TWiT 824: Ask Shatner's Ghost - Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified

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• Episode: TWiT 824: Ask Shatner's Ghost - Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified
• Website: This Week in Tech (Audio)
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• Duration: 02:36:51
• Published: 2021-05-23 22:29

Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified

• LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology.
• Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company.
• DeepMind reportedly lost a yearslong bid to win more independence from Google.
• Google's Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram.
• Android 12 preview: First Look at Google's Radical New Design.
• Google and Samsung unite to reboot Android watches, with a dose of Fitbit too.
• Chrome testing RSS-powered 'Follow' button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive.
• 12 Google Workspace updates for better collaboration: Smart Canvas.
• Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029.
• An ex-Googler brings Silicon Valley thinking to Sacramento.
• Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer.
• Triangulation 428 - Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary'.
• Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed.
• Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022.
• Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling.
• Snap CEO Evan Spiegel: We're happy to pay Apple 30% — without Apple we wouldn't exist.
• Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple's culminating testimony.
• Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial.
• Apple Music announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio.
• HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update.
• Amazon Music Unlimited plans now include HD streaming at no extra cost.
• Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force.
• Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space.
• Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017.
• Mike's article: How holograms, deepfakes, and AR are raising the dead.
• Bitcoin plunges 30% to $30,000 at one point in wild session, recovers somewhat to $40,000.
• Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts.

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