Dec 23rd 2021
Tech News Weekly 214
Spilling the Web3 Tea
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
TikTok Beat Google in 2021, Lickable Screens, Text-to-Image AI, Echo Fall-Off
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Jeff John Roberts,
Abrar Al-Heeti
- Jeff John Roberts breaks down the Twitter spat between Jack Dorsey and the Web3 bros and why he believes VC funding goes counter to decentralization.
- Abrar Al Heeti from CNET talks about the many reasons that TikTok beat out Google as 2021's most popular web domain.
- Jason looks into the future of lickable screens as well as the developments of text-to-image synthesis using artificial intelligence.
- Mikah summarizes new documents that show how a large percentage of Amazon Alexa users stopped using the device within weeks of owning one.
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Links
- Andreessen Blocks Jack! Jack Unfollows Winklevoss! Bitcoin vs Web3 Feud Continues
- Tiktok Dethrones Google as This Year’s Most Popular Domain
- Netlicks? The TV Screen You Can taste
- Better Than Photoshop: AI Synthesizes and Edits Complex Images From a Text Description — And They’re Mind-Bogglingly Good
- Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show