This Week in Tech (MP3)

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 Guests: Sebastian Peak, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: ouraring.com use code TWIT Ziprecruiter.com/Twit expressvpn.com/twit Atlassian.com

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: WordPress.com/twit www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT FreshBooks.com/twit go.itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Atlassian.com getquip.com/twit LastPass.com/twit Ziprecruiter.com/Twit

The Best of TWiT from 2018! Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: eero.com/twit code TWIT LastPass.com/twit betterment.com/twit

Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go? Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr. Elon Musk's ups and downs The biggest mergers of 2018 Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news Bloomberg's big blunder China's social credit system and CRISPR babies Those we lost in 2018 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: John C. Dvorak, Owen JJ Stone, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: simplecontacts.com/twit promo code TWIT betterment.com/twit twit.cachefly.com brex.com/twit

Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for. The internet is a garbage fire of hate. It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump. The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers. The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott. The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure. Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts. The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you. YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Harry McCracken, and Michael Nuñez Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Avnet.com/Music1 BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 Molekule.com promo code TWIT75

What role did Facebook play in the French riots? Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists. Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails. Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at. And then there were 5: Google tries to make sense of its Messaging platforms. Meanwhile, Apple's iMessage is the one app that could rule them all. Microsoft puts some Chromium in their Edge. Canada arrests Huawei's CFO for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran. Australia passes a dangerously vague anti-encryption law. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Rich DeMuro, Patrick Beja, and Sam Abuelsamid Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: TWIT2.robinhood.com www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT RING.COM/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit

Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day ever Marriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 years Indian Microsoft scammers busted Amazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum blockchain, and more from re:Invent When is Amazon rolling out Prime Health? UK grabs thousands of Facebook emails from bikini app company Google's China woes continue Apple at the Supreme Court Microsoft tops Apple as world's most valuable company Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Nate Lanxon, Devindra Hardawar, and Dwight Silverman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: tryhopsy.com/twit WordPress.com/twit audible.com/twit RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2

US government tells allies not to buy Huawei products China to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020 Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X? Google News may leave EU over link tax Cards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses. For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft was the world's most valuable company Social media influencers and social media backlash Amazon wants to buy Fox sports channels Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Mike Elgan, Jason Snell, and Adam Fisher Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT slack.com betterment.com/twit

Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis. Waymo plans a driverless car service. Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia. Google's "smart city" in Toronto gets some pushback. Julian Assange has been charged with... something? SpaceX gets approval to launch 7000 internet satellites. Japan's cybersecurity chief is 100% unhackable - because he has never touched a computer. Alphabet's Verily gives up on glucose-measuring contact lenses. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Larry Magid, and Georgia Dow Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: MasterClass.com/TWIT RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 WordPress.com/twit twit.cachefly.com

Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it. Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day. Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class." 22% of Americans still trust Facebook. Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap. Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case. DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights. China unveils the first AI news anchor. Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe. With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype. FCC has harsh words about robocalls. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit TWIT2.robinhood.com RING.COM/TWIT FreshBooks.com/twit

Apple announces new MacBook Air and Mac Mini, then blows them both away with its new iPad Pro. Apple will no longer tell us how many iPhones it sells. How to kill an iPhone with a balloon. Iran unmasks dozens of CIA agents with a Google search. Google employees stage walkout over sexual harassment Amazon exec mad at Washington Post for leaking new headquarters location. Facebook targets ads at "White Genocide Conspiracy Theorists." Voter suppression on Twitter, and IRL in Georgia. Passcodes are officially protected by the fifth amendment (at least in Florida, and only in some cases). Senator proposes a bill that would jail tech CEOs for misusing consumer data. FCC says community broadband is an "ominous threat to the first amendment." Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brian McCullough, Iain Thomson, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code TWIT RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 casper.com/twit - promo code: TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT

What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday? Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex" Amazon's government controversies IBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase ever. Linus Torvalds is back! Trump's phone may be hacked by Russia and China. The midterms may be hacked as well. Apple and Amazon might NOT be hacked by China. Microsoft still hasn't released Window 10 update 1809 The Vatican releases its own version of Pokemon Go with saints instead of Pokemon. Elon's big tunnel under LA opens 12/10. Pokemon Go will use step info from Apple and Google. Right to Repair suit wins. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ed Bott, Jason Hiner, and Rene Ritchie Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: WordPress.com/twit audible.com/twit betterment.com/twit eero.com/twit code TWIT

Cognitive hacking with scale and co-ordination. Will the newest iPad have 2 connectors? Should keynotes for product launches go away? Some speculation about what to expect from the upcoming Apple event. Morgan on Twitter and his thoughts on Google+. Google in the EU and something that isn't getting as much press. The discussion continues around Bloomberg's article and Tim Cook's demand for a retraction. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dan Patterson, Seth Weintraub, and Greg Ferro Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 Ziprecruiter.com/Twit Wasabi.com offer code TWIT BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT

Defending Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story Google+ killed by a breach that wasn't a breach. Facebook breach that WAS a breach hits 30 million users. In related news, Facebook now sells a video chat device with a camera that can follow your every move. Made by Google event: what we think of the Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub. Apple's TV content will be free for everyone who owns an Apple device. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ron Richards, Christina Warren, and Mark Milian Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Molekule.com promo code TWIT75 FreshBooks.com/twit twit.cachefly.com RING.COM/TWIT