Snapshot · This Week in Tech (Audio)
Owen JJ Stone reported his home electricity bill went from $200/month in winter to $800/month in two years, illustrating the real-world energy cost burden on households.
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Leo walks through two separate Google antitrust setbacks in quick succession. First, a Swedish court ruled that Google illegally favored its own Google Shopping results over Klarna's PriceRunner comparison service and ordered $1.97 billion in damages including interest — only a fifth of what Klarna had sought, but still significant. Second, Google's final appeal of the 2018 EU Android antitrust fine — originally €4.34 billion, reduced to approximately $4 billion — was denied, meaning that money is now owed. Owen argues Amazon escapes similar scrutiny despite predatory practices like copying products, undercutting the original sellers, and driving them out of business via AmazonBasics. Leo also covers Google's warning to the EU that forcing interoperability under the Digital Markets Act could increase fraud — a defense Lisa and Jason immediately recognize as a copy-paste from Apple's identical argument.
Kalanick estimates that a decade ago, 90% of media coverage of tech business was negative, treating companies like political targets.
2024–2025 marked the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder in the US since 1937.
From 2024 to 2025, violent crime decreased 9%, property crime decreased 12.4%, and motor vehicle theft decreased 23%.
California's Ebony Alert Program, designed for the swift recovery of missing Black youth and women, officially went into effect on January 1, 2024.
Andrew Santino discovered that American tourists now need to pay $20 to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit the UK, starting January 2025.
Kay Classman, a 28-year-old woman, was arrested for repeatedly enrolling in a Bronx high school posing as a 16-year-old student across multiple school districts.
A poll around 2011 found that 16% of Americans believed 9/11 was an inside job, illustrating how viral misinformation had already embedded itself in public opinion before social media peaked.
Andrew Wilson offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theory, but she refused.
According to the podcast, only 11 people were killed by the coordinated Israeli pager attack on Hezbollah operatives, despite widespread detonations.
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