Sometimes a robot wants to take a swim too

Tech Talk Y'all

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In this episode:

• Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

• Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say

• Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd

• Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

• Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

• Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

• Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

• Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

• OpenAI-buddy Brilliant Labs unveils eyeglasses with ‘AI superpowers’

• Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content

• Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere

• Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

• Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

• Elon Musk started buying Twitter shares soon after Parag Agrawal refused to ban an account tracking his private jet, book says

• Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

Weird and Wacky:

• Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public

• New York has ended its trial of a 400-pound security robot in the Times Square subway station

• Wilson Airless Gen1 Basketball

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Anker 647 Charging Station

• Adam - Speks - Crags Magnetic Putty

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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