Tech News Weekly (Video)

Tesla reported a smaller than expected loss today, causing the stock to swell in after hours trading. Instagram stole Snapchat's stories, and a year later they're still gloating about it. The man who popularized the singularity is responding to your email so you don't have to and you are listening too fast. Mike Murphy from Quartz joins us to discuss the giant Megabots that will battle in September. Will we be able to watch it live or will it turn out to be a Michael Phelps vs. the shark situation?

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Guest: Mike Murphy

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Apple announced its quarterly earnings with $45.4 billion dollars in revenue, and signaled that it expects strong sales of its upcoming iPhone once its officially announced sometime in the next few months. iPad sales topped 11.4 million units during the quarter, up 2% year over year.

A group of US lawmakers are working on legislation to shore up security on the internet of things. The bipartisan group introduced the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 that would require federal vendors of iOT devices to enable security updates and prevent them from having hardcoded default passwords that are difficult or impossible to change.

Facebook's experimental Building 8 lab has been hard at work on a video chat device with a touchscreen, about the size of a laptop screen, that will include a smart camera for tracking moving objects in its view. The device could be announced at its F8 conference next Spring.

Plus, Microsoft is bringing native eye tracking to Windows 10, and Lisa Buyer shares the many ways that teenagers misuse social media that can ultimately keep them from being accepted into college.

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Guest: Lisa Buyer

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Back in March, the US Senate voted to overturn Broadband Privacy Rules that had prevented ISPs from selling our browsing information. A group at DefCon last week presented evidence of just how easy it is for someone to deanonymize that browsing data.

Apple released early firmware for Apple's Homepod speaker and an iOS developer analyzed the code to reveal that not only is the Homepod running a full iOS stack, but the firmware detailed a number of references to infrared FaceDetection. That gives further credence to rumors pointing to a replacement of Touch ID with face detection in the new iPhone

Get ready for ads in your GIFs. TechCrunch reports that Giphy will soon test sponsored gifs. Giphy has over 200 million daily active users across all platforms, so advertisers are understandably eager to scoop up this real estate.

Linden Labs is evolving from Second Life to Sansar, Niantic is canceling Pokemon Go Fests after its Fest fails a few weeks ago, and YouTuber Marques Brownlee was at Tesla's Model 3 event and he shares his thoughts on what its like in the driver's seat.

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Guest: Marques Brownlee

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Happy Cheap Tesla Day, if $35,000 before customization is cheap to you. Tesla delivers its first model three on Friday night, and ReCode says this could be Elon Musk's iPhone moment. The car is sold out through most of 2018 with 350,000 preorders in April 2016 alone.

Anonymous social networking service Whisper is laying off 20 percent of its workforce this week. The editorial team saw the brunt of the hits as the company relies further on machine learning to handle some of those media management tasks.

Who among us hasn't had our favorite hangouts shut down because they've hit on hard times? One would have hoped that this would be something we could avoid in the virtual world. Not so. Today, Comcast-backed Altspace VR announced that the company is shutting down on August 3rd because the company has run into unforeseen financial difficulties.

Plus, more details around the Broadcom WiFi worm that affected a billion smartphones, iRobot won't actually sell Roomba's data of your floor plan, and Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica helps us compare OK Cupid to Tinder, and has details on Matt Groenings new Netflix series.

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Twitter released its quarterly earnings, and things aren't looking so hot on the user growth side of things. Kurt Wagner from Recode joins us to pick the numbers apart.

Amazon reported earnings today and CEO Jeff Bezos also made news with his own earnings. For a brief shining moment, Bezos was the new richest person in the world, with a small fortune of 90 billion dollars, beating out Bill Gates. The surge in Bezos's wealth was not due to him opening an Instagram account, which he did this week, but because of a surge in Amazon shares ahead of the earnings reports. But when the earnings report failed to meet expectations, Bezos fell back to the #2 spot.

Kate Conger from Gizmodo talks about her discovery of an Uber shell company.

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Guests: Kurt Wagner and Kate Conger

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Foxconn announced that it's investing $10 billion dollars to build an LCD display plant that will bring up to 3,000 jobs to Wisconsin.

The Verge reports that a swimming robot called Little Sunfish might have just spotted nuclear fuel that melted six years ago. This could be the first step toward cleaning up the dangerous mess from the Fukishima power plant disaster in 2011.

Facebook released its second quarter earnings report with the company's best quarter of revenue to date at around $9.32 billion dollars, an increase of 45% year over year. Net income was up 71% from the previous year at $3.89 billion.

Also, Google is killing its Instant Search feature, the Girls Scouts are adding 23 new STEM badges, and Geoffrey Fowler from The Wall Street Journal shows off Lego's new Boost kit.

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Notoriously secret Apple has just been outed, maybe, by the president. Trump claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook promised him he would build three US manufacturing plants. "Big, big, big," said the president. No one at Apple has confirmed this.

In 2020, almost 25 years after Adobe unleashed it onto the world, Flash will finally see its end of life as Adobe will cease any updates or distribution at that point. Adobe will continue to offer security updates for Flash as well as offer support for current browsers up until then as well.

There's a playground skirmish going on between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about whether AI is going to kill us or not.

A company will let you insert microchips into your skin, if you want.

Tony Romm from ReCode discusses the latest news in Net Neutrality and we tell you how you can fund Scopes to keep it alive.

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Alphabet may have been issued a $2.7 billion fine last month by European Union regulators for antitrust violations, but that didn't stop the company from reporting over $26 billion in revenue for the first three months of the year, up 21 percent year over year. Alphabet also announced that Google CEO Sundar Pichai will join the company's board of directors.

Bloomberg reports that NASA wants to speed up your travel time with a new supersonic jet design. NASA claims to have the technology to reduce the effects of a a sonic boom in a plane that could get you from LA to New York in 3 hrs.

In 2015, iRobot released a version of the Roomba that had a camera and sensors for mapping the home to keep it on track as it cleans. Now, iRobot Corp says it could someday sell those home maps to "the Big Three", boosting smart home capabilities and creeping out tin foil hat wearers simultaneously.

We also chat about the end of Microsoft Paint, the CGI shark that fooled no one, and Rene Ritchie is here to tell us about the trials and tribulations of the first Pokemon Go Fest

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Lyft is forming its own driverless car development division. The company says it will develop its own hardware and software, but they won't be building their own cars, just the kits to make the cars self-driving.

It is time to update your iPhone and iPad, especially if you use WiFi. The security update has been available since Wednesday and CNET says if you haven't installed it, you really should.

Axios says Google, Apple, and Amazon have spent record amounts in lobbying this year. Just in the last three months Google has spent 5.93 million dollars. Apple has spent 2.2 million dollars, and Amazon has spent 3.21 million dollars.

Editor in Chief from CNET Lindsey Turrentine is here and we talk about Amazon's possibly sneaky sales and how hardware is hard, essentially.

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The US Department of Justice announced the takedown of Alpha Bay and Hansa, two dark web marketplaces selling mostly fake IDs and illegal drugs like heroin and fentanyl. The networks also sold hacking tools, guns, and toxic chemicals.

Microsoft released another strong quarterly earnings report, especially in the Cloud. The company also updated its support lifecycle policy in terms of hardware support, saying they will not update the operating systems on some older CPUs, specifically certain older Atom-based Windows devices.

Elon Musk tweeted that he got "verbal approval" for his underground hyperloop from NY to Philadelphia to Baltimore and DC in 29 minutes. The tweet was met with skepticism about what exactly "verbal approval" meant, but a rep from the White House said they have had some conversations.

YouTube TV comes to more markets, a new class on how to find credit card information online, and how Dolby is using skin sensors to determine whether or not you like a particular movie.

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Guest: Selena Larson

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