Feb 4th 2018
This Week in Tech 652
We're All Out of Kidneys
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Dot-com superb ads, Apple growth, Bezos’s big plan, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Tech ads in the Superbowl. Elon Musk's "Not-a-Flamethrower." Apple, Google, and Amazon quarterly results. What are Amazon's health plans? What game company will Microsoft buy next?
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Links
- WHO'S BUYING ADS IN THE BIG GAME
- Here’s Why Alexa Won’t Light Up During Amazon Super Bowl Ad
- Amazon’s Super Bowl ad imagines a world where Cardi B and Anthony Hopkins are Alexa
- TiVo will let you skip the football and watch just the Super Bowl commercials
- Apple Q1 2018 earnings: Record revenue, beating the estimates - Six Colors
- Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify
- A list of Apple's original TV shows and series
- Alphabet names John Hennessy as chairman
- Pixel team is now in-house as Google closes $1.1 billion HTC deal
- Alexa, print money: Even Bezos stunned by Q4 Amazon income
- Amazon Go debuts, and its prying cameras foil our shoplifting attempts
- Amazon just patented some creepy “Black Mirror”-esque tracking wristbands
- Amazon Health – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care - The New York Times
- Nintendo is bringing Mario Kart to smartphones
- Microsoft considers buying Electronic Arts says source, as it seeks to increase exclusive games lineup