Don't Go to CES, Apple's Earnings Warning, Amazon's Great Holiday, and More!

Impossible Burger • Health and wearables • Amazon vs Google • Smart products and "Smart" products • Laptops • 5G • Wireless power • Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring

773 Million Password Megabreach, Tim Cook Wants Privacy, Alexa Board Games, and more.

2019 Tech Predictions, CRISPR Babies, Amazon Scout, Foldable Phones, and More!

FaceTime Flaw, Apple Spanks Facebook and Google, Huawei Suspicions, FBI Wants Your DNA, and more.

Improving government websites, blocking the big five, Spotify’s podcast move, and more.

Amazon Cancels NY HQ2 Plans, Our 5G Augmented Reality Future, Fortnite Carlton Dance Legal Battle, and more.

Folding phones at MWC, Hololens 2, conspiracies on YouTube, and more.

The end of smart-phones, AI fake people, Elon in the ditch again, and more.

Location Tracking, Facebook Privacy, Breaking Up Big Tech, and More!

Facebook Outage, Tesla Model Y, 5G: do we need it?, and more!

•What's Wrong with Google Stadia? •Google Stadia: Built for Youtube •Apple Event: What to Expect •Microsoft Pivoted to Services. Can Apple? •Devin Nunez' Cow Gains Half a Million Followers •The World of Hate on Twitter and Instagram •Facebox Stored Your Password in Plain Text •Google Kills off G+, Allo, Inbox, etc. Is Google Phone next? •DARPA's Open Source Voting System •Pwn2Own 2019: Safari, Firefox, & Edge Cracked •The Luxury of Screenless Life •Coding with the Pope

Apple's Celebrity Event • Apple and Fashion • Apple Credit Card • Apple News+ • Airpower is dead • Lyft IPO • Gig Economy and IPOs • Apple's Persistent Butterfly Keyboard Problem • Hacker Dupes FB and Google Out of $122 Million • Jeff Bezos and the Saudis • ASUS Security Flaw • Vulnerabilities in Supply-Chains • New Regulations in the EU • Elizabeth Warren and the Right to Repair • Facebook and Live • Huawei's Revenue • FTC Fines Robocall Companies • Swatter Gets 20 Years

•Ice Tea, Sandwiches, and Cybersecurity •Teslas Hacked by Stickers •Australia Bans Violent Material on Social Media •Apple News+: Dead Tree Media's Savior or Annihilator? •Facebook Wants Real News •Apple's 5G Quandary •Apple and Amazon "Hearables" •The Google Graveyard •Fake Cancer Hack •Mar-A-Lago Chinese Malware Attack •US DOJ Loves Netflix, Hates Spielberg

Privacy tax on the poor, baby’s first internet, technical literacy gulf, and more.

Galaxy Fold Fail, Qualcomm Crushes Apple, Guess Who Hates Hates Facebook Now, and more.

•Galaxy Fold Recalled After Screen Failures •Inside the Fake World of Influencers •Apple vs Apps vs iPhone Addiction •Growing Up Online: The Always-Connected Generation •Don't Forget to Cancel Apple News+! •Amazon Prime to Offer One-Day Delivery •Amazon Invests in Electric Vehicles •Amazon Doubles its Profits •Microsoft hits $1 Trillion •Which Tech Company has the Best Reputation? •Facebook Stole Your Email Contacts, Ready for Massive Fines •Hertz Sues Accenture for Terrible, Horrible Website •Netflix Wins Right to be in the Oscars •AI Writes the Best Country Song About Doors Ever •$16K Laundry Folding Robot Goes Bankrupt •Podcasts vs Luminary •Thanos Easter Egg Snaps Your Google Search

•Microsoft Build Preview •Microsoft's Privacy Reputation: How Deserved Is It? •Surface Studio Pros and Cons •Facebook's Privacy Problems on Display at F8 •Tik Tok: Facebook Killer or Just the Next Vine? •The Broken World of Social Media •Is Instagram Spying on Me? •Should Mark Zuckerberg be Personally Punished for Facebook's Failings? •Google Down on Earnings Report •Google I/O Preview •Attack of the Voice Assistants •Apple App Store Insanity •Apple Up on Earnings Reports •Surface vs MacBook vs Chromebook •Folding Phones are Still the Future: How Far in the Future Remains to be Seen •Who Wants Wearables? •How to Auto-delete your Google Location Info •2020 Presidential Candidates' Email is Surprisingly Easy to Hack •ACLU Sues US over Warrantless Border Phone Searches •Video Game Hall of Fame Adds Solitaire and Mario Kart •RIP Anki and Jibo :( •Screaming Roomba •Verizon Wants to Sell Tumblr After Destroying It •The Internet vs Sonic the Hedgehog •AR Brings 5 Madonnas to Life •Firefox Extensions Down After Glitch •Visit NAMI.org for National Mental Health Awareness Month

•The Failed Microsoft Build Hololens Demo • Microsoft's Build Keynote May Have Been a Bit Too Geeky • Microsoft Adds Linux Kernel to Windows: Is this the Beginning of the End for Windows? • Microsoft Word gets PC (Politically Correct, not the Other PC) • Should Facebook Be Broken Up? Its Co-Founder Says Yes • How Much Should Facebook be Fined by the FTC? • Snapchat Can Turn You from a Man to a Woman • Google I/O Keynote: Google Lens, Shrinking Machine Learning, and a Focus on Privacy • Google Promises Searchable Podcasts and AR in Search • Pixel 3a is a Flagship Phone at a Budget Price • How Long Will We Wait for Real 5G? • Google I/O: Incognito Maps, Project Mainline, and the End of Nest • One Broken Chip Can Brick Your Tesla • Uber IPO Makes a Few People Very Rich, but Still Loses Billions of Dollars • Bezos Shows off his Lunar Lander, Musk Teases Him • Jeff Bezos Really Doesn't Like Homeless People • The History and Future of Amazon Prime • Alexa is Listening • Hamas Cyber Attacks Israel, Israel Bombs Hamas • US DOJ Indicts Chinese Hackers for Anthem Attack • US Govt. Wants to Ban Loot Boxes • Samsung's Next Phone Could Have a 64 Megapixel Camera • Singapore Makes Fake News Illegal • Arya Stark's App for Creatives • Worldwide Helium Shortage Forces Party City to Close 45 Stores

The US vs Huawei • San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition • Chinese Owners Must Sell Grindr • FCC: Carriers Should Block Robocalls • Do You Know if Your iPhone has Been Hacked? • Big Tech's Problems Are Sociological, Not Psychological - Just Like Game of Thrones • Silicon Valley Millionaires: Silicon Valley is Bad • Get Off My Lawn! Is Tech Still Great? • Fake Joe Rogan • Is Medium Killing Blogs? • Hit By Ransomware? Just Pay the Ransom • ZombieLoad Fix Could Slow down Computers 40% • Hacking School Lunch • Google Knows What You Buy • RIP Grumpy Cat

Baltimore City Government held for Ransom by Hackers Using NSA tools • Own a House? Hackers Probably have your Social Security Number. • PlayDate: The Gaming Handheld with a Crank • Is Huawei Spying on Us? • Intel Breaks the 5.0GHz Barrier • Chinese Owner of Grindr Leaked User Data to Employees • US Air Force Being Cyber Attacked by US Navy • AMD Brings Ray Tracing to Computex • GDPR: One Year Later • Assange Charged under the Espionage Act • AI Deepfake Brings Mona Lisa to Life • Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Due to Disturbing GGI • SpaceX Launches Starlink Internet Satellites • The United States vs Lootboxes

Google Down! Is it 768K Day? • Huawei Stops Making Phones • WWDC Preview: Is iTunes Doomed? • WWDC Preview: Is the Mac Pro Doomed? • WWDC 2019 Preview: Is Intel Doomed? • WWDC Preview: Is Non-mobile Computing Doomed? • WWDC Preview: Will Apple Free the Watch? • WWDC Preview: Is your Eyesight Doomed? • WWDC Preview: iPhone Privacy Ruined by 3rd Party Apps • The Final iPod Touch Just Launched • Apple's Monopoly Propaganda Push • Foxconn: Tariffs in China and Mexico, Nothing Going in Wisconsin • Alexa, Delete What I Said Today • DOJ "Investigating" Google • Will Amazon Buy Boost Mobile? Will Microsoft? • BlueKeep Still Threatening 1M Windows Computers • Microsoft's Modern OS Manifesto • The US Requires All Immigrants to Provide Social Media Details • The UK Wants in on Your Encrypted Chats • Australian Cops Spy on You in McDonald's • North Face Gets Busted Spamming Wikipedia • RIP BBM • T-Series Beats PewDiePie to 100 Million • Play Cuphead on your Tesla

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

• 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.

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

•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 is 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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

•Amazon's paid tweeters program backfires •Telus email out for the past 4 days •$3 Million Fortnite winner SWATted •How Gamergate launched a culture war •Esports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to college •Verizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years ago •iPhone 11 coming September 10 - how private will it be? •Apple sues Corellium for virtualization service •Google's challenging past 3 years •Google forces Nest to leave recording lights on •iPhone 11 Pro Max? •Pixel 3a's faux 20x zoom •Rival search engines drop out of Google's search engine ballot auction •Amazon's Rekognition face recognition system can't tell the difference between congressmen and criminals •"NULL" vanity plate garners man $12,000+ in parking violations •3 simple ways to defeat face recognition •Update your Windows 10 system NOW. Seriously. •New Bluetooth KNOB attack •Huawei gets a break •Georgia required to use paper ballots •FTC willing to break up big tech •IKEA gets serious about smart tech •Disney after account sharers •Don't use Kaspersky anti-virus •Tesla owner implants her key in her arm •Apple shuts down 3rd-party WebKit anti-tracking abusers

•Hacking the US Military at DEF CON •Voting machine hacks at DEF CON •GDPR is a hacker's delight •Company sues DEF CON because their presentation was booed •Will the T-Mobile/Sprint merger go through? •Android Q is not a dessert •New phone season is here •Using mice to detect deepfakes •Navigating our increasingly fakeable world •Is computational photography more or less "real"? •Human connection in an online world •Apple TV+, Disney +, where does it end? •Apple Card and its various stains •Don't wash titanium with tap water •5G is as carcinogenic as coffee and pickles •WeWork IPO chicanery •Pokemon Go trespassing is still a problem •No, Instagram is not going to steal your photos

Apple Event September 10th: iPhone. Which phone will be better, iPhone 11 or Pixel 4? • Apple Event September 10th: Apple Watch. What health features should we expect, and how will they save Christina Warren's life this time? • Jack Hacked! Twitter CEO's Twitter account hacked by white supremacists. (Again.) Can Twitter ever be properly secured? (No.) Will someone hack Trump's account next? (Maybe they already have, we just don't know it.) • Trump proposes tracking US citizens with Fitbits to prevent mass shootings. • Reddit detectives figure out which satellite Trump uses to track Iranian space launch facilities after he tweets a picture of one. • 15% tariffs on Apple Watch, AirPods and HomePod start today! Apple vows to move all production back to America immediately. Just kidding - they're moving to Vietnam. So is Google Pixel. Coming soon: Iraqi-made Microsoft Surface Pro and Afghani HP laptops! • Project Zero at Google discovered a very interesting iPhone hack that went on for years. China used those hacks to target Uyghur Muslim Chinese citizens. • Black Hat attendees infected with a real-life virus: Measles! • Google doubles down on third-party trackers, arguing that eliminating them will break the web. Why this is a big fat lie. • Microsoft Surface event coming October 2nd. Greg Ferro wants to know why Windows still sucks. •Apple turns 180 degrees, allows 3rd-party repairs. • Microsoft gives ExFat to Linux. Can we please have NTFS next?

Apple testily responds to Google's Project Zero discovery of China's iOS hack against Uyghur Muslims. • Avoiding FUD: how secure is too secure? • Facebook leaks 420 Million users' phone numbers. In a related story, until recently, AT&T stored users' phone numbers in unencrypted paper files and delivered them directly to all US citizens. • Apple Event this Tuesday! Which new phone will win the 2019 Fall Challenge? • Phone Photography of the Phuture! • Apple Watch 5 is all about sleep. • Apple Tile, Apple Glasses, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, what else will happen on Tuesday? • Harry is excited about the 16 Inch MacBook coming soon. • Samsung Fold released in South Korea. It's not perfect, but it is a necessary step towards a cyberpunk future. • An AI beat an 8th-grade science test. My 8th grader spends most of his time in the backyard blowing up stuff. Should we be scared? • Joi Ito resigns over Epstein ties. Let's make sure we punish all the tech people who worked with Epstein and ignore all the bankers and politicians. • Bill Gates has spent the past 10 years rehabilitating his image. Will his ties to Jeffrey Epstein remind everyone what a jerk he used to be? • Verizon's 5G rollout to NFL stadiums only covers some seats. • DOJ demands Apple and Google give them data on everyone who downloaded a gun scope tuning app. • Supermicro flaw - no, not that Supermicro flaw, the other one. • Huawei says the US is cyber-attacking it. Um, Duh. • Biohacking is here. Stick a server in your thigh!

iPhone 11 vs iPhone 11 Pro • iPhone 11 Pro Max: the end of the Thinner Era • No High refresh rate for iPhone Pro • New iPhone colors: corpse purple, baby poop green • How durable is the iPhone 11 Pro? • Night mode, 3 lenses, high key: is iPhone 11 Pro the best phone camera you can buy? • iPhone 11 will be unlocked on day one • Apple seems ever so slightly more price sensitive this year • iPhone 11 camera bump: why not just make the phone thicker? • Apple Watch 5: always on • Apple Watch 5: aluminum vs titanium vs ceramic • Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ • Apple can't get JJ Abrams, even for a half-billion $$$ • 48 States coming after Google • Tech backlash? What tech backlash? • Are we building our own surveillance state? • Google's $995 Project Jacquard backpack • Where do we go after GDPR? • Want $125 from Equifax? Please jump through these flaming hoops. • Pixel 4: is there anything that hasn't leaked yet? • Which voice assistant is the best, and how can we make it better? • Microsoft Surface Event October 2 • Minecraft hits 112 million users a month • MoviePass finally folds

TWO AND A HALF DOZEN people invade Area 51 • iPhone 11 vs iPhone 7: is it worth the upgrade? • Apple Arcade is the best 5 bucks a month you can spend on games • Apple Watch 5 is the best computer you can wear on your wrist. • Taking cat pictures in the dark with iPhone 11 - which phone takes the best picture? How about video? • How many monthly fees to Apple are too many? • Apple wins its 2nd Emmy before Apple TV+ even comes out. • Who owns Slofie.com? How about Slophie.net? • Apple changes the update cycle • RIP 3D Touch. We won't miss you. • Apple's ultrawideband U1 Chip: what does it do? • iPhone 11 teardown • What to expect from Google's big October event • What to expect from Microsoft's big October event • Has Google achieved quantum supremacy? • How many bitcoin are lost forever? • When Zuck met Trump • Facebook creates Oversight Board: here's how it will work • Facebook Portal wants to watch you watch TV • Richard Stallman out at MIT and Free Software Foundation • Edward Snowden still wants to come home

What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event • Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo • Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you • Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for? • Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous • Do we really trust all these voice assistants? • Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall • Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling • Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state? • Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy • Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X • Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait • Mac Pro to be made in Texas • Google will stop showing news snippets in France • QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world? • Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them • Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech • Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!

Microsoft surprises us all with the two-screen Surface Duo phone • Apple's Deep Fusion poised to trump Google's Pixel 4 announcement • More than 500 ransomware attacks on US schools so far in 2019 • More red flags than a Chinese parade: WeWork's failed IPO • Apple loves freedom - except in China • US, UK, and Australian governments vs encryption • Lexy Savvides's Memoji secrets • Tim Cook can woo Trump all he wants, but Apple still has to pay 25% tariffs • CNET folds the Samsung Galaxy Fold until it breaks • Why did Windows Phone fail? Iain Thomson: "It was a thousand cuts of stupidity." • Microsoft's new Surface line is aimed straight at Apple • Will there be an October Apple event? All signs point to yes. • Google Seattle makes a literal product graveyard • Levis' Jacquard jean jackets • PayPal backs out of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency • Facebook vs Elizabeth Warren • Facebook says it's ok for political ads to lie • Twitter says it's ok for Trump to advocate civil war • Should Zuckerberg step down? Would that change anything? • Elon Musk's new Starship and its competition • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned about Tesla's Smart Summon feature • Hundreds of millions of "Words with Friends" accounts hacked • Japan turns off pagers after 50 years of honorable service

The Chinese propaganda app that spies on all Chinese citizens • Chinese influence in video games, social media, and other industries - where do we draw the line? • What is Tencent? How much influence do they have over the world? Here's how to keep them from watching your iPhone • Can we still trust Apple? Can we trust anyone? • At what point do we admit that we are in a multi-state information war? • Is there any way to fine Facebook fairly? Bring back the Office of Technology Assesment! • Remember: the answer to bad politics is not "no politics". It is good politics. • Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency is falling apart • There is a very good reason why politicians can lie on Facebook • How Boris Johnson games Google • There are no political ads in France. Could we do that in America? • Which weird phone stands a better chance: the Essential Gem or Microsoft Duo? • Apple Arcade is still wonderful. • How much do Americans know about tech? Not a lot. What should we do about that? • SCOTUS decides websites must be accessible to blind people • Lithium-ion battery inventors win Nobel Prize

•California passes law to kill the gig economy •Facebook refuses to ban lying in political adsWhy does internet access in America suck so much? •Pixel 4 event: kinda dull •Pixel 4 review: camera zoom not that great, face unlock works even if you are asleep or dead •Law enforcement face recognition banned in California for 3 years •Google focuses on "ambient computing" •Technopanic and social media •Zuckerberg is amoral, Facebook should just ban political ads •Google is great at everything but selling hardware •Pixelbook Go: perfect for college kids, but not for us •Google Nest Wifi sounds good •Air Force stops using 8-inch floppies to control missile launches •Malware makes ATMs spit out all their cash •Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber coming to a TV near you •RIP Yahoo Groups •Huawei is doing great! •Virgin Galactic shows of its spacesuits •Cobol turns 60 •Fortnite is down! Technical error or marketing genius? •Is TikTok China's entry into our children's minds? Or is Mike Elgan just paranoid?

•Facebook Launches News Section to Compensate Publishers •Zuckerberg faces heat in Congress: “It’s almost like you think this is a joke." •Fake Facebook ad claiming Lindsey Graham backs the Green New Deal is actually a test for Zuckerberg •Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL review: more than the sum of its sensors •Night Sight fight: The iPhone 11 kinda destroys the Pixel 4 with low light camera shots •AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard •Google is delivering some Pixel 4 phones in fun cereal boxes •Google Cereal review: Feature-packed but lacking in basic nutrition [Gallery] •Google will replace Home devices bricked due to latest firmware update •LOFT Portable Battery Base for Google Home •Amazon is spending billions on shipping as it makes Prime one-day delivery a reality •After Briefly Falling To Number Two, Jeff Bezos Is Back As The Richest Man In The World •Apple Pay overtakes Starbucks as the most popular mobile payment platform in the US •Gov't bill could see Emergency Alerts broadcast over streaming services like Apple Music •Microsoft's Over-the-Top VR Rig Lets You Explore a Virtual World While Walking IRL •TikTok could threaten national security, senators say •Motorola teases its foldable RAZR phone reveal for November 13th •The Huawei Mate X is set to ship next month for $2,400, but only in China •Elvis hands-on •Ant talks about his new show

•Google Buys Fitbit. Will this be like Google buying HTC, or like Fitbit buying Pebble? •Apple hires a new smart home team. Can they catch up with Amazon and Google? Can they fix what is wrong with HomeKit? •AirPods Pro review - the best earbuds we've ever worn. However, they are pricy, and they're still earbuds, with all the issues that come with that. •AppleTV+ launches. Can an Aaron Sorkin wanna-be, wacky Emily Dickinson, and sexy blind people win the streaming wars? •NBC's Peacock TV may be free with ads when it launches in April. •HBO Max launches in May for $15. Will it finally kill cable? •Twitter bans political ads. Facebook thinks they are just fine, even if they lie. How will Twitter figure out what is a political issue? Does Mark Zuckerberg really think "Lying is bad?" •PG&E cuts power to millions but still manages to start a 77,000-acre fire. Cell service also fails. So does Comcast. Is this the harbinger of all of America's aging infrastructure finally collapsing? •National Weather Service tweets out some useful tools to track wildfires and smoke. •It's the emoji season! The controversy this year: non-gendered emoji.

• Big Tech is trying to fix California's housing crisis by throwing $billions at it. Here's what they should do instead. • How can we fix the mess that is video conferencing? • Delivering drugs via drone: what could possibly go wrong? • Google open sources Cardboard, instead of just killing it as we expected. • The FBI is secretly using face recognition to track us. The ACLU thinks this is bad for some reason. • Apple is slowly tightening its privacy system. • Saudi spies infiltrate Twitter. Is Big Tech security-conscious enough? • FACEBOOK changes its logo. WHY? • Facebook and political ads • Photoshop for iPad is finally here. • Here are the best tools for vertical video. • Is Adobe's subscription model fair to consumers?

Apple's November Surprise: 16-Inch Macbook Pro brings back the scissor-switch keyboard and physical ESC key • Surface Book 3 Rumors, Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X Reviews • Microsoft's Project xCloud launches in early 2020 as the odds-on favorite to dominate game streaming • Google Stadia launches tomorrow as a failure • Goldman Sachs re-evaluating Apple Card credit limits after sexism accusations • Google will offer checking accounts to anyone who wants Google to know absolutely everything they pay money for. • Google's secret "Nightingale" health-care project and Fitbit purchase: Google wants to own your health data • Apple's Research App: do we trust Apple with our health data more than Google? • Disney+, Apple+, Peacock TV, etc - when will the streaming bubble burst? • YouTube creators: are you a kids' channel or an adult channel? • Is YouTube fracturing the world? Should we go back to all reading the same newspaper? • Apple kicks vaping apps out of the App Store, Canadian pot stocks crash - legal marijuana's bad week • Minecraft Earth launches in the US - the perfect demo for Azure Anchors • Hololens is still the future • So is the Oculus Quest • Are Apple Glasses? • British Labor Party offers free broadband - could this work in the US? • AI can tell if you are going to die - doctors baffled

Tesla’s unveils its new Cybertruck, watch out for shotputs! • NTSB says a fatal crash involving Uber’s Robocar was due to human error • Tesla tries to SWAT a whistleblower • Jack Dorsey’s hacker has been arrested • Google Stadia and what the future of gaming might look like • Can’t seem to print using Cloud, we’ll tell you why • Apple is building a new campus in Austin, guess who was there to help celebrate? • Apple tells Congress you shouldn’t be able to fix your iPhone because you could hurt yourself. Really Apple? • And they claim they are losing money when they do repair your iPhone for you. • SpaceX is serious about its Starlink satellites • Who gets to see and keep your Ring video doorbell footage? You might not be happy when you find out! • A new type of AI can predict seizures before they happen, and it’s amazingly accurate • PayPal just bought the coupon-finding browser extension Honey for $4 Billion! • Need a lawyer? Your next call might be a robot • Fox has plans for a new show, and the 50+ crowd might not like the name • A court has ruled that police can’t force a suspect to reveal his cellphone's password

Alexa sounds disappointed, Apple complies with Russian demands . Panel: Lisa Schmeiser, Iain Thomson, Alex Lindsay .

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Leo Laporte takes us through the past year in tech. 2019 highlights include Chinese CRISPR Babies, San Francisco's facial recognition surveillance ban, Grumpy Cat's sad death, the United States versus Huawei, Facebook's $5 billion FTC fine, the debut of Apple TV+, and more!