{"id":8991,"date":"2016-08-09T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:54:27","slug":"this-week-in-tech-574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/08\/09\/this-week-in-tech-574\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Tech 574"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmZ7n5UuJ0M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Host: Leo Laporte<\/p>\n<p>Guests: Om Malik, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and David Coursey<\/p>\n<p>Apple should be working on new computers instead of creating reality television, Amazon gets its own fleet of cargo jets, Comcast turns its cable boxes into Olympics machines while selling &#8220;near-worthless&#8221; 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