2/3 Sparta; the rise of the useless; Fiverr bums us out; Snap stock; atom drives; quizzing trolls; Uber hires HAL; Wikileaks Vault 7; encrypted messaging apps; Amazon brick & mortar; AirPods; burgerbots; Try a Pod; Martian potatoes; streaming Bugs Bunny.
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Show Notes
INTRO
Tabloid tale of man crushed by porn collection was fake
Uber and Airbnb are not the future of capitalism
People are not pleased with Fiverr’s deeply depressing advert
Pre-Order the ADV3NTURE Hoodie today!
Uber get its self-driving vehicle test permit in California
LookSee Wellington privacy breach forces website shutdown
IN THE NEWS
Snap stock took a beating Monday and fell more than 12 percent
Snap stock fell another 10 percent on Tuesday
Messenger just became the latest Facebook app to launch a Stories feature
Facebook is testing a feature that asks you to keep watching videos you started but didn’t finish
Google’s new version of Hangouts looks a lot like Slack
Twitch replaced its homepage with a Twitter clone for gamers
Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow
IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom
Norwegian Website Quizzes Trolls Before Allowing Them to Comment
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just told staff he’s hiring a COO to help him
Uber’s head of AI Labs, Gary Marcus, steps down after just 4 months
Uber says it won’t use its ‘Greyball’ tool to evade local authorities anymore
Didi has opened a self-driving lab in the U.S. with famed Jeep hacker Charlie Miller
Self-driving bus with no back-up driver nears California street
Airbus Has Revealed Its Flying Car-Drone Hybrid
The British government is future-proofing its budget by hiking taxes on the self-employed
SECURITY HAH!
Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak
WikiLeaks reveals the CIA hacked into Apple iPhones, Google Android phones and Samsung TVs
The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache
Google says it already fixed ‘many’ of the security flaws from Vault 7 leak
CIA’s New “Digital Innovation” Division Can’t Seem to Keep Its Own Secrets
Leaked emails reveal Nigel Farage’s long-standing links to Julian Assange
ENCRYPTED APP USED BY WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS SUFFERED FROM SERIOUS SECURITY FLAWS
BATTLE OF THE SECURE MESSAGING APPS: HOW SIGNAL BEATS WHATSAPP
AT THE LIBRARY
Amazon just confirmed its 10th book store, signaling this is way more than an experiment
The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware by Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang
Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry
APPS & DOODADS
Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites
Pinterest Acquires Jelly, Startup Led by Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone
There’s a secret, celebrity-only version of Tinder
Burger-flipping robot could spell the end of teen employment
How hackers turned a Cape Cod fishing guide’s site into a host for e-commerce fraud
MEDIA CANDY
Shohreh Aghdashloo: “The Expanse” | Talks at Google
What Happens When The Big Bang Theory Meets Ricky Gervais? Hilarity
Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera classics are getting their own streaming service
For the first time, more people subscribe to Netflix than have DVR
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are Writing a New Project Together
MORON OF THE WEEK
Just like all the cool kids, Soylent now has its own pointless AI assistant
Snapchat ‘celebrates’ women with more insensitive filters
NASA highlights women in STEM with a virtual field trip
BRIC-A-BRAC
Chris Hardwicks Nerdtastic House
It’s Official: Astronauts Can Grow Potatoes in Martian Soil
A Company Just 3D-Printed a House in 24 Hours for Only $10,134
The effect of unemployment on your personality
Children videobomb South Korea expert’s live BBC interview
Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children
Thank You, BBC Dad and His Pesky Kids, for Providing a Respite From This Miserable World
FEEDBACK LOOP
Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices
Top Podcast Hosts Ask Their Listeners To ‘Try A Pod’
94-YEAR OLD LITHIUM-ION BATTERY INVENTOR UNVEILS NEW ULTRA-EFFICIENT GLASS BATTERY
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art
