As 2021 starts off feeling like the surprise end-credit sequence to 2020, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss Twitter’s big move, the power of social-media companies and a little trade Vegas-based expo called the Consumer Electronics Show that’s having its first-ever all-virtual edition. All this, plus thoughts on “Wonder Woman 1984” and Apple’s beefy new over-the-ear headphones, right here on PTJ 348!
- Wonder Woman 1984 (Trailer)
- Twitter Permanently Bans Trump, Capping Online Revolt (The New York Times)
- Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (Twitter blog)
- All the platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far (Axios)
- Trump and Twitter clash with White House preparing to blast big tech (The Washington Post)
- Twitter Fall 7% Following Permanent Trump Ban (Bloomberg)
- Merkel among EU leaders questioning Twitter’s Trump ban (Politico)
- Parler sues Amazon for cutting off its services (CNN)
- Parler ban pushes random app ‘Parlor’ to top of app store charts (Mashable)
- Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived (Gizmodo)
- He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. (The New York Times)
- Google Stadia and GeForce Now are coming to LG TVs in 2021 (The Verge)
- Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items (The Wall Street Journal)
- What to expect from the first-ever virtual CES (Ars Technica)
- The Verge: CES Expo Announcements
- CES 2021 on CNet
- Samsung’s CES 2021 robots will clean your house and pour you a glass of wine (CNET)
- Apple AirPods Max
- Sony WH-1000XM4 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones
