This Week in Tech (Video HI): Recent Episodes
Leo Laporte
Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech. Join the top tech pundits in a roundtable discussion of the latest trends in high tech.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
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 CORVID-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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- Coronavirus Craziness: The Pope is OK, SXSW canceled, contractors can't get n95 masks, Chinese carmakers shut down
- The response to Coronavirus - big tech sends workers home, but restaurant workers have to keep the slinging hash
- Woz is NOT Patient Zero
- Countries respond to Coronavirus: stay on that cruise ship, China forces people to quarantine, US doubles down on the Patriot Act, Italy shuts down Lombardi
- Stock up on Soylent for your Coronavirus quarantine needs
- Apple rejects coronavirus apps
- Chinese students review bomb homework app
- Paris has awesome hobbies
- Apple forces workers to come to the Spaceship and retail stores, other tech giants send workers home
- March Madness without fans? Are we projecting the zombie apocalypse onto Coronavirus?
- Review: Thermomix TM6
- Baby Yoda toys killed by Coronavirus
- What to watch while you're quarantined
- Video games to play while you're quarantined
- Is it canceled? How to find out
- Warren drops out - which old white male candidate will die from Coronavirus?
- Brianna Wu gets hacked - she explains how to avoid her mistakes
- How to use nation-state level hacks yourself
- How the CIA used CryptoAG to spy on the world
- Apple allows ads in push notifications - watch this week's iOS Today to see how to turn them off!
- YouTube is recommending fewer conspiracy videos
- Nerf or nothing!
- Streaming drives the music industry to its greatest year ever
- Democratic Socialism Simulator vs Female Politician Simulator
- Nintendo Playstation prototype sells for $360,000
- Daylight Saving kills! Switch to UTC instead!
- SETI@Home shuts down, and bitcoin mining is destroying the world - switch to folding proteins for a Coronavirus cure
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Brianna Wu
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This Week's Stories
- Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial
- Your AirPods are on a two-year timer
- Safari snubs two-year certificates
- Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
- NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality
- Amazon Go Grocery Review
- Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data
- Activist investor attacking Twitter
- TikTok is fundamentally parasitic?
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Christina Warren, Michael Nuñez, and Bill Detwiler
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This Week's Stories:
- COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
- Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
- COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
- Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
- Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
- Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
- EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
- Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
- Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
- Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
- Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
- Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
- Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
- New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
- Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
- Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
- Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
- Adobe Photoshop turns 30
- $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
- Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA
- Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren
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This week's stories:
- Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears
- China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead.
- RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences?
- China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next?
- Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases?
- Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech!
- Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold?
- Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years
- Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS
- Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home)
- Google's new OS is called... Pigweed?
- Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year
- Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild!
- $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes)
- Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years
- Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge
- Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars
- Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available
- Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA
- Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux!
- Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it
- Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge
- Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism?
- HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst?
- Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year.
- T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way
- Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson
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This Week's Stories:
- Chaos, confusion, and disinformation define the 2020 US election
- Motorola Razr fails the fold test
- NYPD drops notebooks for iPhone app
- Don't charge at public USB chargers: "Juice Jacking" hackers will steal your data
- Hackers break into your network via Phillips Hue lightbulbs
- Sonos bricks old speakers
- Tesla remotely removes autopilot from used Model S
- Big shakeup at Microsoft - Panos Pinay gets a huge promotion
- Microsoft xCloud vs Nvidia GeForceNow vs Playstation Now
- US Navy uses Xbox controllers
- Windows 7 bug keeps users from shutting down, no way to update
- Deepfaking "The Irishman" - how CGI de-aged De Niro
- Disney wants to kill Section 230, and thus all social media and comment boards
- Real or fake: Russian dashcams and French locomotives
- 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet' Review
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Nate Lanxon, and Denise Howell
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This Week's Stories:
- Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?
- Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps
- Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China
- EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack
- Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people
- 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet
- Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?
- Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet
- FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data
- Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything
- Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything
- Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody
- Does tracking really make ads better?
- He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!
- Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case
- Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.
- IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires
- California halts .org sale
- 62 new emoji are here!
- Hummer is back and electric
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Brian McCullough, and Devindra Hardawar
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This Week's Stories:
- Was Jeff Bezos really hacked by Saudi Arabia?
- Welcome to the post-fact era. Embrace the power of ignorance!
- Sonos backs off threat to brick old speakers
- Apple pushes back against EU common charging standard
- Sundar Pichai calls for regulation of AI
- Why banning face recognition is just the first step
- One good thing about Brexit
- The tech angle of "Megxit"
- Biden calls game developers "little creeps"
- Tech execs are being SWATted
- Alan Turing's OBE medal, Ph.D. certificate, etc recovered from crazed superfan
- Throwboy is back with Pocket Pillows
- Vine is back as Byte
- Xerox still trying to buy HP
- Octi is augmented reality social media
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mike Elgan, Patrick Beja, and Iain Thomson
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This Week's Stories:
- Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
- The face recognition company that will end privacy
- FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
- NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
- Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
- Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
- Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
- Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
- Verizon's "private" search engine
- The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
- Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
- Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
- Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
- Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
- Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
- Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Sam Abuelsamid, and Patrick Norton
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CES 2020 wrap-up
- Sex tech at CES 2020
- Apple, Amazon, and others talk privacy at CES 2020
- Tech Giants at CES 2020
- The Sands: all the weirdest stuff at CES 2020
- The best TVs at CES 2020
- Future Concepts at CES 2020
- The Charmin Rollbot
- Biggest CES 2020 trends: vegetable-based meat, driverless cars, and bendable computers
- Our favorite gadgets from CES 2020: from 8k TVs to electronic rosaries
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ant Pruitt, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Hiner
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This Week's Stories
- Video games don't cause mass shootings, but toxic gamer culture doesn't help
- White House proposes social media censorship
- Apple wants as many people as possible to get the Apple Card
- Are Teslas reliable?
- Chase forgives Canadian customers' debt
- Apple locks out DIY battery repairs
- FedEx splits with Amazon
- Amazon's PillPack fighting with CVS and Walgreens
- Woz wants you off Facebook
- Teenagers work overnight to make Amazon Echo
- Samsung Note 10 kills headphone jack and Bixby button, embraces Microsoft
- FBI, NSA want hackers, even if they used to smoke pot
- Defcon takes on voting machine security
- Elizabeth Warren's plan for rural broadband
- US Navy ditching touchscreen controllers
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Brianna Wu, Ben Johnson, and Sam Abuelsamid
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This Week's Stories
- Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
- Phone season starts this week
- Apple gearing up on R&D
- Amazon takes over
- RIP Amazon Dash button
- Your Assistant is listening
- Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
- Capital One hack
- Apple Bluetooth security hack
- Facial recognition for drunks
- Chinese smile to pay
- Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
- AI customer service hell
- Amazon partnering with police
- Turkey cracks down on Internet
- Instagram from Facebook
- Livestreaming Funerals
- Spotify takes off
- US Govt vs social media addiction
- Locast gets sued
- Ninja moves to Mixer
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt
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- Apple buys Intel's modem business
- House passes anti-robocall bill
- Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September
- As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier
- iPadOS is the Future of Apple
- iPhone 11 is all about the camera
- Note 10 - no headphone jack, no buttons
- How Apple fights factory thefts
- Apple Card coming in August
- Google will buy your face for $5
- Facebook founder wants to break up Facebook
- Google bans repair business search ads
- Big government vs big tech
- Do not install PremierOpinion software from VoiceFive
- Pampers develops "smart" diapers
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lisa Schmeiser, and Lexy Savvides
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- Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
- Russian Intelligence Service hacked
- Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
- Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
- Equifax fined $700 million
- TikTok takes over
- Celebrate World Emoji Day
- New MacBook Air have slower SSD
- Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
- Trump threatens Google
- Congressional hearings on Big Tech
- Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
- Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
- Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
- Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
- How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
- Influencers are taking over the world
- Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Iain Thomson
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Top Stories This Week
- Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
- The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
- Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
- Instagram vs bullies
- Prime Day deals and dilemmas
- Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
- Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
- Your car is watching you
- Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
- RIP MacBook
- Mac update kills Zoom hack
- Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
- Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
- Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
- Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
- Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
- Netflix Cuphead Show
- Prime Day phishing scams
- HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
- France's Tech Tax
- Niantic kills its first app
- Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
- Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
- Google is listening to you in Flanders
- Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
- A eulogy for the father of the password
- Chatterbox will teach children robotics
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins
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This Week's Stories
- HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
- Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
- The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
- Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
- Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
- MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
- Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
- Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
- Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
- Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
- Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
- Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
- Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
- Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
- Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mikah Sargent, Patrick Beja, and Simone de Rochefort
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This Week's Stories
- The iPhone turns 12 today
- Jony Ive is leaving Apple
- Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
- Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
- Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
- Another city just got hacked!
- Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
- Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
- It looks like Huawei is back in business
- White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
- Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
- Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
- A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
- Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
- Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
- Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
- Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
- Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jason Hiner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren
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This Week's Stories
- Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response
- The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed
- More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"
- Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists
- Google was just caught red-handed
- Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
- Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show
- Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger
- Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China
- The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed
- A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing
- Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers
- Is Google Chrome spying on us?
- Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness
- Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced
- GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart
- A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Kate O'Neill
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- Sony and EA MIA at E3 - does E3 matter anymore?
- Computex, on the other hand, was huge this year
- What is a Gamer?
- E3 2019 was the year streaming gaming broke big
- E3 2019: The Keanussaince
- Why are games announced so far in advance?
- Stadia, xCloud, and the future of streaming games
- Think VR is Over? Oculus Quest would like a word with you.
- Xbox Scarlett announcement
- What will games look like in 10 years?
- How Nintendo Won E3 2019
- Pixel 4 Leaked - by Google!
- The Ethics of video game journalism
- Huawei stops making Matebooks, blames Trump
- Apple doubles down on privacy, but Celebrite says it can crack any iPhone
- Pax > E3
- Microsoft buys Double Fine
- Target cash registers fail nationwide
- Argentina loses power
- US attacks Russian power stations: the cyber Cold War escalates
- US Border Patrol leaks 100,000 licence plate photos
- La Liga app spied on users to try to stop piracy
- Telegram DDoSed by China over Hong Kong protests
- Facebook to launch "Zuck Bucks" cryptocurrency next week
- Huawei delays the Mate X foldable phone, but it's not Trump's fault.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cherlynn Low, Jeff Cannata, and Shane Satterfield
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- The Mac Pro is Only for the People Who Need It
- The iPad Grows Up with iPadOS
- Where is Apple Headed?
- iTunes is Dead! Hurrah!
- Apple Triples Down on Privacy
- Memoji Makeup is a Minefield
- SwiftUI is the Future of Coding
- 3D Touch is Almost Officially a Failure
- Cyberpunk 2077 is Going to be the Best Keanu Reeves Game Ever
- Who is Google Stadia For?
- Google's Outage Last Week Shows that We are Not Ready for Google Stadia
- YouTube's Biggest Problem: The Recommendation Engine
- Jeff Bezoz Interrupted By Animal Rights Protestor
- Fed Ex to Cut Ties with Amazon
- Amazon Drones Are Still A Ways Off
- 68 Percent of Facebook Investors Vote to Fire Mark Zuckerberg
- Facebook's Bitcoin Alternative is a Solution in Search of a Problem
- Microsoft Thinks Gamers Stink
- RIP Maker Faire
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Harry McCracken, and Megan Morrone
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- MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and Wearables
- This Person Does Not Exist
- OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist
- Outrage Mobs and Twitter
- China's Social Credit System Could Take Over the World
- Google and Saudia Arabia's Woman Tracking App
- Silicon Valley and the US Military
- Do We Even Need Facebook?
- Make Elon Musk Stop Tweeting!!!
- TikTok fined $5.7 Million
- Tenn Hacker gets $1 Million in Bug Bounties
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Amy Webb and Brianna Wu
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- Foldable Phones Hit MWC 2019
- Microsoft Announces Hololens 2
- Netflix at the Oscars
- Apple and Goldman Sachs Release Credit Card Linked to iPhone
- Apple to Combine iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps
- YouTube: Home of Pedophiles, Anti-Vaxxers, and Flat Earthers
- How Facebook Gets Your Info from Other Apps
- Facebook In Trouble with UK, Spied on Android Users
- Stephen Wolfram on Productivity
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ben Johnson, Florence Ion, and Seth Weintraub
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- Amazon Cancels NY HQ2 Plans
- Amazon Pays $0 Federal Income Taxes
- Amazon Buys Eero • Facebook vs Anti-Vaxxers
- The Most Popular App in China
- Samsung Galaxy S10+eF5G
- Our 5G Augmented Reality Future
- Apple News Event March 25th
- New HoloLens Coming Next Sunday
- Buzzfeed Unionizes
- Pokemon Go Trespassing Legal Battle
- Fortnite Carlton Dance Legal Battle
- Apex Legends Eats Fortnite's Lunch?
- Tetris 99 is the Battle Royale Game You Didn't Know You Needed
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Lindsey Turrentine, and Sam Machkovech
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- Alphabet Earnings: Google's Cost Per Click
- Cutting out Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft
- The US to Ban Huawei 5GTech
- Germany Outlaws Facebook's Business Model
- What if Google Just Doesn't Pay Its Fines?
- Amazon Might Back Out of NY HQ2 * Amazon Live is Twitch for Infomercials
- Spotify Buys Gimlet and Anchor
- Apple to Pay France 500M Euros in Back Taxes
- Angela Ahrendts Says Goodbye to Apple
- Apple's Security Wins and Losses of the Week
- Microsoft Says: Don't Use IE or Office 2019
- Sprint Sues AT&T Over Fakey 5GE
- Marshmello Fortnite Concert is a Herald of the Future
- 2020 Olympic Medals Will be Made Out of Recycled iPhones
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Matt Cutts, Gina Trapani, and Dwight Silverman
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- How to Watch the Superbowl Commercials Without All That Annoying Football
- Apple's Not So Horrible Quarterly Earnings
- Facetime Flaw Dulls Apple's Privacy Shine
- Apple Spanks Facebook and Google for Data Slurping
- How Much Does Facebook Suck?
- Huawei's Tendrils
- Family Tree DNA Gives FBI DNA Records
- Japanese Govt Will Hack IoT Devices
- SF to Ban Law Enforcement Facial Recognition
- Spotify Wants to Buy Podcasters Gimlet for $200M
- Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls in 2018
- Netflix vs Amazon = Quality vs Quantity
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Devindra Hardawar, and Christina Warren
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- WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger to Merge
- 2019 Predictions- Amazon Will Rise, Twitter Will Fall
- CRISPR Babies Confirmed
- Amazon Scout Will Usher in the Age of Autonomous Delivery
- France Fines Google 50M Euros
- Google loses right to be forgotten case
- Foldable Phones are on the Way!
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- Apple's Tim Cook Calls for Data Privacy.
- 773M Passwords Pwned - How to Find Out If Yours Was.
- Amazon Tries to Make Alexa Sound "Newsy."
- Google Buys Fossil.
- 74% of Facebook Users are Clueless.
- Facebook's 10 Year Challenge.
- Atari Founder Making Alexa Board Games.
- Stop Using Windows Phone!
- Tokyo Hotel Fires Half its Robots.
Host: Leo Laporte
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All of our favourite products and trends at CES 2019!
- Impossible Burger
- Health and wearables
- Amazon vs Google
- Smart products and "Smart" products
- Laptops
- 5G
- Wireless power
- Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Cherlynn Low, and Stacey Higginbotham
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- Apple tanks on Tim Cook's earnings warning - is the golden age of iPhone over?
- Are Facebook and Google too big to Fail? No. Here's why.
- China and the US duel over security, AI, and quantum computing.
- Qualcomm vs Apple legal battles heat up.
- Fortnite and Pokemon Go rake in the dough in 2018.
- Amazon wins big over the holiday season.
- Microsoft wants to give you control over your digital data.
- For the 1st time in 20 years, an entire year's worth of books, movies, and art enters the public domain.
- The 10-second toothbrush, the Kurigization of Things (KoT) and more reasons why you shouldn't go to CES 2019.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Iain Thomson, Mike Elgan, and Alex Wilhelm
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The Best of TWiT from 2018!
Host: Leo Laporte
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