Top 10 in Tech: Recent Episodes
Trevor Welch
This podcast is a review of the top 10 news items of today. This podcast is recorded each day after I get off work and published by 5:30 Pacific standard time.
Blackberry stops designing its own phones
2600 magazine the hacker quarterly is offering a bounty for Donald Trumps tax returns
FTC won’t give up fight against AT&T unlimited data throttling
Facebook reveals the date of its next F8 developer conference
Volkswagen unveils the I.D., a long-range electric car due in 2020
Verizon technician sold calling, location data for thousands of dollars
Replacement galaxy note 7 batteries are catching fire.
Facebook to appeal German order on WhatsApp data
DJI Mavic Pro is a $999 small and powerful foldable camera drone
Google rolls out more low-bandwidth versions of its products
Firefox ready to block certificate authority that threatened Web security
Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe
Encrypted messaging app Signal now has a desktop app for iPhone users
UberEats is going global, expanding into 22 more countries
Amazon is reportedly working toward in home deliveries
Occipital launches $500 dev kit to turn your iPhone into a room-scale tracked VR headset
Roku unveils five new streaming boxes with prices as low as $30
Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices
Exclusive: Google is planning a 'Pixel 3' laptop running the 'Andromeda' OS for release in Q3 2017
Amazon fined $84,000 for shipping li-ion batteries by air
Philadelphia 76ers become first North American sports team to acquire esports franchise
Japan residents can soon pay their utility bills using bitcoin
SpaceX fires its Raptor engine for Mars flights for the first time
Apples ios 10 weakens backup encryption making it possible to crack encryption 2500 times faster.
Google's self-driving car in broadside collision after other car jumps red light
At this very moment, a teen social site is leaking millions of plaintext passwords
Google will introduce Google Wifi, a $129 home Wi-Fi router, on October 4th
Apple's Echo rival could make Siri the master of your home
iHeartRadio is jumping into the subscription music business
Tesla plans to unveil solar roof with integrated Powerwall battery on Oct. 28
Samsung: Half of Note7 devices with exploding batteries have been exchanged
more users invited to try Nutonomy's self-driving cars in Singapore
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 catches fire on a plane in India
Twitter wants to sell; potential suitors include Google and salesforce.com
Is HDMI going the way of the headphone jack?
Facebook overestimated video watch time by as much as 80%, report says
Yahoo confirms huge data breach, affecting at least 500 million accounts
Tesla sues Gov Snyder of Michigan over ban on direct sales
Over 840,000 Cisco Devices are Affected by NSA-Linked Flaw
Hackers post emails from White House staffer, including Michelle Obama’s passport
AT & T is trying to win back cord cutters by bundling with and zero rating their own streaming service.
MI6 is set to hire almost 1,000 new staff as it struggles to find people capable of operating undercover in the social media age.
Lenovo's new Z2 Plus flagship smartphone features Snapdragon 820 Chip but costs just $270
Tesla improves navigation, Autopilot and more with software update 8.0
Trio sets a new record going coast-to-coast in a Tesla 90D
Study shows that 77% of Ad Blocking Users Feel Guilty about Blocking Ads
Google finally releases Aloe but the security they promised previously is not exactly there.
All 28 of North Korea's domains were brought down by the flood of attention yesterday
Federal judge says Bitcoin is money
Pokémon chief says Nintendo's NX is both handheld and console
AT&T’s AirGig uses power lines for multi-gigabit, wireless broadband
Nokia says it can deliver internet 2,000 times faster than Verizon Fios
The CoWatch brings Amazon's Alexa to your wrist starting today
Samsung unveils 960 Pro and 960 Evo M.2 NVMe SSDs
Hulu is planning two VR-only original shows
Formula E's New York City race is set for Brooklyn next year
The National Highway Transportation Safety Agency published its long-awaited Federal Automated Vehicles Policy on Monday.
Security researchers responsibly disclose Tesla model s vulnerabilities
iPhones can be hacked using store bought electronic equipment that totals about $100 US
Google sent out invitations for their long awaited event
North Korea Has Accidentally Leaked its Propaganda Websites
Maker Bot unveils their first new 3D printers since 2014
500,000 safe Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices arrive in stores
San disk announced a 1 terabyte SD card
Hackers Offer a DIY Alternative to the $600 EpiPen
Comcast announces a wireless service coming in 2017
Alleged KickassTorrents Owner Denied Access to his U.S. Counsel
Google Chrome Beta For Android Now Lets You Play Video In The Background
Reuters is reporting Google may face a tax bill of over $400 million for 2015
Microsoft is closing their Skype office in London and is laying off around half of the employees who work there.
General motors pledges that 100% of their facilities will be powered by renewable energy by 2050
Cops allegedly record themselves fabricating charges using the suspects camera
Pokemon go streamer “rickybot” was assaulted while live streaming in central park on Sunday night
Valve bans developer from Steam after it sues customers over bad reviews
Lonovo releases a water resistant smartphone in India for $120
This is the first ever episode of Top 10 in Tech, a podcast that brings you the top 10 tech headlines of the previous week.
This week includes:
iPhone7+ "hissing"
Elon Musk impersonation
Federal Judge rules on hacking
Adblock: plus selling ads
Samsung note 7 commercials pulled from TV
50%+ of smart phone users download 0 apps per month
The Navy is putting laser weapons on ships
Lauri Love who hacked the US government to be extradited to the US
HP per-programmed failure date of unofficial ink cartridges in its printers
New York kiosks offering public web browsing are being used for porn
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