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Jun 2023
2h 50m

TWiT 931: Pork Pie For Your Ears - Apple...

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Apple Vision Pro, Reddit API fallout, Tesla Autopilot casualties, UFOs

  • What are the guests driving?
  • Apple's Vision Pro Isn't the Future.
  • Reddit's users and moderators are revolting against its CEO.
  • Lemmy.world
  • 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot.
  • Nicole and Sam ride around Austin in a Cruise Robotaxi. \
  • Cruise faces backlash after self-driving car appears to block crews responding to SF's Mission District shooting.
  • Mercedes first to sell vehicles in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving.
  • FORD EV CUSTOMERS TO GAIN ACCESS TO 12,000 TESLA SUPERCHARGERS; COMPANY TO ADD NORTH AMERICAN CHARGING STANDARD PORT IN FUTURE EVS.
  • I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly, I feel duped.
  • Does the U.S. Government Want You to Believe in U.F.O.s?
  • US sues Coinbase as crypto crackdown widens.
  • A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicole Wakelin, Roberto Baldwin, and Sam Abuelsamid

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