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Technology Bytes Links – Dec 07, 2016

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

News SSD Prices Skyrocket As NAND Shortage Deepens, HDD Shortage Looms As Components Become Scarce Fitbit Buyout Will See Pebble’s Time 2 and Core Wearables Canceled, Refunds Issued New super batteries could charge phones in seconds and electric cars in minutes New Bluetooth devices will have faster speeds and longer range Millions exposed to malvertising […]

Try, Buy or Fry? December 6, 2016

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

What do you think of this? LED Imitation steampunk bulbs coming to your hipster coffee shop soon Photo: Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 Do you have any suggestions for News, Try,Buy or Fry items, or a call in discussion? Comment below or email news@geekradio.com and we’ll see about adding it to this weeks’s  show!

Technology Bytes Links – Nov 23, 2016

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016

News Hackers Were Stealing Credit Card Data From Madison Square Garden for Almost a Year Be very skeptical of stolen election claims Presidential Medal of Freedom awards go to top computer scientists Hacked or Not, Audit This Election (And All Future Ones) Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You   Bite of the […]

Technology Bytes Links – Nov 16, 2016

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

News The next big hacking threat is already happening—you just can’t see it Wickedly Clever USB Stick Installs a Backdoor on Locked PCs Millennials wearing Snapchat Spectacles could be a privacy disaster   Bite of the Apple Rumor: AirPods could hit the shelves come December in limited quantities Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pros sport new AMD […]

Technology Bytes Links – Nov 02, 2016

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

News The future of PCs and Macs is expensive Soylent recalls another product amid gastrointestinal mayhem Microsoft to fix Windows flaw exploited by hackers Dell hints at its take on a Surface Studio-like creative PC   Bite of the Apple The cheapest MacBook Pro comes with a user-replacable SSD Apple Says It’s Out of the […]

Technology Bytes Links – Oct 26, 2016

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

News Google Fiber division cuts staff by 9%, “pauses” fiber plans in 10 cities Google Pixel cameras are experiencing excessive lens flare Refreshing your browser made that huge DDoS attack seem much worse Friday’s DDoS attack came from 100,000 infected devices Mr. Robot’s Mobile Hacking Go Bag   Bite of the Apple Apple Said to […]

Technology Bytes Links – Sep 28, 2016

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

News 802.3bz – faster NbaseT on existing cat-5e/6/7 cables ‘No Man’s Sky’ is being investigated for false advertising Feds: Beware of Samsung’s Exploding Washing Machines   Bite of the Apple Fix your headphone dongles with iOS 10.0.2 Echoes of Amazon as Apple reportedly pursues standalone Siri device Apple Likely Aiming for Late October Launch of […]

Technology Bytes Links – Sep 21, 2016

Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

The Argument Sketch using Old School Speech Synthesizers News Why Is American Internet So Slow? HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse T-Mobile’s 5G speed is mind-bogglingly faster than Verizon AT&T reveals AirGig: multi-gigabit wireless broadband that uses power lines Here’s how small the North Korean Internet is   As […]

Technology Bytes Links – Sep 14, 2016

Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

News bruce schneier scares the internet The World’s Most Sophisticated ATM Skimmers Are Starting to Appear in America iPhone 7 Lines Start Growing Ahead of Friday’s Launch New York: Don’t use your Galaxy Note 7 on the subway Apple releases watchOS 3 update Star Trek: Discovery Has Been Delayed Until May 2017 The Feds Will […]

Technology Bytes Links – Sep 07, 2016

Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

News Project Ara’s death is bad news for the weird side of Google AT&T Squeezes Net Neutrality With Free Ride For DirecTV The iPhone 7: More Camera, More Colors, Less Headphone Jack Apple Watch Series 2 Improves a Tick With GPS Why quantum computing has the cybersecurity world white-knuckled Trump Finally Says Something Coherent About […]