On this week’s episode, El Kaiser takes a listen to several USB microphones designed for podcasting and J.D. hauls out the headlines for a discussion of recent consumer-technology news — including The Wall Street Journal’s inside look at Facebook. All this and a whole lot more on PTJ 358!
- The Facebook Files (The Wall Street Journal)
- From Instagram’s Toll on Teens to Unmoderated ‘Elite’ Users, Here’s a Break Down of the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Revelations (Time)
- Facebook shields millions of VIP users from moderation protocols (CNBC)
- Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb. Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try. (The New York Times)
- Tech Giants Used ‘Loopholes’ to Duck Merger Reviews, FTC Says (Bloomberg)
- FTC warns health apps to notify consumers impacted by data breaches (The Hill)
- Activision Blizzard sued again, this time for labor violations (The Verge)
- Adobe adds payment services via PayPal to its Adobe Commerce platform (ZDNet)
- Why Apple Didn’t Lose in the Epic Games Ruling (The New York Times)
- In Epic vs. Apple Court Fight, a Win for App Developers (The New York Times)
- Judge Gonzalez Rogers Decision in Epic Games v. Apple
- Epic Games appeal
- Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik (Ars Technica)
- The iPhone 13 is a pitch-perfect iPhone 12s (The Verge)
- Everything Announced at Today’s Apple Event (MacRumors)
- Factbox: Top announcements from Apple event (Reuters)
- Inspiration4: Why SpaceX’s first all-private mission is a big deal (MIT Technology Review)
- Inspiration4 (SpaceX)
- Neat Microphones Beecaster
- Audio Technica AT2020USB+
- Rode Podcaster
- Shure MV7
