Oct 11th 2020
This Week in Tech 792
Get Out of My Grocery Aisle
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
iPhone 12 Preview - Congress vs Big Tech - Oracle vs Google
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iPhone 12 Preview - Congress vs Big Tech - Oracle vs Google
- iPhone 12 Event Preview - here is everything we know about the iPhone 12
- The Supreme Court seems to frown on Google in Oracle vs Google case
- Congress' antitrust case against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon could save the internet - or destroy it.
- How exactly should Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple be broken up? Or should they?
- What are the real harms of Big Tech? Would breaking them up fix those?
- Why didn't Congress include Microsoft in the huge antitrust case against Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple?
- What are the best steps Congress could take next?
- John McAfee in jail for the same thing Al Capone went to Alcatraz for
- Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics go to women for the first time in a long time
- Seven central banks have some suggestions to improve cryptocurrency
- Slack introduces Instagram-like stories
- REPEAL SECTION 230!!! - Trump
- Court says Apple can kick Fortnite out of the App Store, at least until the trial next spring.
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Links
- House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ - The New York Times
- Fringe notions on antitrust would destroy small businesses and hurt consumers
- Apple 'Vehemently Disagrees' With U.S. Tech Company Antitrust Report - MacRumors
- Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans
- Anti-monopoly vs. Antitrust
- The 14 Juiciest Quotes From the House Antitrust Report
- Apple will announce the iPhone 12 next week, here’s everything we know
- Apple Prepares to Launch 5G iPhones Into Unready U.S. Market
- Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
- Donald Trump Now Wants To Repeal Section 230, Which Will Actually Make The Stuff He Complains About Worse
- John McAfee arrested after DOJ indicts crypto millionaire for tax evasion
- Judge denies Epic’s request to force Apple to bring Fortnite back to App Store
- Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics
- Seven central banks and BIS publish report on digital currency, detailing how it should be designed - The Block
- MmHmm App
- TWIT EVENTS 9 - ATTACK & DEFENSE