• Foldable Phones: is $2000 Too Much?
• All the Other Wacky Phones at MWC 2019
• HoloLens 2 and the Cloud
• Our Heads-Up Display Future
• 5G at MWC 2019: When is 5G Really Coming?
• Congress Wants a Word With Google
• Google vs Oracle Might be Coming Back
• How Do You Pronounce Amicus?
• Huawei: Threat or Menace?
• Lighthouse Goes Out of Business
• Suicide Tips in YouTube Kids
• Worst Job in Tech: Facebook Moderator
• Facebook Knows When You are Menstruating
• Facebook Kills its VPN Under Protest
• Ray Ozzie Will Make All Your IoT Devices Secure
• Assistant on Messenger
• Biometric ID on Android Apps
• Google AI Grammar Checker on G Suite
• FedEx Robots Coming this Summer
• SEC Wants Elon Musk Held in Contempt over Tweets

Picks of the Week:

• Ant's Stuff: How to Be Black, Everyday People Talking about Everyday S***, and Premiere Tutorials on •
• Stacey's Thing: A World Without Clouds
• Leo's Plea: Open call to anyone at Google who watches TWiG: Can we get on a YouTube takedown whitelist?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Ant Pruitt

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• Samsung Galaxy Fold Will Replace Your Computer
• Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e
• Samsung Galaxy Buds
• YouTube Advertisers Flee Over Pedophilia
• New YouTube Strike System
• Articles 11 and 13 are About to Pass
• Conspiracy Theories on YouTube and Pinterest
• Nest's "Not" Secret Microphone is just the tip of the surveillance iceberg in your house.
• Google Doesn't Block Ad Blockers
• Google's GDC Keynote
• Concerns over AI text and image generation
• Uber Sues NYC
• Carlton Fails to Sue Fortnite
• Amazon takes its ball and goes home
• Amazon Pays No Income Tax

Picks of the Week:

• Stacey's Thing: Checklist for Moving Out of a Smart Home
• Jeff's Number: Top social accounts and platforms by interactions
• Leo's Tool: Credder

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Articles 11 and 13 are Back & Worse than Ever
• What if Google Won't Pay Fines?
• Amazon Buys Eero: Is this the Panopticon
• Apple's Plans to Screw Over Publishers
• Life Without Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft
• NYPD Hates Waze
• Should Facebook Ban Anti-Vaxxers?
• Google to Open Offices in 24 States
• Google Wins at the 2019 Oscars

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Hubitat Evolution
• Jeff's Number: Mars Opportunity dies after 14 Years of Service
• Leo's Tool: WebsiteVoice

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• I Made Queso!
• Spotify Buys Gimlet and Anchor
• Facebook at 15
• Why Publishing Died
• Alphabet Q1 Earnings
• Verily Opens Opioid Rehab, Makes Smart Shoes
• Marshmello's Fortnite Concert
• Chrome Password Checker Extension
• Google Makes Audio More Accessible
• Assistant Coming to Nest Security
• Detecting Fake Audio

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Airhelp
• Stacey's Tip: Change your Nest password!
• Jeff's Number: 1/3 of advertisers shift from Google/FB to Amazon
• Leo's Tool: Doodle for Google

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Google IO dates are announced.
• Features for Android Q include a new face-detection API.
• Google makes a big hire that is all about bringing Fuchsia to market.
• Gmail for Android gets a redesign but it still isn't Inbox.
• What happens when you cut every piece of Google out of your life?
• Apple took a number of internal Facebook apps offline.
• Google's Sidewalk Labs will turn cities into actual Sim cities.
• Charges against Huawei could have major implications for trade.
• Xiaomi's foldable display video is interesting, but its not the future.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's tip: Use a non-Pixel phone for Chromebook Instant Tethering.
• Jeff's number: Members of congress have two Twitter accounts.
• Mike's tool: Newsguard can sniff out fake news sites for you.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mike Elgan

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• France fines Google €50M for GDPR violations, Google appeals.
• Amazon issues workers vests to keep robots from harming them.
• Millions of mortgage docs leak online.
• Viacom buys Pluto TV for $340M.
• Microsoft Edge mobile browser alerts users to fake news.
• Google buys Fossil smartwatch tech.
• Google powers US data centers with 1.6 million solar panels.
• Facebook wants to attract teens to its new LOL meme hub.
• OPEN Government Data Act becomes law.
• China confirms that scientist He Jiankui used CRISPR to gene-edit babies.
• Chinese app encourages users to shame debtors near them.
• How good are you at detecting phishing emails? Try this quiz!

Picks of the Week:

• Stacey's Things: @Hourly Fox and KonMari your IoT gadgets
• Jeff's Number: 11 countries hate Article 11

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Facebook's 10 Year Photo Challenge: Threat or Menace?
• The Best of the Rest at CES 2019
• Google and WordPress Make News
• Who is Watching Your Doorbell Videos?
• The Google Changelog: RCS Comes to Fi
• All Hail the Egg!
• Galaxy S10 Launches 2/20
• Bird Sent a Cease-and-Desist to the WRONG Person.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Google Assistant is everywhere at CES 2019, including an amusement park ride.
• Facebook opens its political ads archive, showing who is targeting you and how much they spent.
• Don't blame millennials: Fake news is spread by boomers.
• The Internet Archive tries to save Brazil's internet.
• German politicians hacked - lone hacker confesses.
• How can you get free samples from Amazon?
• Amazon becomes the most valuable company in the world just in time for the Bezoses to divorce.
• It is false and defamatory to say that Julian Assange is easily offended.
• Plus: Fortnite, fountain pens, and not-so-naughty limericks.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Google moves into a West LA mall.
• Mathew's Stuff: Join the Internet Archive Team.
• Leo's Picks: Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse, The State of the World 2019, Pepsi robots, and AT&T's fake 5G.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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• Facebook hopes for a better 2019 after a public image drubbing in 2018.
• Google's Waymo Under Fire in Arizona - Literally.
• Your cell phone has a huge security flaw, and there is no plan to fix it.
• How much of the internet is made of bots? And how soon will people be the exception, not the rule?
• Copyright expires for all works created in 1923 - the 1st time this has happened in 20 years. Is Mickey Mouse next?
• One Oregon man takes his fight to call himself an engineer all the way to federal court.
• Who owns your tattoo? Not you!
• What will happen if the US tries to ban exports of AI tech?
• A cafe in Tokyo where the staff is all robots controlled remotely by paralyzed workers.

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Numbers: Google to make $3B on hardware, 16,000 BBC sound effects for free
• Leo's Tool: Listen Notes: the podcast search engine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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A look back at the biggest tech stories of 2018.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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