SJ142: Apple giveth and taketh away, Google eavesdrops, Facebook gets fined, & even Stranger Things!

We’re back from shore leave, and the Canada/USA holiday weekend turned out to be a great time to take a little break, but of course the shenanigans started up right after that, cadets, so Capn’s Mike and Charles return with a roundup — including new MacBook Airs and Pros (but a retired MacBook), new iPads coming in the fall, a couple of proactive security moves by Apple, new adapters for Lightning, and of course the other big tech news of the week, such as Facebook shrugging off a $5B fine, Google contractors listening to your conversations, new Android malware, Intel playing coy with patents, and much more! There’s also a possible logic board swap for owners of the 2018 MacBook Air, some more Foxconn fail in Wisconsin, Xiaomi shamelessly rips off Apple’s Memoji, Microsoft reminds you what a dire flop Windows 1.0 was in a Stranger Things-worth tie-in with ... er, Stranger Things! Charles and Mike check to see if your phone can do 5G (it can’t), swear off (and at) an Amazon bedroom smartclock with a mic and camera in it, and geek out on GaN chargers, eGPUs, Thunderbolt 3 docks, and even FireWire. There’s also the amazing tale of a computer manual that is going to actually be read and considered valuable, cadets, so hang on tight to your Type 40 TARDIS documentation ... it could be your retirement fund someday!