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