This Week in Tech (Video)

• How to tell if your Facebook account is one of the 50 million that were hacked this week
• Why the founder of Instagram left Facebook
• "Funding secured" tweet costs Elon Musk his chairmanship and $40 million
• Google turns 20
• More leaks from Google's upcoming October 9th event
• Amazon gives $1 million to Wikimedia
• FCC fines robo-caller $37.5 million
• Did you register to vote on Snapchat?
• Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has a plan to fix the Internet

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lindsey Turrentine, and Larry Magid

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• iPhone XS and XS Max are flying off the shelves (especially in Santa Rosa).
• Pixel 2 camera beats the iPhone XS.
• Why the dual-sim iPhones are a bigger deal than you think.
• (Heart) doctors hate it! Apple Watch's one weird ECG trick.
• Elon Musk introduces the first SpaceX moon passenger, DOJ introduces a criminal investigation to Musk.
• Amazon introduces a slew of new Alexa devices in its continuing mission to control everything in your home (including you).
• Magic Leap One first look: nobody should buy it, but it is absolutely the future.
• Happy 10th anniversary, T-Mobile G1! We have come full circle: the first Android phone didn't have a headphone jack, either.
• Google's plans for China, and China's plans for the world.
• John Hancock won't sell you life insurance unless you strap on a Fitbit or Apple Watch.
• Coding error scraps Subaru Ascent.
• Salesforce's Mark Benioff buys Time magazine.
• Freezing your credit report is now free thanks to a new law.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Mike Elgan

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• Apple Watch Series 4 takes on heart disease.
• iPhone Xs, Xs Max, and Xr: what's in a name?
• All the new features and "new" features in the 2018 iPhones and iOS 12.
• Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook's political woes?
• Hurricane tech.
• EU vs memes.
• California requires basic IoT security.
• Google kills Inbox.
• Ikea will scan your butt.

Host: Becky Worley

Guests: Brian McCullough, Owen JJ Stone, and Mikah Sargent

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• Elon Musk: Tesla's market cap goes up in smoke
• Apple vs Trump on tarrifs
• Apple's big announcement September 12th: what we expect
• Facebook and Twitter go to Capitol Hill, Google sits it out
• Twitter gives Alex Jones the boot
• Should Facebook be broken up?
• The FBI knows who hacked Sony and created WannaCry
• Space duct tape
• Theranos is finally, finally dead - are blockchain companies next?
• Chrome is 10, Google is 20
• Pixel 3 coming October 9th

Host: Iain Thomson

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Lisa Schmeiser, and Dwight Silverman

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Leo is on vacation, so Jason Snell is guest hosting!

Apple's next big event is September 12th, and we have a sneak peek at the new iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4.

The iPhone XS isn't the only big phone on the horizon. We also have a look at Google's Pixel 3.

YouTube's new tool helps you spend less time watching YouTube.

Trump takes a swing at Google. Is it a hit?

Microsoft wants you to never have to buy a new Xbox.

Uber thinks bikes and scooters are the future.

Who will speak for the bezels?

Host: Jason Snell

Guests: Ben Brock Johnson, Andy Ihnatko, and Brianna Wu

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• Tech companies are meeting in secret to discuss election security.
• FB wants your MRI to train its AI.
• The nightmare that is Facebook moderation.
• Refuse to unlock your phone in Australia ---> go to jail for 10 years.
• It's still very hard to figure out how to stop Google from tracking you.
• New iPhones comeing September 12th, we think.
• Verizon throttles firefighters.
• IMB patents thought-powered drones that deliver coffee straight to your mouth.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Iain Thomson, and Patrick Norton

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• Leave Elon alone! Tesla tumbles after Musk laments his "most difficult and painful year."
• Google employees revolt over China rumors; town hall meeting shut down due to "kerfuffle" tweets.
• Apple thinks that its headquarter buildings are worth 1/6th of an iPhone XS+.
• Australian teen Hacky Hack Hacks Apple's main computer network.
• MoviePass is failing miserably, but the French version is great!
• Google clarifies how constantly it tracks your location.
• US government wants to wiretap Facebook Messenger
• Facebook is not responsible for mews media's continued existence.
• Ajit Pai finally admits to congress that the FCC wasn't hacked.
• 10 nanometer transistors? Try 1/10th nanometer. German researchers develop a 1 atom transistor switch.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Michael Nuñez, and Harry McCracken

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• Samsung Announces the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Watch, and Galaxy Home musical cauldron.
• What is AI?
• Self-driving roll-out is increasing.
• Amazon wants you to pick up groceries at Whole Foods, and wishes you would shop more using Alexa.
• Twitter refuses to drop Alex Jones and InfoWars.
• Microsoft preserves Skype Classic.
• 11-year-old hacks Florida voting systems at DefCon and other voting security woes.
• Boston Dynamics is pumping out SpotMinis.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Florence Ion, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Apple is the first trillion dollar company ever.
• Is Universal Basic Income the fix for poverty in America?
• Alexa is Now the Ultimate in Home Security
• Why you should avoid Chinese phones.
• Facebook Dating is coming soon - will this make you spend too much time on Facebook?
• People still don't understand blockchain.
• Maybe you just shouldn't tweet.
• Ed Bott thinks the Surface Go is great!
• MoviePass is going out of business, and it's Owen JJ Stone's fault.
• Fortnight doesn't want to pay the Google Play store.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Owen JJ Stone, and Ant Pruitt

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• Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk.
• Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue.
• Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine.
• Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think.
• Slack eats HipChat. • Spectrum Internet gets kicked out of New York.
• Get a Tesla surfboard to go with your Boring flamethrower.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Mike Elgan

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