When Technology Becomes Boring
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| When Technology Becomes Boring | |
| Number | 2732 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 10, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 47:37 |
| Hosts | Peter Wells |
| Guests | James Croft |
Peter Wells and James Croft discuss the news, contactless payments, Twitter and the NFL, and Telstra’s Dataman.
Guest
Headlines
- Facebook is worried you're just not oversharing like you used to. You don't write, you don't call, it's like you don't even care about Facebook. Internally, Facebook are discussing the "context collapse", the idea that Facebook users aren't sharing personal details like births, deaths, break ups, and political views like they once were, instead those personal moments are heading to Snapchat and Instagram.
- TechCrunch is reporting on a new service that is Uber, but for Women. The new service is called Chariot, and it will be a women only service, from women riders to women passengers. The idea is to increase safety for women using the service - but it does just stop at the gender of passenger and driver. Added on to the feature is a kind of 'two fac' authentication, for driver and passenger to know the person they're about to share a ride with is the person who booked the ride. The service is kicking off in Boston, with more cities to follow.
- GroupLens discussed the very real issue of miscommunication happening when different emojis are sent across platforms. As you know, the adorable fat Android emoji that can best be deceived as "I've been a cheeky person" translates onto iOS as "what on earth was that." This is one of the many reasons my wife and I use Telegram - it has standardised on iOS emoji across the platforms. Although a really miss the fat little Android guys.
- SpaceX has successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket onto an unmaned drone in the sea, just to show off. Why is SpaceX going to all the trouble of trying to land a rocket on a tiny little platform out at sea? Because the more successful hard landings they pull off, the cheaper they can make Space flight overall. Traditional rockets are not recycled, just used as boosters to get the passenger object into space.
Catch Up Stories
- National Football League and Twitter Announce Streaming Partnership for Thursday Night Football
- Real users don’t care about Apple Pay and contactless mobile payments
- Australia leads the way for contactless ownership and usage
Discussion
- Finally in Australia this week we had a weird story centering around Dataman. But let's take a step back first. Over the last few weeks, put largest mobile telco - think either Verizon or AT&T, whichever one you hate the most, has had a bunch of outages in their network. To make up for that, Telstra offered a free data day, where any Telstra customer could download as much data as they wanted and it wouldn't count toward their cap. There first free data day was a few weeks back, and Dataman made some heals ones by grabbing around 450gb over 4G.
Sunday Stars
- Peter's Star
- James' Star
Links
| Preceded by: "Kill this Bill" |
When Technology Becomes Boring |
Followed by: "Why People Won’t Shut Up About VR" |