Summary: <p>The Note 7 is officially dead - Samsung stops production and the CPSC issues an official recall. Will Google's new Pixel Phones benefit? Is Google Assistant going to be a big draw? Also, Facebook tries to take over the enterprise with Workplace. Fallout from the Yahoo hack and surveilance debacle - Verizon may back out of their purchase deal. And nobody wants to buy Twitter at all. What would it take to make Twitter a functional business?</p><ul> <li>Leo and Nate are mad at Yahoo and Marissa Mayer for keeping their hack secret for so long</li> <li>Nate and Mike both wrote interesting articles about Google's new fact checking labels - how do you survive in an post-fact world?</li> <li>Ben Thompson has a simple solution for fixing Twitter: just fire everyone.</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://twitter.com/benthompson" target="_blank">Ben Thompson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nateog" target="_blank">Nathan Olivarez-Giles</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mike-elgan">Mike Elgan</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>Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a>.</p>
