echo7 - Weekly Tech News and Gadgets

Join us for the last episode of the year (it’s a festive one at that). Deep takes on a high alcohol and high volume beer throughout the show. Can he make it through the last episode which offers updates on Net Neutrality and has some new stories up its sleeve? Find out why so many people are so angry with Mozilla Firefox. What could they have possibly done wrong after releasing Firefox 57 (Quantum)? Then, we get into Deep’s tech predictions for 2018. What could be in store for the coming year? Well Deep has some ideas that he would like to share with our community of BeachLighters.

Show Notes

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Could there be a pleasant mistake which forced Deep to end up drinking two beers for the Beer Pick of the Week? Perhaps…perhaps. Net Neutrality was all over the news this past week as we have some not so happy updates on how things are going in the battle for an open and free Internet. A battle is taking place between two tech mega-giants as they fight for dominance while trading childish blows to one another. This leaves the customer as the only casualty of this needless display of spite and ill-will between Amazon and Google. What happens when you mix the most premium mobile phone processor with some relatively high-end laptop and tablet hardware? It sounds like a mad experiment, but it has been done. We take a look at two devices which are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor. The specs and price are truly a shocker. Then, we end things of with a moment of realization as Deep shares some important thoughts about life and getting old. This is an episode that you definitely don’t want to miss.

Show Notes

Net Neutrality

Join the battle for Net Neutrality

Battle for the Net

The world’s platform for change

Change.org

Defending your rights in the digital world

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Snapdragon for Laptops and Tablets

Specs on the new Snapdragon based devices coming very soon!

ASUS NovaGo TP370QL Laptop

HP Envy x2 Tablet

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What type of beer is hoppy, labeled as an IPA, but very low in alcohol percentage? We have a beer that fits that bill in this week’s Beer Pick of the Week segment. That beer comes in handy when we go over the updates segment. See what the FCC and Ajit Pai are up to now with Net Neutrality…it’s not good (still). Then we go into a story about our Internet speeds. Compared to the world, the US isn’t as fast as it should be when it comes to broadband and mobile Internet speeds. Let’s take a look at how we rank among other nations and why. Slow Internet speeds shouldn’t limit us from our next story which has to do with a newer, faster, better HDMI standard known as HDMI 2.1. What does this new standard have to offer? For beginners, you will get much better resolution, picture quality, and sound! We have the details on this revolutionary update. So we started with beer and we end the show with whiskey, of course. A new digital voice assistant has hit the market and it can do something that Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google can’t do: pour you a shot of whiskey! It sounds too good to be true, but it’s true. It could just be the perfect gift for this Christmas season.

Show Notes

Net Neutrality

Join the battle for Net Neutrality

Battle for the Net

The world’s platform for change

Change.org

Defending your rights in the digital world

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Global Internet Speeds

Broadband and mobile Internet speeds as of October 2017.

Speedtest

Jim Beam

Meet JIM, the first digital voice assistant that can pour you a drink!

Jim Beam Store

Video of JIM in action

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This week’s show has an update so big that it had to be it’s own story. The FCC have finally revealed their plan on the repeal of Net Neutrality. We summarize their plan and provide some insight into the FCC and Ajit Pai, yet again! Can you ever defend yourself from more than one form of evil in the tech sector? Well, this week, the answer is no. Googs is at it again and has been caught collecting more data on Android users. We have the details on what is being collected and how. This one is a doozy because there isn’t much you could have done to turn off or avoid this form of data collection. Then, for our final story, we go into Windows XP and bliss. Can the two things be in the same sentence, let alone the same story? Well, we found a way to make it so.

Show Notes

Net Neutrality

Join the battle for Net Neutrality

Battle for the Net

The world’s platform for change

Change.org

Defending your rights in the digital world

Electronic Frontier Foundation

New Angles of America

More stunning images from Charles O’Rear

Project Website

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CamelCamelCamel.com

Cyber Monday Deals

Here’s a collection of some Cyber Monday deals!

List of Deals 1

List of Deals 2

List of Deals 3

List of Deals 4

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Could this possibly be the perfect episode? That would mean a great Beer Pick of the Week. That would also mean good news stories all around. And this would all have to be topped off with a great outro. Join us this week as we uncover two new product releases that were announced this past week. The first is a flagship mobile phone and the other is a web browser. These aren’t just incremental releases, rather they are monumental ones. Find out which phone manufacturer has come out with a new model just in time for the holidays and which snazzy new browser you can use to check out this new phone model and potentially make a purchase at lightning speed.

Show Notes

OnePlus’s New Flagship Phone

Is the successor to the OnePlus 3T worth the cash?

OnePlus 5T

FireFox Quantum (Version 57) Is Here!

FireFox is hungry and willing to take back the market share when it comes to browsers.

FireFox Quantum

CamelCamelCamel – Price Checker

CamelCamelCamel.com is a great website that lets you know if you are getting a good deal on a product. It has historic price trends which make things transparent when a marketer insists that you are getting a “discount”. Try this simple and easy to use website for your holiday shopping.

CamelCamelCamel.com

Black Friday Deals

Here’s a collection of some good Black Friday deals for this coming season.

List of Deals 1

List of Deals 2

List of Deals 3

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Another exotic Beer Pick of the Week starts things off proper for this week’s episode. Then we go into a story of discontinuation and dismay. Logitech has announced the end of a popular line of products. The announcement has left many customers extremely unhappy. Find out what is being discontinued, when, and what was done to appease the angry customers. Then, we end things off on a happy and comedic note. We go right into the topic of revenge porn, of course. Facebook is suddenly interested in fighting and defeating revenge porn once and for all. Their plan to do so seems a bit bizarre and highly suspicious. Could the tech giant be up to something? We go into the details and let you decide.

Show Notes

Logitech

Contact Logitech about getting your free upgrade to the Logitech Hub.

Logitech Support

CamelCamelCamel – Price Checker

CamelCamelCamel.com is a great website that lets you know if you are getting a good deal on a product. It has historic price trends which make things transparent when a marketer insists that you are getting a “discount”. Try this simple and easy to use website for your holiday shopping.

CamelCamelCamel.com

Black Friday Deals

Here’s a collection of some good Black Friday deals for this coming season.

List of Deals

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Telegram Messenger

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After last week’s disastrous Beer Pick of the Week, Deep is back with a beer that can offer some redemption. We also get into some news updates from the company that we still love to hate…Equifax. Our first news story of this week involves a major social network and their, perhaps, not so major user base. Find out who has been exaggerating the size of their membership and by how much. Then, we go over a story of a guy who was fired from a major tech firm. Sure, this happens all the time, but never with the circumstances that we are about to reveal. Kids and work sometimes don’t mix. And finally, we look into a brand new mobile phone which will turn the mobile gaming world upside-down. We have all of the specs, details, and the echo7 take on this revolutionary new device.

Show Notes

echo7 Episode 021 – Surprise! Surprise!

Fired Engineer’s Daughter Makes a Video

A Tearful Apology?

Razer Phone

Razer Home Page

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It’s the climax of October as Halloween occurs this week. In the spirit of this spooky time of the year, our entire episode this week is focused on the scary and creepy side of things. Even the Beer Pick of the Week claims to be scary! Then we go into a news story of a monstrous online retailer and its frightening plans to enter your home, auto-magically. And to cap things off the right way, we have yet another feature story! BeachLighters, you are in for a treat with no tricks with this story. We scoured the web to find a tech story that is creepy and we came across just that. We go into the mystery of a bizarre radio signal that has been broadcasting for decades. Nobody knows what it means, or why it even exists. We have some sound bites from the signal being broadcast by the radio station along with all of the known details surrounding this strange phenomenon. Join us for this horrifying Halloween episode…if you dare!

Show Notes

Amazon Key

See a video of Amazon Key in action

UVB-76 The Ghost Radio Station

Video on the Mystery of Ghost Radio Station UVB-76

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October is a great time of the year for seasonal beers. Which beer do we have this week for the Beer Pick of the Week? Perhaps another October Fest? Perhaps. We also have some critical news on a very widespread and far reaching vulnerability known as KRACK. It’s not just for junkies any more. Then, we take a candid look at a freakishly strange new phone that may just belong in a circus sideshow. What could this bizarre new device be and what makes it so strange? We have the details, specs, and the echo7 take on this new handset. And for our last story, we have an amazing feature story on something that is out of this world. Well, it’s definitely far out and has intrigued Deep for quite some time. Now we have some solid answers and some hopes for new technology that could just shed light on this very subject.

Show Notes

KRACK

See KRACK in action

All of the detail and FYI on KRACK

reddit.com/r/krack

ZTE Axon M

Bizarre, strange, freaky! Does this do anything for you?

ZTE Axon M Details and Specifications

Cleaning Up Earth’s L.E.O.

A Video Explainer

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Fall is in the air as this week’s Beer Pick of the Week is a true testament to the month of October. Then, find out all of the ways we are being hacked this past week. We have updates on the Google Home Mini and what it was caught doing. Next we provide a massive update on Kaspersky Lab. The revelations are shocking as this plot twists and thickens with new information that pops better than fiction. But wait, the news of hacks is not over just yet. A major phone manufacturer is caught spying a bit too hard on it’s customers. Find out who it was this time around. It seems to be a trend. Then, finally, we end of on a somewhat good note. A new camera has been announced. Is the price tag worth your money? We review the specs and provide a breakdown in this episode.

Show Notes

echo7 Episode 012 – Russian Ultimatum

Google Home Mini

The next spying device from Google is caught in this video being a bit too responsive.

Google Home Mini Video

Canon

Canon G1X Mark III

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