• Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it's closed.
• Wear OS is getting a revamped Play Store and offline Google Maps later this year.
• Political Chips by Ben Thompson.
• Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act.
• Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Effing Deal.
• Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
• Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
• Maps, mops and Matter: Why Amazon wants iRobot.
• What Amazon's Roomba and One Medical Deals Have in Common.
• The smart home doesn't need a robot — it should be a robot.
• The Radical Scope of Tesla's Data Hoard Logs and records of its customers' journeys fill out petabytes—and court case dockets.
• Barney McCallum - Pickleball Hall of Fame.
• More with Barney McCallum.
• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment.
• This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
• Google Set to Face DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Over Ad Market Monopoly.
• Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
• Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology.
• Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
• Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
• Scientists hid encryption key for Wizard of Oz text in plastic molecules.
• NASA is sending an iPad to the moon.
• If you're having problems with Google search, you're not alone.
• Meta's AI Chatbot Has Election-Denying, Antisemitic Bugs to Work Out.
• Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.
• Google launches new website for kids learning to read.
• Google Fiber Blog: What's next for Google Fiber.
• Google Meet live sharing brings shared YouTube watching, Spotify listening, and games.
• Google rolling out GPS fix for Pixel 6/Pro and 6a, August update coming.
• @PessimistsArc: 1983 debate about home PC, with comparisons to hula hoop fad.

Picks:

• Stacey - Eve Aqua Smart Water Controller.
• Stacey - B-Hyve Smart Wi-Fi Irrigation Controller.
• Jeff - Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022.
• Ant - Vegas Pro 20 Launched.
• Ant - Send Me Your Photography "Ooops" Moments for Hands-On Photography.

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• Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
• Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri Need You All to Stop Being Big Babies.
• Wrong number' text message scams are surging.
• CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
• FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
• Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
• Roku has a problem — its buttons aren't printing enough money.
• FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal (META).
• Meta officially cuts funding for U.S. news publishers.
• 'Days Of Our Lives' Moving From NBC To Peacock.
• Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
• Lollipops Hustle on Amazon Costs Family Candy Business Millions.
• I quit my job to buy and resell used books on Amazon. Now, I use my 6-figure income to travel the world.
• Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn't going into Meet.
• Google CEO to employees: Productivity and focus must improve.
• Pixel Buds Pro get a demo area in NYC.
• TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.
• A TikTok Music app could challenge Spotify and Apple.
• Sandwich guy goes solo.
• Gordon Ramsey judges cooking TikToks.
• Ali Spagnola doorstop keyboard.
• Ali Spagnola chiapet toilet.
• Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows.
• Investing in VeeFriends.
• Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs.
• GPT-3 writes Wikipedia's deletion report in the style of Hunter S. Thompson.
• Google Search's built-in timer has disappeared and no one's saying why.
• YouTube Music can now show 'Other performances'.
• YouTube's new tool lets creators turn their own videos into Shorts.
• Google is switching your Gmail interface to this new look.
• Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn't going into Meet.
• Google Play Store takes aim at annoying game ads, copycat apps, and misinformation in new rules.
• Google Play Store removes version numbers from Android app listings.
• Netflix's lawsuit against the 'Bridgerton Musical' could change online fandom.
• The Hunt for Shelved $90 Million 'Batgirl' Movie Is On.

Picks:

• Jeff - 'Please do not erase': A treasured whiteboard at Boston Children's Hospital has not been touched for 15 years.
• Jeff - Werewolf erotica is the latest global gig work trend.
• Ant - My Personal Best Has Been Beaten.
• Ant - Stolen Gear: Help Rancho Cotate High Track Team.
• Ant - Thank You Nichelle Nichols.

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• Alphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter.
• Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected.
• Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'.
• Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
• Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook.
• Zuck Turns Up the Heat.
• Sunset of the social network.
• @elonmusk: The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine.
• Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'.
• Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.
• Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant.
• TikTok's Pink Sauce chef defends her viral condiment.
• Today's TikTok culinary horror: pizza sacrilege.
• Why Does the Prison-Life Content on TikTok Feel So Familiar?
• A Fond Farewell to the Chaotic Italian Sandwich Man of TikTok.
• Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps.
• Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image.
• Google Play gets a new logo for its 10-year anniversary.
• Hangouts on Air is back as Google Meet brings YouTube livestreaming to free Gmail.
• Pixel's At a Glance widget starts showing Air Quality (AQI) alerts.
• Google Drive, Docs, and other Workspace apps getting optimized for Android tablets.
• Chromecast with Google TV finally supports streaming live video from new Nest Cams, Doorbell.
• Chromebooks are getting a new, more advanced Google Photos movie editor.
• Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
• Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing.
• The drive to save Choco Taco.
• Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of a seven-year-old opponent.
• Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024.
• Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
• How to Use BeReal, the 'Unfiltered' Social Media App.
• Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
• Why Amazon is buying a little-known medical provider for $3.9 billion.
• Frankfurt airport boss blames travel chaos on black suitcases.

Picks:

• Stacey - @secengineer on TikTok.
• Jeff - @jeffjarvis: Well, damn, now I'm crying all over again. Newport put up two high-quality and complete videos from @jonimitchell's set.
• Ant - Mac Arnold's 80th birthday celebrated with blues jam.

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