The world’s news is bleak & Facebook is sorta reporting it; smart pirates; music sales tank; burn, Google, burn; fair & balanced email scandals; a load of cameras; bye, bye Blackberry; watch us eat; endless wine; Disney obsessions; because Calendars.
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Show Notes
INTRO
Police confirm DVD player found in Tesla Autopilot wreck
Move over, Tatooine: Planet discovered orbiting three suns
IN THE NEWS
Facebook is the dominant social network for news
Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications
Smart pirates are fooling YouTube’s copyright bots by hiding movies in 360-degree videos
This Week’s Number One Album Is The Lowest-Selling In History
LG is getting into connected cars with Volkswagen
The complete timeline to self-driving cars
Man who ‘felt Google was watching him’ arrested for setting a Google mapping car on fire
San Francisco Might Tax Tech Companies More to Address Its Homelessness Problem
SECURITY HAH!
Clinton Was “Extremely Careless” With Email but Should Not Be Charged, FBI Director Says
The George W. Bush email scandal the media has conveniently forgotten
Bot Hacks NASA And Tweets Pic Of Woman’s Ass In Red Lingerie
Second man pleads guilty to breaking into celebrity accounts
Algorithmic tattoo identification for law enforcement could have all sorts of scary consequences.
Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites
TP-LINK loses control of two device configuration domains
COMMENT OF THE WEEK
Nasdaq jumps 1.5% as stocks extend gains; materials lead
AT THE LIBRARY
Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye by Michael Shermer
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by: Antonio Garcia Martinez
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré
The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
SOFTWARE, APPS, AND GADGETS
HooToo 9-Port 60 Watts USB 3.0 Hub with 2 Smart Charging Ports and 7 Data Transfer Ports
App Blocks Other Smartphones From Taking Your Photo
Go Inside the World of ‘Alien’ With This 360 Degree Look At Stunning H.R. Giger Bar
WD 4TB Black My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive – USB 3.0
The Senate is ditching BlackBerry phones — and BlackBerry is trying to ditch phones
MEDIA CANDY
STAR TREK BEYOND WILL MAKE SULU ITS FIRST LGBT MAIN CREWMEMBER
Sigourney Weaver Confirms Alien 5 Story Plan
You Can Now Visit a Free Virtual Museum of Prince’s Many Old Websites
MORON OF THE WEEK
Checkmate, Atheists! Duck Dynasty Dude Says Jesus Existed Because Calendars
OOOH FANCY
This tiny contraption is capable of producing endless wine
THE WEB’S NOT DEAD
Abandoned: Why One of Disney’s Best Ever Attractions is Rotting in Plain Sight
Blade Runner – Typeset in the future
