This Week in Tech (Video)

News of the Week

• Tesla Announces Model Y SUV Crossover
• Tesla's Many Problems are Due to Musk
• Huge Facebook Outage: Why?
• Beto O'Rourke, L33T Hacker
• Mass Murder on Facebook Live
• Warren vs Big Tech: Why She's Wrong
• Hey Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You!
• Bruce Schneier: The Internet has Split in Three
• Google to Launch Game Streaming Service
• Google to Stop Making Laptops and Tablets
• Apple News/TV Event Coming March 25th
• 5G Coming this Year, but Why Do We Need It?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Sam Abuelsamid, and Matt Cutts

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• Foursquare Location Tracking Leaps Past the Creepy Line
• Will Zuck Make Facebook Private?
• Thousands of New Millionaires are Coming to San Francisco
• Apple has Big Plans for Self-Driving Cars
• Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break up Big Tech
• Congress Wants to Pass Net Neutrality Rules
• Huawei Sues the US Government
• Investors Sue Tesla to Keep Elon Musk from Tweeting

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Paris Martineau, and Patrick Beja

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• MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and Wearables
• This Person Does Not Exist
• OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist
• Outrage Mobs and Twitter
• China's Social Credit System Could Take Over the World
• Google and Saudia Arabia's Woman Tracking App
• Silicon Valley and the US Military
• Do We Even Need Facebook?
• Make Elon Musk Stop Tweeting!!!
• TikTok fined $5.7 Million
• Tenn Hacker gets $1 Million in Bug Bounties

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Brianna Wu

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• Foldable Phones Hit MWC 2019
• Microsoft Announces Hololens 2
• Netflix at the Oscars
• Apple and Goldman Sachs Release Credit Card Linked to iPhone
• Apple to Combine iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps
• YouTube: Home of Pedophiles, Anti-Vaxxers, and Flat Earthers
• How Facebook Gets Your Info from Other Apps
• Facebook In Trouble with UK, Spied on Android Users
• Stephen Wolfram on Productivity

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Johnson, Florence Ion, and Seth Weintraub

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• Amazon Cancels NY HQ2 Plans
• Amazon Pays $0 Federal Income Taxes
• Amazon Buys Eero • Facebook vs Anti-Vaxxers
• The Most Popular App in China
• Samsung Galaxy S10+eF5G
• Our 5G Augmented Reality Future
• Apple News Event March 25th
• New HoloLens Coming Next Sunday
• Buzzfeed Unionizes
• Pokemon Go Trespassing Legal Battle
• Fortnite Carlton Dance Legal Battle
• Apex Legends Eats Fortnite's Lunch?
• Tetris 99 is the Battle Royale Game You Didn't Know You Needed

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Lindsey Turrentine, and Sam Machkovech

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• Alphabet Earnings: Google's Cost Per Click
• Cutting out Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft
• The US to Ban Huawei 5GTech
• Germany Outlaws Facebook's Business Model
• What if Google Just Doesn't Pay Its Fines?
• Amazon Might Back Out of NY HQ2 * Amazon Live is Twitch for Infomercials
• Spotify Buys Gimlet and Anchor
• Apple to Pay France 500M Euros in Back Taxes
• Angela Ahrendts Says Goodbye to Apple
• Apple's Security Wins and Losses of the Week
• Microsoft Says: Don't Use IE or Office 2019
• Sprint Sues AT&T Over Fakey 5GE
• Marshmello Fortnite Concert is a Herald of the Future
• 2020 Olympic Medals Will be Made Out of Recycled iPhones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Gina Trapani, and Dwight Silverman

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• How to Watch the Superbowl Commercials Without All That Annoying Football
• Apple's Not So Horrible Quarterly Earnings
• Facetime Flaw Dulls Apple's Privacy Shine
• Apple Spanks Facebook and Google for Data Slurping
• How Much Does Facebook Suck?
• Huawei's Tendrils
• Family Tree DNA Gives FBI DNA Records
• Japanese Govt Will Hack IoT Devices
• SF to Ban Law Enforcement Facial Recognition
• Spotify Wants to Buy Podcasters Gimlet for $200M
• Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls in 2018
• Netflix vs Amazon = Quality vs Quantity

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Devindra Hardawar, and Christina Warren

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• 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.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sebastian Peak, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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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

Host: Leo Laporte

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

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