Of course, your apps are tracking you! El Kaiser told you that years ago, but The New York Times now fills in the details. J.D. rounds up the headlines from the past two weeks for discussion and also offers a (Hopefully) helpful Hint about recording your family’s history in audio and video this holiday season. Pull up a chair and join us for PTJ 294!
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show
- Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (The New York Times)
- Community Standards (Facebook)
- Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation Policy is a Honeypot for Trolls (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- A better, more positive Tumblr (Tumblr)
- Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (The Verge)
- AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery (DeepMind)
- Microsoft Putting Edge on Chromium Will Fundamentally Change the Web (Motherboard)
- Justice Dept. investigating millions of fake anti-net neutrality comments: report (TheHill)
- China bans many iPhone models in Qualcomm patent dispute (Axios)
- Kuo: ‘All-new design’ AirPods in 2020, wireless charging model in first quarter 2019 (9to5Mac)
- Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 to Release a 5G iPhone (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? (The New York Times)
- Google acquires India-focused app Where is My Train (Android Authority)
- EU questioning companies about Google’s search practices: report (TheHill)
- Marriott Hacking Exposes Data of Up to 500 Million Guests (The New York Times)
- AT&T details its streaming service plans as it weighs a sale of its Hulu stake (TechCrunch)
- E Ink’s new digital paper lets you draw with almost no lag (The Next Web)
- The U.S. Army Has A New Plan To Recruit Gamers (Kotaku)
- Nasa’s Voyager 2 probe ‘leaves the Solar System’ (BBC News)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- Record and Share Your Family History in 5 Steps (The New York Times)
- 10 Types of Microphones (HowStuffWorks)
- StoryCorps apps
- Oral History Interviews (The American Folklife Center)
- Conducting Oral Histories with Family Members (UCLA Library)