Jan 31st 2019
Tech News Weekly 68
Giving Up Google
Hosted by
Megan Morrone,
Jason Howell
MacBook's Fraying Cables, Fake Glassdoor Reviews.
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Taylor Dixon,
Andrea Fuller
- iFixit teardown engineer, Taylor Dixon talks about the bigger problems with Macbook repair and "flexgate."
- Data Analyst Andrea Fuller from The Wall Street Journal explains how they detected companies with fake employee reviews on Glassdoor.
- Megan's Story of the Week: Facebook Research app and the age of digital consent.
- Jason's Story of the Week: How to Give up Google.
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.
Links
- Apple Flexgate
- Fix all MacBook Pro 2016 and later with stage light effect or backlight shutdown #flexgate
- How Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings
- https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/25/18196741/why-mental-health-apps-sound-like-millennials
- Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
- Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
- I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything