TWiT 727: Artisanal Pickles from Williamsburg




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p>Top Stories This Week</p><ul> <li>Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion</li> <li>The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy</li> <li>Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media</li> <li>Instagram vs bullies</li> <li>Prime Day deals and dilemmas</li> <li>Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch</li> <li>Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them</li> <li>Your car is watching you</li> <li>Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners</li> <li>RIP MacBook</li> <li>Mac update kills Zoom hack</li> <li>Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack</li> <li>Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China</li> <li>Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV</li> <li>Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times</li> <li>Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO</li> <li>Netflix Cuphead Show</li> <li>Prime Day phishing scams</li> <li>HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune</li> <li>France's Tech Tax</li> <li>Niantic kills its first app</li> <li>Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down</li> <li>Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history</li> <li>Google is listening to you in Flanders</li> <li>Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada</li> <li>A eulogy for the father of the password</li> <li>Chatterbox will teach children robotics</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mike-elgan">Mike Elgan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/carolineha_" target="_blank">Caroline Haskins</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://WWT.COM/TWIT">WWT.COM/TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://mintmobile.com/twit">mintmobile.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code TWiT</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/Twit">ZipRecruiter.com/Twit</a></li> </ul>