As 2018 comes clanging to a close. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss Amazon’s healthy holiday sales, Instagram’s effects on people, Snapchat’s “dog lenses” and a new essay that wonders just how much of the Internet is real anymore. And in the last (Hopefully) Helpful Hint of the year, J.D. offers a guide for preserving your one-of-a-kind family photographs and slides in the digital realm.
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Links to Stories on This Week’s Show
- Amazon’s Record Holiday Shows Consumers’ Spending Splurge (Bloomberg)
- How Instagram has been good for independent bookstores like Books Are Magic and the Last Bookstore (Vox)
- Instagram Apologizes for Horizontal-Scrolling Test Glitch, Rolls It Back After Quick and Furious Backlash (Variety)
- Android TV sees huge growth thanks to 100 pay TV partners (9to5Google)
- Apple’s Future Looks Rotten (Gizmodo)
- Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt (The New York Times)
- Snapchat Adds Dog Lenses, But I Still Won’t Use It (Gizmodo)
- How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (New York magazine)
- We finally started taking screen time seriously in 2018 (TechCrunch)
- Hot tub hack reveals washed-up security (BBC News)
- “Ring out, wild bells,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Digitize and Fix Your Ancient Photos
- How to Rescue, Repair and Revive Old Family Photos (The New York Times)
- Printers & Scanners (Wirecutter)
- Google PhotoScan
- Adobe Photoshop Fix
