Aug 4th 2019
This Week in Tech 730
Moonlighting as Marshmello
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Apple earnings, customer service hell, Ninja on Mixer, and more!
New episodes every Sunday.
This Week's Stories
- Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
- Phone season starts this week
- Apple gearing up on R&D
- Amazon takes over
- RIP Amazon Dash button
- Your Assistant is listening
- Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
- Capital One hack
- Apple Bluetooth security hack
- Facial recognition for drunks
- Chinese smile to pay
- Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
- AI customer service hell
- Amazon partnering with police
- Turkey cracks down on Internet
- Instagram from Facebook
- Livestreaming Funerals
- Spotify takes off
- US Govt vs social media addiction
- Locast gets sued
- Ninja moves to Mixer
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Links
- Apple R&D spend increases, fulfilling 'Tim Cook doctrine'
- Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns | TechCrunch
- (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4
- Amazon Gives Option to Disable Human Review of Alexa Recordings - Bloomberg
- Tim Cook says Apple’s credit card is launching in August
- FBI Arrests Hacker Responsible for Capital One Data Breach
- Facial Recognition System for Getting Drunk More Efficiently Is Coming
- How the West has misinterpreted the scope of China's social credit system
- As China turns towards facial recognition payments, are QR codes on their way out? | South China Morning Post
- Turkey moves to oversee all online content, raises concerns over censorship - Reuters
- Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp — The Information
- Now Even Funerals Are Livestreamed—and Families Are Grateful | WIRED
- Spotify's paying subscriber base grows to 108m, as total Monthly Active User count hits 232m - Music Business Worldwide
- Four major broadcast networks sue Locast