Aug 14th 2016
This Week in Tech 575
Goodbye, Brickhouse
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Google’s Fuchsia, Walmart’s Jet, iPhone 7, 5G standards confusion, and more.
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In the final TWiT at the Brickhouse, we talk about Google's mysterious new operating system Fuchsia, Walmart's Jet.com purchase, concern over the iPhone 7's potential lack of a headphone port, Adblock Plus vs. Facebook, Microsoft's 'Golden Key' leak, and more!
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Links
- Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things
- Google fined $6.8M for breaking Russian antitrust rules with Android, for favoring its own services over rivals (Mark Scott/New
- Attention, College Students: Chromebooks Are About to Get Awesome
- Avast man in the middle attack
- Arianna Huffington Will Leave The Huffington Post To Build Health And Wellness Site
- Source: Arianna Huffington is leaving the Huffington Post because Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo threatened her website's status
- Walmart was the only bidder in $3 billion Jet.com acquisition
- Walmart is paying $3 billion to lock in Jet.com’s CEO for an unusually long five years
- The Apple Maps launch fiasco led to the iOS public beta program
- Flash Memory Summit
- FMS 2016: Samsung To Announce 64-Layer 4th Gen V-NAND
- Intel confirms 2016 arrival of 3D XPoint-based Optane SSD
- The Next Generation of Wireless — “5G” — Is All Hype.
- Everything you need to know about Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 event
- New iPhone to Have Dual Camera but No Headphone Jack - Bloomberg
- Apple’s stagnant product lines mostly reflect the state of the computer industry | ExtremeTech
- Faster Apple Watch 2 With GPS, Barometer, Larger Battery, and Same Thickness to Launch Later This Year - Mac Rumors
- Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 line adds OLED and a Surface rival
- Shameless plug: New Latency Percentile testing at PCPer.
- Adblock Plus blocks Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook block of AdBlock Plus block of Facebook ads
- Our Data
- Microsoft's 'Golden Key' Leak Illustrates Why Governments Should Stop Asking For Backdoors
- Most Brits Don’t Want Snoopers’ Charter – Report
- iMessage's 'End-To-End' Encryption Hardly Any Better Than TLS, Say Cryptography Researchers