TWiG 736: Socks on the Beach - Pixel 8, Chromebook Plus, paid social media, what happened to Masterclass?
- Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices
- Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy?
- Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights
- Movies released on TikTok by studios
- High production costs of Masterclass
- Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web
- Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks
- Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices
- Supreme Court case involving copyright of legal search tools
- Paywalls and closed platforms replacing the open web
- Pushback against heroic tech biographies and access journalism
- Impacts of inexpensive screens and cameras everywhere
- Testing social media subscription models
- Using AI to create realistic fake photos and videos
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
Guest: Paris Martineau
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