Futureland

Just another 2016 review podcast episode? I guess.

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C A R R I E

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T H E  O U T L I N E

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Auditory Illusions on Sound Show

Mark Zuckerberg’s presentation of his Jarvis AI is more robotic than the house itself — The Verge

 

YouTube’s Biggest Star Is a Five Year Old That Makes Millions Opening Toys — The Verge

A Year in Review

2016 has been one hell of a year.

The sheer amount of shitty things that have happened is hard to grasp. Sitting here, in December, it’s hard to remember the things that happened 12 months ago, in January of this god-forsaken year. It’s important to look back, though, and so while this podcast is about the future, part of this episode is going to be dedicated to the past. At the beginning of each month, because this year has been an actual shit fest, we’ll round up the celebrities who died in that month.

January:

* Renault-Nissan says it wants to give us autonomous cars. 10 in the next four years. Which seems like a lot, and  (XX) They have a blog (XX) where they post things about it THAT SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT CARS SHOULD READ BEFORE WE RECORD BECAUSE I DON’T CARE ABOUT CARS.

* White House officials met with major tech companies to talk about ISIS, basically. Specifically, they talked about how terrorists are using social media to recruit people for their cells. (XX) It was a closed-door summit, so everything abou it is probably on WikiLeaks. (XX)

 

* The Year started of shitty. The first man-crush I remember having, Alan Rickman, passed away. So did David Bowie.

* The Powerball hit $1.6 Billion, and I bought my first lottery ticket. Oddly enough, given that I’m still a waitress, I didn’t win. (XX)

* Flint Michigan doesn’t have clean water. (Flint, Michigan still doesn’t have clean water.) (XX)

* Remember that those crazy people in Oregon? (xx) The ones who took over a wildlife refuge? They were a group called Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, and the protest was supposed to be about two guys, and the people they were protesting for said they didn’t want the protest on the refuge. (

Alacrity & Production Editors Alek Michael and Emily Waters join me to talk about The Outline — Topolsky’s latest independent media project — before they sit through the whole story of my latest laptop purchase.

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-Twitter @ changed to FickleCrux and will remain as such

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* “If we have a central goal, it’s to feed your curiosity and intelligence with as much respect and honesty as possible. No games, just something fucking interesting every day.”

* “getting lost can be good”

* CADILLAC!

The Sickening Business of Wellness — The Outline

Scratcher Heaven — The Outline

Dropping the pods — The Verge

 

Russian Cyberforgers Steal Millions a Day With Fake Sites — The New York Times

-500,000 simulated users, 250,000 websites, $5 Million a day

 

Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company — The New York Times

 

Vine, the Six-Second Video App, Is Not Quite Shutting Down — The New York Times

 

~~~~HP Spectre~~~~

Emily Waters joined me in Studio Eat to discuss Extratone’s crowdfunded aspirations, Samsung’s potential alienation from the handset industry, and emojis.

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Nokia’s phones return with Android in early 2017 — The Verge

NASA pioneer John Glenn has died — The Verge

Inside Comma.ai’s garage — The Verge

Twitter’s new Keith — The Verge

what?

— Keith Coleman (@kcoleman) July 14, 2007

Carriers announce the exact dates they plan to kill your Galaxy Note 7

Recalled Samsung Note 7 possible cause of Horry County house fire

Twitter adds QR codes for some reason — The Verge

Google spinoff Waymo may be planning a ride-share service with Fiat Chrysler — The Verge

The two geezers of Extratone had to confront the future all by their lonesome this week.

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-Elzabad — Cyber Monday Edition

-State of the Extranet

-Extratone at Magfest 2017?

 Twitter brings ranked conversations to mobile devices — The Verge

 

There’s E Ink everything now, even wallets — The Verge

 

The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump — The Verge

 

Hive mind assemble! There is now a crowdsourcing campaign to solve the problem of fake news — wireduk

 

Oracle Just Bought Dyn, the Company That Brought Down the Internet — WIRED

 

Aaron Levie on Box & Digital Assistants — The Verge

 

The next N-series, N93? — engadget

 

Everyone is retweeting this and we’re not sure why — 12news

 

Amazon Echo owners can now send texts with AT&T — Business Insider

GURGLE

 

Google Bender — The Verge

 

Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent — WIRED

“The future is diversification.”

Production Editor Emily Waters joined Hawthorn and I for a not-particularly sharp discussion on social media consolidation and our generation’s responsibilities regarding the advertising model.

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Cil, Chris and Ian join Kale and I in Studio Eat for the first time for a roundabout conversation. Unfortunately, I was quite obnoxious, but The Rise and Fall of COMPAQ should prove sufficiently entertaining.

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We sit down with Glenn (aka DangerBoy) — comedian, podcaster and 3 time winner of Vine’s Hair of the Year Award — to discuss said service’s demise, his podcast, and the state of comedy.

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Samsung abuses copyright to censor satirical exploding phone Grand Theft Auto mod — boingboing

Imzy, a social network based on kindness, opens its doors to the public — The Verge

Father i.o. is an MMO crossed with laser tag and Pokémon Go — wireduk

 

Alek Michael and Nina Online join me (separately) to discuss the Google Pixel event and its 5 new hardware releases: Pixel (Phone by Google,) Daydream, Google WiFi, Chromecast Ultra, and Google Home.

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The 5 biggest announcements from Google’s Pixel event — The Verge

Google Allo

-Mihm’s automated conversation

-My Ongoing Allo Moment

Tech Giants Team Up to Keep AI From Getting Out of Hand — wired 

 

Smart meters: an energy-saving revolution or just plain dumb? — the guardian

 

Genius?

Samsung is sending incomprehensible emails to Note 7 owners looking for a refund — The Verge

 

Images of Google’s first self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans surface — The Verge

 

The Verge’s 5th Birthday Revamp — The Verge

 

The underground pipeline shaping North Korea’s new capitalists — Reuters

 

Facebook rolls out Work, a social network for your office — The Verge

 

“Gamer Bars?”

A new format; too much news. May the Sun — All Mother — bestow upon us the powers of technology journalism Gods.

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This Fucking Tweet

-The secret rules of the internet — The Verge

-YouTube Is Building Community–And It’s Not Just About Video — Fast Company

Why are we creating more communities? How many chat services can we possibly obfuscate our horrible reality.

-Snapchat changes name to Snap, unveils first hardware: Spectacles video-sharing sunglasses — Fast Company

$129.99 in black, tea, or coral.T

When you press a button close to the hinge, the glasses record up to 10 seconds of video.

-Getting Hacked As An Internet Creator — Boogie2988

-Verge editor secretly worked at Apple for months — CNN

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-Uber now requires drivers to take selfies for added security — The Verge

-Facebook and Twitter are both livestreaming the presidential and vice presidential debates — NiemanLab

-Time Might Only Exist in Your Head. And Everyone Else’s — WIRED

-Listen To This Surprisingly Awesome, AI-Produced Song — Your EDM (lol)

-Listen in to the new hearing revolution with your wireless headphones — theguardian

-Google will reportedly launch a new Wi-Fi router similar to Eero on October 4th — The Verge

-Google’s ‘Show and Tell’ AI can tell you exactly what’s in a photo (almost): — DailyMail

-Google’s grand ads signal it’s taking on the iPhone directly — The Verge

-Facebook Messenger is using machine learning to prompt you to pay back your friends — The Verge

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Somehow, David Blue has managed to escape all mention of Medium’s existence, so Shinji, Null, and Alacrity Editor Alek Michael visited studio eat to flog him and discuss iOS 10.

Substitute Teacher Criticized for Chief Keef Lessons — ABC7 Chicago

 

Apple is left red faced again: Users discover PORN hidden in iOS 10’s Messages app — The Daily Mail

 

Opinion: Why the Internet revolution is nothing to email home about — Market Watch

 

Kiwis use robots to avoid long iPhone 7 queues — Techly

 

Google’s AI sounds more human than you, even when it’s speaking nonsense — CNET

 

A cautionary tale about humans creating biased AI models — TechCrunch

 

Apple’s latest iPhone software update will make it a lot harder for advertisers to track you — Business Insider

 

House votes to let 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia — CNN

 

We’ve wiped out 10% of Earth’s wilderness in the last two decades — Vox

 

Why a robot could be the best boss you’ve ever had — The Guardian

 

Analyst Weighs Up Chances of Apple Buying Troubled Twitter — Apple Magazine

 

How To Design A Machine That’s Smarter Than You — Fast Company

 

From the streets to tweets, the rise of ‘internet banging’ — Daily Dot

 

Twitter now lets select users make money off of videos — Mashable