Nov 5th 2017
This Week in Tech 639
Anywhere but Albany
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
iPhone X impressions, fixing Facebook, weaponizing social media, and more.
New episodes every Sunday.
The iPhone X is the best phone a huge pile of money can buy. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, cashes out $1 billion in Amazon stock. Congress has some words with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Can Facebook be fixed? Can Twitter? Animoji, poop emoji, and burger emoji continue to be news.
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Links
- The iPhone X Is Cool. That Doesn’t Mean You Are Ready for It.
- Looks like the Wall St Journal is also butthurt about Apple's unusual iPhone X review regimen
- iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales all up since Q4 last year
- iPhone X is the largest single product launch in Apple's history - Slice Intelligence
- This Guy Found The Best New Use For The Animojis On Apple's iPhone X
- Privacy Experts Raise Concerns Over iOS Developer Access to Certain Pieces of Facial Data
- iPhone X Teardown - iFixit
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Financing iPhone X Can Work Out to Cost of Just a Few Nice Coffees Per Week
- Instead of buying pricey AppleCare+ check to see if your credit card protects you
- What to do if i turns into A on iOS 11.
- Your iPhone Is Using Machine Learning to Chronicle All Your Bra Pics
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than $1 billion worth of stock this week
- Jeff Bezos’ Heart Breaks A Little Reading Albany’s Amazon Headquarters Pitch (The Onion)
- For Bezos, Now World's Richest, Philanthropy Is 'Saved for Later'
- How to Use iPhone X… Told by Animojis
- AMAZON KINDLE OASIS (2017) REVIEW: TOTAL IMMERSION
- Congress grills Facebook, Twitter, Google on shells hiding election meddlers
- More Americans are turning to multiple social media sites for news
- How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts
- Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said tech should cooperate with law enforcement — and help the U.S. fight Russia
- A rogue Twitter employee shut down Donald Trump’s account - The Verge
- T-Mobile, Sprint Working to Salvage Merger - WSJ
- Future Saudi king tightens grip on power with arrests including Prince Alwaleed
- The California Wildfires Burned Down Irreplaceable Documents on Silicon Valley History [Updated]
- Related: Google serves 'Android Burger' for lunch in company cafeteria
- Inside The Great Poop Emoji Feud
- One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
- Razer Phone Announced with 5.7″ 120Hz Display and 8GB RAM
- Microsoft quietly announces end of last free Windows 10 upgrade offer