Buying your own identity on Elon’s Twitter and other news

This week Amanda Silberling and I went live on LinkedIn and Twitter Spaces to talk about Elon Musk’s questionable plans for blue checks on Twitter. Then, I talk with Natasha Mascarenhas about a new startup, Rewind, that wants to help humans have perfect memory. And as always, we break down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

Elon Musk’s plan to charge for Twitter verification will be a misinformation nightmare
Elon Musk’s Twitter already looks grim for the LGBTQ community
Rewind wants to revamp how you remember, with millions from a16z

Other news from the week:

Watch SpaceX launch a Falcon Heavy for the first time in three years
Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts
Google puts an end to Google Hangouts once and for all

Buying your own identity on Elon’s Twitter and other news by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

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