Jul 7th 2019
This Week in Tech 726
Be My Dream Daddy
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Amazon's 25th anniversary, Apple's FaceTime eye correction, and Fortnite's new crossover event.
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This Week's Stories
- HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
- Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
- The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
- Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
- Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
- MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
- Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
- Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
- Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
- Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
- Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
- Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
- Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
- Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
- Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones
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Links
- Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro - 9to5Mac
- With Jony Ive’s Successor, Apple Bets a Pragmatist Can Turn Prophet
- Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Began Long Ago
- iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem - The Verge
- Can Apple hack it in Hollywood? We talk to the man behind Apple TV+
- Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
- Amazon asks FCC for permission to launch internet satellites
- Amazon at 25: The story of a giant
- Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
- House Democrats issue letter to Facebook to halt Libra project
- Superhuman is Spying on You » Mike Industries
- Fortnite is heading to the Upside Down with Stranger Things portals
- HQ Trivia Lays Off Staff and Pivots to $9.99/Month Subscription Model for HQ Words
- Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
- Dream Daddy
- Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spending money
- Rivals Sony and Microsoft team up for cloud-based gaming solutions