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- Episode 79: Zoox, Not Zoosk
Ep. 79 - Zoox, Not Zoosk
23Dec2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs
- Bendgate 2.0
- https://www.thurrott.com/apple/195842/apple-continues-to-defend-bent-ipad-pro-design
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/22/18152161/apple-dan-riccio-email-ipad-pro-2018-bendingDrone shuts down airport in UK- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/uk-airport-restarts-some-flights-after-drone-shutdown-chaos/
Self Driving car company, Zoox, gets Cali Permit for transporting people- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/self-driving-car-startup-zoox-gets-permit-to-transport-passengers-in-california/
Man sues feds after being detained by airport security for not unlocking his phone- https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1429891
Never talk to the police- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Australia’s Anti-Encryption law- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/australia-rushes-its-dangerous-anti-encryption-bill-into-parliament/
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 78 - Old Men Yell At Clouds 2
12Dec2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs, Ryan Thompson?
- Location Data for Sale
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
Better Podcast Tracking- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/podcast-industry-aims-to-better-track-listeners-through-new-analytics-tech-called-rad/
Samsung is removing the headphone jack finally- https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/12/11/18135722/galaxy-s10-headphone-jack-samsung-a8s
Android Trojan sends $1000 through Paypal- https://9to5google.com/2018/12/11/android-trojan-paypal-accessibility/
Google to shut down Google+ 4 months earlier- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
Old Men don’t get the internet part 2
- Sundar Pichai had to remind Congress that google doesn’t make iPhones
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18136377/google-sundar-pichai-steve-king-hearing-granddaughter-iphone-android-notification
Sundar Pichai had to explain why Googling ‘idiot’ brings up photos of Trump- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18136114/trump-idiot-image-search-result-sundar-pichai-google-congress-testimony
Generic Coverage- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18138036/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-house-judiciary-committee-congress-testify
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 77 - Top Level Subdoma.in
06Dec2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski
- Tumblr to ban all adult content on Dec 17th
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode
- DuckDuckGo finds google personalized results despite users being logged out or in. incognito mode
- https://betanews.com/2018/12/04/duckduckgo-study-google-search-personalization/
Microsoft to rebuild Edge to run Chromium- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128648/microsoft-edge-chrome-chromium-browser-changes
white house to end renewable/EV subsidies- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-autos-idUSKBN1O22D4?utm_source=reddit.com
Giuliani Twitter fail- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127063/rudy-giuliani-twitter-bias-accusation-hyperlinked-text-president-trump
Sundar Pichai to testify in court on Dec 11th- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18125609/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-congress-house-hearing-dragonfly
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 76 - Oh, the Humanity
27Nov2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs, Kyle Fisher
Agenda
- Google Fi coming to iPhones/Samsung/OnePlus?
- https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/11/27/18114662/google-project-fi-apple-iphone-samsung-oneplus-rumor
- Insight Lands on mars
- https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/8xp8wg/nasas-insight-lander-is-already-snapping-amazing-pictures-of-mars
Google Pixel Slate reviews are mixed- https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/27/googles-pixel-slate-is-a-hard-first-step-to-realizing-chrome-oss-bright-future/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/google-pixel-slate-review/https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/11/27/18113447/google-pixel-slate-review-tablet-chrome-os-android-chromebook-slapdashFacebook treatment of black people- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114610/facebook-discrimination-mark-luckie-black-employees-hr
An open letter from Google Employees to Google to stop efforts to create a censored search engine for China- https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb
Cards against Humanity holds 99% off sale- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/23/18109070/cards-against-humanity-black-friday-99-percent-off-sale-cars-diamonds
- https://www.99percentoffsale.com/
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 75 -Amazon HQ2: Electric Boogaloo
14Nov2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs
Agenda
- Cloudflare rolls out its DNS services to mobile devices
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/11/cloudflare-privacy-dns-service-ios-android/
Four units of measurement are about to be re-evaluated- https://phys.org/news/2018-11-base-metric.html
Google’s Night Sight is incredible, and backwards compatible!- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/14/18092660/google-night-sight-review-pixel-2-3-camera-photos-image-quality
Waymo to launch paid driverless taxi service- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18091024/waymo-commercial-driverless-taxi-service-december-2018-public-launch
T2 Chip to prevent certain repairs on recent Macs- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/12/18077166/apple-macbook-air-mac-mini-t2-chip-security-repair-replacement-tool
Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell new iPhones and iPads- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/9/18079340/amazon-apple-iphone-ipad-watch-beats-deal-selling-products-online
Amazon Selects Queens in NYC & Crystal County in Virginia as HQ2 locations- https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-and-northern-virginia-for-additional-headquarters-1542075336
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/14/18095536/amazon-hq2-protests-law-new-yorkReview Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 74 - Folding Under Pressure
08Nov2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Kyle Fisher
Agenda
- Sprint is throttling Skype
- http://fortune.com/2018/11/08/sprint-throttling-skype-service/
Robyn Denholm to take over as Tesla Chair- https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/11/tesla-replaces-elon-musk-as-chair-hell-stay-ceo/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/tesla-chairwoman-robyn-denholm.htmlGoogle Maps is testing Crash and Speed Trap reporting- https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/07/google-maps-collision-speed-trap-reports-test-waze/
Samsung’s weird Foldable phone is weird- https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/samsung-folding-phone/
They’re also adding notches- https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/7/18073054/samsung-notch-display-phones-coming
Disney’s Netflix Rival is coming- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/disneys-new-netflix-rival-will-be-called-disney-plus-and-launch-late-2019.html
5G Broadband is also on its way- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46127712
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 73 - If You’re Reading This, It’s Past My Bedtime
29Oct2018
Attendees
Jeff Budzinski, Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs
Agenda
- NASA Fixes Hubble Gyroscope by Cycling Power
- https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/24/nasa-hubble-gyroscope-fix/
Electric Cars Get Higher Speed Limit in Austria- https://electrek.co/2018/10/29/electric-cars-higher-speed-limit-than-gas-cars-ev-incentive-austria/
Apple Bans Bloomberg from iPad Event- https://www.cultofmac.com/585868/apple-bars-bloomberg-from-ipad-event-as-payback-for-spy-chip-story/
Double the Notches, Double the Fun for Pixel 3- https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/29/hilarious-pixel-3-xl-bug-adds-second-notch-side-screen/
Google Locks Out Third-Party Qi Chargers- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/drm-for-chargers-google-pixel-3-locks-fast-qi-charging-to-its-own-79-stand/
Ninja’s NYE Special- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/18030602/fortnite-ninja-tyler-blevins-new-york-city-times-square-new-years-eve-red-bull-event
IBM Acquires Red Hat- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/ibm-buys-red-hat-with-eye-on-cloud-dominance/
OnePlus 6t Launch- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18034130/oneplus-6t-phone-verizon-t-mobile-us-carrier-compatibility-deal
https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/29/oneplus-6t-launches-with-6-41-display-and-in-screen-fingerprint-reader-starts-at-549/Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Ep. 72 - Pixel Me Not Pink
16Oct2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski
Agenda
- Google Event Roundup
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/9/17938340/google-pixel-3-event-news-recap-highlights-2018
Paul Allen Died of Cancer at 65- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-of-cancer-at-age-65.html
2019 May Be the Year of Website Hacks- https://www.zdnet.com/article/around-62-of-all-internet-sites-will-run-an-unsupported-php-version-in-10-weeks/
Google's Inbox begins to prepare for shutdown- https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/16/inbox-v1-78-begins-preparation-shutdown-removes-option-disable-gmail-notifications-apk-teardown/
Google Solves Antitrust Issues in Europe by Charging Licensing Fees in Europe for Android- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-android-licensing-bundle-chrome-search
Review Us!- Review I4O
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
I4O on PodbeanI4O on Google PlayI4O on iTunesI4O on StitcherI4O on TwitchI4O on FacebookI4O on Twitter1 hr 3 min - Episode 71: Hold My Beer
Ep. 71 - Hold My Beer
08Oct2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Jeff Budzinski
Agenda
- Verizon humble-bragging about saving lives after throttling firefighters
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/after-throttling-firefighters-verizon-praises-itself-for-saving-lives/
SpaceX Bringing that loud to the West Coast, AND LANDING IT TOO- https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/spacex-will-attempt-to-make-a-historic-west-coast-landing-sunday-night/
Your Monday doesn’t suck as much as NASA’s- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbdxxb/hubble-space-telescope-in-sleep-mode-after-gyro-failure?utm_source=reddit.com
America doesn’t cut it for kids anymore- https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-atlantic-americas-grip-on-childrens-entertainment-is-coming-to-an-end-because-of-youtube-165005.html
“Siri, I’m being pulled over.”- https://www.businessinsider.com/ios-12-shortcut-uses-iphone-to-record-police-during-traffic-stop-2018-10?utm_source=reddit.com
Apple says no way to chinese microchips- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/chinese-spy-chips-are-said-to-be-found-in-hardware-used-by-apple-amazon-apple-denies-the-bloomberg-businessweek-report.html
Facebook holds Google’s beer for a data breach; Google done did it now- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-private-data-of-at-least-hundreds-of-thousands-of-plus-users.html
More like Google- amirite- https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/google-plus-hack/
And It’ll cost ‘em- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/07/google-may-face-33bn-bill-uk-customers-data-breach/amp/
Google Event 2018- https://9to5google.com/2018/10/08/pixel-3-google-event-2018-roundup/
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
I4O on PodbeanI4O on Google PlayI4O on iTunesI4O on StitcherI4O on TwitchI4O on FacebookI4O on Twitter1 hr 12 min - Episode 70: Ervin Is Not Himself
Episode 70
02Oct2018
Attendees
Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Kyle Fisher
Agenda
- Microsoft Surface Event
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17929822/microsoft-surface-event-2018-highlights-news-recap-surface-laptop-pro
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-us-employees.html
Elon Musk to remain CEO
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/29/sec-settles-charges-with-teslas-elon-musk-will-remain-as-ceo.html
Tesla deliveries double in one quarter
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/02/tesla-deliveries-double-led-by-model-3-surge/
Tesla Autopilot Version 9
- https://electrek.co/2018/09/27/tesla-autopilot-version-9-mad-max-mode-navigate/
Google Event Rumor Roundup
- https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-to-expect-from-google-october-event-2018/
Best Buy accidentally sells third generation Chromecast before its released
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/29/17917818/google-chromecast-third-gen-best-buy-accidental-leak
Facebook is using your 2FA for ads
- https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/9je935/yes_facebook_is_using_your_2fa_phone_number_to/
Facebook Breach
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/28/facebook-50-million-user-accounts-security-berach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2018-09-28-facebook-caught-automatically-blocking-ap-and/https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/28/zuckerberg-facebook-page-hacker-livestream/Is anybody reading this?
- Love, Jeff.
Notes - Plugs, worthy mentions, etc.- I4O on Spotify
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Podcast / Media group of friends who enjoy talking tech news and looking at the latest hardware released. Previously known as Industry 4.0