Dec 18th 2016
This Week in Tech 593
Coulrophobia
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Tech leaders and Trump, Facebook’s Scarlett Letter, another Yahoo hack, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Tech summit at Trump Tower. Why fake news appeals to your lizard brain. 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked. Why Pebble had to sell to Fitbit. Uber refuses to stop testing self-driving cars in San Francisco. Google creates a new self-driving company, Waymo. Apple's new emoji in iOS 10.2.
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Links
- Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal
- As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence - Recode
- Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting: Immigration, paid maternity leave and becoming the ‘software president’
- Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick are joining Donald Trump’s strategic and policy forum
- Uber ordered to halt self-driving cars in California as cars seen running red lights.
- Uber keeps self-driving cars on the road, challenging the law - CNET
- Refuse to help build a Muslim registry
- John Markoff Retires From The New York Times
- The Inside Story Behind Pebble’s Demise
- Wearables are dead
- Fitbit CEO says buying Pebble could help it crack the code on smartwatches - The Verge
- Facebook Pins a Scarlet Letter to Fake News
- Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline—Until Now
- Google’s self-driving arm is spinning out of X and will be called Waymo
- With $1.5 billion in the bank, Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico
- Google debuts Android Things, a platform for building IoT devices with Google services and Android APIs
- Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017
- Evernote apologizes for its new privacy policy
- Magic Leap is actually way behind, like we always suspected it was
- AirPods are now up for sale on Apple’s site, will start arriving just before Christmas
- Apple removes the ‘time remaining’ battery estimate in new macOS update
- Apple releases iOS 10.2 w/ new emoji, Messages effects, TV app, wallpapers, more