Dec 23rd 2018
This Week in Tech 698
A Christmas Miracle
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
The Best Stories of 2018
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?
- Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.
- Elon Musk's ups and downs
- The biggest mergers of 2018
- Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news
- Bloomberg's big blunder
- China's social credit system and CRISPR babies
- Those we lost in 2018
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Links
- Mark Zuckerberg says fixing Facebook is his ‘personal challenge’ for 2018 - The Verge
- The 21 (and Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals of 2018 | WIRED
- Facebook's $100 billion-plus rout is the biggest loss in stock market history
- Apple’s Value Hit $1 Trillion. Add Disney to Bank of America and ... You’re Halfway There - The New York Times
- Mark Zuckerberg Lost $15 Billion This Year, More Than Any of the 500 Richest Billionaires in the World
- Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users - The New York Times
- Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share - The New York Times
- The Clone Wars: iPhone X copycats battle for notch supremacy - The Verge
- Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150 Billion - Bloomberg
- Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report - The Verge
- SpaceX launches its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time - The Verge
- Elon Musk's "funding secured" may be costliest words ever tweeted - Axios
- Elon Musk tries a toke on air
- Elon Musk's Boring Company is selling a flamethrower
- Done deal: AT&T has completed its acquisition of Time Warner
- Flickr acquired by professional photo hosting service SmugMug - The Verge
- The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B | TechCrunch
- Senate Passes SESTA, Controversial 'Anti-Sex Trafficking' Bill That Could Ruin the Internet and Harm Sex Workers
- Theranos is finally shutting down - The Verge
- Net Neutrality Has Officially Been Repealed. Here’s How That Could Affect You. - The New York Times
- It Sure Looks Like Wireless Carriers Got Busted Throttling Netflix and YouTube
- Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
- Marriott: Data on 500 Million Guests Stolen in 4-Year Breach — Krebs on Security
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
- Super Micro says independent audit found no spy chips - 9to5Mac
- John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Stan Lee Dead: Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero Was 95 | Hollywood Reporter
- When They Leave – Member Feature Stories – Medium
- Art Bell, Weird Radio Pioneer, Passes Away at 72