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PTJ 288: Hot New Suits for Fall

October 6, 2018 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

It’s not just the leaves starting to waft through the air here in North America — plenty of lawsuits are swirling as well. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss some of the bigger ones, including legal action aimed at California’s new net neutrality rules and Facebook’s latest woes. And for those who aren’t fans of the new Gmail web design, J.D. has some tips for making the interface feel more familiar. Click on through to PTJ 288!

Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show

The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law (The Washington Post)
Facebook’s Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know (WIRED)
Facebook Faces Potential $1.63 Billion Fine in Europe Over Data Breach (The Wall Street Journal)
Content Moderator Sues Facebook, Says Job Gave Her PTSD (Motherboard)
Facebook’s recent ‘bear hug’ of Instagram frustrated its independent founders (Recode)
Instagram Founders Resign Over Differences With Facebook (New York)
SEC settles charges with Tesla’s Elon Musk, will remain as CEO (CNBC)
LinkNYC’s 5 million users make 500,000 phone calls each month i
Use of internet, social media, digital devices plateaus in US (Pew Research Center)
Amazon And Snapchat Form A Powerful Partnership (Forbes)
Google Chief Agrees to Testify to Congress (The New York Times)
Google Names New Privacy Chief, Offers Framework for Regulation (Bloomberg)
Google Privacy Framework Document (Google)
Introducing Google Discover: Discover new information and inspiration with Search, no query required (Google blog)
Safari’s “Siri Suggested” Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Sites And Fake News (BuzzFeed News)
Microsoft reveals huge Windows 10 news ahead of major update (Express)
Windows 10 October 2018 Update: The 7 best new features (CNET)
Windows 10 October 2018 Update may be released on October 2 (Neowin)
Microsoft Whiteboard launches on iOS, hits the web in preview (Windows Central)
Mouse and Keyboard Support for Xbox One Developers (Xbox Wire)
Yes, Lakers Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Writing For “Veronica Mars” (LAist)
“Doctor Who” Returns Oct. 7, 2018 (BBC)

The New Gmail Is Here to Stay

Learn what’s new in Gmail (Gmail Help)
5 ways the new Gmail can help you get more done (Google Keyword blog)
Gmail Support Page
See Gmail in standard or basic HTML version (Gmail Help)

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PTJ 266: Brought to You By the Letters “P” and “S”

March 13, 2018 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

A preview peep of the new Android P operating system has arrived for developers and Microsoft is adding an “S” mode to the next version of Windows 10. El Kaiser and J.D. also discuss other letters in the news this week, including SEC and OMG, as in “OMG, why is the Amazon Alexa laughing by itself???” You can hear all this and more (including a discussion of software vs. treeware for news consumption) on this week’s episode of Pop Tech Jam!

Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Episode

Previewing Android P (Android Developers Blog)
Android P Features and APIs (Android Developers Blog)
Android P DP1: New nav bar button enables app rotation even w/ auto-rotate disabled (9to5Google)
Windows 10 in S Mode coming soon to all editions of Windows 10 (Windows Experience Blog)
AI Platform for Windows Developers (Windows Developer Blog)
Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands (Motherboard)
Snap is laying off about 100 engineers (CNBC)
Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets (SEC.gov)
Amazon launches a low-cost version of Prime for Medicaid recipients (TechCrunch)
Amazon Alexa devices are creepily laughing at their owners for no reason (Consequence of Sound)

Consuming News

For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. (The New York Times)
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption by Clay Johnson (O’Reilly Media)

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PTJ 248: Knock, Knock

September 23, 2017 J.D. Biersdorfer 2 Comments

Who’s there? It’s this week’s episode of Pop Tech Jam, with ideas for coping with the current state of the world. From SEC hackers to Nest’s new indoor/outdoor security system to Equifax still doing harm to its customers, it’s been a busy seven days. But hey, NASA has a free illustrated ebook on the recent Cassini mission you can download, so the week wasn’t all bad and El Kaiser offers up a review of two audio amplifiers to make your tunes sound better through your headphones when you’re on the go. In light of Mother Nature’s recent activities, J.D. shares a few lists of places you can send money to help earthquake and hurricane disaster recovery efforts in Mexico, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the other Caribbean islands.
PTJ 248 is here to help!

Links to Stories on This Week’s Episode

Google and HTC Announce US$1.1 Billion Cooperation Agreement (HTC)
Google Is Buying HTC’s Smartphone Expertise for $1.1 Billion (The New York Times)
Statement on Cybersecurity (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
SEC says hackers may have traded using stolen insider information (Reuters)
Apple TV 4K review: so close, so far (The Verge)
Nest Expands into Home Security with First Security System Designed to Be Easy on Residents, Tough on Intruders (Nest blog)
Facebook will strengthen enforcement of ad targeting policies, add more human oversight, and urge users to report potential abuses directly (Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook)
Fake website fools Equifax staff (BBC)
The Better Together Update is here! (Minecraft.com)
The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini (NASA)

iPhone Audio Amps

(Hopefully) Helpfully Hint: How to Effectively Donate to Disaster Relief Funds

Where you can donate to help with hurricane and earthquake relief and recovery (Vox.com)
Places to donate to Mexico/Puerto Rico relief (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee)
How to Help Victims of Hurricane Maria (The New York Times)
Charity Navigator

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PTJ 219: Blue Skies

January 27, 2017 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

Samsung thinks it’s solved the mystery of the exploding Note 7, Sprint grabs a new business partner, SpaceX returns to work and oh, cars might fly soon. On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. dive into a pile of tech-news headlines before Apple-watcher Don Donofrio drops by to discuss the company’s 2016 efforts.

Galaxy Note 7 fires caused by battery and design flaws, Samsung says (The New York Times)
Galaxy Note7: What we discovered (Samsung Global Newsroom)
Failure Analysis of Samsung Note 7 (UL)
Samsung Galaxy S8 release date rumored to be scheduled for April 15 (Tech Times)
Trump appoints anti-regulation Net Neutrality enemy to head FCC (Gizmodo)
The SEC is reportedly investigating why Yahoo took so long to disclose that it was hacked (TechCrunch)
Yahoo postpones close of Verizon transaction to Q2 2017, citing work needed (VentureBeat)
Sprint acquires 33 percent of TIDAL and creates game-changing partnership (Sprint Newsroom)
Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps (Google blog)
Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning (Google blog)
A new generation of Chromebooks, designed for millions of students and educators (Google)
All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyond will run Android apps (Ars Technica)
Announcing Intune for Education & new Windows 10 PCs for school starting at $189 (Windows blog)
Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground (9to5Mac)
App Store app prices to rise in the UK by >25% following Brexit exchange rate fluctuations (9to5Mac)
Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘cannot mean membership of single market’ (Independent)
Pound set for best day since 2008 after May’s statement (Bloomberg)
Facebook introduces measures to tackle fake news in Germany (ABC News)
Facebook changes policy on editing posts (Mashable)
Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Game Mode will maximize gaming performance (The Verge)
DirecTV Now appears to be a complete mess (The Verge)
SpaceX returns to flight with 10-satellite launch, rocket landing (Space.com)
Remembering Gene Cernan (NASA)
Cartapping: How Feds have spied on connected cars for 15 years (Forbes)
Airbus CEO sees ‘flying car’ prototype ready by end of year (Reuters)

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