This Week in Tech (MP3)

• Samsung Announces the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Watch, and Galaxy Home musical cauldron.
• What is AI?
• Self-driving roll-out is increasing.
• Amazon wants you to pick up groceries at Whole Foods, and wishes you would shop more using Alexa.
• Twitter refuses to drop Alex Jones and InfoWars.
• Microsoft preserves Skype Classic.
• 11-year-old hacks Florida voting systems at DefCon and other voting security woes.
• Boston Dynamics is pumping out SpotMinis.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Florence Ion, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Apple is the first trillion dollar company ever.
• Is Universal Basic Income the fix for poverty in America?
• Alexa is Now the Ultimate in Home Security
• Why you should avoid Chinese phones.
• Facebook Dating is coming soon - will this make you spend too much time on Facebook?
• People still don't understand blockchain.
• Maybe you just shouldn't tweet.
• Ed Bott thinks the Surface Go is great!
• MoviePass is going out of business, and it's Owen JJ Stone's fault.
• Fortnight doesn't want to pay the Google Play store.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Owen JJ Stone, and Ant Pruitt

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• Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk.
• Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue.
• Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine.
• Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think.
• Slack eats HipChat. • Spectrum Internet gets kicked out of New York.
• Get a Tesla surfboard to go with your Boring flamethrower.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Mike Elgan

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• The future is flying cars! (Or not-flying cars, perhaps holes in the ground.)
• Apple's new MacBooks suffering from thermal throttling - is it the end for Intel?
• Google hit with $5 billion fine by EU for Android shenanigans.
• Will Fuschia be Google's one OS to rule them all?
• EU works on new laws of robotics.
• Google Translate starts spouting prophesy.
• Jeff Bezos is the richest man in history, but still gets his own hoagies.
• Elon Musk settles his farting unicorn feud.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Greg Ferro

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• Do Apple's new MacBooks fix the company's keyboard woes?
• Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow. Will it be worth the hype? Will it push Amazon's share of the e-commerce market past 50%?
• Folding tablets. Phones with 9 cameras. What is next?
• Will AT&T destroy HBO by trying to expand it?
• Hey Elon: maybe don't call a heroic diver who helps rescue 12 kids a "pedo" just because he didn't use your submarine.
• Fortnite takes the World Cup Final by storm.
• Balance is restored to Reddit.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jessica Conditt, Brian X. Chen, and Brian McCullough

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