Nov 29th 2020
This Week in Tech 799
Don't Tweet the Fleet
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Comcast data cap, Black Friday, Tony Hsieh, Sherwin-Williams TikTok
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Owen JJ Stone,
Mike Elgan
Comcast data cap, Black Friday, Tony Hsieh, Sherwin-Williams TikTok
- The origins of Cyberpunk 2077.
- Editing video with the Apple M1 chip is a piece of cake.
- Apple head of security indicted on bribery charges.
- Kuo says new Macbooks with Apple silicone coming second half of 2021.
- Foxconn continues to grow its production outside of the US.
- Amazon hiring is through the roof, but at what cost?
- Comcast is introducing a data cap of 1.2TB for many of its customers.
- This was the biggest online Black Friday ever.
- A college TikTok star gets fired from Sherwin-Williams for his popular paint-mixing videos.
- Owen JJ Stone is not a fan of the Fleets.
- Mike Elgan and Owen JJ Stone take differing sides in the Google Photos brouhaha.
- How would US teens react if TikTok was actually banned in the US?
- Actor who played Darth Vader has died at 85.
- Tony Hsieh, co-founder of Zappos, passed away at 46 on Thanksgiving.
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Links
- RIP Tony Hsieh
- Om's tribute to Tony Hsieh
- Black Friday online shopping comes in $9B, $3.6B on smartphones
- Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes
- Kuo says Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks with Apple Silicon in 2nd half 2021
- As China gets more expensive and US politics less predictable, Foxconn, Pegatron, and others are increasing production
- Foxconn’s Wisconsin factory reportedly wins Google server manufacturing contract
- Amazon has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, an average of 1,400 a day, bringing its global workforce to more than 1.2 milli
- A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired
- Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators
- ByteDance has been given another week to sell off TikTok’s U.S. business
- Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
- WTF Happened In 1971?
- Darth Vader actor David Prowse has died at 85
- Cyberpunk: The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future
- OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 edition hands-on: This phone is awesome
- Chatterbox