This Week in Tech (Video)

Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple? Twitter hackers arrested Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring! Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT! Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit

Microsoft focuses on games as a service with Xbox Game Pass Game console makers play chicken overpricing announcements What kind of person does Tik Tok think you are? Android 11 is red velvet cake Google's ATAP lab wants to bring you the smart home future Are we at the end of the Intel Era? Norsk Hydro and Garmin hit by a ransomware attack Building the Quantum Internet Woz sues YouTube over Bitcoin scam Garmin hit by a ransomware attack Tik Tok tries to stay alive G4 WTF Latest info about the Twitter breach We would pay for a Twitter subscription to be able to edit our Tweets Space Force is always above you Big Tech antitrust showdown with congress July 29 Herman Miller x Logitech = $1500 gaming chair US Army retreats from Twitch Crispr Cow is definitely a boy Streaming wars: Peacock vs Quibi vs Disney+ vs everybody else Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Harry McCracken, and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: extrahop.com/TWIT masterclass.com/twit LastPass.com/twit Zendesk.com/twit

Here's how the Twitter hack happened Tik Tok hysteria - xenophobia or common sense? EARN IT and LAED acts want to eliminate encryption Cloudflare outage takes down a huge swath of the internet "Master," "Slave," "Blacklist" terms on the outs at Apple, Linux, and others Trump expands the CIA's cyberwarfare authority Google spends $10 billion on India, half of that in Jio Amazon Dash Cart checks your groceries out for you World Emoji Day celebrates the new Emoji coming in 2020 Who is "Kirk," the person behind the Twitter hack? How long have they had access? What should the response to the Twitter hack be? Instagram's Tik Tok clone Reels launches in August As Tik Tok rises, Quibi falls Google should be pushing contactless payments more Hong Kong VPNs leak user data EU Court shuts down EU - US data transfer agreement Grant Imahara dead at 49 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Mike Elgan, and Seth Rosenblatt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: bit.ly/salesforceforservice Zendesk.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit LastPass.com/twit

TikTok's Bad Week, RIP Quibi, mmhmm mmhmm is a fun new way to use meeting software US might ban TikTok, India already has. What is the future for the embattled platform? Is TikTok safe to use? Apple Glass on the way: Foxconn is making thousands of semi-transparent lenses for Apple glasses Amazon wants to rule the world. Is that really all that bad? Is there any hope for Quibi? (Nope) Google's "Works With Google" virtual event demonstrated Android 11's new IoT features and their Smart Home devices. Is Microsoft looking to buy Magic Leap? MS exec becomes Magic Leap CEO - is she a Trojan Horse? Ninja joins YouTube after Mixer dies Twitter partner Dataminr accused of giving Black Lives Matter protester surveillance to police TikTok, Linked In, and others accused of copying users' clipboards, blame a bug in a Google SDK Amazon briefly tells employees to take TikTok off their phones, backpedals furiously when their marketing department throws a fit How much of the TikTok hate is just anti-Chinese bias? US teens worried about losing TikTok How mmhmm works with Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet Microsoft Teams adds "Together Mode," which puts meeting attendants in seats in an auditorium AR still isn't ready for the outside world, but it works great for Snapchat and TikTok filters North Focals, Jins Meme ES, Amazon Lens, Snap Spectacles, Bose Frames - different smart glasses with different use cases When will AR get a killer App? User-focused design is the answer, but not a lot of AR companies are doing that. Foxconn invests $1B to open a factory in India Searching for the perfect car phone holder Are Millennials killing IoT? Walmart is launching an Amazon Prime competitor in July Jack Dorsey donates $3 Million to Basic Income Twitter might be starting a subscription service Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Phil Libin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 WWT.COM/TWIT Molekule.com promo code TWIT10 mintmobile.com/twit

Apple Glasses, iOS 14 Privacy, and Hamilton on Disney+ Is Apple pulling away from the competition? Is Intel dying? Snap Spectacles third edition arrives in India Google buys North, makers of Focals smart glasses Where are Alexis Ohanian and Pete Cashmore? Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple Glasses Lidar technology could drive Apple business for the next decade The Race After Technology and holography Is technology making life too fast? iOS 14 highlights ad tracking - advertisers are not happy about it. iOS 14 outs Tik Tok and LinkedIn for snooping on the clipboard Apple says no to 16 Web APIs for Safari for security reasons Ad tracking is big business for Google, Facebook, and Spotify What is the future of brick and mortar? Warehouses with curbside delivery? Advertizers boycotting Facebook, but they'll be back Microsoft wants to "upskill" 25 million workers for high-demand jobs Eye Mouth Eye Twitter trend tricks tech Twitter into donating to Black Lives Matter charities Anonymous shopping cart abandoner causes chaos for online vendors - here's who is to blame Lululemon buys Mirror for half a billion dollars Hamilton premieres on Disney+ to rave reviews BMW does a press event in VR to show off their subscription heated seats With NFC and ultrawideband, your phone can be your car key Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Shira Lazar, Sam Abuelsamid, and Jason Hiner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit barracuda.com/twit twit.cachefly.com Wasabi.com offer code TWIT

Apple WWDC Recap - Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS 14 Mac moves from Intel to Apple Silicon What happens to Intel? Microsoft? iOS apps will run on Macs Will Macs still run Windows on Boot Camp? Microsoft closes all retail stores - are PCs moving to the cloud? PC gaming - the biggest reason you need a PC Can x86 die already? What could go wrong with the shift to Apple Silicon? Should you buy an Intel Mac now? Should you buy the first version of the ARM Mac? The fastest supercomputer in the world has an ARM chip macOS goes to 11 Should WWDC stay virtual next year? Will macOS and iOS merge? Group Messages grows up Will ARM Macs use Thunderbolt? USB 4? When will the first ARM Macs show up? How well will Rosetta 2 work? How is the transition to ARM going to work? How long has it already been going on? Apple WWDC interviews and presentations Six Colors has all the info you need on all the WWDC presentations - here are the best WWDC iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Speed Round - back tap, custom home screen, group FaceTime with sign language, App Clips, Shortcuts on Apple Watch, translation app, hand washing timer, dance, AirPods Pro custom EQ Tik Tok is grabbing your clipboard every 10 seconds Don't install Big Sur beta on your main computer! iOS 14 warns you about tracking cookies Trump campaign app steals all your data Hey.com app allowed on the App Store Olympus leaving the camera business Finally, surveyors all use the same foot Microsoft kills Mixer; Ninja and Shroud get to keep their money Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lory Gil, Jason Snell, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: GetRoman.com/TWIT extrahop.com/TWIT Zendesk.com/twit LastPass.com/twit

WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announced Apple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19 WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners won WWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri? Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store iOS App Store brings in $519 Billion in 2019 Apple facing anti-trust investigations in the EU Talking about grilling Twitter starts offering 140 second Voice Tweets Using Facebook to train yourself Facebook lets its users turn off political ads Facebook wants to help 4 million people vote K-Pop stans and Tik Tok teens and grandmas troll Trump's Tulsa rally 71% of Americans refuse to use contact tracing apps iFixit wants to help users fix ventilators; ventilator manufacturer sues FCC approves the first prescription video game for ADHD Oscars delayed until April 2021 Disney+ kills their 7 day free trial weeks before Hamilton release Only $75k to get your own Spot robot dog Flash dies completely on December 31st, 2020 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Georgia Dow, and Andy Ihnatko Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: linkedinlearning.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit Wasabi.com offer code TWIT

Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce. How quickly will Apple transition Macs to ARM? Refrigerator DRM is catching up with printer DRM ZFS cuts "slave" out of OpenZFS codebase. GitHub ditches "master" Michael Seibel replaces Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board HBO yanks Gone With the Wind, it becomes the #1 show on Apple TV+ Four GOP Senators ask FCC to review Section 230 PS5 hardware and games announced - disc vs digital Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone itch.io Games for Racial Justice and Equality surpasses it's $5 million goal Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ant Pruitt, Christina Warren, and Iain Thomson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Zendesk.com/twit casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT WWT.COM/TWIT

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd Protests Trump vs Twitter: what is Section 230? Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say? Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order? Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"? Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hours SpaceX launches humans into space from American soil for the first time in 9 years Google postpones Android 11 beta launch due to protests Switzerland's Apple/Google COVID contact tracing app vs France's StopCovid app France offers Twitter a new home if they want to leave America. What country do you think Twitter should move to? Microsoft lays off dozens of journalists, will replace them with AI. Journalist Bill Detwiler desperately defends his fellow humans. US House of Representatives to vote to allow FBI to read your browser history without a warrant HBO Max is one streaming service too many Amazon Look style camera will stop working in July. Denise Howell's Instagram will never be the same Some Good News sells to CBS Pokemon Go Fest this July will be fully virtual Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to be Black" discusses his reaction to the racial events of the past week Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Patrick Beja, Bill Detwiler, Denise Howell, and Baratunde Thurston Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: masterclass.com/twit LastPass.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT2

Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month College Board sued over flawed online AP tests Minecraft Dungeons Review Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers! Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64 All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive? Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms How to beat Zoom fatigue Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse? Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid? What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use? Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard How well is your school handling distance learning? Different communication strokes for different gamer folks Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lindsey Turrentine, Daniel Rubino, and Lisa Schmeiser Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Epson.com/ecotankleo itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 LastPass.com/twit twit.cachefly.com

Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5 Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million Facebook setting up a political advocacy group for big tech US Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online ads Trump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left" Facebook has half of its oversight board in place already Zoom fatigue is real: is avatar-based chat the cure? Apple AR glasses coming in 2021 Unreal Engine 5 will push game development to new heights Twitter says that people can work from home forever - but should they? Robotic backboard makes all the shots Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dwight Silverman, Mike Elgan, and Brianna Wu Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether linkedinlearning.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12 Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce it Zoom buys Keybase to fix encryption Google Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with Zoom Zoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race, to begin with? Leo won't give up on jitsi even though it sounds like a mold Rich DeMuro says Zoom is like slime Teslas now stop automatically at red lights (and green) Google abandons its plans for a data-driven community in Toronto Is Amazon handling the coronavirus crisis well? Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay over whistleblower firings Australia wants Google to stop showing news snippets Do ISPs need bandwidth caps? Is everybody working from home hogging all the bandwidth? New 13-inch MacBook Pro heralds the end of butterfly keys Microsoft 10X will come to single-screen devices in 2021 Pixel Buds vs Surface Earbuds vs AirPods Boston Dynamics Spot robot patrolling Singapore parks to enforce social distancing BBC releases Zoom backgrounds A hazmat-inspired suit lets you party, drink, and vape in safety Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Doc Searls, Rich DeMuro, and Larry Magid Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Elon Musk Goes Crazy, Tik Tok Takes Over Elon Musk loses Tesla $14 Billion with one reckless tweet TikTok gets more than 2 billion downloads in record time Apple/Google contact tracing approved by the CDC - will you install it? Apple makes it easier to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask Google Buds 2 is a huge improvement over the original Microsoft announcing Xbox Series X game son May 7th John Legere is sad he no longer runs T-Mobile Starlink launches 422 satellites Will Quibi succeed? The truth behind John Krasinski's Some Good News Quarterly reports - Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon are all up Spotify revenue is up Why we like the new iPhone SE Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Shira Lazar, Devindra Hardawar, and Alex Wilhelm Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: barracuda.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit

Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide. The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust? France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation? The best videoconferencing etiquette Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus? What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed? Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education? How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours The next world war will be fought in cyberspace Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Amy Webb and Iain Thomson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: extrahop.com/TWIT LastPass.com/twit twit.cachefly.com www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT