This Week in Tech 756

This Week's Stories:

•  Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?
•  Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps
•  Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China
•  EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack
•  Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people
•  10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet
•  Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?
•  Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet
•  FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data
•  Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything
•  Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything
•  Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody
•  Does tracking really make ads better?
•  He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!
•  Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case
•  Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.
•  IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires
•  California halts .org sale
•  62 new emoji are here!
•  Hummer is back and electric

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Links

• Apple’s record quarter: Don’t try to trick Tim Cook
• Jason Snell’s Apple results charts
• Apple's performance in 2019 across hardware, software, and services is rated and critiqued
• Apple supplier says it can hit production targets despite coronavirus outbreak - CNET
• The 'law against Apple': Apple has a Vladimir Putin problem
• The Tragic iPad
• Google is temporarily shutting down all China offices due to coronavirus outbreak
• Amazon reports big earnings, crosses $1 trillion in value
• Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profits | TechCrunch
• Massive Leak Reveals Pretty Much Everything About Samsung's Next Foldable Phone
• Jeffrey Paul: Starlink is a Big Deal
• CBS makes Star Trek: Picard pilot free on YouTube for a limited time
• IBM CEO Virginia Rometty is retiring
• GM is bringing back the Hummer as an electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower
• Every smart device you love will die -- starting with Sonos
• ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2 Bookshelf Speakers, Black (Pair)
• CalTech scores massive $1.1B verdict against Apple and Broadcom in patent case
• Breaking: California Attorney General delays .org sale - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
• Here are the 62 brand-new emoji for 2020
• TECH NEWS WEEKLY 116 feat. Jeremy Burge
• Emojipedia
• Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something
• Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber Hardcover