President Trump blocks Broadcom’s proposed Qualcomm acquisition, security researchers reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, two new Fitbit watches available for preorder.
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Show Notes
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We try to untangle the triangle of Broadcom, Intel and Qualcomm. Plus a city that wants to issue bonds in cryptoicurrency and a company that wants to 3D print cheap concrete houses.
Bose announces AR glasses, Apple acquires digital newsstand app Texture, Elon Musk says pedestrians will have priority underground. 
The first of Veronica’s weekly-ish roundup of bot news.
California has become the 18th state to propose “Right to Repair” legislation. What are the implications and does the consumer really benefit? Plus Waymo has started a pilot program to test autonomous semi-truck technology in Atlanta, and Twitter is working on way for users to verify themselves.
Barack Obama in talks to produce series for Netflix, Android users have highest loyalty rate, Twitter wants users to verify themselves. 
MIT researchers discover false news travels faster and farther on Twitter than factual news, Amazon explains why Alexa has been uttering creepy laughs, and Flippy the burger flipping robot gets turned off.
MoviePass updates its iOS app after location tracking confusion, new alliance seeks to unify smart camera data, Oculus updates software after Rift headsets stopped working. 
Can unplugging yourself from 24 hour online news feeds and social media make you a less stressed and better informed person? Plus the Dig Once bill is shaping up to become law, making it cheaper and faster to roll out fiber optics, and Amazon has admitted its voice assistant randomly laughs.