Sep 29th 2019
This Week in Tech 738
The Twerklight Sonata
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
New Amazon Echo Gadgets, Microsoft Surface Event Preview, Project Voldemort...
New episodes every Sunday.
This Week's Stories
- What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event
- Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo
- Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you
- Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for?
- Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous
- Do we really trust all these voice assistants?
- Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall
- Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling
- Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state?
- Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy
- Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X
- Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
- Mac Pro to be made in Texas
- Google will stop showing news snippets in France
- QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world?
- Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them
- Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech
- Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!
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Links
- New Checkm8 jailbreak released for all iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips | ZDNet
- Apple Plans to Bring Feature-Length Films to Theaters - WSJ
- Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas - Apple
- Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case - BBC News
- Google to stop showing news snippets for French users - Reuters
- Elizabeth Warren wants to hire an army of nerds to defeat Google’s lobbyists - The Verge
- Everything we care about from the Alexa event
- Amazon Alexa's next chapter is voice in your ears, around your finger and on your face
- The Voice Interoperability Initiative lets Cortana live without its own hardware | Dan Rubino, Windows Central
- Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020
- All the new Surface hardware we're expecting to see announced October 2 in NYC
- Windows Core OS: The complete guide
- Questlove is moving his podcast from Pandora to iHeartRadio
- Snapchat reportedly has “Project Voldemort” dossier on Facebook’s bad behavior
- Sen. Warren proposes to reinstate Office of Technology Assessment
- WHY SOME BALTIMORE RESIDENTS ARE LOBBYING TO BRING BACK AERIAL SURVEILLANCE
- Tesla owners immediately tested the new Smart Summon in parking lots
- Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!