Geekdays

It’s another technically challenged week, so my apologies for this coming out later than normal!

Show notes and links:

* California Weed Dispensaries Can Legally Sell Customer Information to Data Brokers (vice.com)

* Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com)

* iOS 12’s Biggest Upgrade: An End to Planned Obsolescence Conspiracy Theories (vice.com)

* Drones taught to spot violent behavior in crowds using AI (theverge.com)

* macOS Mojave brings Dark Mode, enhanced privacy, HomeKit, and more to the Mac (appleinsider.com)

* MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit (avclub.com)

* New report finds no evidence that having sex with robots is healthy (washingtonpost.com)

I don’t think I have to promote this show more than saying the following: Angelina Jolie. Sex in space. Pooping in space. Govenment surveillance. This may or may not be the same story (it’s not), but it’s going to be a good one!

Show notes and links:

* Papua New Guinea Is Banning Facebook For A Month (buzzfeed.com)

* Scientists invented a real-life flux capacitor, but not for time travel (engadget.com)

* FCC asks Amazon and eBay to stop selling fake pay TV boxes – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

* ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security (politico.com)

* DHS found evidence of cell phone spying near White House (arstechnica.com)

* IMSI-catcher – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* NASA astronaut reveals how complicated it is to poop in space – BGR (bgr.com)

* Sex on Mars is going to be risky, but it could create a new human subspecies – BGR (bgr.com)

It’s another week! That means another Geekdays! With Time Travel, dead celebrities in advertisement, and yet another data intrusion.

Show notes and links:

* Browsing The Internet at Work May Not Make You Less Productive, Says Study (sciencealert.com)

* Teen-monitoring app TeenSafe leaks thousands of user IDs and passwords (theverge.com)

* Stephen Hawking’s Memorial Service Will Be Open to Time Travelers (extremetech.com)

* Hitler not alive on the moon, study confirms (syracuse.com)

* McDonald’s claims Big Mac ad isn’t about Prince, offended fans roll eyes | Local Current Blog (thecurrent.org)

Another week, another geekdays. Sorry about us being a day late again, I was really hoping we could avoid this trend now that we were going weekly, but sometimes tech will throw the weirdest little hurdles in your way when you least expect them to.

Oh, and here’s the trailer for Future World. Doesn’t this just look like the best worst movie of the year already? I’ve just got to see this.

Show notes and links:

* Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find (livescience.com)

* This link has no title (digitaltrends.com)

* Elon Musk details his plan to rid LA of traffic with $1 rides on the Boring Co. ‘Loop’ – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

* Twitter (twitter.com)

* Boring Company flamethrower shipments to start in two weeks (engadget.com)

* YouTube Music and Premium: Everything you need to know about Google’s new streaming subscriptions (venturebeat.com)

* Spotify still features R. Kelly merch, despite new policies against sex offenders (mashable.com)

* Apple Music Competitor Tidal Allegedly Months Behind on Royalty Payments (macrumors.com)

* X-ray Laser Heats Water to 180,000 Degrees in Trillionth of a Second (digitaltrends.com)

* 24K gold chicken wings are NYC’s latest weird food craze (cnn.com)

Another week, another Geekday. Unfortunately, Breki had a migraine during the recording and was forced to do most of it with his eyes shut. In a dark room. Wearing sunglasses. So if you find it lacking – that’s the reason why.

Show notes and links:

* Niantic recruiting Pokémon GO players to create AR map of the world (9to5mac.com)

* Nintendo Switch won’t have a Virtual Console (engadget.com)

* Marvel Studios’ Original Iron Man Armor Appears to Have Been Stolen (gizmodo.com)

* Scientists Didn’t Invent a Star Trek ‘Cloaking Device,’ But What They Did Is Still Neat (gizmodo.com)

* A Burger King Just Asked Wendy’s to Prom (people.com)

* Burger King just showed how valuable Instagram stories are for brands (mashable.com)

It’s another week, another Geekdays. Another Weekly Geek. Geekly week. Whatever the case may be, it’s monday, and we have a new episode for you!

Show notes and links:

* Tesla posts record $710m net loss as it struggles to produce Model 3 cars | Technology (theguardian.com)

* The Pentagon is working on a radio wave weapon that stops a speeding car in its tracks – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

* West Virginia candidate distorts reality in campaign ad (yahoo.com)

* Google Play Newsstand (google.com)

* Japanese Buddhist temple hosts funeral for 100 Sony Aibo robot dogs (mashable.com)

* An engineer modded a drone to rescue this puppy (theverge.com)

* Man admits to breaking into Pasadena Taco Bell to eat taco shells, police say – Pasadena Star News (pasadenastarnews.com)

It’s our second show in the weekly format, and – more importantly – episode 800. I’m still kind of confused about that number. How did we get ever get it up that high? Did I accidentally skip a few hundred at some point along the way? It doesn’t sound reasonable to have recorded eight hundred episodes of anything, let alone a podcast that spent most of its run being a daily show…

… Still, no matter how I look at the data, it all comes back the same – this is the eight hundreth episode of our show… And that’s got to count for something, right?

Show notes and links:

* Unstoppable exploit in Nintendo Switch opens door to homebrew and piracy – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

* Nintendo Switch drives staggering 500 percent profit jump (theverge.com)

* What’s Wrong With Growing Blobs of Brain Tissue? (theatlantic.com)

* Photos claim to show redesigned iPhone SE 2 with glass back for wireless charging, headphone jack remains (9to5mac.com)

* Domino’s Launches 3 Vegan Pizzas in the Netherlands (onegreenplanet.org)

* The story behind those Domino’s Pizza Rolex watches (yahoo.com)

* This “Mutant Enzyme” Breaks Down Plastic | Smart News (smithsonianmag.com)

* First full penis transplant completed in soldier at Johns Hopkins (businessinsider.com)

Yes, my friend, we are back! Geekdays, the daily show turned weekly, back with a vengeance. This week, we’ve got stories about exploding ants, French toasat Chalupas, breath-holding and the tale of The Hacker Who Could. To top it all off, Jeff brings us a story from fifty-one years ago today – and we’ve got a new bumper theme for a beloved old friend on the show…

So – dig in, enjoy, and please; mind your step when you’re passing the ant hill.

Show notes and links:

* Infinity War’ posters are hiding free tickets behind them (mashable.com)

* Larger Spleens Help Bajau “Sea Nomads” Dive (nationalgeographic.com)

* New Species of ‘Exploding Ant’ Discovered in Borneo (gizmodo.com)

* Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: ‘They’re Trying to Ruin My Life.’ (vice.com)

* Teenage Hackers Say They’ve Doxed More Than 2,000 Government Employees (vice.com)

* Teen Hackers: A ‘5-Year-Old’ Could Have Hacked into CIA Director’s Emails (vice.com)

* Teen Who Hacked Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Gets Sentenced to 2 Years of Prison (vice.com)

* This link has no title (digitaltrends.com)

* Amazon Prime incorporating Whole Foods’ rewards customers (cnet.com)

* Taco Bell Is Testing a French Toast Chalupa (eater.com)

* This link has no title (bizjournals.com)

The final daily show of Geekdays. It’s a solemn and dignified moment – so naturally we talk about how coffee causes cancer, how Korean universities are building killer machines and how Dunkin Donuts needs to rethink the distribution methods of their new food tests.

Show notes and links:

* A Third Of Millennials Believe The Earth Is Flat (unilad.co.uk)

* No, one-third of millennials don’t actually think Earth is flat (sciencealert.com)

* California needs to stop saying everything causes cancer (popsci.com)

* AI experts are boycotting a top university over research on killer robots (sciencealert.com)

* A librarian discovered the secret codes used by elderly library-goers (mashable.com)

* Dunkin’ Donuts tests ‘Donut Fries,’ but you’ll have to fly to Boston to get them (mashable.com)

Thursdays… We’ll never have Thursdays together ever again. Think of all the great things we’ve shared on Thursdays. The love. The passion. The thrills. The poop jokes. Think of the many times we … ooh, look, a new trailer for that movie I’m looking forward to.

Show notes and links:

* Report: Google considering launching a mid-range Pixel phone this summer (arstechnica.com)

* The ISS will replace its 17-year-old printer this week (engadget.com)

* Twitch streamer gives a young gamer the most heartwarming pep talk after losing (mashable.com)

* Cambridge Analytica may have had Facebook data from 87 million people (recode.net)

* Mysterious bowhead whales found singing over 180 different songs (mashable.com)