Jul 1st 2018
This Week in Tech 673
The Prozac Dash Button
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Reinventing Microsoft, Amazon’s push into healthcare, new Apple Maps, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Apple vs Samsung settled: our long international nightmare is over.
- A proposed US law has patent trolls jumping for joy.
- Amazon jumps into the healthcare business by buying online pharmacy PillPack.
- Foxcon's new Wisconsin plant breaks ground.
- Yet another Facebook security breach, but this time a bug bounty program catches the leak.
- Twitter's new Ad Transparency Center opens new avenues for journalists.
- The sky is falling in Fortnite.
- WPA3 could make Wi-Fi a lot more secure.
- California follows Europe down the data privacy road.
- Christina Warren knows all the Andromeda secrets, but she's not talking.
- AOL Instant Messenger is reborn!
- StumbleUpon is not. :(
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly.
Links
- Apple and Samsung settle seven-year long patent fight over copying the iPhone
- Rep. Massie Introduces New Legislation to Restore America’s Patent System – Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack
- San Francisco Is So Expensive, You Can Make Six Figures and Still Be ‘Low Income’
- Jury: Dr. Dre's Beats headphones owes ex-partner $25 million
- Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up | TechCrunch
- This popular Facebook app publicly exposed your data for years
- Manipulative Social Media Practices - Schneier on Security
- Twitter makes its Ad Transparency Center, announced before Congressional hearings in October, available to all users
- Fortnite players are mad after being killed during the epic rocket launch
- Stronger, easier Wi-Fi security coming soon
- California just passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the country - The Verge
- Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email - The Verge
- AIM Has Been Resurrected - Motherboard
- StumbleUpon is Shutting Down