Top Stories This Week

• Galaxy Fold Recalled After Screen Failures
• Inside the Fake World of Influencers
• Apple vs Apps vs iPhone Addiction
• Growing Up Online: The Always-Connected Generation
• Don't Forget to Cancel Apple News+!
• Amazon Prime to Offer One-Day Delivery
• Amazon Invests in Electric Vehicles
• Amazon Doubles its Profits
• Microsoft hits $1 Trillion
• Which Tech Company has the Best Reputation?
• Facebook Stole Your Email Contacts, Ready for Massive Fines
• Hertz Sues Accenture for Terrible, Horrible Website
• Netflix Wins Right to be in the Oscars
• AI Writes the Best Country Song About Doors Ever
• $16K Laundry Folding Robot Goes Bankrupt
• Podcasts vs Luminary
• Thanos Easter Egg Snaps Your Google Search

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

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Top Stories This Week:

• Samsung's Folding Phone Fail
• Apple vs Qualcomm: It's Over! Qualcomm wins!
• What Is Intel's Future After Apple?
• iMac Pro vs MacBook Pro: Which One Wins?
• iOS 13 Has Everything You Want, But Not the One Thing You Need
• Brexit, Muller, and US Voting Machines: What's the Connection?
• Ransomware Attacks: Is This an Act of War?
• The Mental Health App that Secretly Shares Your Data
• MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins) Pleads Guilty
• Facebook's Bad Day Week 15 Months
• Summit Learning: Everything You Hate About Facebook, Now in the Classroom!
• Apple Shuts Down Texture, Android Users S.O.L.
• The Browser Ballot Part II: Electric Boogaloo
• YouTube: Notre Dame was Terrorism
• Sri Lanka vs Social Media, India vs Tik Tok, the UK vs Porn
• Utah Bans Warrantless Phone Searches
• Google and Amazon Make Nice
• Assassin's Creed Helps Fix Notre Dame
• Playstation 5 Revealed!
• TWiT's Official Super Smash Bros Ultimate Level

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Dylan Tweney

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This Week's Stories

• Julian Assange: Journalist or Wrecking Ball?
• House Passes Net Neutrality Bill, Senate and President Say No
• Cops Want Google to Give them the Goods
• Apple Wants All Mac Software Notarized
• How Far Do You Let Alexa into Your Life?
• Amazon is Moving Out of Seattle
• How AI Could Change Health Insurance
• YouTube Tries to Measure "Quality Watch Time"
• Keeping Your Child Safe on the Internet

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Christina Warren

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This Week's News

• Ice Tea, Sandwiches, and Cybersecurity
• Teslas Hacked by Stickers
• Australia Bans Violent Material on Social Media
• Apple News+: Dead Tree Media's Savior or Annihilator?
• Facebook Wants Real News
• Apple's 5G Quandary
• Apple and Amazon "Hearables"
• The Google Graveyard
• Fake Cancer Hack
• Mar-A-Lago Chinese Malware Attack
• US DOJ Loves Netflix, Hates Spielberg

Host: Jason Snell

Guests: Harry McCracken, Carolina Milanesi, and Andy Ihnatko

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• Apple's Celebrity Event
• Apple and Fashion
• Apple Credit Card
• Apple News+
• Airpower is dead
• Lyft IPO
• Gig Economy and IPOs
• Apple's Persistent Butterfly Keyboard Problem
• Hacker Dupes FB and Google Out of $122 Million
• Jeff Bezos and the Saudis
• ASUS Security Flaw
• Vulnerabilities in Supply-Chains
• New Regulations in the EU
• Elizabeth Warren and the Right to Repair
• Facebook and Live
• Huawei's Revenue
• FTC Fines Robocall Companies
• Swatter Gets 20 Years

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and Lory Gil

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• What's Wrong with Google Stadia?
• Google Stadia: Built for Youtube
• Apple Event: What to Expect
• Microsoft Pivoted to Services. Can Apple?
• Devin Nunez' Cow Gains Half a Million Followers
• The World of Hate on Twitter and Instagram
• Facebox Stored Your Password in Plain Text
• Google Kills off G+, Allo, Inbox, etc. Is Google Phone next?
• DARPA's Open Source Voting System
• Pwn2Own 2019: Safari, Firefox, & Edge Cracked
• The Luxury of Screenless Life
• Coding with the Pope

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Larry Magid, and Ed Bott

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News of the Week

• Tesla Announces Model Y SUV Crossover
• Tesla's Many Problems are Due to Musk
• Huge Facebook Outage: Why?
• Beto O'Rourke, L33T Hacker
• Mass Murder on Facebook Live
• Warren vs Big Tech: Why She's Wrong
• Hey Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You!
• Bruce Schneier: The Internet has Split in Three
• Google to Launch Game Streaming Service
• Google to Stop Making Laptops and Tablets
• Apple News/TV Event Coming March 25th
• 5G Coming this Year, but Why Do We Need It?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Sam Abuelsamid, and Matt Cutts

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• Foursquare Location Tracking Leaps Past the Creepy Line
• Will Zuck Make Facebook Private?
• Thousands of New Millionaires are Coming to San Francisco
• Apple has Big Plans for Self-Driving Cars
• Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break up Big Tech
• Congress Wants to Pass Net Neutrality Rules
• Huawei Sues the US Government
• Investors Sue Tesla to Keep Elon Musk from Tweeting

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Paris Martineau, and Patrick Beja

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• MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and Wearables
• This Person Does Not Exist
• OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist
• Outrage Mobs and Twitter
• China's Social Credit System Could Take Over the World
• Google and Saudia Arabia's Woman Tracking App
• Silicon Valley and the US Military
• Do We Even Need Facebook?
• Make Elon Musk Stop Tweeting!!!
• TikTok fined $5.7 Million
• Tenn Hacker gets $1 Million in Bug Bounties

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Brianna Wu

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• Foldable Phones Hit MWC 2019
• Microsoft Announces Hololens 2
• Netflix at the Oscars
• Apple and Goldman Sachs Release Credit Card Linked to iPhone
• Apple to Combine iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps
• YouTube: Home of Pedophiles, Anti-Vaxxers, and Flat Earthers
• How Facebook Gets Your Info from Other Apps
• Facebook In Trouble with UK, Spied on Android Users
• Stephen Wolfram on Productivity

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Johnson, Florence Ion, and Seth Weintraub

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