Jul 15th 2018
This Week in Tech 675
This Show Does Not Care About Humans
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Amazon’s juggernaut, HBO vs Netflix, Musk madness, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Do Apple's new MacBooks fix the company's keyboard woes?
- Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow. Will it be worth the hype? Will it push Amazon's share of the e-commerce market past 50%?
- Folding tablets. Phones with 9 cameras. What is next?
- Will AT&T destroy HBO by trying to expand it?
- Hey Elon: maybe don't call a heroic diver who helps rescue 12 kids a "pedo" just because he didn't use your submarine.
- Fortnite takes the World Cup Final by storm.
- Balance is restored to Reddit.
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Links
- This is Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go
- Interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft execs on how the Surface Go got made
- Apple’s new MacBook Pros have the latest Intel processors and quieter keyboards - The Verge
- Amazon Prime Day 2018: When It Is and Great Early Deals
- Amazon Prime Day’s best tech deals
- The Best Non-Amazon Deals on Prime Day from Best Buy, Dell, eBay
- Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
- Sources: Amazon Web Services is considering selling its own networking switches to business customers
- Facebook is testing augmented reality ads from a select group of partners in the News Feed (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- Facebook Hires a Head of Chip Development From Google
- Apple’s new AI chief now oversees Siri, Core ML, and machine learning teams
- Whoa! Meet the future phones that fold up, have 9 cameras and charge over thin air.
- The cost of Samsung's foldable phone? Almost $2,000, analyst says
- Netflix Topples HBO in Emmy Nominations
- Here’s what HBO’s new boss really said about the company’s plans under AT&T
- Elon Musk Didn't Help Save The Thai Boys. Now He's Attacking Someone Who Did.
- Hell for Elon Musk Is a Midsize Sedan
- What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
- Alphabet ‘graduates’ Loon and Wing from moonshots to full, independent businesses
- I Used Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time (and It Worked!)
- French player does Fortnite’s ‘Take the L’ dance after World Cup goal
- Fun isn't something one considers when banning half a subreddit