After long, unintended absence, El Kaiser and J.D. are back to praise The Mandalorian, chew on the news, talk audio hardware and mourn the loss of the iconic radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory. As 2020 continues its quest for Worst Year Ever (Modern Edition), we remind ourselves to stay flex in the Q-Zone. PTJ 346 is here for you.
Links to Stories on This Episode
- “The Mandalorian” (Disney+)
- U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition (The New York Times)
- ‘It’s Hard to Prove’: Why Antitrust Suits Against Facebook Face Hurdles (The New York Times)
- More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru (The Guardian)
- Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story (The Verge)
- Timnit Gebru’s actual paper may explain why Google ejected her (The Verge)
- Timnit Gebru: Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher (BBC News)
- The researcher, one of the company’s best-known Black female employees, said she was fired last week (The New York Times)
- Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves (The New York Times)
- Drones Are Poised to Reshape Home Design (The Wall Street Journal)
- Updating our rules against hateful conduct (Twitter)
- Twitter expands hate speech rules (Engadget)
- ‘Wonder Woman 1984′ Heading to HBO Max, Theaters Dec. 25 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Warner Bros Sets Entire 2021 Movie Slate To Debut On HBO Max Along With Cinemas In Seismic Windows Model Shakeup (Deadline)
- AMC Boss Adam Aron Slams Warner Bros HBO Max 2021 Theatrical Window Concept: Studio Sacrificing “Considerable” Profit (Deadline)
- Disney faces digital dilemma despite streaming success (Financial Times)
- Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs (Bloomberg)
- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal (TechCrunch)
- Arecibo Observatory (National Science Foundation)
- Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory: Its loss is already being felt, and it feels very personal (CNN)
- Puerto Rican scientists mourn loss of Arecibo Observatory’s iconic telescope (Space.com)
Shure Microphones
• Beta 87A
• Beta 87C