Pop Tech Jam returns from Summer Vacation Phase 1 to buckets of money from the Equifax data-breach settlement — or alleged buckets of money. While El Kaiser files his Equifax claim online, J.D. serves up the news of the week, including the Fortnite World Cup results, pocket air-conditioners and worrisome multimedia surveillance. And for those who dove headfirst into the Apollo 11 50th-anniversary coverage in July, J.D. has tips on where to find more archival material from that historic 1969 event — and the many other Apollo missions through the years.
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Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show
- Fortnite gives away $3 million to its first-ever solo world champion (CNN Business)
- Equifax settlement guide: How to get the money, and what you need to know (The Washington Post)
- Welcome To The Equifax Data Breach Settlement Website
- Look Out for Fake Equifax Websites That Are Trying to Steal Your Data, FTC Warns (Gizmodo)
- In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons (The New York Times)
- Apple Siri Eavesdropping Puts Millions Of Users At Risk (Forbes)
- Apple Contractors Reportedly Overhear Sensitive Information and Sexy Times Thanks to Siri (Gizmodo)
- Sony Unveils Wearable Air Conditioner Reon Pocket (Hypebeast)
- Young Instagram Users Give Up Privacy in Search of Metrics (Bloomberg)
- Europe’s top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins (TechCrunch)
- (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4 (Google blog)
- Samsung shows off what its fixed Galaxy Fold will look like (CNET)
- Remember the Motorola Razer, 15 Years Later (Gizmodo)
- This is What Photoshop Was Like in 1988 (PetaPixel)
The NASA Apollo Mission Archives Online