553: Grumpio Frumpio
Grumpy Old Geeks13 Mai 2022

553: Grumpio Frumpio

Humanity stuck in hold my beer mode; returning to work entitlement; many meta verses; crypto crashing, fraud everywhere; affordable connectivity & WIFI before seatbelts on buses; Musk's plan for Twitter; Cameo lays off the Fameo; Peleton's post-covid crunch; Clearview AI banned from direct sales to state agencies; Star Trek hopes; Severance; Avatar & Downton Abbey; iPhone cases; Apple discontinues the iPod; tandem showers; wheelbarrows; crypto muggings; more your phone is listening to you nonsense; healthcare, hospice & grief.

Show notes at https://gog.show/553/

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FOLLOW UP

The Craft of Forecasting Our Possible Futures: A Conversation with Jane McGonigal

Imaginable by Jane McGonigal

Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway


IN THE NEWS

Apple loses director of machine learning over its office return policy

Insider's Guide to the Metaverse

Mining Capital Coin CEO indicted for $62 million investment fraud scheme

CEO of Mining Capital Coin Indicted in $62 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme

The Biden administration is capping the cost of internet for low-income Americans

Affordable Connectivity Program

FCC proposes funding Wi-Fi on school buses

Inside Elon Musk’s Big Plans for Twitter

Elon Musk says he would ‘reverse’ Donald Trump’s Twitter ban

Cameo insiders pull back the curtain on its brutal layoffs, revealing slowing growth, internal dissent, and concerns about overspending

Peloton's huge loss highlights how hard it'll be to turn things around

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI banned from selling face database to private US businesses


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Ozark

McMillion$

Halo

Severance

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser Trailer

House of the Dragon: Sneak Peek

Downton Abbey: A New Era

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing


APPS & DOODADS

Peel Super Thin iPhone 13 Pro Case - Clear Soft

Peel Super Thin iPhone 13 Pro Case - Sierra Blue

1Password 8 for Mac: An upgrade, after all

Apple discontinues its last iPod

The music lives on

Photoshop for iPad shifts closer to feature parity with desktop app in latest update

Tandem Shower by Boona

AEROCART 8-IN-1 YARD CART / WHEELBARROW / DOLLY

SNAPCHAT’S FLYING CAMERA

DJI Mini Pro 3

I Got An AI To Autocomplete Famous Novels


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Your Product Sucks — Apple Music macOS review

Wave of Crypto Muggings Hits London's Financial District

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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