TWiT 771: Ferment All the Things




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p><em>Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5</em></p><ul> <li>Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million</li> <li>Facebook setting up a political advocacy group for big tech</li> <li>US Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online ads</li> <li>Trump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left"</li> <li>Facebook has half of its oversight board in place already</li> <li>Zoom fatigue is real: is avatar-based chat the cure?</li> <li>Apple AR glasses coming in 2021</li> <li>Unreal Engine 5 will push game development to new heights</li> <li>Twitter says that people can work from home forever - but should they?</li> <li>Robotic backboard makes all the shots</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/dsilverman" target="_blank">Dwight Silverman</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mike-elgan">Mike Elgan</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu" target="_blank">Brianna Wu</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether">ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether</a></li> <li><a href="http://linkedinlearning.com/twit">linkedinlearning.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://extrahop.com/TWIT">extrahop.com/TWIT</a></li> </ul>