Episode 111: Amazon news and the foreign Twitter trolls interfering with Canadian politics

In this week's episode, Dan, Marc, and Riley talk about Crave's new price hike, a CBC investigation of Twitter pot-stirring by Russian and Iranian trolls, the Canadian government's advertising priorities, Jeff Bezos' blackmail allegations, a Marie-Kondo-inspired Twitter tool, Germany's laws on Facebook's business model, Amazon's NYHQ, Amazon's purchase of Eero, more apps abusing Apple's Enterprise Certificates, self-driving car performance numbers (and Apple's ranking in them), Apple's Italian homepage, and a very confusing Kickstarter about sex.
Speed round:
- Tim Hortons might be rolling out a loyalty program soon — it'll work with cards and a phone app
- Bell says Huawei being outlawed won't affect 5G rollout
- Samsung's AirPlay and iTunes TVs will launch in Canada "sometime in spring"
- Google filed Canadian trademarks for Duplex and Google Fi
- IGTV is going to be pretty in your face pretty soon
- GMAIL IS GETTING RIGHT CLICK ACTIONS ON EMAILS
- Spotify will now suspend or terminate free accounts that use ad blockers
- Samsung's S10 event is Feb. 20 and we're expecting a folding phone
- Looks like Google is seriously considering making smartwatches
- Waze users are reporting DWI checkstops and the NYPD sent Waze a C&D letter for it
- The 2020 Olympic medals will probably be made from metals recovered from e-waste
- Waze for iOS now has support for Siri Shortcuts

In this week's episode, Dan, Marc, and Riley talk about Crave's new price hike, a CBC investigation of Twitter pot-stirring by Russian and Iranian trolls, the Canadian government's advertising priorities, Jeff Bezos' blackmail allegations, a Marie-Kondo-inspired Twitter tool, Germany's laws on Facebook's business model, Amazon's NYHQ, Amazon's purchase of Eero, more apps abusing Apple's Enterprise Certificates, self-driving car performance numbers (and Apple's ranking in them), Apple's Italian homepage, and a very confusing Kickstarter about sex.

Speed round:

Tim Hortons might be rolling out a loyalty program soon — it'll work with cards and a phone app
Bell says Huawei being outlawed won't affect 5G rollout
Samsung's AirPlay and iTunes TVs will launch in Canada "sometime in spring"
Google filed Canadian trademarks for Duplex and Google Fi
IGTV is going to be pretty in your face pretty soon
GMAIL IS GETTING RIGHT CLICK ACTIONS ON EMAILS
Spotify will now suspend or terminate free accounts that use ad blockers
Samsung's S10 event is Feb. 20 and we're expecting a folding phone
Looks like Google is seriously considering making smartwatches
Waze users are reporting DWI checkstops and the NYPD sent Waze a C&D letter for it
The 2020 Olympic medals will probably be made from metals recovered from e-waste
Waze for iOS now has support for Siri Shortcuts

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