Nov 11th 2018
This Week in Tech 692
Ravioli for the Recount
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
The future of Apple, the tech doomsayer, nobody trusts Facebook, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.
- Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day.
- Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class."
- 22% of Americans still trust Facebook.
- Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap.
- Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case.
- DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights.
- China unveils the first AI news anchor.
- Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe.
- With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype.
- FCC has harsh words about robocalls.
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Links
- Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip
- The 2018 Mac Mini
- APPLE MACBOOK AIR (2018) REVIEW: THE PRESENT OF COMPUTING
- Apple’s Social Network
- Getting the iPad to Pro — by Craig Mod
- The New iPad Pro for Photographers
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Gets Reputation Hit After Data Blunders | Fortune
- 5 nations now demanding Mark Zuckerberg testify on Facebook's data misuse
- Sprint is throttling Microsoft's Skype service, study finds.
- Amazon must give up Echo recordings in double murder case, judge rules
- The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
- US Cyber Command starts uploading foreign APT malware to VirusTotal | ZDNet
- U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service — Krebs on Security
- Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8 billion in sales in 24 hours
- FCC will ‘take action’ in 2019 if carriers aren’t doing enough to fight robocalls
- Why Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia | World Economic Forum
- Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer - The New York Times
- Tesla’s ‘Bioweapon Defense Mode’ is proving invaluable to owners affected by CA wildfires
- Pizza to the Polls
- Domino's Paving for Pizza
- Oprah's Favorite Things
- Baker's Edge Nonstick Edge Brownie Pan
- Amazon sends out toy catalog with no prices ahead of the holidays
- Pulled over while connected: Siri can quietly video record the police
- World's first AI news anchor unveiled in China