Guru and Jere get together to discuss the stories of the week and of 2015.
Show Notes
- Android News
- Google Search has a hidden bubble level if you search for it.
- In Other News
- Columbia House is relaunching to take advantage of vinyl’s comeback.
- With a historic landing, SpaceX launches new age of spaceflight.
- Google considering deprecating SHA-1 certificates early, as its competitors agree to.
- The Beatles now streaming on various services.
- The Stories of 2015
- What would have entered the Public Domain in 2015 if copyright hadn’t been extended..coming soon, 2016
- Longstanding gallery app QuickPic bought by Cheetah Mobile
- Google opens Google Domains
- Windows 10 launches
- The last Mcdonalds hamburger in Iceland continues to decay.
- HTTP2 started adoption.
- FCC votes for a net neutrality
- Chip and Signature comes, a big disappointment from Chip and Pin.
- Google enables custom voice actions for third-party apps
- Netflix is adapting Green Eggs and Ham into a 13 episode series. The show will follow inventor Guy and friend Sam-I-Am as they travel on a voyage across the country that “tests the limits of their friendship.” Has anyone considered that the Guy might just be Jewish or Muslim?
- Guru still doesn’t have FIOS.
- Google separates Photos from Plus.
- Google rolls out Android Pay.
- Google announces AMP.
- 2015 came around and we don’t have flying cars
- Some things we lost in 2015 mentioned on this podcast: Gary Owens, Leonard Nimoy, Sir Terry Pratchett, Chef Paul Prudhomme, Mary Doyle Keefe(the model for Rosie the Riveter), Google Code, MESSENGER the Mercury orbiter, MetroPCS’s CDMA network, the copyright on Happy Birthday(maybe), James Billington as the Librarian of Congress, Betamax tapes, In House Metadata Collection by the NSA.
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