Summary: <p>- (01:29) Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica spent a week with the Valve Index VR system, and it's really impressive.<br>- (14:22) Twitter is a little late to cracking down on extremism, but Joseph Cox from Vice says they are considering deplatforming offenders.<br>- (28:53) The Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler discovered how chatty his iPhone is while he sleeps, and that's concerning.<br>- (40:12) Patron Scan allows bars to keep tabs and block people who behave badly at bars, but is it going too far?<br>- (44:54) More than half of the workers at Google are contractors who miss out on many of the benefits of full-time employees.<br><br> </p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="http://www.meganmorrone.com/" target="_blank">Megan Morrone</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/samred" target="_blank">Sam Machkovech</a>, <a href="https://motherboard.com" target="_blank">Joseph Cox</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler" target="_blank">Geoffrey Fowler</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://envoy.com/twit">envoy.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://Linkedin.com/technews">Linkedin.com/technews</a></li> </ul>
