89: Perhaps It's Easier to Get Snakes on a Plane
Podcast |
Supercharged
Publisher |
5by5
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
Jan 08, 2016
Episode Duration |
01:50:50
This week on Supercharged we’re talking about Apple’s portless future, the Time Warner hack, and fun new air travel laws! Questions or comments? Go to awkwardhuman.com/ask
This week on Supercharged we’re talking about Apple’s portless future, the Time Warner hack, and fun new air travel laws! Questions or comments? Go to awkwardhuman.com/ask

This week on Supercharged we’re talking about Apple’s portless future, the Time Warner hack, and fun new air travel laws! Questions or comments? Go to awkwardhuman.com/ask

Links for this episode:

  • Supercharged Podcast SubredditSoon to be the Awkward Human subreddit!
  • Reddit's Made an Actual Book of Its AMAs, But It'll Cost You $35Gizmodo: "This feels kind of wrong. Reddit has assembled a series of its best AMAs from the website into a real physical book, and it will gladly take $35 of your hard-earned dollars for a copy."
  • Remix OS is Android for the desktop, and it works with nearly any PCThe Verge: "Last year at CES, we mocked a company called Jide for creating a blatant Microsoft Surface clone. Well, this year they've come back with something new — and they've also returned much richer. See, between CES 2015 and today, Jide created a Kickstarter campaign for the Remix Mini, a $70 device that can run Android on any screen with an HDMI input. It took in $1.6 million."
  • Time Warner Cable Hacked, Change Your Passwords NowLifehacker: "Account information for over 320,000 Time Warner cable customers was stolen yesterday, mostly due to malware and phishing attacks on Time Warner partner companies. If you’re a subscriber, you know the drill: change your password now."
  • Supply Chain Rumors Reaffirm iPhone 7 Will Not Have Headphone JackMacRumors: "Six weeks ago, Japanese website Mac Otakara reported that Apple is planning to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7 in favor of an all-in-one Lightning connector for both connectivity and audio output."
  • T-Mobile CEO Responds to 'Binge On’ Controversy, Announces 14 New PartnersMacRumors: "T-Mobile CEO John Legere today wrote a letter in response to recent criticisms of the company's new free video streaming service "Binge On," claiming that the program does not permanently slow down data and that claims of throttling are just "playing semantics." Legere also reiterated the fact that users can opt out of the service at any time, and that anyone with the ability to access Binge On has "complete control" over the experience if they want higher than 480p resolution."
  • How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?NPR: "Recently, the rapper Jay Z relaunched the subscription streaming music service Tidal, which includes the option to listen to high-definition audio for $19.99 per month. Tidal's HiFi, with its uncompressed audio files, promises a better listening experience than any other streaming service on the market."
  • T-Mobile CEO John Legere got caught lying by the EFF, and now he’s totally losing itThe Verge: " Share on Facebook (459) Tweet Share (66) Pin The Electronic Frontier Foundation caught T-Mobile and its bombastic CEO John Legere in a huge lie, and instead of addressing the findings, Legere is quickly becoming unhinged. Here's the short version: T-Mobile has been claiming that its "BingeOn" program, which offers some free video from select partners to customers, and also downgrades the quality of all other video as part of an opt-out program, is collectively a form of video "optimization." Three days ago, the EFF published an investigation that exposed T-Mobile's marketing language for the euphemistic misdirection it is: instead of "optimizing" video streams, the company has been identifying video traffic and then throttling that traffic to 1.5Mbps."
  • EFF Confirms: T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All VideoEFF: "Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don’t count against customers’ data caps.1 The service is theoretically open to all video providers without charge, so long as T-Mobile can recognize and then “optimize” the provider’s video streams to a bitrate equivalent to 480p. At first glance, this doesn’t sound too harmful—customers can watch more video without worrying about their caps, most will consider 480p to be adequate quality (especially on a small phone screen), and the harms of treating individual video providers differently are diminished when T-Mobile offers the program to any provider for free."
  • Everything You Should Know About This Year's Air Travel ChangesLifehacker: "From tighter TSA rules to crappier travel rewards, you can expect some big changes in air travel this year. Whether you’re a frequent traveler or a vacationer, you’ll want to be aware of the changes before you get to the airport."
  • A idea on how to 'convert' video tapes into a digital form?Supercharged Subreddit: "So I know this question is real odd, but I realized a had a bunch of video tapes lying around that are slowly dying. I don't know where to start so any tips would help."

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