Nov 26th 2017
This Week in Tech 642
Grandpa's Hairy Thumb
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Net Neutrality, deal-day sales, Facebook sinkhole, promise of Elon, and more
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Net Neutrality's demise set for December 14th - lawsuits to follow. Black Friday breaks mobile records. Time's top 10 gadgets of the year. Jeff Bezos, now worth $100 billion, credits his grandpa's hairy thumb as inspiration. How to tell if you liked a Russia-sponsored Facebook page. Elon Musk tests the bounds of credibility with his latest battery claims. Uber confesses to hiding a 2016 data breach and paying off the hackers.
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Links
- FCC chairman reveals plan to kill net neutrality
- FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws | Ars Technica
- Tim Wu: Why Courts will have to fix what the FCC does
- FCC Relaxes Media Ownership Rules in Contentious Vote
- More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
- Fakespot
- EFF tool tells your members of Congress to fight for net neutrality
- Thanksgiving online retail sales hit nearly $3 billion on the back of strong mobile growth
- Thrifter
- Amazon, in Hunt for Lower Prices, Recruits Indian Merchants
- Best Cyber Monday Deals of 2017: Cheap 4K TVs, PS4 Pro and More
- camelcamelcamel, a free Amazon price tracker
- Black Friday racks up $5.03B in online sales, $2B on mobile alone
- YouTube is Back on Amazon Echo Show - Voicebot
- The Amazon Kindle turned 10 this week
- Why Apple’s HomePod Is Three Years Behind Amazon’s Echo - Bloomberg
- Jeff Bezos’ net worth surpasses 100 billion dollars
- AWS launches AWS Secret Region for US intel agencies and their partners working with "secret" classified data
- TIME Ranks iPhone X and Apple Watch Series 3 Among Top 10 Best Gadgets of 2017
- The Education of Mark Zuckerberg - The Atlantic
- How do I permanently delete my account? | Facebook Help Center | Facebook
- By year’s end, you’ll know if you liked a Kremlin-created Facebook page
- Thiel sells most of his Facebook stake
- Is Thiel angling to buy Gawker.com (to kill archives)?
- Twitter testing tweetstorm feature
- Tesla’s electric Semi truck starts at $150,000, reservations now live
- Tesla’s Newest Promises Break the Laws of Batteries
- CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
- Intel: We've found severe bugs in secretive Management Engine, affecting millions | ZDNet
- Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data - The New York Times