Going . . . going . . . gone. Twitter finally swooped into action and chopped off thousands of bot accounts and other automatons that were violating its rules. SpaceX fired off another rocket and the repeal of the Net Neutrality rules landed on the Federal Register —which means an open Internet could be gone by April 23. El Kaiser and J.D. hash out the news and also discuss using a Chromebook as a laptop, so hop aboard Episode 264!
Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show
- Twitter bot purge prompts backlash (BBC News)
- Automation and the use of multiple accounts (Twitter blog)
- Inside Twitter’s Bot Purge (The Daily Beast)
- AT&T Drives Path to Nationwide Mobile 5G With Multi-Gigabit Speeds (AT&T Newsroom)
- SpaceX PAZ mission (SpaceX)
- Mr. Steven Will Catch SpaceX Gear (Live Science)
- SpaceX misses catching Falcon 9 rocket fairing with a giant net on a big ship (TechCrunch)
- Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone images leaked by MWC app (BBC News)
- Restoring Internet Freedom (Federal Register)
- FCC publishes net neutrality repeal, but debate goes on (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Apple Plans Upgrades to Popular AirPods Headphones (Bloomberg)
- Apple rushes out fix to Telugu letter text bomb bug (BBC News)
- Latest Intel Security News: Updated Firmware (Intel Newsroom)
- More than a movie, ‘Black Panther’ is a movement (CNN)
- Black Panther (Box Office Mojo)
- Atlanta airport is now offering flights to Wakanda — sort of (CNN)
Chromebook Living
- Using Microsoft Apps on a Chromebook (The New York Times)
- Set up your printer (Google Chromebook Help)
- Set up your printer with Google Cloud Print (Google Cloud Print)
- Print with Google Cloud Print (Google Cloud Print)
- Cloud-ready printers (Google)
- HP Printers Compatible With Google Cloud Print (HP Support)
- HP Printers: Printing From a Chromebook (HP Support)
- Google Support videos (YouTube)