This Week in Tech 718

• The Failed Microsoft Build Hololens Demo
•  Microsoft's Build Keynote May Have Been a Bit Too Geeky
•  Microsoft Adds Linux Kernel to Windows: Is this the Beginning of the End for Windows?
•  Microsoft Word gets PC (Politically Correct, not the Other PC)
•  Should Facebook Be Broken Up? Its Co-Founder Says Yes
•  How Much Should Facebook be Fined by the FTC?
•  Snapchat Can Turn You from a Man to a Woman
•  Google I/O Keynote: Google Lens, Shrinking Machine Learning, and a Focus on Privacy
•  Google Promises Searchable Podcasts and AR in Search
•  Pixel 3a is a Flagship Phone at a Budget Price
•  How Long Will We Wait for Real 5G?
•  Google I/O: Incognito Maps, Project Mainline, and the End of Nest
•  One Broken Chip Can Brick Your Tesla
•  Uber IPO Makes a Few People Very Rich, but Still Loses Billions of Dollars
•  Bezos Shows off his Lunar Lander, Musk Teases Him
•  Jeff Bezos Really Doesn't Like Homeless People
•  The History and Future of Amazon Prime
•  Alexa is Listening
•  Hamas Cyber Attacks Israel, Israel Bombs Hamas
•  US DOJ Indicts Chinese Hackers for Anthem Attack
•  US Govt. Wants to Ban Loot Boxes
•  Samsung's Next Phone Could Have a 64 Megapixel Camera
•  Singapore Makes Fake News Illegal
•  Arya Stark's App for Creatives
•  Worldwide Helium Shortage Forces Party City to Close 45 Stores

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Links

• Here's all the important stuff Google announced at I/O 2019
• Google Fights Back – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Google’s $399 Pixel 3a attacks Apple’s iPhone on the headphone jack . . . and price
• Google’s Digital Wellbeing software might be slowing down Pixel phones
• Google Lens can translate foreign language text in photos and read it back to you
• Google's Sundar Pichai says privacy can't be a 'luxury good' - CNET
• Google Maps and search are getting an Incognito mode
• Google demonstrates Project Euphonia, effort to personally understand the speech-impaired
• Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 | Ars Technica
• Microsoft Word is getting politically correct
• Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range
• Congratulations to Uber, the Worst Performing IPO in U.S. Stock Market History
• Uber Drivers’ Day of Strikes Circles the Globe Before the Company’s I.P.O.
• Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin's Prototype of a Lunar Lander
• Elon Musk mocks Jeff Bezos' Blue Moon lander in cheeky tweet - CNET
• Hey, Alexa: Stop recording me - The Washington Post
• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
• Amazon puts 7,000 jobs on hold because of a tax that would help Seattle’s homeless population – ThinkProgress
• Opinion | It’s Time to Break Up Facebook - The New York Times
• Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer Dismantling our company won’t fix what’s wrong with social media.
• Facebook should face tougher penalty than a $5 billion fine, 2 senators say - The Washington Post
• A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas and Tesla Won’t Fix It
• In a first, Israel responds to Hamas hackers with an air-strike | ZDNet
• Member of Sophisticated China-Based Hacking Group Indicted for Series of Computer Intrusions
• Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams opens her Daisie app to all creatives - CNET
• Video game ‘loot boxes’ would be outlawed in many games under forthcoming federal bill - The Washington Post
• Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platforms - BBC News
• Not just balloons. Helium shortage may deflate MRIs, airbags and research
• Smartphone sales plummet as consumers wait for Apple's next big thing