Brian’s recording from his Lanai; Jason charms a Lyft driver; Stupid Hackathons; Google kills Picassa, Jason longs for Flicker; Twitter Pivots; Flash is finally dead; no one is registering their drones; Top Gear jumps shark; Gravity waves & sheet cake.
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Show Notes
INTRO
Uber Agrees to Pay $28.5 Million to Settle ‘Safe Ride’ Suits
I Was a Super Bowl Concession Worker
Let’s Not Force Eagles to Fight Rogue Drones
STUPID SHIT NO ONE NEEDS & TERRIBLE IDEAS HACKATHON
IN THE NEWS
Google display ads go 100% HTML5
Google Is Finally Killing Picasa
Apple will reportedly release new iPhone and iPad Air 3 on March 18th
Never miss important Tweets from people you follow
In New Anti-Aging Strategy, Clearing Out Old Cells Increases Life Span of Mice by 25 Percent
Spotify’s Spam War Could Change How We Listen To Music
Elephant, Meet Room: Here’s What LinkedIn CEO Said to Employees After Stock Dropped 40 Percent
Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge
Google just passed a big milestone for getting self-driving cars on the road
SECURITY HAH!
Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents
Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: ‘They’re Trying to Ruin My Life.’
325,000 People Have Now Registered Drones With the FAA. That’s Not Enough.
The FAA Plan to Prevent A Modern-Day “Fan Man” from Crashing the Super Bowl
COMMENT OF THE WEEK
Nuns who help homeless face eviction in costly San Francisco
MEDIA CANDY
Geeks & Beats Podcast Calls it Quits
Top Gear’s Dream Team Is Chris Harris, Eddie Jordan, Sabine Schmitz, Rory Reid, LeBlanc And Evans
The Physics of OK Go’s Epic New Zero-G Video
NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA MOVIE IN DEVELOPMENT AT UNIVERSAL
MORON OF THE WEEK
KURT RUSSELL ACCIDENTALLY SMASHED A PRICELESS GUITAR ON THE HATEFUL EIGHT SET
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Thursday’s massive gravitational wave news was broken by a sheet cake (really)
Cosmic breakthrough: Physicists detect gravitational waves from violent black-hole merger
Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
