This Week in Tech 824: Ask Shatner's Ghost by TWiT published on 2021-05-24T06:33:28Z <p>Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified </p> <ul><li>LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology.</li> <li>Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company.</li> <li>DeepMind reportedly lost a yearslong bid to win more independence from Google.</li> <li>Google's Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram.</li> <li>Android 12 preview: First Look at Google's Radical New Design.</li> <li>Google and Samsung unite to reboot Android watches, with a dose of Fitbit too.</li> <li>Chrome testing RSS-powered 'Follow' button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive.</li> <li>12 Google Workspace updates for better collaboration: Smart Canvas.</li> <li>Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029.</li> <li>An ex-Googler brings Silicon Valley thinking to Sacramento.</li> <li>Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer.</li> <li>Triangulation 428 - Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary'.</li> <li>Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed.</li> <li>Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022.</li> <li>Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling.</li> <li>Snap CEO Evan Spiegel: We're happy to pay Apple 30% — without Apple we wouldn't exist.</li> <li>Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple's culminating testimony.</li> <li>Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial.</li> <li>Apple Music announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio.</li> <li>HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update.</li> <li>Amazon Music Unlimited plans now include HD streaming at no extra cost.</li> <li>Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force.</li> <li>Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space.</li> <li>Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017.</li> <li>Mike's article: How holograms, deepfakes, and AR are raising the dead.</li> <li>Bitcoin plunges 30% to $30,000 at one point in wild session, recovers somewhat to $40,000.</li> <li>Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> </p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/iainthomson" target="_blank">Iain Thomson</a> </p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a> </p> <p>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://mintmobile.com/twit">mintmobile.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://udacity.com/TWiT">udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/Twit">ZipRecruiter.com/Twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://casper.com/twit1">casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1</a></li> </ul></p> Genre Technology