As much of the country continues huddling at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus, El Kaiser and J.D. keep themselves busy with a look at the recent technology news — including the Zoom boom (and bust), Apple’s control of the weather and the debut of the new Quibi short-form video app. And for those who’ve now watched everything online, J.D. has a (Hopefully) Helpful Hint about digitizing your documents since you’re already stuck in the house. PTJ 331 is here to keep you company!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Roundup
- ‘Zoombombing’ Becomes a Dangerous Organized Effort (The New York Times)
- Zoom privacy and security issues: Here’s everything that’s wrong (so far) (Tom’s Guide)
- NYC schools dropping Zoom because of security concerns (CNN)
- School districts, including New York City’s, tell teachers to stop using Zoom because of online security issues (The Washington Post)
- How to Keep Your Zoom Chats Private and Secure (WIRED)
- Response to Research From University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab (Zoom Blog)
- Skype has a Zoom-like video call function called ‘Meet Now’ (Mashable)
- Tim Cook: Apple shipping custom face shields to medical workers as mask donations cross 20M (9to5Mac)
- Apple Buys Dark Sky in an Android Worst-Case Scenario (WIRED)
- Dark Sky Has a New Home (Dark Sky blog)
- Exclusive: Apple likely buyer of NextVR, a live event streaming AR/VR company being sold for ~$100M(9to5Mac)
- Leaked iOS 14 screenshot shows new wallpaper settings, beta code reveals Home screen widgets (9to5Mac)
- Finally, progress on regulating facial recognition (Microsoft On the Issues)
- A Microsoft Employee Literally Wrote Washington’s Facial Recognition Law (OneZero)
- Broadband engineers threatened due to 5G coronavirus conspiracies (The Guardian)
- People linking COVID-19 to 5G conspiracy in UK apparently cause damage (Business Insider)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman Gamble $1.8 Billion on Quibi (The New York Times)
- Movie Theaters Turn to Streaming in Coronavirus Era (Variety)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- How to Digitize Your Most Important Documents (The New York Times)
