Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch discuss Apple's announcement of their AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones and give their first impressions.

Second half of the show, Nilay and Dieter talk with Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon about Qualcomm's new flagship processor the Snapdragon 888, the potential of 5G, and what he thinks about Apple's new M1 processor.

• COVID-19 vaccine starts working within two weeks after first shot
• Apple and Google’s COVID contact tracing tech is finally coming to their home state of California
• COVID-19 vaccine monitoring program may be at risk of false reports
• With guns drawn, police raid home and seize computers of COVID-19 data whistleblower
• Florida’s justification for raiding COVID data whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking a little shaky
• The pandemic turned the volume down on ocean noise pollution
• Uber asks governors to give drivers early access to COVID-19 vaccines
• Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th
• AirPods Max first look

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