Facebook abandons Australia, pictures from Mars, Salesforce, and work from home. • Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia. • “Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures. • The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook's Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia. • Perseverance’s Pictures From Mars show NASA Rover’s new home • Comcast reluctantly drops data-cap enforcement in 12 states for the rest of 2021. • Salesforce says 'the 9-to-5 workday is dead' and will provide 3 new ways for employees to work. • Microsoft approached Pinterest about a takeover. • Bitcoin Scales $58K for First Time; YTD Gain Over 98%. • Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All. • IBM is reportedly considering a sale of its Watson Health business. • Some Texans got electric bills up to $17,000 after the storm. How does that happen? • Winter storms in Texas have caused Samsung, NXP, and other chipmakers based there to shut down some factories, potentially worsening ongoing chip shortages. • Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New 'Cryptocurrency Mining Processor' Line of GPUs. • Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. • Amazon’s Cloud King: Inside the World of Andy Jassy. • Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening. • New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19. • Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined By Twitch. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, Lindsey Turrentine This Week in Tech episode 811 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/811 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.