TWiT 739: Bob Ross with Biceps

This Week in Tech (Audio)

• Episode: TWiT 739: Bob Ross with Biceps
• Website: This Week in Tech (Audio)
• Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/twit.xml
• Duration: 02:14:44
• Published: 2019-10-07 05:11

This week's stories

• 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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Iain Thomson, and Lexy Savvides

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