This Week in Tech (Video)

Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk. Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue. Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine. Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think. Slack eats HipChat. • Spectrum Internet gets kicked out of New York. Get a Tesla surfboard to go with your Boring flamethrower. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Jason Calacanis and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT betterment.com/twit Moogsoft.com uber.com/movingforward

The future is flying cars! (Or not-flying cars, perhaps holes in the ground.) Apple's new MacBooks suffering from thermal throttling - is it the end for Intel? Google hit with $5 billion fine by EU for Android shenanigans. Will Fuschia be Google's one OS to rule them all? EU works on new laws of robotics. Google Translate starts spouting prophesy. Jeff Bezos is the richest man in history, but still gets his own hoagies. Elon Musk settles his farting unicorn feud. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Amy Webb and Greg Ferro Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: getquip.com/twit RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT RING.COM/TWIT

Do Apple's new MacBooks fix the company's keyboard woes? Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow. Will it be worth the hype? Will it push Amazon's share of the e-commerce market past 50%? Folding tablets. Phones with 9 cameras. What is next? Will AT&T destroy HBO by trying to expand it? Hey Elon: maybe don't call a heroic diver who helps rescue 12 kids a "pedo" just because he didn't use your submarine. Fortnite takes the World Cup Final by storm. Balance is restored to Reddit. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Jessica Conditt, Brian X. Chen, and Brian McCullough Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit FreshBooks.com/twit RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 Ziprecruiter.com/Twit

Billionaires prepare for the coming apocalypse: have you bought your missile silo condo yet? London police's facial recognition fail: pilot program results in 98% false positive rate, zero arrests. Amazon expanding its cashierless Amazon Go stores. Celebrity impersonators, mob justice, and more reasons to stay off social media. Prime Day coming on July 16th. Netflix's 2018 content budget expands to $13 billion. Thanos inspires Reddit's biggest ban ever. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson, Lisa Schmeiser, and Jason Hiner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: WordPress.com/twit RING.COM/TWIT uber.com/movingforward slack.com

Apple vs Samsung settled: our long international nightmare is over. A proposed US law has patent trolls jumping for joy. Amazon jumps into the healthcare business by buying online pharmacy PillPack. Foxcon's new Wisconsin plant breaks ground. Yet another Facebook security breach, but this time a bug bounty program catches the leak. Twitter's new Ad Transparency Center opens new avenues for journalists. The sky is falling in Fortnite. WPA3 could make Wi-Fi a lot more secure. California follows Europe down the data privacy road. Christina Warren knows all the Andromeda secrets, but she's not talking. AOL Instant Messenger is reborn! StumbleUpon is not. :( Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 Moogsoft.com casper.com/savings BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT

The US Supreme Court kills warrantless cell phone location fishing and okays state sales taxes on internet purchases. Apple offers refunds on MacBook butterfly keyboard repairs and wants to let you use your iPhone to unlock your car. Amazon wants to put Alexa in your hotel room, and everywhere else. Professional videogames are going mainstream, with huge stadiums and $100 million prizes. A proposed European Union copyright law will declare war on memes. IGTV is Instagram's attempt to jump on the online video bandwagon. Plus: transhumanism, Domino's as an infrastructure company, and IBM's new debate robot! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Mikah Sargent, Ben Johnson, and Devindra Hardawar Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: Stamps.com promo code TWiT betterment.com/twit eero.com code TWIT getquip.com/twit

Social media is still destroying the world. Top trends at E3. The end of Net Neutrality and the AT&T/ Time Warner Merger are a 1-2 punch against consumers. Automation is taking jobs in China and at Amazon. White house hacked. GDPR is killing email marketing. Theranos founder up on charges. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Jeff Cannata, and Dan Patterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: texture.com/twit RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 Moogsoft.com LastPass.com/twit

A New Tech Manifesto by Baratunde: how to reinvent social media to improve all our lives. Apple's WWDC announcements: Screen Time restores balance to your life, memojis avoid the uncanny valley, ARKit 2 might (might) actually have usefull apps, Siri Shortcuts might (might) make Siri useful, macOS Mojave makes much-needed improvements to the Finder, tvOS gets Dolby Atmos. Gmail's improved design is headed your way. Microsoft buys GitHub: how MS went from a Windows monolith to an open-source champion. Computex's big announcements: Intel fudges some numbers, AMD's new Threadripper 2, and ASUS put a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Alex Wilhelm, and Baratunde Thurston Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: uber.com/movingforward WordPress.com/twit audible.com/twit RING.COM/TWIT

Apple's WWDC this week looks like it may be a disappointment for anyone hoping for new hardware. Facebook is killing its "Trending Topics" section. Teens prefer Instagram and Snapchat to Facebook; close to half are "almost constantly" online. The Atari VCS is coming soon for expensive retro gaming. Scooters and bikes are becoming a problem for San Francisco. The new emoji are coming! A Canadian Hacker gets 5 years for his part in the Russin-linked Yahoo breach. Microsoft is worth more than Google. Self-driving technology picks up speed as California ok's free autonomous taxis. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Seth Weintraub, Larry Magid, and Greg Ferro Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: casper.com/twit - promo code: TWIT RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT Moogsoft.com

The FBI wants you to reboot your router right now. FBI agents have gained control of a huge Russian botnet. If your router is affected you just need to reboot it. Facebook and Russian ads - how should government react in the age of cyber warfare? Amazon sells facial recognition software to law enforcement officials. Is this an invasion of privacy, or a good example of public/private cooperation? Alexa records a couple's conversation and sends it to a friend. Amazon has a convoluted explanation, but it may just come down to odds. Google's AI can order you food, but Microsoft's can check in on your feelings, at least in China. GDPR confusion takes news sites offline and sparks billions of dollars worth of lawsuits. Disney's bid to buy Fox gets some competition from Comcast. Does this mean that Hulu is doomed? Senators call for investigation into fake pro-net neutrality comments Three charged in swatting death Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson, Matt Cutts, and Brian Forde Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: betterment.com/twit getquip.com/twit www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT Molekule.com promo code TWIT

Microsoft's new Surface Hub 2. Google Duplex freaks everyone out. GDPR shouldn't freak people out - unless you work in adtech. Fortnite is coming to Android. Apple caves in to China again, pays some Irish taxes, and goes shopping for a new campus. Washington D.C is full of Stingray spy devices. Yanny or Laurel: depends on your speakers. US Copyright laws may be extended to protect Mickey Mouse for 144 years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Christina Warren, Patrick Beja, and Brian McCullough Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: Ziprecruiter.com/Twit LastPass.com/twit trywinc.com/twit RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2

ZTE shuts down, but help is on the way from an unlikely tweet. Google I/O shows off creepy robocallers and helpful directions. Microsoft Build brings Cortana/Alexa integration and the return of Kinect. Congress releases over 3500 Russian Facebook election ads. Cambridge Analytica "dies," is reborn as Emerdata. Robocaller gets $120 million fine. Tesla hits a firetruck and sheds execs. You will be able to buy a Boston Dynamics robodog in 2019. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Harry McCracken, Florence Ion, and Sam Abuelsamid Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: RING.COM/TWIT BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT legalzoom.com - offer code: TWIT texture.com/twit

Apple has its best Q2 ever, despite analyst predictions. 20 years of iMac. Cambridge Analytica must give US voter his data. Unroll.me foiled by GDPR. NPR buys PocketCasts. Change your Twitter password. Sprint/T-Mobile merger. Net Neutrality vote in the Senate May 9th. Cyber Command gets a promotion. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ant Pruitt, Mikah Sargent, and Ashley Esqueda Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: RocketMortgage.com/TWiT2 FreshBooks.com/twit casper.com/twit - promo code: TWIT WordPress.com/twit

Sprint and T-Mobile make it official. Amazon, Google, and Facebook all have amazing quarterly earnings reports. Amazon's home robot and the battle for smart home supremacy. Facebook's community guidelines. Golden Gate Killer found with open source DNA site. Who wants Snap's second generation Spectacles? Apple's rumored AR/VR headset. What tech brings you joy? Host: Becky Worley Guests: Georgia Dow, Ben Brock Johnson, and Brianna Wu Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: Moogsoft.com getquip.com/twit www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT aaptiv.com/twit

Security conference season in full swing. iPhone X takes over a third of ALL smartphone profits. Google tries to fix messaging again. Who do you trust with your data? IRS servers down on Tax Day. SCOTUS dismisses DOJ vs Microsoft: CLOUD Act makes it moot. Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky. Host: Iain Thomson Guests: Mike Elgan, Greg Ferro, and Dwight Silverman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit Ziprecruiter.com/Twit betterment.com/twit eero.com code TWIT