Verizon Shutting Down it's Go90 Platform and Why it Helped to Ruin YouTube Along the Way. Also, Samsung phones might be texting your photos to anyone in your contacts, Comcast Xfinity is Throttling Unlimited Users, Lyft Bought a Bike Sharing Company, and the crew of the ISS have a new friend named Cimon!
Elon Musk invented a mini submarine that he could use to rescue the soccer team from a cave in Thailand, but it wasn't needed. Twitter is suspending a ton of accounts, AT&T is changing HBO, China is using Facial Recognition Technology to Shame People, and YouTube is still handing out inaccurate strikes.
This week's entire episode is devoted to unpacking the fact that Elon Musk just publicly accused an actual hero of being a "pedo" just because that hero said mean things about him.
Mark Zuckerberg is totally fine with fake news and holocaust denial on his website because, hey, we all get things wrong sometimes, right?
3D-printed guns are legal again? Or sort-of legal? Or not at all? Also, what the hell is a 3D-printed gun?
A video game reviewer working for IGN made possibly the laziest decision in human history by plagiarizing another YouTuber for his 4 minute review of a new video game
The recurring insanity of Elon Musk's life got a little crazier this week with possible securities fraud, a major investment from the worst country in the world, multiple lawsuits, Azealia Banks, and possibly some psychedelics...
Elon Musk works 120 hours a week running 3 companies and thinks this is a totally normal thing with no alternative solutions
Amazon has elves working overtime on twitter making sure that everyone is happy!
For no discernable reason, Elon Musk is back on his bull$#it going after that Thai cave rescue guy
echnology continues to make marriage proposals terrible, and the latest example comes courtesy of Spider-Man for PS4.
Is Tommy Wiseau’s decision to finally upload The Room for streaming a sign that physical media is officially DYING??? Maybe.
Elon Musk’s “funding secured” tweet just cost him 20 million dollars and his role as chairman of Tesla.
A new UN report on climate change paints a very dire picture of earth’s future. There’s still time to fix it, but will the people in charge take action? We have our doubts. RIP us.
Your body is full of plastic right now and there’s not much you can do about that
A weird turd-shaped interstellar object named Oumuamua has defied all known scientific explanations, so now they're admitting that, hey, it might just be aliens
We’re gonna have a lot more time on our hands once these self-driving cars are here...
There's a whole lot of Tech News this week and we're bringing you the good, the bad, and the ugly. Tumblr has been taken off the iOS Store, Instagram is Deleting Followers Identified as Bots, Facebook keeps being the worst thing ever invented, and google created VR Roller Skates?!
Police in the UK are creating Minority Report IRL, Elon Musk said a bunch of stuff, and none of this matters because climate change is gonna kill us all
YouTubin’ is still quite lucrative for those in the upper echelons of #content creation, but it turns out the true YouTube God is a 7-year-old boy named Ryan
Are you even surprised that companies are taking advantage of the location data you willingly share with certain mobile apps? Well.. either way, it's kinda scary.
YouTube recently announced that they've deleted around 58 million videos - but did those videos deserve it? Most likely yes. Also, Taylor Swift is scanning your faces.
Dan Casey joins us to take a long look back at Elon Musk's ridiculous 2018, which featured both great triumphs and embarrassing self-owns.
We rate the dumbest inventions we've seen from the past few months.
Not to be outdone by his brother Logan, Jake Paul decided that 2019 was his year for controversy by kicking things off with a sponsored video for a gambling website.
CES 2019 is here, and this year’s all about poopoo and peepee.
Soulja Boy’s new career as a gaming tech entrepreneur continues, lawsuits be damned.
ast Friday, over a decade of content disappeared in an instant from Machinima’s YouTube channel and several other channels owned by Machinima. You may be wondering what the hell just happened. Lucky for you, we worked there for eight years and have some insight into how things ended up the way they did...
A Conspiracy is just the thing that Crypto needs in order to bring it back to the Mainstream! Is losing your customers $190 Million because you *allegedly* died a good enough Conspiracy? Cool. We also talk about Fuck Jerry and Facebook... As is tradition.
Bugs are dying, and when they’re gone, we’re gone.
The people in charge of making sure terrible things don’t show up on Facebook are understandably not doing so great...
2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently announced some very big plans for fixing problems she sees in the tech industry
Cloud gaming has been on the horizon for years but no one has ever been able to get it right. Will Google finally unlock the true potential for cloud gaming with Stadia, or is this just another OnLive?
A man was able to scam Facebook and Google out of Millions using one simple trick! Apple releases a ton of new stuff, and so much more.
Next time you stay in an AirBnB, be sure to sweep the room for surveillance devices...
Tax Season is here and it sucks... it could be a little bit easier on people but thanks to Intuit and TurboTax, you're probably going to have to pay up.
Julian Assange has been arrested after seven years living in the Ecuadorian embassy, and it’s generated some very mixed feelings
The Samsung Galaxy Fold was supposed to be a game changer, but so far it’s mostly a broken piece of crap
Someone hacked the audio on Lime Scooters in Australia and forced them to say some pretty weird stuff. Amazon might be listening to your Alexa device, Jimmy Fallon is inadvertently false striking YouTubers because of Beat Saber, and Facebook is being investigated... again.
The latest in a never-ending line of extremely well-researched reports on how the earth’s doing is *SURPRISE* still dire as hell
Finally someone created an AI that we can really sink our teeth into! We grabbed headlines from some old episodes of Weekly Weird News, fed them to an AI, and watched it's attempts to write stories based on them... the results are... well, you'll see.
Baltimore has been Hacked and is being held ransom for a bunch of bitcoins! So far they've refused to work with those responsible and a lot of their systems have been offline for at least two weeks. Plus news about Elon Musk's tweets, the USPS testing Self-Driving Trucks, and a very slow robot that makes deliveries.
Dumbest person alive Jacob Wohl is back at it again with a comically inept attempt at political sabotage
American patriotism is back to being a massive embarrassment!
Robert Downey Jr wants to save the world IRL, E3 announcements wrap up with Nintendo Direct, Radiohead refuses to negotiate with hackers, plus a bunch of dumb news about the government.
Facebook has their own cryptocurrency now. What could possibly go wrong?
Is looking at our phones all day making us grow horns out of our skulls? Maybe.
We’re moving closer to a media landscape where we don’t actually own anything, and that could end up being a very bad thing...
Amazon Workers are planning a strike on Prime Day, MoviePass might finally be over, YouTube adds some vital updates, Nintendo announces the Switch Lite, and more!
Bastille Day 2019 featured a flying soldier with a rifle. Is this the future of warfare or a dumb stunt?
Are you a big enough Elon Musk fanboy to let him inside your brain for a few experiments via his company Neurolink?! You could be the smartest person alive, or even watch back your memories...
Japan has approved research on human-animal hybrids, the first step towards every depraved weeb’s deepest, darkest desire.
After a weekend filled with shocking violence and death, the usual suspects are back to blaming the perfect scapegoat.
It’s a hyperloop for fish...
Teens get their news mostly from online influencers, China’s propaganda war on the Hong Kong protesters hits a roadblock, YouTube sues and gets sued, and a license plate life hack backfires horribly.
The president may or may not have asked a seemingly very stupid question about detonating nuclear bombs inside hurricanes, but maybe it’s not such a stupid question after all?
The CEO of Twitter has never been safe when it comes to potential hacks, but this latest one was impressive and scary.
Apple is back at it again with some new phones, but also big announcements about Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade. Also, all the big tech companies are still terrible, and you can add your local DMV to that list.
We’ve been predicting MoviePass’ demise for years now, and while MoviePass far outlived out predictions, it’s end has come… or has it?
WeWork is a truly delusional and overvalued mess of a company, and everything is falling apart for them right when things were supposed to finally work out.
Tesla’s new version 10 software adds Netflix, Cuphead, and a new “autonomous” feature called Smart Summon that is just asking to be mocked, so that’s what we’re gonna do.
lon Musk’s defamation lawsuit continues to be a source of joy for us, and this week we look into the latest revelations, including an unexpected admission from Elon Musk himself that he may in fact be “a f###ing idiot”.
“Pivot to Video” was terrible for online media and it’s all Facebook’s fault.
Scientists have taught rats how to drive, which we should all be very excited about.
Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress yet again last week, and it’s really starting to look like Facebook plans on botching yet another presidential election.
“Human-like” robots are still firmly stuck in the uncanny valley.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi really stepped in it this week during an interview when he referred to Saudi Arabia’s assassination of Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake”.
Twelve years since the last Half-Life game, we’re finally getting a new one. But don’t call it Half-Life 3...
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s latest vehicle, the CYBERTRUCK, and its design is certainly bold.
WeWork, the Hindenburg of companies, is getting the Hollywood treatment, and meanwhile crazy stories from behind the scenes continue to come to light.
The dumbest saga we’ve ever covered on this show ended last week with the conclusion of Elon Musk’s very dumb defamation lawsuit.
New Year, New Laws - Find out everything you need to know about COPPA, the CCPA, Turbo Tax Free File, & More in this week's Tech Newsday!
CES 2020 is here to provide our annual glimpse at all the good, bad, and very weird technology that awaits us in a future that will almost certainly never materialize. TVs! Robots! Gaming! Taint wearables! We’re covering all of it.
In an effort to reassure everyone that they’re no longer ground zero for targeted disinformation online, Facebook did a little bit of targeted disinformation themselves.
Elon Musk has a bold new plan for populating Mars with free labor...
China’s got a new contagious disease on the loose, but is it SARS part 2? Should you be worried? What even is a coronavirus?
Technology experts have warned us all for years that doing elections with software is a terrible idea, but Iowa went ahead and did it anyway, and it’s been an utter disaster
VR has now reached Black Mirror territory by allowing a grieving mother to “reunite” with her deceased young daughter, and we are very ambivalent about it
Jeff Bezos just made a HUGE donation pledge to fight climate change, which isn’t really so huge in the context of everything else about him
Projekt Melody is a successful new anime celebrity making her human competition real worried...
Finally, a bed for gamers.
COVID-19's effect on the world is not going away any time soon
It’s all coronavirus news and it’s all stupid and terrible
CONTENT WARNING: Lots and lots of police brutality
00:00 - John McAfee 36:29 - Supreme Court Snapchat case 38:59 - Amazon destroying unsold inventory 42:54 - Texas energy grid
00:00 - Trump social media ban recap 04:46 - Trump suing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube 10:45 - GETTR 23:50 - Kaseya ransomware attack 27:58 - Boston Dynamics BTS dance 29:41 - Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos space race 32:54 - Tim Berners Lee .www NFT 35:01 - Mark Zuckerberg and Pelé
00:00 - Valve Steam Deck 13:55 - Girls named Alexa being bullied 21:40 - Blue Origin launch 28:49 - FBI Anom phones 32:41 - Freedom Phone 39:33 - Dogecoin founder says crypto is a scam
00:00 - Biden on Facebook: “They’re killing people” 10:33 - Climate change 16:48 - Pegasus spyware 21:55 - Swatting death 24:33 - Activision/Blizzard harassment lawsuit 27:36 - Malaysian police crushing bitcoin mining machines
00:00 - Activision Blizzard lawsuit 12:34 - News sites BIG oopsie 19:58 - Deepfake VFX 22:59 - Valve Steam Deck 25:45 - Covid is never going away
00:00 - Poop currency 11:47 - Dubai rain lasers 15:32 - GETTR 22:43 - Covid
00:00 - Climate Change 22:40 - Covid news 26:42 - Chet Hanks vaccine stupidity 31:44 - Razer face mask
00:00 - Murder hornets 08:01 - 2 WFH jobs at the same time 25:44 - OFTV 30:19 - Boston Dynamics parkour 32:47 - T-Mobile data breach
00:00 - OnlyFans 12:22 - Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman 21:47 - Prop 22 29:08 - Fake vaccination cards 32:08 - Activision Blizzard lawsuit
00:00 - Snake venom 08:35 - Fake vaccination cards 12:12 - Liquid oxygen shortage 21:20 - Texas abortion ban 27:00 - McDonald’s ice cream machines 37:06 - SquarEats
00:00 - Covid-19 will always be endemic 08:20 - Masks definitely work 13:26 - Biden’s vaccine mandate 24:20 - California Amazon law 26:30 - Congress sends letter to old Yahoo CEO 28:06 - Texas snitching website offline
00:00 - Freedom Phone 10:54 - Qux device 18:00 - Razer Finger Sleeve 24:16 - Walmart Litecoin hoax 26:59 - Twitch hate raids 30:31 - Facebook is still terrible
00:00 - China cracking down on Tiktok 06:14 - iPhone mental illness detection 15:40 - NFT scammers 20:50 - Bitcoin e-waste 29:17 - Covid-19
00:00 - YouTube banning all anti vax content 05:35 - Covid much worse in red states 11:50 - Insane galaxy-brain Breitbart vaccine article 20:17 - Ben Garrison has covid 27:16 - Cyber Ninjas confirm Biden won Arizona 32:22 - Facebook wants to get kids hooked 35:47 - Amazon's dumb new robot 39:17 - China banning cryptocurrency 40:19 - Europe's USB-C standard
00:00 - Trump suing to get his Twitter account back 10:40 - Ozy Media completely implodes 21:38 - Evolved Apes NFT scam 25:28 - Lindsay Lohan furry NFT 28:11 - Crypto company accidentally gave away millions 33:38 - Pandora Papers 40:57 - Blue Origin sending William Shatner to space 42:28 - Blue Origin’s allegedly sexist and unsafe practices
00:00 - Supply chain problems 13:34 - Texas anti-mandate mandate 16:03 - Tesla moving to Texas 18:30 - William Shatner goes to space 29:41 - Robot with a gun 35:46 - Clearview AI’s BS “enhance” 40:59 - Climate change visualizations
00:00 - Truth Social 16:46 - Facebook rebranding 21:24 - Missouri governor threatens journalist 28:44 - CryptoEats scam 32:30 - NFT pawn shop 41:33 - Poop NFT
00:00 - TikTok 06:59 - ‘Rust’ shooting update 21:17 - Timothee Chalamet’s secret YouTube channel 27:20 - Adobe MAX 2021 Sneaks
00:00 - Delphi ethics AI does a racism 11:06 - Teen girls getting fake tourettes from TikTok 17:44 - Microsoft’s metaverse 28:20 - Monkey J*zz cryptocurrency scam 31:39 - Crypto lending platform hacked 35:13 - Blockchain City, Wyoming 39:22 - NFT artist’s racist past 46:46 - Tungsten cubes
00:00 - New IRS rules for crypto and NFTs 10:28 - The Wolf of Wall Street loves NFTs 12:53 - Discord adding crypto and NFTs 24:16 - Instagram bitcoin scammers 31:20 - Instagram scammers faked head of Instagram’s death
00:00 - Activision Blizzard report 11:28 - GTA Definitive 23:07 - Steam Deck delayed due to chip shortage 27:31 - Discord pauses crypto integration
00:00 - Mr Goxx 07:31 - ConstitutionDAO 16:53 - Bitcoin City, El Salvador 23:09 - NASA DART 28:57 - Tesla harassment lawsuit 32:52 - OBS vs Streamlabs 36:37 - Apple’s Right To Repair reversal 39:54 - Apple suing NSO Group 42:17 - Internet Today Holiday Gift Guide
00:00 - Jack Dorsey leaving Twitter 21:52 - Anom 28:23 - Big screen Nintendo Switch
00:00 - Very creepy robots 06:03 - USA rejects autonomous weapons ban 13:19 - CW: Assisted suicide machine 25:12 - Elon Musk hates subsidies now 31:03 - YouTube music copyright scam 36:23 - Ian Urbina music royalties scam
00:00 - Crazy Frog 14:15 - More terrible NFTs 23:12 - Activision Blizzard allegations 25:19 - SpaceX allegations 28:59 - Elon Musk is Time Person of the Year
00:00 - Intro 01:47 - January 6th Capitol riot 06:07 - Covid-19 07:03 - Texas power grid failure 10:52 - Delta variant 15:20 - Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers 19:44 - NFTs 26:35 - Facebook 30:48 - "Free speech" social networks 32:49 - Mike Lindell 35:18 - Alex Jones 37:13 - Matt Gaetz 38:56 - Marjorie Taylor Greene 40:32 - Activision Blizzard 41:57 - Tokyo Olympics 45:07 - Everything else
Timestamps: 00:00 - Elon’s funding secured 09:33 - Bobby Kotick and Sheryl Sandberg 13:30 - Meta VR games announced 18:42 - Binance accidental(?) swastika logo 24:11 - Airplane mask mandate repeal appeal 28:27 - Support for mask mandates
Timestamps: 00:00 - Elon Musk Bought Twitter 22:18 - Our Snickers Photoshop Goes Viral 25:14 - Plane Swap Goes Wrong 29:12 - Bored Ape Hacked: Millions Lost 33:22 - Diablo Immortal Finally Releasing
Timestamps: 00:00 - Are NFTs finished? 08:38 - Square Enix blew it all on NFTs 12:27 - Slurp Juice 17:38 - Bored Apes scams and oopsies 26:30 - Abortion data tracking 34:13 - California renewable energy record 36:45 - 1 million covid deaths in the US
Timestamps: 00:00 - Crypto Crash 28:48 - Elon wants Trump back on Twitter 37:18 - Ransomware forces university to close 39:24 - Apple employees vs return to office 43:45 - Working at TikTok sucks 49:26 - Christian Smalls vs Lindsey Graham
Timestamps: 00:00 - Martin Shkreli and Billy McFarland are free 09:53 - Elon’s very bad week 36:18 - Bored Ape dating app 41:06 - Covid ain’t goin’ away 44:59 - Virus that kills cancer 47:10 - Spinal fluid reverses memory loss
Timestamps: 00:00 - Grubhub 12:29 - Imagen text-to-image generator 17:55 - AI-generated children’s cartoon 21:35 - All Seth Green’s apes gone 34:55 - Baby formula shortage 41:58 - Monkeypox
Timestamps: 00:00 - Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard 05:14 - Uvalde’s useless cowardly cops 10:31 - Elon Musk 31:46 - It’s Morbin’ Time 37:09 - NFTs in video games 42:40 - Apple news 46:37 - Taser Drone
Timestamps: 00:00 - What is DALL-E Mini? 08:59 - Reacting to DALL-E Mini 23:44 - AI vs corporate logos 26:40 - Is Google’s LaMDA AI sentient? 34:32 - Lack of universal healthcare made covid worse 43:18 - Play-to-earn gaming collapses 51:42 - Crypto Winter 56:04 - Elon 59:29 - Facebook’s 10-strikes gun sales policy
Timestamps: 00:00 - NFT.NYC 12:10 - Crypto scam victim turns to armed robbery 15:48 - Elon sued over Dogecoin 21:56 - Elon’s dumb plans for Twitter 30:42 - SpaceX employee letter 35:32 - Amazon Alexa raising the dead
Timestamps: 00:00 - Thank you 01:36 - FDA vs Nicotine 21:08 - RadioShack’s edgy twitter 29:05 - Tesla return to office 31:30 - FCC vs TikTok 35:47 - Deepfake job interviews
Timestamps: 00:00 - Mark Zuckerberg: Mall Ninja 04:10 - Male Birth Control Update 09:16 - Radioshack's Brilliant Strategy 16:08 - GPUs Are BACK & Cheaper Than Ever! 22:11 - British Army Hacked?! 23:59 - No One Wants Chevy's NFT 25:43 - STUPID Web3 Console
Timestamps: 00:00 - Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk 19:15 - James Webb telescope photos 26:04 - NYC nuclear preparedness PSA 31:36 - The Uber Files 37:44 - Lofi Girl taken down by DMCA 41:51 - Someone animated us???
Timestamps: 00:00 - UK heatwave 16:36 - Elon vs Twitter 28:38 - Destiny 2 cheater sued
Timestamps: 00:00 - Elon 12:52 - Wildfires setting off unexploded ordnance 16:35 - Russia leaving International Space Station 23:31 - Google AI engineer fired 26:52 - Bitcoin in a landfill
Timestamps: 00:00 - Crypto Pyramid Scheme 10:17 - NFT Textbooks 17:09 - Equifax Strikes Again 24:48 - Tim Horton's Data Harvesting 31:02 - No More 3D Buy Back 33:48 - Make Ghosting Illegal? 36:48 - CHIPS Act & Inflation Act
Timestamps: 00:00 - MAGA COPIUM 11:16 - AI Chatbot Hates Zuckerberg 19:05 - Facebook Gives Abortion Data to Cops 22:59 - Musk Sells Tesla Shares, Fights Twitter 29:47 - Zombie Feral Hogs 36:22 - Rainwater is Toxic Everywhere
Timestamps: 00:00 - The Right Stuff 10:15 - Martin Shkreli 16:32 - WeWork guy is back 26:16 - Amazon Ring TV show 34:24 - Elon 41:45 - Zuckerberg’s metaverse looks like crap
Timestamps: 00:00 - Zuckerberg successfully bullied 04:21 - Twitter whistleblower 14:57 - Binance exec deepfaked by scammers 20:17 - Mar-a-Lago update 25:16 - Janet Jackson destroyed hard drives 28:08 - Black hole audio
Timestamps: 00:00 - MTV VMA's Metaverse Play 05:59 - Eminem & Snoop Become Bored Apes 10:59 - Market Mysteriously Disappears 12:30 - Fortnite Has Another Dream 17:01 - Did 9/11 Happen in the Metaverse 20:48 - FN Meka Update 23:16 - Climate Change Discoveries! 27:02 - Abort Off Shore
Timestamps: 00:00 - Tesla hunger strike 13:05 - Luxury doomsday prepping 19:31 - AI art won an art contest 30:41 - Kiwi Farms 37:00 - Apple event
Timestamps: 00:00 - Instagram vs Tiktok 11:28 - Twitter trouble 19:59 - Police cellphone surveillance 28:27 - China’s moon rocks
Timestamps: 00:00 - Amazon selling widowmaker extension cords 06:09 - Amazon sued by California for antitrust 10:50 - Twitch has a gambling problem 15:31 - Twitch revenue split changes 23:15 - Twitch has a predator problem 27:46 - YouTube’s broken recommendation algorithm 33:04 - YouTube now monetizing Shorts 39:25 - Nvidia RTX 4090 46:00 - Tesla sued for false advertising 48:57 - How saturn got its rings 51:07 - Space Force theme song
Timestamps: 00:00 - NASA DART 08:10 - Darth Vader now voiced by AI 15:59 - NFTs are dead 20:28 - How to get workers back to the office
Timestamps: 00:00 - Elon buying Twitter again 19:39 - Haunted airline intercom 25:14 - FCC vs robocalls 32:43 - Bruce Willis deepfakes his career? 38:15 - Adderall shortage
Timestamps: 00:00 - mRNA cancer vaccines 05:58 - AI writing student essays 12:03 - Biggest year ever for crypto theft 17:49 - The metaverse sucks 26:09 - Kanye + Parler 36:03 - Elon + Twitter
Timestamps: 00:00 - Let that sink in 05:22 - Meta stock crashing 13:10 - Instagram copying MySpace? 22:50 - TikTok spying? 29:39 - TikTok content moderators 36:57 - Check your candy for DOOM
Timestamps: 00:00 - The Pelosi Home Invasion Conspiracies: Explained and Debunked 18:51 - Elon Spreads Fake News on Twitter 35:52 - Kanye Banned Again 27:26 - She's a WORM! 39:36 - Nick Lutsko Live Experience
Timestamps: 00:00 - Elon/Kanye 07:31 - Elon/Putin 12:03 - Elon/Nathan 17:24 - Elon/Ghislaine 21:03 - Meta Quest Pro 25:52 - Horizon Worlds sucks 36:25 - CW: Amazon being evil 41:10 - DishBrain 44:37 - AI-generated video
Timestamps: 00:00 - Election recap 02:07 - Twitter 38:28 - FTX
Timestamps: 00:00 - The Complete Collapse of FTX 15:29 - Elon Musk's Twitter Problems Persist 21:15 - Musk Vs. Markey 23:49 - Twitter Employee Fired on Twitter 32:08 - Jeff Bezos... Philanthropist?
Timestamps: 00:00 - China 07:43 - Meta harvesting people’s tax info 18:31 - Meta AI seeks world domination 25:59 - Twitter news
