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DTNS 2998 – Internet Surveillance Panic

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhat ISPS can and can’t do with your privacy in the US, plus Twitter exempts @ replies from its character count and Microsoft has a Samsung phone for sale.

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DTNS 2997 – Galaxy fan’s appetites S8ed

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comSamsung announces first new phones since Note 7 recall, plus US ISP privacy law passed and Windows 10 update release set.

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DTNS 2996 – This IS Brain Surgery

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comProgrammable mammal cells, why your bank teller will soon be AI and then after that you may plug AI directly into your own brain.

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DTNS 2995 – Pro-bot

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUK government calls to weaken encryption, Uber’s autonomous car has a wreck, and why are we afraid of robots?

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DTNS 2994 – FedEx Pays You to Flash

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comWhy Tom would pay for Twitter, Flying Taxis in Singapore and what is a tech companies responsibility in publishing?

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DTNS 2993 – Can You Dig It?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comFacebook begins calling out hoaxes, more advertisers pull money out of Google, and bipartisan agreement about an internet regulation!

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DTNS 2992 – A Little Conductive Foam Fixes Everything

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIs LastPass secure?, whether to look to LinkedIn for news, and Wired’s Tim Moynihan explains what to fear and what not to fear from thatLithium Ion battery in your pocket.

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DTNS 2991 – Redditbook

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle releases Android O, Apple tweaks the iPhones and Reddit changes to be a bit more like Facebook.

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DTNS 2990 – Netflix is all thumbs

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comUber’s president quits, a race to save 20,000 UC-Berkeley lecture videos and Jeff Bezos in a giant robot suit.

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DTNS 2989 – WhatsApp with Browser Security?

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comLab-grown chicken comes down in price, JPEG compression gets better and Shanon Morse explains why encryption in browsers is always riskier than on a phone.

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