Biggest stories of the year including Meta, mRNA, Log4j, NFTs, Ransomware
- COVID-19's impact on tech.
- Elon Musk in 2021.
- The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.
- GM's heated seats and steering wheels are the latest casualties of the chip shortage.
- Baby Driver: Philadelphia woman gives birth in the front seat of Tesla on autopilot.
- The tangled history of mRNA vaccines.
- Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage.
- The Harvard Job Offer No One at Harvard Ever Heard Of.
- Microsoft's very bad year for security: A timeline.
- Log4j: The 'most serious' security breach ever is unfolding right now.
- REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward.
- Billionaires in space.
- FAA: No more commercial astronaut wings, too many launching.
- Fact check: Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket launch didn't emit carbon.
- Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon's C.E.O., handing the reins to Andy Jassy.
- In a surprise tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he's stepping down.
- Square is changing its name to Block.
- The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg's Escape Hatch.
- A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived.
- Lina Khan's Battle to Rein in Big Tech.
- Top trend of 2021: The Metaverse.
- 2021 ends with a question: Are NFTs here to stay?
- Android 12: Everything you need to know about Google's new big update to the popular OS!
- Colonial Pipeline: How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom.
- Sinclair Confirms Ransomware Attack That Disrupted TV Stations.
- A comprehensive breakdown of the Epic v. Apple Ruling.
- Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled.
- Ever Given container ship leaves Suez Canal 106 days after getting stuck.
- VW rebrand turns out to be April Fool's joke.
- Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV.
- Don't be fooled — Amazon's Astro isn't a home robot, it's a camera on wheels.
- I swallowed one of my AirPods.
- Woman swallows AirPods accidentally; claims device recorded audio from her stomach.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ant Pruitt, Mikah Sargent, and Jason Howell
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