The most sold pickup truck in the world the Ford F-150 electric version Lightning has had 100,000 pre-orders since its announcement. In comparison, Tesla had 250k orders in almost the same time for its cybertruck. The question is will Ford F-150 owners jump on board and support this new vehicle. My prediction is that it will be slow going.

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• Waymo partners with J.B. Hunt
• Best Buy will be closed on Thanksgiving 
• Google updates search algorithms to combat online slander
• Amazon pitches a part-time return to the office
• Apple’s new health features
• Security flaws found in Samsung’s stock mobile apps
• Apple hires former Canoo CEO
• Some people can’t get FCC subsidy because of “Street”
• Samsung pushes pixel size with new camera sensor
• Amazon Music DJ Mode
• 5 bills to limit anticompetitive practices 
• Twitter to add a newsletter
• Dark Sky will shut down
• Hackers steal source code to FIFA 2021
• GameStop says revenue rose 25%
• Apple demos passkeys
• OnePlus apps
• Chinese police over 1,000 people on crypto-related charges
• Roblox hit with $200 million lawsuit
• Sony’s Airspeak S1 drone
• JBS paid $11 million to its ransomware attackers
• Ford snags 100,000 F-150 Lighting pre-orders

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Jeff Bezos is going to risk life and limb and strap himself into a rocket and go on a joyride to space to earn his Astronaut wings. Stepping down as CEO as of July 5th will allow him the opportunity to travel to space with 5 others including his brother. I would suspect his insurance company will likely not insure him for this endeavor or if it does the premium will be incredible.

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• • 21:40–2% of the top 1,000 apps in the App Store were reportedly scams
  • 23:14–Prime Day 2021
  • 25:54–Samsung maintains grip on global smartphone sales
  • 26:43–France fines Google $268 million
  • 27:45–Apple employees rally against office working plan

• 34:53–MoviePass settles with the FTC
• 17:53–Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin 
• 36:14–Amazon furniture assembly workers report poor training 
• 38:41–Facebook will not take a cut of creators’ paid online events
• 39:51–Apple Messages
• 41:04–Apple Maps
• 42:15–Apple’s new features for AirPods
• 43:54–iCloud+
• 44:48–Apple Health
• Apple Home Keys
• iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, tvOS 15 and watchOS
• 16:05–Apple will let users stay on iOS 14
• 46:34–US House Rep tweets Gmail password
• 49:04–Nissan’s next-gen Ariya EV
• 50:10–Dell sued over Alienware laptops
• 50:54–US IT salaries start to grow
• 51:25–Roku streamers fall to all-time lows

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Have you ever heard of an Industrial Athlete? Well, that is what Amazon is referring to its employees in a leaked pamphlet that seriously attempts to make Amazon warehouse workers think they are training for some competition that happens daily. I am not sure what idiot came up with that slogan, obviously, one that does not work on the warehouse floor and peers down their nose at the counterparts.

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• • 25:23–Virgin Galactic 
  • 27:16–Google will make it harder to track Android users
  • 28:30–Joe Biden signs order banning US investments in Chinese surveillance
  • 29:38–Twitter Blue
  • 30:06–WWDC 2021
  • 31:09–Walmart will launch 2 Android devices
  • 16:35–Apple updates AirTags
  • 33:34–Paramount+
  • 35:46–HBO Max
  • 37:01–These 7 apps will help you improve your memory
  • 37:30–Now Ring requires public requests from police
  • 11:39–Norton 360 antivirus will soon mine cryptocurrency
  • 39:38–United Airlines agrees to purchase 15 Boom airliners
  • 41:22–Apple employees will return to the office in September
  • 42:22–Swatch launches space collection
  • 43:31–Twitter launches Birdwatch
  • 14:04–The FBI says Russian ransomware group is behind meat supplier cyberattack
  • 22:26–Toyota’s electric concept SUV
  • 21:04–EU plans digital ID wallet
  • 20:03–Nextdoor
  • 18:23–MagSafe could interfere with cardiac devices

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Google data caps are coming on June 1st make sure you are prepared and get a Google One account if needed. Lots of updates from my Hawaii trip.. I will be back in the Michigan studio a week from Monday. But being that is labor day there may be no show till Thursday.

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Robinhood the trading app is going to make available IPO shares to common investors. This is a very big deal up to this point IPO shares have been reserved for the rich or famous and those banks and investment firms in favor. This may push me back to using. their app again.

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66% of Cyber Security Officers in companies globally know their companies will come under cyber attack in the next year. Considering what the United States has gone through with the pipeline hack it’s pretty scary all things considering that it could be worse. Links below and commentary in the show.

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Homeland Security is monitoring social media to detect plans of domestic terrorism. Why this is news is a surprise to me as we have been under constant surveillance since 9-11. If people are naive enough to think that what you post publicly has not been under scrutiny then you have not been paying attention to the world we live in.

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