532: Crypt Bros
Grumpy Old Geeks24 Marras 2021

532: Crypt Bros

Happy Thanksgiving; spam season; Jason's pivoting; scooters back in the news; Zillow's AI disaster; Tesla app locked people out of their cars (except for their keys); Zipline; trolling NFT owners; the NFT Bay; Crypto.com Arena; Apple on right to repair; OpenAI GPT-3; the Orville; Star Trek: First Contact; Jagged, Alanis Morissette; Discovery; Foundation; Wheel of Time; Bored Ape Yacht Club; Buy Nothing Project; ear wax; AirPods are out; Super Agent cookie monster; Twitter Blue; smart dimmers.

Show notes at https://gog.show/532/

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FOLLOW UP

The Pivoteer

Miami votes to end electric scooter pilot program


IN THE NEWS

What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet

Tesla app outage locked some owners out of their cars

Zipline starts first commercial US drone deliveries with Walmart partnership in Arkansas

How to Troll an NFT Owner

“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

Crypto park deal has winner’s curse

Why Apple changed its mind on Right to Repair

Apple will let iPhone users repair their own devices

OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API


MEDIA CANDY

Jagged

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery Is Tearing the Streaming World Apart

‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ ‘Dopesick,’ ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Showrunners on Adapting Source Material for TV

Foundation

Wheel of Time

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Universal Forms Metaverse Band Based on Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs

It’s just a pre-monitezed, not good Gorillaz...


APPS & DOODADS

The Buy Nothing Project

Yes, you DO need a smart ear wax remover. And the Spade Mini is on sale for under $40

Are AirPods Out? Why Cool Kids Are Wearing Wired Headphones

Super Agent - Automatic cookie consent

Introducing Twitter Blue - Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering

Amazon Basics Single Pole Smart Switch, Works with Alexa, Neutral Wire Required - A Certified for Humans Device

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