Apr 21st 2019
This Week in Tech 715
8K + 5G
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Galaxy Fold Fail, Qualcomm Crushes Apple, Guess Who Hates Hates Facebook Now, and more.
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Top Stories This Week:
- Samsung's Folding Phone Fail
- Apple vs Qualcomm: It's Over! Qualcomm wins!
- What Is Intel's Future After Apple?
- iMac Pro vs MacBook Pro: Which One Wins?
- iOS 13 Has Everything You Want, But Not the One Thing You Need
- Brexit, Muller, and US Voting Machines: What's the Connection?
- Ransomware Attacks: Is This an Act of War?
- The Mental Health App that Secretly Shares Your Data
- MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins) Pleads Guilty
- Facebook's Bad Day Week 15 Months
- Summit Learning: Everything You Hate About Facebook, Now in the Classroom!
- Apple Shuts Down Texture, Android Users S.O.L.
- The Browser Ballot Part II: Electric Boogaloo
- YouTube: Notre Dame was Terrorism
- Sri Lanka vs Social Media, India vs Tik Tok, the UK vs Porn
- Utah Bans Warrantless Phone Searches
- Google and Amazon Make Nice
- Assassin's Creed Helps Fix Notre Dame
- Playstation 5 Revealed!
- TWiT's Official Super Smash Bros Ultimate Level
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Links
- Apple and Qualcomm reach settlement in patent royalty battle, agree to drop all litigation
- Intel says it will exit the 5G phone business as Apple and Qualcomm strike multiyear deal
- iOS 13: Dark Mode, detachable panels, Safari and Mail, more - 9to5Mac
- Apple to shutter Texture for News+ app, leave Android users out of luck
- Amazon and Google settle feud, bring YouTube back to Fire TV devices
- Google Offers Europeans Choice to Download Rival Web Browser
- Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram passwords unencrypted on its servers
- Facebook perfects the art of the news dump
- 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook | WIRED
- Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
- SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD REVIEW: BROKEN DREAM
- Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on: Satisfying despite the crease
- Huawei Launches New $2,600 Foldable 5G Phone to Rival Samsung
- The company behind the dual-screen YotaPhone is bankrupt
- YouTube shows 9/11 link on live videos of unrelated Notre Dame fire - The Verge
- Assassin's Creed Unity will be used to rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral
- TikTok: Apple and Google block video sharing app in India
- UK to introduce porn age-checks in July
- Porn sites offer loopholes to get around web ban as BBFC admits it is powerless to stop tech savvy teens
- Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole
- Big Companies Thought Insurance Covered a Cyberattack. They May Be Wrong. - The New York Times
- Security researcher MalwareTech pleads guilty | ZDNet
- MalwareTech: Legal Case Update
- That mental health app might share your data without telling you - The Verge
- The Weather Channel goes off the air for 90 minutes after ransomware infection | ZDNet
- [ALERT] NotPetya Is a Cyber Weapon, Not Ransomware
- Sri Lanka restricts access to social media sites following terror attack
- Mueller report details Russian interference in 2016 election, interactions with Trump team, WikiLeaks
- Exclusive: What to Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s stage builder unleashes the internet’s creativity
- TWiT's Official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Stage
- Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion. - The New York Times
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