This Week in Tech (MP3)

This Week's Stories

• The US vs Huawei
• San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition
• Chinese Owners Must Sell Grindr
• FCC: Carriers Should Block Robocalls
• Do You Know if Your iPhone has Been Hacked?
• Big Tech's Problems Are Sociological, Not Psychological - Just Like Game of Thrones
• Silicon Valley Millionaires: Silicon Valley is Bad
• Get Off My Lawn! Is Tech Still Great?
• Fake Joe Rogan
• Is Medium Killing Blogs?
• Hit By Ransomware? Just Pay the Ransom
• ZombieLoad Fix Could Slow down Computers 40%
• Hacking School Lunch
• Google Knows What You Buy
• RIP Grumpy Cat

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Michael Fisher, and Brian McCullough

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• The Failed Microsoft Build Hololens Demo
• Microsoft's Build Keynote May Have Been a Bit Too Geeky
• Microsoft Adds Linux Kernel to Windows: Is this the Beginning of the End for Windows?
• Microsoft Word gets PC (Politically Correct, not the Other PC)
• Should Facebook Be Broken Up? Its Co-Founder Says Yes
• How Much Should Facebook be Fined by the FTC?
• Snapchat Can Turn You from a Man to a Woman
• Google I/O Keynote: Google Lens, Shrinking Machine Learning, and a Focus on Privacy
• Google Promises Searchable Podcasts and AR in Search
• Pixel 3a is a Flagship Phone at a Budget Price
• How Long Will We Wait for Real 5G?
• Google I/O: Incognito Maps, Project Mainline, and the End of Nest
• One Broken Chip Can Brick Your Tesla
• Uber IPO Makes a Few People Very Rich, but Still Loses Billions of Dollars
• Bezos Shows off his Lunar Lander, Musk Teases Him
• Jeff Bezos Really Doesn't Like Homeless People
• The History and Future of Amazon Prime
• Alexa is Listening
• Hamas Cyber Attacks Israel, Israel Bombs Hamas
• US DOJ Indicts Chinese Hackers for Anthem Attack
• US Govt. Wants to Ban Loot Boxes
• Samsung's Next Phone Could Have a 64 Megapixel Camera
• Singapore Makes Fake News Illegal
• Arya Stark's App for Creatives
• Worldwide Helium Shortage Forces Party City to Close 45 Stores

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Mark Sullivan

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This Week's Stories

• Microsoft Build Preview
• Microsoft's Privacy Reputation: How Deserved Is It?
• Surface Studio Pros and Cons
• Facebook's Privacy Problems on Display at F8
• Tik Tok: Facebook Killer or Just the Next Vine?
• The Broken World of Social Media
• Is Instagram Spying on Me?
• Should Mark Zuckerberg be Personally Punished for Facebook's Failings?
• Google Down on Earnings Report
• Google I/O Preview
• Attack of the Voice Assistants
• Apple App Store Insanity
• Apple Up on Earnings Reports
• Surface vs MacBook vs Chromebook
• Folding Phones are Still the Future: How Far in the Future Remains to be Seen
• Who Wants Wearables?
• How to Auto-delete your Google Location Info
• 2020 Presidential Candidates' Email is Surprisingly Easy to Hack
• ACLU Sues US over Warrantless Border Phone Searches
• Video Game Hall of Fame Adds Solitaire and Mario Kart
• RIP Anki and Jibo :(
• Screaming Roomba
• Verizon Wants to Sell Tumblr After Destroying It
• The Internet vs Sonic the Hedgehog
• AR Brings 5 Madonnas to Life
• Firefox Extensions Down After Glitch
• Visit NAMI.org for National Mental Health Awareness Month

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Ant Pruitt, and Daniel Rubino

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Top Stories This Week

• Galaxy Fold Recalled After Screen Failures
• Inside the Fake World of Influencers
• Apple vs Apps vs iPhone Addiction
• Growing Up Online: The Always-Connected Generation
• Don't Forget to Cancel Apple News+!
• Amazon Prime to Offer One-Day Delivery
• Amazon Invests in Electric Vehicles
• Amazon Doubles its Profits
• Microsoft hits $1 Trillion
• Which Tech Company has the Best Reputation?
• Facebook Stole Your Email Contacts, Ready for Massive Fines
• Hertz Sues Accenture for Terrible, Horrible Website
• Netflix Wins Right to be in the Oscars
• AI Writes the Best Country Song About Doors Ever
• $16K Laundry Folding Robot Goes Bankrupt
• Podcasts vs Luminary
• Thanos Easter Egg Snaps Your Google Search

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

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Top Stories This Week:

• Samsung's Folding Phone Fail
• Apple vs Qualcomm: It's Over! Qualcomm wins!
• What Is Intel's Future After Apple?
• iMac Pro vs MacBook Pro: Which One Wins?
• iOS 13 Has Everything You Want, But Not the One Thing You Need
• Brexit, Muller, and US Voting Machines: What's the Connection?
• Ransomware Attacks: Is This an Act of War?
• The Mental Health App that Secretly Shares Your Data
• MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins) Pleads Guilty
• Facebook's Bad Day Week 15 Months
• Summit Learning: Everything You Hate About Facebook, Now in the Classroom!
• Apple Shuts Down Texture, Android Users S.O.L.
• The Browser Ballot Part II: Electric Boogaloo
• YouTube: Notre Dame was Terrorism
• Sri Lanka vs Social Media, India vs Tik Tok, the UK vs Porn
• Utah Bans Warrantless Phone Searches
• Google and Amazon Make Nice
• Assassin's Creed Helps Fix Notre Dame
• Playstation 5 Revealed!
• TWiT's Official Super Smash Bros Ultimate Level

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Dylan Tweney

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