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| Playing Whack-A-Troll | |
| Number | 2813 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 19, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 42:31 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Patrick Beja |
Online harassment is not new, so why haven’t we learned how to deal with it better? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Top Stories
- Microsoft’s Q4 earnings beat Street with $22.6B in revenue, $0.69 EPS
- Request to verify an account
- BlackBerry Inks Software Deal With U.S. Senate
- Microsoft earnings came in above expectations, Twitter will now let anyone applied to be verified at support.twitter.com/forms/verify. BlackBerry won a contract to supply crisis communication software to the U.S. Senate’s chief security service. Now here are some more top stories.
- In what must feel like the movie GroundHog Day for those involved, Judge Daniela Barbosa Assunção de Souza in the state of Rio de Janeiro has ordered an indefinite suspension of WhatsAPP for failing to provide data as ordered. WhatsAPP says the data is not stored on its servers. It has won two previous appeals based on this fact. Reuters notes Brazil's attorney general believes judges are incorrectly interpreting a 2014 law meant to provide a legal framework for the Internet.
- Social network Snapchat and personal emoji maker Bitmoji announced a partnership in a blog post earlier today. Snapchat users can now use custom stickers from bitmoji in both snaps and chat. To participate, users must have or create a Bitmoji account, then link it to their Snapchat account.
- Bloomberg reports that on the strength of consumer demand for Pokemon Go, Nintendo's market capitalization rose to $39.8 billion in early trading this morning. Significantly, this represents a doubling of the companies value, and pushes the company's market value past Sony Corp. Additionally, the game is scheduled to launch in Japan on July 20th, along with a trial of sponsored gym locations, in partnership with McDonalds. John Russell at TechCrunch reports that further launches in Asia will come in the next two weeks.
- Submitted by spsheridan
- Seagate announced the availability of a new hard drive in their Barracuda Pro line, toping out capacity at 10TB. The platter-based mechanical hard drive is aimed at network and surveillance storage. The new drive will retail for $535.
- Submitted by macwinuxit
- Former St. Louis Cardinals baseball scouting director Christopher Correa has been sentenced to 46 months in jail for accessing the Houston Astros baseball team's email and database to look at confidential information. He was also fined $279,038. He pleaded guilty to five violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He gained access by guessing the password of a former Cardinals employee who worked for the Astros and used similar passwords in both places. The Cardinals fired Correa last year after the allegations surfaced.
- Starting later this year, Salesforce will only offer support for the Android version of its Salesforce1 app to users of Google Nexus or Samsung Galaxy devices. Recode notes in support documents Salesforce writes that, "we are targeting our support to a select number of Android devices to continue improving our overall Salesforce1 for Android user experience." User's of unsupported Android devices can download and install the app, but they won't get bug fixes or support.
- Submitted by motang
Discussion
- The threats and abuse outspoken Pakistani women receive
- Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones hits back at 'crazy' and 'sick' racist abuse
Pick of the Day
- I've been doing a lot of trip planning lately, and for a long time I'd been a fan of searching flights with Kayak.com. I've also used Hipmunk and many of the other major sites.
But I just discovered that when you enter an airport code like JFK into Google you get a list of flights and airfares!
You can also go to google.com/flights
It's incredible how much faster it is than any other site, and it has a very clean, easy to read layout.
To purchase a plane ticket you simply click the button and you're taken directly to that flight on the airline's site.
Someday maybe Google will have self-flying planes. Until then, this is a handy & speedy option. - Submitted by Philip Shane
- I've been doing a lot of trip planning lately, and for a long time I'd been a fan of searching flights with Kayak.com. I've also used Hipmunk and many of the other major sites.
Messages
- On yesterday’s show you and Lamarr were talking about the cost options for watching the upcoming Star Trek series. If you bought the episodes on iTunes in HD for $2.99 at four per month that would be about $12.00 per month. If you bought them in SD at $1.99 that would be about $8.00 per month. You might get a slight discount for purchasing the series but it is usually not too much. Seems like the $6.00 for CBS All Access is likely an okay deal by comparison. I am sure there are going to be other options but just doing a little math this morning for fun!
Thanks as always for the great content. - Sent by Russell
- On yesterday’s show you and Lamarr were talking about the cost options for watching the upcoming Star Trek series. If you bought the episodes on iTunes in HD for $2.99 at four per month that would be about $12.00 per month. If you bought them in SD at $1.99 that would be about $8.00 per month. You might get a slight discount for purchasing the series but it is usually not too much. Seems like the $6.00 for CBS All Access is likely an okay deal by comparison. I am sure there are going to be other options but just doing a little math this morning for fun!
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