The European Central Bank greenlights a 24-month investigation into a digital euro, India to bar Mastercard from opening new credit lines in the country for violation of data storage laws, and the Amazfit PowerBuds Pro will check your posture.
France’s competition authority fined Google €500 million for not negotiating in good faith to pay news publishers for the right to show their headlines and snippets in search and news results. The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg discovered that the iPhone’s built-in weather app on recent versions of iOS never shows the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit instead showing 68 degrees or 70 degrees. And Twitter mistakenly approves bot accounts.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
Microsoft announced its plans to acquire San Francisco security company RiskIQ, Google fined €500 million by France competition authority, and Warner Bros. is giving out Space Jam: A New Legacy NFTs.
Black Widow breaks the bank, but in the right way? Plus , Peacock gets Universal and Dreamworks movies and a non-Star Wars Star Wars movie from Zak Snyder for Netflix. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Bill Meeks.
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Will a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website called Ransomwhe.re provide empirical evidence companies need to determine if paying ransomware is beneficial? Plus we examine the impact of PhD students Rodrigo Ochigame and Katherine Ye Search Atlas, a project that displays results from different geographic versions of Google Search, and can change how people understand events. And has Disney’s “Black Widow” movie helped re-energize the movie theaters or did it just give people another reason to stay home and stream.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
Amazon gets FCC approval to use radar for sleep tracking, Samsung brings its ad-supported TV Plus service to the web, and the site Ransomwhere tracks ransom payments.
Dr. Nicole Ackermans digs into how a passive cooling fabric featured in a recent Science article works, as well as what impacts it could have for the textile industry.
In this episode Niki interviews former US Robotics engineer, software/hardware developer and part-time paramedic Michael Musiel about his lengthy career in tech includustry from the late 70s through the present day.
Supply chain attack against Kaseya spreads REvil ransomware, US State and District Attorneys file antitrust lawsuit against Google Play Store, and Nintendo announces an updated Switch.