Mobile World Congress brought in the new and the old this week, Twitter and Facebook are stepping it up to help users in need and Amazon Web Services had a sad day this week. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all — and YouTube’s big week of views and cord-cutting measures — on this week’s weatherproof episode of Pop Tech Jam.
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Nokia 3310: The icon is back (Nokia)
- Sony’s stunning new Xperia™ XZ Premium with the world’s first Super slow motion video in a smartphone (Sony Pressroom)
- Sony Xperia XZ Premium (Sony)
- Lenovo™ Miix 320 Detachable: Powering the side hustle (Lenovo blog)
- Samsung expands tablet portfolio with Galaxy Tab S3 and Galaxy Book (Samsung)
- Trump inspires encryption boom in leaky D.C. (Politico)
- Our latest update on safety (Twitter)
- Building a safer community with new suicide prevention tools (Facebook)
- Comcast to launch YouTube App on Xfinity XI (Comcast blog)
- You know what’s cool? A billion hours (YouTube blog)
- Finally, live TV made for you (YouTube blog)
- Amazon Web Services errors disrupt big part of the Internet (Bloomberg)
- Introducing Xbox Game Pass: Unlimited access to more than 100 games (Xbox Wire)
- Spotify is preparing to launch a Hi-Fi music tier (The Verge)
- SpaceX to send privately crewed dragon spacecraft beyond the moon next year (SpaceX)
