Sep 6th 2020
This Week in Tech 787
Dreamliner
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
New episodes every Sunday.
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
- Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
- The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
- Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
- A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
- Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
- Pinterest bans political ads
- Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
- Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
- Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
- China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
- We still don't know who will buy TikTok
- Apple announcement coming 9/8?
- AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
- Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
- Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
- US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
- California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
- CableCARD nearing its end
- Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
- It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
- Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499
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Links
- THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE TECH podcast
- Apple press release is currently scheduled for Tuesday (September 8) at 9:00am EST
- Barr Ignores Lawyers’ Calls to Go Slow on Google Antitrust Case - The New York Times
- The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
- Google Maps is prioritizing traffic patterns from the last 2 to 4 weeks
- Amazon Halo is a subscription fitness wearable and platform
- Facebook’s political ad ban threatens accurate information on how to vote
- Facebook's new policies on the US election are so narrow, and come into effect so late, that they won't have any real effect
- TikTok deal to sell U.S. business could come as soon as Tuesday
- NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden ruled unlawful
- Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020 - POLITICO
- JEDI: Why we will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award | AWS Public Sector Blog
- How California’s Assembly Killed The Effort to Expand Broadband for All Californians | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Curtain Begins To Close on CableCARD
- Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs - The Verge
- Pinterest says it will no longer allow ads on election-related content and searches, after banning political ads in 2018 (Megan
- Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them - The Drive
- Pinterest says it will no longer allow ads on election-related content and searches, after banning political ads in 2018
- Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them - The Drive
- Today I learned my baby’s Fisher-Price gamepad accepts the Konami Code
- How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it