TikTok Sale, Trump YouTube Ads, Apple Announcement • Rob Reid's Ted Talk on synthetic biology and pandemics from 2019 • The Privileged Have Entered their Escape Pods • Microsoft Duo reviews coming September 10th • A guy in a jetpack sited by planes near LAX • Facebook bans political ads the week before the election • Pinterest bans political ads • Trump stops advertising on TV, switches to YouTube • Cable TV is the rotary phone of the 21st century • Political polling has utterly changed in the past 10 years • China government will ban the sale of TikTok's algorithm • We still don't know who will buy TikTok • Apple announcement coming 9/8? • AG Barr wants to go after Google for anti-trust now • Amazon furious over JEDI contract going to Microsoft • Amazon Halo fitness band uses AI to judge your tone of voice, records your conversations, and takes naked selfies of you • US court rules that the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is illegal • California's assembly kills effort to expand broadband to all Californians • CableCARD nearing its end • Biden/Harris signs coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons • Fisher-Price baby controller toy understands the Konami Code • It takes Google Maps users 24 years to walk 1 light year • Nvidia RTX 3080 coming soon for $1499 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Rob Reid, Dan Patterson, Louis Maresca This Week in Tech episode 787 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/787 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Join our TWiT Community on Discourse: https://www.twit.community/ Follow us: https://twit.tv/ https://twitter.com/TWiT https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce over 30 hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, All About Android, and more.