This Week in Tech (MP3)

• Amazon's paid tweeters program backfires
• Telus email out for the past 4 days
• $3 Million Fortnite winner SWATted
• How Gamergate launched a culture war
• Esports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to college
• Verizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years ago
• iPhone 11 coming September 10 - how private will it be?
• Apple sues Corellium for virtualization service
• Google's challenging past 3 years
• Google forces Nest to leave recording lights on
• iPhone 11 Pro Max?
• Pixel 3a's faux 20x zoom
• Rival search engines drop out of Google's search engine ballot auction
• Amazon's Rekognition face recognition system can't tell the difference between congressmen and criminals
• "NULL" vanity plate garners man $12,000+ in parking violations
• 3 simple ways to defeat face recognition
• Update your Windows 10 system NOW. Seriously.
• New Bluetooth KNOB attack
• Huawei gets a break
• Georgia required to use paper ballots
• FTC willing to break up big tech
• IKEA gets serious about smart tech
• Disney after account sharers
• Don't use Kaspersky anti-virus
• Tesla owner implants her key in her arm
• Apple shuts down 3rd-party WebKit anti-tracking abusers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Denise Howell, and Owen JJ Stone

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This Week's Stories

• Video games don't cause mass shootings, but toxic gamer culture doesn't help
• White House proposes social media censorship
• Apple wants as many people as possible to get the Apple Card
• Are Teslas reliable?
• Chase forgives Canadian customers' debt
• Apple locks out DIY battery repairs
• FedEx splits with Amazon
• Amazon's PillPack fighting with CVS and Walgreens
• Woz wants you off Facebook
• Teenagers work overnight to make Amazon Echo
• Samsung Note 10 kills headphone jack and Bixby button, embraces Microsoft
• FBI, NSA want hackers, even if they used to smoke pot
• Defcon takes on voting machine security
• Elizabeth Warren's plan for rural broadband
• US Navy ditching touchscreen controllers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Ben Johnson, and Sam Abuelsamid

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This Week's Stories

• Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
• Phone season starts this week
• Apple gearing up on R&D
• Amazon takes over
• RIP Amazon Dash button
• Your Assistant is listening
• Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
• Capital One hack
• Apple Bluetooth security hack
• Facial recognition for drunks
• Chinese smile to pay
• Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
• AI customer service hell
• Amazon partnering with police
• Turkey cracks down on Internet
• Instagram from Facebook
• Livestreaming Funerals
• Spotify takes off
• US Govt vs social media addiction
• Locast gets sued
• Ninja moves to Mixer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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• Apple buys Intel's modem business
• House passes anti-robocall bill
• Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September
• As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier
• iPadOS is the Future of Apple
• iPhone 11 is all about the camera
• Note 10 - no headphone jack, no buttons
• How Apple fights factory thefts
• Apple Card coming in August
• Google will buy your face for $5
• Facebook founder wants to break up Facebook
• Google bans repair business search ads
• Big government vs big tech
• Do not install PremierOpinion software from VoiceFive
• Pampers develops "smart" diapers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lisa Schmeiser, and Lexy Savvides

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• Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
• Russian Intelligence Service hacked
• Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
• Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
• Equifax fined $700 million
• TikTok takes over
• Celebrate World Emoji Day
• New MacBook Air have slower SSD
• Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
• Trump threatens Google
• Congressional hearings on Big Tech
• Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
• Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
• Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
• Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
• How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
• Influencers are taking over the world
• Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Iain Thomson

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