Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation • Remembering Chadwick Boseman • Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig • What is Palantir doing? • Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this? • TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous • Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry • Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America • The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years. • How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy • How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media • Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era • How conspiracy theories work • The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom • Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age • Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse • OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, Mike Elgan This Week in Tech episode 786 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/786 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech 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.