TWiT 778: In the Zoom Where It Happens

Apple Glasses, iOS 14 Privacy, and Hamilton on Disney+Is Apple pulling away from the competition?Is Intel dying?Snap Spectacles third edition arrives in IndiaGoogle buys North, makers of Focals smart glassesWhere are Alexis Ohanian and Pete Cashmore?Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple GlassesLidar technology could drive Apple business for the next decadeThe...

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TWiT 777: Apple's RISCy Move

Apple WWDC Recap - Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS 14Mac moves from Intel to Apple SiliconWhat happens to Intel? Microsoft?iOS apps will run on MacsWill Macs still run Windows on Boot Camp?Microsoft closes all retail stores - are PCs moving to the cloud?PC gaming - the biggest reason you need a PCCan x86 die already?What could go wrong with the shift to...

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TWiT 776: Phat Boyin' It All Day

WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announcedApple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners wonWWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri? Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store iOS App Store brings...

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TWiT 775: Bacon Buddies

Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce....

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TWiT 774: The Mafia is Zooming

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory...

Jun 2020

TWiT 773: The Duchess of Sealand

Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd ProtestsTrump vs Twitter: what is Section 230? Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say?Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order?Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"?Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hoursSpaceX...

Jun 2020

TWiT 772: 52 Cents & a Bag of Pop Chips

Microsoft Build Highlights, Surface Earbuds Review, Minecraft's Biggest MonthCollege Board sued over flawed online AP testsMinecraft Dungeons ReviewMinecraft hits 162 Million users/monthFormer TWiT Producer OMGChad's OMGCraft hits 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!Satya Nadella's "RGV2cw" Easter Egg spells "Devs" in Base 64All the easter eggs in the Microsoft...

May 2020

TWiT 771: Ferment All the Things

Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5Facebook buys Giphy for $400 millionFacebook setting up a political advocacy group for big techUS Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online adsTrump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left"Facebook has half of its oversight board in place alreadyZoom...

May 2020

TWiT 770: The Vanna White Effect

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce itZoom buys Keybase to fix encryptionGoogle Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with ZoomZoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race, to begin with?Leo won't give up on jitsi even though...

May 2020

TWiT 769: Me? I'm On Unhinged

Elon Musk Goes Crazy, Tik Tok Takes Over Elon Musk loses Tesla $14 Billion with one reckless tweet Tik Tok gets more than 2 billion downloads in record time Apple/Google contract tracing approved by the CDC - will you install it? Apple makes it easier to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask Google Buds 2 is a huge improvement over the original Microsoft...

May 2020