Summer Movie Draft, Game of Thrones (610), Justified (211), Preacher (104), Daredevil (213), .
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05:19 – Game of Thrones (610)
31:14 – Justified (211)
35:39 – Preacher (104)
38:06 – Daredevil (213)
Daily Tech Headlines – June 29, 2016
Sony starts using robots, Windows 10 gets a release date and Facebook explains the news feed.
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Today in Tech History – June 29, 2016
1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.
1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space Station.
2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.
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#260 – Why Young Adult Is For Everyone W Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde talks to us about Updraft, how she was inspired to create the bone city, and why she doesn’t mind the young adult label but it doesn’t always mean what people say it means.
DTNS 2796 – 50 Shady Grey Markets
Can you have a resale market for digital game codes? Can you have it without fraud and accusations of theft? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Daily Tech Headlines – June 28, 2016
Airbnb sues San Francisco, the French bring us gold speakers, and Amazon finally brings page flipping to ebooks.
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Today in Tech History – June 28, 2016
1928 – Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl launched his first experimental rocket from a balloon 50,000 feet over Graz, Austria. The rocket was not recovered, but later tests were successful leading to rocket delivered mail.
1965 – Officials in the US and Europe conducted the first commercial telephone conversation over satellite Early Bird I. The satellite also began operating for television transmission “live via satellite.”
1982 – Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo with the famous “blibbet” of horizontal lines in the first O. New packaging, and a comprehensive set of retail dealer support materials came along with the blibbet.
2011 – Google announced their latest social network attempt. Google + let you put friends in circles and share different things with different circles.
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DTNS 2795 – Feel the Learn
Should tech companies be sticking their nose into education? If so, what role should they play? Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt talk about Google and Amazon’s business of helping youngsters.
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Your Private Driver: Safety First
(This is the first of a new weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft. Look for it every Monday after the live show, right here on dailytechnewsshow.com.)
Passenger safety is definitely a hot topic in the world of ride-sharing. Hardly a week goes by without some local paper printing another incident of an Uber driver robbing or assaulting an unsuspecting victim who just wanted to get home from a party, and more and more local governments are hotly debating whether or not the company’s background checks are doing enough. In actuality your driver is probably more afraid of you–crimes committed by Uber drivers may be slightly over-reported, but assaults of those drivers by intoxicated or irate passengers are far more common and almost completely ignored by the media. Still, that knowledge may not make you feel any safer if you do end up with one of the bad apples, so here’s some advice to greatly increase your odds of not having one of those horrible experiences.
The key thing to know is that ride-share drivers are far more likely to do something immoral or illegal when they’re “off the clock” and the Uber/Lyft apps aren’t tracking their every move. Your job is to make sure you’re on a sanctioned trip at all times.
First of all, make sure you’re in the right car. This will help you avoid fake Uber vehicles that will just take you for a ride… and not the kind you were expecting. The app will give you the name and photo of your driver, the color and model of their vehicle, and the license plate number of their car. Check all of these things before climbing in. You may also want to confirm the driver’s name. A simple “Hi, are you Sekani?” will not only make sure you’re in the right car, but has the added bonus of making the driver feel safer since he or she now knows that they have the right passenger as well. (Oh, unless it’s actually me picking you up, substitute your driver’s name for mine.) In case you’re calling a ride for a friend, make sure your friend has all of this information so they don’t accidentally jump into the wrong vehicle either.
Secondly, don’t accept any rides off the app for cash. Not only is this technically illegal in most markets, but it removes the Big Brother layer of security that keeps track of everything. Every trip you take should be arranged through the app, there should never be a reason to exchange cash unless you’re leaving a tip. Also be wary of offers to end the trip early to save a few dollars. You can dispute fares later if you think you’ve been overcharged, but you do not want to be in a stranger’s car while the app is not running.
Finally, use the buddy system. Don’t let your intoxicated friends ride home alone, go with them and split the cost of the ride later. It’s much harder to be taken advantage of when there’s more than one of you.
Rideshare services are still a convenient, inexpensive, and generally safe way to get around a city from one place to another. Just a little bit of due diligence can help ensure that your next trip is all of the above.
Sekani Wright is an experienced Uber driver working in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. If you have any questions you would like answered for this column, you can contact him at djsekani at gmail dot com, or on twitter and reddit at the username djsekani. Have a safe trip!
Daily Tech Headlines – June 27, 2016
Twitter ads stickers, YouTube and Facebook fight extremist video and Anki brings a Wall-E/Eve mashup to your home.
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