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Evan takes his experiment in a new direction by having his AI-powered voice agent converse with … another of his AI-powered voice agents. What can these surreal and hilarious conversations between two AI incarnations of Evan Ratliff tell us about identity, authenticity, and the b ... Show More

How much would it take for you to tattoo a memecoin's name on your forehead? Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) tells us about the platform where crypto speculators pay strangers to do almost anything in service of pumping their coin's value: Pump.fun Go. But Taylor argues this is bigger t ... Show More

Did your college have a secret society? Well, Stanford has a secret off-campus class training the next generation of Silicon Valley billionaires. And it's literally called "How to Rule the World." Theo Baker arrived at Stanford as an aspiring coder with dreams of building the fut ... Show More

WhatsApp commence l'année 2021 de la pire des manières. La polémique autour de ses nouvelles conditions générales d’utilisations a poussé de nombreux utilisateurs à migrer vers d’autres applications de messagerie comme Signal ou Telegram. Ces derniers n’ont sans doute pas appréci ... Show More

What are the most downloaded apps of all time, and how many apps do we open daily? The market research firm AppAnnie just compiled a chart, which Jefferson Graham shares with listeners on Talking Tech. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice ... Show More

Meta on Friday disputed a media report that claimed the social giant was exploring bringing ads on the popular messaging app WhatsApp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Ce réseau social d’un nouveau genre s’organise sous forme de salons de discussions. Mais contrairement à Facebook, Twitter et compagnie, sur Clubhouse on ne communique que par la voix. Pas de messages écrits, pas de photos ni de vidéos... uniquement des conversations de vive voix ... Show More

After WhatsApp announced some major changes to its privacy policy, Elon Musk – the world’s richest man – urged his followers to take their messaging elsewhere. In this episode, we discuss WhatsApp’s latest changes in privacy and walk you through the features of the application, S ... Show More

Si vous en avez marre de Whatsapp ou que vous ne savez plus où donner de la tête avec la montagne de messageries pour smartphone disponible dans les stores, pas de panique, il existe une application qui devrait régler tous vos soucis : Beeper. Son avantage majeur : centraliser ab ... Show More

We kick off Season 6 with a long-awaited Acquired Classic: Facebook’s $22B purchase of WhatsApp in 2014, which still ranks as the largest acquisition of a private VC-backed startup in history. Yet despite that enormous pricetag and all its associated fanfare, as we sit here 5+ ye ... Show More

Facebook the app lives on, but Facebook the company is operating under a new brand: Meta.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

If you have an iPhone or iPad, prepare to see a new prompt from Facebook asking whether it can track your app and website activity.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.