Sep 6th 2020
This Week in Tech 787
Dreamliner
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement
- Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019
- The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods
- Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th
- A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX
- Facebook bans political ads the week before the election
- Pinterest bans political ads
- Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube
- Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century
- Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years
- China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm
- We still don't know who will buy TikTok
- Apple announcement coming 9/8?
- AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now
- Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft
- Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you
- US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal
- California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians
- CableCARD nearing its end
- Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code
- It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year
- Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499
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Links
- THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE TECH podcast
- Apple press release is currently scheduled for Tuesday (September 8) at 9:00am EST
- Barr Ignores Lawyers’ Calls to Go Slow on Google Antitrust Case - The New York Times
- The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
- Google Maps is prioritizing traffic patterns from the last 2 to 4 weeks
- Amazon Halo is a subscription fitness wearable and platform
- Facebook’s political ad ban threatens accurate information on how to vote
- Facebook's new policies on the US election are so narrow, and come into effect so late, that they won't have any real effect
- TikTok deal to sell U.S. business could come as soon as Tuesday
- NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden ruled unlawful
- Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020 - POLITICO
- JEDI: Why we will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award | AWS Public Sector Blog
- How California’s Assembly Killed The Effort to Expand Broadband for All Californians | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Curtain Begins To Close on CableCARD
- Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs - The Verge
- Pinterest says it will no longer allow ads on election-related content and searches, after banning political ads in 2018 (Megan
- Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them - The Drive
- Pinterest says it will no longer allow ads on election-related content and searches, after banning political ads in 2018
- Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them - The Drive
- Today I learned my baby’s Fisher-Price gamepad accepts the Konami Code
- How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it