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As NASA declares its Mars Opportunity rover’s mission to be over, El Kaiser and J.D. raise a glass to the plucky little machine who did far more than what was expected of it — and sent back so much science. This week’s batch of headlines also brings a potential new subscription service (or two) from Apple, Amazon bailing out of New York City and a Tinder-like app for cattle. J.D. also discusses apps to better plan your home renovation. Here’s a toast to Opportunity from PTJ Episode 301!

Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars (The New York Times)
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Photos From the Opportunity Rover’s Mission on Mars (The New York Times)
Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service (The Wall Street Journal)
Publishers cry foul at Apple’s terms in new sub service (Digital Ad Age)
Apple targeting April launch for video service (CNBC)
Apple Invites Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon to Video Launch (Bloomberg)
Apple Event Planned For March 25 Around A News Subscription Product (BuzzFeed)
Announcing Extra Crunch (TechCrunch)
Apple fails to block porn & gambling ‘Enterprise’ apps (TechCrunch)
620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts (The Register)
JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency (CNBC)
Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship (Ars Technica)
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters (The New York Times)
Amazon is acquiring Wi-Fi router company Eero (Business Insider)
An Update on Android Things (Android Developers Blog)
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service (TechCrunch)
Tudder (ProductHunt)
Tinder-style app for cows tries to help the meat market (BBC)
Tinder for Cows: Tudder Mobile App for Breeders (Bloomberg)

Home Improvement

How to Make a 3-D Model of Your Home Renovation Vision (The New York Times)

This past week saw two big developer conferences unload several boxes of announcements, as Google I/O and Microsoft Build fought for media attention like Godzilla vs. Gamera. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the ramped-up interest in artificial intelligence coming out of both conferences, along with other headlines from around the technosphere. J.D. also offers suggestions for dealing with an excess of emoji, and previews new characters under consideration by the Unicode Consortium. Come sit a spell and join us for Episode 272!

Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Episode

Everything Google announced at its 2018 I/O developers conference (Quartz)
Make Google Do It… And Then What? (BuzzFeed)
Build 2018 key takeaways: 10 most important announcements from Microsoft’s big developer conference (GeekWire)
Critical Windows bug fixed today is actively being exploited to hack users (Ars Technica)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666 (Windows Experience Blog)
Customers can experience first-hand the convenience of the Alexa smart home experience and more in a real home environment (Amazon Press Room)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program Selectees (US Department of Transportation)
Squirrel Is a New App That’s Just Like Slack but Made by Yahoo, and We’ll Leave It at That (Gizmodo)
Yahoo just released a group chat app called Squirrel (Android Police)
Introducing Tour Creator (Google blog)
Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties (9to5Mac.com)
Apple Plans to Sell Video Subscriptions Through TV App (Bloomberg)
FCC says ‘net neutrality’ rules will end on June 11 (Reuters)
Russia’s 2016 Facebook Strategy Exposed in Trove of 3,500 Ads (Bloomberg)
Exposing Russia’s Effort to Sow Discord Online: The Internet Research Agency and Advertisements (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence)
Full Solo Soundtrack List Hints at What the Movie Is Really About (MovieWeb)

Emoji World

The Unicode Consortium
Overcome With Emoji (The New York Times)
157 New Emojis in the 2018 Emoji List (Emojipedia)
Draft Emoji Candidates (Unicode Consortium)

Fresh off the latest Facebook user-abuse apology media tour and visit with the U.S. Congress, Mark Zuckerberg made a slew of announcements at this week’s F8 Developers Conference in California, which El Kaiser and J.D. discuss on this week’s episode — along with other news from the tech realm. Episode 271 also sports a quick look at the big geek movies headed into theaters this summer and an explanation of “malvertising.” Spin up this latest installment of Pop Tech Jam to hear it all!

Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show

Cambridge Analytica: Facebook data-harvest firm to shut (BBC News)
Facebook will let users opt out of its browsing history collection (Recode)
F8 2018: Sharing to Stories, AR Camera Effects, Oculus Go and More Highlights from Day 1 (Facebook Newsroom)
F8 2018: Open AI Frameworks, New AR/VR Advancements, and Other Highlights from Day 2 (Facebook Newsroom)
Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access to Stalk Women (Motherboard)
Facebook Agrees to Civil-Rights Audit (New York magazine)
Instagram Unveils a Bully Filter (The New York Times)
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says (BuzzFeed)
How to get the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (Windows Experience Blog)
A look at what the Windows 10 April 2018 update brings (Ars Technica)
Everything You Can Do in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update That You Couldn’t Before (Gizmodo)
Stay composed: here’s a quick rundown of the new Gmail (Google blog)
Google Wunderkind Is Building a Secret Social-Gaming Startup (Bloomberg)
Hulu passes 20 million subscribers, will finally offer offline viewing (TechCrunch)
Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time (CNBC)
What the T-Mobile and Sprint merger means for you (The Washington Post)
California net neutrality bill that AT&T hates is coming to New York, too (Ars Technica)
Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag; Starts With Food (Bloomberg)
The 41 Must-See Movies of 2018 (Den of Geek)

Tech Term

Malvertising (Center for Internet Security)
Malvertising: Attack of the Ads (AVG)
Why Malvertising Is Cybercriminals’ Latest Sweet Spot (Wired)
You Don’t Want the Malware Prize (The New York Times)

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