This Week in Tech (Video LO)

TWiT 773: The Duchess of Sealand

Sun, 31 May 2020 17:41:49 PDT

Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd Protests
Trump vs Twitter: what is Section 230?
Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say?
Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order?
Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"?
Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hours
SpaceX launches humans into space from American soil for the first time in 9 years
Google postpones Android 11 beta launch due to protests
Switzerland's Apple/Google COVID contact tracing app vs France's StopCovid app
France offers Twitter a new home if they want to leave America. What country do you think Twitter should move to?
Microsoft lays off dozens of journalists, will replace them with AI. Journalist Bill Detwiler desperately defends his fellow humans.
US House of Representatives to vote to allow FBI to read your browser history without a warrant
HBO Max is one streaming service too many
Amazon Look style camera will stop working in July. Denise Howell's Instagram will never be the same
Some Good News sells to CBS
Pokemon Go Fest this July will be fully virtual
Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to be Black" discusses his reaction to the racial events of the past week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Bill Detwiler, Denise Howell, and Baratunde Thurston

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TWiT 772: 52 Cents & a Bag of Pop Chips

Sun, 24 May 2020 19:05:07 PDT

Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month
College Board sued over flawed online AP tests
Minecraft Dungeons Review
Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month
Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!
Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64
All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream
Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework
Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft
Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state
Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive?
Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms
How to beat Zoom fatigue
Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse?
Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse
Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid?
What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use?
Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard
How well is your school handling distance learning?
Different communication strokes for different gamer folks
Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive
HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world
Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement
Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation
Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court
Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lindsey Turrentine, Daniel Rubino, and Lisa Schmeiser

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TWiT 771: Ferment All the Things

Sun, 17 May 2020 21:42:12 PDT

Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5

Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million
Facebook setting up a political advocacy group for big tech
US Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online ads
Trump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left"
Facebook has half of its oversight board in place already
Zoom fatigue is real: is avatar-based chat the cure?
Apple AR glasses coming in 2021
Unreal Engine 5 will push game development to new heights
Twitter says that people can work from home forever - but should they?
Robotic backboard makes all the shots

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dwight Silverman, Mike Elgan, and Brianna Wu

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TWiT 770: The Vanna White Effect

Sun, 10 May 2020 17:04:59 PDT

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12

Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce it
Zoom buys Keybase to fix encryption
Google Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with Zoom
Zoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race, to begin with?
Leo won't give up on jitsi even though it sounds like a mold
Rich DeMuro says Zoom is like slime
Teslas now stop automatically at red lights (and green)
Google abandons its plans for a data-driven community in Toronto
Is Amazon handling the coronavirus crisis well?
Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay over whistleblower firings
Australia wants Google to stop showing news snippets
Do ISPs need bandwidth caps? Is everybody working from home hogging all the bandwidth?
New 13-inch MacBook Pro heralds the end of butterfly keys
Microsoft 10X will come to single-screen devices in 2021
Pixel Buds vs Surface Earbuds vs AirPods
Boston Dynamics Spot robot patrolling Singapore parks to enforce social distancing
BBC releases Zoom backgrounds
A hazmat-inspired suit lets you party, drink, and vape in safety

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Rich DeMuro, and Larry Magid

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TWiT 769: Me? I'm On Unhinged

Sun, 03 May 2020 17:20:24 PDT

Elon Musk Goes Crazy, Tik Tok Takes Over

Elon Musk loses Tesla $14 Billion with one reckless tweet
TikTok gets more than 2 billion downloads in record time
Apple/Google contact tracing approved by the CDC - will you install it?
Apple makes it easier to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask
Google Buds 2 is a huge improvement over the original
Microsoft announcing Xbox Series X game son May 7th
John Legere is sad he no longer runs T-Mobile
Starlink launches 422 satellites
Will Quibi succeed?
The truth behind John Krasinski's Some Good News
Quarterly reports - Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon are all up
Spotify revenue is up
Why we like the new iPhone SE

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Devindra Hardawar, and Alex Wilhelm

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TWiT 768: Steer Into the Skid

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:03:42 PDT

Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology

Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide.
The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication
Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust?
France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation?
The best videoconferencing etiquette
Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus?
What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost
AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway
Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed?
Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis
Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education?
How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone
Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs
Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours
The next world war will be fought in cyberspace
Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Iain Thomson

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TWiT 767: Fifteen Years Later

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:31:49 PDT

TWiT's 15th Anniversary, iPhone SE, Best Audio Equipment You Can Buy

iPhone SE vs Sidekick 2
EARN IT will kill end-to-end encryption. Call your senator now!
AMD is kicking Intel's butt
The best speakers you can buy
The best DACs you can buy
The best headphones and headphone amplifiers you can buy
The story of the first TWiT
Catching up with Scott Herriott
Catching up with Kevin Rose
Catching up with Patrick Norton
Catching up with Robert Heron
Why Kevin Rose Doesn't Use Android
Why Robert Heron loves Google Fi and the Pixel
Magic Wormhole: how to encrypt your communications
John Prosser: iPhone SE Plus coming soon
iPad Pro Magic Keyboard turns the iPad Pro into a laptop
More catching up with Kevin Rose
Reminiscing about the good old days - Leisure Suit Larry, FidoNet, and BBSs
Caveat Emptor: many NAS drives use SMR
Computer security now vs 15 years ago
Hard drives now vs 15 years ago
Want a great $20,000 stereo? Buy the Symbol Audio Modern Record Console
iRacing is the best esport in the world

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, and Scott Herriot

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TWiT 766: Zoom, But Use Protection

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:15:38 PDT

Apple+Google COVID tracking app, 5G towers burning, Zoom tips

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5G towers are being burned in England and the Netherlands to stop coronavirus. We have officially hit maximum techno panic.
Apple and Google are building a coronavirus phone tracking app. Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? Because this is how you get a cyberpunk dystopia!
Zoom is the best option for group video chat, but only if you use it right, and only if you don't need perfect privacy.
We show all the free TV shows you can watch online.
What we are doing in quarantine: soap making, Half-Life Alyx, Castlevania, start your own video channel
Smart toilet recognizes your butt and scans your poop for diseases
Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion to Coronavirus research, with full transparency
Apple displays COVID testing locations and launches Today at Apple at Home
Why Apple stopped charging Amazon Prime Video the 30% "Apple Tax"
Amazon workers are terrified to go to work, but at least they have a job
Travelex paid 285 bitcoin to ransomware hackers - watch out for COVID Phishing
Quibi has 300 Million installs in its first week, while Tik Tok crosses 1 Billion
Distance learning: school attendance is at 50%
Passover Seder on Zoom
Leo is back on Facebook
John Conway, creator of Conway's Game of Life has passed due to coronavirus

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Rene Ritchie, and Owen JJ Stone

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TWiT 765: Holds Each Cheek Separately

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:26:35 PDT

Zoom Security Issues, iPhone SE

Zoom goes from 10 million to 250 million daily users, struggles with zoombombing and security issues
Where is the iPhone SE? The budget iPhone could be launched any day.
Can Apple maintain its famed secrecy with employees working from home?
Apple buys Dark Sky Weather App, shuts down Android App
iOS 14 may add widgets, live wallpaper
Who controls the weather? NOAA, Weather Channel, IBM, Apple?
Nations are tracking their citizens' location to stop coronavirus - will they stop when the crisis is over? Who else is tracking us?
Do you know how to program COBOL? Help New Jersey fight coronavirus!
Amazon has hired 80,000 workers, puts safety measures in place, fires strike organizer
Instacart strike gets workers free health and safety kits
Amazon will offer a virtual film festival to show SXSW films, movie theaters are offering streams
What we're watching in quarantine - Little Fires Everywhere, Devs, free HBO shows, Bhagavad Gita and filmmaking on YouTube
Quibi is launching at the best time possible
FCC opens up 6GHz band for Wi-Fi use

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Jason Hiner, and Brian McCullough

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TWiT 764: Tech Support in Tights

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:27:23 PDT

Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
Notes from the final CanSec security conference
Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
Free e-books from the Library of Congress
Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott

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