This Week in Tech (Audio)

Big quarter for big tech, AirTags and privacy, Resident Evil 3 speedrun

• 'A Perfect Positive Storm': Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech.
• EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case.
• Apple Signals Hot Streak to Continue as Sales, Profit Surge.
• Apple releases iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and watchOS 7.4, allowing Apple Watch owners to unlock with Face ID while wearing a mask.
• Apple AirTags could enable domestic abuse in terrifying ways.
• Bitcoin Industry Grapples With Age-Old Problem of Inheritance.
• Warren Buffett's Deputy Calls Bitcoin 'Disgusting' And Bad For Civilization.
• Lossless streaming option for Apple Music may launch within weeks.
• AirTags Are Scarily Good At Tracking Items And ... People. I know Because I Tried!
• Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms.
• Apple commits $430 billion in US investments over five years.
• YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue.
• Brianna Wu RE3 Speedrun 54m01sec.
• Google's Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls.
• Roku removes YouTube TV from the channel store as dispute with Google escalates.
• Amazon's profit soars 220 percent as pandemic drives shopping online.
• Amazon's cloud division reports 32% revenue growth.
• Samsung's new Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are lightweight laptops with OLED screens.
• Twitter stock plunges on user miss and low guidance.
• What really happened at Basecamp.
• Basecamp Employees Are Leaving After CEO Bans Politics at Work.
• GM rolls out seamless EV charging across multiple networks.
• SpaceX Capsule Returns Four Astronauts Safely to Earth in Nighttime Splashdown.
• In a nod to Trump, Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies.
• Volkswagen investigated by SEC over 'Voltswagen' prank.
• After years as a meme, 'Disaster Girl' takes control of her image — with a hefty payoff.
• Facebook's Oculus, EA, and Respawn Win Game Industry's First Oscar for 'Colette' Documentary Short.
• Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9 billion on fallen giants.
• N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog's Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash.
• Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Nate Lanxon, and Tim Stevens

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Apple event roundup, Big Tech Antitrust action, Signal CEO hacked Cellebrite device

• Apple announces a new iPad Pro with an M1 chip, Thunderbolt, 5G, XDR display.
• Time for Apple to pull off the Band Aid and merge the iPad and Mac—at least their operating systems.
• Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event.
• Apple announces thinner iMac with M1 chip and bright colors.
• Apple announces $29 AirTag, a new Tile-like item tracker.
• Apple in the hot seat.
• Apple antitrust hearing: Tile likens Find My network to a 'hostage' program, App Store scam apps, more.
• How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions.
• App Stores in Congress, Apple's Arguments, Meta Points.
• No, The Original Siri Remote Doesn't Suck – If You Do This.
• Apple announces the new Apple TV 4K.
• Someone deciphered the Ted Lasso shortbread recipe from Apple's Spring Loaded event.
• Apple Must Face Lawsuit Over iTunes "Buy" Button.
• Facebook-backed Diem aims to launch a digital currency pilot in 2021.
• Chat App Discord Ends Takeover Talks With Microsoft.
• Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool and Became a Legend.
• Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal.
• The Florida mystery of dormant Pentagon IP addresses.
• The Slander Industry.
• Over $200 billion wiped off the cryptocurrency market in a day as bitcoin plunges below $50,000.
• NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight.
• Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky Has Died.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Rene Ritchie, and Dwight Silverman

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Apple's Spring event, Jeff Bezos letter to shareholders, Elon Musk and NASA

• Introducing Club TWiT.
• Apple's 'Spring Loaded' Event Officially Announced for Tuesday, April 20.
• Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song.
• Why It's Misleading to Say 'Apple Music Pays Twice as Much Per Stream as Spotify'.
• Google subsidiary moved $75bn in profits through Ireland in 2019 using "double-Irish".
• Google 'partially' misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds.
• Nobody is flying to join Google's FLoC.
• Jeff Bezos says Amazon needs to do a better job for employees in his final shareholder letter as CEO.
• SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to deliver an Astrobotic lander and NASA water-hunting rover to the moon in 2023.
• Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving.
• Should We Trust The Facebook Oversight Board?
• Facebook oversight board delays decision on Trump ban to 'the coming weeks'.
• Amazon's The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465 million for first season.
• Google Earth's historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change.
• Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors.
• You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the "Eee PC".
• Dogecoin spikes 400% in a week, stoking fears of a cryptocurrency bubble.
• Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023.
• NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday.
• NYPD Deploys "Creepy" New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex.
• Adobe co-founder Chuck Geschke dies at 81.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Rich DeMuro, and Alex Kantrowitz

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Google vs Oracle, Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel, Google IO 2021

• Why new Apple products are arriving later than ever this year.
• White House set to host Google, Intel CEOs to discuss computer chip supply chain.
• Sixty-Week Delay on Router Orders Shows Scale of Chip Crisis.
• Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software.
• Elon Musk's 'Public Transit' in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel.
• Kara Swisher Interviews Tim Cook.
• Apple Admits Why It Keeps iMessage Off Android.
• Classic Hangouts shutdown starts as Google Voice and Fi integrations stop working.
• Apple Adds Support For Third Parties to Find My Network.
• Apple Arcade finally got the boost it needed.
• Apple Details Ways Advertisers Can Measure the Impact of Ads Without Tracking Users Ahead of iOS 14.5 Launch.
• Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend.
• Pixel 5 sees massive GPU performance gains with April 2021 update.
• Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down.
• What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
• Microsoft in Talks to Buy AI Firm Nuance Communications.
• Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong.
• E3 2021: Dates Set For Free Virtual Video Game Event.
• LG to Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide.
• Empathy emerges from stealth with $13M for a digital assistant aimed at bereaved families.
• Logitech officially discontinues its Harmony remotes.
• Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony.
• Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren

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MS Build 2021, Hololens and the US Army, ACLU's privacy letdown, Google's Pixel 6 chip

• Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles.
• It's official: Microsoft Build will be May 25 to 27.
• Microsoft pushes back 'full' Redmond campus reopening to September 7.
• How Quarantine Has Affected Introverts.
• Introverts faring worse than extraverts emotionally and psychologically amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Google ditches Mobile World Congress 2021, the world's biggest phone show.
• Microsoft gets $22bn HoloLens contract with US military.
• Cortana killed off on 3rd party apps, Redmond only from now on.
• Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS.
• Who doesn't have a Clubhouse clone?
• 25 years later, Space Jam has a new website — and the first trailer for the sequel.
• Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility - Volkswagen US Media Site.
• IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos.
• Pixel 6 powered by Google-made' GS101' Whitechapel chip.
• Reminiscing about old tech like the Sidekick.
• 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.
• ACLU, a defender of digital privacy, reveals that it shares user data with Facebook.
• Supreme Court Rules Facebook's Automated Text System Doesn't Count As Robocalling.
• TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity.
• Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us.
• Activision Reveals Malware Disguised as 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Cheats.
• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach "Catastrophic".
• Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal's Movies From HBO Max, Netflix.
• NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Doc Rock, and Christina Warren

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