Feb 9th 2020
This Week in Tech 757
My Fridge Killed My Apple TV
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
2020 Election Chaos, Motorola Razr Failure
New episodes every Sunday.
This Week's Stories:
- Chaos, confusion, and disinformation define the 2020 US election
- Motorola Razr fails the fold test
- NYPD drops notebooks for iPhone app
- Don't charge at public USB chargers: "Juice Jacking" hackers will steal your data
- Hackers break into your network via Phillips Hue lightbulbs
- Sonos bricks old speakers
- Tesla remotely removes autopilot from used Model S
- Big shakeup at Microsoft - Panos Pinay gets a huge promotion
- Microsoft xCloud vs Nvidia GeForceNow vs Playstation Now
- US Navy uses Xbox controllers
- Windows 7 bug keeps users from shutting down, no way to update
- Deepfaking "The Irishman" - how CGI de-aged De Niro
- Disney wants to kill Section 230, and thus all social media and comment boards
- Real or fake: Russian dashcams and French locomotives
- 'Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet' Review
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Links
- Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs
- Microsoft to combine its Windows client and hardware teams under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay
- Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers | ZDNet
- Juice jacking: Why you should avoid public phone charging stations
- PortaPow 3rd Gen USB Data Blocker (Red)
- Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools - The New York Times
- Your Philips Hue light bulbs can still be hacked — but there’s a patch for the worst - The Verge
- Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness
- The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night
- The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation - The Atlantic
- Mike Bloomberg Is Paying ‘Influencers’ to Make Him Seem Cool
- Could Influencers Help Campaigns Sidestep Social Media Crackdown on Political Ads?
- IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law - The New York Times
- Nvidia’s GeForce Now leaves beta, challenges Google Stadia at $5 a month - The Verge
- YouTuber uses neural networks to upscale 1896 short film to 4K 60 fps
- Does our Motorola Razr fold test mean this phone won't last a year? Not quite
- Tesla remotely removes autopilot features from used Model S after it was sold
- Every smart device you love will die -- starting with Sonos
- Maybe Maybe Maybe: Russian dash cam captures infant in danger on icy road