Jul 21st 2019
This Week in Tech 728
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Leo Laporte
FaceApp, Apollo 11, TikTok, and more!
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
- Russian Intelligence Service hacked
- Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
- Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
- Equifax fined $700 million
- TikTok takes over
- Celebrate World Emoji Day
- New MacBook Air have slower SSD
- Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
- Trump threatens Google
- Congressional hearings on Big Tech
- Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
- Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
- Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
- Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
- How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
- Influencers are taking over the world
- Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming
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Links
- Apple to Fund Original Podcasts; Spotify (SPOT) Stock Falls - Bloomberg
- Apple and Google show off their more inclusive emoji for 2019
- Why does Apple hate falafel?
- Trump threatens to ‘take a look’ at Google for China ties - The Washington Post
- Google officially ends its Chinese search engine project
- Exclusive: Google Banned Major Chinese App Developer CooTek From The Play Store And Its Ad Platforms
- Amazon sells over 175M items during Prime Day 2019, more than Black Friday & Cyber Monday combined
- Amazon warehouse workers around the world are striking for Prime Day
- Awkward! Bernie tells Bezos-sponsored event he'd break up Amazon and other tech titans
- Everyone Wants Facebook's Libra to Be Regulated. But How?
- Meet Morgan Beller, the 26-year-old woman behind Facebook’s plan to make its own currency
- FaceApp Russia: Here's what we know about the Russian company behind it - The Washington Post
- DNC warns 2020 presidential campaigns not to use FaceApp
- Hackers breach FSB (Russian Intelligence) contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more
- It's a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it
- Orlando cancels the second phase of its Amazon Rekognition pilot, which began in October 2018
- Equifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes - WSJ
- Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software - WSJ
- Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk
- Don’t Scoff at Influencers. They’re Taking Over the World. - The New York Times
- Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
- TikTok took over VidCon, and YouTube is next