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PTJ 336: Slice of Life

May 16, 2020 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

Thinking of spending some of your inside time recording a podcast or your own music? After a tour through the week’s technology headlines with J.D., El Kaiser offers some shopping tips on microphones that make you sound way better than the one built into your laptop. Just click the Play button to hear it all on PTJ 336 — starting with a suggestion for another binge-worthy show to pass the time in the Quarantine Life.

Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment

Community (NBC)
The 15 best episodes of Community (EW.com)
Community Cast — Including Donald Glover — to Reunite for Virtual Table Read (Variety)
TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say (The New York Times)
Your Second First Trip (Uber Newsroom)
Google removed 813 creepware apps from the Android Play Store (ZDNet)
The Many Kinds of Creepware Used for Interpersonal Attacks (Semantic Scholar)
Merkley, Colleagues Continue to Lead Charge to Protect Consumers from Internet Shut-Offs During Pandemic (Jeff Merkley)
Keeping our employees and partners safe during #coronavirus (Twitter)
Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)
Organize your tabs with tab groups in Google Chrome (Keyword blog)
Protecting against resource-heavy ads in Chrome (Chromium Blog)
A first look at Unreal Engine 5 (Unreal Engine)
PlayStation 5 will launch in 2020 holiday season despite coronavirus: Sony (CNBC)
Facebook to pay $52m to content moderators over PTSD (BBC News)
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (The New York Times)
‘Hamilton’ coming to Disney+ in July (CNN)
Slice raised $43M in Series C funding to power local pizza (Slice Pizza Blog)

Shopping for Microphones

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PTJ 283: Pop the Cork

August 7, 2018 J.D. Biersdorfer 4 Comments

Celebratory adult beverages were likely consumed around the technosphere these past few days as Apple became the first trillion-dollar company, Motorola announced 5G phone hardware was on the way and fans of white wine pushed for their very own emoji. El Kaiser (fresh off an appearance on the Wide Range Media podcast) and J.D. explore those stories and more, and a soon-to-be-vacationing Kaiser shares packing tips for his traveling gear bag. Grab a cold one and chill out to Episode 283!

Note: Pop Tech Jam is on vacation next week.

Links to Stories on This Week’s Show

Apple Is Worth $1 Trillion; 21 Years Ago It Was on the Brink of Bankruptcy (The New York Times)
Apple Earnings Call (Apple)
MoviePass Stock Craters as It Accuses Theaters of Price Gouging (The Hollywood Reporter)
Motorola Connects You to 5G First (The Official Motorola Blog)
Campaigns Enter Texting Era With a Plea: Will U Vote 4 Me? (The New York Times)
The World’s First Home Body Scanner (Naked Labs)
Naked Labs video (YouTube)
Naked Labs raises $14M Series A led by Founders Fund for its 3D body scanning mirror (TechCrunch)
Is It Time for Facebook to Consider Hard Limits to Zuckerberg’s Power? (Bloomberg)
Opinion | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (The New York Times)
Google in China: Internet giant ‘plans censored search engine’ (BBC News)
Logitech to buy Yeti microphone maker Blue for $117M (CNET)
Comcast to Launch Amazon Prime Video on Xfinity TV in 2018 (Variety)
Kendall-Jackson Is Trying to Get Unicode to Add a White Wine Emoji (Fortune)
Let’s stop pretending the white wine emoji movement is something it’s not (The San Francisco Chronicle)
We Don’t Need a White-Wine Emoji (Slate)

Bonus El Kaiser Session

Wide Range Media podcast

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PTJ 262: Waiting In the Sky

February 12, 2018 J.D. Biersdorfer Leave a comment

The Space Race is back on — and Elon Musk’s own cherry-red Tesla Roadster is the pace car of the 21st century, having been shot into orbit around the sun by its owner. This week, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the SpaceX test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6th, 2018; check out the video below if you missed the Roadster-flinging launch. Elsewhere in the show, El Kaiser shares his opinion about the idea of R-rated a Star Wars movie and J.D. offers tips on how to find online streaming videos with overdubbed audio descriptions for the blind and those with limited vision. For all this — plus a roundup of the week’s tech news — just blast off Episode 262!

Links to Stories on This Week’s Show

Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX’s Ambition Into Orbit (The New York Times)
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster and Starman Leave Earth Forever in This Final Photo (Space.com)
‘Consumer Reports’: Samsung, Roku Smart TVs may be vulnerable to hackers (USA Today)
YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Favors Conspiracy Videos (New York magazine)
Thirty-six Defendants Indicted for Alleged Roles in Transnational Criminal Organization Responsible for More than $530 Million in Losses from Cybercrimes (United States Department of Justice)
Instagram tests resharing of others’ posts to your Story (TechCrunch)
Snap shares surge after app redesign sparks user growth (Reuters)
Cortana for iOS comes to iPad with native design (Windows Central)
Apple says iPhone 8 and X have ‘hardware updates’ that address battery issues (The Verge)
Google developing a game streaming service codenamed ‘Yeti’ with console hardware (9to5Google)
Google Online Security Blog: Vulnerability Reward Program: 2017 Year in Review (Google Security blog)
John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Technology + Accessibility

Finding Videos With Audio Descriptions (The New York Times)
The Audio Description Project: Streaming Video (American Council for the Blind)
Microsoft accessibility
Make Your PC Easier to Use (Microsoft)
Accessibility at Apple
Use Accessibility features on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (Apple)
Accessibility Features on the Mac (Apple)
Google Accessibility
Android Accessibility Help (Google)

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