Mon. 10/08 - Google Gets A Data Scandal All Its Own

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Google has a data scandal and it's a doozy. Facebook portal is real, a Microsoft streaming gaming service is real, next generation Intel chips are manifest, no one knows what to believe in that blockbuster Bloomberg story, and how the Internet Archive works. Links: Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349 (TechCrunch) THE NEW AMAZON ECHO SHOW’S IMPROVED SCREEN AND BETTER SPEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH (The Verge) Microsoft’s xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, consoles, and mobile devices (The Verge) Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs (AnAndTech) Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public (WSJ) Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? (Krebs on Security) The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” (Ars Technica) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys Brian here. Real quick, another plug to buy my book, How the Internet
0:05.3	happened from Netscape to the iPhone. Again, this is the first one-volume
0:10.1	history of the entire tech industry over the last 25 years.
0:13.0	How did we get to the today in tech that I tell you about every single day?
0:17.0	Well, let me take you through it in the book.
0:20.0	I got a lot of questions over the weekend after I talked about this last Friday.
0:24.7	Is this a real book?
0:26.7	Yes it is.
0:27.7	It's published by Norton Livewright, and this is no slight on self-publishing at all, but this is not some e-book that I just gend up a PDF for.
0:36.6	Editors, fact checkers, etc. all took a crack at this thing. It was five years of work and research.
0:43.0	But yes, there is an e-book version as well,
0:46.0	for sale on whatever platform you buy your e-books.
0:49.0	And yes, tons of you asked if there was an audiobook version. There is, but no, I did not record it,
0:56.6	which is probably a good thing for you. A professional voice actor read the book.
1:01.5	So as I said, I won't bug you about this again for a little while
1:04.8	but please pre-order how the internet happened in whatever book form you prefer.
1:09.9	It comes out two weeks from tomorrow.
1:12.8	October 23rd.
1:14.1	Thanks.
1:19.1	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home
1:20.9	from Monday, October 8th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Facebook's
1:26.5	portal is real, a Microsoft streaming gaming service is real, next generation Intel chips are real, no one seems to
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