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Memorable 'This Week in Tech' moments from 2015.
Cars of the future, Peach, Broadway tweets, Binge On throttling, and more.
New car technologies, Bitcoin warning, Twitter anonymity, and more.
Facebook’s internet.org, journalistic orthodoxy, Twitter upheaval, and more.
Earnings week, end of Twitter, Amazon’s monk rental, and more.
Echo evolution, social media campaigning, verified Jiffpom, and more.
Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Jason Hiner and Owen J.J. Stone get together to talk about the FBI/DHS hack, Google Self Driving Cars, Twitter's future, Apple's Error 53, Rocky 1-7 and more...
Leo Laporte, Ben Thompson, Ed Bott, and Christina Warren discuss the Apple DOJ case further, hospital ransomeware, and Mobile World Congress announcements from Samsung, HTC, and, LG. That and more...
Host: Leo Laporte Leo Laporte, Roberto Baldwin, Peter Cohen, and Will Oremus talk about the biggest news stories in the tech world this week: Decryption by update, customer service hacks, people chow, and more...
Host: Leo Laporte Leo Laporte is joined in-studio by Becky Worley, Jason Snell, and Harry McCracken to discuss Google's self-driving car hitting a bus, Apple's new campus, the future of journalists, the smartphone as an extension of the mind, and more...
Host: Leo Laporte Leo Laporte, David Pogue, Mark Milian, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss the big tech news stories of the week including President Obama's encryption speech at SXSW, AlphaGo leads 3-1 against Lee Se-dol, Apple announcement rumors, Android N preview highlights, and more...
Host: Leo Laporte Apple event preview, iPhone hearing, the surveillance society, and more.
Host: Leo Laporte Apple/DOJ case stalls, the new iPhone SE and iPad Pro, Amazon Echo as a platform, lesson's from Tay, effects of streaming on the music industry, and more...
Tesla Model 3, FBI iPhone cracking, VR gaming, new platforms, and more.
Decryption bill, the Melatonin blues, selfie inflicted, looking at nothing, and more.
The 'Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016,' the future of encryption in the US, Tesla's future, Yahoo for sale, Facebook bots, and more...
Apple’s recycled gold, Kindle book scam, Uber tips, Magic Leap questions, and more.
Apple’s quarter, Black Twitter, Rule 41, Nintendo NX, and more.
The truth about podcasting, the power of Facebook Live and Periscope, Apple Music issues, Youtube Unplugged, and more...
Facebook scrutiny, Google vs Oracle, iTunes missing music, Alexa’s skills, and more.
Google Home, technology as a lifestyle, Facebook and conservatives, and more.
Google beats Oracle, Peter Thiel shows that billionaires can beat the 1st Amendment, and Microsoft tricks people into upgrading to Windows 10.
Elon Musk thinks we are living in a computer simulation, and that one AI company will plunge us into despotism. Also, Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends, Snapchat passes Twitter, and the FBI is tracking tattoos.
Gawker bankruptcy, IoT job market, remote access trojans, cost of convenience, and more.
WWDC news, emoji lobby, the 4K difference, Lonely Linux Girl, and more.
Brexit fallout, Google's machine learning revolution, Apple headphone jack controversy, and more.
Smart noise filters, Apple vs Spotify, building a better user, Tesla fatality, and more.
Facebook Live in a dangerous world, Dallas Police's lethal robot, Pokemon Go, Yahoo sale, and more.
Pokemon Go is the most popular mobile game ever, watching the Republican convention on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. Consumer Reports thinks Tesla should rename Autopilot, the FBI says their Malware is not Malware because they are the good guys, free Windows 10 update ends July 29th, Galaxy Note 7 coming August 2nd.
Verizon will reportedly pay $4.8 billion for Yahoo, Elon Musk unveils his "Master Plan, Part Deux," why you need to update your Apple products now, Milo Yiannopoulis banned from Twitter, Softbank buys ARM, and the end of free Windows 10 is July 29th.
Jason Calacanis brings us news from the Tesla Gigafactory opening as we debate what "Autopilot" means. Apple's 3rd quarter profits beat the predictions, but is their Irish tax arrangement fraud? In other 3rd quarter results, Twitter is down, Amazon is up, and Mark Zuckerberg just made $3.4 billion in one hour.
Apple should be working on new computers instead of creating reality television, Amazon gets its own fleet of cargo jets, Comcast turns its cable boxes into Olympics machines while selling "near-worthless" service plans, and Slingbox creator Blake Krikorian has died at 48.
In the final TWiT at the Brickhouse, we talk about Google's mysterious new operating system Fuchsia, Walmart's Jet.com purchase, concern over the iPhone 7's potential lack of a headphone port, Adblock Plus vs. Facebook, Microsoft's 'Golden Key' leak, and more!
An all-TWiT panel for the 1st episode from the new TWiT Eastside Studio. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus - but not Pro - are coming out in September. Android Nougat might be here by the time you read this, and Gawker might not.
AI from Google, Facebook, and Apple, iPhone 6 Plus suffering from a mysterious lack of touch response, and Google Allo could change messaging as we know it.
Apple will unveil the iPhone 7 this Wednesday, September 7th. Google will announce its Pixel phones and Google Home October 4th. Samsung recalls the Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries.
It's official - the iPhone 7 has no headphone jack. But at least it doesn't explode, like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Also, Google and Chipotle team up to deliver burritos via drone to students at Virginia Tech.
The new jet black iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung officially recalls the Note 7, and the FBI will be able to legally hack anyone soon.
Is Apple late to the VR/AR game? Has Palmer Luckey's support of Trump trolls hurt Oculus? Who will buy Twitter? Snapchat announces $130 camera Spectacles. And Yahoo has possibly the largest data breach ever.
With Leo on vacation, Becky Worley takes the big chair. We discuss predictions about Google's big event next week, Samsung's exploding washing machines, Elon Musk's plans for getting to Mars, women in tech, who should buy Twitter, and the next wave in DDOS attacks.
Leo is back, and ready to discuss the latest tech topics with our favorite TWiT regulars!
The Note 7 is officially dead - Samsung stops production and the CPSC issues an official recall. Will Google's new Pixel Phones benefit? Is Google Assistant going to be a big draw? Also, Facebook tries to take over the enterprise with Workplace. Fallout from the Yahoo hack and surveilance debacle - Verizon may back out of their purchase deal. And nobody wants to buy Twitter at all. What would it take to make Twitter a functional business?
A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new hardware - rumors predict an all-in-one Surface PC and new MacBook Pro laptops, respectively. Google's Pixel phones are out, and with Samsung damaged by Note 7 explosions, their timing couldn't be better. AT&T acquires Time-Warner. And Tesla announces full self-driving hardware will be in all new Tesla cars.
Apple announces the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Windows 10 Creators Update, Twitter kills Vine and lays off almost 10% of its workforce, Google Home arriving next week, DirecTV Now gives 100 channels for $35, and Uber delivers 50,000 Budweisers with their Otto self-driving semi.
Days before the US elections, we discuss the preeminence of social media, the difficulty of fact checking, and the loss of trust in the media that has occured this year. Is Apple's recent MacBook announcement an acknowledgement that they are no longer a Macintosh company? Samsung has received 85% of its recalled Note 7 phones - now they just have to get the 2.8 million potentially explosive diswashers they just recalled. Google home is out - how does it stack up against the Amazon Echo?
Did Facebook help Donald Trump win the US Presidential Election? Apple's new MacBook Pro is selling better than last year's model. Google's Daydream View VR headsets are out, and they are hot. Literally. Twitter's COO leaves - is Twitter in trouble? Snapchat's new Spectacles go on sale - if you can find them. The Unicode Consortium approves 56 new emojis. Sadly, not Finland's suggested emojis - "sauna" and "heavy metal headbanger."
British Parliament passes the Snoopers Charter. Fake news is on the rise. Snapchat files for a secret IPO. Selfie deaths have more than doubled each year for the past three years. Apple charges $300 for a book of pictures of Apple products.
We discuss the UK's Investigatory Powers Act, which give sweeping new powers to British intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Will automation take all our jobs? What then? Black Friday sales online hit a new record, with a third of online sales happenning on mobile devices. Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Silicon Valley's empathy vacuum. FCC says AT&T's zero rating of its new DirecTV Now service violates Net Neutrality. Fitbit buys Pebble. CNN buys Casey Neistat's Beme. 1 million Google accounts under attack by Gooligan malware.
Samsung pushes out an "update" that kills the Note 7 once and for all - unless you're on Verizon. Tech heavyweights meet with Trump this week. CIA determines that Russians hacked the DNC and RNC. Amazon creates a cashierless store with Amazon Go. Why are the AirPods delayed? PewDiePie trolls us all. Wearables are dead.
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.
Our special holiday episode with a look back on some of the most influential tech stories of the year. Happy Holidays!
