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PTJ 338: Flight CLUB

May 29, 2020 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

Twitter’s act of adding fact-checking labels to a couple of presidential tweets set off a storm in the social-media world — almost at the same time real-life stormy weather caused officials to scrub the NASA-SpaceX launch to the International Space Station, the first on an United States rocket since 2011. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all ahead of America’s rescheduled return to space this weekend. Blast off with PTJ 338!

Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row (BBC News)
Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump (The New York Times)
Trump’s Illiberal Internet Fairness Doctrine (National Review)
What journalists should know about Communications Decency Act Section 230 (Poynter)
Jack on Twitter
Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets (The New York Times)
Facebook and Twitter clash over fact-checking as Trump threats intensify (CNN)
Appeals court ruling suggests little legal traction for Trump’s anti-Twitter campaign (POLITICO)
Twitter adds native “scheduled tweets” function (Twitter support)
Twitter, Facebook Win Appeal in Anticonservative-Bias Suit (Bloomberg)
Arizona sues Google for allegedly violating Android users’ location privacy (The Washington Post)
Microsoft launches Cortana app for Windows 10 without Amazon’s Alexa (VentureBeat)
Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri (Bloomberg)
Apple acquires the full Fraggle Rock collection in first major licensing play (The Verge)
How Delivery Drones Are Being Used to Tackle COVID-19 (WeRobotics)
Drone drops off Isle of Mull coronavirus masks (BBC)
Visit Isle of Man (Isle of Man Government)

Spaaaaccce!

Space Out and Explore the Universe Without Leaving Home (The New York Times)
Launch America Overview (NASA)
NASA
SpaceX

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PTJ 313: Bye, Design

July 1, 2019 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

On this week’s episode. El Kaiser and JD discuss Jony Ive’s departure from his long-time design post at Apple, Facebook’s attempts at civil rights and the latest in cat-flap technology. And, after decades of living the 3.5mm life, El Kaiser also unboxes his very first set of Lightning-connector earbuds and tests them out. Have yourself a listen here on Episode 313!

Jony Ive ‘dispirited’ by Tim Cook’s lack of interest in product design: WSJ (The Verge)
Jony Ive made the entire tech world care about design (The Verge)
Why Jony Ive’s greatest achievement wasn’t the iPhone. It was the original iMac (Digital Trends)
Publishers Not Making Much Money From Apple News+ (MacRumors)
The Bixby Marketplace is Now Officially Open in the U.S. and Korea (Samsung Global Newsroom)
A Second Update on Our Civil Rights Audit (Facebook Newsroom)
Amazon Air is expanding to Alaska in a warning shot to UPS, FedEx (Business Insider)
The Huawei rollercoaster continues as Google gets a green light to license Android again (PCWorld)
Huawei may get its US supply chain back after Trump’s policy “U-turn” (CNN)
The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care (The New Yorker)
Former Equifax employee sentenced for insider trading (Department of Justice)
Cat flap uses AI to punish pet’s killer instincts (BBC News)
If Tom Brings Jerry Home, ML Locks the Cat Door (Synced)

Earbud Unboxing

RHA MA650i Earbuds with Lightning connector

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PTJ 260: WHOPPERS

January 29, 2018 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

The backlash against the Federal Communication Commission’s rollback of net neutrality regulations continues — even a certain monarchy-themed hamburger establishment has weighed in with a video. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the latest developments concerning the Open Internet, and also ponder Twitter’s photo-cropping skills, the Google gestalt and listening to Netflix in other languages. Click on into Episode 260 to hear it all, and don’t forget to celebrate Data Privacy Day afterwards — go offline and read a treeware book or something!

Links to Articles in This Week’s News Segment

Give Good the Advantage: Chronicle Blog (Medium)
Why I left Google to join Grab by Steve Yegge (Medium)
Samsung officially sets Galaxy S9 unveiling for Feb. 25 (CNET)
Apple HomePod (Apple)
Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images (Twitter blog)
Twitter aiming to make video sharing more Snapchat-like in upcoming app (9to5Mac)
Cuomo demands ISPs follow net neutrality for government contracts (New York Daily News)
De Blasio administration pushes Congress to restore net neutrality via legislation (New York Daily News)
AT&T Is Full of [Bad Word] With Its Full-Page Net Neutrality Ads (Gizmodo)
Burger King Makes the Case for Net Neutrality (Variety)
San Jose mayor resigns from FCC advisory panel (TheHill)
GAO to investigate bot-driven net neutrality comments (Federal Computer World)
Apple’s Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon (Bloomberg)
Apple finally enables life-saving iPhone emergency settings (The Next Web)
Microsoft introduces new privacy tools ahead of Data Privacy Day (Microsoft)

(Hopefully) Helpful Hint

Another Netflix price hike? Here are the reasons it could try again (USA Today)
Why does Netflix change prices? (Netflix help guide)
Watching Netflix en Français (The New York Times)

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