This Week in Tech (Video)

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12

• Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce it
• Zoom buys Keybase to fix encryption
• Google Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with Zoom
• Zoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race, to begin with?
• Leo won't give up on jitsi even though it sounds like a mold
• Rich DeMuro says Zoom is like slime
• Teslas now stop automatically at red lights (and green)
• Google abandons its plans for a data-driven community in Toronto
• Is Amazon handling the coronavirus crisis well?
• Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay over whistleblower firings
• Australia wants Google to stop showing news snippets
• Do ISPs need bandwidth caps? Is everybody working from home hogging all the bandwidth?
• New 13-inch MacBook Pro heralds the end of butterfly keys
• Microsoft 10X will come to single-screen devices in 2021
• Pixel Buds vs Surface Earbuds vs AirPods
• Boston Dynamics Spot robot patrolling Singapore parks to enforce social distancing
• BBC releases Zoom backgrounds
• A hazmat-inspired suit lets you party, drink, and vape in safety

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Rich DeMuro, and Larry Magid

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Elon Musk Goes Crazy, Tik Tok Takes Over

• Elon Musk loses Tesla $14 Billion with one reckless tweet
• TikTok gets more than 2 billion downloads in record time
• Apple/Google contact tracing approved by the CDC - will you install it?
• Apple makes it easier to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask
• Google Buds 2 is a huge improvement over the original
• Microsoft announcing Xbox Series X game son May 7th
• John Legere is sad he no longer runs T-Mobile
• Starlink launches 422 satellites
• Will Quibi succeed?
• The truth behind John Krasinski's Some Good News
• Quarterly reports - Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon are all up
• Spotify revenue is up
• Why we like the new iPhone SE

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Devindra Hardawar, and Alex Wilhelm

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Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology

• Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide.
• The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication
• Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust?
• France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation?
• The best videoconferencing etiquette
• Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus?
• What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost
• AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway
• Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed?
• Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis
• Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education?
• How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone
• Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs
• Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours
• The next world war will be fought in cyberspace
• Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Iain Thomson

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TWiT's 15th Anniversary, iPhone SE, Best Audio Equipment You Can Buy

• iPhone SE vs Sidekick 2
• EARN IT will kill end-to-end encryption. Call your senator now!
• AMD is kicking Intel's butt
• The best speakers you can buy
• The best DACs you can buy
• The best headphones and headphone amplifiers you can buy
• The story of the first TWiT
• Catching up with Scott Herriott
• Catching up with Kevin Rose
• Catching up with Patrick Norton
• Catching up with Robert Heron
• Why Kevin Rose Doesn't Use Android
• Why Robert Heron loves Google Fi and the Pixel
• Magic Wormhole: how to encrypt your communications
• John Prosser: iPhone SE Plus coming soon
• iPad Pro Magic Keyboard turns the iPad Pro into a laptop
• More catching up with Kevin Rose
• Reminiscing about the good old days - Leisure Suit Larry, FidoNet, and BBSs
• Caveat Emptor: many NAS drives use SMR
• Computer security now vs 15 years ago
• Hard drives now vs 15 years ago
• Want a great $20,000 stereo? Buy the Symbol Audio Modern Record Console
• iRacing is the best esport in the world
  

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, and Scott Herriot

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Apple+Google COVID tracking app, 5G towers burning, Zoom tips

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• 5G towers are being burned in England and the Netherlands to stop coronavirus. We have officially hit maximum techno panic.
• Apple and Google are building a coronavirus phone tracking app. Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? Because this is how you get a cyberpunk dystopia!
• Zoom is the best option for group video chat, but only if you use it right, and only if you don't need perfect privacy.
• We show all the free TV shows you can watch online.
• What we are doing in quarantine: soap making, Half-Life Alyx, Castlevania, start your own video channel
• Smart toilet recognizes your butt and scans your poop for diseases
• Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion to Coronavirus research, with full transparency
• Apple displays COVID testing locations and launches Today at Apple at Home
• Why Apple stopped charging Amazon Prime Video the 30% "Apple Tax"
• Amazon workers are terrified to go to work, but at least they have a job
• Travelex paid 285 bitcoin to ransomware hackers - watch out for COVID Phishing
• Quibi has 300 Million installs in its first week, while Tik Tok crosses 1 Billion
• Distance learning: school attendance is at 50%
• Passover Seder on Zoom
• Leo is back on Facebook
• John Conway, creator of Conway's Game of Life has passed due to coronavirus

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Rene Ritchie, and Owen JJ Stone

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Zoom Security Issues, iPhone SE

• Zoom goes from 10 million to 250 million daily users, struggles with zoombombing and security issues
• Where is the iPhone SE? The budget iPhone could be launched any day.
• Can Apple maintain its famed secrecy with employees working from home?
• Apple buys Dark Sky Weather App, shuts down Android App
• iOS 14 may add widgets, live wallpaper
• Who controls the weather? NOAA, Weather Channel, IBM, Apple?
• Nations are tracking their citizens' location to stop coronavirus - will they stop when the crisis is over? Who else is tracking us?
• Do you know how to program COBOL? Help New Jersey fight coronavirus!
• Amazon has hired 80,000 workers, puts safety measures in place, fires strike organizer
• Instacart strike gets workers free health and safety kits
• Amazon will offer a virtual film festival to show SXSW films, movie theaters are offering streams
• What we're watching in quarantine - Little Fires Everywhere, Devs, free HBO shows, Bhagavad Gita and filmmaking on YouTube
• Quibi is launching at the best time possible
• FCC opens up 6GHz band for Wi-Fi use

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Jason Hiner, and Brian McCullough

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• Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
• Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
• Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
• Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
• China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
• Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
• US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
• Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
• How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
• Notes from the final CanSec security conference
• Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
• E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
• PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
• GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
• China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
• Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
• Free e-books from the Library of Congress
• Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
• Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott

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This week's stories:

• Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk
• Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus
• Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR
• What to expect from Apple's AR future
• "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air
• MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors
• Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware"
• Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows
• Google I/O is canceled
• How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing"
• Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home
• Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why
• YouTube launches new online education resources
• Google launches distance learning fund
• Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret
• Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages
• Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals
• Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more
• Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption
• Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue
• Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library
• Gamestop finally closes California stores
• Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters
• PS5 vs Xbox Series X
• Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize
• Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan

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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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