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| Legally Binding Mug | |
| Number | 2650 |
| Broadcast Date | DECEMBER 21, 2015 |
| Episode Length | 38:53 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Veronica Belmont, Jon Schiefer |
Wanted to see a convincing hacker movie? Jon Schiefer made Algorithm for just that reason. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt talk to him about his movie, hacker portrayals on TV and film, and using the Internet to distribute a movie.
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Headlines
- Microsoft will buy Ray Ozzie’s Boston Startup Talko for an undisclosed amount. According to Fortune Talko specializes in smartphone based workgroup collaboration letting team members know when they’re online, retain audio and notes from meetings and improve voice quality. The technology will live on in Skype. In an email response Ozzie has said he would not re-join Microsoft but Talko’s SF, Seattle and Boston teams will. Ozzie was CTO and then chief software architect at Microsoft from 2005 to 2010. He first joined Microsoft when the company acquired his computer-assisted collaboration startup, Groove Networks.
- CBS’s TV program 60 Minutes showed portions of an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook Sunday. Cook defended his stance against weakening encryption saying, “…if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys.” Adding “I don’t believe that the trade-off here is privacy versus national security. I think that’s an overly simplistic view. We’re America. We should have both. Cook also defended his company’s overseas tax practices and the use of Chinese companies for manufacturing.
- Toshiba will cut 7,800 jobs as part of a major “revitilization action plan.” The majority of affected employees work in the consumer electronics division. Toshiba projects a $4.5 billion dollar loss for the fiscal year ending in March. The company was found to have declared $1.2 billion in false profit. CEO Hisao Tanaka stepped down July 21.
- Submitted by ebridges
- Reuters reports Ericsson and Apple signed a seven year patent license deal. The deal will cover 2G and 4G technology used in Apple devices and ends the legal battle around payments between the two after the previous deal expired at the beginning of 2015. Both companies have agreed to work together on developing 5G technology.
- Pew Research Center’s latest survey of people in the US finds the percentage of residents with home broadband connections has dropped from 70% to 67%, the same percentage the country had in 2012. 13% are smartphone-only when it comes to Internet up from 8% in 2013. 33% cite cost as the main reason for not having broadband at home.
In the same study, 15% say they have become cord-cutters and 9% never subscribed for a total of 24% without cable or satellite.
- Pew Research Center’s latest survey of people in the US finds the percentage of residents with home broadband connections has dropped from 70% to 67%, the same percentage the country had in 2012. 13% are smartphone-only when it comes to Internet up from 8% in 2013. 33% cite cost as the main reason for not having broadband at home.
- Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away. Techcrunch notes that on Monday Facebook began to support Live Photos, with support rolling out over the next couple weeks to users of its iOS app. Any user running iOS9 will be able to view them. And The Guardian notes Facebook has switched all video to HTML 5 ending its use of Flash to show video. Facebook continues to support flash-based games.
- Co-author of XML, Tim Bray has suggested a new error code for webpages that have been blocked for legal reasons. Instead of a 403 error which just says that access is forbidden, viewers of censored pages would receive a 451 error, a reference to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The Internet Engineering Steering Group has approved it for use though there’s still a bit more work to be done to finalize.
- Engadget has a post from Sunday noting that the first website went online 25 years ago December 20th, 1990, internally at CERN. Public access was not allowed until the following August 6th, 1991.
- Submitted by spsheridan
- TechCrunch’s Jon Russell points out an interesting move by Canadian messaging app maker Kik that could be a sign of an emerging trend. Kik is buying Blynk, maker of a chat bot about style on Kik’s platform. Russell points out that several successful services are showing up on TenCent’s WeChat platform and even raising money without having a website or app of their own.
- The Telegraph reports Spotify Premium will replace Rdio as my car’s music partner in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong. The service is free in the car but the account will not work outside the vehicle. Existing Premium Spotify accounts can be linked to the vehicle.
Discussion
- ALGORITHM — BXI
- ALGORITHM: The Hacker Movie
- Algorithm - Trailer
- hacker movies - Google Search
- ThE BeSt HaCkiNg & CoMpUTeR GeeK MoViEs
- Subreddit questions
Pick of the Day
- Quick pick of the day for you. I was looking for training materials for some CompTIA certifications at my local library and found out that my Library has a relationship with Lynda.com. I log in to Lynda via my Library’s site to set up an account using my Library card and voila, access to all the Lynda training I need for FREE. Totally cool service by my Library, and by Lynda. I don’t know how prevalent this is, but check you local Library before you plunk down your hard earned cash for online training!!
Keep up the good work, - Submitted by Andy from CT
- Quick pick of the day for you. I was looking for training materials for some CompTIA certifications at my local library and found out that my Library has a relationship with Lynda.com. I log in to Lynda via my Library’s site to set up an account using my Library card and voila, access to all the Lynda training I need for FREE. Totally cool service by my Library, and by Lynda. I don’t know how prevalent this is, but check you local Library before you plunk down your hard earned cash for online training!!
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