TWiT 727: Artisanal Pickles from Williamsburg

This Week in Tech (Audio)

• Episode: TWiT 727: Artisanal Pickles from Williamsburg
• Website: This Week in Tech (Audio)
• Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/twit.xml
• Duration: 02:21:03
• Published: 2019-07-15 02:18

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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