Aug 11th 2019
This Week in Tech 731
An Electric Cannonball
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Video Games and Shootings, Apple Card, Defcon vs voting machines, and more!
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This Week's Stories
- Video games don't cause mass shootings, but toxic gamer culture doesn't help
- White House proposes social media censorship
- Apple wants as many people as possible to get the Apple Card
- Are Teslas reliable?
- Chase forgives Canadian customers' debt
- Apple locks out DIY battery repairs
- FedEx splits with Amazon
- Amazon's PillPack fighting with CVS and Walgreens
- Woz wants you off Facebook
- Teenagers work overnight to make Amazon Echo
- Samsung Note 10 kills headphone jack and Bixby button, embraces Microsoft
- FBI, NSA want hackers, even if they used to smoke pot
- Defcon takes on voting machine security
- Elizabeth Warren's plan for rural broadband
- US Navy ditching touchscreen controllers
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Links
- Goldman Sachs, bank of the rich and powerful, is dipping into subprime lending with Apple Card
- Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
- FedEx (FDX) Ends Ground-Delivery Deal With Amazon (AMZN) - Bloomberg
- Amazon's PillPack expansion faces resistance from CVS and Walgreens
- Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices
- Samsung is hiding its ads that made fun of Apple’s removal of headphone jack
- Video games don’t cause mass shootings. But gamer culture encourages hate. - The Washington Post
- Seattle-area internet firm decides not to host extremist 8chan website linked to El Paso shootings | The Seattle Times
- 8chan Forced to Move to Obscure Dark Web Service
- White House proposal would have FCC and FTC police alleged social media censorship
- Navy going back from touchscreens to physical controls
- Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine
- My Plan to Invest in Rural America
- FBI, NSA to hackers: Let us be blunt. Weed need your help. We'll hire you even if you've smoked a little pot in the past