Chris and Ian discuss Google IO, Twitter and Apple

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Shownotes * Millions offered half price broadband from BT * Private equity firm Apollo to buy Verizon Media assets for $5B, will rename business ‘Yahoo’ * Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more * Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets * Twitter Tip Jar lets you pay people for good tweeting * Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules * Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5 * Apple puts more adverts in App Store after ad-tracking ban * Apple Watch gets a motion-controlled cursor with ‘Assistive Touch’ * Apple to add lossless audio to Apple Music at no additional cost * Amazon makes its lossless music streaming service a free upgrade * Cyber attack 'most significant on Irish state' * Irish cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free * New emergency text alerts to be trialled * Google I/O * Sony invests in Discord, to integrate it with PlayStation in 2022 * Xbox’s Quick Resume feature gets new group option in May update * HTC unveils new Vive Pro 2 with 5K resolution display and 120Hz refresh rate