TWiT 772: 52 Cents & a Bag of Pop Chips




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <ul> <li>Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest Month</li> <li>College Board sued over flawed online AP tests</li> <li>Minecraft Dungeons Review</li> <li>Minecraft hits 162 Million users/month</li> <li>Former TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!</li> <li>Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64</li> <li>All the easter eggs in the Microsoft Build 2020 livestream</li> <li>Microsoft Build 2020 highlights: Project Reunion and Fluid Framework</li> <li>Microsoft embraces open source: it's a whole new Microsoft</li> <li>Twitter says everyone can work from home forever. Facebook says they can, too, but they might pay you less if you move out of state</li> <li>Joe Rogan podcast is now a Spotify Exclusive - will other podcasts start going exclusive?</li> <li>Zoom vs Discord vs Facebook Rooms</li> <li>How to beat Zoom fatigue</li> <li>Will working from home kill the 75-hour work week, or make it worse?</li> <li>Work-from-home means less commuting, for better or for worse</li> <li>Will conferences stay virtual, go back to face-to-face, or be a hybrid?</li> <li>What Zoom/Teams/Slack/Meet/etc solution does your company use?</li> <li>Zoom solves its security issues - or at least seems to be working on it very hard</li> <li>How well is your school handling distance learning?</li> <li>Different communication strokes for different gamer folks</li> <li>Tom Hanks' movie "Greyhound" is a $70 Million Apple TV+ Exclusive</li> <li>HBO Max premieres May 27th, adding yet more confusion to the online media world</li> <li>Bad news about that $125 Equifax settlement</li> <li>Grandma ordered to remove photos of grandchildren over GDPR violation</li> <li>Facebook found not liable for spreading terrorist content by US Supreme Court</li> <li>Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for more than $3 Billion</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/lturrentine" target="_blank">Lindsey Turrentine</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rubino" target="_blank">Daniel Rubino</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/lschmeiser" target="_blank">Lisa Schmeiser</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://Epson.com/ecotankleo">Epson.com/ecotankleo</a></li> <li><a href="http://itpro.tv/twit">itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://twit.cachefly.com">twit.cachefly.com</a></li> </ul>