This Week in Tech (Video)

• Leave Elon alone! Tesla tumbles after Musk laments his "most difficult and painful year."
• Google employees revolt over China rumors; town hall meeting shut down due to "kerfuffle" tweets.
• Apple thinks that its headquarter buildings are worth 1/6th of an iPhone XS+.
• Australian teen Hacky Hack Hacks Apple's main computer network.
• MoviePass is failing miserably, but the French version is great!
• Google clarifies how constantly it tracks your location.
• US government wants to wiretap Facebook Messenger
• Facebook is not responsible for mews media's continued existence.
• Ajit Pai finally admits to congress that the FCC wasn't hacked.
• 10 nanometer transistors? Try 1/10th nanometer. German researchers develop a 1 atom transistor switch.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Michael Nuñez, and Harry McCracken

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• Samsung Announces the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Watch, and Galaxy Home musical cauldron.
• What is AI?
• Self-driving roll-out is increasing.
• Amazon wants you to pick up groceries at Whole Foods, and wishes you would shop more using Alexa.
• Twitter refuses to drop Alex Jones and InfoWars.
• Microsoft preserves Skype Classic.
• 11-year-old hacks Florida voting systems at DefCon and other voting security woes.
• Boston Dynamics is pumping out SpotMinis.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Florence Ion, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Apple is the first trillion dollar company ever.
• Is Universal Basic Income the fix for poverty in America?
• Alexa is Now the Ultimate in Home Security
• Why you should avoid Chinese phones.
• Facebook Dating is coming soon - will this make you spend too much time on Facebook?
• People still don't understand blockchain.
• Maybe you just shouldn't tweet.
• Ed Bott thinks the Surface Go is great!
• MoviePass is going out of business, and it's Owen JJ Stone's fault.
• Fortnight doesn't want to pay the Google Play store.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Owen JJ Stone, and Ant Pruitt

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• Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk.
• Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue.
• Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine.
• Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think.
• Slack eats HipChat. • Spectrum Internet gets kicked out of New York.
• Get a Tesla surfboard to go with your Boring flamethrower.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Mike Elgan

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• The future is flying cars! (Or not-flying cars, perhaps holes in the ground.)
• Apple's new MacBooks suffering from thermal throttling - is it the end for Intel?
• Google hit with $5 billion fine by EU for Android shenanigans.
• Will Fuschia be Google's one OS to rule them all?
• EU works on new laws of robotics.
• Google Translate starts spouting prophesy.
• Jeff Bezos is the richest man in history, but still gets his own hoagies.
• Elon Musk settles his farting unicorn feud.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Greg Ferro

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• Do Apple's new MacBooks fix the company's keyboard woes?
• Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow. Will it be worth the hype? Will it push Amazon's share of the e-commerce market past 50%?
• Folding tablets. Phones with 9 cameras. What is next?
• Will AT&T destroy HBO by trying to expand it?
• Hey Elon: maybe don't call a heroic diver who helps rescue 12 kids a "pedo" just because he didn't use your submarine.
• Fortnite takes the World Cup Final by storm.
• Balance is restored to Reddit.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jessica Conditt, Brian X. Chen, and Brian McCullough

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• Billionaires prepare for the coming apocalypse: have you bought your missile silo condo yet?
• London police's facial recognition fail: pilot program results in 98% false positive rate, zero arrests.
• Amazon expanding its cashierless Amazon Go stores.
• Celebrity impersonators, mob justice, and more reasons to stay off social media.
• Prime Day coming on July 16th.
• Netflix's 2018 content budget expands to $13 billion.
• Thanos inspires Reddit's biggest ban ever.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Lisa Schmeiser, and Jason Hiner

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• Apple vs Samsung settled: our long international nightmare is over.
• A proposed US law has patent trolls jumping for joy.
• Amazon jumps into the healthcare business by buying online pharmacy PillPack.
• Foxcon's new Wisconsin plant breaks ground.
• Yet another Facebook security breach, but this time a bug bounty program catches the leak.
• Twitter's new Ad Transparency Center opens new avenues for journalists.
• The sky is falling in Fortnite.
• WPA3 could make Wi-Fi a lot more secure.
• California follows Europe down the data privacy road.
• Christina Warren knows all the Andromeda secrets, but she's not talking.
• AOL Instant Messenger is reborn!
• StumbleUpon is not. :(

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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• The US Supreme Court kills warrantless cell phone location fishing and okays state sales taxes on internet purchases.
• Apple offers refunds on MacBook butterfly keyboard repairs and wants to let you use your iPhone to unlock your car.
• Amazon wants to put Alexa in your hotel room, and everywhere else.
• Professional videogames are going mainstream, with huge stadiums and $100 million prizes.
• A proposed European Union copyright law will declare war on memes.
• IGTV is Instagram's attempt to jump on the online video bandwagon.
• Plus: transhumanism, Domino's as an infrastructure company, and IBM's new debate robot!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Ben Johnson, and Devindra Hardawar

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Social media is still destroying the world. Top trends at E3. The end of Net Neutrality and the AT&T/ Time Warner Merger are a 1-2 punch against consumers. Automation is taking jobs in China and at Amazon. White house hacked. GDPR is killing email marketing. Theranos founder up on charges.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Jeff Cannata, and Dan Patterson

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