This Week in Tech (Video)

This Week's Stories

• Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
• Phone season starts this week
• Apple gearing up on R&D
• Amazon takes over
• RIP Amazon Dash button
• Your Assistant is listening
• Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
• Capital One hack
• Apple Bluetooth security hack
• Facial recognition for drunks
• Chinese smile to pay
• Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
• AI customer service hell
• Amazon partnering with police
• Turkey cracks down on Internet
• Instagram from Facebook
• Livestreaming Funerals
• Spotify takes off
• US Govt vs social media addiction
• Locast gets sued
• Ninja moves to Mixer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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• Apple buys Intel's modem business
• House passes anti-robocall bill
• Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September
• As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier
• iPadOS is the Future of Apple
• iPhone 11 is all about the camera
• Note 10 - no headphone jack, no buttons
• How Apple fights factory thefts
• Apple Card coming in August
• Google will buy your face for $5
• Facebook founder wants to break up Facebook
• Google bans repair business search ads
• Big government vs big tech
• Do not install PremierOpinion software from VoiceFive
• Pampers develops "smart" diapers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lisa Schmeiser, and Lexy Savvides

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• Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
• Russian Intelligence Service hacked
• Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
• Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
• Equifax fined $700 million
• TikTok takes over
• Celebrate World Emoji Day
• New MacBook Air have slower SSD
• Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
• Trump threatens Google
• Congressional hearings on Big Tech
• Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
• Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
• Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
• Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
• How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
• Influencers are taking over the world
• Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Iain Thomson

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Top Stories This Week

• Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
• The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
• Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
• Instagram vs bullies
• Prime Day deals and dilemmas
• Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
• Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
• Your car is watching you
• Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
• RIP MacBook
• Mac update kills Zoom hack
• Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
• Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
• Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
• Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
• Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
• Netflix Cuphead Show
• Prime Day phishing scams
• HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
• France's Tech Tax
• Niantic kills its first app
• Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
• Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
• Google is listening to you in Flanders
• Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
• A eulogy for the father of the password
• Chatterbox will teach children robotics

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins

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This Week's Stories

• HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
• Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
• The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
• Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
• Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
• MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
• Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
• Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
• Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
• Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
• Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
• Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
• Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Patrick Beja, and Simone de Rochefort

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This Week's Stories

• The iPhone turns 12 today
• Jony Ive is leaving Apple
• Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
• Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
• Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
• Another city just got hacked!
• Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
• Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
• It looks like Huawei is back in business
• White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
• Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
• Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
• A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
• Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
• Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
• Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
• Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
• Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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This Week's Stories

• Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response
• The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed
• More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"
• Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists
• Google was just caught red-handed
• Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
• Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show
• Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger
• Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China
• The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed
• A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing
• Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers
• Is Google Chrome spying on us?
• Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness
• Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced
• GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart
• A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Kate O'Neill

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• Sony and EA MIA at E3 - does E3 matter anymore?
• Computex, on the other hand, was huge this year
• What is a Gamer?
• E3 2019 was the year streaming gaming broke big
• E3 2019: The Keanussaince
• Why are games announced so far in advance?
• Stadia, xCloud, and the future of streaming games
• Think VR is Over? Oculus Quest would like a word with you.
• Xbox Scarlett announcement
• What will games look like in 10 years?
• How Nintendo Won E3 2019
• Pixel 4 Leaked - by Google!
• The Ethics of video game journalism
• Huawei stops making Matebooks, blames Trump
• Apple doubles down on privacy, but Celebrite says it can crack any iPhone
• Pax > E3
• Microsoft buys Double Fine
• Target cash registers fail nationwide
• Argentina loses power
• US attacks Russian power stations: the cyber Cold War escalates
• US Border Patrol leaks 100,000 licence plate photos
• La Liga app spied on users to try to stop piracy
• Telegram DDoSed by China over Hong Kong protests
• Facebook to launch "Zuck Bucks" cryptocurrency next week
• Huawei delays the Mate X foldable phone, but it's not Trump's fault.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cherlynn Low, Jeff Cannata, and Shane Satterfield

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• The Mac Pro is Only for the People Who Need It
• The iPad Grows Up with iPadOS
• Where is Apple Headed?
• iTunes is Dead! Hurrah!
• Apple Triples Down on Privacy
• Memoji Makeup is a Minefield
• SwiftUI is the Future of Coding
• 3D Touch is Almost Officially a Failure
• Cyberpunk 2077 is Going to be the Best Keanu Reeves Game Ever
• Who is Google Stadia For?
• Google's Outage Last Week Shows that We are Not Ready for Google Stadia
• YouTube's Biggest Problem: The Recommendation Engine
• Jeff Bezoz Interrupted By Animal Rights Protestor
• Fed Ex to Cut Ties with Amazon
• Amazon Drones Are Still A Ways Off
• 68 Percent of Facebook Investors Vote to Fire Mark Zuckerberg
• Facebook's Bitcoin Alternative is a Solution in Search of a Problem
• Microsoft Thinks Gamers Stink
• RIP Maker Faire

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Harry McCracken, and Megan Morrone

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• Google Down! Is it 768K Day?
• Huawei Stops Making Phones
• WWDC Preview: Is iTunes Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Is the Mac Pro Doomed?
• WWDC 2019 Preview: Is Intel Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Is Non-mobile Computing Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: Will Apple Free the Watch?
• WWDC Preview: Is your Eyesight Doomed?
• WWDC Preview: iPhone Privacy Ruined by 3rd Party Apps
• The Final iPod Touch Just Launched
• Apple's Monopoly Propaganda Push
• Foxconn: Tariffs in China and Mexico, Nothing Going in Wisconsin
• Alexa, Delete What I Said Today
• DOJ "Investigating" Google
• Will Amazon Buy Boost Mobile? Will Microsoft?
• BlueKeep Still Threatening 1M Windows Computers
• Microsoft's Modern OS Manifesto
• The US Requires All Immigrants to Provide Social Media Details
• The UK Wants in on Your Encrypted Chats
• Australian Cops Spy on You in McDonald's
• North Face Gets Busted Spamming Wikipedia
• RIP BBM
• T-Series Beats PewDiePie to 100 Million
• Play Cuphead on your Tesla

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner

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