Episode 278
Amazon’s massive (surprise) network, Twitter’s feed debacle, and AI’s dominance
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In this episode:
- Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic
- Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks
- Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed
- Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
- Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
- The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
- Judge Rules Against Internet Archive on Controlled Digital Lending | Authors Alliance
- TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10
Ad Break
- Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence
- Levi's Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones
- The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality
- IFTTT now has AI-powered automations for paying subscribers
- Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
- Here's why Apple released a new iPhone app for classical music only
- Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan
- 4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year
Weird and Wacky:
- Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
- Wikipedia’s new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced
Tech Rec:
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