This Week in Tech 760

This Week's Stories

• Coronavirus: GDC postponed, F8 canceled, Chinese factory shortages, mask shortages, CDC test shortages, preppers prepping, fear, uncertainty, and denial
• Your AirPods are on a two-year timer
• Safari snubs two-year certificates
• Some might call it a patent troll - Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
• NTSB blames CalTrans, Tesla, and Apple for autopilot fatality
• Amazon Go Grocery Review
• Intuit pays $7 Billion for Credit Karma's data
• Activist investor attacking Twitter
• TikTok is fundamentally parasitic?

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Links

• Coronavirus concerns prompt cancellation of Facebook F8 developer conference
• GDC ‘moving forward as planned’ as developers pull out over coronavirus concerns
• GDC 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus
• Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
• Amazon warns sellers against price gouging face masks amid coronavirus concerns
• Amazon has started restricting all non-essential travel by employees in the US as the coronavirus continues to spread
• Plague Inc. removed from Chinese app stores amid outbreak
• Samsung Blames the Coronavirus for the Galaxy S20’s Horrible Sales Numbers
• Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months
• Apple and Tesla under fire over software engineer's fatal Autopilot crash
• Your AirPods Will Die Soon
• Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines – GeekWire
• Walmart+ is the retailer's latest attempt to take on Amazon Prime
• Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report | Technology | The Guardian
• Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion - WSJ
• Intuit and Credit Karma's $7B Deal Means Bigger Data. Is That Better? | WIRED
• Reddit CEO says TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic,’ cites privacy concerns
• Tech Republic Cracking Open
• Microsoft Channel 9