Dan talks about a 10 year old boy who saved his grandmother and little brother with his Mario Kart skills, Apple's first significant Apple Watch updates, Apple's MacBook Pro with Force Touch, iPhone Lightening Dock, six men spend 520 days locked in a room to simulate life on Mars, a teen won $75,000 for inventing a way to keep germs from spreading around an airplane, tech giants not wanting Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data, and more.
Guest: Kevin Purdy(@kevinpurdy)
Links for this episode:
- A 10-year-old's Mario Kart skills help save his Great-Grandmother's life - SOBIFY
- Apple readies first significant Apple Watch updates, ’TVKit’ SDK for Apple TV | 9to5Mac
- Tech giants don’t want Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data - The Washington Post
- Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch | The Verge
- Behind Apple’s Move to Shelve TV Plans - WSJ
- A new way to discover Tweets | Twitter Blogs
We’re excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter’s unique, real-time content to Google’s search results. Starting today, U.S. users searching in English will see relevant Tweets in their search results within the Google app (iOS and Android) and mobile web. The desktop web version is coming shortly, and we have plans to bring this feature to more countries in the coming months. - iPhone Lightning Dock - Apple Store (U.S.)
- WooThemes Joins Automattic
- Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars | Motherboard
- Meet the teen who just won $75,000 for inventing a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes - The Washington Post
- The Narrative Clip 2 Camera Is Up For Pre-Order At $199 | TechCrunch
- HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers | Ars Technica
Tens of thousands of HTTPS-protected websites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services are vulnerable to a new attack that lets eavesdroppers read and modify data passing through encrypted connections, a team of computer scientists has found. - Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service - Bloomberg Business
Google Inc. is set to reveal an online picture sharing and storage service that will no longer be part of the Google social network, people familiar with the plans said. - The Google-Twitter Deal Goes Live, Giving Tweets Prominent Placement In Google's Results
The deal between Google and Twitter to bring more tweets into Google’s search results announced earlier this year is finally delivering on its promise. Google is now showing tweets in a new and more graphical way on mobile devices, with desktop promised soon. - LG Display unveils wallpaper OLED panel
The 55-inch wallpaper OLED panel, presented as one of the company's future displays at a media event, is only 0.97 mm thick, weighs 1.9 kg and can easily be stuck to a wall with a magnetic mat, or removed from it. - Microsoft looks to be building a new light-weight email app called Flow | ZDNet
Microsoft appears to be building an app for fast, light-weight, real-time conversations called Flow, which is likely to debut on iPhone, according to leaked information. - Proper Google Maps app appears on Android Wear via latest phone app update | Android Central
After updating to Google Maps version 9.9 on your phone — which brings a neat new transparent status bar and some navigation features — you may notice that there's an actual Google Maps app on your connected Android Wear watch as well. The launcher icon for Maps showed up on our LG Watch Urbane (which of course has the latest version of Android Wear) after simply re-syncing apps after the latest phone app install, and though it appeared to be broken at first, a couple of reboots later and we had a surprisingly full-featured Maps app ... on our watch. - Live from Spotify's New York press event - The Verge
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