This Week in Tech (Video)

• Amazon Cancels NY HQ2 Plans
• Amazon Pays $0 Federal Income Taxes
• Amazon Buys Eero • Facebook vs Anti-Vaxxers
• The Most Popular App in China
• Samsung Galaxy S10+eF5G
• Our 5G Augmented Reality Future
• Apple News Event March 25th
• New HoloLens Coming Next Sunday
• Buzzfeed Unionizes
• Pokemon Go Trespassing Legal Battle
• Fortnite Carlton Dance Legal Battle
• Apex Legends Eats Fortnite's Lunch?
• Tetris 99 is the Battle Royale Game You Didn't Know You Needed

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Lindsey Turrentine, and Sam Machkovech

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• Alphabet Earnings: Google's Cost Per Click
• Cutting out Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft
• The US to Ban Huawei 5GTech
• Germany Outlaws Facebook's Business Model
• What if Google Just Doesn't Pay Its Fines?
• Amazon Might Back Out of NY HQ2 * Amazon Live is Twitch for Infomercials
• Spotify Buys Gimlet and Anchor
• Apple to Pay France 500M Euros in Back Taxes
• Angela Ahrendts Says Goodbye to Apple
• Apple's Security Wins and Losses of the Week
• Microsoft Says: Don't Use IE or Office 2019
• Sprint Sues AT&T Over Fakey 5GE
• Marshmello Fortnite Concert is a Herald of the Future
• 2020 Olympic Medals Will be Made Out of Recycled iPhones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Gina Trapani, and Dwight Silverman

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• How to Watch the Superbowl Commercials Without All That Annoying Football
• Apple's Not So Horrible Quarterly Earnings
• Facetime Flaw Dulls Apple's Privacy Shine
• Apple Spanks Facebook and Google for Data Slurping
• How Much Does Facebook Suck?
• Huawei's Tendrils
• Family Tree DNA Gives FBI DNA Records
• Japanese Govt Will Hack IoT Devices
• SF to Ban Law Enforcement Facial Recognition
• Spotify Wants to Buy Podcasters Gimlet for $200M
• Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls in 2018
• Netflix vs Amazon = Quality vs Quantity

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Devindra Hardawar, and Christina Warren

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• WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger to Merge
• 2019 Predictions- Amazon Will Rise, Twitter Will Fall
• CRISPR Babies Confirmed
• Amazon Scout Will Usher in the Age of Autonomous Delivery
• France Fines Google 50M Euros
• Google loses right to be forgotten case
• Foldable Phones are on the Way!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Greg Ferro, and Brian McCullough

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• Apple's Tim Cook Calls for Data Privacy.
• 773M Passwords Pwned - How to Find Out If Yours Was.
• Amazon Tries to Make Alexa Sound "Newsy."
• Google Buys Fossil.
• 74% of Facebook Users are Clueless.
• Facebook's 10 Year Challenge.
• Atari Founder Making Alexa Board Games.
• Stop Using Windows Phone!
• Tokyo Hotel Fires Half its Robots.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sebastian Peak, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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All of our favourite products and trends at CES 2019!

• Impossible Burger
• Health and wearables
• Amazon vs Google
• Smart products and "Smart" products
• Laptops
• 5G
• Wireless power
• Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Cherlynn Low, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Apple tanks on Tim Cook's earnings warning - is the golden age of iPhone over?
• Are Facebook and Google too big to Fail? No. Here's why.
• China and the US duel over security, AI, and quantum computing.
• Qualcomm vs Apple legal battles heat up.
• Fortnite and Pokemon Go rake in the dough in 2018.
• Amazon wins big over the holiday season.
• Microsoft wants to give you control over your digital data.
• For the 1st time in 20 years, an entire year's worth of books, movies, and art enters the public domain.
• The 10-second toothbrush, the Kurigization of Things (KoT) and more reasons why you shouldn't go to CES 2019.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Mike Elgan, and Alex Wilhelm

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The Best of TWiT from 2018!

Host: Leo Laporte

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• Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?
• Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.
• Elon Musk's ups and downs
• The biggest mergers of 2018
• Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news
• Bloomberg's big blunder
• China's social credit system and CRISPR babies
• Those we lost in 2018

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: John C. Dvorak, Owen JJ Stone, and Alex Lindsay

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• Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
• The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
• It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.
• The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
• The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
• The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
• Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
• The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
• YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Harry McCracken, and Michael Nuñez

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