Journalist Laura M. Holson is back in the house this week with a discussion of how the cosmetics superstore Sephora is using technology and social interaction to sell beauty products. On the opposite side beauty, though, is the ugly — and last week’s massive global ransomware outbreak even got into fugly territory. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the attack and the other notable news bits of recent days in this jam-packed episode of Pop Tech Jam.
Links to Stories Mentioned on This Week’s Show
- In computer attacks, clues point to frequent culprit: North Korea (The New York Times)
- Ransomware’s aftershocks feared as U.S. warns of complexity (The New York Times)
- ‘Accidental hero’ halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over (The Guardian)
- The WannaCry ransomware hackers made some real amateur mistakes (Wired)
- The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack (Microsoft on the Issues)
- HTC wants you to squeeze its new phone (The Verge)
- Snap unveils new camera ads trying to stay ahead of Facebook (Bloomberg)
- Instagram launches selfie filters, copying the last big Snapchat feature (TechCrunch)
- Nintendo developing ‘The Legend of Zelda’ smartphone game (The Wall Street Journal)
- Latest update brings new features to Google Home (AndroidHeadlines)
- Apple plans laptop upgrades to take on Microsoft (Bloomberg)
- The MP3 is officially dead, according to its creators (The Record : NPR)
- Your MP3s are going to be just fine (The Washington Post)
- How Sephora is thriving amid a retail crisis (The New York Times)