Tech News Today 1817

Notoriously secret Apple has just been outed, maybe, by the president. Trump claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook promised him he would build three US manufacturing plants. "Big, big, big," said the president. No one at Apple has confirmed this.

In 2020, almost 25 years after Adobe unleashed it onto the world, Flash will finally see its end of life as Adobe will cease any updates or distribution at that point. Adobe will continue to offer security updates for Flash as well as offer support for current browsers up until then as well.

There's a playground skirmish going on between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about whether AI is going to kill us or not.

A company will let you insert microchips into your skin, if you want.

Tony Romm from ReCode discusses the latest news in Net Neutrality and we tell you how you can fund Scopes to keep it alive.

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Links

• Trump Says Apple CEO Has Promised to Build Three Manufacturing Plants in U.S.
• Get ready to finally say goodbye to Flash — in 2020
• MS Paint fans rejoice: The original art app isn’t going anywhere – except to the Windows Store for free!
• Geek fight! Musk says Zuckerberg naive about killer robots
• Moto Z2 Force dares you to drop it -- so we did
• Republicans want the CEOs of Facebook, Google, AT&T and Comcast to testify to Congress about solving net neutrality
• Snopes met its $500K fundraising goal. Now what?