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This Week in Tech (Video) episodes
- TWiT 790: The Snaggletooth Network - TikTok Ban, Amazon Drone Camera, Pixel 5
TikTok Ban, Amazon Drone Camera, Pixel 5
- Galaxy Z Fold 2 Review
- Is TikTok banned yet?
- The Palantir IPO is coming up. Should you invest?
- Amazon Sidewalk is a terrifying sci-fi security network
- Amazon's new Ring security cam flies around your house and lets you know if you left your stove on
- Google Pixel 5 preview - We already know everything about it, except the price. Will it be an inexpensive premium phone?
- 5G is still BS. When will that change?
- Epic Games, Spotify, and Tile form a Rebel Alliance to fight Apple. Europe and Facebook are fighting them too. When will Apple come around?
- Streaming gaming is the future. Physical media will die. Get over it.
- Microsoft buys Bethesda for $7.5 BILLION dollars
- GTA is the most valuable media series in the world
- Quibi is a failure. They are up for sale 6 months after their launch.
- Republicans hate the Three-Body Problem and want Netflix to drop it.
- The upcoming Foundation TV series and Dune movie make us want to re-read our childhood favorites. Should we?
- Rent a goat for your next Zoom call!
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Dwight Silverman, Brian McCullough, and Peter Rojas
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2 hr 39 min - TWiT 789: TikTok Dough - Trump OKs TikTok, Apple Watch and iPad Air, Oculus Quest 2
Trump OKs TikTok, Apple Watch and iPad Air, Oculus Quest 2
- Trump OKs Oracle/Walmart/TikTok deal
- Apple Watch focuses on fitness and family
- Apple Fitness+ expands Apple's empire
- Apple One subscription bundle gets you all the things
- Where does Apple One go from here?
- How can Apple avoid getting slapped for anti-trust?
- The new iPad Air is practically a Pro
- The iPhone will come when the iPhone comes. What about AirTags? Apple Silicon?
- How could Apple make a better presentation? Was Tim Cook on a green screen?
- Everything you need to know about the Oculus Quest 2
- Playstation 5 announces price and availability
- Xbox announces Game Pass details
- Peacock lands on the Roku. Will anyone watch?
- The Mandalorian wins Disney+ its first Emmy awards
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jim Dalrymple, Alex Lindsay, and Georgia Dow
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2 hr 31 min - TWiT 788: Seems Like a Nice Young Man - Microsoft Won't Buy TikTok, Nvidia buys ARM, Surface Duo Review
Microsoft Won't Buy TikTok, Nvidia buys ARM, Surface Duo Review
- Microsoft out of the running for TikTok
- Will the TikTok sale go through before Trump's deadline?
- Nvidia buys ARM
- Microsoft Surface Duo review: twice the screens, half as good
- Microsoft Surface Neo: when is the next two screen Microsoft device coming?
- Apple event: Apple Watch 6, iPad Air, maybe Apple Silicon?
- TWiT finally got invited to an Apple event after our ten-year ban
- Viacom wants to sell CNET
- The Office of Technology Assessment: what government needs
- US DOJ may file an anti-trust complaint against Google this week
- $36 toilet paper? Wasn't me, says Amazon. Blame the algorithm
- The Social Dilemma - Zuck "hopes" Facebook won't destroy the world
- Android 11 update is pretty much just 3 features - iOS 14 is a much bigger deal
- The fastest mobile networks in 2020 are not 5G
- 37% of households don't have cable
- Fortnite launches a concert series
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Lory Gil, Ed Bott, and Bill Detwiler
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2 hr 40 min - TWiT 787: Dreamliner - TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
- Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
- The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
- Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
- A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
- Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
- Pinterest bans political ads
- Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
- Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
- Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
- China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
- We still don't know who will buy TikTok
- Apple announcement coming 9/8?
- AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
- Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
- Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
- US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
- California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
- CableCARD nearing its end
- Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
- It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
- Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, and Louis Maresca
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2 hr 17 min - TWiT 786: The Chickenization of America - Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation
Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation
- Remembering Chadwick Boseman
- Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig
- What is Palantir doing?
- Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this?
- TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous
- Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry
- Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America
- The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years.
- How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy
- How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media
- Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era
- How conspiracy theories work
- The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom
- Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age
- Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse
- OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, and Mike Elgan
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2 hr 36 min - TWiT 785: Vote Before the Asteroid Hits - Apple vs WordPress and Epic, Trump vs TikTok, Secret Spy iPod
Apple vs WordPress and Epic, Trump vs TikTok, Secret Spy iPod
- Apple vs WordPress
- Apple vs Epic
- 2020 is the end of the techlash
- Zuckerberg is the unelected king of the world
- Trump tries to ban TikTok
- Facebook funnels people toward misinformation
- Microsoft Duo review: this is the foldable to get
- The Democratic National Convention is the best Zoom meeting ever
- How do you hold your phone? What kind of earbuds do you use?
- Phishing is so 2019. Vishing is the new threat hotness.
- Microsoft lets two 0-day exploits stay active for two years
- The secret government iPod that may have been a Geiger counter or a spy device
- Adobe update deletes all your photos
- Viacom wants to sell CNET at a 1.5 billion dollar loss
- California's AB5 law against freelancers is a bad solution to a big problem.
- The best ways to find out about air quality online
- Vote early! An asteroid is coming to kill all the politicians the day before the election.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Larry Magid, and Ben Brock Johnson
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2 hr 29 min - TWiT 784: Karsten Has Pictures - Fortnite vs Apple, Trump vs. TikTok, US vs. China
Fortnite vs Apple, Trump vs. TikTok, US vs. China
- Fortnite removed from App Store and Google Play
- Apple also kicks Microsoft xCloud off the App Store
- At what point does a company become too big? Should we punish billionaires for being successful? Is there any solution?
- Google demonetizes TechDirt for dangerous or derogatory content- WTF?
- Uber and Lyft may leave California due to the gig worker law. What's a freelancer to do?
- The Surface Duo is the perfect extension of Microsoft's ethos
- Amazon Echo frames are an easy on-ramp to augmented reality - when will we get Apple Glass?
- Is conflict with China inevitable?
- What the Trump vs TikTok discussion ignores - ByteDance is an AI company, not a social media company.
- Is Facebook responsible for conspiracy theories? History says no.
- Is TikTok letting China into our bedrooms, or are they already there?
- Trump says he might pardon Edward Snowden. Is Snowden a patriot, or a Russian pawn?
- White House will boost AI and quantum computing research budget by 30%. Good R&D, or cronyism?
- RIP Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Amy Webb, Mike Masnick, and Iain Thomson
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2 hr 40 min - TWiT 783: The Galaxy Jaffle - Trump vs Tik Tok, Samsung Galaxy Note 20 First Impressions, Black Hat/DEFCON Recap
Trump vs Tik Tok, Samsung Galaxy Note 20 First Impressions, Black Hat/DEFCON Recap
- Samsung announces the Galaxy Note 20, Z Fold 2, Watch 3, Buds Live, and more
- DEFCON / Black Hat 2020: What if they held a security conference and nobody came?
- Snapdragon flaw makes half of all Android phones hackable
- We learned to hack any satellite at Black Hat 2020. Here's how!
- Tencent taught us how to hack printers at Black Hat
- Smart light bulbs are mini servers that anyone can hack
- Jackpotting ATMS, reverse engineering a Tesla battery, and more
- Bitcoin hacks take over YouTube
- Phil Schiller replaced by Greg Joswiak at Apple
- Why Tim Cook is the best CEO Apple has ever had
- The final Intel iMac is the best computer Apple has ever made
- Garmin paid $10 million to pay off their ransomware hackers
- Tik Tok is the best new artform of the generation
- What is China doing with Tik Tok to manipulate us?
- Trump declares a national emergency, banning Bytedance as of September 15th - Tik Tok, WeChat, and Tencent all affected
- Who will buy Tik Tok? Microsoft and Twitter are in the running; who else?
- How will China repay us for banning ByteDance?
- US offers $10 million bounties for hackers trying to affect US elections
- Intel hacked - but that's the least of their worries.
- Google has been "accidentally" listening to everything you say and will use that in their ADT merger
- Google lost money for the first time ever this quarter
- YouTubers turning to subscriptions for revenue
- What year did you start watching more things online than on TV?
- Rene Ritchie thinks you should read Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
- How Lexy Savvides got her start
- RIP Frances Allen, one of IBM's greatest programmers of all time
- Black Girls Code wants more women of color to join the tech industry
- Taking Boston Dynamic's Spot robot for a walk in San Francisco
- Want an Analogue Pocket? Here's how to get one!
- Flying cars are finally legal to drive, but only in one US state
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Rene Ritchie, and Lexy Savvides
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2 hr 41 min - TWiT 782: Mainframes Not MaryJane - Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested
- Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok
- Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok
- Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington
- What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?
- Twitter hackers arrested
- Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021
- Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world
- Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!
- Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010
- Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote
- Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund
- Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!
- Emmys will be all-virtual this year
- Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers
- Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks
- Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow
- Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world
- Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts
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2 hr 28 min - TWiT 781: Slightly Firmer Denim Soft Serve - Xbox Game Pass, TikTok vs Quibi, The End of Intel
- Microsoft focuses on games as a service with Xbox Game Pass
- Game console makers play chicken overpricing announcements
- What kind of person does Tik Tok think you are?
- Android 11 is red velvet cake
- Google's ATAP lab wants to bring you the smart home future
- Are we at the end of the Intel Era?
- Norsk Hydro and Garmin hit by a ransomware attack
- Building the Quantum Internet
- Woz sues YouTube over Bitcoin scam
- Garmin hit by a ransomware attack
- Tik Tok tries to stay alive
- G4 WTF
- Latest info about the Twitter breach
- We would pay for a Twitter subscription to be able to edit our Tweets
- Space Force is always above you
- Big Tech antitrust showdown with congress July 29
- Herman Miller x Logitech = $1500 gaming chair
- US Army retreats from Twitch
- Crispr Cow is definitely a boy
- Streaming wars: Peacock vs Quibi vs Disney+ vs everybody else
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Harry McCracken, and Paul Thurrott
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