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 […]

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, […]

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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]