After a two-week hiatus, El Kaiser and J.D. are back with the tech news of the week — including Amazon’s latest experiments for making money and Google Glass finally finding a home of sorts. And how about that Doctor Who announcement last weekend, eh? Oh, and if you have to ride the New York City subway system, do we have a tip for you!
- Introducing Jodie Whittaker: The Thirteenth Doctor (BBC)
- Netflix spending spree spurs subscriber growth of 5 million in second quarter (Reuters)
- Amazon wants to plan your dinner (Axios)
- Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable feed of stories and photos aimed at Prime members (TechCrunch)
- Alexa on your phone is now hands-free: HTC U11 takes Amazon Alexa on the go (HTC blog)
- Inside the massive siren social network spam botnet (ZeroFOX)
- Porn spam botnet has evil Twitter twin (Krebs on Security)
- UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018 (BBC)
- Work smarter and stay connected with the new LinkedIn app for Windows 10 (LinkedIn blog)
- Google Maps has started showing a travel time graph for directions (Android Police)
- Atari’s new Ataribox console will be like an NES Classic (The Verge)
- A new chapter for Glass (Google Project X)
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