California fires a shot across the bow of the FCC’s net neutrality repeal, Amazon’s Alexa has a new do-it-yourself project for users and even aquariums aren’t safe on the Internet of Things. El Kaiser and J.D. sort through the technology news of the past 10 days before discussing a great vacation destination for aviation and NASA nerds: The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virgina, home to the National Air & Space Museum’s big collection of airplanes and spacecraft. Jump into it all here in Episode 270 of Pop Tech Jam!
Links to Stories Mentioned On This Week’s Show
- Net neutrality bill moving ahead in California (San Jose Mercury News)
- Netflix has considered buying theaters, including Mark Cuban’s Landmark, to gain an Oscar edge, sources say (Los Angeles Times)
- Introducing Mobile Previews (Netflix)
- MoviePass Parent’s Shares Crushed After Disclosing Pricing of Stock Sale (Variety)
- Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses (TechCrunch)
- Alexa Skill Blueprints is a new way for customers to create customized Alexa responses and personalized skills (BusinessWire)
- New Android Chat (The Verge)
- The key moments from Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress (The Guardian)
- Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law (Reuters)
- Americans Want Online Information Freedoms Over Government Restriction of Fake News (Pew Research Center)
- Microsoft Extension Aims to Improve Google Chrome Security (Fortune)
- Hackers once stole a casino’s high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank (Business Insider)
Geek Vacation Destination
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | National Air and Space Museum
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Wikipedia)
- Smithsonian | National Air & Space Museum
