Dec 20th 2020
This Week in Tech 802
The Year in Review
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
OG TWiTs discuss the year's biggest stories and trends
New episodes every Sunday.
SolarWinds, COVID-19, Zoom, Big Tech, Social Media, Elon Musk, 5G, Amazon
- SolarWinds, the biggest case of cyber-espionage yet.
- COVID-19 and the dramatic effect of it on the tech industry.
- How effective has Contact Tracing been?
- The brilliance of mRNA for the vaccine.
- Will WFH be permanent going forward?
- The "real" threat of TikTok.
- Facebook's attack on Apple.
- The benefactors of COVID-19.
- The many times big tech went to Washington.
- How Section 230 could change the Internet.
- 5G and the promises that haven't been fulfilled.
- How Intel lost ground to ARM.
- The many products released during 2020.
- A summary of predictions for 2021.
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Links
- FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools
- U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
- Here are the latest major events that have been canceled or postponed because of the coronavirus
- Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android - The Verge
- Remote Work Is Reshaping San Francisco, as Tech Workers Flee and Rents Fall
- The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
- Quibi is coming, with the worst — or maybe best — timing
- Zoom became Saturday Night Live’s breakout star in historic all digital, remote episode
- Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec
- ‘Zoombombing’: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
- 21 major companies that have announced employees can work remotely long-term
- Coronavirus Is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning?
- US 'looking at' banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps: Pompeo
- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft all hit record highs as the Nasdaq Composite broke 10,000 for the first time, alongside s
- Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Congress repeals Section 230, a legal shield for tech giants
- 5G phones in 2020: iPhone 12, Galaxy Note 20, Pixel 5 and more
- Elon Musk Tweets 'Free America Now' ahead of Tesla Quarterly Results
- Grimes & Elon Musk named their new baby X Æ A-12, gave it a face-tat filter
- SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts to space for the first time in historic US mission
- "Elon Musk demonstrates brain-computer tech Neuralink in live pigs "
- Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gates to Grab World’s Second-Richest Ranking
- Briefing: Former Google and Uber Self-Driving Car Engineer Pleads Guilty to Trade Secret Theft — The Information
- Uber, After Years of Trying, Is Handing Off Its Self-Driving Car Project
- The End of an Era at Intel