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Show Notes
INTRO
The billionaire’s typewriter by Matthew Butterick
IN THE NEWS
Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft With Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
Apple and Beats Music Developing New Streaming Service, Trent Reznor Redesigning iOS Music App
Longer-Lasting Batteries Are Almost Here (Really!)
Everything announced at the Facebook Conference
Facebook May Host News Sites’ Content
BOEING JUST PATENTED A FORCE FIELD MADE OF LASERS
Twitter’s New “Quality Filter” Starts Rolling Out To Verified iOS Users
Twitter Teaming With Foursquare For Location Tagging In Tweets
Amazon ‘Unlocked’ Will Give Away Paid Apps For Free
Brands swoop in to buy .porn and .sucks before the trolls do
|LIVE NOW| Meerkat Raises $12M From Greylock At A $40M Valuation
Disney’s $1 Billion Bet On A Magical Wristband
‘Netflix for Magazines’ Services Explain Why They’re Not Doomed
Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week’s Worth of Their Trash
An exercise in futility By Charlie Stross
FUCK YOU, CLEAN READER: AUTHORIAL CONSENT MATTERS
Google Sends Reporter a GIF Instead of a ‘No Comment’
SECURITY? HAH!
EXCLUSIVE: TSA’S SECRET BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST TO SPOT TERRORISTS
Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other
Stealing Data From Computers Using Heat
How social media makes us feel less upset about surveillance
THE PRIVACY REVOLT: THE GROWING DEMAND FOR PRIVACY-AS-A-SERVICE
Google Glass isn’t dead. It’s being fine-tuned for the masses
COMMENT OF THE WEEK
What happened, and what’s going on
AT THE LIBRARY
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Surveillance-based manipulation: How Facebook or Google could tilt elections
The Pact by Robert Patrick Lewis
MEDIA CANDY
BBC releases statement on Clarkson
Steven Spielberg To Direct Sci-Fi Cult Favorite ‘Ready Player One’
Tataouine, Star Wars town in Tunisia, becomes Isis waypoint
The end of the trail is the beginning of the story.