• WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger to Merge
• 2019 Predictions- Amazon Will Rise, Twitter Will Fall
• CRISPR Babies Confirmed
• Amazon Scout Will Usher in the Age of Autonomous Delivery
• France Fines Google 50M Euros
• Google loses right to be forgotten case
• Foldable Phones are on the Way!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Greg Ferro, and Brian McCullough

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• Apple's Tim Cook Calls for Data Privacy.
• 773M Passwords Pwned - How to Find Out If Yours Was.
• Amazon Tries to Make Alexa Sound "Newsy."
• Google Buys Fossil.
• 74% of Facebook Users are Clueless.
• Facebook's 10 Year Challenge.
• Atari Founder Making Alexa Board Games.
• Stop Using Windows Phone!
• Tokyo Hotel Fires Half its Robots.

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All of our favourite products and trends at CES 2019!

• Impossible Burger
• Health and wearables
• Amazon vs Google
• Smart products and "Smart" products
• Laptops
• 5G
• Wireless power
• Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring

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Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Cherlynn Low, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Apple tanks on Tim Cook's earnings warning - is the golden age of iPhone over?
• Are Facebook and Google too big to Fail? No. Here's why.
• China and the US duel over security, AI, and quantum computing.
• Qualcomm vs Apple legal battles heat up.
• Fortnite and Pokemon Go rake in the dough in 2018.
• Amazon wins big over the holiday season.
• Microsoft wants to give you control over your digital data.
• For the 1st time in 20 years, an entire year's worth of books, movies, and art enters the public domain.
• The 10-second toothbrush, the Kurigization of Things (KoT) and more reasons why you shouldn't go to CES 2019.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Mike Elgan, and Alex Wilhelm

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The Best of TWiT from 2018!

Host: Leo Laporte

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• Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?
• Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.
• Elon Musk's ups and downs
• The biggest mergers of 2018
• Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news
• Bloomberg's big blunder
• China's social credit system and CRISPR babies
• Those we lost in 2018

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: John C. Dvorak, Owen JJ Stone, and Alex Lindsay

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• Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
• The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
• It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.
• The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
• The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
• The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
• Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
• The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
• YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.

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Guests: Paris Martineau, Harry McCracken, and Michael Nuñez

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• What role did Facebook play in the French riots?
• Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.
• Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails.
• Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at.
• And then there were 5: Google tries to make sense of its Messaging platforms. Meanwhile, Apple's iMessage is the one app that could rule them all.
• Microsoft puts some Chromium in their Edge.
• Canada arrests Huawei's CFO for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran.
• Australia passes a dangerously vague anti-encryption law.

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Guests: Rich DeMuro, Patrick Beja, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day ever
• Marriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 years
• Indian Microsoft scammers busted
• Amazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum blockchain, and more from re:Invent
• When is Amazon rolling out Prime Health?
• UK grabs thousands of Facebook emails from bikini app company
• Google's China woes continue
• Apple at the Supreme Court
• Microsoft tops Apple as world's most valuable company

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Guests: Nate Lanxon, Devindra Hardawar, and Dwight Silverman

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• US government tells allies not to buy Huawei products
• China to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020
• Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?
• Google News may leave EU over link tax
• Cards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses.
• For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft was the world's most valuable company
• Social media influencers and social media backlash
• Amazon wants to buy Fox sports channels

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