TNT 1736: FacePalmer




Tech News Weekly (Video LO) show

Summary: <p>Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus, is leaving Facebook after three years with the company post acquisition. Its unclear whether the move was Luckey's or Facebook's doing.</p><p>We're getting more information on last weekend's high-speed crash involving a self-driving Uber. Business Insider says that according to the police report, the driverless Uber was hit while traveling through a yellow light.</p><p>Twitter announced that usernames in at-replies will no longer count against the 140 character limit. Instead of showing at-names inline with the tweet, those names will now be displayed above the tweet itself, and its tappable so you can see who's in the Twitter canoe.</p><p>Plus, we talk about Amazon's plan to run all the Wal-Marts out of town, and a Microsoft-branded Samsung Galaxy S8. Plus, Kevin Tucker from DefenseOne tells us why our brain makes us believe and spread fake news.</p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/megan-morrone">Megan Morrone</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/DefTechPat" target="_blank">Patrick Tucker</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today">https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today</a>.</p><p>Thanks to <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a> for the bandwidth for this show.</p>