Jun 10th 2018
This Week in Tech 670
Go Theranos or Go Home
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Surveillance economy, “Digital Well Being” implications, Siri shortcuts, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- A New Tech Manifesto by Baratunde: how to reinvent social media to improve all our lives.
- Apple's WWDC announcements: Screen Time restores balance to your life, memojis avoid the uncanny valley, ARKit 2 might (might) actually have usefull apps, Siri Shortcuts might (might) make Siri useful, macOS Mojave makes much-needed improvements to the Finder, tvOS gets Dolby Atmos.
- Gmail's improved design is headed your way.
- Microsoft buys GitHub: how MS went from a Windows monolith to an open-source champion.
- Computex's big announcements: Intel fudges some numbers, AMD's new Threadripper 2, and ASUS put a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute.
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Links
- Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You by Baratunde
- A New Tech Manifesto by Baratunde
- Baratunde's The New Tech Manifesto: Live, Open Source Edition (aka #datafesto)
- Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends - The New York Times
- Funny: What if Facebook were a bar (video)
- The buzz after Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote: Ho hum
- macOS Mojave update announced with dark mode, redesigned App Store, Apple News, and more
- Apple to bring iOS apps to macOS
- Apple Reveals iOS 12 With Digital Health Features, 'Screen Time' App, Group FaceTime, Memoji, and More
- Apple strips Facebook, Twitter integration from macOS Mojave
- Animoji and Memoji: Everything you need to know
- iOS 12: What you need to know about Siri's new Shortcuts feature
- All the New AR Features Coming to iPhones This Fall
- Apple business news curated by Apple. What a concept.
- When They Leave On Anthony Bourdain, and me, and you
- The new Gmail will roll out to all users next month
- Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion | Stories
- The next GitHub CEO promises Microsoft won't turn it into a 'swamp' of ads
- Intel Announces the Core i7-8086K: Coffee Lake at 5 GHz
- AMD tops Intel with its 32-core Threadripper 2, which will ship this year
- ASUS stuffed a screen into the ZenBook Pro 15's touchpad