This Week's Stories

• Father Robert Ballecer talks about the Vatican's response to the Coronavirus in Italy.
• Father Robert Ballecer shows off this live broadcasting/podcasting setup
• MKBHD's 8k setup - RED cameras, multiple Mac Pros, LUTS, and motion tracking
• The Escobar Phone is a scam!
• The beginning of the end of smartphones
• Magic Leap in Crisis
• Leo wears the COVID-19 mask
• Foldable phones - why?
• How to cope with panic attacks - futurism in an accelerating world
• MKBHD's daily driver: Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Telepresence Robots are the future! (or maybe even the present)
• 2020 Conferences are all canceled. What will we lose by holding them digitally?
• Apple reopens Chinese stores, closes all others, cancels rumored March event, but might still launch new products next week
• Amy Webb's daughter's crypto network
• Is Tik Tok OK?
• Screen time in quarantine - active watching is the key
• MKBHD's New Year's Rockin' Eve - downscaled from 8K to 720p
• How YouTube processing works
• How MKBHD works - quality over quantity
• Custom vitamin blends and nootropics - direct-to-consumer sales take off
• Future Today Institute 2020 Tech Trends Report
• StarLink will bring the internet to everyone
• Everyone alive today is being scored
• The 2020s are the synthetic decade: how synthetic media will change the world
• Get Amy's book "Data, a Love Story" at https://amzn.to/2ILv43s via affiliate link!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Amy Webb, and Marques Brownlee

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