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Host: Leo Laporte
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Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.Elon Musk's ups and downsThe biggest mergers...
Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.The internet is a garbage fire of hate.It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pitures of Donald Trump.The Chinese are not spying...
What role did Facebook play in the French riots?Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensetive internal...
Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day everMarriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 yearsIndian Microsoft scammers bustedAmazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum...
US government tells allies not to buy Huawei productsChina to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?Google News may leave EU over link...
Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis.Waymo plans a driverless car service.Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia.Google's "smart city" in...
Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it. Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day. Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will...
Apple announces new MacBook Air and Mac Mini, then blows them both away with its new iPad Pro.Apple will no longer tell us how many iPhones it sells.How to kill an iPhone with a balloon.Iran...
What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday?Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex"Amazon's government controversiesIBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase...
Cognative hacking with scale and co-ordination.Will the newest iPad have 2 connectors?Should keynotes for product lanches go away?Some speculation about what to expect from the upcoming Apple...
Defending Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story Google+ killed by a breach that wasn't a breach.Facebook breach that WAS a breach hits 30 million users. In related news, Facebook now sells a video...
Bloomberg reports that China used tiny chips to spy on Apple, Amazon, and the US government. Apple and Amazon deny it. How do we know who is right? All the news from the Microsoft Surface event,...
How to tell if your Facebook account is one of the 50 million that were hacked this weekWhy the founder of Instagram left Facebook"Funding secured" tweet costs Elon Musk his chairmanship and $40...
iPhone XS and XS Max are flying off the shelves (especially in Santa Rosa).Pixel 2 camera beats the iPhone XS.Why the dual-sim iPhones are a bigger deal than you think.(Heart) doctors hate it!...
Apple Watch Series 4 takes on heart disease.iPhone Xs, Xs Max, and Xr: what's in a name?All the new features and "new" features in the 2018 iPhones and iOS 12.Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook's...
Elon Musk: Tesla's market cap goes up in smokeApple vs Trump on tarrifsApple's big announcement September 12th: what we expectFacebook and Twitter go to Capitol Hill, Google sits it outTwitter...
Leo is on vacation, so Jason Snell is guest hosting!
Apple's next big event is September 12th, and we have a sneak peek at the new iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4.
The iPhone XS isn't the only...
Tech companies are meeting in secret to discuss election security.FB wants your MRI to train its AI.The nightmare that is Facebook moderation.Refuse to unlock your phone in Australia ---> go to...
Leave Elon alone! Tesla tumbles after Musk laments his "most difficult and painful year."Google employees revolt over China rumors; town hall meeting shut down due to "kerfuffle" tweets.Apple...