TWiG 736: Socks on the Beach - Pixel 8, Chromebook Plus, paid social media, what happened to Masterclass?

• Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices
• Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy?
• Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights
• Movies released on TikTok by studios
• High production costs of Masterclass
• Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web
• Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks
• Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices
• Supreme Court case involving copyright of legal search tools
• Paywalls and closed platforms replacing the open web
• Pushback against heroic tech biographies and access journalism
• Impacts of inexpensive screens and cameras everywhere
• Testing social media subscription models
• Using AI to create realistic fake photos and videos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Paris Martineau

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