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I'm Tay

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Microsoft says it's making 'adjustments' to Tay chatbot after Internet 'abuse'
  Microsoft's 'social experiment' revealed a lot about Internet culture.

• FBI director says fight with Apple about terrorism, not setting precedent
  "You are simply wrong to assert that the FBI and the Justice Department lied...."

• Apple is boring now
  At a lightning-fast press event yesterday (March 21), Apple announced a spate of product updates. A year ago, it unveiled the new MacBook laptop and told us when the Apple Watch—its first entirely new product in five years—would be available. At yesterday’s event, Apple’s big reveal was a smaller iPhone and iPad.

• Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer”
  New research finds "bitflipping" attacks may pose more risk than many admit.

• Israeli Firm Reportedly Helping FBI Crack San Bernardino Phone (Updated)
  Cellebrite is a firm that specializes in mobile forensics.

• U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone
  A court hearing set for Tuesday was canceled in the Justice Department’s bid to gain access to phone data in the San Bernardino mass shooting inquiry.

• Apple announces four-inch iPhone SE and smaller iPad Pro
  Apple unveiled a new, smaller iPhone SE and iPad as well as new Watch bands on Monday.

• Regulators Are Woefully Underprepared for A.I. They Could Learn From Go Champion Lee Sedol.
  This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Thursday, March 24, Future Tense, New

• A victim of the dot-com bust shares five pieces of advice for startups caught in today's 'bubble'
  As someone who did it wrong the first time, here's here biggest advice for today's startups:

• Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
  The video, published to YouTube on Feb. 23, was awe-inspiring and scary. A two-legged humanoid robot trudges through the snow, somehow maintaining its balance. Another robot with two arms and pads for hands crouches down and lifts a brown box and delicately places it on a shelf -- then somehow stays upright while a human tries to push it over with a hockey stick. A third robot topples over and clambers back to its feet with ease.

BART Idiot Hall of Fame

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Google I/O 2016 is Fast Approaching: Android N, Nexus 7 (2016) and More - Neurogadget
  Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world. For this group, there is nothing that excites them more than the annual Google I/O. Usually, the company uses this event to unveil its newest hardware and software developments. As a result, industry experts are already up and running, trying to figure out what

• Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets
  Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.

• The Voder - Homer Dudley (Bell Labs) 1939

• FCC to propose monthly broadband subsidy for the poor
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday will announce a monthly subsidy for broadband internet access in low-income households, The New York Times reports, in an effort to narrow a d...

• Apple exec: FBI could make us spy on Americans with iPhone cameras or microphones
  He argued that providing the FBI with the so-called back door to a user's iPhone data would be a slippery slope that could create a dangerous precedent.

• ISS Astronauts Test Out Microsoft HoloLens in Space
  And they got a little distracted when they found the Alien Invaders game.

• Star Wars meets The Princess Bride - The Chatty Duelists

• Ultimate List of Free Essential Software | Money Tip Central
  Free software can save you hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars. The software listed below is completely free, is completely legal, and...

Tap that Dot!

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Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• A day with the HTC Vive
• 'Ghostbusters' reboot trailer is here
• Amazon debuts two smaller and cheaper Echos
• J.J. Abrams Continues Galactic Takeover, Now Producing Google Lunar XPrize Documentary
• Oculus founder says no Mac is powerful enough to run the Rift
• A sci-fi film from 1970 predicted the selfie stick, but better
• The Amazon Tap
• Latest processors only support Windows 10
• What versions of old Windows can be upgraded to 10 for free? What about unlicensed versions?
• Artificial trees capture wasted kinetic energy, power sensors

Billions and Billions of Years from Now

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Mark, Wes, SteveO & Bob O' Rob at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Apple fights order to unlock San Bernardino gunman's iPhone
• John McAfee Claims He Can Decrypt The iPhone In 3 Weeks
• Apple unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 times in the past
• Rent-a-Minority website
• Hospital paid $17,000 ransom to hackers of it network
• Electronic Pickpocketing: Understanding the Threat
• Ghosting: The 21st-Century Dating Problem
• Self-driving cars can be hacked using a laser pointer
• An original print of Star Wars has been restored and released online
• Could exercise reduce cancer? Study with mice.
• 3D fingerprint sensor using ultrasound scanning
• Researchers develop ‘Superman memory crystal’ that could store 360TB of data forever
• About the Internet Archive
• Jason Scott and his ASCII blog
• Bladerunner Two is happening
• A Tiny Game of Pong for the Apple Watch
• Mark uses the Whistle to track his dog's location and activity
• New ThingMaker toy is based on 3D printing
• Hugo Spowers is working on hydrogen fuel cell cars

We make the Internet great again!

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Mark and Wes at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• The Innernette
• A Brief History of AOL
• USB - Micro SD card reader, butt plug and data storage dongle!
• No UI is the New UI; i.e. the return of the command prompt
• Examples of modern apps based on a messaging interface: Slack, Campfire, Operator.
• Order an Uber using Facebook Messenger
• You can now play Chess in Facebook Messenger
• All Bluetooth devices will be able to access the Internet directly without going through a computer.
• Use AirPlay to wirelessly stream content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• An Internet of Things that will number ten billions
• IPv6 deployment
• SoundCloud is in major trouble
• Who bought the most expensive album ever made?
• Martin Shkreli tried to buy another album, was scammed for $15million?
• Einstein was right about ripples in spacetime!
• But Einstein kept changing his mind.
• How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks
• Andy Warhol's Amiga computer art found 30 years later
• The Internet Archive wants your goddamn AOL CDs 
• Internet Archive: Classic PC Games, MS-DOS games, arcade games
• Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace
• Alternatives for Facebook: Ello, Peach
• Circuit City is coming back
• History of electronics stores Good Guys and Circuit City
• Gorilla Arm prediction for touchscreen monitors

Dad Bod

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Mark, Wes, and SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Mark Actually Whipped The Llama's Ass

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Mark, Wes, and Snuck415 at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P: Which one should you buy?
• LG’s six-day-old smartwatch canceled due to “image quality issues”
• Snuck is wearing the original LG Urbane
• Apple Watch 2 rumors
• E-SIM for consumers—a game changer in mobile telecommunications?
• Classic watch complications
• 25 Best Third-Party Apple Watch Complications
• Mark likes the app My Bus Times for iPhone and especially Apple Watch
• What Microsoft got right with its smartwatch nearly a decade ago.
• Microsoft Groove Music
• Apple drops free iTunes Radio, bundles it into Apple Music
• Beyond the hype of Hyperloop
• 23 Design Teams to Build Full-Scale Prototype Hyperloop Pods
• Hyperloop prototype will be built near Las Vegas
• Wes likes Stumble Upon
• About 20 pounds of CO2 are put out per gallon of gasoline
• How the Xbox One and Windows 10 come together 
• UMUTIMA wa lake Kivu Rwanda & TANIM de Chiapas Mexico
• What in the world is monkey poop coffee? Hint: it's not from monkey poop.
• Make Coca-Cola At Home with Keurig Kold
• Bluetooth trackers Nut 2 and Nut Mini
• Whistle GPS pet tracker
• Exploding hoverboard caught on camera
• KORG Volca Beats analog rhythm machine
• Volca Keys analog synthesizer
• Volca Bass analog bass machine

Mark once petted Johnny Knoxville's Cat.

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Mark, Wes, and Tdawg at King Valley Chinese Restaurant in Pinole, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• Chai Energy
• ZigBee protocol
• Heart surgeon visualized a tricky operation with Google Cardboard
• You too can play surgery with Cardboard
• You can get your Google Cardboard here
• View-Master Virtual Reality
• Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus
• Oculus Rift pre-order
• VR sickness
• Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence
• Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence
• Movie Ex Machina
• Books About AI That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina's Alex Garland
• Elon Musk, Silicon Valley Elite Launch 'Open' AI With $1 Billion
• Microsoft Band 2
• Mapping the wiring diagram of brains
• Li-Chen Wang and Tiny Basic
• Linguistic analysis of Donald Trump's language
• Highlights from CES 2016
• Apple CarPlay
• Microsoft is bringing Windows 10 and Office 365 to your car's dashboard
• Microsoft SPOT, the first real connected smartwatch for the masses
• Raspberry Pi Zero
• PINE A64, First $15 64-Bit Single Board Super Computer
• Whistle GPS Tracker for dogs
• 10 Lifesaving Location Devices for Forgetful Patients
• Why are baby seats aimed backwards?
• UK television detection vans

Is Trump as HUGE as Steve Jobs?

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Mark, Wes, and Steve-o at California Pizza Kitchen in Emeryville, CA.

Sites of Interest:

• San Jose, CA's City Hall has a glass rotunda
• Pixar Headquarters and the Legacy of Steve Jobs
• Battle of the Santa Trackers
• How to find your Uber passenger rating
• How to call an Uber car from within Facebook Messenger
• The Scottish are very cheap
• Electronic Muscle Stimulation: TENS unit , Slendertone
• First Ever "Fat Burning"/Shaker Machine
• Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, has a blog that often discusses Donald Trump as a powerful persuader
• Trumps's crazy-sounding ideas are really the extreme opening offer of a negotiation
• Did Donald Trump really kill a professional football league?
• Donald Trump would be richer if he'd have invested in index funds
• Donald Trump on reporters: "I would never kill them, but I do hate them"
• DNC Is Burying Debates on Saturday nights to Help Hillary Clinton
• Steve-o's five favorite dating sites/apps: Happn, Tinder, Hinge, OK Cupid, Coffee Meets Bagel
• Rumblr, the "Tinder for fighting" app -- turns out to be a hoax
• SpaceX Rocket In Great Shape After Historic Landing
• Judge Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to US to Face Charges
• A lot of what we said about Kim Dotcom was wrong. Here is the real story.
• The website kim.com has a fascinating panel discussion with him, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert Amsterdam.
• Meet Darknet, the hidden, anonymous underbelly of the searchable Web.