Being tech support; social media consumer rights; twitter accounts gone rogue; fixing the web; Uber bombshells; hacking with sound; privacy rights & border crossings; Sweden in a box; sequels & reboots, take the red pill; meat in a vat; Tibetan Peach Pie.
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Show Notes
INTRO
IN THE NEWS
Introducing AWS Promotional Credits for Alexa
Yahoo’s New Male CEO Will Make Double Marissa Mayer’s Salary
Social media firms given a month to fix consumer rights issues in Europe
Judge approves $27 million driver settlement in Lyft lawsuit
How Companies Like McDonald’s Scramble When Their Twitter Accounts Go Rogue
eMarketer cut Snap’s 2017 revenue estimate by almost 4 percent
Someone tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at a Vanity Fair editor with epilepsy
FBI arrests alleged attacker who tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Kurt Eichenwald
Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
If Google wins its trade secrets suit against Uber, it could tank Uber
The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
SECURITY HAH!
Russian spies are behind the Yahoo data breach, says the DOJ
It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show
Thieves are pickpocketing wallet apps in China
Maker of internet-connected vibrator must pay $4m for secretly tracking users’ sexual activity
Will the iPhone transform medicine? The FDA may have something to say
AT THE LIBRARY
Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry
Tibetan Peach Pie by Tom Robbins
APPS & DOODADS
One-Tab Extension for Google Chrome & Firefox
How Do NASA’s Apollo Computers Stack Up to an iPhone?
MEDIA CANDY
Ticketmaster is using its software — and your data — to take on ticket-buying bots
Sony’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Sequel Is Coming to Theaters in 2018—With a Brand New Cast
Rebooting The Matrix? Yeah, That’s Not How Nostalgia Works
FILMMAKERS EDITED ALL OF ‘BREAKING BAD’ INTO A 2-HOUR MOVIE AND IT’S AWESOME
Netflix finally added a button to skip the opening credits
Netflix Is Getting Rid of Its Five-Star Ranking System
Danny Boyle on the Nerdist Podcast
MORON OF THE WEEK
Kellyanne Conway: We Can be Watched by ‘Microwaves That Turn Into Cameras’
Someone shot down a $200 drone with a $3M Patriot missile
BRIC-A-BRAC
Without Obamacare, My Kids Would Be Cleaning My Sh*t — Literally
Researchers Unveiled The First Chicken Meat Grown Without Chickens
Newly Declassified Nuclear Test Videos
EB Enterprises – Flux Capacitor
FEEDBACK LOOP
Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
