TWiT 759: Never Gonna Give You Up




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

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