Better Than That!
11/07/17 • 59 min
Things are not great over at TripAdvisor right now, what with them sending people to get attacked and then trying to hide it. The Pixel 2 XL is having an even worse week if that was even possible. And Apple may have strung the iPhone 8 out to dry!
Headlines:
- TripAdvisor deletes rape warning for Mexican resort
- Google Pixel 2 XL units apparently skipped QA
- Seriously, what's up with the Pixel 2 XL QA process?
- Microsoft employee installs Chrome after Edge fails him
- Honeywell getting in on the smart home security market
- Google Drive files may disappear on you
- Apple rethinks "Bring Your Daughter To Work" day
- iPhone sales may never take off, thanks to Apple
- Walmart replaces the lowest employees with robots
- Amazon now the second highest employer in the US
- T-Mobile and Sprint will not merge
- Fake WhatsApp app downloaded over a million times
- Microsoft ends its free Windows 10 upgrade
- Saudi robot now has more rights than Saudi women
Zuke’s Favorite: The Dark Tower
Zohner’s favorite: Blackr
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Things are not great over at TripAdvisor right now, what with them sending people to get attacked and then trying to hide it. The Pixel 2 XL is having an even worse week if that was even possible. And Apple may have strung the iPhone 8 out to dry!
Headlines:
- TripAdvisor deletes rape warning for Mexican resort
- Google Pixel 2 XL units apparently skipped QA
- Seriously, what's up with the Pixel 2 XL QA process?
- Microsoft employee installs Chrome after Edge fails him
- Honeywell getting in on the smart home security market
- Google Drive files may disappear on you
- Apple rethinks "Bring Your Daughter To Work" day
- iPhone sales may never take off, thanks to Apple
- Walmart replaces the lowest employees with robots
- Amazon now the second highest employer in the US
- T-Mobile and Sprint will not merge
- Fake WhatsApp app downloaded over a million times
- Microsoft ends its free Windows 10 upgrade
- Saudi robot now has more rights than Saudi women
Zuke’s Favorite: The Dark Tower
Zohner’s favorite: Blackr
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
Super Dickery
Good news everybody! We're one step closer to that state-run media and propaganda stage we've all been looking forward to! Hooray! Verizon has reached a whole new level of horrible, Facebook has decided that even the content creators don't matter anymore, and Consumer Reports has decided blanket statements are "good enough" for reviews.
Headlines:
- Pixel 2 XL has some screen issues
- So no one wanted Snap Spectacles? Shocker
- Kaspersky lays all their cards on the table
- Facebook decides to screw with content creators
- Consumer Reports won't endorse Surface Book 2
- Korean banks think Newegg is a Ponzi scheme
- Verizon is firing its customers
- But they still love your money
- Microsoft killing the Kinect
- Internet-connected dog houses are apparently a thing
- Kaspersky hacked by NSA
- Dating apps aren’t very secure
- Apple is struggling to release the iPhone X
- Say goodbye to stolen packages
- The FCC is making changes
- Equifax was warned about vulnerabilities
Zuke’s Favorite: Weird Al tweeting about Lin Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon singing Weird Al
Zohner’s Favorite: Glove and Boots is in trouble
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Next Episode
Bad Achievement Unlocked
You know that feeling you get when you can't tell if someone is trying to make a fool of you or not? Yeah, Facebook's new idea sounds kinda like that! They'll help block your nudes if you send them nudes. Don't they claim not to allow nudes anyway?
The new iPhone X is the greatest thing Apple has made in a long time, so long as you don't destroy it utterly by simply using it. Twitter thinks that maybe it's time to rethink the idea of offering a status badge that says "Hey, we endorse racists!" And even Snapchat's CEO understands why people don't like to use it!
Headlines:
- Humvee sues Activision over Call of Duty
- Driverless shuttle crashes on the first day
- What really happened with the driverless shuttle crash?
- TripAdvisor now warns if you might get raped
- But TripAdvisor might still be liars
- Twitter increases its character limit
- Twitter decides to rethink the whole 'Verification' thing
- The iPhone X is fragile
- iPhones don't like the letter 'i'
- Facebook will make sure your nudes don't show up on their site... if you send them nudes
- Ninth graders did an awesome science experiment
- Marissa Mayer apologizes for data breach, but Russia
- Logitech says goodbye to Harmony Link
- Niantic developing Harry Potter AR game
- Snapchat CEO says the app is too hard to use
- Keylogger found in MantisTek GK2 keyboards
- Wikileaks tells us what we all suspected: they're tools
Zuke’s Favorite: LinkedIn becomes useful!
Zohner’s Favorite: How to shut down email scammers
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