luckily for you this episode contains no star wars spoilers
baby yoda dies no that's not true i hope it's not true
photos of samsung's follow-up to the galaxy fold have leaked on chinese social media site weibo showing a phone
that's about the same size and shape as a galaxy s10 but that folds in half
check it out guys what the flip there's a hole punch camera on the inside
display and a small display on the outside next to dual rear facing cameras
the design is very similar to the foldable razer that motorola finally
unveiled a couple months ago speaking of which motorola just delayed the razer so
it won't launch on january 9th as expected the delays
hey man how do you do it smart brain it's a
i got a good brain the company says higher than expected demand and limited
supply was the reason for the delay but i don't know delaying folding phones might just be a
tradition at this point because it's so awesome everybody wants it yeah
we can't give it to you now then you'll like it too much the new york times has
published a massive terrifying expose on phone tracking basically the report
shows that a dozen or so companies track individual phones and have access to
tens of millions of people's precise location all the time the practice is
apparently legal thanks to a couple loopholes but there's virtually no
regulation overseeing it the investigation led to the identification
of senior government officials celebrities journalists and more based
on patterns of location data for instance by following a marker that goes
from a residential address to a work address you can figure out who that is
pretty easily like who else goes from the tackling sect some apartment
to my desk no the times laid out a few steps people
can take to avoid being tracked including disabling location tracking on
your phone duh and on google as well opting out of
personalized ads and using a trustworthy vpn also an option becoming a sad old
hermit and moving to live on an island on an uncharted planet even though
that's a train anyone yeah even though that's not your character at all i'm
sorry dang and ring cameras are again in the spotlight as another hacking
incident saw a weirdo use a camera's speaker to verbally harass a california
woman in her home the woman heard a man's voice asking yo what's up what's
up baby exactly how's your day yeah
before asking her to show him some blanks show me those blanks yeah she's
got huge blankets stop it he then reportedly set off her
home alarm system what's really terrifying here though is the fact that
the homeowners were only alerted to the intrusion because the hacker said
something they could have been in the system for a while and you just don't
know they're there because they're not talking to you ring says that this incident as well as one last week where
a man spoke to a little girl in her room are being caused by the use of bad
passwords but then it was reported that a set of login information for as many
as 3 600 users had leaked ring says that
they did not suffer a data breach and that hackers were most likely able to
log in because their users reused passwords from other services that had
already been breached before so i guess all this goes to show if you're buying a
security camera for your house use a strong password and two-factor
authentication we need no password an original one unique one used like a
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quick bits of hold on to
yes that's it stop facebook has had enough of this cooperation and sharing business
so they're making their own operating system from scratch with the eventual
goal of replacing the Android-based systems on oculus and the company's
future ar devices in otherwise unrelated news the tech giant also just acquired
cloud gaming startup play giga so it looks like facebook will be joining
google microsoft NVIDIA and sony and offering cloud gaming services of some
kind but in case this made you want to use facebook products careful a database
was just left exposed on the web containing more than 267 million
facebook user ids phone numbers and names there we go
that's our facebook this morning boeing launched the first test flight of their
starliner spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to orbit
in luxury but something went wrong with the timer there's a timer on these
things and it didn't reach the orbit necessary to make it to the international space station if they go
below 60 miles an hour
they're never going to make it back to this time
keanu what is in speed i thought you were talking about back to
the future well some satellites from apple are set to join starliner up there
because at bloomberg reports said the company is hiring software hardware and
aerospace engineers to build satellites that could send data directly to apple
devices without having to go through regular wi-fi or cellular networks so
bbm so it's bb-8 yeah iphone users will get
blessed official apple goodness straight from the heavens
and the spirit of jody ive will look down
and smile honda is apparently planning to show off a steering wheel for
autonomous cars with simplified controls since it's what is it just no steering
wheel at all
look it's a steering wheel you'll be able to
pat it twice to start the car pull it to slow down and push it and push to
accelerate seems cut
bop it you're driving drive it and an it
worker in pennsylvania was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 7 500
for planting logic bombs in projects he
designed tweaked bits of code that would cause malfunctions periodically which he
would then get called in to fix but here's a logic bomb for you
if disney never bought star wars would the movies have been good
uh have you seen the people that's a good point look i'm sorry we're
gonna go record our podcast now so i can get star wars out of my system but next
week is a special week we're out of the office we'll still have videos on monday
wednesday and friday they'll just be extra special so make sure you tune in
to catch those and that's it
see you later is that star wars
yeah i'm just a tone deaf you're not tone deaf you can sing