Disney+ growing pains; Facebook lets you tweak UI; Microsoft all in on privacy; smart TV data; Google’s Project Nightingale; Apple Card sexism; YouTube owes you nothing; Instagram to hide likes; robot sneaker factories; Twitter drafts a new policy; anonymous Facebook memos; Westworld’s immersive promo; Dan Carlin & Bill Bryson books; Uber CEO’s whoopsie; feedback.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots
Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
IN THE NEWS
Microsoft will honor California’s new privacy rights throughout the United States
Why Politicians Want Your Smart-TV Data
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Apple Card offered his wife a lower credit limit
YouTube reinstates accounts of Markiplier fans banned for emote spam
YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers
Adidas abandons robot Speedfactories in Germany and the US
Twitter drafts a deepfake policy that would label and warn, but not always remove, manipulated media
An anonymous memo alleging ongoing racism at Facebook is circulating inside the company
Facebook Empowers Racism Against Its Employees of Color
Watch a herd of MIT’s Mini Cheetah robots frolic in the fall leaves
MEDIA CANDY
Disney+ says it’s working to ‘quickly resolve’ its launch day streaming issues
How to get a year of free Disney+ from Verizon
How do I activate my different subscriptions?
The End of the Fxxxing World Season 2
Westworld Season 3 Trailer: If You’re Going To Succumb To a Nefarious Tech Company, Make It Incite
Guests get more than they bargained for in trailer for Fantasy Island reboot
Sonic the Hedgehog’s movie look is fixed following fan outcry
AT THE LIBRARY
Gladiator: A True Story of ‘Roids, Rage, and Redemption by Dan Clark
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
MORON OF THE WEEK
Uber C.E.O. Backtracks After Comparing Khashoggi’s Killing to an Accident
FEEDBACK LOOP
This Time, There Really Are NO IPv4 Internet Addresses Left
AI tech predicts time and place of lightning-strikes
Immediately make me thing of the show…
People with expired non-disclosure-agreements, what’s the juicy info you can now tell us?
How to Make a Smart Security Camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
