DescriptionThis week, Philadelphia is staying in the present, EA is skipping their presentation, and Disney is releasing their past.ParticipantsScott Ertz (http://plughitzlive.com/staff/1-scott-ertz.html)HostScott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLuGHiTz Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the DDR community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bar Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and judging engineering notebooks at competitions. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors.Avram Piltch (http://plughitzlive.com/staff/15-avram-piltch.html)HostAvram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.OpeningPowered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com)Nifty GiftiesPowered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft)Philadelphia is first city to ban cashless stores, preventing Amazon Go (http://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3259-philadelphia-is-first-city-to-ban-cashless-stores-preventing-amazon-go.html)One of the trends we've seen in the past year or so is the trend away from cash. The move makes a lot of sense for certain businesses, such as Amazon Go, the automated convenience store. These stores are designed to be functional with little to no employee interaction, making it easy to pick up what you want and just walk out. When you do, the card on your Amazon account is automatically charged. Because of that, cash is not really an option for the business model. However, thanks to a new law in Philadelphia, Amazon Go is not permitted.read full article (http://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3259-philadelphia-is-first-city-to-ban-cashless-stores-preventing-amazon-go.html)Piltch Point with Avram PiltchPowered by Newegg.com (http://piltchpoint.live/newegg)Extra LifePowered by Razer (http://f5live.tv/razer)Electronic Arts joins Sony in skipping E3 2019 press conferences (http://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3260-electronic-arts-joins-sony-in-skipping-e3-2019-press-conferences.html)If you are a fan of the big, splashy press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, then 2019 might be a disappointment. As was announced in November, Sony will not participate (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3216-playstation-is-the-first-of-the-big-three-to-abandon-e3.html) in the E3 2019 press conferences. Sony marks the first of the Big 3 platforms to not participate this year, but will not be the only ones sitting it out. This week, EA announced that they, too, will skip their traditional E3 press conference in favor of smaller, online-only streams. It will also continue to hold its EA Play fan festival, which started in 2016 (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/2835-highlighting-the-industrys-disinterest-ea-exits-e3-2016.html) in LA.read full article (http://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3260-electronic-arts-joins-sony-in-skipping-e3-2019-press-conferences.html)News From the TubesPowered by RiffTrax (http://f5live.tv/rifftrax)Elizabeth Warren pitches splitting Amazon, Google, and Facebook (http://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3261-elizabeth-warren-pitches-splitting-amazon-google-and-facebook.html)Over the past decade, a few companies have emerged as the strongest players in the technology field. The biggest of those faces have been Amazon,