This Week in Tech (Video)

TWiT 672: Meme the Queen


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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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