This Week in Tech (Video)

• Here's how the Twitter hack happened
• Tik Tok hysteria - xenophobia or common sense?
• EARN IT and LAED acts want to eliminate encryption
• Cloudflare outage takes down a huge swath of the internet
• "Master," "Slave," "Blacklist" terms on the outs at Apple, Linux, and others
• Trump expands the CIA's cyberwarfare authority
• Google spends $10 billion on India, half of that in Jio
• Amazon Dash Cart checks your groceries out for you
• World Emoji Day celebrates the new Emoji coming in 2020
• Who is "Kirk," the person behind the Twitter hack? How long have they had access?
• What should the response to the Twitter hack be?
• Instagram's Tik Tok clone Reels launches in August
• As Tik Tok rises, Quibi falls
• Google should be pushing contactless payments more
• Hong Kong VPNs leak user data
• EU Court shuts down EU - US data transfer agreement
• Grant Imahara dead at 49

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Mike Elgan, and Seth Rosenblatt

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TikTok's Bad Week, RIP Quibi, mmhmm

• mmhmm is a fun new way to use meeting software
• US might ban TikTok, India already has. What is the future for the embattled platform? Is TikTok safe to use?
• Apple Glass on the way: Foxconn is making thousands of semi-transparent lenses for Apple glasses
• Amazon wants to rule the world. Is that really all that bad?
• Is there any hope for Quibi? (Nope)
• Google's "Works With Google" virtual event demonstrated Android 11's new IoT features and their Smart Home devices.
• Is Microsoft looking to buy Magic Leap? MS exec becomes Magic Leap CEO - is she a Trojan Horse?
• Ninja joins YouTube after Mixer dies
• Twitter partner Dataminr accused of giving Black Lives Matter protester surveillance to police
• TikTok, Linked In, and others accused of copying users' clipboards, blame a bug in a Google SDK
• Amazon briefly tells employees to take TikTok off their phones, backpedals furiously when their marketing department throws a fit
• How much of the TikTok hate is just anti-Chinese bias?
• US teens worried about losing TikTok
• How mmhmm works with Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet
• Microsoft Teams adds "Together Mode," which puts meeting attendants in seats in an auditorium
• AR still isn't ready for the outside world, but it works great for Snapchat and TikTok filters
• North Focals, Jins Meme ES, Amazon Lens, Snap Spectacles, Bose Frames - different smart glasses with different use cases
• When will AR get a killer App? User-focused design is the answer, but not a lot of AR companies are doing that.
• Foxconn invests $1B to open a factory in India
• Searching for the perfect car phone holder
• Are Millennials killing IoT?
• Walmart is launching an Amazon Prime competitor in July
• Jack Dorsey donates $3 Million to Basic Income
• Twitter might be starting a subscription service

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Phil Libin

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Apple Glasses, iOS 14 Privacy, and Hamilton on Disney+

• Is Apple pulling away from the competition?
• Is Intel dying?
• Snap Spectacles third edition arrives in India
• Google buys North, makers of Focals smart glasses
• Where are Alexis Ohanian and Pete Cashmore?
• Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple Glasses
• Lidar technology could drive Apple business for the next decade
• The Race After Technology and holography
• Is technology making life too fast?
• iOS 14 highlights ad tracking - advertisers are not happy about it.
• iOS 14 outs Tik Tok and LinkedIn for snooping on the clipboard
• Apple says no to 16 Web APIs for Safari for security reasons
• Ad tracking is big business for Google, Facebook, and Spotify
• What is the future of brick and mortar? Warehouses with curbside delivery?
• Advertizers boycotting Facebook, but they'll be back
• Microsoft wants to "upskill" 25 million workers for high-demand jobs
• Eye Mouth Eye Twitter trend tricks tech Twitter into donating to Black Lives Matter charities
• Anonymous shopping cart abandoner causes chaos for online vendors - here's who is to blame
• Lululemon buys Mirror for half a billion dollars
• Hamilton premieres on Disney+ to rave reviews
• BMW does a press event in VR to show off their subscription heated seats
• With NFC and ultrawideband, your phone can be your car key

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Sam Abuelsamid, and Jason Hiner

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• Apple WWDC Recap - Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS 14
• Mac moves from Intel to Apple Silicon
• What happens to Intel? Microsoft?
• iOS apps will run on Macs
• Will Macs still run Windows on Boot Camp?
• Microsoft closes all retail stores - are PCs moving to the cloud?
• PC gaming - the biggest reason you need a PC
• Can x86 die already?
• What could go wrong with the shift to Apple Silicon?
• Should you buy an Intel Mac now? Should you buy the first version of the ARM Mac?
• The fastest supercomputer in the world has an ARM chip
• macOS goes to 11
• Should WWDC stay virtual next year?
• Will macOS and iOS merge?
• Group Messages grows up
• Will ARM Macs use Thunderbolt? USB 4?
• When will the first ARM Macs show up?
• How well will Rosetta 2 work?
• How is the transition to ARM going to work? How long has it already been going on?
• Apple WWDC interviews and presentations
• Six Colors has all the info you need on all the WWDC presentations - here are the best
• WWDC iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Speed Round - back tap, custom home screen, group FaceTime with sign language, App Clips, Shortcuts on Apple Watch, translation app, hand washing timer, dance, AirPods Pro custom EQ
• Tik Tok is grabbing your clipboard every 10 seconds
• Don't install Big Sur beta on your main computer!
• iOS 14 warns you about tracking cookies
• Trump campaign app steals all your data
• Hey.com app allowed on the App Store
• Olympus leaving the camera business
• Finally, surveyors all use the same foot
• Microsoft kills Mixer; Ninja and Shroud get to keep their money

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Jason Snell, and Dan Moren

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• WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announced
• Apple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19
• WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM
• WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners won
• WWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri?
• Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store
• iOS App Store brings in $519 Billion in 2019
• Apple facing anti-trust investigations in the EU
• Talking about grilling
• Twitter starts offering 140 second Voice Tweets
• Using Facebook to train yourself
• Facebook lets its users turn off political ads
• Facebook wants to help 4 million people vote
• K-Pop stans and Tik Tok teens and grandmas troll Trump's Tulsa rally
• 71% of Americans refuse to use contact tracing apps
• iFixit wants to help users fix ventilators; ventilator manufacturer sues
• FCC approves the first prescription video game for ADHD
• Oscars delayed until April 2021
• Disney+ kills their 7 day free trial weeks before Hamilton release
• Only $75k to get your own Spot robot dog
• Flash dies completely on December 31st, 2020

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Georgia Dow, and Andy Ihnatko

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• Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption
• IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police
• Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police
• Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company
• Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce.
• How quickly will Apple transition Macs to ARM?
• Refrigerator DRM is catching up with printer DRM
• ZFS cuts "slave" out of OpenZFS codebase. GitHub ditches "master"
• Michael Seibel replaces Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board
• HBO yanks Gone With the Wind, it becomes the #1 show on Apple TV+
• Four GOP Senators ask FCC to review Section 230
• PS5 hardware and games announced - disc vs digital
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
• itch.io Games for Racial Justice and Equality surpasses it's $5 million goal

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Christina Warren, and Iain Thomson

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• Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?
• Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police
• Can tech improve policing?
• Social and Organizational barriers to change
• Should social networks fact-check Trump?
• James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial
• YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter
• How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives
• Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people
• Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person
• NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest
• Minneapolis will dismantle their police department
• Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops
• Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent
• Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran
• Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy
• HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb

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• Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd Protests
• Trump vs Twitter: what is Section 230?
• Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say?
• Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order?
• Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"?
• Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hours
• SpaceX launches humans into space from American soil for the first time in 9 years
• Google postpones Android 11 beta launch due to protests
• Switzerland's Apple/Google COVID contact tracing app vs France's StopCovid app
• France offers Twitter a new home if they want to leave America. What country do you think Twitter should move to?
• Microsoft lays off dozens of journalists, will replace them with AI. Journalist Bill Detwiler desperately defends his fellow humans.
• US House of Representatives to vote to allow FBI to read your browser history without a warrant
• HBO Max is one streaming service too many
• Amazon Look style camera will stop working in July. Denise Howell's Instagram will never be the same
• Some Good News sells to CBS
• Pokemon Go Fest this July will be fully virtual
• Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to be Black" discusses his reaction to the racial events of the past week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Bill Detwiler, Denise Howell, and Baratunde Thurston

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• Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month
• College Board sued over flawed online AP tests
• Minecraft Dungeons Review
• Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month
• Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!
• Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64
• All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream
• Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework
• Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft
• Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state
• Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive?
• Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms
• How to beat Zoom fatigue
• Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse?
• Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse
• Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid?
• What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use?
• Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard
• How well is your school handling distance learning?
• Different communication strokes for different gamer folks
• Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive
• HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world
• Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement
• Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation
• Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court
• Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lindsey Turrentine, Daniel Rubino, and Lisa Schmeiser

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Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5

• Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million
• Facebook setting up a political advocacy group for big tech
• US Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online ads
• Trump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left"
• Facebook has half of its oversight board in place already
• Zoom fatigue is real: is avatar-based chat the cure?
• Apple AR glasses coming in 2021
• Unreal Engine 5 will push game development to new heights
• Twitter says that people can work from home forever - but should they?
• Robotic backboard makes all the shots

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dwight Silverman, Mike Elgan, and Brianna Wu

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