This Week in Tech 798

Tech hearings, streaming Windows, RCS encryption 

• TikTok pokes the lion about why it hasn't been shut down yet.
•  Why do the tech Senate hearings continue without any YouTube presence?
•  L’Oréal's virtual makeup filters now support Instagram, Snapchat, and Google Duo.
• A website that allows you to scream into the vast wilderness in Iceland.
• Does Section 230 need to be changed or is it nearly perfect already?
•  Apple's M1 chip and the folly of buying first-generation Apple products.
•  Comparing Apple's consumer-based services approach to Microsoft's cloud based services approach.
•  RCS encryption is testing and it's been a long time coming.
• Does Apple lock users into its own Messaging default?
•  The prevalence of Discord among younger users.
• Flash animations are now easily accessible on the Internet Archive.
•  Windows celebrates its 35th birthday.
•  How Microsoft's focus on Windows has shifted in recent years.
•  Someone figured out how to boot a PC from a vinyl record.
• Google Pay is relaunched to focus on personal finance analysis and banking.
•  An Arecibo Observatory is on its last legs.
•  Marissa Mayer's Sunshine app represents her love of product.
•  A drywall-installing robot by Canvas comes out of stealth.
•  How gift buying for the holidays has changed this year.
•  Lory shows off her iPhone mini in light of her recent review.

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Links

• Google completes global RCS rollout as Messages starts testing default end-to-end encryption
• Google unveils major redesign for Google Pay for iOS and Android and partners with 11 banks
• Steve Jobs’s last gambit: Apple’s M1 Chip – On my Om
• Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away | TechCrunch
• Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature
• The Senate's Section 230 Discourse Somehow Keeps Getting Dumber
• Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their companies' actions related to the 20
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki should have been at Tuesday's Senate hearing
• Marissa Mayer's Lumi Labs, now called Sunshine, unveils Sunshine Contacts, an AI-powered contact organizer app for iOS
• Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished - The Verge
• Canvas emerges from stealth with AI for drywall installation | VentureBeat
• Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive - Internet Archive Blogs
• Booting from a vinyl record – BOGIN, JR.
• L'Oreal
• Looks Like You Need Iceland
• Lory's iPhone 12 mini review
• CNET's Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Lindsey wants to discuss how to buy gifts in this strange, strange year.