Sep 29th 2019
This Week in Tech 738
The Twerklight Sonata
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
New Amazon Echo Gadgets, Microsoft Surface Event Preview, Project Voldemort...
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event
- Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo
- Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you
- Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for?
- Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous
- Do we really trust all these voice assistants?
- Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall
- Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling
- Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state?
- Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy
- Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X
- Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
- Mac Pro to be made in Texas
- Google will stop showing news snippets in France
- QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world?
- Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them
- Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech
- Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!
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Links
- New Checkm8 jailbreak released for all iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips | ZDNet
- Apple Plans to Bring Feature-Length Films to Theaters - WSJ
- Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas - Apple
- Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case - BBC News
- Google to stop showing news snippets for French users - Reuters
- Elizabeth Warren wants to hire an army of nerds to defeat Google’s lobbyists - The Verge
- Everything we care about from the Alexa event
- Amazon Alexa's next chapter is voice in your ears, around your finger and on your face
- The Voice Interoperability Initiative lets Cortana live without its own hardware | Dan Rubino, Windows Central
- Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020
- All the new Surface hardware we're expecting to see announced October 2 in NYC
- Windows Core OS: The complete guide
- Questlove is moving his podcast from Pandora to iHeartRadio
- Snapchat reportedly has “Project Voldemort” dossier on Facebook’s bad behavior
- Sen. Warren proposes to reinstate Office of Technology Assessment
- WHY SOME BALTIMORE RESIDENTS ARE LOBBYING TO BRING BACK AERIAL SURVEILLANCE
- Tesla owners immediately tested the new Smart Summon in parking lots
- Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!