Mar 4th 2018
This Week in Tech 656
A Camel With Your Name on It
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Leo Laporte
Social media and kids, Google fiber fail, 5G dreams, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Surprise: young people use social more than the oldsters. Some of them even use Vero. Samsung Galaxy S9 takes top marks for display and camera. Google Fiber didn't go quite as planned. Feds in your iPhone? It's more likely than you think. Amazon buys Ring, can now see and hear everything. US vs Microsoft II: The Revenge of the Irish. GitHub gets gotten by the biggest DDoS EVER.
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Links
- Social Media Use 2018: Demographics and Statistics | Pew Research Center
- Teens and social media — It’s a mixed bag
- New data shows just how much social sharing has decreased since 2015 (and News Feed tweaks are just one factor)
- Social media app Vero shuns ads, but sudden success renders it unusable [Updated]
- We Regret to Inform You That Vero Is Bad [Updated]
- 2017: The year we began to fall out of love with the smartphone
- Your Love of Your Old Smartphone Is a Problem for Apple and Samsung - WSJ
- The Samsung Galaxy S9+ camera bumps the Pixel 2 for DxOMark’s top spot
- Galaxy S9 OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out
- Eight Years Later, Google Fiber Is A Faint Echo Of The Disruption We Were Promised - Motherboard
- The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence
- Amazon Earned Billions In 2017, But Paid No U.S. Income Taxes
- Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring
- US Supreme Court wrestles with Microsoft data privacy fight; ruling is due by the end of June (Reuters)
- A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED