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Headline: People Just Read Headlines
Number 2803
Broadcast Date JULY 7, 2016
Episode Length 42:23
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

You get your news from social media but should you? Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss why you’d be better off to change your news habits and why you won’t.

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Top Stories

macOS Sierra and iOS 10 betas are coming from Apple today at beta.apple.com here are some more top stories.
Android Police reports its sources say Google building two Android Wear devices for release after the next wave of Nexus phones are announced. One watch codenamed Angelfish would have LTE and GPS and both would monitor heart rate and Google Assist integration. The smaller one is codenamed Swordfish.
Avast Software announced its intention to acquire AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion. Avast cited the need to scale their business into the Internet of Things market as a primary factor for the acquisition. The combined userbase of Avast and AVG will grow to 400 million endpoints, of which 160 million are mobile. An Avast spokeswoman confirmed the company will still keep the AVG brand.
Submitted by RenegadeUK
Starting July 11 Facebook will allow a small percentage of user in India to download video for offline viewing. Videos can only be viewed within the Facebook app and publishers can choose not to allow downloads.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Thursday morning that 11-year Microsoft veteran and COO Kevin Turner will leave the company. Turner will become CEO at Citadel Securities. Turner's job will be broken into five pieces. Turner had been a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO.
Submitted by lostpackit
Making the rounds is an unfortunately worded email from a Microsoft recruiter inviting people to an annual Silicon Valley party for interns. Words like 'bae' 'noms' and 'dranks' were written with seeming unfamiliarity of their usage. A Microsoft spokesperson told Gizmodo. “The email was poorly worded and not in keeping with our values as a company.
Audible launched a new service today called Channels which includes news and podcasts from the likes of the The New York Times Wall Street Journal and the Onion among others. Dan Savage is among hosts of exclusive podcasts on the new service. Channels is available to subscribers of Audible's audiobook plans or as a standalone service at $4.95 a month.
Mixed Martial Arts promoter UFC will offer an UltraHD 4K stream of its Saturday pay-per-view event in Canada and the US. Viewers will need a 2015 or 2016 Sony 4K Ultra HD TV and the UFC app and pay $60 Or if you have 4K service from DirecTV with access to channel 106 you pay $65.

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Tom,

Today's discussion of the electronic games reminded me of a situation that occurred where I worked in the 1970s. First of all, I found out very early that I am not cut out to play games that require hand eye coordination. In 1975, I hired in as a programmer at a facility who was a major producer of point of sale terminals. The big fad at the time was Pong. A small group decided they could make a clone of the game. They deigned the unit and were running it through the main production line of the facility. I don't know if they were doing it just for personal use or planning to sell int as a knock off. Needless to say, they were caught and everyone in the group was fired.
Sent by Bill Burlingame in Huntsville, AL


Charlene and a few others reminded us that Niantic, makers of Pokemon Go is also the company behind Ingresst Niantic to Ingress . Charlene says, "Pokeman Go has weird locations because they seeded the game with Ingress locations."
Sent by Charlene

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