Feb 2nd 2020
This Week in Tech 756
Don't Doubt ur Vibe
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Is Big Tech Too Big? Folding phones, Elon Musk, and 62 new emoji
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories:
- Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?
- Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps
- Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China
- EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack
- Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people
- 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet
- Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?
- Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet
- FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data
- Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything
- Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything
- Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody
- Does tracking really make ads better?
- He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!
- Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case
- Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.
- IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires
- California halts .org sale
- 62 new emoji are here!
- Hummer is back and electric
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Links
- Apple’s record quarter: Don’t try to trick Tim Cook
- Jason Snell’s Apple results charts
- Apple's performance in 2019 across hardware, software, and services is rated and critiqued
- Apple supplier says it can hit production targets despite coronavirus outbreak - CNET
- The 'law against Apple': Apple has a Vladimir Putin problem
- The Tragic iPad
- Google is temporarily shutting down all China offices due to coronavirus outbreak
- Amazon reports big earnings, crosses $1 trillion in value
- Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profits | TechCrunch
- Massive Leak Reveals Pretty Much Everything About Samsung's Next Foldable Phone
- Jeffrey Paul: Starlink is a Big Deal
- CBS makes Star Trek: Picard pilot free on YouTube for a limited time
- IBM CEO Virginia Rometty is retiring
- GM is bringing back the Hummer as an electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower
- Every smart device you love will die -- starting with Sonos
- ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2 Bookshelf Speakers, Black (Pair)
- CalTech scores massive $1.1B verdict against Apple and Broadcom in patent case
- Breaking: California Attorney General delays .org sale - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
- Here are the 62 brand-new emoji for 2020
- TECH NEWS WEEKLY 116 feat. Jeremy Burge
- Emojipedia
- Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something
- Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber Hardcover