Episode 60: Spending Bitcoin on an Alexa-Enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass

In this Episode:

• Ohio becomes first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments (5:40)
• Google Employees Protest Company Actions…Again (7:24)
• Apple Confirms T2 Chip Can Brick Macs After Third-Party Repairs (9:50)
• Supreme Court may let consumers sue Apple over App Store monopoly claims (12:45)
• Who's Most Valuable? Apple Is Still the Champ Over Microsoft (14:07)
• LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting (17:17)
• Toys and apps often track your kids and collect information about them (22:38)
• USPS exposed data of 60 million users (24:38)
• The internet is evolving: HTTP will no longer use TCP (25:42)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Hospital in China denies links to world’s first gene-edited babies (27:40)
• You can preorder an Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass for $40(29:29)
• Silentmode’s PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation mask(30:55)
• Holy cow! Giant steer 'Knickers' stands head and shoulders over herd (32:03)

Tech Recommendations (32:44):

• Sanjay - Kanguru USB (with physical read/write switch)
• Adam - Text Expander
• Shannon - [The Morning Brew](morningbrew.com/?kid=f04b86)

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Links:

• Ohio becomes first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments
• Google Employees Protest Company Actions…Again
• Apple Confirms T2 Chip Can Brick Macs After Third-Party Repairs
• Supreme Court may let consumers sue Apple over App Store monopoly claims
• Who's Most Valuable? Apple Is Still the Champ Ove --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message