This Week in Tech (Video)

Apple+Google COVID tracking app, 5G towers burning, Zoom tips

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• 5G towers are being burned in England and the Netherlands to stop coronavirus. We have officially hit maximum techno panic.
• Apple and Google are building a coronavirus phone tracking app. Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? Because this is how you get a cyberpunk dystopia!
• Zoom is the best option for group video chat, but only if you use it right, and only if you don't need perfect privacy.
• We show all the free TV shows you can watch online.
• What we are doing in quarantine: soap making, Half-Life Alyx, Castlevania, start your own video channel
• Smart toilet recognizes your butt and scans your poop for diseases
• Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion to Coronavirus research, with full transparency
• Apple displays COVID testing locations and launches Today at Apple at Home
• Why Apple stopped charging Amazon Prime Video the 30% "Apple Tax"
• Amazon workers are terrified to go to work, but at least they have a job
• Travelex paid 285 bitcoin to ransomware hackers - watch out for COVID Phishing
• Quibi has 300 Million installs in its first week, while Tik Tok crosses 1 Billion
• Distance learning: school attendance is at 50%
• Passover Seder on Zoom
• Leo is back on Facebook
• John Conway, creator of Conway's Game of Life has passed due to coronavirus

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Rene Ritchie, and Owen JJ Stone

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Zoom Security Issues, iPhone SE

• Zoom goes from 10 million to 250 million daily users, struggles with zoombombing and security issues
• Where is the iPhone SE? The budget iPhone could be launched any day.
• Can Apple maintain its famed secrecy with employees working from home?
• Apple buys Dark Sky Weather App, shuts down Android App
• iOS 14 may add widgets, live wallpaper
• Who controls the weather? NOAA, Weather Channel, IBM, Apple?
• Nations are tracking their citizens' location to stop coronavirus - will they stop when the crisis is over? Who else is tracking us?
• Do you know how to program COBOL? Help New Jersey fight coronavirus!
• Amazon has hired 80,000 workers, puts safety measures in place, fires strike organizer
• Instacart strike gets workers free health and safety kits
• Amazon will offer a virtual film festival to show SXSW films, movie theaters are offering streams
• What we're watching in quarantine - Little Fires Everywhere, Devs, free HBO shows, Bhagavad Gita and filmmaking on YouTube
• Quibi is launching at the best time possible
• FCC opens up 6GHz band for Wi-Fi use

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Jason Hiner, and Brian McCullough

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• Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
• Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
• Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
• Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
• China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
• Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
• US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
• Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
• How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
• Notes from the final CanSec security conference
• Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
• E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
• PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
• GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
• China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
• Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
• Free e-books from the Library of Congress
• Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
• Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott

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This week's stories:

• Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk
• Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus
• Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR
• What to expect from Apple's AR future
• "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air
• MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors
• Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware"
• Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows
• Google I/O is canceled
• How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing"
• Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home
• Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why
• YouTube launches new online education resources
• Google launches distance learning fund
• Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret
• Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages
• Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals
• Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more
• Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption
• Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue
• Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library
• Gamestop finally closes California stores
• Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters
• PS5 vs Xbox Series X
• Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize
• Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan

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This Week's Stories

• Father Robert Ballecer talks about the Vatican's response to the Coronavirus in Italy.
• Father Robert Ballecer shows off this live broadcasting/podcasting setup
• MKBHD's 8k setup - RED cameras, multiple Mac Pros, LUTS, and motion tracking
• The Escobar Phone is a scam!
• The beginning of the end of smartphones
• Magic Leap in Crisis
• Leo wears the COVID-19 mask
• Foldable phones - why?
• How to cope with panic attacks - futurism in an accelerating world
• MKBHD's daily driver: Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Telepresence Robots are the future! (or maybe even the present)
• 2020 Conferences are all canceled. What will we lose by holding them digitally?
• Apple reopens Chinese stores, closes all others, cancels rumored March event, but might still launch new products next week
• Amy Webb's daughter's crypto network
• Is Tik Tok OK?
• Screen time in quarantine - active watching is the key
• MKBHD's New Year's Rockin' Eve - downscaled from 8K to 720p
• How YouTube processing works
• How MKBHD works - quality over quantity
• Custom vitamin blends and nootropics - direct-to-consumer sales take off
• Future Today Institute 2020 Tech Trends Report
• StarLink will bring the internet to everyone
• Everyone alive today is being scored
• The 2020s are the synthetic decade: how synthetic media will change the world
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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Amy Webb, and Marques Brownlee

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• Coronavirus Craziness: The Pope is OK, SXSW canceled, contractors can't get n95 masks, Chinese carmakers shut down
• The response to Coronavirus - big tech sends workers home, but restaurant workers have to keep the slinging hash
• Woz is NOT Patient Zero
• Countries respond to Coronavirus: stay on that cruise ship, China forces people to quarantine, US doubles down on the Patriot Act, Italy shuts down Lombardi
• Stock up on Soylent for your Coronavirus quarantine needs
• Apple rejects coronavirus apps
• Chinese students review bomb homework app
• Paris has awesome hobbies
• Apple forces workers to come to the Spaceship and retail stores, other tech giants send workers home
• March Madness without fans? Are we projecting the zombie apocalypse onto Coronavirus?
• Review: Thermomix TM6
• Baby Yoda toys killed by Coronavirus
• What to watch while you're quarantined
• Video games to play while you're quarantined
• Is it canceled? How to find out
• Warren drops out - which old white male candidate will die from Coronavirus?
• Brianna Wu gets hacked - she explains how to avoid her mistakes
• How to use nation-state level hacks yourself
• How the CIA used CryptoAG to spy on the world
• Apple allows ads in push notifications - watch this week's iOS Today to see how to turn them off!
• YouTube is recommending fewer conspiracy videos
• Nerf or nothing!
• Streaming drives the music industry to its greatest year ever
• Democratic Socialism Simulator vs Female Politician Simulator
• Nintendo Playstation prototype sells for $360,000
• Daylight Saving kills! Switch to UTC instead!
• SETI@Home shuts down, and bitcoin mining is destroying the world - switch to folding proteins for a Coronavirus cure

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Brianna Wu

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This Week's Stories

• Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial
• Your AirPods are on a two-year timer
• Safari snubs two-year certificates
• Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
• NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality
• Amazon Go Grocery Review
• Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data
• Activist investor attacking Twitter
• TikTok is fundamentally parasitic?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Michael Nuñez, and Bill Detwiler

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This Week's Stories:

• COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
• Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
• COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
• Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
• Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
• Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
• EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
• Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
• Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
• Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
• Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
• Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
• Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
• New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
• Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
• Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Adobe Photoshop turns 30
• $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren

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This week's stories:

• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears
• China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead.
• RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences?
• China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next?
• Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases?
• Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech!
• Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold?
• Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years
• Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS
• Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home)
• Google's new OS is called... Pigweed?
• Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year
• Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild!
• $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes)
• Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years
• Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge
• Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars
• Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available
• Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA
• Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux!
• Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge
• Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism?
• HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst?
• Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year.
• T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way
• Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson

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This Week's Stories:

• Chaos, confusion, and disinformation define the 2020 US election
• Motorola Razr fails the fold test
• NYPD drops notebooks for iPhone app
• Don't charge at public USB chargers: "Juice Jacking" hackers will steal your data
• Hackers break into your network via Phillips Hue lightbulbs
• Sonos bricks old speakers
• Tesla remotely removes autopilot from used Model S
• Big shakeup at Microsoft - Panos Pinay gets a huge promotion
• Microsoft xCloud vs Nvidia GeForceNow vs Playstation Now
• US Navy uses Xbox controllers
• Windows 7 bug keeps users from shutting down, no way to update
• Deepfaking "The Irishman" - how CGI de-aged De Niro
• Disney wants to kill Section 230, and thus all social media and comment boards
• Real or fake: Russian dashcams and French locomotives
• 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet' Review

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Nate Lanxon, and Denise Howell

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