Nov 23rd 2014
This Week in Tech 485
Uber Delenda Est
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Uber culture clash, big phones, fuel cell car, CastAR ships, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Uber investigates one of it's executives for privacy violations, Google is experimenting with removing ads for a price, LA Auto Show shows off new third-party Android Auto apps and fuel cell vehicles, Apple-backed Rockstar ends patent war on Android, Aereo files for bankruptcy, CastAR ships, Jolla's crowdfunded tablet raises more than $1M in two days, and more.
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Links
- In Uber Saga, No Calls for ‘Adult Supervision'
- Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
- What Was Said at the Uber Dinner
- "God View": Uber Investigates Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations
- John Hodgman: I am deleting @Uber from my phone now.
- Here ego again.
- F.C.C. Chairman Says Agency Will Not Rush Net Neutrality Rules
- Google Experimenting With Removing Ads for a Fee
- Full disk encryption on Nexus 6 leads to 62.9% drop in random read performance
- Apple's iPhone 6 Plus & iPad Air 2 lose out to Samsung & Surface in detailed color accuracy analysis
- Google, Hyundai show off new third-party Android Auto apps
- Gallery: The fuel cell vehicles of the LA Auto Show
- Apple-backed Rockstar ends patent war on Android, deal suggests
- Rockstar's settlement with Google could mark the beginning of the end of the Nortel NPE
- Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels
- Aereo Concedes Defeat and Files for Bankruptcy
- Jolla's Open Source iPad Alternative Raises More Than $1M In Two Days' Crowdfunding