Google took its turn spewing out the fall product lineup this week, with the Pixel 2 phone, Pixelbook laptop, Pixel Pen Stylus — and a whole bunch of Google Home offerings — announced. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s big hack was worse then the company previously announced (why, yes, it is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month). The former Equifax CEO got trolled hard at his Senate hearing and NASA invites space fans to send their names to Mars. Upward!
Links to Stories Mentioned on This Week’s Show
- Here’s everything Google announced today (TechCrunch)
- Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads (Bloomberg)
- Facebook tests explaining media sources (The Verge)
- Monopoly Man photobombs Senate hearing on Equifax (CNN)
- Yahoo’s 2013 Email Hack Actually Compromised Three Billion Accounts (Wired)
- Sonos launches public beta for Alexa voice control (The Verge)
- Sputnik-1 (NASA)
- Sputnik beep (NASA audio archive)
- NASA Audio and Ringtones (NASA)
- Send Your Name to Mars! (NASA)
- Mars Exploration Missions (NASA)
- Everything We Know About Elon Musk’s Big Freakin’ Rocket (Nerdist)
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