This Week in Tech (Video)

Did Facebook help Donald Trump win the US Presidential Election? Apple's new MacBook Pro is selling better than last year's model. Google's Daydream View VR headsets are out, and they are hot. Literally. Twitter's COO leaves - is Twitter in trouble? Snapchat's new Spectacles go on sale - if you can find them. The Unicode Consortium approves 56 new emojis. Sadly, not Finland's suggested emojis - "sauna" and "heavy metal headbanger."

• Mike Elgan thinks that Facebook has to step up to the fact-checking bat when it comes to its News Feed.
• Alex Wilhelm can't stop tweeting - in fact, he's tweeting right now!
• Lauren Hockenson gives her first-hand impressions of the Daydream View

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Lauren Hockenson, and Alex Wilhelm

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Days before the US elections, we discuss the preeminence of social media, the difficulty of fact checking, and the loss of trust in the media that has occured this year. Is Apple's recent MacBook announcement an acknowledgement that they are no longer a Macintosh company? Samsung has received 85% of its recalled Note 7 phones - now they just have to get the 2.8 million potentially explosive diswashers they just recalled. Google home is out - how does it stack up against the Amazon Echo?

• Leo asked the question - if Apple has lost their mojo, where will the next great innovation come from?
• Jason said Elon Musk will save the world.
• Peter said Snapchat will revolutionize how we interract with one another.
• Jonathan said there is a solder monkey tinkering away in a garage somewhere that will outdo them all.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Peter Rojas, Jonathan Abrams, and Jason Calacanis

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Apple announces the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update, Twitter kills Vine and lays off almost 10% of its workforce, Google Home arriving next week, DirecTV Now gives 100 channels for $35, and Uber delivers 50,000 Budweisers with their Otto self-driving semi.

• Leo wants to know - have Apple and Microsoft swapped brains?
• Are we heading toward a world where you don't know which virtual assistant to ask what?
• What is scarier: a self-driving beer truck or artificial intelligence that can talk to each other using unbreakable encryption

Guests: Tom Merritt, Christina Warren, and Steven Levy

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A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new hardware - rumors predict an all-in-one Surface PC and new MacBook Pro laptops, respectively. Google's Pixel phones are out, and with Samsung damaged by Note 7 explosions, their timing couldn't be better. AT&T acquires Time-Warner. And Tesla announces full self-driving hardware will be in all new Tesla cars.

• David Pogue says that Friday's DDOS attack is just the beginning, and we have almost no ability to protect against the next attack.
• Steve Kovach lost sleep over the AT&T - Time-Warner merger - he says the deal was rushed to stay ahead of rumor.
• Leo says there are only two flagship phones anyone should buy now - the iPhone 7 and the Google Pixel.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: David Pogue, Steve Kovach, and Erin Griffith

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The Note 7 is officially dead - Samsung stops production and the CPSC issues an official recall. Will Google's new Pixel Phones benefit? Is Google Assistant going to be a big draw? Also, Facebook tries to take over the enterprise with Workplace. Fallout from the Yahoo hack and surveilance debacle - Verizon may back out of their purchase deal. And nobody wants to buy Twitter at all. What would it take to make Twitter a functional business?

• Leo and Nate are mad at Yahoo and Marissa Mayer for keeping their hack secret for so long
• Nate and Mike both wrote interesting articles about Google's new fact checking labels - how do you survive in an post-fact world?
• Ben Thompson has a simple solution for fixing Twitter: just fire everyone.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Thompson, Nathan Olivarez-Giles, and Mike Elgan

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Leo is back, and ready to discuss the latest tech topics with our favorite TWiT regulars!

• Replacements for recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7 arrive - and promptly begin exploding.
• Google announces Pixel phones, Google Home, and more, but our panel think these products will have trouble succeeding.
• Disney, Google, and Apple have all passed on purchasing Twitter.
• Yahoo was hacked, kept it secret, and then let the US government spy on its users - Verizon wants a $1 billion discount.
• Clowns are most likely not going to attack your school.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jeff Jarvis, Iain Thomson, and Rene Ritchie

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With Leo on vacation, Becky Worley takes the big chair. We discuss predictions about Google's big event next week, Samsung's exploding washing machines, Elon Musk's plans for getting to Mars, women in tech, who should buy Twitter, and the next wave in DDOS attacks.

• On October 4th, Google will (hopefully) announce two new Pixel-branded phones, their new Andromeda OS, the Echo-competitor Google Home, and more.
• Samsung's PR image goes from bad to worse - just as new, non-exploding versions of the Galaxy Note 7are coming out, Samsung washing machines are apparently exploding.
• Elon Musk detailed his plans to send people to Mars in the next 6 years. This may be a bit far-fetched, and Owen JJ Stone has a few suggestions of where Mr. Musk's money and energy might be better spent.
• The Wall Street Journal published an editorial advising women to hide their gender to improve their chances of getting hired for Silicon Valley firms. Our panel has a few choice words to say about that.
• Does it make sense for Disney to buy Twitter? Becky thinks so, but Jason thinks someone else would be a better fit.
• As many as a million IoT devices were part of a DDOS attack on security expert's Brian Krebs' website. Is this the future of hacking?

Host: Becky Worley

Guests: Christina Warren, Owen JJ Stone, and Jason Hiner

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Is Apple late to the VR/AR game? Has Palmer Luckey's support of Trump trolls hurt Oculus? Who will buy Twitter? Snapchat announces $130 camera Spectacles. And Yahoo has possibly the largest data breach ever.

Host: Jason Calacanis

Guests: Ben Parr, Robert Scoble, and Brian Alvey

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The new jet black iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung officially recalls the Note 7, and the FBI will be able to legally hack anyone soon.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Georgia Dow, and Phil Libin

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It's official - the iPhone 7 has no headphone jack. But at least it doesn't explode, like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Also, Google and Chipotle team up to deliver burritos via drone to students at Virginia Tech.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Alex Wilhelm, Roberto Baldwin, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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