This Week's Stories

• COVID-19 fallout: IBM quits RSA, Sony quits PAX East
• COVID-19 fallout: will this year's new game consoles be delayed?
• COVID-19 facemasks work with Face ID
• Samsung Galaxy Chromebook coming April 6th
• Jeff Jarvis: "I don't have a Corvette, I have a Chromebook." Who needs a $1000+ Chromebook?
• Android 11 Developer Beta Hands-On Preview
• Pixel 5 Leak - Real or Fake? (hint: faaaaaaaaaake)
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - worth the $$$$?
• Beyond Foldable: TCL shows a concept with a slide-out screen
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold coming this summer
• Google might start paying publishers for news
• Wendy is mean: "Brand Twitter" normalizes Twitter trolling
• Google falls behind in AR?
• Google kills free Station Wi-Fi program
• Bookbot rises from the grave! Return your library books with this Google robot
• Mark Zuckerberg blow-dries his armpits
• Alphabet's Makani energy kites crash
• Reminder: if you signed up for the free Stadia Founders Edition trial, it's not free anymore
• Stadia coming to more than just Pixel phones
• Australian judge: leaving a bad review on Google is illegal

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus fears
• Essential shuttered
• Google head of HR steps down
• The US charges Chinese military officials with hacking Equifax
• Huawei is "definitely spying on us" - US
• Sprint / T-Mobile merger passes another hurdle
• All the ways Coronavirus is affecting tech
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: the first great foldable, or the next big flop?
• FTC investigates Google acquisitions
• German Man's proposal shows up on Google Maps
• Epic Twitter thread: Amazon ships the wrong box, over and over
• Nest requires 2-factor for all accounts to satisfy California IoT law
• Facebook's Twitter account gets hacked
• Should Clearview AI be allowed to scrape your face?
• Wacom tablets track the applications you open - moral panic or privacy violation?
• Is Spotify going to destroy podcasting?
• Google files OS trademark "Pigweed"
• Google adblocker bans non-skippable preroll ads
• Google bans 3rd-Party cookies
• Bill Gates doesn't buy a hydrogen yacht
• Fill out the TWiT Survey!: twit.to/survey20

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Justine Haupt's Rotary Cellphone
• Ant's Good Stuff: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story on Netflix
• Stacey's Thing 1: Tweet Cute
• Stacey's Thing 2: Slay
• Jeff's Number 1: Google finds 6 needs states in search
• Jeff's Number 2: Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA for $165 million

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• YouTube cuts off Clearview AI face recognition
• Google sent private videos to strangers
• Google shuts down Chinese offices over Coronavirus
• DOJ vs Google
• Iowa Caucus Kerfuffle
• Google Q4 2019 Earnings: YouTube makes you $15 billion/year
• How big do you have to be to be a monopoly?
• Olivetti: shutting down the first personal computer
• Google's Assembler can tell if an image has been photoshopped
• How to hack Google Maps traffic
• ZTE quarantines their Mobile World Congress staff
• Spotify buys The Ringer
• Hear the Canterbury Tales read by Terry Jones
• Sale of .org held up
• The new emoji for 2020
• Hummer electric 2020
• Philips Hue hack
• Google's open-source two-factor security key

Picks of the Week:

• Ant's Good Stuff #1: A Personal Black History Month Recognition
• Ant's Good Stuff #2: Belton by Alison Ashley Darby
• Stacey's Thing #1: Camect
• Stacey's Thing #2: Ruby Chocolate
• Jeff's Numbers: Amazon 150m Prime members

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• Google I/O coming May 12th
• Why Facebook's 'Off-Facebook Activity' privacy tool isn't transparent enough
• Is Amazon sending people stuff before they ask for it?
• Are you being remotely controlled?
• Do Google's ads look like search results?
• Google's tenth attempt at unified messaging (and second Slack clone) will surely succeed
• iRobot CEO: privacy doesn't sell
• An open letter to Google on privacy and crapware
• Google wants to make you cry at the Superbowl
• What your Ring doorbell really shares
• Avast anti-virus sold all your data to Home Depot
• Google wants to charge the cops for your data
• US Interior Department makes Chinese drones illegal
• Nunavut tracks ransomware bitcoins
• UK will not implement EU meme ban
• Ben Smith moves from Buzzfeed News to the New York Times
• Tech in 2020 slide deck: Benedict Evans lays out the trends
• Samsung's next folding phone leaks

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• Alphabet reaches 1 Trillion Dollars
• Sonos Speaker Update Angers Leo and Stacey
• Changing Expectations on Home System Updates
• The State of NJ Has a Twitter Account
• Local Newspaper and Radio is the Victim of the Internet
• Jeff Bezos's Phone Hacked by Saudi Crown Prince
• Facial Recognition is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
• Greenwald Charged with Cyber Crimes
• Grammy Face Allegations
• Google Now Offers Rubrics
• Google's New Apps to Reduce Screen Time

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Wiki Software
• Stacey's Thing: Casper Glow
• Jeff's Numbers: Preview of Sage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories:

• CES 2020: Tech for Seniors isn't just health tech
• CES 2020: Health tech
• CES 2020: Climate Change Fighting Tech
• CES 2020: Tech firms need to grow up
• CES 2020: Not everything needs to be smart
• CES 2020: Fitbits for dogs
• CES 2020: Dog translator
• CES 2020: Trash and Treasure at Eureka Park
• People trust Google more than religious leaders
• COPPA breaks YouTube. Copyright trolls kill YouTube creators
• Google will drop 3rd party cookies in 2022
• Aura Portable Personal Scanner
• Google will let you record your calls soon
• Instagram calls Photoshop "Fake News"
• Facebook still allows anti-vax ads
• Amazon vs Honey is the tip of the privacy iceberg
• Twitter will never let you edit your tweets
• Twitter will let you limit who can reply to your tweets
• Twitter is thinking about tips

Picks of the Week:

• Ant's Good Stuff: Patty Mattes photography for an animal shelter
• Stacey's Thing: Travelling heating pad
• Jeff's Numbers: Google about to hit trillion-dollar valuation club

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• Jeff Jarvis's top CES 2020 Pick
• Google's CES 2020 Announcements
• Samsung's Neon Artificial Humans
• Samsung's invisible AI keyboard
• One Plus's racecar-based Concept One phone
• Google kills off digital magazines
• Ex-Google International Head: Google is being Evil
• Facebook's Boz: yes, we helped Trump win. But not the way you think.
• Samsung Galaxy S20 coming February 11th
• Alas, poor Fry's. I knew it, Horatio, a store of infinite tech.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Neat Thing: @MKBHD shows off a functioning piano made entirely from OnePlus 7Ts
• Jeff's Number: Americans rank Google internship over Harvard degree & college is in trouble
• Mathew's Stuff: Twitter to add "conversation participants" setting to limit who can reply to your tweets

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories

• Google, Apple, Amazon, Zigbee, and others join to make universal IoT standard
• Motherboard has it out for Ring
• Google wants to beat Microsoft and Amazon in the cloud by 2023
• "Hey Google, that wasn't for you" deletes what you just said
• California AB5 will kill the gig economy in 2020
• Facebook says it already complies with California's new consumer privacy law
• Facebook funding independent content oversight board with $130m
• USDA drops Wakanda as a free trade partner
• New Orleans narrowly avoids ransomware nightmare
• Never cross Greta. She wins vs. German rail company
• The US swipes Snowden's book profits
• Top 10 apps of 2019
• ICANN may block the sale of .org to Ethos Capital
• The Far Side is coming back

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Thing: Beddr SleepTuner
• Ant's Thing: Be mindful of your holiday lights
• Stacey's Thing: SmartDry wireless laundry sensor

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• YouTube Rewind and Google's 2019 Year in Search
• Google Glass Explorer Edition gets its final update
• Magic Leap isn't there yet
• Twitter funding decentralized social media
• Fortnite vs Google, The Information vs Apple
• Pixel Feature Drop
• Google AI weather-based alarms
• Verizon is shutting down emails of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups
• Spotify's 2019: podcasts, podcasts, podcasts

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Thing: First community of 3D printed homes
• Ant's Thing: When The Fire Alarm Goes Off At 3:30 AM
• Stacey's Thing: Philips Hue Sync Box

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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