Aug 5th 2018
This Week in Tech 678
Popcorn and Brown Liquor
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Trillion Dollar Apple, Facebook dating, Surface Go review, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Apple is the first trillion dollar company ever.
- Is Universal Basic Income the fix for poverty in America?
- Alexa is Now the Ultimate in Home Security
- Why you should avoid Chinese phones.
- Facebook Dating is coming soon - will this make you spend too much time on Facebook?
- People still don't understand blockchain.
- Maybe you just shouldn't tweet.
- Ed Bott thinks the Surface Go is great!
- MoviePass is going out of business, and it's Owen JJ Stone's fault.
- Fortnight doesn't want to pay the Google Play store.
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Links
- Apple’s Value Hit $1 Trillion. Add Disney to Bank of America and ... You’re Halfway There - The New York Times
- Diving into the details of Apple's (boring?) record quarter - Six Colors
- Huawei supplants Apple as the second largest smartphone seller
- Yang 2020
- This California town will give a $500 monthly stipend to residents
- Ontario Basic Income Pilot
- Democrats warn candidates not to use Chinese devices 'even if the price is low or free' - Business Insider
- Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally
- Facebook and Instagram add dashboards to help you manage your time on social apps
- Bawal na! French lawmakers ban smartphones in schools | ABS-CBN News
- The Bullsh*t Web — Pixel Envy
- Blockchain, once seen as a corporate cure-all, suffers a slowdown
- The “controversy” over journalist Sarah Jeong joining the New York Times, explained
- Surface Go, First Look: Small, light, and the best cheap PC ever
- MoviePass hopes a price hike and limiting new movie access can save it
- Tim Sweeney: Epic's CEO on Fortnite on Android, skipping Google Play, and the open Metaverse - view all | GamesBeat