We are diving into all things tech this week sharing the stories and experiences affected the lives of consumers and users of technology. We begin by sharing some personal victories and nightmares of travel tech - including cool apps, nightmare customer service with Hotels.com, and traffic camera technology. Many tech companies and a former CEO, Bill Gates, are investing heavily in a new smart city in Arizona that will be designed from the ground up with high-speed networks, autonomous vehicles, high-speed digital networks, and autonomous logistics hubs, shortened commutes, and safer streets in mind. And finally, the increase from 140 to 280 characters has some users up in arms and we try to explain what is happening and why.

Rob Greenlee and Todd Cochrane break in new gear at Todd’s studio and we have a few glitches today. We will have it a 100% dialed in next weekend. But we have a massive amount of podcast news and information to share with you including some head pounding moments.

You have heard me talk about proximity beacons. I know now how to do it with minimal investment! This course (http://584e7cm5-druvn32pyq8f61x3i.hop.clickbank.net/) that I endorse and have used successfully is the gateway to deploying proximity beacons for Android.

Reach out to Rob @robgreenlee or Todd @geeknews we are always open to a guest so reach out to Rob

Rob Greenlee and Todd Cochrane break in new gear at Todd’s studio and we have a few glitches today. We will have it a 100% dialed in next weekend. But we have a massive amount of podcast news and information to share with you including some head pounding moments.

You have heard me talk about proximity beacons. I know now how to do it with minimal investment! This course (http://584e7cm5-druvn32pyq8f61x3i.hop.clickbank.net/) that I endorse and have used successfully is the gateway to deploying proximity beacons for Android.

Reach out to Rob @robgreenlee or Todd @geeknews we are always open to a guest so reach out to Rob

In this podcast (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode168/RFHPC168Top500.mp3), the Radio Free HPC (http://radiofreehpc.com/) team reviews the latest TOP500 (http://top500.org/) list in front of a live audience in Denver at SC17 (http://sc17.supercomputing.org/).The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world has China overtaking the US in the total number of ranked systems by a margin of 202 to 144. It is the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed on the TOP500 ranking, with the US presence shrinking to its lowest level since the list’s inception 25 years ago.Just six months ago, the US led with 169 systems, with China coming in at 160. Despite the reversal of fortunes, the 144 systems claimed by the US gives them a solid second place finish, with Japan in third place with 35, followed by Germany with 20, France with 18, and the UK with 15.China has also overtaken the US in aggregate performance as well. The Asian superpower now claims 35.3 percent of the TOP500 flops, with the US in second place with 29.8 percent.The top 10 systems remain largely unchanged since the June 2017 list, with a couple of notable exceptions.Sunway TaihuLight, a system developed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC), and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, maintains its number one ranking for the fourth time, with a High Performance Linpack (HPL) mark of 93.01 petaflops.See our complete coverage of SC17Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode168/RFHPC168Top500.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/dJUV7YhHl7k)

Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

* Stuart Clark

* Derek Silva

Quick Hits

* Rogers accidentally sent out Smart Drive registration message to wrong email list

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/rogers-accidentally-sent-out-smart-drive-registration-emails-to-some-customers-who-didnt-sign-up/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/rogers-accidentally-sent-out-smart-drive-registration-emails-to-some-customers-who-didnt-sign-up/)

* Government of Ontario launches autonomous vehicle research centre in Stratford

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/08/government-ontario-invest-80-million-launches-autonomous-vehicle-research-development-area-stratford/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/08/government-ontario-invest-80-million-launches-autonomous-vehicle-research-development-area-stratford/)

* http://www.lfpress.com/2017/11/08/self-driving-cars-to-be-on-stratford-roads-in-months-as-ontario-fund-research (http://www.lfpress.com/2017/11/08/self-driving-cars-to-be-on-stratford-roads-in-months-as-ontario-fund-research)

* Google is bringing its physical Picture Album service ‘Photo Books’ to Canada

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/google-photo-books-coming-to-canada/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/google-photo-books-coming-to-canada/)

* CIBC launches Remi, a new digital assistant that helps clients send global money transfers

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/06/cibc-remi-digital-assistant/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/06/cibc-remi-digital-assistant/)

* Amazon launches Fire TV Stick Basic Edition in Canada

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/amazon-launches-fire-tv-stick-basic-in-canada/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/07/amazon-launches-fire-tv-stick-basic-in-canada/)

Topics

* Twitter’s 280-character limit comes to the masses

* https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/07/twitter-expands-280-character-tweet-access/ (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/07/twitter-expands-280-character-tweet-access/)

* Twitter cranks up display name limit after rolling out 280 character tweets

* https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/10/twitter-display-name-limit/ (https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/10/twitter-display-name-limit/)

* Canadians are using an average of 1.2GB of data per month on wireless devices, says CRTC report; the telecom watchdog has released its annual wireless and internet Communications Monitoring report

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/09/canadians-1-2gb-data-per-month-wireless-crtc-report/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/09/canadians-1-2gb-data-per-month-wireless-crtc-report/)

* New YouTube Channel Lets Viewers Relive Classic Canadian TV

* https://techvibes.com/2017/11/10/new-youtube-channel-lets-viewers-relive-classic-canadian-tv (https://techvibes.com/2017/11/10/new-youtube-channel-lets-viewers-relive-classic-canadian-tv)

* Quebec says it will tax Netflix even without federal government support

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/08/quebec-tax-netflix-federal-government-support/ (https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/11/08/quebec-tax-netflix-federal-government-support/)

Stuff We Like

* Stuart – Paperclip simulator (http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips) *Warning: Addictive*

* Derek – Mozilla Firefox (https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/get-ready-firefox-quantum/)

What are you up to lately?

* Stuart – Applying for work here, there and everywhere. Trying to get more traction for SClark Consulting. (https://sclarkconsulting.ca/)

* Derek – Managing the requests for the Student Pathways Challenge at CleverHost (https://cleverhost.ca/?ref=CdnTechPodcast), responding to a few RFPs at Olio, put up our Christmas trees and started decorating today, went in-depth and wrote a blog entry on Middlesex Centre’s proposed 2018 water and wastewater rates, and excited that my eldest son’s hockey team has been slotted in the ‘A’ division.

Noteworthy News

* CRTC releases 2017 communications monitoring report for broadcast content

Apologies for the inconsistent releases recently. Real-life has been getting in the way. I’ll keep the current name, but it will probably be more bi-weekly than weekly at the moment.

Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

https://threatpost.com/tor-browser-users-urged-to-patch-critical-tormoil-vulnerability/128769/ (https://threatpost.com/tor-browser-users-urged-to-patch-critical-tormoil-vulnerability/128769/)

Parrot 3.9 “Intruder” the Ethical Hacking Linux Distro Released With New Features

https://fossbytes.com/parrot-3-9-intruder-hacking-distro-download-features/ (https://fossbytes.com/parrot-3-9-intruder-hacking-distro-download-features/)

DDoS Attacks Become More Frequent, with Linux Dominating

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-attacks-more-frequent/ (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-attacks-more-frequent/)

LibreOffice 5.3.7 Is the Last in the Series, End of Life Set for November 26

http://news.softpedia.com/news/libreoffice-5-3-7-is-the-last-in-the-series-end-of-life-set-for-november-26-518353.shtml (http://news.softpedia.com/news/libreoffice-5-3-7-is-the-last-in-the-series-end-of-life-set-for-november-26-518353.shtml)

IoTroop/Reaper: A Massive Botnet Cyberstorm Is Coming To Take Down The Internet

https://fossbytes.com/iotroop-reaper-botnet-attack/ (https://fossbytes.com/iotroop-reaper-botnet-attack/)

New project from The Linux Foundation hopes to make AI tools more accessible

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-project-linux-foundation-hopes-make-ai-tools-accessible/ (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-project-linux-foundation-hopes-make-ai-tools-accessible/)

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Intro: “Weapons” – Cory Gray

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News Beeps – johnnytal

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Ubuntu drum – Canonical

Thank you to everyone that participated in my Social Media Experiment from Facebook to Twitter we have some movement on the potential 1GB internet connection. More on this as I find out but there appears to be a very small chance to make it happen. A great batch of news on today’s show and some soapbox time to get you all fired up.

You have heard me talk about proximity beacons. I know now how to do it with minimal investment! This course (http://584e7cm5-druvn32pyq8f61x3i.hop.clickbank.net/) that I endorse and have used successfully is the gateway to deploying proximity beacons for Android.

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Show Notes:

* How to keep kids entertained  (https://offspring.lifehacker.com/9-ways-to-keep-kids-entertained-during-a-long-airport-d-1820246991)

* 100 mile electric school bus (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/daimler-unveils-100-mile-electric-school-bus/)

* DJI Mavic Pro (https://www.cnet.com/news/get-a-dji-mavic-pro-with-remote-for-699/)

* Apple Music (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-apple-music-personal-itunes-music-collection/)

* Best Buy Black Friday (https://www.cnet.com/pictures/best-black-friday-2017-deals-at-best-buy/)

* Your therapist will text you now (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/09/your-therapist-will-text-you-now/)

* Monitor your home’s energy use (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/monitor-energy-use-smart-gadgets/)

* Easily breached messaging apps (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/09/researchers-find-hundreds-of-easily-breached-messaging-apps/)

* T-Mobile LTE (https://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobiles-lte-advanced-network-now-live-over-920-markets)

* Millennium Falcon on Google Earth (https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-fans-spot-millennium-falcon-parked-on-google-earth/)

* Chrome (https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16617794/chrome-redirect-blocking-announced-google)

* Ford will launch a new brand of electric cars (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/11/ford-is-going-to-launch-a-new-brand-of-electric-cars-just-for-china/)

* Mobile app errors (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-mobile-vulnerability/mobile-app-errors-expose-data-on-180-million-phones-security-firm-idUSKBN1D91ZA?il=0)

* Waymo (https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/258729-waymo-now-testing-autonomous-vehicles-without-human-safety-drivers)

* The perfect mobile Solitaire (https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16629238/flip-flop-solitaire-iphone-zach-gage)

* iPhone 7 is most sold smartphone  (http://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-7-is-most-sold-smartphone-in-q3-while-iphone-8-plus-leads-iphone-8/)

* YouTube (https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16629788/youtube-kids-distrubing-inappropriate-flag-age-restrict)

* Android security audit (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3012630/android/android-security.html)

* Apple Pay Cash (https://www.macworld.com/article/3236545/ios/apple-pay-cash-guide-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-what-it-costs.html)

* Whole Foods (https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16630788/amazon-black-friday-whole-foods-echo-dot-plus-kindle-fire-tv)

* Shift  (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/09/shift-makes-buying-a-car-as-easy-as-ordering-a-pizza/)

* Logitech will brick all Harmony Link devices (https://www.engadget.

Outlook password problem, Synology Sync, Disable OneDrive, UptimeRobot, Win10 update problem

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* Our 85th installment:

* We discuss Apple latest “controversial” PR move

* Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net)

* Matt Alexander on Apple PR move (https://one37.net/blog/31/10/2017/pr)

* Daptone Records (http://daptonerecords.com/home/)

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In this podcast (http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode167/rfhpc167StudentClusterPreview.mp3), the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition (http://sc17.supercomputing.org/studentssc/student-cluster-competition/)."In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble a small cluster on the exhibit floor and race to complete a real-world workload across a series of applications and impress HPC industry judges." Dan's got the inside scoop on all the new wrinkles of the competition this year, where 16 international student teams will go head-to-head. There's an all high school squad from Indiana, returning champs from China, and an all-new cloud computing component utilizing Cycle Computing on Azure.After that, we do our Catch of the Week.Download the MP3 (http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode167/rfhpc167StudentClusterPreview.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/-90secVwte4)