• Taco Bell launches Taco Lover's Pass subscription nationwide with 30 days of tacos for $10.
• You can safely ignore Web3 by Mike Elgan.
• Web .0000012 by Jeff Jarvis.
• My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike.
• Signal: New year, new CEO.
• Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions.
• 'Second time lucky?' FTC's case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules.
• After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful.
• Why Apple's iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble.
• Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won't say why.
• Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22.
• Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk's Starlink antenna hits surprise problem.
• Why is Zynga worth a whopping $12.7 billion? (Hint: It's not FarmVille).
• 500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining.
• Wordle - A daily word game.
• Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers.
• An open letter to YouTube's CEO from the world's fact-checkers.
• Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech.
• Third-Party Software for Teslas Can Be Hacked, German Teen Says.
• E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.
• About 70 S.Korean attendees of U.S. tech show test positive for COVID-19.
• US man claims his penis has shrunk due to rare Covid side effect.
• When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In.
• Marques Brownlee: My Pixel 6 Pro has slowly gotten so buggy since launch in October that I can no longer recommend it at $900.
• Google rolling out Android 12L Beta 2 for Pixel phones.
• Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling.
• Pixel Launcher 'At a Glance' widget gains doorbell camera previews, more.
• Now you can learn what's new in each Google Play system update for Android.
• Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more.
• The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism.
• The Athletic: Good for the Times, a potential disaster for local news.
• "Aw, screw it": LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery.
• We're Giving Wyze Person Detection to All Users at Whatever Price You Want.

Picks:

• Mike - Chatterbox is the only smart speaker that meets EDUCATIONAL and PRIVACY standards
• Jeff - Most populous time zone
• Leo - Morgan Stanely out with quite the note on the idea of the mobile metaverse
• Ant - A great time on Behind the Shot TV with Steve Brazill and Don Komarechka
• Ant - #hardhead Modeled for Me and Jefferson Graham at Balmy Alley

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Guest: Mike Elgan

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