May 20th 2018
This Week in Tech 667
Give Me your History Hat
Google Duplex ethics, impact of GDPR, diplomatic Stingrays, and more.
Microsoft's new Surface Hub 2. Google Duplex freaks everyone out. GDPR shouldn't freak people out - unless you work in adtech. Fortnite is coming to Android. Apple caves in to China again, pays some Irish taxes, and goes shopping for a new campus. Washington D.C is full of Stingray spy devices. Yanny or Laurel: depends on your speakers. US Copyright laws may be extended to protect Mickey Mouse for 144 years.
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Links
- Microsoft's surface hub is designed for an office of the future.
- Questioning Duplex
- Does Google’s Duplex violate two-party consent laws?
- Maybe introducing Google Duplex at I/O wasn’t such a hot idea
- GDPR Hysteria · Jacques Mattheij
- GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
- Fortnite is coming to Android this summer
- Apple cracking down on CallKit apps in China App Store due to government regulation | 9to5Mac
- Apple pays Ireland first tranche of disputed taxes
- Apple’s Fourth U.S. Campus: Handicapping Where It Will Go
- Potential Spy Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over D.C., Md., Va. - NBC4 Washington
- A “serious” flaw has been found in PGP and S/MIME email encryption
- Yanny or Laurel? The internet is losing their mind over this viral audio clip
- Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One, a wildly ambitious smartphone
- US Congress mulls extending copyright yet again – to 144 years
- RELATED: Mickey Mouse's Effect on US Copyright Law
- Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality — but it has a long way to go