Ten Minute Tech Talk

As social distancing continues due to COVID-19, we review video conferencing apps: Zoom, Houseparty, Messenger and Skype. Show Notes Zoom's 'Company Directory' feature pooled thousands of personal email addresses, exposing user data -- iMore Hacker finds another Zoom bug that can be used to take over your Mac -- iMore Lawsuit: Zoom illegally sold users' personal data -- CBS News Zoom's misleading encryption claims are just the latest problem for the popular service -- Six Colors The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started -- Wired How to delete your Zoom account -- Android Central How to prevent unwanted people from joining your Houseparty calls -- Android Central Houseparty offering $1 million for proof hacking rumors are smear campaign -- Android Central How to delete your Houseparty account --Android Central New Messenger Desktop App for Group Video Calls and Chats -- Facebook Newsroom Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

News is slow so we're sharing some of our favorite tips for telecommuting. Show Notes Using Quiet Hours in Microsoft Teams -- Its Partly Cloudy  Set default Do Not Disturb hours -- Slack Help Center Three Point Lighting Set-Up Diagram Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

The New iPad Pro has trackpad support and the tech industry is in self-quarantine due to the Coronavirus. Show Notes Conan O'Brien to Film Talk Show From Home Using iPhone — MacRumors Amazon suspends all shipments to its warehouses except medical supplies and ‘high-demand’ products — The Independent Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement — Wired Apple iPad Pro and MacBook Air (2020): Specs, Features, Price — Wired Here’s how the iPad’s new trackpad actually works — The Verge Apple limits bulk online purchases of iPhones amid coronavirus supply constraints -- CNBC Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Tech conferences are getting cancelled left and right, major iOS 14 features were leaked and podcasting is getting shaken up. Show Notes Google I/O 2020 canceled over Coronavirus fears, will be held digitally -- Android Central  E3 2020 canceled due to coronavirus concerns -- Android Central Important GDC 2020 Update -- Gamasutra City of Austin Cancels SXSW March Events -- SXSW With iPhone SE 2 delayed indefinitely, source confirms Apple nixes rumored March event -- Cult of Mac Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Info Page -- Santa Clara County Sophisticated mouse cursor support coming to iOS 14, new iPad Smart Keyboard models with trackpad -- 9to5 Mac iOS 14 Features New OCR Capabilities That Will Convert Handwritten Text From Apple Pencil Into Typed Text -- MacRumors Spotify’s Gimlet Media hires new Head of Content -- HotPod Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Walmart is taking on Amazon, Facebook cancelled a conference and YouTube had a complicated week in court. Show Notes Facebook cancels F8 because coronavirus -- The Verge Walmart is working on Walmart+ -- Recode YouTube isn’t bound by the First Amendment -- Cnet Facebook will start paying users to voice train its Portal hardware, and you could earn cash -- Android Central Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Google is under scrutiny, Trump may go after Huawei and Ring is taking major security steps. Show Notes FTC to review Google’s 2013 Waze acquisition as part of its antitrust sweep -- Android Central U.S. mulls cutting Huawei off from global chip suppliers, with TSMC in crosshairs -- Reuters Ring Finally Rolls Out Mandatory Two-Factor Authentication After Privacy Scandals -- Gizmodo The Spooky, Loosely Regulated World of Online Therapy -- Jezebel

Trump's beef with Amazon reaches the courts, T-Mobile and Sprint Merge and the FTC starts digging through past mergers. Show Notes Netflix is Finally Letting You Turn Off Those Annoying Autoplay Previews -- MacRumors Judge tells Microsoft to halt working on Pentagon cloud contract -- CNN Business The court's decision to allow T-Mobile and Sprint to merge is clear: Sprint sucks -- The Verge Why the FTC Wants to Revisit Hundreds of Deals by Big Tech -- Wired Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

New advertising standards from Google and new Maps from Apple, plus FCC news! Show Notes Chrome will soon block the worst kind of video ads by default -- Android Central YouTube Will Police Political Videos More Closely -- Wired Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for all users in the United States -- Apple Newsroom Wireless Carriers violated Federal Law by sharing consumer location data -- FCC Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Vine is back! Also, Facebook is finally taking some steps forward on data privacy. Show Notes Byte (from the creators of Vine) is now Live -- Twitter Starting the Decade by Giving You More Control Over Your Privacy -- Facebook Newsroom Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Oversight Board May Kill His Political Ad Policy -- Wired Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Details about the Bezos iPhone Hack, new Apple TV+ shows and a bunch of lawsuits. Show Notes U.N. Suggests Bezos’ Phone Was Hacked Using Saudi Crown Prince’s Account -- WSJ PopSockets, Sonos, and Tile Ask Congress to Rein in Big Tech -- Wired Apple Announces Release Dates for Several Upcoming Apple TV+ Shows -- MacRumors Upgrade #281: Your Historical Knowledge Has Been Noted

NBC Universal announces Peacock, the EU mandates USB-C and Facebook makes some log-in changes. Show Notes The EU wants to mandate USB-C ports on smartphones -- Android Central Facebook will now alert you whenever your information is shared with third-party apps -- Android Central NBCUNIVERSAL UNVEILS PEACOCK, A FREE PREMIUM AD-SUPPORTED STREAMING SERVICE WITH SUBSCRIPTION TIERS -- NBCUniversal Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Some of our favorite tech from the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Show Notes Withings ScanWatch So...Samsung's apparently made artificial humans for CES 20 -- Android Central Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen -- The Verge Nurvv Run Waverly Labs brings Ambassador, a real-time interpreter, to CES 2020 -- Android Central Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Samsung and LG are announcing new TVs at CES and Spotify is banning political ads. Show Notes Spotify to halt political ads on its platform next year -- Android Central Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices -- MacRumors We may have just gotten our first look at Samsung's nearly all-screen TV -- Business Insider There's a new version of LG's futuristic roll-up TV that hides in your ceiling and unrolls like a projector -- Business Insider Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Tips, tricks and accessories to travel with all of your technology. Show Notes Overcast Playlist Shuffle Shortcut You're Wrong About Escaping Nxivm Don't Blame Me Just Between Us AirPods Mobile Passport Flight Aware Google Photos Twelve South TimePorter Belkin Universal Charging Cable Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Apple releases the Mac Pro, Twitter tries Open Source and we play with Yap. Show Notes Mac Pro Roundup -- MacRumors Which Mac Pro will professionals actually buy? It’s not the $52,000 version -- Popular Science Jack Dorsey's Twitter thread on Project BlueSky Bluesky: Twitter Announces Effort to Build ‘Decentralized Standard for Social Media’ -- Daring Fireball Dave Winer on BlueSky -- Scripting.org Yap is the best new chatroom -- The Verge Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

TikTok faces two major lawsuits, Google's founders step down and the House legislates against robo-calls. Show Notes TikTok draws a class-action lawsuit over sending data to China -- BBC TikTok settles children’s data lawsuit one day after it was filed -- The Verge Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquish control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai -- The Verge House passes TRACED Act to protect consumers from illegal robocalls -- Android Central Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

A major security vulnerability on Android phones and a new feature on Twitter were announced this week. Show Notes Spotify free now works on Amazon Alexa and Bose speakers -- Android Central More control over your conversations: now available globally -- Twitter Blog How Attackers Could Hijack Your Android Camera to Spy on You -- Checkmarx The US gives Huawei its third 90-day support exemption from export ban -- ArsTechnica Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Moto brings back the RAZR, Apple fixes the MacBook Pro keyboard and Instagram removes likes. Show Notes Instagram to Start Hiding 'Likes' in the US This Week -- MacRumors Bug in Facebook App Accesses the Camera in the Background -- MacRumors Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook -- Apple Newsroom Motorola Reboots the Razr, This Time With a Folding Display -- Wired Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

This week we aired our dirty laundry and shared our homescreens with each other. Show Notes Emily's Lockscreen Taylor's Lockscreen Emily's Homescreen Taylor's Homescreen Emily's Second Screen Google Tasks Omnifocus Rosemary Orchard Carrot Weather D&D 5e Spellbook Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter

Twitter bans political ads, Apple launches AirPods Pro and we round up the new streaming services. Show Notes Jack's thread on Banning Political Ads Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends himself against Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, saying political ad decision is not all about money -- CNBC AirPods Pro arrive in Apple Stores around the world -- Apple Newsroom A Complete Guide to Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and the Major Streaming Services Coming This Fall -- Inc. Subscribers to Apple Music's $4.99 Monthly Student Plan to Get Apple TV+ 'for Free' -- MacRumors Follow Us  Follow Emily on Twitter  Follow Taylor on Twitter