This Week in Tech (Video)

This Week's Stories:

• Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?
• Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps
• Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China
• EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack
• Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people
• 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet
• Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?
• Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet
• FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data
• Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything
• Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything
• Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody
• Does tracking really make ads better?
• He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!
• Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case
• Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.
• IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires
• California halts .org sale
• 62 new emoji are here!
• Hummer is back and electric

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Brian McCullough, and Devindra Hardawar

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This Week's Stories:

• Was Jeff Bezos really hacked by Saudi Arabia?
• Welcome to the post-fact era. Embrace the power of ignorance!
• Sonos backs off threat to brick old speakers
• Apple pushes back against EU common charging standard
• Sundar Pichai calls for regulation of AI
• Why banning face recognition is just the first step
• One good thing about Brexit
• The tech angle of "Megxit"
• Biden calls game developers "little creeps"
• Tech execs are being SWATted
• Alan Turing's OBE medal, Ph.D. certificate, etc recovered from crazed superfan
• Throwboy is back with Pocket Pillows
• Vine is back as Byte
• Xerox still trying to buy HP
• Octi is augmented reality social media

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Patrick Beja, and Iain Thomson

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• Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
• The face recognition company that will end privacy
• FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
• NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
• Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
• Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
• Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
• Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
• Verizon's "private" search engine
• The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
• Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
• Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
• Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
• Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
• Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
• Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Sam Abuelsamid, and Patrick Norton

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CES 2020 wrap-up

• Sex tech at CES 2020
• Apple, Amazon, and others talk privacy at CES 2020
• Tech Giants at CES 2020
• The Sands: all the weirdest stuff at CES 2020
• The best TVs at CES 2020
• Future Concepts at CES 2020
• The Charmin Rollbot
• Biggest CES 2020 trends: vegetable-based meat, driverless cars, and bendable computers
• Our favorite gadgets from CES 2020: from 8k TVs to electronic rosaries

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Hiner

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This Week's Stories:

• CES Preview: what to expect at the 2020 show
• Segway's new Wall-E pod chair
• 8k TVs take over CES - what about bandwidth caps?
• 3D is back at CES - get ready for Star Wars holograms
• Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak: 68 countries targeted
• 5G in 2020: hype or happening?
• How to fix California' gig worker law
• California Consumer Privacy Act hits January 1
• Wyze Camera breach response: quick and decisive
• 1924 belongs to us all now
• TRACED Act passes, robocallers put on notice
• Hofeller Files break gerrymandering plot wide open
• IRS forces Turbo Tax to show free filing product
• Fake Twitter accounts spew thousands of pro-Iran propaganda tweets
• Australian fires: horrific images online
• Google will stop swindling the US on taxes
• Google's Head of International Relations left because Google started to be evil
• Samsung Galaxy S20 arriving February 11th
• Sonos bricking old speakers
• Fry's is in big trouble
• Y2K bug strikes again: NYC parking meters break in 2020, 11-19
• #TeamTrees gets $20M
• YouTube's #1 star turned 8 in 2019
• EU: AI cannot patent inventions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dwight Silverman, Ben Brock Johnson, and Ed Bott

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Leo Laporte takes us through the past year in tech. 2019 highlights include Chinese CRISPR Babies, San Francisco's facial recognition surveillance ban, Grumpy Cat's sad death, the United States versus Huawei, Facebook's $5 billion FTC fine, the debut of Apple TV+, and more!

Happy New Year from Leo and the TWiT crew!

Host: Leo Laporte

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On This Week in Tech's 2019 Holiday Special, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Mary Jo Foley, and Mikah Sargent run down the top Tech News stories of 2010 - 2019.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, Stacey Higginbotham, and Mikah Sargent

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This Week's Stories

• Mac Pro: only 1/3rd the cost of a banana duct-taped to a wall
• Apple TV+ gets its first Golden Globe award nomination
• AirPods make Apple $4 billion/quarter
• Here's how to get Samuel L. Jackson on your Amazon Echo
• Ring camera hacked to tell child to destroy their room
• Google gives US ATF location info on 1500 users
• Ask a Millennial: what's the deal with Tik Tok?
• Jack Dorsey wants an open standard Twitter
• Facebook wants end-to-end encryption. AG Barr is not so happy about that.
• India wants to get all its citizens' data
• New Orleans narrowly avoids ransomware hit
• Samsung didn't really sell a million Galaxy Folds, and other silly phone stories
• Paris Martineau's ultimate guide to Influencers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rosemary Orchard, Paris Martineau, and Owen JJ Stone

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Stories this Week

• Mac Pro is only for Pros
• Apple's pivot to services plays on our trust of Apple
• How amoral should companies be?
• Silicon Valley Finale
• Larry and Sergei ride off into the sunset - what happens next?
• How worried should companies be about government regulation?
• Why we're watching Watchmen
• Amazon comes to New York, without tax benefits
• Stadiums as a metaphor for tech
• Amazon's re:Invent is all about AI
• Huawei makes "America-free" Phones
• What is the future of war?
• Is 5G going to be like LTE or WiMAX?
• Intel admits failure
• Reddit bans Russian sock puppets
• Elon dodges pedo bullet
• Magic Leap is the most amazing, important, incredible failure ever

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren and Amy Webb

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This Week's Stories

• .org being sold off is a much bigger deal than you think
• Apple erases Jony Ive, brings back thicker iPhones, decent MacBook keyboards, and the cheese grater Mac Pro
• AMD cleans up on Black Friday. Intel, not so much
• Who should buy the Apple Pro Display XDR monitor?
• Why is HDR important?
• Why Hololens is succeeding where Google Glass failed
• Why aren't video games perfectly realistic yet?
• Apple bows to Russia, shows Crimea as Russian in Apple Maps
• Facebook thinks political lies are fine everywhere but Singapore
• Alexa is very, very, disappointed in you
• Are US presidential candidates using enough email security?
• California DMV sold my data
• Tim Berners-Lee still wants to save the web
• Windows 7 has 45 days to live
• We are really, truly, finally out of IPv4 addresses
• Dubai Police force buys Tesla Cybertrucks
• Record Black Friday - 40% of purchases made on smartphones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay

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