This Week in Tech (MP3)

• Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis.
• Waymo plans a driverless car service.
• Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia.
• Google's "smart city" in Toronto gets some pushback.
• Julian Assange has been charged with... something?
• SpaceX gets approval to launch 7000 internet satellites.
• Japan's cybersecurity chief is 100% unhackable - because he has never touched a computer.
• Alphabet's Verily gives up on glucose-measuring contact lenses.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Larry Magid, and Georgia Dow

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• Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.
• Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day.
• Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class."
• 22% of Americans still trust Facebook.
• Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap.
• Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case.
• DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights.
• China unveils the first AI news anchor.
• Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe.
• With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype.
• FCC has harsh words about robocalls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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• Apple announces new MacBook Air and Mac Mini, then blows them both away with its new iPad Pro.
• Apple will no longer tell us how many iPhones it sells.
• How to kill an iPhone with a balloon.
• Iran unmasks dozens of CIA agents with a Google search.
• Google employees stage walkout over sexual harassment
• Amazon exec mad at Washington Post for leaking new headquarters location.
• Facebook targets ads at "White Genocide Conspiracy Theorists."
• Voter suppression on Twitter, and IRL in Georgia.
• Passcodes are officially protected by the fifth amendment (at least in Florida, and only in some cases).
• Senator proposes a bill that would jail tech CEOs for misusing consumer data.
• FCC says community broadband is an "ominous threat to the first amendment."

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Iain Thomson, and Mike Elgan

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• What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday?
• Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex"
• Amazon's government controversies
• IBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase ever.
• Linus Torvalds is back!
• Trump's phone may be hacked by Russia and China.
• The midterms may be hacked as well.
• Apple and Amazon might NOT be hacked by China.
• Microsoft still hasn't released Window 10 update 1809
• The Vatican releases its own version of Pokemon Go with saints instead of Pokemon.
• Elon's big tunnel under LA opens 12/10.
• Pokemon Go will use step info from Apple and Google.
• Right to Repair suit wins.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Jason Hiner, and Rene Ritchie

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• Cognitive hacking with scale and co-ordination.
• Will the newest iPad have 2 connectors?
• Should keynotes for product launches go away?
• Some speculation about what to expect from the upcoming Apple event.
• Morgan on Twitter and his thoughts on Google+.
• Google in the EU and something that isn't getting as much press.
• The discussion continues around Bloomberg's article and Tim Cook's demand for a retraction.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Seth Weintraub, and Greg Ferro

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