Facebook scrambles to blunt the effects of fake news on the United Kingdom’s upcoming election, John Oliver and his fans have suggestions for the Federal Communications Commission, Amazon’s been busy and could a fried-chicken sandwich be headed for space? El Kaiser and J.D. chew through this week’s headlines and Don Donofrio drops by with an Apple status update. All this and more on Episode 234 of Pop Tech Jam!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Facebook aims to tackle fake news ahead of U.K. election (The New York Times)
- Facebook publishes fake news ads in UK papers (BBC News)
- Austrian court rules Facebook must delete ‘hate postings’ (Reuters)
- John Oliver just crashed the FCC’s website over Net Neutrality—again (Motherboard)
- The FCC says an attack — not John Oliver — hampered its website (The Washington Post)
- You can now upload Instagram photos from its mobile website (The Verge)
- Limitless Snaps (Snapchat blog)
- Amazon unveils the $230 Echo Show, with a screen for calls, shipping June 28 (TechCrunch)
- Amazon to control 70 percent of the voice-controlled speaker market this year (TechCrunch)
- Amazon’s Echo family can now make calls and send messages (Engadget)
- Alexa Calling (Amazon)
- Harman Kardon Invoke featuring Cortana (Windows Experience)
- HARMAN Reveals the Harman Kardon Invoke™ Intelligent Speaker with Cortana from Microsoft (Harman Kardon pressroom)
- Tender Wings of Desire (Amazon ebook)
- As KFC promises to launch sandwich into space, Rob Lowe stars as the new Colonel Sanders (CNBC)