Feb 9th 2020
This Week in Tech 757
My Fridge Killed My Apple TV
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
2020 Election Chaos, Motorola Razr Failure
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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