This Week's Stories:

• Google's 4000 word Privacy Policy
• Google and Dish, sitting in a tree?
• The problem(s) with YouTube
• Facebook privacy is already a problem
• The Chome OS 75 debacle
• Debian 10 Buster is not for Chromebooks
• Linux is the future
• Google Stadia FAQ: multiplayer, VR, how to order
• Instagram fixes online bullying
• Trump can't block you on Twitter. Neither can AOC.
• Facebook fought Fake News (about Facebook)
• Android - Google = /e/ foundation
• AT&T blocks robocalls
• FCC vs SF
• Amazon at 25
• Amazon warehouse workers to strike on Prime Day
• Amazon keeps Alexa recordings indefinitely
• YouTube and Amazon Prime Video kiss and make up

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Number: Giant GDPR fines for Marriott, BA
• Kevin's Stuff: JGrasp: an open source IDE with an awesome visual debugger

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Microsoft partners are on a rampage

• Microsoft is cutting internal use rights for its products and services, meaning no more free ride on product licensing for partners
• Not a good look for Microsoft the week before its annual partner rah-rah fest. And potentially a risky move, too
• Is it really all about the money? Or is this also a way to winnow down the partner contingent, eliminating smaller partners
• Also bad timing: The week before its Ready sales kick-off Microsoft is cutting jobs and moving folks around

Windows 10: As the Insider builds turn

• ISOs are out for 18932 (Windows 10 20H1)
• A new Windows Server 20H1 build is out. What's new? No idea
• All the existing Windows 10 variants (1507 to 1903) got Cumulative Update patches on Patch Tuesday
• Related: Remix3D.com shutdown is imminent. (Wait, it's still there?)

Non-Windows Microsoft news

• Microsoft Android apps getting house ads - What are we to make of this?
• Look who's on the private Linux developer list
• Microsoft is not moving to manufacture out of China
• Feeling British? Try these new Surface skins

To the cloud

• Microsoft's Desktop Analytics service now in preview. And of course, it's got an AI angle
• ServiceNow becomes the latest ISV to make Azure its 'preferred cloud'

Xbox

• July 2019 Xbox Update is here
• Microsoft patents a cool mobile controller
• Cuphead is going to be a Netflix series. I assume it will be as violent as Game of Thrones.

Tips and picks

• App pick of the week: Firefox 68
• App pick #2: Windows 1.11 is a (lame) Stranger Things tie-in
• App pick #3: New Outlook on the web is heading out to everyone on Office 365 commercial
• Enterprise pick of the week: SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 have left the building
• Enterprise pick No. 2: MJFChat on Petri.com
• Beer pick of the week: Highland Park Brewery No Rest

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• Microsoft is placing shortcuts to uninstalled apps in the share menu.
• Jason reviews the Huawei MediaPad M5 lite mid-range tablet.
• Pixel 4 XL renders leak revealing more about the upcoming device.
• Sony is working to unveil a rollable phone concept sometime this year.
• Android Q beta 5 leaks and new features are trickling out slowly.
• The Motorola Xoom gets charged and the gang takes it for a spin.
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• Flo - LaunchBoard: Modern app drawer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appthrob.android.launchboard
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This Week's Stories

• Mozilla's privacy-enhancing DNS over HTTPS support
• Facial recognition and automobile license plate scanners
• The future of satellite-based Internet services
• How a Ruby code repository was hacked
• The UK GCHQ's proposal for adding "ghost" participants into private conversations

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This Week's Stories
• Apple kills MacBook, updates MacBook Air and Pro
• Improved keyboard coming with 16-Inch MacBook Pro
• Apple drops Mac storage prices
• 10.2 Inch iPad coming this month?
• The App Store turns 11
• Apple re-releases Texas Hold'em app
• FaceTime will fake eye contact
• Students get 6 months of free Apple Music, free Beats headphones, $100 off MacBook Air
• Huawei wants to be as private as Apple
• Xiaomi "Mimoji" obviously rips off Apple's Memoji
• Bill Gates admits he wasn't as good of a wizard as Steve Jobs
• Apple congratulates US Womens World Cup Soccer Team
• Original Apple 1 operation manual can be yours for only $10,000
• Zoom vulnerability lets others spy on your webcam, secretly reinstalls Zoom

Tips and Picks
• Leo's Pick: Anker PowerPort Atom PD 1 and 2 with gallium nitride
• Andy's Tip: Take a break between tasks
• Rene's Pick: Nike (Yes! Nike!) Air Shoes
• Lory's Pick: mophie Powerstation Hub

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Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent dig through their backpacks to share their travel tech essentials, try out FaceTime's fake eye contact feature 'Attention Correction' in iOS 13 Public Beta 2, and Leo's all-in for Apple bring back its Texas Hold'em game in celebrating 10 years of the App Store.

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This Week's Stories

• HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
• Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
• The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
• Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
• Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
• MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
• Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
• Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
• Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
• Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
• Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
• Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
• Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones

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