This Week in Tech (Audio)

Apple Glasses, iOS 14 Privacy, and Hamilton on Disney+

• Is Apple pulling away from the competition?
• Is Intel dying?
• Snap Spectacles third edition arrives in India
• Google buys North, makers of Focals smart glasses
• Where are Alexis Ohanian and Pete Cashmore?
• Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple Glasses
• Lidar technology could drive Apple business for the next decade
• The Race After Technology and holography
• Is technology making life too fast?
• iOS 14 highlights ad tracking - advertisers are not happy about it.
• iOS 14 outs Tik Tok and LinkedIn for snooping on the clipboard
• Apple says no to 16 Web APIs for Safari for security reasons
• Ad tracking is big business for Google, Facebook, and Spotify
• What is the future of brick and mortar? Warehouses with curbside delivery?
• Advertizers boycotting Facebook, but they'll be back
• Microsoft wants to "upskill" 25 million workers for high-demand jobs
• Eye Mouth Eye Twitter trend tricks tech Twitter into donating to Black Lives Matter charities
• Anonymous shopping cart abandoner causes chaos for online vendors - here's who is to blame
• Lululemon buys Mirror for half a billion dollars
• Hamilton premieres on Disney+ to rave reviews
• BMW does a press event in VR to show off their subscription heated seats
• With NFC and ultrawideband, your phone can be your car key

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Sam Abuelsamid, and Jason Hiner

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• Apple WWDC Recap - Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS 14
• Mac moves from Intel to Apple Silicon
• What happens to Intel? Microsoft?
• iOS apps will run on Macs
• Will Macs still run Windows on Boot Camp?
• Microsoft closes all retail stores - are PCs moving to the cloud?
• PC gaming - the biggest reason you need a PC
• Can x86 die already?
• What could go wrong with the shift to Apple Silicon?
• Should you buy an Intel Mac now? Should you buy the first version of the ARM Mac?
• The fastest supercomputer in the world has an ARM chip
• macOS goes to 11
• Should WWDC stay virtual next year?
• Will macOS and iOS merge?
• Group Messages grows up
• Will ARM Macs use Thunderbolt? USB 4?
• When will the first ARM Macs show up?
• How well will Rosetta 2 work?
• How is the transition to ARM going to work? How long has it already been going on?
• Apple WWDC interviews and presentations
• Six Colors has all the info you need on all the WWDC presentations - here are the best
• WWDC iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Speed Round - back tap, custom home screen, group FaceTime with sign language, App Clips, Shortcuts on Apple Watch, translation app, hand washing timer, dance, AirPods Pro custom EQ
• Tik Tok is grabbing your clipboard every 10 seconds
• Don't install Big Sur beta on your main computer!
• iOS 14 warns you about tracking cookies
• Trump campaign app steals all your data
• Hey.com app allowed on the App Store
• Olympus leaving the camera business
• Finally, surveyors all use the same foot
• Microsoft kills Mixer; Ninja and Shroud get to keep their money

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Jason Snell, and Dan Moren

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• WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announced
• Apple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19
• WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM
• WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners won
• WWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri?
• Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store
• iOS App Store brings in $519 Billion in 2019
• Apple facing anti-trust investigations in the EU
• Talking about grilling
• Twitter starts offering 140 second Voice Tweets
• Using Facebook to train yourself
• Facebook lets its users turn off political ads
• Facebook wants to help 4 million people vote
• K-Pop stans and Tik Tok teens and grandmas troll Trump's Tulsa rally
• 71% of Americans refuse to use contact tracing apps
• iFixit wants to help users fix ventilators; ventilator manufacturer sues
• FCC approves the first prescription video game for ADHD
• Oscars delayed until April 2021
• Disney+ kills their 7 day free trial weeks before Hamilton release
• Only $75k to get your own Spot robot dog
• Flash dies completely on December 31st, 2020

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Georgia Dow, and Andy Ihnatko

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• Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption
• IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police
• Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police
• Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company
• Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce.
• How quickly will Apple transition Macs to ARM?
• Refrigerator DRM is catching up with printer DRM
• ZFS cuts "slave" out of OpenZFS codebase. GitHub ditches "master"
• Michael Seibel replaces Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board
• HBO yanks Gone With the Wind, it becomes the #1 show on Apple TV+
• Four GOP Senators ask FCC to review Section 230
• PS5 hardware and games announced - disc vs digital
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
• itch.io Games for Racial Justice and Equality surpasses it's $5 million goal

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Christina Warren, and Iain Thomson

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• Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?
• Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police
• Can tech improve policing?
• Social and Organizational barriers to change
• Should social networks fact-check Trump?
• James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial
• YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter
• How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives
• Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people
• Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person
• NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest
• Minneapolis will dismantle their police department
• Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops
• Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent
• Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran
• Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy
• HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb

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