This Week's Stories

• Father Robert Ballecer talks about the Vatican's response to the Coronavirus in Italy.
• Father Robert Ballecer shows off this live broadcasting/podcasting setup
• MKBHD's 8k setup - RED cameras, multiple Mac Pros, LUTS, and motion tracking
• The Escobar Phone is a scam!
• The beginning of the end of smartphones
• Magic Leap in Crisis
• Leo wears the COVID-19 mask
• Foldable phones - why?
• How to cope with panic attacks - futurism in an accelerating world
• MKBHD's daily driver: Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Telepresence Robots are the future! (or maybe even the present)
• 2020 Conferences are all canceled. What will we lose by holding them digitally?
• Apple reopens Chinese stores, closes all others, cancels rumored March event, but might still launch new products next week
• Amy Webb's daughter's crypto network
• Is Tik Tok OK?
• Screen time in quarantine - active watching is the key
• MKBHD's New Year's Rockin' Eve - downscaled from 8K to 720p
• How YouTube processing works
• How MKBHD works - quality over quantity
• Custom vitamin blends and nootropics - direct-to-consumer sales take off
• Future Today Institute 2020 Tech Trends Report
• StarLink will bring the internet to everyone
• Everyone alive today is being scored
• The 2020s are the synthetic decade: how synthetic media will change the world
• Get Amy's book "Data, a Love Story" at https://amzn.to/2ILv43s via affiliate link!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Amy Webb, and Marques Brownlee

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• Coronavirus Craziness: The Pope is OK, SXSW canceled, contractors can't get n95 masks, Chinese carmakers shut down
• The response to Coronavirus - big tech sends workers home, but restaurant workers have to keep the slinging hash
• Woz is NOT Patient Zero
• Countries respond to Coronavirus: stay on that cruise ship, China forces people to quarantine, US doubles down on the Patriot Act, Italy shuts down Lombardi
• Stock up on Soylent for your Coronavirus quarantine needs
• Apple rejects coronavirus apps
• Chinese students review bomb homework app
• Paris has awesome hobbies
• Apple forces workers to come to the Spaceship and retail stores, other tech giants send workers home
• March Madness without fans? Are we projecting the zombie apocalypse onto Coronavirus?
• Review: Thermomix TM6
• Baby Yoda toys killed by Coronavirus
• What to watch while you're quarantined
• Video games to play while you're quarantined
• Is it canceled? How to find out
• Warren drops out - which old white male candidate will die from Coronavirus?
• Brianna Wu gets hacked - she explains how to avoid her mistakes
• How to use nation-state level hacks yourself
• How the CIA used CryptoAG to spy on the world
• Apple allows ads in push notifications - watch this week's iOS Today to see how to turn them off!
• YouTube is recommending fewer conspiracy videos
• Nerf or nothing!
• Streaming drives the music industry to its greatest year ever
• Democratic Socialism Simulator vs Female Politician Simulator
• Nintendo Playstation prototype sells for $360,000
• Daylight Saving kills! Switch to UTC instead!
• SETI@Home shuts down, and bitcoin mining is destroying the world - switch to folding proteins for a Coronavirus cure

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Brianna Wu

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This Week's Stories

• Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial
• Your AirPods are on a two-year timer
• Safari snubs two-year certificates
• Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
• NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality
• Amazon Go Grocery Review
• Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data
• Activist investor attacking Twitter
• TikTok is fundamentally parasitic?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Michael Nuñez, and Bill Detwiler

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• COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
• Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
• COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
• Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
• Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
• Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
• EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
• Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
• Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
• Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
• Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
• Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
• Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
• New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
• Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
• Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Adobe Photoshop turns 30
• $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
• Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA
• Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren

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This week's stories:

• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears
• China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead.
• RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences?
• China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next?
• Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases?
• Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech!
• Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold?
• Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years
• Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS
• Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home)
• Google's new OS is called... Pigweed?
• Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year
• Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild!
• $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes)
• Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years
• Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge
• Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars
• Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available
• Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA
• Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux!
• Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge
• Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism?
• HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst?
• Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year.
• T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way
• Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson

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This Week's Stories:

• Chaos, confusion, and disinformation define the 2020 US election
• Motorola Razr fails the fold test
• NYPD drops notebooks for iPhone app
• Don't charge at public USB chargers: "Juice Jacking" hackers will steal your data
• Hackers break into your network via Phillips Hue lightbulbs
• Sonos bricks old speakers
• Tesla remotely removes autopilot from used Model S
• Big shakeup at Microsoft - Panos Pinay gets a huge promotion
• Microsoft xCloud vs Nvidia GeForceNow vs Playstation Now
• US Navy uses Xbox controllers
• Windows 7 bug keeps users from shutting down, no way to update
• Deepfaking "The Irishman" - how CGI de-aged De Niro
• Disney wants to kill Section 230, and thus all social media and comment boards
• Real or fake: Russian dashcams and French locomotives
• 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet' Review

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Nate Lanxon, and Denise Howell

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This Week's Stories:

• Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?
• Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps
• Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China
• EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack
• Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people
• 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet
• Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?
• Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet
• FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data
• Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything
• Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything
• Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody
• Does tracking really make ads better?
• He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!
• Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case
• Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.
• IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires
• California halts .org sale
• 62 new emoji are here!
• Hummer is back and electric

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Brian McCullough, and Devindra Hardawar

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This Week's Stories:

• Was Jeff Bezos really hacked by Saudi Arabia?
• Welcome to the post-fact era. Embrace the power of ignorance!
• Sonos backs off threat to brick old speakers
• Apple pushes back against EU common charging standard
• Sundar Pichai calls for regulation of AI
• Why banning face recognition is just the first step
• One good thing about Brexit
• The tech angle of "Megxit"
• Biden calls game developers "little creeps"
• Tech execs are being SWATted
• Alan Turing's OBE medal, Ph.D. certificate, etc recovered from crazed superfan
• Throwboy is back with Pocket Pillows
• Vine is back as Byte
• Xerox still trying to buy HP
• Octi is augmented reality social media

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Patrick Beja, and Iain Thomson

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This Week's Stories:

• Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
• The face recognition company that will end privacy
• FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
• NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
• Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
• Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
• Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
• Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
• Verizon's "private" search engine
• The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
• Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
• Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
• Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
• Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
• Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
• Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Sam Abuelsamid, and Patrick Norton

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CES 2020 wrap-up

• Sex tech at CES 2020
• Apple, Amazon, and others talk privacy at CES 2020
• Tech Giants at CES 2020
• The Sands: all the weirdest stuff at CES 2020
• The best TVs at CES 2020
• Future Concepts at CES 2020
• The Charmin Rollbot
• Biggest CES 2020 trends: vegetable-based meat, driverless cars, and bendable computers
• Our favorite gadgets from CES 2020: from 8k TVs to electronic rosaries

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Hiner

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