This week,  Amazon wants to take care of you, the FCC fines 2 telemarketers for millions, and instead of a face id, a thumbprint, or entering a pin you might able to wink at your phone to unlock it.

• Amazon Care
• FCC fines two telemarketers $225 million
• Proposed face unlock system
• Rep.Bowman introduces new bill to lower broadband costs
• Apple dominated the wearables market
• Apple Maps can help you find a COVID-19 vaccine
• T-Mobile customers are getting a free Pandora app
• Walmart is making an Android TV stick
• Monopoly wants your help
• Coca-Cola is launching vending machine subscriptions in China
• NFL finalizes deal with Amazon

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This week, you can no longer have Fry’s with that electronics order, GameStop’s stock price goes up again, and no it doesn’t have to do with Robinhood and Best Buy lays off 5,000 employees

Show Notes:

• Fry’s closing its doors
• GameStop’s stock price goes up again
• Best Buy lays off employees
• FCC authorizes a $50 discount for low-income internet bills
• You can call for a Lyft
• YouTube will expand parental controls for tweens and teens
• Pluto TV and CBS All Access subscribers grow
• Woman earns $3,000 in donations while streaming herself sleeping
• Mr. Potato Head drops Mister
• Frogger the game is going to be a game show TV series

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This week, Roaring Kitty is getting sued, Google is paying News Corp and Amazon wants you to build it

Show Notes:

• Roaring Kitty is getting sued
• Google will pay News Corp outlets for using their content
• Amazon’s Build It
• Chromebooks overtake Macs
• Google and Facebook dominate mobile apps
• New Samsung laptops
• Comcast delays data cap
• Mark Wahlberg will produce a series about MoviePass
• NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge

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This week Jeff Bezos steps down, RobinHood steps up and Google pays up

Show Notes:

• Jeff Bezos steps down from Amazon
• Robinhood’s Super Bowl ad
• Google will pay $3.8 million to settle discrimination accusations 
• T-Mobile continues growth
• Spotify’s 345 million listeners
• iCloud outage
• Amazon plans to install always-on surveillance cameras in vehicles
• Comcast delays data cap
• Call to the FCC to expand remote learning connectivity 

Continue reading Jeff Bezos steps down #081 →

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This week, T-Mobile adds millions of customers, Apple’s App Store made billions, and an early preview of what’s coming to CES 2021

Show Notes:

• T-Mobile adds 5.6 million customers
• Apple announces record App Store spending
• Samsung C-Lab
• Samsung’s new Frame TV
• Sharp unveils Alexa-enable microwaves
• LG’s new stick vacuum 
• What to expect from 2021
• Amazon pledges $2 billion toward affordable housing
• Amazon Prime Pantry is dead
• Verizon puts 3G shutdown plans on hold
• Motorola launches 4 new sub-$400 phones
• Roku says Roku TV was best selling smart TV OS
• Essential software for a young student
• Apps that teach you to cook
• Robots at CES

Continue reading What’s new at CES 2021? #80 →

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This week, Gmail goes down, Google Max goes away and HBO Max arrives on Roku

Show Notes:

• Google had outages
• Google is retiring the Google Home Max
• HBO Max on Roku
• FTC orders Amazon, Facebook, and others how they collect data
• Amazon Made for You
• Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony collaborate 
• Google Chromecast will get Apple TV soon
• BBC will launch a new subscription streaming channel
• Movies and TV shows coming to Disney+ in January 2021
• What’s coming to Hulu in January 2021
• What’s new on Netflix in January 2021
• Chocolate Marshmallow Pepsi

Continue reading So long 2020! Hello 2021! #079 →

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This week, Apple announced its AirPods Max and you would not believe what it will cost you, HBO Max saw a huge increase in subscribers, and Airbnb’s IPO shares more than doubled

Show Notes:

• Apple AirPods Max
• HBO Max hits 12.6 million subscribers
• Airbnb shares soars
• Spotify resets passwords
• AMC warns it’ll run out of cash
• YouTube TV subscribers are getting free Chromcasts
• Best photo scanners
• Has your bank account been hacked?
• Microsoft Bing can help you cook dinner

Continue reading Wait?! The Apple AirPods cost how much?! #078 →

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This week, Apple fined 12 million dollars by Italy, Amazon is having a record-breaking sales season and PC sales are growing

Show Notes:

• Apple fined $12 million by Italy
• Amazon’s “biggest holiday season”
• Notebook PC sales with a 26% growth in Q4
• YouTube’s top trending videos list for 2020
• Google Play Awards
• Apple’s top apps of 2020
• Airbnb seeks valuation of up to $35 billion in its IPO
• Best laptops for kids
• 7 best cell phones for senior citizens 
• Bad Bunny is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2020
• AMC Theatres CEO critzies Warner Bros.
• HBO Max no longer offers free trials
• What’s new on HBO Max in December
• Mcdonald’s McRib

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This week, Apple brings in M1, YouTube had a global outage and a customer had a sideways misfortune with T-Mobile

Show Notes:

• Apple M1 Event
• YouTube outage
• T-Mobile customer shares frustration
• Google Photos is updating its storage policy
• Amazon recalls Ring doorbells
• Broadband power users explode
• Hasan Minhaj joins The Morning Show
• AMC launches private theater rentals
• Xor’s new luxury smartphone

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