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Twitter verification, 2.0; Snapchat woos TikTok users back via laying bricks; SpaceX Starlink going to ruin the night sky; WarnerMedia leaving theaters out to dry; Discovery+ to start streaming diners, drive-in & sharks; Google fires AI ethicist for doing her job; show your work, DeepMind; Dad-Bod Fett; Dave wants to believe; iPhone Wi-Fi packet of death; embarrassing de-pixelizations; Tenet; Bond, YouTube Bond; the Grinch; Marvis Pro; Clubhouse; more Ready Player Two; Yankee Candle shoppers got the 'rona; picking light bulbs; GoPro vs lava; feedback.

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary

The Death of Zappos’s Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

IN THE NEWS

Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark

Snapchat’s Strange, Cringey Attempt to Woo Back TikTok Users

SpaceX snags $885M from FCC to serve rural areas with Starlink

WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business

Hollywood Is Preparing to Sacrifice Movie Theaters

Discovery, home of Shark Week, HGTV, and Food Network, enters the streaming wars with Discovery Plus

Inside Google’s firing of a top AI researcher, and the academic paper that started the battle: ‘People are seriously pissed’

DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough triggers fierce debate among skeptical scientists: ‘Until they share their code, nobody in the field cares’

NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready

Maybe Bob lazar was right all along…

iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever

A tool to depixelate text.

MEDIA CANDY

Tenet

YouTube Is Streaming 19 James Bond Films For Free

The Grinch (2018)

The Grinch Theme by Tyler, the Creator

Netflix Loses ‘The Grinch,’ and Customers Are Fed Up

Best 2020 Christmas Episodes From Toddler Shows

APPS & DOODADS

Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger

Marvis Pro

Marvis on Twitter

Clubhouse

MORON OF THE WEEK

People Are Leaving 1-Star Reviews Of Scented Candles, Seemingly Unaware They Just Have Covid

BRIC-A-BRAC

How to Pick the Best Light Bulb for Every Room

This GoPro Camera Recorded Itself Being Swallowed By Lava – And Survived To Tell The Tale

FEEDBACK LOOP

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: ‘Machine-gun with AI’ used to kill Iran scientist

Rememeber, Johnny Mnemonic starts 2021

Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021

Watch News Live

CHINA ACHIEVES QUANTUM SUPREMACY IN MAJOR COMPUTING BREAKTHROUGH

Addressing male sexual and reproductive health in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak

The Awful German Language

Drone footage shows the shocking collapse of the Arecibo Observatory

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Chuck Yeager, U.S. Air Force officer who broke speed of sound, dies at 97

QCode Hires Apple Podcast Marketer Steve Wilson as Chief Strategy Officer