This week Hrishi and Sergey discuss the Olympics, Firefox going multithreaded and China's new bus.

  • Hrishi’s mobile phone contract coming to an end. He will get out of the bill contract
  • Sergey against bill pay and has a month-to-month contract
  • Best time to upgrade is early next year

  • Olympics have started: Where do we watch it? There are no live streams as such.

  • The media is a very critical of Brazil -Hrishi is boycott the olympics since is a corporate money splurging

  • Hong Kong based bitcoin exchange got hacked

  • Bitcoin has been out of the news, it is a good thing.
  • It is great Bitcoin is still around, the tech is maturing
  • Also good that Ethereum is developing rapdily.
  • The real test of Bitcoin is how many new people are joining the ecosystem: how many new retailers supporting bitcoin?
  • Coinbase now supports Ethereum,

  • Pokemon gets tons of 1 star reviews for some update on the tool

  • iPhone has a music industry model, one or two become superstars

  • Firefox goes multi threaded: the ececltrolysis project.

  • It is slow now compared to other browsers. Firefox needs to innovate and move the stack forward.
  • A great example of this is the new Firefox Servo engine
  • Mozilla is a non profit committed to keep internet open so there is a conflict of interest.
  • Mozilla needs to focus on the basics

  • Windows 10 Anniversary update is out: How do you tell if you have it?

  • People are having a lot of issues with drivers including Sergey whose camera does not work properly on Skype.
  • Bash is now on Windows is quite good
  • Some people are reporting data corruption issues.

  • Finally China launches rollin bus, it is a bridge on wheels

  • It is good they are trying something out and trying something new, kudos to them.