Episode 7: Ep. 7 - Minimus Prime

Beards of Tech

EPISODE LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN. Thanks for joining us on another wild ride. Making the best of a slower week in tech news with some great back and forth banter.

Media companies investing getting original shows on Snapchat

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/time-warner-will-spend-100m-on-snapchat-original-shows-and-ads/

Facebook AI accidentally creates its own language

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/06/19/facebooks-ai-accidentally-created-its-own-language/#.tnw_HpBi1MwZ

Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544

42:00 - Second half begins, break ends

Amazon buys Whole Foods for 13.4 Billion

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/business/dealbook/amazon-whole-foods.html

Uber saga cont.

CEO Officially out for good

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick.html?_r=0

Positive news!! Tipping is now available in select cities (Seattle, Minneapolis and Houston) with a full rollout by the end of July

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/20/technology/business/uber-adds-tipping/index.html

*** Small PSA about HP printer vulnerability ***

Major security flaw in HP printers (all of them basically, so assume this impacts you if you own one) which allows hackers and bots to get into your network through your printer. A FIX HAS BEEN DONE, SO UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE using your printer software
Make sure any hardware you have is configured to update automatically, or to alert you when updates are available. No software is perfect forever, so its good to keep up to date as people find things!!

Beats by Jeff Budzinski - https://soundcloud.com/freh

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