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Feb 2023
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TWiT 913: Impractical Shorts - Netflix p...

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Netflix password sharing, big tech earnings, Twitter API, Jony Ive

  • Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers.
  • Safer Internet Day USA.
  • Netflix Reveals How Password Sharing Crackdown Will Be Enforced.
  • Alphabet Q4 Earnings Miss Estimates, YouTube Ad Revenue Down 8%.
  • Facebook's VR Division Lost $13.72 Billion In 2022.
  • Apple Sales Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants.
  • Apple Decides to Drop Role of Industrial Design Chief in Post-Jony Ive Era.
  • Jony Ive, designer of the iPhone and iPod, just designed a 'clown nose' for a British charity.
  • Tesla increases Model Y, cuts Model 3 prices in the U.S.
  • Twitter Is Killing Off The Fun Bots.
  • Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.
  • Amazon (AMZN) earnings Q4 2022.
  • Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple's App Store and Google Play.
  • ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.
  • Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.
  • CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say.
  • Paradigm shifts of yesteryear, today and tomorrow.
  •  Hogwarts Legacy releases this week for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S - but April for PS4 and XBO and June for Switch.
  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge Prepping 'Tomb Raider' TV Series for Amazon.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wil Harris, Denise Howell, and Larry Magid

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