparison on Instagram - An Exploratory Study in the U.S.
- This is Facebook’s Internal Research on the Mental Health Effects of Instragarm
- Facebook Senate Hearing
- Amazon’s Newest Products Expand Its Surveillance Inside the Home
- the r&d lab
- the r&d lab - American Made Solar GO! Prize, Round 4
- Solar Prize Round 4
- Twitch Announces New Features to Curb Hate Raids
- After Weeks of Hate Raids, Twitch Streamers Are Taking a Day off in Protest