• This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It.
• The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality.
• Bird Buddy's new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species.
• Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs.
• Sony breaks from tradition and won't announce new TVs at CES 2023.
• This Virtual Twitch Streamer is Controlled Entirely By AI.
• Bills safety Damar Hamlin in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest.
• YouTube TV lands Sunday Ticket with deal between Google, NFL.
• European regulators ruled Meta can't use its contracts with users to justify sending them ads based on their online activity, a blow to the digital advertising industry.
• Shift Happens.
• Typewriter art.
• Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust's Newly Opened Volumes.
• False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition.
• Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker.
• Ana de Armas Fans' Lawsuit Puts Studios at Risk Over Deceptive Trailers.
• ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists.
• Google and Meta's Advertising Dominance Fades as TikTok, Streamers Emerge.
• Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200 Billion.
• Twitter's San Francisco HQ reportedly a hub of stinky smells.
• Mastodon 9 million: growth continues in fits and starts (but not all millions are the same).
• Eugen turns down VC investment; vows to stay nonprofit.
• friendica – A Decentralized Social Network.

Picks:

• Jeff - Golden Gate gets $400 million for earthquake retrofit.
• Leo - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann.
• Ant - Coach Prime on Amazon.
• Glenn - Robert Garcia plans swearing in on part on a Superman comic.
• Jeff - George Santos humor.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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