This Week in Tech (Video)

TWiT's 15th Anniversary, iPhone SE, Best Audio Equipment You Can Buy iPhone SE vs Sidekick 2 EARN IT will kill end-to-end encryption. Call your senator now! AMD is kicking Intel's butt The best speakers you can buy The best DACs you can buy The best headphones and headphone amplifiers you can buy The story of the first TWiT Catching up with Scott Herriott Catching up with Kevin Rose Catching up with Patrick Norton Catching up with Robert Heron Why Kevin Rose Doesn't Use Android Why Robert Heron loves Google Fi and the Pixel Magic Wormhole: how to encrypt your communications John Prosser: iPhone SE Plus coming soon iPad Pro Magic Keyboard turns the iPad Pro into a laptop More catching up with Kevin Rose Reminiscing about the good old days - Leisure Suit Larry, FidoNet, and BBSs Caveat Emptor: many NAS drives use SMR Computer security now vs 15 years ago Hard drives now vs 15 years ago Want a great $20,000 stereo? Buy the Symbol Audio Modern Record Console iRacing is the best esport in the world Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, and Scott Herriot Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 Wasabi.com offer code TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether

Apple+Google COVID tracking app, 5G towers burning, Zoom tips Get Glycerin Melt at https://amzn.to/2JX9Ujt via affiliate link! 5G towers are being burned in England and the Netherlands to stop coronavirus. We have officially hit maximum techno panic. Apple and Google are building a coronavirus phone tracking app. Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? Because this is how you get a cyberpunk dystopia! Zoom is the best option for group video chat, but only if you use it right, and only if you don't need perfect privacy. We show all the free TV shows you can watch online. What we are doing in quarantine: soap making, Half-Life Alyx, Castlevania, start your own video channel Smart toilet recognizes your butt and scans your poop for diseases Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion to Coronavirus research, with full transparency Apple displays COVID testing locations and launches Today at Apple at Home Why Apple stopped charging Amazon Prime Video the 30% "Apple Tax" Amazon workers are terrified to go to work, but at least they have a job Travelex paid 285 bitcoin to ransomware hackers - watch out for COVID Phishing Quibi has 300 Million installs in its first week, while Tik Tok crosses 1 Billion Distance learning: school attendance is at 50% Passover Seder on Zoom Leo is back on Facebook John Conway, creator of Conway's Game of Life has passed due to coronavirus Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Georgia Dow, Rene Ritchie, and Owen JJ Stone Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Molekule.com promo code TWIT10 casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 WWT.COM/TWIT eero.com/twit code TWIT

Zoom Security Issues, iPhone SE Zoom goes from 10 million to 250 million daily users, struggles with zoombombing and security issues Where is the iPhone SE? The budget iPhone could be launched any day. Can Apple maintain its famed secrecy with employees working from home? Apple buys Dark Sky Weather App, shuts down Android App iOS 14 may add widgets, live wallpaper Who controls the weather? NOAA, Weather Channel, IBM, Apple? Nations are tracking their citizens' location to stop coronavirus - will they stop when the crisis is over? Who else is tracking us? Do you know how to program COBOL? Help New Jersey fight coronavirus! Amazon has hired 80,000 workers, puts safety measures in place, fires strike organizer Instacart strike gets workers free health and safety kits Amazon will offer a virtual film festival to show SXSW films, movie theaters are offering streams What we're watching in quarantine - Little Fires Everywhere, Devs, free HBO shows, Bhagavad Gita and filmmaking on YouTube Quibi is launching at the best time possible FCC opens up 6GHz band for Wi-Fi use Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Christina Warren, Jason Hiner, and Brian McCullough Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: fully.com/twit barracuda.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT FreshBooks.com/twit

Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation? How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing? Notes from the final CanSec security conference Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados PwnToOwn 2020 highlights GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong? Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious Free e-books from the Library of Congress Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit twit.cachefly.com ZipRecruiter.com/Twit HealthIQ.com/twit

This week's stories: Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR What to expect from Apple's AR future "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware" Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows Google I/O is canceled How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing" Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why YouTube launches new online education resources Google launches distance learning fund Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library Gamestop finally closes California stores Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters PS5 vs Xbox Series X Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit linkedin.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit capterra.com/twit

This Week's Stories Father Robert Ballecer talks about the Vatican's response to the Coronavirus in Italy. Father Robert Ballecer shows off this live broadcasting/podcasting setup MKBHD's 8k setup - RED cameras, multiple Mac Pros, LUTS, and motion tracking The Escobar Phone is a scam! The beginning of the end of smartphones Magic Leap in Crisis Leo wears the COVID-19 mask Foldable phones - why? How to cope with panic attacks - futurism in an accelerating world MKBHD's daily driver: Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Telepresence Robots are the future! (or maybe even the present) 2020 Conferences are all canceled. What will we lose by holding them digitally? Apple reopens Chinese stores, closes all others, cancels rumored March event, but might still launch new products next week Amy Webb's daughter's crypto network Is Tik Tok OK? Screen time in quarantine - active watching is the key MKBHD's New Year's Rockin' Eve - downscaled from 8K to 720p How YouTube processing works How MKBHD works - quality over quantity Custom vitamin blends and nootropics - direct-to-consumer sales take off Future Today Institute 2020 Tech Trends Report StarLink will bring the internet to everyone Everyone alive today is being scored The 2020s are the synthetic decade: how synthetic media will change the world Get Amy's book "Data, a Love Story" at https://amzn.to/2ILv43s via affiliate link! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Amy Webb, and Marques Brownlee Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 zapier.com/TWIT

Coronavirus Craziness: The Pope is OK, SXSW canceled, contractors can't get n95 masks, Chinese carmakers shut down The response to Coronavirus - big tech sends workers home, but restaurant workers have to keep the slinging hash Woz is NOT Patient Zero Countries respond to Coronavirus: stay on that cruise ship, China forces people to quarantine, US doubles down on the Patriot Act, Italy shuts down Lombardi Stock up on Soylent for your Coronavirus quarantine needs Apple rejects coronavirus apps Chinese students review bomb homework app Paris has awesome hobbies Apple forces workers to come to the Spaceship and retail stores, other tech giants send workers home March Madness without fans? Are we projecting the zombie apocalypse onto Coronavirus? Review: Thermomix TM6 Baby Yoda toys killed by Coronavirus What to watch while you're quarantined Video games to play while you're quarantined Is it canceled? How to find out Warren drops out - which old white male candidate will die from Coronavirus? Brianna Wu gets hacked - she explains how to avoid her mistakes How to use nation-state level hacks yourself How the CIA used CryptoAG to spy on the world Apple allows ads in push notifications - watch this week's iOS Today to see how to turn them off! YouTube is recommending fewer conspiracy videos Nerf or nothing! Streaming drives the music industry to its greatest year ever Democratic Socialism Simulator vs Female Politician Simulator Nintendo Playstation prototype sells for $360,000 Daylight Saving kills! Switch to UTC instead! SETI@Home shuts down, and bitcoin mining is destroying the world - switch to folding proteins for a Coronavirus cure Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Brianna Wu Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: HealthIQ.com/twit www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT FreshBooks.com/twit Wasabi.com offer code TWIT

This Week's Stories Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial Your AirPods are on a two-year timer Safari snubs two-year certificates Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality Amazon Go Grocery Review Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data Activist investor attacking Twitter TikTok is fundamentally parasitic? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Christina Warren, Michael Nuñez, and Bill Detwiler Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/Twit privacy.com/twit capterra.com/twit masterclass.com/twit

This Week's Stories: COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19? Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype? COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19 Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation' Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2 Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation" Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74 Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83 Adobe Photoshop turns 30 $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: zapier.com/TWIT Wasabi.com offer code TWIT twit.cachefly.com LastPass.com/twit

This week's stories: Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead. RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences? China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next? Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases? Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech! Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold? Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home) Google's new OS is called... Pigweed? Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild! $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes) Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux! Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism? HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst? Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year. T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: FreshBooks.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit HealthIQ.com/twit

This Week's Stories: Chaos, confusion, and disinformation define the 2020 US election Motorola Razr fails the fold test NYPD drops notebooks for iPhone app Don't charge at public USB chargers: "Juice Jacking" hackers will steal your data Hackers break into your network via Phillips Hue lightbulbs Sonos bricks old speakers Tesla remotely removes autopilot from used Model S Big shakeup at Microsoft - Panos Pinay gets a huge promotion Microsoft xCloud vs Nvidia GeForceNow vs Playstation Now US Navy uses Xbox controllers Windows 7 bug keeps users from shutting down, no way to update Deepfaking "The Irishman" - how CGI de-aged De Niro Disney wants to kill Section 230, and thus all social media and comment boards Real or fake: Russian dashcams and French locomotives 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet' Review Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ashley Esqueda, Nate Lanxon, and Denise Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1 mintmobile.com/twit Epson.com/ecotankleo linkedin.com/TWIT

This Week's Stories: Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big? Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need? Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody Does tracking really make ads better? He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space! Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others. IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires California halts .org sale 62 new emoji are here! Hummer is back and electric Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Brian McCullough, and Devindra Hardawar Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Molekule.com promo code TWIT10 capterra.com/twit Wasabi.com offer code TWiT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit

This Week's Stories: Was Jeff Bezos really hacked by Saudi Arabia? Welcome to the post-fact era. Embrace the power of ignorance! Sonos backs off threat to brick old speakers Apple pushes back against EU common charging standard Sundar Pichai calls for regulation of AI Why banning face recognition is just the first step One good thing about Brexit The tech angle of "Megxit" Biden calls game developers "little creeps" Tech execs are being SWATted Alan Turing's OBE medal, Ph.D. certificate, etc recovered from crazed superfan Throwboy is back with Pocket Pillows Vine is back as Byte Xerox still trying to buy HP Octi is augmented reality social media Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Mike Elgan, Patrick Beja, and Iain Thomson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit FreshBooks.com/twit HealthIQ.com/twit twit.cachefly.com

This Week's Stories: Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses The face recognition company that will end privacy FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022 Verizon's "private" search engine The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous. Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Georgia Dow, Sam Abuelsamid, and Patrick Norton Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: capterra.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

CES 2020 wrap-up Sex tech at CES 2020 Apple, Amazon, and others talk privacy at CES 2020 Tech Giants at CES 2020 The Sands: all the weirdest stuff at CES 2020 The best TVs at CES 2020 Future Concepts at CES 2020 The Charmin Rollbot Biggest CES 2020 trends: vegetable-based meat, driverless cars, and bendable computers Our favorite gadgets from CES 2020: from 8k TVs to electronic rosaries Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ant Pruitt, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Hiner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT Epson.com/ecotankleo mintmobile.com/twit ustudio.com