Mar 1st 2020
This Week in Tech 760
A Perfect Time to Panic
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Coronavirus, Amazon Go Grocery, Reddit vs Tik Tok
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial
- Your AirPods are on a two-year timer
- Safari snubs two-year certificates
- Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
- NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality
- Amazon Go Grocery Review
- Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data
- Activist investor attacking Twitter
- TikTok is fundamentally parasitic?
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Links
- Coronavirus concerns prompt cancellation of Facebook F8 developer conference
- GDC ‘moving forward as planned’ as developers pull out over coronavirus concerns
- GDC 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus
- Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
- Amazon warns sellers against price gouging face masks amid coronavirus concerns
- Amazon has started restricting all non-essential travel by employees in the US as the coronavirus continues to spread
- Plague Inc. removed from Chinese app stores amid outbreak
- Samsung Blames the Coronavirus for the Galaxy S20’s Horrible Sales Numbers
- Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months
- Apple and Tesla under fire over software engineer's fatal Autopilot crash
- Your AirPods Will Die Soon
- Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines – GeekWire
- Walmart+ is the retailer's latest attempt to take on Amazon Prime
- Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report | Technology | The Guardian
- Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion - WSJ
- Intuit and Credit Karma's $7B Deal Means Bigger Data. Is That Better? | WIRED
- Reddit CEO says TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic,’ cites privacy concerns
- Tech Republic Cracking Open
- Microsoft Channel 9