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episode 739: Bob Ross with Biceps
This week's stories
- Microsoft surprises us all with the two-screen Surface Duo phone
- Apple's Deep Fusion poised to trump Google's Pixel 4 announcement
- More than 500 ransomware attacks on US schools so far in 2019
- More red flags than a Chinese parade: WeWork's failed IPO
- Apple loves freedom - except in China
- US, UK, and Australian governments vs encryption
- Lexy Savvides's Memoji secrets
- Tim Cook can woo Trump all he wants, but Apple still has to pay 25% tariffs
- CNET folds the Samsung Galaxy Fold until it breaks
- Why did Windows Phone fail? Iain Thomson: "It was a thousand cuts of stupidity."
- Microsoft's new Surface line is aimed straight at Apple
- Will there be an October Apple event? All signs point to yes.
- Google Seattle makes a literal product graveyard
- Levis' Jacquard jean jackets
- PayPal backs out of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
- Facebook vs Elizabeth Warren
- Facebook says it's ok for political ads to lie
- Twitter says it's ok for Trump to advocate civil war
- Should Zuckerberg step down? Would that change anything?
- Elon Musk's new Starship and its competition
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned about Tesla's Smart Summon feature
- Hundreds of millions of "Words with Friends" accounts hacked
- Japan turns off pagers after 50 years of honorable service
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ant Pruitt, Iain Thomson, and Lexy Savvides
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