557: Vanna Screwed Up
Grumpy Old Geeks11 Jun 2022

557: Vanna Screwed Up

Pamping the Twetch redesign; NFTs are dead; more crypto lawsuits & investigations; Starbucks shuts down unionized location; Amazon VP pushes sellers to oppose bill good for Amazon; Microsoft cleans up their policies; Apple gets in on Pay Later; Reply All is kaput; Strange New Worlds continues a good run; Rat in the Kitchen; The Orville pivots; Sandman causes uninformed internet to have a cow; Jason gears up new studio; two IKEA turntables & a Marshall stack; Feeting Woices; the Leia show; Tim Horton's app tracking & hockey lawsuits, hoser!

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IN THE NEWS

Winkelvoss twins' crypto exchange faces lawsuit over $36 million theft

SEC is investigating Binance over its BNB token

The First Starbucks Location That Voted to Unionize Is Being Shut Down

Amazon VP tries to convince sellers to oppose antitrust bill

Microsoft drops non-compete clauses and NDAs from employee settlements

Apple Pay Later doesn't worry us, says CEO of buy now, pay later unicorn Affirm

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

The Orville: New Horizons

Rat in the Kitchen

The Sandman

Johanna Constantine

Fourth of July

Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!

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Yep

IKEA teamed up with Swedish House Mafia on a turntable

Marshall widens the soundstage on its new home speaker lineup

A "Solar Tsunami" Could Entirely Wipe Out The Internet Within A Decade, Suggests Study

EU agrees single mobile charging port in blow to Apple

Feeting.app - Your hands-free, audio-only walking meeting platform

Woice on Product Hunt

Woice

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SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

Canadian Hockey Lawsuit

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP David Lynch music contributor Julee Cruise

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