PTJ Still Away
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Pop Tech Jam is still on hiatus. We plan to return with our usual tech news and sass next week. In the meantime, enjoy this tweet from the Tower of London’s official Ravenmaster. The Pringles are mine, mine,mine. pic.twitter.com/yrClcbN3lo — Ravenmaster (@ravenmaster1) July 11, 2017 EVERYONE LOVES PRINGLES!
PTJ 240: Hall Monitor
It’s almost like we needed the Justice League to come sort things out with all the disruptions erupting all over the technology scene this week. So, you ask, what happened? Yet another ransomware attack spread rapidly worldwide, the European Commission got all up in Google’s business on an antitrust charge, and Walmart had a slapfight with … Continue reading PTJ 240: Hall Monitor
PTJ 239: Leak Week
June is Internet Safety Month, but it hasn’t been very safe for the personal information of 198 million people, which got exposed by sloppy data handling. The notoriously private Apple got trolled as well when a top-secret meeting about stopping data leaks got, er, leaked. After wading through the tech headlines of the week, El Kaiser … Continue reading PTJ 239: Leak Week
PTJ 238: Thank You for Our Childhoods, Adam West
Geek hearts around the globe were broken this past week with the passing of Adam West, the actor who created the iconic interpretation of Batman on the eponymous mid-1960’s television show. Dan Greenfield, editor of the 13th Dimension website devoted to comics, joins El Kaiser and J.D. for a discussion about West’s impact as a … Continue reading PTJ 238: Thank You for Our Childhoods, Adam West
PTJ 237: Days of Wonder
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference opened this week, bringing a ton of announcements and new-product demos to the faithful. Don Donofrio drops by to sort it all out with El Kaiser and JD. Meanwhile, governments fight with the Internet on multiple fronts and a certain Amazon Princess conquers the worldwide box office. All this and more on Episode 237! … Continue reading PTJ 237: Days of Wonder
PTJ 236: Corporate Spies
On this week’s show. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss Google and Twitter’s current wave of privacy-policy changes and data-sharing with advertisers (all taking place before Facebook’s latest flap). Also in the news this week: patent trolls, resolution motion-sensor camera, Russian hackers actually hacking Russians and Iris, the data-sniffing dog. Buffer up and have a listen to … Continue reading PTJ 236: Corporate Spies
PTJ 235: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Journalist Laura M. Holson is back in the house this week with a discussion of how the cosmetics superstore Sephora is using technology and social interaction to sell beauty products. On the opposite side beauty, though, is the ugly — and last week’s massive global ransomware outbreak even got into fugly territory. El Kaiser and J.D. … Continue reading PTJ 235: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
PTJ 234: Winging It
Facebook scrambles to blunt the effects of fake news on the United Kingdom’s upcoming election, John Oliver and his fans have suggestions for the Federal Communications Commission, Amazon’s been busy and could a fried-chicken sandwich be headed for space? El Kaiser and J.D. chew through this week’s headlines and Don Donofrio drops by with an Apple … Continue reading PTJ 234: Winging It
PTJ 233: Tweet TV
Twitter continues its experiments with live streaming video, Facebook is handing out coupons, there’s a new flavor of Windows 10 coming to town — and also maybe an Apple-branded talking Siri speaker on the way. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all on this week’s episode, while throwing a Tech Term and a (Hopefully) Helpful … Continue reading PTJ 233: Tweet TV
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Go Dark
Do you long for the days of the WarGames-era VDT with the black screen and green type? Or do you just hate the glare of a bright white display? Are you coping with vision difficulties? If so, your apps and operating system and some of your programs might include settings that make it easier on your eyes. … Continue reading (Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Go Dark