It’s About Chain Gangs
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| It’s About Chain Gangs | |
| Number | 2789 |
| Broadcast Date | JUNE 19, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 37:06 |
| Hosts | Peter Wells |
| Guests | Tom Merritt, Justin Gibson |
A look back at WWDC, E3, and the headlines of the week.
Guest
Discussion
- E3 Recap
- WWDC Recap
Top Stories
- Guevara, the little Aussie music streaming start up we mentioned last show, has had their IPO blocked by the Australian Stock Exchange. The ASX issued a letter to Guvera late Friday stating: "We write to advise that the ASX has exercised its discretion to refuse the applicant admission to the official list." The exact reasons for the refusal have not been detailed to the media with the ASX saying "the specific reasons remain confidential". "The ASX must be satisfied that a company is appropriate to be listed on ASX and can exercise its discretion to refuse admission even where a company otherwise satisfies all of the specific conditions for admission," the letter stated.
- Mashable has a detailed story on the fall of tumblr. While the article's headline suggests it's all to do with the very uncool Yahoo buying the totes cool Tumblr, the meat of the article may reveal the real story - competition. Quote "In short, Tumblr is no longer the hot new thing for consumers -- or marketers. Kyle Bunch, a longtime Tumblr user and head of social at ad agency R/GA, says “the rise of Snapchat” has “forced Tumblr down the priority ladder” for brands. "With so many different platforms and new things emerging and clients coming to us asking, 'How do I do Snapchat better?' or 'Should I be thinking about Medium?' Tumblr has got to find its sweet spot and I just don’t know that it totally has a clear one," he says."
- The Verge has a great story on a theft that occurred in the Ethereum cryptocurrency network - the theft has been detected and stopped, but the money has yet to be recovered. "This morning, users of the Ethereum cryptocurrency woke up to some very alarming news. Someone was trying out a new attack on one of the currency’s biggest and richest institutions, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO. The DAO holds immense cash reserves, and someone had figured out a way to drain out $53 million." As with most cryptocurrency stories, I read and reread the story a few times, and still have no idea what the hell happened.
- Submitted by KiwiRed-IARH
- PC Gamer reports that Videogame streaming service Twitch has taken the unusual step of not just banning bots from its service, but taking the bot makers themselves to court. Twitch has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of "view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots" designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts of Twitch streamers. Bots are a “persistent frustration,” Marketing SVP Matthew DiPietro wrote in a blog post announcing the action, that “have created a very real problem that has damaging effects across our entire community.” “Defendants offer bot services intended to deceive Twitch into believing that broadcasters are more popular than they really are. Defendants claim that their services will artificially inflate broadcasters' viewership to make their channels appear higher in directories and trick Twitch into accepting broadcasters into the Partnership Program, with its promise of additional revenue,” it says. “These deceptive actions inflate viewer statistics for some channels while harming legitimate broadcaster channels by decreasing their discoverability. That, in turn, hurts the quality of the experience community members have come to expect from Twitch.”
- Submitted by habichuelacondulce
- According to Buzzfeed, a the last quarterly meeting of the Unicode consortium, the group of companies that determine what emoji appear on our smartphones, the already coded and approved rifle emoji has been cancelled. According to sources in the meeting, Apple and Microsoft requested the rifle not be approved for Unicode 9.0, and the decision was agreed unanimously by the Unicode consortium.
- Last year, NASA casually announced its intention to disrupt the aviation industry by sticking fully electric commercial passenger planes in the sky in 20 years. In a small step toward that goal, space agency director Charles Bolden has just announced plans for the X-57, the first all-electric addition to the famous X-plane series. Engineers and hobbyists have been tinkering with electric aviation for years, but the idea has gained some real momentum recently, with companies like Boeing and Airbus launching dedicated research programs into hybrid-electric and electric propulsion. The futuristic dream everybody’s chasing is an alternative to the roaring, fuel-guzzling commercial jets of today, which constitute a significant and fast-growing source of carbon pollution.
Pick of the Day
- Submitted by Peter
- Submitted by Justin
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