This Week in Tech (Video)

• The future is flying cars! (Or not-flying cars, perhaps holes in the ground.)
• Apple's new MacBooks suffering from thermal throttling - is it the end for Intel?
• Google hit with $5 billion fine by EU for Android shenanigans.
• Will Fuschia be Google's one OS to rule them all?
• EU works on new laws of robotics.
• Google Translate starts spouting prophesy.
• Jeff Bezos is the richest man in history, but still gets his own hoagies.
• Elon Musk settles his farting unicorn feud.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Greg Ferro

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• Do Apple's new MacBooks fix the company's keyboard woes?
• Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow. Will it be worth the hype? Will it push Amazon's share of the e-commerce market past 50%?
• Folding tablets. Phones with 9 cameras. What is next?
• Will AT&T destroy HBO by trying to expand it?
• Hey Elon: maybe don't call a heroic diver who helps rescue 12 kids a "pedo" just because he didn't use your submarine.
• Fortnite takes the World Cup Final by storm.
• Balance is restored to Reddit.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jessica Conditt, Brian X. Chen, and Brian McCullough

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• Billionaires prepare for the coming apocalypse: have you bought your missile silo condo yet?
• London police's facial recognition fail: pilot program results in 98% false positive rate, zero arrests.
• Amazon expanding its cashierless Amazon Go stores.
• Celebrity impersonators, mob justice, and more reasons to stay off social media.
• Prime Day coming on July 16th.
• Netflix's 2018 content budget expands to $13 billion.
• Thanos inspires Reddit's biggest ban ever.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Lisa Schmeiser, and Jason Hiner

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• Apple vs Samsung settled: our long international nightmare is over.
• A proposed US law has patent trolls jumping for joy.
• Amazon jumps into the healthcare business by buying online pharmacy PillPack.
• Foxcon's new Wisconsin plant breaks ground.
• Yet another Facebook security breach, but this time a bug bounty program catches the leak.
• Twitter's new Ad Transparency Center opens new avenues for journalists.
• The sky is falling in Fortnite.
• WPA3 could make Wi-Fi a lot more secure.
• California follows Europe down the data privacy road.
• Christina Warren knows all the Andromeda secrets, but she's not talking.
• AOL Instant Messenger is reborn!
• StumbleUpon is not. :(

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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• The US Supreme Court kills warrantless cell phone location fishing and okays state sales taxes on internet purchases.
• Apple offers refunds on MacBook butterfly keyboard repairs and wants to let you use your iPhone to unlock your car.
• Amazon wants to put Alexa in your hotel room, and everywhere else.
• Professional videogames are going mainstream, with huge stadiums and $100 million prizes.
• A proposed European Union copyright law will declare war on memes.
• IGTV is Instagram's attempt to jump on the online video bandwagon.
• Plus: transhumanism, Domino's as an infrastructure company, and IBM's new debate robot!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Ben Johnson, and Devindra Hardawar

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Social media is still destroying the world. Top trends at E3. The end of Net Neutrality and the AT&T/ Time Warner Merger are a 1-2 punch against consumers. Automation is taking jobs in China and at Amazon. White house hacked. GDPR is killing email marketing. Theranos founder up on charges.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Jeff Cannata, and Dan Patterson

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• A New Tech Manifesto by Baratunde: how to reinvent social media to improve all our lives.
• Apple's WWDC announcements: Screen Time restores balance to your life, memojis avoid the uncanny valley, ARKit 2 might (might) actually have usefull apps, Siri Shortcuts might (might) make Siri useful, macOS Mojave makes much-needed improvements to the Finder, tvOS gets Dolby Atmos.
• Gmail's improved design is headed your way.
• Microsoft buys GitHub: how MS went from a Windows monolith to an open-source champion.
• Computex's big announcements: Intel fudges some numbers, AMD's new Threadripper 2, and ASUS put a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Alex Wilhelm, and Baratunde Thurston

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• Apple's WWDC this week looks like it may be a disappointment for anyone hoping for new hardware.
• Facebook is killing its "Trending Topics" section.
• Teens prefer Instagram and Snapchat to Facebook; close to half are "almost constantly" online.
• The Atari VCS is coming soon for expensive retro gaming.
• Scooters and bikes are becoming a problem for San Francisco.
• The new emoji are coming!
• A Canadian Hacker gets 5 years for his part in the Russin-linked Yahoo breach.
• Microsoft is worth more than Google.
• Self-driving technology picks up speed as California ok's free autonomous taxis.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Seth Weintraub, Larry Magid, and Greg Ferro

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• The FBI wants you to reboot your router right now. FBI agents have gained control of a huge Russian botnet. If your router is affected you just need to reboot it.
• Facebook and Russian ads - how should government react in the age of cyber warfare?
• Amazon sells facial recognition software to law enforcement officials. Is this an invasion of privacy, or a good example of public/private cooperation?
• Alexa records a couple's conversation and sends it to a friend. Amazon has a convoluted explanation, but it may just come down to odds.
• Google's AI can order you food, but Microsoft's can check in on your feelings, at least in China.
• GDPR confusion takes news sites offline and sparks billions of dollars worth of lawsuits.
• Disney's bid to buy Fox gets some competition from Comcast. Does this mean that Hulu is doomed?
• Senators call for investigation into fake pro-net neutrality comments
• Three charged in swatting death

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Matt Cutts, and Brian Forde

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Microsoft's new Surface Hub 2. Google Duplex freaks everyone out. GDPR shouldn't freak people out - unless you work in adtech. Fortnite is coming to Android. Apple caves in to China again, pays some Irish taxes, and goes shopping for a new campus. Washington D.C is full of Stingray spy devices. Yanny or Laurel: depends on your speakers. US Copyright laws may be extended to protect Mickey Mouse for 144 years.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Patrick Beja, and Brian McCullough

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