Facebook’s horrible, bad, no-good, you-brought-it-on-yourself-pal year continues with major revelations about how the company handles its problems and Apple’s iPhone orders have dipped, but at least we have a NASA event next week. El Kaiser and J.D. wade through the headlines of the week — including a long-awaited podcast-discovery announcement from Pandora. And El Kaiser takes a look at a sleek new pedestal to charge multiple devices. Once you put down the pie, spin up PTJ 293 — and everyone, have a happy Thanksgiving weekend!
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show
- Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (The New York Times)
- Zuckerberg Defends Company in Friday Meeting with Employees (The New York Times)
- With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (The Wall Street Journal)
- A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog (The New York Times)
- Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals (TechCrunch)
- Reducing Inauthentic Activity on Instagram (Instagram blog)
- How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts (The Atlantic)
- Apple Suppliers Suffer With Uncertainty Around iPhone Demand (The Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon, Apple and Facebook Once Led the Market. Now They Are Driving it Down. (The New York Times)
- Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms (Pew Research Center)
- Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machine (Wired UK)
- Amazon Is Getting Helipads At Its New Headquarters In New York And Virginia (BuzzFeed News)
- Pandora launches Podcast Genome Project to make personalized recommendations (Apple Insider)
- Pandora Podcasts Beta Access Request
- New, Independent Criterion Channel to Launch Spring 2019 (Criterion)
- NASA Brings Mars Landing, First in Six Years, to Viewers Everywhere Nov. 26 (NASA)
- Mars InSight Mission (NASA)
- Experience InSight (NASA)
- Mars Insight: Watch Online (NASA)
- Civil War Photo Sleuth is using facial recognition software to identify people in pictures (Slate)
- Civil War Photo Sleuth
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