Dec 11th 2016
This Week in Tech 592
McAfee for Cyber
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
End of the Note 7, Russian hackers, Amazon Go shopping, AirPods delayed, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Samsung pushes out an "update" that kills the Note 7 once and for all - unless you're on Verizon. Tech heavyweights meet with Trump this week. CIA determines that Russians hacked the DNC and RNC. Amazon creates a cashierless store with Amazon Go. Why are the AirPods delayed? PewDiePie trolls us all. Wearables are dead.
- Ed Bott talks about our post-fact era
- Christina Warren shows off her Snapchat Spectacles
- The top 10 YouTubers make Devindra Hardawar (and the rest of us) feel old
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Links
- Samsung confirms it will render the US Note 7 useless with next update
- Verizon statement regarding Samsung Galaxy Note7
- Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg — and maybe even Jeff Bezos — are going to Trump’s tech summit next week
- Washington Post: CIA concluded Russia intervened to help Trump
- WSJ Report on Apple’s Mysterious AirPods Delay
- More Than 1 Million Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
- PewDiePie deletes his (other) YouTube channel
- PewDiePie: YouTube may be 'killing' my channel because I'm white, so I'll delete it
- Amazon launches a beta of Go, a cashier-free, app-based food shopping experience
- Wearables Are Dead
- Fitbit confirms Pebble software assets acquisition; Pebble is shutting down, cancels Pebble Time 2 and Core
- Moto pushes off smartwatches indefinitely
- Apple Watch Drops to Just 5% Share of Wearables Market as Basic Fitness Trackers 'Reign Supreme'
- Apple Watch sales to consumers set record in holiday week, says Apple's Cook
- Inside the Bizarre Movement to Make John McAfee Cyber Czar