Salesforce buys Slack, Warner Bros' HBO Max deal, Ajit Pai, Timnit Gebru

• Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7b.
• Prop. 24 and the challenges of paying for privacy.
• The Apple M1 chip is fast!
• Apple gets fined in Italy for misleading iPhone claims.
• Apple's Best of 2020 apps list is out.
• Josh Elman, a venture capitalist, is hired by Apple.
• AI scientist Timnit Gebru is fired by Google.
• Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first cases.
• COVID misinformation will be removed from Facebook.
• Chris Krebs details foreign threat over vaccine IP.
• Warner Media's vision of HBO Max.
• Warner Bros' announces day and date release on HBO Max in 2021.
• The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is under threat.
• resident Trump threatens changes to Section 230.
• TikTok's December 4 deadline is not being enforced.
• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces his plan to exit the department.
• China's claim of Quantum Supremacy.
• Arecibo Observatory footage that shows its collapse.
• Lab-grown meat will go on sale for the first time.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Jason Snell, and Seth Rosenblatt

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