TWiT 744: Boiling the Privacy Frog




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li> Big Tech is trying to fix California's housing crisis by throwing $billions at it. Here's what they should do instead.</li> <li> How can we fix the mess that is video conferencing?</li> <li> Delivering drugs via drone: what could possibly go wrong?</li> <li> Google open sources Cardboard, instead of just killing it as we expected.</li> <li> The FBI is secretly using face recognition to track us. The ACLU thinks this is bad for some reason.</li> <li> Apple is slowly tightening its privacy system.</li> <li> Saudi spies infiltrate Twitter. Is Big Tech security-conscious enough?</li> <li> FACEBOOK changes its logo. WHY?</li> <li> Facebook and political ads</li> <li> Photoshop for iPad is finally here.</li> <li> Here are the best tools for vertical video.</li> <li> Is Adobe's subscription model fair to consumers?</li> <li> Adobe Aero tries to standardize AR.</li> <li> Microsoft Ignite focuses on the hybrid cloud.</li> <li> Why 5G will never work, and why it will be amazing when it does.</li> <li> 8K will make you vomit.</li> <li> Microsoft puts Superman on glass.</li> <li> AppleTV+ launches big. If you could only have 5 streaming services, which would you choose?</li> <li> Amazon knocks $40 off the price of Prime for veterans. Thank you for your service!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/alex-lindsay">Alex Lindsay</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/etherealmind" target="_blank">Greg Ferro</a> and <a href="http://ijustine.com" target="_blank">Justine Ezarik</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://ZipRecruiter.com/Twit">ZipRecruiter.com/Twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code TWiT</a></li> <li><a href="http://capterra.com/twit">capterra.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://mintmobile.com/twit">mintmobile.com/twit</a></li> </ul>