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This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li> Apple's November Surprise: 16-Inch Macbook Pro brings back the scissor-switch keyboard and physical ESC key</li> <li> Surface Book 3 Rumors, Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X Reviews</li> <li> Microsoft's Project xCloud launches in early 2020 as the odds-on favorite to dominate game streaming</li> <li> Google Stadia launches tomorrow as a failure</li> <li> Goldman Sachs re-evaluating Apple Card credit limits after sexism accusations</li> <li> Google will offer checking accounts to anyone who wants Google to know absolutely everything they pay money for.</li> <li> Google's secret "Nightingale" health-care project and Fitbit purchase: Google wants to own your health data</li> <li> Apple's Research App: do we trust Apple with our health data more than Google?</li> <li> Disney+, Apple+, Peacock TV, etc - when will the streaming bubble burst?</li> <li> YouTube creators: are you a kids' channel or an adult channel?</li> <li> Is YouTube fracturing the world? Should we go back to all reading the same newspaper?</li> <li> Apple kicks vaping apps out of the App Store, Canadian pot stocks crash - legal marijuana's bad week</li> <li> Minecraft Earth launches in the US - the perfect demo for Azure Anchors</li> <li> Hololens is still the future</li> <li> So is the Oculus Quest</li> <li> Are Apple Glasses?</li> <li> British Labor Party offers free broadband - could this work in the US?</li> <li> AI can tell if you are going to die - doctors baffled</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/Daniel_Rubino" target="_blank">Daniel Rubino</a>, <a href="https://techmeme.com" target="_blank">Brian McCullough</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu" target="_blank">Brianna Wu</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://Bombas.com/twit">Bombas.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://expressvpn.com/twit">expressvpn.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://calm.com/twit">calm.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://WWT.COM/TWIT">WWT.COM/TWIT</a></li> </ul>