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• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus fears
• Essential shuttered
• Google head of HR steps down
• The US charges Chinese military officials with hacking Equifax
• Huawei is "definitely spying on us" - US
• Sprint / T-Mobile merger passes another hurdle
• All the ways Coronavirus is affecting tech
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: the first great foldable, or the next big flop?
• FTC investigates Google acquisitions
• German Man's proposal shows up on Google Maps
• Epic Twitter thread: Amazon ships the wrong box, over and over
• Nest requires 2-factor for all accounts to satisfy California IoT law
• Facebook's Twitter account gets hacked
• Should Clearview AI be allowed to scrape your face?
• Wacom tablets track the applications you open - moral panic or privacy violation?
• Is Spotify going to destroy podcasting?
• Google files OS trademark "Pigweed"
• Google adblocker bans non-skippable preroll ads
• Google bans 3rd-Party cookies
• Bill Gates doesn't buy a hydrogen yacht
• Fill out the TWiT Survey!: twit.to/survey20

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Justine Haupt's Rotary Cellphone
• Ant's Good Stuff: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story on Netflix
• Stacey's Thing 1: Tweet Cute
• Stacey's Thing 2: Slay
• Jeff's Number 1: Google finds 6 needs states in search
• Jeff's Number 2: Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA for $165 million

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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