This Week in Tech (Video)

This Week's Stories

• Tesla's unveils its new Cybertruck, watch out for shotputs!
• NTSB says a fatal crash involving Uber's Robocar was due to human error
• Tesla tries to SWAT a whistleblower
• Jack Dorsey's hacker has been arrested
• Google Stadia and what the future of gaming might look like
• Can't seem to print using Cloud, we'll tell you why
• Apple is building a new campus in Austin, guess who was there to help celebrate?
• Apple tells Congress you shouldn't be able to fix your iPhone because you could hurt yourself. Really Apple?
• And they claim they are losing money when they do repair your iPhone for you.
• SpaceX is serious about its Starlink satellites
• Who gets to see and keep your Ring video doorbell footage? You might not be happy when you find out!
• A new type of AI can predict seizures before they happen, and it's amazingly accurate
• PayPal just bought the coupon-finding browser extension Honey for $4 Billion!
• Need a lawyer? Your next call might be a robot
• Fox has plans for a new show, and the 50+ crowd might not like the name
• A court has ruled that police can't force a suspect to reveal his password

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Mike Elgan, and Seth Rosenblatt

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This Week's Stories

• Apple's November Surprise: 16-Inch Macbook Pro brings back the scissor-switch keyboard and physical ESC key
• Surface Book 3 Rumors, Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X Reviews
• Microsoft's Project xCloud launches in early 2020 as the odds-on favorite to dominate game streaming
• Google Stadia launches tomorrow as a failure
• Goldman Sachs re-evaluating Apple Card credit limits after sexism accusations
• Google will offer checking accounts to anyone who wants Google to know absolutely everything they pay money for.
• Google's secret "Nightingale" health-care project and Fitbit purchase: Google wants to own your health data
• Apple's Research App: do we trust Apple with our health data more than Google?
• Disney+, Apple+, Peacock TV, etc - when will the streaming bubble burst?
• YouTube creators: are you a kids' channel or an adult channel?
• Is YouTube fracturing the world? Should we go back to all reading the same newspaper?
• Apple kicks vaping apps out of the App Store, Canadian pot stocks crash - legal marijuana's bad week
• Minecraft Earth launches in the US - the perfect demo for Azure Anchors
• Hololens is still the future
• So is the Oculus Quest
• Are Apple Glasses?
• British Labor Party offers free broadband - could this work in the US?
• AI can tell if you are going to die - doctors baffled

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Brian McCullough, and Brianna Wu

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• Big Tech is trying to fix California's housing crisis by throwing $billions at it. Here's what they should do instead.
• How can we fix the mess that is video conferencing?
• Delivering drugs via drone: what could possibly go wrong?
• Google open sources Cardboard, instead of just killing it as we expected.
• The FBI is secretly using face recognition to track us. The ACLU thinks this is bad for some reason.
• Apple is slowly tightening its privacy system.
• Saudi spies infiltrate Twitter. Is Big Tech security-conscious enough?
• FACEBOOK changes its logo. WHY?
• Facebook and political ads
• Photoshop for iPad is finally here.
• Here are the best tools for vertical video.
• Is Adobe's subscription model fair to consumers?
• Adobe Aero tries to standardize AR.
• Microsoft Ignite focuses on the hybrid cloud.
• Why 5G will never work, and why it will be amazing when it does.
• 8K will make you vomit.
• Microsoft puts Superman on glass.
• AppleTV+ launches big. If you could only have 5 streaming services, which would you choose?
• Amazon knocks $40 off the price of Prime for veterans. Thank you for your service!

Host: Alex Lindsay

Guests: Greg Ferro and Justine Ezarik

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• Google Buys Fitbit. Will this be like Google buying HTC, or like Fitbit buying Pebble?
• Apple hires a new smart home team. Can they catch up with Amazon and Google? Can they fix what is wrong with HomeKit?
• AirPods Pro review - the best earbuds we've ever worn. However, they are pricy, and they're still earbuds, with all the issues that come with that.
• AppleTV+ launches. Can an Aaron Sorkin wanna-be, wacky Emily Dickinson, and sexy blind people win the streaming wars?
• NBC's Peacock TV may be free with ads when it launches in April.
• HBO Max launches in May for $15. Will it finally kill cable?
• Twitter bans political ads. Facebook thinks they are just fine, even if they lie. How will Twitter figure out what is a political issue? Does Mark Zuckerberg really think "Lying is bad?"
• PG&E cuts power to millions but still manages to start a 77,000-acre fire. Cell service also fails. So does Comcast. Is this the harbinger of all of America's aging infrastructure finally collapsing?
• National Weather Service tweets out some useful tools to track wildfires and smoke.
• It's the emoji season! The controversy this year: non-gendered emoji.

Host: Jason Snell

Guests: Rene Ritchie, Devindra Hardawar, and Dan Moren

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It's This Week in Tech with Jason Howell, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt hosting in the absence of Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte. PG&E may force a power outage at TWiT Eastside Studio to help reduce the risk of wildfire in surrounding areas.

• Facebook Launches News Section to Compensate Publishers
• Zuckerberg faces heat in Congress: "It's almost like you think this is a joke."
• Fake Facebook ad claiming Lindsey Graham backs the Green New Deal is actually a test for Zuckerberg
• Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL review: more than the sum of its sensors
• Night Sight fight: The iPhone 11 kinda destroys the Pixel 4 with low light camera shots
• AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
• Google is delivering some Pixel 4 phones in fun cereal boxes
• Google Cereal review: Feature-packed but lacking in basic nutrition [Gallery]
• Google will replace Home devices bricked due to latest firmware update
• LOFT Portable Battery Base for Google Home
• Amazon is spending billions on shipping as it makes Prime one-day delivery a reality
• After Briefly Falling To Number Two, Jeff Bezos Is Back As The Richest Man In The World
• Apple Pay overtakes Starbucks as the most popular mobile payment platform in the US
• Gov't bill could see Emergency Alerts broadcast over streaming services like Apple Music
• Microsoft's Over-the-Top VR Rig Lets You Explore a Virtual World While Walking IRL
• TikTok could threaten national security, senators say
• Motorola teases its foldable RAZR phone reveal for November 13th
• The Huawei Mate X is set to ship next month for $2,400, but only in China
• Elvis hands-on
• Ant talks about his new show

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ant Pruitt, and Mikah Sargent

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• California passes law to kill the gig economy
• Facebook refuses to ban lying in political ads
• Why does internet access in America suck so much?
• Pixel 4 event: kinda dull
• Pixel 4 review: camera zoom not that great, face unlock works even if you are asleep or dead
• Law enforcement face recognition banned in California for 3 years
• Google focuses on "ambient computing"
• Technopanic and social media
• Zuckerberg is amoral, Facebook should just ban political ads
• Google is great at everything but selling hardware
• Pixelbook Go: perfect for college kids, but not for us
• Google Nest Wifi sounds good
• Air Force stops using 8-inch floppies to control missile launches
• Malware makes ATMs spit out all their cash
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber coming to a TV near you
• RIP Yahoo Groups
• Huawei is doing great!
• Virgin Galactic shows of its spacesuits
• Cobol turns 60
• Fortnite is down! Technical error or marketing genius?
• Is TikTok China's entry into our children's minds? Or is Mike Elgan just paranoid?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Florence Ion, Mike Elgan, and Seth Rosenblatt

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This week's stories

• The Chinese propaganda app that spies on all Chinese citizens
• Chinese influence in video games, social media, and other industries - where do we draw the line?
• What is Tencent? How much influence do they have over the world? Here's how to keep them from watching your iPhone
• Can we still trust Apple? Can we trust anyone?
• At what point do we admit that we are in a multi-state information war?
• Is there any way to fine Facebook fairly? Bring back the Office of Technology Assesment!
• Remember: the answer to bad politics is not "no politics". It is good politics.
• Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency is falling apart
• There is a very good reason why politicians can lie on Facebook
• How Boris Johnson games Google
• There are no political ads in France. Could we do that in America?
• Which weird phone stands a better chance: the Essential Gem or Microsoft Duo?
• Apple Arcade is still wonderful.
• How much do Americans know about tech? Not a lot. What should we do about that?
• SCOTUS decides websites must be accessible to blind people
• Lithium-ion battery inventors win Nobel Prize

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Brianna Wu, and Nate Lanxon

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This week's stories

• Microsoft surprises us all with the two-screen Surface Duo phone
• Apple's Deep Fusion poised to trump Google's Pixel 4 announcement
• More than 500 ransomware attacks on US schools so far in 2019
• More red flags than a Chinese parade: WeWork's failed IPO
• Apple loves freedom - except in China
• US, UK, and Australian governments vs encryption
• Lexy Savvides's Memoji secrets
• Tim Cook can woo Trump all he wants, but Apple still has to pay 25% tariffs
• CNET folds the Samsung Galaxy Fold until it breaks
• Why did Windows Phone fail? Iain Thomson: "It was a thousand cuts of stupidity."
• Microsoft's new Surface line is aimed straight at Apple
• Will there be an October Apple event? All signs point to yes.
• Google Seattle makes a literal product graveyard
• Levis' Jacquard jean jackets
• PayPal backs out of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
• Facebook vs Elizabeth Warren
• Facebook says it's ok for political ads to lie
• Twitter says it's ok for Trump to advocate civil war
• Should Zuckerberg step down? Would that change anything?
• Elon Musk's new Starship and its competition
• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned about Tesla's Smart Summon feature
• Hundreds of millions of "Words with Friends" accounts hacked
• Japan turns off pagers after 50 years of honorable service

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Iain Thomson, and Lexy Savvides

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This Week's Stories

• What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event
• Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo
• Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you
• Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for?
• Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous
• Do we really trust all these voice assistants?
• Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall
• Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling
• Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state?
• Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy
• Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X
• Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
• Mac Pro to be made in Texas
• Google will stop showing news snippets in France
• QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world?
• Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them
• Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech
• Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Mikah Sargent, and Caroline Haskins

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This Week's Stories:

• TWO AND A HALF DOZEN people invade Area 51
• iPhone 11 vs iPhone 7: is it worth the upgrade?
• Apple Arcade is the best 5 bucks a month you can spend on games
• Apple Watch 5 is the best computer you can wear on your wrist.
• Taking cat pictures in the dark with iPhone 11 - which phone takes the best picture? How about video?
• How many monthly fees to Apple are too many?
• Apple wins its 2nd Emmy before Apple TV+ even comes out.
• Who owns Slofie.com? How about Slophie.net?
• Apple changes the update cycle
• RIP 3D Touch. We won't miss you.
• Apple's ultrawideband U1 Chip: what does it do?
• iPhone 11 teardown
• What to expect from Google's big October event
• What to expect from Microsoft's big October event
• Has Google achieved quantum supremacy?
• How many bitcoin are lost forever?
• When Zuck met Trump
• Facebook creates Oversight Board: here's how it will work
• Facebook Portal wants to watch you watch TV
• Richard Stallman out at MIT and Free Software Foundation
• Edward Snowden still wants to come home

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rene Ritchie, Dwight Silverman, and Louise Matsakis

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