This Week in Tech 779

TikTok's Bad Week, RIP Quibi, mmhmm

• mmhmm is a fun new way to use meeting software
• US might ban TikTok, India already has. What is the future for the embattled platform? Is TikTok safe to use? 
• Apple Glass on the way: Foxconn is making thousands of semi-transparent lenses for Apple glasses
• Amazon wants to rule the world. Is that really all that bad? 
• Is there any hope for Quibi? (Nope)
• Google's "Works With Google" virtual event demonstrated Android 11's new IoT features and their Smart Home devices.
• Is Microsoft looking to buy Magic Leap? MS exec becomes Magic Leap CEO - is she a Trojan Horse? 
• Ninja joins YouTube after Mixer dies
• Twitter partner Dataminr accused of giving Black Lives Matter protester surveillance to police
• TikTok, Linked In, and others accused of copying users' clipboards, blame a bug in a Google SDK 
• Amazon briefly tells employees to take TikTok off their phones, backpedals furiously when their marketing department throws a fit
• How much of the TikTok hate is just anti-Chinese bias? 
• US teens worried about losing TikTok
• How mmhmm works with Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet
• Microsoft Teams adds "Together Mode," which puts meeting attendants in seats in an auditorium
• AR still isn't ready for the outside world, but it works great for Snapchat and TikTok filters
• North Focals, Jins Meme ES, Amazon Lens, Snap Spectacles, Bose Frames - different smart glasses with different use cases
• When will AR get a killer App? User-focused design is the answer, but not a lot of AR companies are doing that. 
• Foxconn invests $1B to open a factory in India
• Searching for the perfect car phone holder
• Are Millennials killing IoT? 
• Walmart is launching an Amazon Prime competitor in July
• Jack Dorsey donates $3 Million to Basic Income
• Twitter might be starting a subscription service

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Links

• Louise Matsakis at Wired
• Stacey on IoT
• Phil Libin's All Turtles
• Phil Libin's mmhmm App
• Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show
• Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok will issue updates to stop apps from copying the clipboard in iOS 14
• LinkedIn Sued for Spying on Users With Apple Device Apps
• Wells Fargo wants employees to delete TikTok from company phones
• Amazon Says It Didn’t Mean to Ban Employees From Using TikTok
• US 'looking at' banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps: Pompeo
• ‘It Would Be Like Losing a Little Bit of Me’: TikTok Users Respond to Potential U.S. Ban
• Microsoft to add new shared background, customizable views, chat bubbles and more to Teams
• Microsoft executive leaves after six years to become CEO of Magic Leap
• Apple Moving Forward on Semitransparent Lenses for Upcoming AR Headset
• Jins Meme ES
• WeatherTech CupFone
• The new “Works with Google” program takes a page from Apple
• The Bezos Future - Current Affairs
• Walmart’s Amazon Prime competitor will launch in July
• Ninja starts streaming on YouTube after Microsoft shuts down Mixer
• Guess How Many People Actually Paid for Quibi
• Twitter boss donates $3m to basic universal income project
• Twitter hints at future subscription service in job listing
• Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn't Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just 'News Alerting'
• Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests with Help from Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr
• Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech