Complicated feels about Daniel-san on Cobra Kai, Two Grown Men Try To Interpret Or Even Remember Two Episode Of Legion, and we’re warming up to a trippy new Westworld.
01:10 – Summer Movie Draft update
04:57 – Triage (Avengers: Infinity War)
07:57 – Cobra Kai (101-102)
16:14 – Cobra Kai (101-104)
23:09 – Legion (202-203)
33:27 – Westworld (204)
Twitter is implementing a new system based on thousands of behavioral signals to filter our tweet replies, searches, and recommendations. Will this help curb abusive and bullying behavior on the platform or will other more invasive measures be needed?
Starring Sara Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang.
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1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada were auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more.
1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 in Kazakhstan. It failed to reach orbit. Polyus was designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1241842
1997 – Amazon stock went public on NASDAQ.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon
2004 – Using a computer with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, Josh Findley discovered the 41st Mersenne prime, 224,036,583 – 1. Mersenne primes have a close connection to perfect numbers, which are equal to the sum of their proper divisors.
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Microsoft teases upcoming Surface Hub 2, Twitter will bury tweets by users for bad behavior, Google announces new storage plans under the new name Google One.
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The Expanse is looking for a new home, more info on the coming live-action Star Wars show, and Rick and Morty a hundred years dot com, Morty. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Chris Cox.
Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME, Tesla engineers reveal they considered adding driver attentiveness when developing the autopilot feature, Uber riders can now rate their ride mid-trip and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over defective keyboards.
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.
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1973 – The United States launched Skylab, the country’s first space station as part of the Apollo space program.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/this-week-in-nasa-history-skylab-launches-may-14-1973
1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/info
1992 – Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Intel, announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-14/business/fi-3052_1_texas-instruments
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Researcher says PGP and S/MME encryption tools are vulnerable to email hacks ,TiVo gets Alexa integration, Uber will let users rate drivers mid-ride.
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