MORE companies are joining the social media advertising boycott! Microsoft is closing all of their retail stores and shutting down Mixer! TikTok is SUPER spying on you! Olympus is out of the camera game! Focals got sold to Google! WWDC happened last week!
And we should probably chat about the government’s plans to end encryption…
Let’s get our tech week started right!
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Stories This Week:
- LG Velvet Live Unboxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z3_R6avHRw
- Audeze LCD-1 Review: WOW https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/23/audeze-lcd-1-review-my-first-planar-magnetic-headphones-wow/
- LG Velvet By The Benchmarks https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/23/lg-velvet-by-the-benchmarks/
- Panasonic’s TOUGH Android Tablet https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/24/panasonic-toughbook-fz-a3-android-gets-tough/
- Creator Chat: TK Bay RETURNS! https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/26/sggqa-159-creator-chat-tk-bay-returns/
- LG Velvet Dual Screen Gaming https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/26/lg-velvet-setup-dual-screen-gaming-right/
- Tech Reviewers: Familiar doesn’t always mean “better” https://somegadgetguy.com/2020/06/28/tech-reviewers-familiar-doesnt-automatically-mean-better/
- Verizon out of social media advertising https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/25/verizon-pulling-advertising-from-facebook-and-instagram.html
- Starbucks out https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/creating-welcoming-and-inclusive-online-communities/
- Coca-Cola out https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/26/facebook-policies-hate-speech-advertisers-unilever
- Microsoft closes retail stores https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/microsoft-to-close-retail-stores.html
- Microsoft to shutter Mixer https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/
- iOS14 discovers TikTok Spying https://mashable.com/article/iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard-apple-apps/
- But TikTok might be watching you even more than that https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/
- EARN IT Act to end encryption on private communication https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online
- TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK ON r/GLOWINGRECTANGLES https://www.reddit.com/r/glowingrectangles/top/?t=week
- Olympus says goodbye to cameras https://www.engadget.com/olympus-selling-consumer-camera-business-093750446.html
- Android phones set to rise even higher in price next year https://www.phonearena.com/news/qualcomm-could-raise-price-of-next-flagship-5g-chip_id125598
- Focals by North bought by Google https://9to5google.com/2020/06/25/alphabet-north-focals/
- Juan Rambles on about Apple or some stuff…
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