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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Patrick Beja, and Simone de Rochefort

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• The iPhone turns 12 today
• Jony Ive is leaving Apple
• Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
• Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
• Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
• Another city just got hacked!
• Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
• Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
• It looks like Huawei is back in business
• White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
• Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
• Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
• A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
• Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
• Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
• Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
• Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
• Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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• Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response
• The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed
• More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"
• Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists
• Google was just caught red-handed
• Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
• Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show
• Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger
• Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China
• The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed
• A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing
• Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers
• Is Google Chrome spying on us?
• Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness
• Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced
• GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart
• A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Kate O'Neill

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• Sony and EA MIA at E3 - does E3 matter anymore?
• Computex, on the other hand, was huge this year
• What is a Gamer?
• E3 2019 was the year streaming gaming broke big
• E3 2019: The Keanussaince
• Why are games announced so far in advance?
• Stadia, xCloud, and the future of streaming games
• Think VR is Over? Oculus Quest would like a word with you.
• Xbox Scarlett announcement
• What will games look like in 10 years?
• How Nintendo Won E3 2019
• Pixel 4 Leaked - by Google!
• The Ethics of video game journalism
• Huawei stops making Matebooks, blames Trump
• Apple doubles down on privacy, but Celebrite says it can crack any iPhone
• Pax > E3
• Microsoft buys Double Fine
• Target cash registers fail nationwide
• Argentina loses power
• US attacks Russian power stations: the cyber Cold War escalates
• US Border Patrol leaks 100,000 licence plate photos
• La Liga app spied on users to try to stop piracy
• Telegram DDoSed by China over Hong Kong protests
• Facebook to launch "Zuck Bucks" cryptocurrency next week
• Huawei delays the Mate X foldable phone, but it's not Trump's fault.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cherlynn Low, Jeff Cannata, and Shane Satterfield

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• The Mac Pro is Only for the People Who Need It
• The iPad Grows Up with iPadOS
• Where is Apple Headed?
• iTunes is Dead! Hurrah!
• Apple Triples Down on Privacy
• Memoji Makeup is a Minefield
• SwiftUI is the Future of Coding
• 3D Touch is Almost Officially a Failure
• Cyberpunk 2077 is Going to be the Best Keanu Reeves Game Ever
• Who is Google Stadia For?
• Google's Outage Last Week Shows that We are Not Ready for Google Stadia
• YouTube's Biggest Problem: The Recommendation Engine
• Jeff Bezoz Interrupted By Animal Rights Protestor
• Fed Ex to Cut Ties with Amazon
• Amazon Drones Are Still A Ways Off
• 68 Percent of Facebook Investors Vote to Fire Mark Zuckerberg
• Facebook's Bitcoin Alternative is a Solution in Search of a Problem
• Microsoft Thinks Gamers Stink
• RIP Maker Faire

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Harry McCracken, and Megan Morrone

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• Google Down! Is it 768K Day?
• Huawei Stops Making Phones
• WWDC Preview: Is iTunes Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Is the Mac Pro Doomed?
• WWDC 2019 Preview: Is Intel Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Is Non-mobile Computing Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Will Apple Free the Watch?
• WWDC Preview: Is your Eyesight Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: iPhone Privacy Ruined by 3rd Party Apps
• The Final iPod Touch Just Launched
• Apple's Monopoly Propaganda Push
• Foxconn: Tariffs in China and Mexico, Nothing Going in Wisconsin
• Alexa, Delete What I Said Today
• DOJ "Investigating" Google
• Will Amazon Buy Boost Mobile? Will Microsoft?
• BlueKeep Still Threatening 1M Windows Computers
• Microsoft's Modern OS Manifesto
• The US Requires All Immigrants to Provide Social Media Details
• The UK Wants in on Your Encrypted Chats
• Australian Cops Spy on You in McDonald's
• North Face Gets Busted Spamming Wikipedia
• RIP BBM
• T-Series Beats PewDiePie to 100 Million
• Play Cuphead on your Tesla

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner

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• Baltimore City Government held for Ransom by Hackers Using NSA tools
• Own a House? Hackers Probably have your Social Security Number.
• PlayDate: The Gaming Handheld with a Crank
• Is Huawei Spying on Us?
• Intel Breaks the 5.0GHz Barrier
• Chinese Owner of Grindr Leaked User Data to Employees
• US Air Force Being Cyber Attacked by US Navy
• AMD Brings Ray Tracing to Computex
• GDPR: One Year Later
• Assange Charged under the Espionage Act
• AI Deepfake Brings Mona Lisa to Life
• Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Due to Disturbing GGI
• SpaceX Launches Starlink Internet Satellites
• The United States vs Lootboxes

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Norton and Brianna Wu

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• The US vs Huawei
• San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition
• Chinese Owners Must Sell Grindr
• FCC: Carriers Should Block Robocalls
• Do You Know if Your iPhone has Been Hacked?
• Big Tech's Problems Are Sociological, Not Psychological - Just Like Game of Thrones
• Silicon Valley Millionaires: Silicon Valley is Bad
• Get Off My Lawn! Is Tech Still Great?
• Fake Joe Rogan
• Is Medium Killing Blogs?
• Hit By Ransomware? Just Pay the Ransom
• ZombieLoad Fix Could Slow down Computers 40%
• Hacking School Lunch
• Google Knows What You Buy
• RIP Grumpy Cat

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Michael Fisher, and Brian McCullough

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• The Failed Microsoft Build Hololens Demo
• Microsoft's Build Keynote May Have Been a Bit Too Geeky
• Microsoft Adds Linux Kernel to Windows: Is this the Beginning of the End for Windows?
• Microsoft Word gets PC (Politically Correct, not the Other PC)
• Should Facebook Be Broken Up? Its Co-Founder Says Yes
• How Much Should Facebook be Fined by the FTC?
• Snapchat Can Turn You from a Man to a Woman
• Google I/O Keynote: Google Lens, Shrinking Machine Learning, and a Focus on Privacy
• Google Promises Searchable Podcasts and AR in Search
• Pixel 3a is a Flagship Phone at a Budget Price
• How Long Will We Wait for Real 5G?
• Google I/O: Incognito Maps, Project Mainline, and the End of Nest
• One Broken Chip Can Brick Your Tesla
• Uber IPO Makes a Few People Very Rich, but Still Loses Billions of Dollars
• Bezos Shows off his Lunar Lander, Musk Teases Him
• Jeff Bezos Really Doesn't Like Homeless People
• The History and Future of Amazon Prime
• Alexa is Listening
• Hamas Cyber Attacks Israel, Israel Bombs Hamas
• US DOJ Indicts Chinese Hackers for Anthem Attack
• US Govt. Wants to Ban Loot Boxes
• Samsung's Next Phone Could Have a 64 Megapixel Camera
• Singapore Makes Fake News Illegal
• Arya Stark's App for Creatives
• Worldwide Helium Shortage Forces Party City to Close 45 Stores

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Mark Sullivan

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This Week's Stories

• Microsoft Build Preview
• Microsoft's Privacy Reputation: How Deserved Is It?
• Surface Studio Pros and Cons
• Facebook's Privacy Problems on Display at F8
• Tik Tok: Facebook Killer or Just the Next Vine?
• The Broken World of Social Media
• Is Instagram Spying on Me?
• Should Mark Zuckerberg be Personally Punished for Facebook's Failings?
• Google Down on Earnings Report
• Google I/O Preview
• Attack of the Voice Assistants
• Apple App Store Insanity
• Apple Up on Earnings Reports
• Surface vs MacBook vs Chromebook
• Folding Phones are Still the Future: How Far in the Future Remains to be Seen
• Who Wants Wearables?
• How to Auto-delete your Google Location Info
• 2020 Presidential Candidates' Email is Surprisingly Easy to Hack
• ACLU Sues US over Warrantless Border Phone Searches
• Video Game Hall of Fame Adds Solitaire and Mario Kart
• RIP Anki and Jibo :(
• Screaming Roomba
• Verizon Wants to Sell Tumblr After Destroying It
• The Internet vs Sonic the Hedgehog
• AR Brings 5 Madonnas to Life
• Firefox Extensions Down After Glitch
• Visit NAMI.org for National Mental Health Awareness Month

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Ant Pruitt, and Daniel Rubino

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