TWiT 787: Dreamliner - TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement

TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement

Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
Pinterest bans political ads
Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
We still don't know who will buy TikTok
Apple announcement coming 9/8?
AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
CableCARD nearing its end
Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, and Louis Maresca

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