Feb 23rd 2020
This Week in Tech 759
Never Gonna Give You Up
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
COVID-19 Tech Fallout, Star Trek Deepfake
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories:
- COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
- Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
- COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
- Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
- Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and ‘Apple Watch Series X’ bands, and ‘Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
- Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
- EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
- Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
- Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
- Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
- Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
- Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
- Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
- New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
- Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
- Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
- Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
- Adobe Photoshop turns 30
- $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
- Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA
- Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm
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Links
- App Store Confidential - Amazon
- APPLE WARNS OF Q2 EARNINGS MISS DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
- Apple’s “Investor update on quarterly guidance”
- Apple Shares Drop After Virus Warning Rattles Tech Investors
- Related: Warren Buffett sold off $800 million worth of Apple stock last quarter
- Analysts mostly unfazed by Apple coronavirus impact: ‘will be temporary’
- Sources: iPhone SE 2 is on track to launch in March despite coronavirus crisis
- Sony and Facebook say they will not attend Game Developers Conference this year due to coronavirus
- Sony Backs Out Of PAX East Over Coronavirus Concerns
- Related: Coronavirus fears prompt Facebook to cancel conference, IBM to exit RSA
- Related: Coronavirus impact on tech industry predicted in new report
- Coming Soon: N95 Plague Doctor Mask on Indiegogo
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory reportedly closes due to coronavirus infection - CNET
- Unannounced ‘AirPods X Generation’ reportedly appear in Target inventory systems for $399
- Target inventory system also includes placeholder listings for new Apple TV, iPod touch, and Apple Watch bands
- Apple Weighs Loosening Restrictions on Rival IPhone, Music Apps - Bloomberg
- Apple tries to halt publication of App Store book allegedly containing company secrets
- New Apple book hits #2 on German bestseller list following attempted ban
- The EU Wants All Phones to Work With Interoperable Chargers, Here’s What That Means for Apple's Lightning Port - MacRumors
- Trump Backs Supporter Larry Ellison in Court Fight With Google - Bloomberg
- Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change - The Verge
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip teardown reveals dust's impact on hinge, iFixit says - CNET
- Tests of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's "Ultra Thin Glass" display show durability is on par with plastic screens
- Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads — Krebs on Security
- Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing 'platform manipulation' - Los Angeles Times
- Sources: the Trump campaign has bought exclusive nationwide masthead ads on YouTube for days leading up to and on election day
- Adobe marks 30 years of Photoshop with new iPad and Mac features
- Fortnite will let players mute the Rickroll emote in order to avoid getting copyright claimed
- Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy, paste, dies at 74
- Bert Sutherland - Wikipedia
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Star Trek collide in uncanny deepfake
- Back to the Future deepfake inserts Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland
- The Bayern Agenda - Amazon
- REGISTER FOR LASTPASS’S RSA AFTER HOURS IN SAN FRANCISCO