Love is all around as the unofficial 2017 Geek Summer Movie Season gets ready to roll next week with the arrival of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in theaters ‚ with Wonder Woman, King Arthur, and another Spider-Man right behind. After a stomp through the week’s tech headlines (including the hunt to shoot down fake news and drones you can fly with your head) El Kaiser and J.D. discuss some of the most anticipated films on the way over the next few months.
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Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news (Nieman Lab)
- Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site (The Guardian)
- Our latest quality improvements for Search (Google blog)
- Uber’s C.E.O. plays with fire (The New York Times)
- Tim Cook reportedly threatened to pull Uber from App Store (CNet)
- We can do better (Unroll.me)
- HipChat security notice (HipChat blog)
- YouTube restores ‘wrongly blocked’ LGBT videos (BBC News)
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- DJI’s new FPV goggles let you control your drone with head movements (TechCrunch)
- Cassini completes final — and fateful — Titan flyby (NASA)
- The power of LinkedIn’s 500 million member community (LinkedIn blog)
- Popular antivirus program mistakenly IDs Windows as threat, creating chaos (NBC News)
- Marissa Mayer will make $186 Million on Yahoo’s sale to Verizon (The New York Times)
- Computer pioneer Harry Huskey dies aged 101 (BBC News)
- 30 must-see upcoming movies of 2017 (NerdMuch)