Oct 30th 2016
This Week in Tech 586
The AIs are Talking
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Apple and Microsoft announcements, Twitter kills Vine, Google AI creates its own encryption, AT&T/Time Warner $35 DirecTV Now, Uber's self-driving beer delivery.
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Apple announces the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update, Twitter kills Vine and lays off almost 10% of its workforce, Google Home arriving next week, DirecTV Now gives 100 channels for $35, and Uber delivers 50,000 Budweisers with their Otto self-driving semi.
- Leo wants to know - have Apple and Microsoft swapped brains?
- Are we heading toward a world where you don't know which virtual assistant to ask what?
- What is scarier: a self-driving beer truck or artificial intelligence that can talk to each other using unbreakable encryption
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Links
- An Email History of the 2001 iPod Launch
- Apple unveils the new Touch Bar-powered MacBook Pro - CNET
- Here are all the biggest features coming in the Windows 10 Creators Update
- Ultra-thin, pixel-dense Surface Studio touchscreen PC will start at $2,999
- Apple says new MacBook Pro has only 16GB of RAM to save battery life
- If you thought new MacBook Pros were too expensive...
- MacBook Pro is a hybrid system
- MacBook Pro starts at $1,499, goes to $2,399 for 15-incher - CNET
- Apple stops selling legacy SuperDrive-equipped MacBook Pro and 11-inch MacBook Air
- Microsoft's Surface Books get massive battery, graphics boost - CNET
- Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make tethered VR headsets for Windows 10 PC
- Microsoft’s new Paint 3D app will let you 3D print your Minecraft creations
- Twitter is shutting down Vine
- Founder’s comment on Vine shutting down? “Don’t sell your company!”
- Inside the secret meeting that changed the fate of Vine forever
- Twitter cuts 9 percent of its workforce, Vine getting axed
- Twitter trolls caused Salesforce to walk away from deal - Business Insider
- Disney Dropped Twitter Pursuit Partly Over Image - Bloomberg
- It's Officially the Weird Twitter Election
- Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri
- Samsung Lost a Ton of Money Due to Exploding Phones
- Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works
- Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race (ProPublica)
- AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit - The Daily Beast
- At least 17 firms have marketed surveillance products to law enforcement agencies
- Internet providers now need permission to share or sell your web browsing data
- Has DirecTV Now Become a Loss Leader to Help Sell the AT&T-Time Warner Merger?
- Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Makes Its First Delivery: 50,000 Beers
- The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint | Matt Mullenweg