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Amazon Health, Snap AR Glasses, Tesla Russia, Right to Repair, Black Fungus, Twitter Ticketed Events

🌐Tech News around the World
🌐Tech News around the World
Episode • May 21, 2021 • 3h 12m

(0:00:00) Intro

(0:04:00) Sarvesh's computer has been hacked

(0:06:00) Amazon offers mental health services & App for US employees

(0:15:00) Discussion about Amazon's history of internally testing before releasing to world (ie. AWS)

(0:19:00) General discussion about mental health

(0:22:00) Amazon’s Ring is now largest civilian surveillance network in US

(0:26:00) Alexa settings reveal possible plan for IoTs & more neighborhood surveillance features with Guard Plus

(0:30:00) Could Ring cameras and upcoming drones be a voyeur's dream!

(0:33:00) Snap to release new AR glassesĀ 

(0:45:30) Rumble - surveillance, impact on people of colour, policing

(0:50:30) Dating apps add vaccination badges & special benefits to those who get poked

(0:54:30) Elon Musk announced potential factories in Russia

(0:56:15) Conspiracy - Elon maybe trying to escape Dogecoin! Pitting Russia vs China for his love!Ā 

(0:59:00) Netflix possibly expanding into gaming

(1:05:00) China's internet watchdog CAC has charged apps with privacy issues & given 15 days to fix

(1:08:00) Apple Watch Assistive Touch

(1:09:00) Apple's In-Air Sensing Strip patents

(1:16:45) Discussion - eye tracking tech

(1:25:00) Facebook announces Social Live Stream ShoppingĀ 

(1:26:50) Online Shopping Trends from Asia: social e-commerce platform Pinduoduo, rewards from mobile gaming...

(1:31:30) Indonesia’s e-commerce giant Tokopedia turning K-pop concerts into online shopping events

(1:34:45) Discussion - AR VR in fashion

(1:36:30) Pope Mobile is going electric. No word on the autonomous level or if God Speed is faster than plaid.

(1:39:15) Kids and games

(1:40:15) Aging in home

(1:43:00) Medical sensors as small as grain of salt.

(1:44:00) Austria's Crypto Stamp with NFC chip and blockchain based tracking

(1:44:30) Discussion - tracking devices and supply chains

(1:52:30) Breaking News - Twitter will let users with 1000 or more followers to schedule ticketed spaces

(1:55:00) Apple will still take its 30% cut from Twitter-Stripe transactions in Ticketed Spaces

(2:01:00) Microsoft and Apple continue to wage war on Right-to-Repair

(2:02:00) Discussion - Right to Repair, Importance of Clubhouse for global discourse

(2:31:00) Food delivery app in Iraq won competition in Dubai and raised funding

(2:36:00) Google DeepMind tried and failed to get more autonomy from Alphabet for years

(2:38:00) Snapchat has grown 100% year-over-year for the last 5 quarters in India

(2:41:00) Green discussion - Colorado green jobs, Artic getting hotter, agencies around world recommend cutting back fossil fuel use

(2:46:00) European power grid nearly collapsed due to coal plant

(2:49:00) Black Fungus' disease in India

(2:59:00) BREAKING NEWS - TECH NEWS AROUND THE WORLD HITS 1K Twitter followers