This Week in Tech (Video)

CES 2017: The year of Alexa. Apple has "a great holiday," but misses 2016 sales targets. Mark Zuckerberg could run for President and still run Facebook. Samsung gets a fourth-quarter profit, even after Note 7 recall. Russia demands that Google and Apple pull LinkedIn from their stores.

Phillip Elmer-DeWitt thinks the best reporting out of CES was one woman's Hunter S. Thompson-esque acid trip.

Clayton Morris thinks President of the USA would be a big step DOWN for Zuckerberg

Leo's New Year's resolution: no more saying the "A word" on air.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Kara Swisher, Clayton Morris, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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With your help we've put together the best clips from 2016 on This Week in Tech!

Host: Leo Laporte

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Our special holiday episode with a look back on some of the most influential tech stories of the year. Happy Holidays!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rene Ritchie, Steve Gibson, and Denise Howell

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Tech summit at Trump Tower. Why fake news appeals to your lizard brain. 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked. Why Pebble had to sell to Fitbit. Uber refuses to stop testing self-driving cars in San Francisco. Google creates a new self-driving company, Waymo. Apple's new emoji in iOS 10.2.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Steven Levy, Georgia Dow, and Steve Kovach

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Samsung pushes out an "update" that kills the Note 7 once and for all - unless you're on Verizon. Tech heavyweights meet with Trump this week. CIA determines that Russians hacked the DNC and RNC. Amazon creates a cashierless store with Amazon Go. Why are the AirPods delayed? PewDiePie trolls us all. Wearables are dead.

• Ed Bott talks about our post-fact era
• Christina Warren shows off her Snapchat Spectacles
• The top 10 YouTubers make Devindra Hardawar (and the rest of us) feel old

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Christina Warren, and Devindra Hardawar

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We discuss the UK's Investigatory Powers Act, which give sweeping new powers to British intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Will automation take all our jobs? What then? Black Friday sales online hit a new record, with a third of online sales happenning on mobile devices. Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Ian Thompson gives his unique perspective on the Snoopers Charter
• Jason Snell thinks that it is too early to judge the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
• Larry Magid knows how to keep kids safe online without abandoning democracy

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Snell, Iain Thomson, and Larry Magid

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British Parliament passes the Snoopers Charter. Fake news is on the rise. Snapchat files for a secret IPO. Selfie deaths have more than doubled each year for the past three years. Apple charges $300 for a book of pictures of Apple products.

• Owen J.J. Stone can't even believe the new MacBook Pro
• Georgia Dow thinks the key to breaking our addiction with technology lies in education and good parenting
• Baratunde Thurston wants you to take action for what you believe in

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Owen JJ Stone, and Baratunde Thurston

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Did Facebook help Donald Trump win the US Presidential Election? Apple's new MacBook Pro is selling better than last year's model. Google's Daydream View VR headsets are out, and they are hot. Literally. Twitter's COO leaves - is Twitter in trouble? Snapchat's new Spectacles go on sale - if you can find them. The Unicode Consortium approves 56 new emojis. Sadly, not Finland's suggested emojis - "sauna" and "heavy metal headbanger."

• Mike Elgan thinks that Facebook has to step up to the fact-checking bat when it comes to its News Feed.
• Alex Wilhelm can't stop tweeting - in fact, he's tweeting right now!
• Lauren Hockenson gives her first-hand impressions of the Daydream View

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Lauren Hockenson, and Alex Wilhelm

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Days before the US elections, we discuss the preeminence of social media, the difficulty of fact checking, and the loss of trust in the media that has occured this year. Is Apple's recent MacBook announcement an acknowledgement that they are no longer a Macintosh company? Samsung has received 85% of its recalled Note 7 phones - now they just have to get the 2.8 million potentially explosive diswashers they just recalled. Google home is out - how does it stack up against the Amazon Echo?

• Leo asked the question - if Apple has lost their mojo, where will the next great innovation come from?
• Jason said Elon Musk will save the world.
• Peter said Snapchat will revolutionize how we interract with one another.
• Jonathan said there is a solder monkey tinkering away in a garage somewhere that will outdo them all.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Peter Rojas, Jonathan Abrams, and Jason Calacanis

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Apple announces the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update, Twitter kills Vine and lays off almost 10% of its workforce, Google Home arriving next week, DirecTV Now gives 100 channels for $35, and Uber delivers 50,000 Budweisers with their Otto self-driving semi.

• Leo wants to know - have Apple and Microsoft swapped brains?
• Are we heading toward a world where you don't know which virtual assistant to ask what?
• What is scarier: a self-driving beer truck or artificial intelligence that can talk to each other using unbreakable encryption

Guests: Tom Merritt, Christina Warren, and Steven Levy

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