Black Friday, Apple sues NSO group, rats play Doom, MicroClimate AIR2 •  Scientists Focus on Whether Omicron Variant Causes Severe Illness. •  CES 2022: CES - The Most Influential Tech Event in the World. •  MicroClimate AIR2. •  Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels. •  Amazon sees 'record-breaking' Black Friday, official says. •  New York Times’ Wirecutter Staff Goes on Strike Ahead of Black Friday. •  Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware. •  Apple’s AR headset coming next year with ‘Mac-level’ power: report. •  Apple's Car Project: Everything We Know. •  Sam's Thoughts on the Apple Car. •  Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle. •  What is the future of personal car ownership? •  Galaxy Note is dead; Samsung reportedly ending production on Note 20, no plans for the 2022 model. •  Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental health. •  Related: The CEO of cosmetics retailer Lush says he's 'happy to lose' $13 million by deleting Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat accounts over teen mental-health harms. •  Germany plans to phase out the sale of combustion-engine vehicles to help meet its ambitious goal of getting 15 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030. •  Rats named Carmack and Romero are playing Doom. •  Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Doc Rock, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Sam Abuelsamid This Week in Tech episode 851 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/851 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Join our TWiT Community on Discourse: https://www.twit.community/ Follow us: https://twit.tv/ https://twitter.com/TWiT https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce over 30 hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, All About Android, and more.