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hey everyone I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week Facebook gets a spanking ATT get some poker playing advice and gadgets make with the special effects excitement but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the asuste transformer prime tablet which I gotta say I thought we were past getting excited over tablets especially five-hundred-dollar tablets but the transformer prime is hot it has a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor in a body that's thinner and lighter than the ipad 2 there's a gig of internal memory up to 64 gigs of on-board storage plus a microSD slot for more super IPS display front and back cameras and a sue says it will get Android 4.3 manwich early next year all that is thick as hell plus there's an optional $150 laptop dock that adds a keyboard a second battery USB ports and a full-size SD card slot I mean I didn't even know that my cold cold heart could fall in love again like that one and now for the news facebook settled a major privacy dispute with the federal government this week and agreed to a few changes the biggest one facebook now has to let you opt in to any changes that would override your current privacy settings yeah opt-in like remember that one time when Facebook made your gender your current city your name your profile picture and the pages that you like public without telling you we're giving you the option to change it back they can't do that anymore but they can introduce new features like places or something like that and then make all that information public by default win some lose some still Facebook will have to endure yearly privacy prostate exams for the next 20 years and we all get yet another apology note from Mark Zuckerberg which really you must have like a macro for writing those by now in good job government news 18 tease attempt to buy t-mobile is seriously on the ropes the FCC officially opposed the merger this week saying it would dramatically reduce competition and lead to massive layoffs which duh the FCC also released and then retracted a huge report that basically said ATT had engaged in crazytown doublespeak to try to push the merger through and that 18t had no factual basis at all for its claims that the merger would increase competition lower prices and lead to more jobs again duh 18t withdrew its application to buy t-mobile and it's now trying to come up with some other strategy to get the deal done that strategy could include trying to sell off massive amounts of its own assets to make itself seemed small enough for the deal to make sense which doesn't make sense that doesn't you know eighty I think it might be time to take some advice from our friend of the gambler flees right you got know when to fold up know when to walk away and now for some action jack-kun HP this week denied reports from Columbia University researchers who said that networked HP laser printers can be hacked sent new software remotely controlled and even remotely set on fire HP strongly disputed those findings which why would you deny this that is some seriously awesome James Bond right there all right okay I get it I understand just saying I know some printers that i would like to remotely incinerate I mean pc load letter I don't even know what that means in other electronics excitement this week an iphone 4 overheated in the middle of a flight over australia passengers and flight attendants reported that the phone started emitting a red glow and lots of dense smoke the phone was quickly extinguished and an investigation is ongoing does anyone else find it funny that the phone only smoked and glowed red I mean men that thing really doesn't support flash does it bless the phone is obviously an alien just saying don't you guys watch any movies at all and finally guess what we are clogging the tubes this week see last week buzz report producer Sarah Harbin writer Jeff Sparkman and I collaborated on the video hitler reacts to the pepper spray meme and which hitler is mad that the pepper spray cop became a meme so fast anyway it's a Arianna Huffington even tweeted it we are so proud of our inappropriate humor and thank you all for watching it and if you haven't already go watch it it's hilarious and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and i'll see you next I