This Week's Stories:

• COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
• Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
• COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
• Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
• Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
• Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
• EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
• Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
• Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
• Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
• Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
• Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
• Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
• New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
• Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
• Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Adobe Photoshop turns 30
• $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
• Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA
• Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren

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