Episode 173: An Internet of Fools
Notnerd Podcast: Tech Better
English - April 03, 2019 11:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTech News News Comedy apple iphone notnerd smartphone tablet tech technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dave is back in the studio and shares how technology made his trip a little better. We also cover what little tech news there was over the week and way too many security stories to get caught up on. We finish up with some great picks of the week and a fancy random Amazon purchase of the week.
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Show Notes and Links:
Dave's California trip - glif (00:30) Microsoft bans April Fools pranks (05:10) Microsoft official designates 1809 is ready for broad deployment (06:45) Apple announcement follow-up - new AirPods (07:40) Apple cancels AirPower project (13:15) Stash raises money, expanding programs - Our sign up a link for Stash (16:00) Dave’s Pro Tip of the Week: Quickly send location in Messages (17:55) Google launches a hotel search site (20:30) Nintendo could launch two new consoles this year (23:20) Amazon Prime customers get 12 months of Nintendo Switch online (26:00) Care.com removes nearly 50,000 unverified listings (27:30) Mobile time spent jumps up, YouTube at 40% (29:10) Security/Privacy: Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text (32:05) Google killed 2.3 billion ‘bad ads’ in 2018 (33:40) Researchers find a critical flaw in Swiss online voting system (35:15) Hackers hijack Asus system updates (37:00) Bonus Odd Take: Best toys of Toy Fair 2019 (40:10) Picks of the Week: Dave: Nintendo Switch (42:10) Nate: Vectornator (44:25) Random Amazon purchase (47:10) Leave an iTunes Review and be featured on the Podcast Support Notnerd on Patreon and get cool stuff As always, thank you for listening!
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