Apr 28th 2019
This Week in Tech 716
A Very Attractive Container of Nope
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Samsung Fold Fail, Apple vs iPhone Addiction Apps, AI Country Music, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Top Stories This Week
- Galaxy Fold Recalled After Screen Failures
- Inside the Fake World of Influencers
- Apple vs Apps vs iPhone Addiction
- Growing Up Online: The Always-Connected Generation
- Don't Forget to Cancel Apple News+!
- Amazon Prime to Offer One-Day Delivery
- Amazon Invests in Electric Vehicles
- Amazon Doubles its Profits
- Microsoft hits $1 Trillion
- Which Tech Company has the Best Reputation?
- Facebook Stole Your Email Contacts, Ready for Massive Fines
- Hertz Sues Accenture for Terrible, Horrible Website
- Netflix Wins Right to be in the Oscars
- AI Writes the Best Country Song About Doors Ever
- $16K Laundry Folding Robot Goes Bankrupt
- Podcasts vs Luminary
- Thanos Easter Egg Snaps Your Google Search
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Links
- There's a Thanos-themed Easter egg hiding in Google Search
- Samsung retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples after defect reports: source - Reuters
- AT&T says the Galaxy Fold will ship on June 13, Samsung still has no date set
- Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Smartphone Release Delayed - WSJ
- Here’s Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing - from iFixit
- About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown | iFixit
- Inside the Weird, and Booming, Industry of Online Influence
- Social Media Garden
- What Is a Click Farm? The Quick Way to Thousands of Likes
- Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction - The New York Times
- Phil Schiller Lays Out Apple's Case for Cracking Down on Screen Time Monitoring Apps
- Baby boomers share nearly 7 times as many 'fake news' articles on Facebook as adults under 30, new study finds
- Don't Forget to Cancel Apple News+
- Amazon Will Make One-Day Shipping Free For All Prime Members
- Amazon Leads Investment Round Of $700 Million In Electric Vehicle Startup Rivian
- Amazon's Profit More Than Doubles
- The Axios Harris Poll 100
- Facebook investigated by New York AG over email harvesting
- Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
- Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5 Billion by F.T.C. Over Privacy Issues
- Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text
- Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp • The Register
- Streamers win big battle over Oscar nominations - Axios
- ‘You Can’t Take My Door’ is both country music and AI’s greatest achievement
- The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy
- Gruber’s brilliant explainer on the Luminary podcast kerfuffle