On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt discuss Google’s announcement that it will stop tracking individual users for the purposes of ad tracking and rely on anonymous group-based tracking instead.
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An NFT Is What Now? – Arizona Law and App Stores, Square Invests in Tidal, TALON, Piano AI
• Ian Sherr from CNET breaks down the amendment to an Arizona bill that might influence the battle between Epic Games, Google, and Apple.
• Lance Ulanoff, writing for Medium, gives a deep dive explanation of Non Fungible Tokens and how they are being used in the creative space.
• Square announced its majority stake in the Tidal music streaming service, and Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch has some thoughts on what it could mean.
• Jason is flabbergasted by the use of AI to analyze and animate recordings of piano performances.
• Mikah details TALON, an enormous collection of AI-powered surveillance cameras blanketing much of the US.
Outrage Moms – This Week in Tech 708
The end of smart-phones, AI fake people, Elon in the ditch again, and more.
— MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and Wearables
— This Person Does Not Exist
— OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist
— Outrage Mobs and Twitter
— China’s Social Credit System Could Take Over the World
— Google and Saudia Arabia’s Woman Tracking App
— Silicon Valley and the US Military
— Do We Even Need Facebook?
— Make Elon Musk Stop Tweeting!!!
— TikTok fined $5.7 Million
— Tenn Hacker gets $1 Million in Bug Bounties
Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Amy Webb, Brianna Wu
Algorithms are People, Too – This Week in Tech 703
2019 Tech Predictions, CRISPR Babies, Amazon Scout, Foldable Phones, and More!
— WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger to Merge
— 2019 Predictions- Amazon Will Rise, Twitter Will Fall
— CRISPR Babies Confirmed
— Amazon Scout Will Usher in the Age of Autonomous Delivery
— France Fines Google 50M Euros
— Google loses right to be forgotten case
— Foldable Phones are on the Way!
Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Jason Hiner, Greg Ferro, Brian McCullough
Millsplain It to Me – This Week in Tech 702
-Apple’s Tim Cook Calls for Data Privacy.
-773M Passwords Pwned
– How to Find Out If Yours Was.
-Amazon Tries to Make Alexa Sound “Newsy.”
-Google Buys Fossil.
-74% of Facebook Users are Clueless.
-Facebook’s 10 Year Challenge.
-Atari Founder Making Alexa Board Games.
-Stop Using Windows Phone!
-Tokyo Hotel Fires Half its Robots.
Safe Bladder Space – This Week in Tech 701
Our Favorite Things at CES 2019 All of our favourite products and trends at CES 2019!
— Impossible Burger
— Health and wearables
— Amazon vs Google
— Smart products and “Smart” products
— Laptops
— 5G
— Wireless power
— Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring
Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Cherlynn Low, Stacey Higginbotham
The Big Leek Cabal – This Week in Tech 697
– Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
– The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
– It is not Google’s fault that searching for “idiot” results in pictures of Donald Trump.
– The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
– The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
– The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
– Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
– The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
– YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.
I’ve Got Mark-Level Sign-Off – This Week in Tech 696
– What role did Facebook play in the French riots?
– Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.
– Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails.
– Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at. – And then there were 5: Google tries to make sense of its Messaging
-platforms. Meanwhile, Apple’s iMessage is the one app that could rule them all.
– Microsoft puts some Chromium in their Edge.
– Canada arrests Huawei’s CFO for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran.
– Australia passes a dangerously vague anti-encryption law.
Reverse Superlatives – This Week in Tech 694
China’s technological totalitarianism, Black Friday winners and losers, social media backlash, and more.
— US government tells allies not to buy Huawei products
— China to fully roll out “social credit” scoring system by end of 2020
— Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?
— Google News may leave EU over link tax
— Cards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses.
— For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft was the world’s most valuable company
— Social media influencers and social media backlash
— Amazon wants to buy Fox sports channels
Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Mike Elgan, Jason Snell, Adam Fisher
Internal Bug Discovery – Security Now 693
Australia vs Encryption, Google+ Bugs Hasten its Demise
— Australia’s recently passed anti-encryption legislation
— Details of a couple more mega-breaches including a bit of Marriott follow-up
— A welcome call for legislation from Microsoft — A new twist on online advertising click fraud
— The DHS is interested in deanonymizing cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin
— The changing landscape of TOR funding
— An entirely foreseeable disaster with a new Internet IoT-oriented protocol
— Google finds bugs in Google+ and acts responsibly — again — what that suggests for everyone else
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Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte