TWiT 998: Artisanal Locally-Sourced Dopamine - Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down
- Discussion of the iPhone 16
- Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
- Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
- Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
- Bluesky tops 10 million users
- Newsom signs California bill to limit 'addictive' social media feeds for kids
- The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley
- Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI
- Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law
- Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
- Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ben Parr, Alex Lindsay, and Rob Pegoraro
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech and what a week it's been on back from vacation |
| 0:06.4 | Looks like Elon Musk didn't take much of a vacation. There's a lot of news from X from Starlink SpaceX, and from Blue Sky. |
| 0:15.0 | Exploding Pagers. |
| 0:18.0 | Is this the beginning of supply chain warfare? |
| 0:22.0 | And Microsoft wants to restart Three Mile Island. Is that a good idea? All of that |
| 0:27.0 | and more coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:29.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:35.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:38.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:44.0 | This week in Tech, episode 998, |
| 0:47.0 | recorded Sunday, September 22nd, 2024. |
| 0:51.0 | Artisanal locally sourced dopamine. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello everybody, it's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we get together and talk about the week's tech news. |
| 1:04.7 | I want to thank Devendra Hardawar and Ian Thompson for filling in for me while I was on vacation, |
| 1:10.4 | but I'm back. |
| 1:12.0 | And with a newly redesigned logo behind me. |
| 1:14.8 | So no longer is that my halo. |
| 1:18.0 | Now I just look like I should be streaming video games on |
| 1:21.0 | twitch, but you know what? |
| 1:22.0 | We get better frame rate thanks to the |
| 1:24.0 | RGB so that's what really matters is FPS I'm told. Are we sure that that |
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