News

Christmas lights might be slowing down your Wi-Fi

Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions

The battle for Internet freedom isn’t over yet

Plummeting SSD prices are quickly closing in on traditional hard drives

Patent trolls filed hundreds of lawsuits to beat Dec. 1 deadline

Bite of the Apple

Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack on iPhone 7 With All-in-One Lightning Connector

Amazon looking to release Amazon Video app for tvOS in a “few weeks”

Rumor: Apple experimenting with a least five different iPhone 7 configurations, could replace Lightning port with USB-C port

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WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HAVE A ROBOT ANSWER ALL OF MY EMAILS FOR A WEEK

Chevy’s all-electric 2017 Bolt spied ahead of January debut

ME SCOOTER

A Better Way to Carry Keys?

Weird Science

‘Alien megastructures’ orbiting distant star are most likely comets, as expected

Inside (literally) wind turbines meant to work at the South Pole—and Mars

News

GOOGLE HAS THE DATA TO MAKE BLACK FRIDAY A BIT EASIER

The new Star Wars is rated PG-13 for gratuitous use of things you will watch no matter what

FBI reportedly tracks ‘biggest hack ever’ back to Russian email address

Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos

Dell’s Tumble, Google’s Fumble, And How Government Sabotage Of Internet Security Works

Online shopping keeps Americans from losing their tempers, survey says

Li-Fi has just been tested in the real world, and it’s 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

Bite of the Apple

Apple eyeing OLED screens for the iPhone in 2018, report says

Apple Pencil Teardown Reveals Antenna, Battery and Tiny Folded Logic Board

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OWC Thunderbolt 2 Drive Dock allows for up to 522MB/s read speed

Airbus’ detachable cabin concept could save you time at the airport

A Skeptic’s Guide to Buying (or Not Buying) a 4K TV

TV dinners: 25 shows to binge-watch this Thanksgiving weekend

Ideal Gifts: Chromecast Audio lets old speakers tap into Spotify, Pandora and more

New ‘Krampus’ Featurette Dives Into The Folklore

Weird Science

President signs pro-asteroid mining bill into law

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Heading to ISS in 2017

Dwight Silverman sat in on this episode and we had a call-in review of the iPad Pro by friend of the show Jim Thompson. In the second hour there was an in depth discussion of whether Apple is getting on the wrong track.

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News

After Paris, Encryption Will Be a Key Issue in the 2016 Race

Anonymous: We’ll wipe ISIS off the Internet

Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations

Here’s a Spy Firm’s Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques

Bite of the Apple

Dwight’s Apple TV Review

iPad 2015 Display Technology Shoot-Out

Recent Tim Cook comments state that Apple won’t combine MacBook and iPad

Early Apple Pencil orders in the U.S. move closer to shipment

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Moog Theremini

Cocoon Innovations Graphite 15″ Backpack

Fiskars’s Reengineered Hammer and Machete

Weird Science

Experimental Alzheimer’s drug also seems to slow ageing

Extinct cave lion cubs discovered in Siberia after 12,000 years on ice

Our special guests for the November 11 show were former co-host Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle and “Sci Guy” Eric Berger. If you are interested in Houston weather, check out his blog at Space City Weather

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News

User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected

Vizio smart TVs track what you watch, sell the behavior data

What happened to all the Star Trek hair? Shatner didn’t take all of it home, did he?

Bluetooth’s 2016 roadmap: Whole-home coverage, mesh networking, and faster speeds

Bite of the Apple

iPhone Unlikely to Adopt AMOLED Display in Foreseeable Future

Apple announces iPad Pro availability via online store this Wednesday, November 11th

New Apple TV wants to be more than just a streaming box (but it isn’t yet)

Dwight’s review: Apple TV

iPad Pro Tidbits: A9X Outperforms MacBook, Apple Pencil is Weighted, T-Mobile Financing and More

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12 New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Could Be Coming… For $5.5 Million

The Latest Trend Among Biohackers Is Implanting LED Lights Beneath Your Skin

COLORWARE IPHONE 6S RETRO

Surgical simulators get Hollywood special effects

Weird Science

The world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor is about to switch on

Tesla is working on an electric motor that lasts a million miles

Rocky Earth-sized exoplanet found orbiting a nearby red dwarf star

News

CBS Does Have A Star Trek Series In The Works

New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

Comcast’s attempt to bash Google Fiber backfires

Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages

Elon Musk: Tesla May Limit Autopilot Because People Are Idiots

Trojanized Android apps flood third-party stores, compromise phones

vBulletin password hack fuels fears of serious Internet-wide 0-day attacks

Bite of the Apple

Somebody Just Claimed a $1 Million Bounty for Hacking the iPhone

Apple Patents Switch-Less Force Touch Keyboard, Could Lead to Thinner Macs

Rumor: iPhone 7 to feature 3 GB of RAM, A10 processor

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Lego Minimoog Synthesizers kits

SENNHEISER ORPHEUS HEADPHONES

Motorola Droid Turbo 2

Google Inbox will reply to e-mails for you with machine learning

Weird Science

Watch the Sun Erupt in a Symphony of Solar Storms

Archeologists just discovered a giant graveyard of Greek shipwrecks

News

These researchers have discovered the perfect password that’s also easy to remember

The runaway blimp has been grounded 

Turns Out Police Stingray Spy Tools Can Indeed Record Calls

Chinese hackers targeted an insurer to learn about US health care

SXSW MAY HOST A DAY-LONG EVENT ON ONLINE HARASSMENT

Congressman doubles down, accuses NOAA scientists of doctoring results

Joomla bug puts millions of websites at risk of remote takeover hacks

Bite of the Apple

You’ll be able to buy the Apple TV in stores this Friday

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Tea with Jean-Luc Picard

Forget Standing Desks: Are You Ready to Lie Down and Work?

Google’s Frightgeist Can Help You Pick an Original Halloween Costume

Chase announces Chase Pay payment system, will be modeled off MCX’s CurrentC method

100 DEADLY SKILLS

Picobrew takes a stab at automated counter-top homebrew beer

Samsung’s absurdly large Galaxy View tablet is official

Review: Ubiquiti UniFi made me realize how terrible consumer Wi-Fi gear is

Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed: Surprisingly, it doesn’t suck

Weird Science

The Future of Dieting Is Personalized Algorithms Based on Your Gut Bacteria

Russia announces plans to send humans to the Moon in 2029

Astronomers make a remarkable discovery in the center of the Milky Way

News

New zero-day exploit hits fully patched Adobe Flash

Phishing websites look more legit with SSL certs from major companies

Surface Book pre-orders sell out on Microsoft’s site

Hackers siphon off $31 million from British bank accounts

French researchers have figured out a way to hack Siri from 16 feet away — without saying a word

Bite of the Apple

New iMac and Magic Accessories Tidbits: ‘Then and Now’, Automatic Pairing, Fast Charging and More

Apple announces 21.5-inch Retina iMac with 4K display, better color gamut

Apple goes all-Retina for its 27-inch Skylake iMac refresh

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INKCASE – iPhone 6 case

Tesla’s Cars Now Drive Themselves, Kinda

Weird Science

Thousands of Nasa Apollo mission photos uploaded online

Hubble’s 4K images prove Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking

The Best Way To Make it to Mars? Go Back to the Moon.