<p><img src="https://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_2048x2048/public/images/shows/all_twit.tv_shows/album_art/hd/allshows_albumart_2017_vidhd.jpg?itok=d_xHbHj9" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" width="300" height="300" title="This Week in Tech (Video HD)" alt="This Week in Tech (Video HD)"/></p><p>This Week's Stories:</p><ul><li> Apple hits 1.5B users, Facebook hits 2.5B, Amazon hits $1 Trillion - is Big Tech too big?</li><li> Russia vs Apple: new Russian law will force Apple to install Kremlin-friendly apps</li><li> Coronavirus shuts down Apple and Google in China</li><li> EU passes common charger resolution - say goodbye to your lightning jack</li><li> Amazon wants you to know that they pay a lot of taxes and employ a lot of people</li><li> 10 years later, the iPad is the only successful tablet</li><li> Split-screen or folding screen? Is this a form factor we need?</li><li> Apple TV+ hasn't quite hit it yet</li><li> FCC admits that wireless carriers violated federal law selling your location data</li><li> Facebook's 'Off Facebook activity tool' doesn't really do anything</li><li> Facebook's new Oversight Board will surely fix everything</li><li> Avast anti-virus sold your data to everybody</li><li> Does tracking really make ads better?</li><li> He sings! He dances! He sends you the internet from space!</li><li> Cal Tech gets 1.1 billion from Apple and Broadcom in a patent case</li><li> Every smart device will die. Sonos sooner than others.</li><li> IBM CEO Virginia Rometty retires</li><li> California halts .org sale</li><li> 62 new emoji are here!</li><li> Hummer is back and electric</li></ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/wesley83" target="_blank">Wesley Faulkner</a>, <a href="https://techmeme.com" target="_blank">Brian McCullough</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Devindra" target="_blank">Devindra Hardawar</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://molekule.com">Molekule.com promo code TWIT10</a></li> <li><a href="http://capterra.com/twit">capterra.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code TWiT</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/Twit">ZipRecruiter.com/Twit</a></li> </ul></p>
Source: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/756
Published: 2020-02-02 17:35:01