This Week in Tech (Video)

• WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announced
• Apple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19
• WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM
• WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners won
• WWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri?
• Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store
• iOS App Store brings in $519 Billion in 2019
• Apple facing anti-trust investigations in the EU
• Talking about grilling
• Twitter starts offering 140 second Voice Tweets
• Using Facebook to train yourself
• Facebook lets its users turn off political ads
• Facebook wants to help 4 million people vote
• K-Pop stans and Tik Tok teens and grandmas troll Trump's Tulsa rally
• 71% of Americans refuse to use contact tracing apps
• iFixit wants to help users fix ventilators; ventilator manufacturer sues
• FCC approves the first prescription video game for ADHD
• Oscars delayed until April 2021
• Disney+ kills their 7 day free trial weeks before Hamilton release
• Only $75k to get your own Spot robot dog
• Flash dies completely on December 31st, 2020

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Georgia Dow, and Andy Ihnatko

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• Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption
• IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police
• Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police
• Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company
• Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce.
• How quickly will Apple transition Macs to ARM?
• Refrigerator DRM is catching up with printer DRM
• ZFS cuts "slave" out of OpenZFS codebase. GitHub ditches "master"
• Michael Seibel replaces Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board
• HBO yanks Gone With the Wind, it becomes the #1 show on Apple TV+
• Four GOP Senators ask FCC to review Section 230
• PS5 hardware and games announced - disc vs digital
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
• itch.io Games for Racial Justice and Equality surpasses it's $5 million goal

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Christina Warren, and Iain Thomson

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• Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?
• Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police
• Can tech improve policing?
• Social and Organizational barriers to change
• Should social networks fact-check Trump?
• James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial
• YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter
• How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives
• Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people
• Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person
• NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest
• Minneapolis will dismantle their police department
• Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops
• Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent
• Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran
• Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy
• HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb

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• Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd Protests
• Trump vs Twitter: what is Section 230?
• Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say?
• Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order?
• Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"?
• Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hours
• SpaceX launches humans into space from American soil for the first time in 9 years
• Google postpones Android 11 beta launch due to protests
• Switzerland's Apple/Google COVID contact tracing app vs France's StopCovid app
• France offers Twitter a new home if they want to leave America. What country do you think Twitter should move to?
• Microsoft lays off dozens of journalists, will replace them with AI. Journalist Bill Detwiler desperately defends his fellow humans.
• US House of Representatives to vote to allow FBI to read your browser history without a warrant
• HBO Max is one streaming service too many
• Amazon Look style camera will stop working in July. Denise Howell's Instagram will never be the same
• Some Good News sells to CBS
• Pokemon Go Fest this July will be fully virtual
• Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to be Black" discusses his reaction to the racial events of the past week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Bill Detwiler, Denise Howell, and Baratunde Thurston

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• Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month
• College Board sued over flawed online AP tests
• Minecraft Dungeons Review
• Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month
• Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!
• Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64
• All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream
• Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework
• Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft
• Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state
• Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive?
• Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms
• How to beat Zoom fatigue
• Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse?
• Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse
• Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid?
• What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use?
• Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard
• How well is your school handling distance learning?
• Different communication strokes for different gamer folks
• Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive
• HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world
• Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement
• Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation
• Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court
• Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lindsey Turrentine, Daniel Rubino, and Lisa Schmeiser

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Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5

• Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million
• Facebook setting up a political advocacy group for big tech
• US Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online ads
• Trump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left"
• Facebook has half of its oversight board in place already
• Zoom fatigue is real: is avatar-based chat the cure?
• Apple AR glasses coming in 2021
• Unreal Engine 5 will push game development to new heights
• Twitter says that people can work from home forever - but should they?
• Robotic backboard makes all the shots

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dwight Silverman, Mike Elgan, and Brianna Wu

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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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