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Salesforce buys Slack, Warner Bros' HBO Max deal, Ajit Pai, Timnit Gebru Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7b. Prop. 24 and the challenges of paying for privacy. The Apple M1 chip is fast! Apple gets fined in Italy for misleading iPhone claims. Apple's Best of 2020 apps list is out. Josh Elman, a venture capitalist, is hired by Apple. AI scientist Timnit Gebru is fired by Google. Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first cases. COVID misinformation will be removed from Facebook. Chris Krebs details foreign threat over vaccine IP. Warner Media's vision of HBO Max. Warner Bros' announces day and date release on HBO Max in 2021. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is under threat. resident Trump threatens changes to Section 230. TikTok's December 4 deadline is not being enforced. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces his plan to exit the department. China's claim of Quantum Supremacy. Arecibo Observatory footage that shows its collapse. Lab-grown meat will go on sale for the first time. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Georgia Dow, Jason Snell, and Seth Rosenblatt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT barracuda.com/twit casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 manscaped.com/twit