Aug 4th 2019
This Week in Tech 730
Moonlighting as Marshmello
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Apple earnings, customer service hell, Ninja on Mixer, and more!
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
- Phone season starts this week
- Apple gearing up on R&D
- Amazon takes over
- RIP Amazon Dash button
- Your Assistant is listening
- Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
- Capital One hack
- Apple Bluetooth security hack
- Facial recognition for drunks
- Chinese smile to pay
- Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
- AI customer service hell
- Amazon partnering with police
- Turkey cracks down on Internet
- Instagram from Facebook
- Livestreaming Funerals
- Spotify takes off
- US Govt vs social media addiction
- Locast gets sued
- Ninja moves to Mixer
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Links
- Apple R&D spend increases, fulfilling 'Tim Cook doctrine'
- Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns | TechCrunch
- (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4
- Amazon Gives Option to Disable Human Review of Alexa Recordings - Bloomberg
- Tim Cook says Apple’s credit card is launching in August
- FBI Arrests Hacker Responsible for Capital One Data Breach
- Facial Recognition System for Getting Drunk More Efficiently Is Coming
- How the West has misinterpreted the scope of China's social credit system
- As China turns towards facial recognition payments, are QR codes on their way out? | South China Morning Post
- Turkey moves to oversee all online content, raises concerns over censorship - Reuters
- Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp — The Information
- Now Even Funerals Are Livestreamed—and Families Are Grateful | WIRED
- Spotify's paying subscriber base grows to 108m, as total Monthly Active User count hits 232m - Music Business Worldwide
- Four major broadcast networks sue Locast