TechTime with Nathan Mumm | 128: FTX owes more than US$3.1 billion | 12 Days of Twitter-Mess | Ransomware Groups Doing Good? | Airdate: 11-22-22

Today on TechTime with Nathan Mumm, Cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes more than US$3.1 billion as a meat product grown in a lab has been cleared for human consumption. Drones are falling from the sky, and tax season is around the corner but don’t fear, META has been tracking your taxes for a few years now. Are Ransomware groups doing good? Nick Espinosa joins the show to talk about this for a holiday sit down. Finally, do your top 5-holiday movies sync with Mike’s or Nathan’s? The guys share their top 5 holiday movies and the 12 Days of Twitter-Mess, a special holiday sing-along song from TechTime Radio.

Join us on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go “Hummmm” Technology news of the week for November 20th – 26th, 2022.

Episode 128: Starts at 1:35

— [Now on Today’s Show]: Starts at 3:06
— [Top Stories in The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 4:34

• Cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes more than US$3.1 billion to its 50 largest creditors. – https://tinyurl.com/2etfwvcw
• A drone show in Perth, Australia, didn’t quite go according to plan after a number of the flying machines fell out of the sky and crashed into the water during the performance. – https://tinyurl.com/35fexf6b
• A meat product grown in a lab has been cleared for human consumption for the first time. – https://tinyurl.com/yc4fxsd8
• Tax season is around the corner but don’t fear. Meta has been tracking your taxes for a few years now if you filed with H&R Block and other free services that used Meta Pixel. People’s income, filing status, and more extremely sensitive info have been given over to Meta and even some data to Google. – https://tinyurl.com/yv6vmsku

— [Pick of the Day – Whiskey Tasting Reveal]: Starts at 18:08
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— [Ask the Expert with Nick Espinosa] : Starts at 20:13
Nick Espinosa joins the Thanksgiving episode to share a few positive stories in the hacker world.

— [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 34:08
November 22, 1995 – Toy Story Changes the Movies

Walt Disney Pictures releases the Pixar Animation Studios production Toy Story, the first major motion picture that is created completely by computer-generated animation. A breakthrough film, Toy Story set the standard for all future computer-animated films to follow and catapulted Pixar into a household name.

— [Marc’s Mumble Whiskey Details]: Starts at 36:51

— [What we Found on the Web]: Starts at 38:55
Mike and I have each picked our Top 5 Holiday Movies

— [Twelve Days of Twitter’s Mess]: Starts at 44:40

— [Technology Fail of the Week]: Starts at 49:11

This week’s “fail” comes to us from Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg is the man behind Facebook/Meta and yet very strangely on November 8, his profile got disabled.

— [Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 50:10

— [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 53:17
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