Alright, y’all!! We’ve been through COVID-19 since mid-March and we’re winding down the last few weeks of summer. Alas, I had planned an amazing summer this summer, and not it’s gone. BUT, It’s another Thursday which means another week of tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week…NASA shows Perseverance counts, $5 trillion of tech leadership sit before Congress, and the TikTok says other social networks should share. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.
EX-GOOGLE CAR EXEC SENTENCED, THEN SUES
Man, the people who just go around suing give me the heebie-jeebies. Anthony Levandowski, the former Google-Waymo executive who founded Otto, who then sold to Uber has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets and then selling them to Uber. He was originally sentenced to 27 months in jail, but his sentence was dialed down to 18 months. He’ll serve his time later on, because of COVID. According to Levandowski, he’s, “come to terms with what he did,” and wants to apologize to his Google comrades. And for his trouble, he wants to sue Uber for $4.1 billion after the company hadn’t paid up for Otto.
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