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Samsung potentially in hot water for price fixing and antitrust RAM pricing, while also posting RECORD profits on RAM. Will Apple EVER pay their taxes? Belgium declares lootboxes ILLEGAL! GPU prices might drop. T-Mobile and Sprint merger moving forward!
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Phone manufacturers are desperately working towards “all screen” handsets, going so far as to cut into the screen just to fit hardware like the selfie camera. While this is an aggressive trend, many consumers still prefer buttons. Keyboards, programmable short cuts, camera shutter buttons. In this modern age, can hardware beat software? It’s time for a debate! A GEEK DEBATE!
Joshua and TK will talk out the pros and cons, then YOU decide the winner!
Download #SGGQA 037 – Geek Debate!
The viewer poll has four options. The premise of the debate is this video’s title: “Smartphone Buttons are Better than Gestures.”
Each poll option has TWO parts, if you originally agreed with that premise, and whether you changed your mind during the debate. So, if you originally AGREED with the premise, but TK changed your mind, then your vote will be “Agreed, but now disagree!”
Geek Debate Participants:
Joshua Vergara https://twitter.com/jvtechtea
TK Bay https://twitter.com/tkdsl8655
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Yahoo sells Flickr to SmugMug. Google walking away from Allo? Asus intros a new brand for AMD GPUs. Apple cutting HomePod production. New Surface Phone Rumors surface as Windows Phone disappears. AT&T and Verizon allegedly colluded to prevent eSIM. California voting on state Net Neutrality bill. Huawei is leaving the USA? Whew… That’s a lot…
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Google loses “Right to Forget” case in the UK. Facebook extensively tracks non-users through cookies. Pentagon issues advisory on Russian trolls increasing activity. Sony unveils XPERIA XZ2 Premium. Will Sprint and T-Mobile FINALLY tie the knot?
Download this week’s podcast – SGGQA 035 (RSS subscription links below)
Stories this week:
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Snapchat returns to chronological view. China ranks citizens on a public social media score. Homeland Security looks to create a journalist data base, and apparently using Facebook raises your cortisol and stress levels.
Download this week’s podcast – SGGQA 034
Stories this week:
Snapchat revives chronological feed https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/08/s…
China ranks citizens with “social credit” system http://www.businessinsider.com/china-…
Homeland Security to compile list of journalists and bloggers https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-s…
Shell Oil predicted climate change dangers in 1980’s https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu…
Ajit Pai’s ties to Sinclair to be investigated by FCC http://fortune.com/2018/02/18/ajit-pa…
Anti-Net Neutrality Congress Woman Marsha Blackburn falling behind in Senate race polls https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar…
Using Facebook raises your cortisol (stress) levels https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1…
Taking a quick look at an awesome Doctor Who VR TARDIS, asking some creepy questions about Facebook scraping your data, and the Orwellian present of Sinclair Media and local news. Happy day after Easter!
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Stories this week:
TARDIS VR simulator! https://youtu.be/WaBLT_osVE8
Zuckerberg in 2006 talking about not selling user data https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/97…
Sinclair Media’s Orwellian mission statement to local news https://www.reddit.com/r/television/c…
Dr. Alison Grimes interview, smartphones and hearing loss https://somegadgetguy.com/2018/03/27/s…
The smartphone as we understand it today is a creation only ten years in the making, but over that decade it rapidly reached a critical saturation point. For many consumers, a phone is their primary media consumption tool, and these pocket computers can supply uninterrupted entertainment all day, with little need for a break.
At the same time, we are starting to see some disturbing emerging trends in health and etiquette. One trend to watch, increasing numbers of teens and young adults experiencing significant hearing loss.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Alison Grimes, director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing at UCLA, to discuss some of the misconceptions surrounding hearing loss, the current state of research as to what might be causing this damage, and to ask for her best practices in protecting your hearing.
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Stephen Hawking leaves behind an exciting new Multi-Verse theory. GameStar starts reducing review scores for games that use Microtransactions. Samsung destroys 3.5% of the global flash memory production. What are the ramifications of a fatality caused by a self-driving car?
Download this week’s show as an audio podcast – #SGGQA 31
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