This Week in Tech 739

This week's stories

•  Microsoft surprises us all with the two-screen Surface Duo phone
•  Apple's Deep Fusion poised to trump Google's Pixel 4 announcement
•  More than 500 ransomware attacks on US schools so far in 2019
•  More red flags than a Chinese parade: WeWork's failed IPO
•  Apple loves freedom - except in China
•  US, UK, and Australian governments vs encryption
•  Lexy Savvides's Memoji secrets
•  Tim Cook can woo Trump all he wants, but Apple still has to pay 25% tariffs
•  CNET folds the Samsung Galaxy Fold until it breaks
•  Why did Windows Phone fail? Iain Thomson: "It was a thousand cuts of stupidity."
•  Microsoft's new Surface line is aimed straight at Apple
•  Will there be an October Apple event? All signs point to yes.
•  Google Seattle makes a literal product graveyard
•  Levis' Jacquard jean jackets
•  PayPal backs out of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
•  Facebook vs Elizabeth Warren
•  Facebook says it's ok for political ads to lie
•  Twitter says it's ok for Trump to advocate civil war
•  Should Zuckerberg step down? Would that change anything?
•  Elon Musk's new Starship and its competition
•  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned about Tesla's Smart Summon feature
•  Hundreds of millions of "Words with Friends" accounts hacked
•  Japan turns off pagers after 50 years of honorable service

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Links

• Here's that hippie, pro-privacy, pro-freedom Apple y'all so love: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
• Apple Approves Controversial Hong Kong App After Rejection - Bloomberg
• Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
• Apple launches Deep Fusion feature in beta on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
• Deep Fusion being applied to an image in real time, 100% crop
• Ian Thomson's Fake Moos
• New Mac Pro factory that isn't
• How Tim Cook Won Donald Trump’s Ear - WSJ
• Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children
• The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
• CNET livestreams Samsung fold failure
• Microsoft surprises with new Surface Duo phone
• Everything Microsoft announced at its 2019 Surface event