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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 982: International Trash - Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

  • Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
  • VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
  • Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
  • Who's having kids?
  • The panel discusses Ticketmaster
  • T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge
  • Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
  • Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
  • 'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
  • Inside the scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold
  • TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban
  • How a Self-Published Book, 'The Shadow Work Journal,' Became a Best Seller
  • Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.
  • The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent
  • Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora
  • North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation
  • Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified
  • Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Nicholas De Leon, and Emily Dreibelbis

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0:00.0

It's time for Twitter this week in Tech out. We have put together.

0:03.4

A really good panel for you. Alex Kantruitz is here from the Big Technology

0:07.8

podcast from Consumer Reports, Nicholas de Leon, and for the first time and I'm so glad to get her on you see her all the time on

0:14.0

Tech News Weekly from PC magazine Emily Dry Belbus there is lots to talk about

0:19.7

including Spotify changing its tune as it should.

0:25.4

Chaos is coming for startups, says Alex,

0:28.8

and a new microprocessor made of brains. It's all coming up next on Twitter.

0:37.0

Podcasts you love from people you trust.

0:42.0

This is Twit.

0:44.0

This is Twit.

0:47.0

This is Twit.

0:52.0

This week in tech, episode 982, recorded June 2nd, 2024, International Trash. It's time for Twit this week in Tech, the show we get together some of the best people in the world to talk about.

1:11.0

Wow, the wild world of technology these days and we have a good panel.

1:15.0

I always like having Alex Kaptor Witts on last time you were here was for Google's

1:19.0

I.

1:20.0

Talk you have done some amazing things since he hosts the big technology

1:24.3

podcast and newsletter. Hello Alex. Hey Leo great to see you again. Author of

1:28.6

always day one which is as one might imagine the Amazon stories great to see you Alex thanks for coming in and

1:36.5

speaking of coming in he's actually in studio came all the way up from Tucson

1:41.5

Arizona Nicholas de Leon.

1:43.8

Yes, hello.

1:44.5

So nice to see you.

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