Aug 7th 2022
This Week in Tech 887
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Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase
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Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase
- Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
- Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
- Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
- Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
- Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
- California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
- U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
- Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
- Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
- Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a ‘public debate’ about bots.
- Tesla’s Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
- How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
- Citing Danger of “Ink Spills” Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
- Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
- Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
- Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
- Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
- HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
- Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve ‘Batgirl’ and ’Scoob 2’.
- French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo.
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Links
- Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion | Ars Technica
- Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes | WIRED
- California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot
- U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs
- Opinion | Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress - The New York Times
- Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
- Here's why your gadgets die so quickly. - The Washington Post
- Citing Danger of “Ink Spills” Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers
- Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour
- How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fir
- Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales
- French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo
- Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse
- Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a ‘public debate’ about bots - The Verge
- HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023 - Variety
- Flip, Fold, Watch, Buds: 6 things we expect to see at Samsung Unpacked this week