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Blue is Hard - DTNS 4714

Season 11, Ep. 4714

How can the ribbontail stingray teach us how to make better less invasive coloring agents? 404 Media’s Emanuel Maiberg has a report on ghost kitchens using generated images in their menus. And According to data from Appfigures, Meta’s Threads now sees triple the daily downloads of X (formerly Twitter) on iOS globally, and sometimes more than triple the number of installs on Google Play.


Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr. Niki Ackermans, Roger Chang, Joe.


Link to the Show Notes.

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